Appalachian State University--Students--Social life and customs.

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This collection contains scrapbooks created by student members of the Baptist Student Union (BSU) at Appalachian State University between the years 1942-2010. It also contains a few vinyl albums. The scrapbooks include clippings, flyers, invitations, and photographs of BSU events and participants.

Scope and Contents This collection includes items collected by Bryce Gordon and Izoria Sheppard Gordon during their time as students of Appalachian State Teachers College (ASTC) between 1945-1949. Included in the collection are receipts issued by ASTC, Appalachian Athletic Association tickets, ephemera, event programs, and photographs. The ephemera includes football game lineups, a library notice, invitations, a program for the 1948 Junior-Senior circus, and a program for the 1949 Junior-Senior banquet. The...

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Carolyne Jane Hamlin Badgett graduated from Appalachian State Teachers College with a B.S. degree in 1961. She taught in Winston-Salem, North Carolina until 1965. After taking time off, she took a teaching job at Dobson Elementry School in Surry County, North Carolina, where she remained until her retirement in 1996. This collection consists of photocopies letters written to Carolyne Hamlin Badgett during her freshman year of college at Appalachian State Teachers College.

Content Description The collection relates to Dorothy Florence Comer Thomas' time as a student at Appalachian State Teachers College. Included are her grade reports, registration cards, student activities tickets and receipts, and student handbooks. Her yearbooks are included because of the handwritten notes and signatures contained within. Additionally, the collection includes history of the Bailey family (written by Thomas) and a photograph album of black and white images of Boone, the Appalachian campus,...

Scope and Content This collection contains scrapbooks and memorabilia documenting the experiences of Ella Williams Thompson and her husband Dr. Lloyd LeRoy Hobbs, while they were students at Appalachian State Teachers College from 1933-1937. Materials within the collection include newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, postcards, telegrams, alumni membership cards, annuals, certificates, and plaques. Topics covered in this collection include academics, wrestling and football, student activities, and...

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This is a collection of mostly black & white photos of Graydon Eggers and Daisy Williams Eggers. The photographs include portraits and events at Appalachian. Of particular note are photographs of Daisy Williams Eggers as May Day Queen in 1938 and of her in a campus play the same year.

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This collection consists of copies an autograph book, certificates, and photographs belonging to Lou Belle West Godwin, who was a student at Appalachian Training School in the summer of 1924 for a teaching certificate. It also includes a biography of Godwin, written by her daughter, Linda Murphy. The photographs are of Godwin, other students, and locations in and around Boone.

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The Mary Elizabeth Hackney collection contains includes papers,photographs, ephemera, and other items related to Appalachian State Teachers College (ASTC) from 1930-1934 and 1941. Items include ASTC stickers, Homecoming programs, a basketball game program, ASTC yells and songs, Hackney's diploma, and songbooks. Of particular note are the photographs, which mainly feature ASTC women students, some of whom are photographed wearing physical education uniforms.

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This collection includes one record book containing meeting minutes for the Music and Arts Club, dating 1946-1947.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of photographs accumulated and possibly taken by Richard R. Pierce while a student at Appalachian State Teachers College. Pierce was a staff member for both the yearbook and the student newspaper, and some of the images were published. Many of the photographs center around student life. Students were photographed on campus and at other locations and engaged in various activities such as sunbathing and playing in the snow. Some are posed while others are candid shots....

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a photograph album, a scrapbook, an ASTC bracelet charm, a wooden friendship bracelet that has the names of Brooks' friends from Newland dormitory wood-burned onto it (dated May 1945), her 1946 ASTC diploma, a Certificate of Participation in the Summer Institute for High School Teachers of Science and Mathematics at the University of North Carolina (date 1960), her 1979 University of South Florida Master of Education diploma, and a 1953 program for "Horn in the...

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This collection mainly includes fliers and posters for univeristy events, programatic events, departmental events, and student organization events. In addition to fliers and posters, the collection also includes postcards and programs for convocation, building dedications, chancellor installations, and Founders Day.

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The Watauga Residential College records contain the extablishment and history of this residential college, as well as files regarding its curriculum, work by its faculty, the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, and photographs of the faculty and students and their activities throughout the life of the College. The records are from 1971 to 2014.