{"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bcreators%5D%5B%5D=M%27Ledge+Moffett%0A\u0026f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Collection\u0026view=compact","last":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bcreators%5D%5B%5D=M%27Ledge+Moffett%0A\u0026f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Collection\u0026page=1\u0026view=compact"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":5,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"vira_moffett_dean","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Dean's office records: M'Ledge Moffett Collection , \n1913-1978","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vira_moffett_dean#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"M'Ledge Moffett\n","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vira_moffett_dean#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"The collection contains various hand-written and typed documents from approximately 1913-1978. In addition, there are financial records, appointment books, and notebooks. The documents include assorted items such as telegrams, letters, hand-written notes, and official documents that correspond to their respective group or organization. The financial records vary from ledger books to bank statements, receipts, checkbooks, canceled checks, and documents recording inventories of items purchased. The collection additionally consists of items such as program guides, a songbook, newspaper clippings, and brochures. See the full \u003ca href=\"https://mozart.radford.edu/archives/findingaids/moffett-dean.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external-link\"\u003elist of materials\u003c/a\u003e found in the online finding aid. 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No interlibrary loan.\n","No additional accruals are expected.\n","Box 1: Maintenance and Supervision Box 2: Maintenance and Supervision Box 3: Student Organizations Box 4: Student Organizations  Box 5: Student Organizations Box 6: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks  Box 7: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks  Box 8: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks","Dr. M'Ledge Moffett joined the Radford State Teacher's College in 1913, the year of its initial opening. Beginning as the only member of the Household Arts Department, she quickly made her mark upon Radford, soon after being selected by President McConnell to be in charge of the college's dormitory - from this, there are many papers in the collection relating to day-to-day maintenance of the residence hall.\n Additionally, she was appointed as the college's first Dean of Women in 1920, a post she held until her retirement in 1962. Dr. Moffett had a hand in the initial creation of many of the student organizations listed in this collection. She, in fact, assisted in the beginning of the first two student organizations on campus: the Ingles and Pocahontas Literary Societies. \nThere are several letters and other documents of interest collected by Dr. Moffett within the collection pertaining specifically to the Ingles Literary Society, which outlived the Pocahontas group. The Student Government Association was another student-run organization that she helped initially organize in 1914, along with the Grapurchat in 1921, which was the student newspaper. \nThe Executive Council was a branch of the SGA. It was a disciplinary committee that kept extensive records, collected by Dr. Moffett's office, of the disciplinary hearings of the 1920's. In 1922 the Blue Gate Tea room was opened as a spur of the moment method of having enough dining space for visitors that flourished into a new area of interest on campus. It was a former storage closet attached to the school's gymnasium, ran primarily by the Home Economics Department, in which M'Ledge Moffett kept tedious records until 1927 when it became student-run. \nIn addition to these groups, Dr. Moffett was involved with several other organizations and committees, leaving behind records that can be found in this collection.\n","Processed by Chelsey Slemp and Gene Hyde, July 2010.\n","The collection contains various hand-written and typed documents from approximately 1913-1978. In addition, there are financial records, appointment books, and notebooks. The documents include assorted items such as telegrams, letters, hand-written notes, and official documents that correspond to their respective group or organization. The financial records vary from ledger books to bank statements, receipts, checkbooks, canceled checks, and documents recording inventories of items purchased. The notebooks and appointment books vary in size and in category. Some are large and record several years' worth of material, while others are small and merely contain information for a single year. Several notebooks and ledgers contain accompanying documents. The collection additionally consists of items such as program guides, a songbook, newspaper clippings, and brochures. Box 1 and Box 2 of this collection deal primarily with general maintenance of the college. More specifically, these boxes contain financial records for the cafeteria and tea room, listing an inventory of food costs and other expenditures. Also, there are several notebooks from the Bureau of Information at the college that list visitors and their purpose for going to the President's Office, Dr. Moffett's office, and others. There are