II. Letters (cont.)
A. Oberlin Students, 1835-1999 (cont.)
Box 3 (cont.)
Christine M. Johnston, 1928, 1930-33, n.d. [2006/011]
The bulk of these letters were written by James Bishop Blodgett, a student at the Harvard
Medical School, and
received by Christine Mitchell Johnston, A.B. 1934, (Mrs. Herbert E. Dobbs) while she was a
student at Oberlin
College. The letters begin in September 1932 and continue through June 1933. Other letters
received by
Johnston include those signed “Honey” (a friend?), notices from Oberlin College, and letters
from other
individuals.
Miss Elmina Lucke, 1931, 1946-49
"Unforgettable Memories: A Collection of Letters" by
Miss Elmina Lucke, Oberlin College Class of 1912. (New Delhi:
Northern Book Cenre, 1985). The first
set of letters were written to Marjorie (niece) during Lucke's visit to India
in 1931. The second part consists of letters to Marjorie that describe Lucke's
visits to Lucknow, Madras, and Bombay, India.
Edith E. Husted, 1931-38
Edith E. Husted (A.B. 1915), a missionary teacher in Japan, sent
these 16 letters (typescript copies), 1931-38, to friends in the
United States. The letters are
written mainly in Kobe (1931) and Nishinomiya (1932-38). After graduation,
Miss Husted taught one year in South Dakota before going to Kobe
in 1917 under appointment
of the Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior. She taught in Japan until
1941 when she went to India to teach a Kodiakanal School of Missionary
Children in
South India, 1941-45. Miss Husted then returned to the United States. Later,
she went to Shinonome Girls' School at Matsuyama and taught until her retirement.
For additional Husted letters, see 30/85. Acc. 1983/26.
Samuel and Isabel Fei; Brooks Fei, 1948-50, 1953-54
One file consisting of letters written to Don and Mary Louise
VanDyke, including nineteen letters from Samuel Fei (A.M. 1949)
and Isabel
Ying-chi Chao Fei (A.M.
1950), and three letters from Brooks Fei. The letters concern time spent
in Oberlin during Sam Fei’s and Isabel Ying-chi Choa’s student days, 1948-50;
Brooks Fei’s student days at Bowling Green, 1948-50; travel to Peking,
China, 1950; Sam’s marriage to Isabel, 1950; and, family life, 1953-54.
[Acc. 2000/092]
Rachel G. Brooks, 1963
Letter to Ernestine E. King describing her travels, reunions
with Shansi Representatives and her work with the Congregational
Church. (Feb 23, 1963) (c.1917, GST)
Bruce L. Bennett, 1972, 1975, 1994-96, 2002 *Restricted*
Correspondence of Bruce L. Bennett ’39 to Phil Jear, OAM (Oberlin Alumni Magazine) and the editors of the OAM concerning the Oberlin College Physical Education Department, the football program and Jack Scott. Includes a letter from President Nancy Dye (1995) and the Alumni Magazine Staff (2002) RE: Bennett’s request to be removed from mailing list.
Russell Brown, 1989
Letter (copy) from Russell Brown (OC '35) to Charles Hillinger,
May 1, 1989, in which Brown describes Oberlin College,
especially during his days as a
student. [1989/96]
“Letters not printed in the Nov. 31, 1989 issue of the
Oberlin Review.”
One volume of photocopied letters (c. November 1989) which were
sent to Oberlin College President S. Frederick Starr, the General
Faculty Council, and the
Board of Trustees requesting the removal of James Ross from the Board of
Trustees, requesting that the charges against student protesters
Claude Moeller and Dan
Kiss be dropped, and calling Oberlin College to fully divest of its holdings
in South Africa.
Dorothy Dosch Sands, 1999
Letter (typescript copy) from Dorothy Dosch Sands (O.C. ’42) to “Dear
Oberlin Friends,” dated 3 August 1999, in which Sands describes Eleanor
Roosevelt. Sands met Roosevelt in 1942 during the Roosevelt’s
visit to Oberlin for the International Student Service Conference.
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