US-RPB-of1E.7 Guide to The search for equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, records1987-1992 Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Brown University Archives

John Hay Library Box A Brown University Providence, RI, 02912 (401) 863-2148 email:archives@brown.edu

2012 November 30 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013 January 28 English Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) The Search For Equity: Women at Brown University records OF.1E.7 John Hay Library Special Collections

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English 1.25 Linear feet 1987-1992 The Search for Equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, records include correspondence, clippings, surveys filled out by alumnae and women volunteers, Karen Lamoree's research material on alumnae and other women volunteers, and drafts of articles. The material dates from 1987 through 1992. Brown University. Search for equity : women at Brown University, 1891-1991, records Administrative history

In preparation for the centennial of women's education at Brown University, the university commissioned a collection of essays. Polly Welts Kaufman (1951) edited and wrote the introduction to the collection of ten articles. Kaufman and Karen Lamoree (then Christine Dunlap Farnham Archivist) distributed surveys to 14 classes of alumnae celebrating reunions in May 1990. Charlotte Lowney Tomas (1957) used the alumnae surveys for "A Wider World: Careers of Brown Alumnae" (309-345). Lamoree used other surveys for her article "A network of Women: Alumnae Volunteerism in Rhode Island" (279-307).

The Search for Equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, was edited by Polly Welts Kaufman and published by the Brown University Press in 1991.

Collection information

The Search for Equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, Records contain promotional and source material for the collection of essays by the same name which was published during the centennial year of women's education at Brown University. These records include correspondence, clippings, surveys filled out by alumnae and women volunteers, Karen Lamoree's research material on alumnae and other women volunteers, and drafts of articles. The material dates from 1987 to 1992.

The collection is arranged in two series. Series I, Correspondence, Promotional and Administrative Material, contains records kept by Barbara Anton, Director of Alumnae Affairs at Pembroke College, and records kept by Karen Lamoree, Christine Dunlap Farnham Archivist at the time of the centennial.

Series II, Alumnae Surveys, contains completed surveys returned by graduates from the Classes of 1930 through 1985 (quinquennial classes only). Use of these surveys is restricted; see the folder Scope and Contents note for guidelines.

The Search for Equity: Women at Brown University 1891-1991 records are organized in two series: I. Correspondence, promotional, administrative II. Alumnae surveys

None of the reunion surveys are to be quoted, nor names used, without permission from the individual, regardless of which agreement she signed on the survey. They may be used ONLY for factual biographical information or aggregate analysis until the alumnae's death or 80 years after the graduation of her class. The agreement pertained only to the use of the surveys for the book. The rest of this collection is unrestricted.

There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested.

The Search For Equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, Records, OF-1E-7, Brown University Archives.

Administrative information

The surveys were donated to the John Hay Library in October 1991 by editor Polly Welts Kaufman via Christine Love, director of Alumni Relations. Karen Lamoree's records were in the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archivist's files. One folder of correspondence was donated by the Pembroke Center in 1992.

Additional information

"One Hundred Years of Women at Brown" records, OF.1E.6, Brown University Archives.

Kaufman, Polly Welts (Ed.). (1991) The Search for Equity : Women at Brown University, 1891-1991. Providence, RI: Brown University Press. Leatherbound Hay Archives copy: 1-ZP Se27. Rockefeller stacks and Annex copies: LD638 .S43 1991.

Names Anton, Barbara, 1926-2007 Kaufman, Polly Welts, 1929- Lamoree, Karen M. Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Brown University--Alumni and alumnae. Kaufman, Polly Welts, 1929- Subjects Education Women--Education Occupations

Types of Materials Clippings Correspondence Drafts (Documents) Questionnaires Research notes RIAMCO Browsing Term Education Correspondence, promotional, administrative material Series I 2.0 boxes 2 document boxes 1987-1992 Anton, Barbara 1 1987-1992 Scope and Contents note

Promotional flyer, correspondence, book review.

Lamoree, Karen 1 Scope and Contents note

Draft, correspondence re: book, volunteers. Two folders.

Lamoree, Karen 1 Scope and Contents note

Completed survey, correspondence re: volunteers.

Lamoree, Karen 1-2 Scope and Contents note

Completed forms re: voluntary organizations, volunteers 13 folders. Some include notes. One includes articles. The last includes a printout.

Alumnae surveys Series II 1.0 box 1 document box 1987-1991 Alumnae reunion surveys: Class of 1930 3 Use of the materials