documents, in addition, dealing with various staff members and staff positions at the university. These boxes contain items primarily from the 1920's and 1930's. ","Boxes 3-5 contain information pertaining to several different student organizations. There are many documents from sororities and fraternities on campus, such as Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Tau Pi, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Phi Alpha Theta. The Pi Gamma Mu folders, in particular, contain financial information such as bank records, canceled checks, and a treasurer's notebook. The other groups' folders contain official documents, letters, and a Sigma Sigma Sigma song book. The folders on Phi Alpha Theta and Alpha Tau Pi also contain documents dealing with the opening of their chapters at Radford University. In addition, clubs and organizations mentioned in boxes 3-5 are the Home Economics Club, Ingles Literary Society, Radford Chapter of American Federation of Art Club, Choral Club, Commercial Club, Debate Council, and others - all of which have various miscellaneous handwritten and typed documents."," The Student Government Association has several documents within the collection including handwritten notes and official documents, most of which originated from the 1970's. In addition, the Executive Council, which was a branch of the Student Government Association that saw to disciplinary hearings has a notebook of several of these hearings from the 1920's that contained several hand-written documents dealing with the girls charged with breaking the rules. There are also documents pertaining to the Student Organization Committee from the 1920's and the 1970's. Boxes 6-8, the M'Ledge Moffett notebooks, are primarily day planners that Dr. Moffett wrote the occurrences of her day in with diary-like entries, most of which have to do with student teachers at high schools. The folders labeled appointment book list merely her schedule, or a particular event for a specific day, and do not contain such diary-like entries. All of the notebooks had within them several handwritten, and few typed, documents ranging from informal notes to an official document from the Department of Agriculture in 1944 pertaining to the World War II Liberty Gardens. The notebooks run from 1940-1954. There are several weeks in each book in which Dr. Moffett wrote no entries.\n","There are no restrictions.\n","The collection contains various hand-written and typed documents from approximately 1913-1978. In addition, there are financial records, appointment books, and notebooks. The documents include assorted items such as telegrams, letters, hand-written notes, and official documents that correspond to their respective group or organization. The financial records vary from ledger books to bank statements, receipts, checkbooks, canceled checks, and documents recording inventories of items purchased. The collection additionally consists of items such as program guides, a songbook, newspaper clippings, and brochures. 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The Student Government Association was another student-run organization that she helped initially organize in 1914, along with the Grapurchat in 1921, which was the student newspaper. \nThe Executive Council was a branch of the SGA. It was a disciplinary committee that kept extensive records, collected by Dr. Moffett's office, of the disciplinary hearings of the 1920's. In 1922 the Blue Gate Tea room was opened as a spur of the moment method of having enough dining space for visitors that flourished into a new area of interest on campus. It was a former storage closet attached to the school's gymnasium, ran primarily by the Home Economics Department, in which M'Ledge Moffett kept tedious records until 1927 when it became student-run. \nIn addition to these groups, Dr. Moffett was involved with several other organizations and committees, leaving behind records that can be found in this collection.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information \n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Dr. M'Ledge Moffett joined the Radford State Teacher's College in 1913, the year of its initial opening. Beginning as the only member of the Household Arts Department, she quickly made her mark upon Radford, soon after being selected by President McConnell to be in charge of the college's dormitory - from this, there are many papers in the collection relating to day-to-day maintenance of the residence hall.\n Additionally, she was appointed as the college's first Dean of Women in 1920, a post she held until her retirement in 1962. Dr. Moffett had a hand in the initial creation of many of the student organizations listed in this collection. She, in fact, assisted in the beginning of the first two student organizations on campus: the Ingles and Pocahontas Literary Societies. \nThere are several letters and other documents of interest collected by Dr. Moffett within the collection pertaining specifically to the Ingles Literary Society, which outlived the Pocahontas group. The Student Government Association was another student-run organization that she helped initially organize in 1914, along with the Grapurchat in 1921, which was the student newspaper. \nThe Executive Council was a branch of the SGA. It was a disciplinary committee that kept extensive records, collected by Dr. Moffett's office, of the disciplinary hearings of the 1920's. In 1922 the Blue Gate Tea room was opened as a spur of the moment method of having enough dining space for visitors that flourished into a new area of interest on campus. It was a former storage closet attached to the school's gymnasium, ran primarily by the Home Economics Department, in which M'Ledge Moffett kept tedious records until 1927 when it became student-run. \nIn addition to these groups, Dr. Moffett was involved with several other organizations and committees, leaving behind records that can be found in this collection.