Overview Jamestown, Kansas native Martha Peterson (1916-2006) served as Dean of Women at the University of Kansas and the University of Wisconsin, President of Barnard College, New York, and President of Beloit College, Wisconsin. Peterson, the first woman to serve on the board of ExxonMobil, also served on many other corporate boards. This collection of her papers reflects these activities, as well as her personal and family history. The collection includes professional and personal correspondence,...

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Nebraska native Eleanor Maxine Bennett (1915-) served as an Otolaryngologist and Professor Emeritus of the University Medical School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. This collection of her papers reflects these activities, as well as her personal and family history, including professional and personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

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Emily Taylor was the University of Kansas' Dean of Women from 1956-1974 and was Director of the Office of Women in Higher Education at the American Council of Education in Washington, D.C. from 1975-1982. This collection contains awards, plaques, certificates, photographic materials, publications, personal papers, and clippings related to Taylor's career at KU and with the American Council of Education.

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Hoopes taught rhetoric and English at the University of Kansas from 1914-1947. This collection contains scrapbooks, poetry, clippings, correspondence and a copy of her graduate thesis.