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All the stuff that doesn't fit on Cotteyphile

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1947 Commencement invitation for Shirley Norton, and her thank-you card to her family.

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The 1928 graduation program and cards of Florence Brown. The cards are from all the gifts Florence received; you can see she noted what each person gave her. Albertine gave her silk undies!

Description of Commencement is from the June 1928 Cottey Bulletin.

Florence graduated this year with an Associate in Education. 

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Cottey College Bulletin, May 1928

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26 May 1928: May Fete and Art and Home Economics exhibits

27 May 1928: Baccalaureate ceremony

29 May 1928: Commencement ceremonies and address by Winona Evans Reeves

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Additions this week:

Added 2010s page to the timeline, including the FUTURE

Updated 2000s page with new events

Added a recent photo of Michigan suite

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Students do a broadcast in Cottey's radio workshop, 1956.

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savannahstreethassle replied to your post: Cottey Regulations (1936)

Sounds an awful lot like the old code of conduct for Stephens Susies form the 30’s.

That makes sense. :) I can't imagine living under such restrictions.

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Cottey Regulations (1936)

I. Guests Guests are expected to observe college regulations. Guests should not go upstairs except by permission from the Dean of Residence.

II. Moving pictures, Plays Students may attend moving pictures or plays in the afternoons and Friday and Saturday evenings when attendance does not interfere with regular college duties or entertainments.

III. Out of Town Visits Occasional out of town visits will be granted with the permission of the parents.

IV. Permission from Home The following activities require permission from home and approval of the Dean of Residence:

Leaving town for occasions not sponsored by the college.

Motoring and horseback riding. (Parents assume responsibility in case of accident.)

V. Smoking Cottey students are forbidden to smoke on or off campus.

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It's amazing how many Cottey photos I have that I forget about. Whoops!

Here are some snapshots from the 1915 annual.

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Inside cover of the 1943 Sphinx.

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An animation documenting construction changes to Main Hall, from 1884 to the present.

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Juniors' rule list, 1925-26:

NEVER - - -

Talk in the Library! Mention "Skeptic Seven" to Miss Koch! Fail to make all the faucet on Junior Hall squawk when honest people are asleep! Cut chapel! Throw banana skins on the campus! 

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Main Hall through the ages!

Dates of images from left to right: 1925, c. 1910, 1966, and 1914.

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Senior Class Prophecy, 1908

"Birdseye view of Senior Table"

Text:

At same table, the Class Prophecy, as follows, on the eve of the seventh day of May, ninteen [sic] hundred eight, was made, by our dearly beloved Patron Saint, Georgia Glover.

Juliet                 “old maid music teacher.”

Lucile               “marry a farmer.”

Lois                  “starr [sic] in vaudeville.”

Ollie                 “marry rich man – dimples.”

Myrtilla            “manager skating rink.”

Chloe               “old maid school teacher.”

Mamie              “marry prof. - -“

Beulah              “a chorus girl.”

Katherine          “live happily always.”

Norma              “marry traveling-man.”

Imojean            “marry a preacher.”

Miss Glover      [nothing]

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Portrait of three members of Cottey's faculty and staff (two men and one woman) from the 1959 yearbook.

They are standing in a corridor after collecting their mail. In the background is a bulletin board with "Calendar" written on it, and a block of mailboxes.

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"Cottey Day", part 1, from the 1938 yearbook.

Included in the snapshots are women changing clothes, getting their mail, coming back to the dorm with golf clubs, talking on the telephone, weighing oneself, and chatting on a bench beneath a tree.

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"Odds and Ends", from the 1927 yearbook.