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Box 19

 Container

Contains 19 Collections and/or Records:

Biographical Information, 1921 - 2003

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 1
Scope and Contents This series contains materials pertaining to Schleman's education, career, and personal life. Types of materials include notes, programs, curriculum vitae, and personal files.
Dates: 1921 - 2003

Correspondence, 1938 - 1990

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 2
Scope and Contents This series contains various correspondence between Schleman and her family, friends, and professional contacts.
Dates: 1938 - 1990

Speeches and Written Material, 1923 - 1979

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 3
Overview Series 3 contains notes and drafts of speeches, articles, pamphlets, and books that were written by or delivered by Helen Schleman over the course of her career. Most of the speeches and articles relate to women's liberation and women in higher education.
Dates: 1923 - 1979

Pamphlets and Publications, 1922 - 1988

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 5
Scope and Contents Series 5 contains various pamphlets, programs, and other publications that range from Schleman's time as an undergraduate student at Northwestern to the SPARs reunion in 1988.
Dates: 1922 - 1988

Other Purdue Material, 1940 - 1985

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 6
Scope and Contents This series contains miscellaneous materials related to Schleman's tenure at Purdue, including her advocacy for equal rights for women students and faculty. Of particular note are materials that document Schleman's nomination of ten women for President of Purdue in 1970, the Schleman Gold Medallion Award and the 1979 TIAA pension lawsuit.
Dates: 1940 - 1985

"This is Your Life Helen B Schleman", 1968

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 1, Sub-series 3, File 9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The sub-series Personal contains papers and documents pertaining to Schleman's service and donations to the YWCA, her home, her estate, and a biography that was created in tribute upon her retirement.
Dates: 1968

Miss America Pageant, 1955 - 1959

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 2, File 5
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains various correspondence between Schleman and her family, friends, and professional contacts.
Dates: 1955 - 1959

Housing, 1938 - 1959

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 2, File 6
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains various correspondence between Schleman and her family, friends, and professional contacts.
Dates: 1938 - 1959

Retirement, 1968

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 2, File 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains various correspondence between Schleman and her family, friends, and professional contacts.
Dates: 1968

"The Graduate Journal" and correspondence from Professor Howland, 1958

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 5, File 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 contains various pamphlets, programs, and other publications that range from Schleman's time as an undergraduate student at Northwestern to the SPARs reunion in 1988.
Dates: 1958

"Youth Report," annotated, 1969

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 5, File 8
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 contains various pamphlets, programs, and other publications that range from Schleman's time as an undergraduate student at Northwestern to the SPARs reunion in 1988.
Dates: 1969

Wellesely Alumni Magazine, 1965

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 5, File 9
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 contains various pamphlets, programs, and other publications that range from Schleman's time as an undergraduate student at Northwestern to the SPARs reunion in 1988.
Dates: 1965

Your Best Foot Forward working materials, 1951 - 1961

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 3, File 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 3 contains notes and drafts of speeches, articles, pamphlets, and books that were written by or delivered by Helen Schleman over the course of her career. Most of the speeches and articles relate to women's liberation and women in higher education.
Dates: 1951 - 1961

Education: How it was, 1977

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 3, File 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 3 contains notes and drafts of speeches, articles, pamphlets, and books that were written by or delivered by Helen Schleman over the course of her career. Most of the speeches and articles relate to women's liberation and women in higher education.
Dates: 1977

Current Status of Women, 1964 - 1966

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 3, File 8
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 3 contains notes and drafts of speeches, articles, pamphlets, and books that were written by or delivered by Helen Schleman over the course of her career. Most of the speeches and articles relate to women's liberation and women in higher education.
Dates: 1964 - 1966

Notes, cards, ephemera, 1968

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 6, File 10
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains miscellaneous materials related to Schleman's tenure at Purdue, including her advocacy for equal rights for women students and faculty. Of particular note are materials that document Schleman's nomination of ten women for President of Purdue in 1970, the Schleman Gold Medallion Award and the 1979 TIAA pension lawsuit.
Dates: 1968

General material on SPARS, WACS, and WAVES including Lilian Gilbreth and Dorothy Stratton correspondence, 1942 - 1945

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 6, File 11
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains miscellaneous materials related to Schleman's tenure at Purdue, including her advocacy for equal rights for women students and faculty. Of particular note are materials that document Schleman's nomination of ten women for President of Purdue in 1970, the Schleman Gold Medallion Award and the 1979 TIAA pension lawsuit.
Dates: 1942 - 1945

Personal, 1952 - 1992

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334, Series 1, Sub-series 3
Scope and Contents The sub-series Personal contains papers and documents pertaining to Schleman's service and donations to the YWCA, her home, her estate, and a biography that was created in tribute upon her retirement.
Dates: 1952 - 1992

Helen B. Schleman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 334
Scope and Contents The Helen Schleman papers document the life of Helen B. Schleman from her time as a student at Northwestern University in the 1920s up until her death in 1992. Much of the collection documents Schleman’s tenure at Purdue University as Head of the Women’s Residence Halls, Dean of Women, and Dean Emeritus, as well as her military service in the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve (SPARs) during World War II. Additionally, the collection contains Schleman’s collection of newspaper clippings pertaining to...
Dates: 1920 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1980