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Identification of item], Dean's office records, M'Ledge Moffet Collection, Radford University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA. Dean's office records: M'Ledge Moffett Collection , Accession # RU 4.1.2, University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University \u003c!-- Add your institution's citation information --\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Identification of item], Dean's office records, M'Ledge Moffet Collection, Radford University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA. 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Some are large and record several years' worth of material, while others are small and merely contain information for a single year. Several notebooks and ledgers contain accompanying documents. The collection additionally consists of items such as program guides, a songbook, newspaper clippings, and brochures. Box 1 and Box 2 of this collection deal primarily with general maintenance of the college. More specifically, these boxes contain financial records for the cafeteria and tea room, listing an inventory of food costs and other expenditures. Also, there are several notebooks from the Bureau of Information at the college that list visitors and their purpose for going to the President's Office, Dr. Moffett's office, and others. There are documents, in addition, dealing with various staff members and staff positions at the university. 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In addition, clubs and organizations mentioned in boxes 3-5 are the Home Economics Club, Ingles Literary Society, Radford Chapter of American Federation of Art Club, Choral Club, Commercial Club, Debate Council, and others - all of which have various miscellaneous handwritten and typed documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The Student Government Association has several documents within the collection including handwritten notes and official documents, most of which originated from the 1970's. In addition, the Executive Council, which was a branch of the Student Government Association that saw to disciplinary hearings has a notebook of several of these hearings from the 1920's that contained several hand-written documents dealing with the girls charged with breaking the rules. There are also documents pertaining to the Student Organization Committee from the 1920's and the 1970's. Boxes 6-8, the M'Ledge Moffett notebooks, are primarily day planners that Dr. Moffett wrote the occurrences of her day in with diary-like entries, most of which have to do with student teachers at high schools. The folders labeled appointment book list merely her schedule, or a particular event for a specific day, and do not contain such diary-like entries. All of the notebooks had within them several handwritten, and few typed, documents ranging from informal notes to an official document from the Department of Agriculture in 1944 pertaining to the World War II Liberty Gardens. The notebooks run from 1940-1954. There are several weeks in each book in which Dr. Moffett wrote no entries.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains various hand-written and typed documents from approximately 1913-1978. In addition, there are financial records, appointment books, and notebooks. The documents include assorted items such as telegrams, letters, hand-written notes, and official documents that correspond to their respective group or organization. The financial records vary from ledger books to bank statements, receipts, checkbooks, canceled checks, and documents recording inventories of items purchased. The notebooks and appointment books vary in size and in category. Some are large and record several years' worth of material, while others are small and merely contain information for a single year. Several notebooks and ledgers contain accompanying documents. The collection additionally consists of items such as program guides, a songbook, newspaper clippings, and brochures. Box 1 and Box 2 of this collection deal primarily with general maintenance of the college. More specifically, these boxes contain financial records for the cafeteria and tea room, listing an inventory of food costs and other expenditures. Also, there are several notebooks from the Bureau of Information at the college that list visitors and their purpose for going to the President's Office, Dr. Moffett's office, and others. There are documents, in addition, dealing with various staff members and staff positions at the university. These boxes contain items primarily from the 1920's and 1930's. ","Boxes 3-5 contain information pertaining to several different student organizations. There are many documents from sororities and fraternities on campus, such as Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Tau Pi, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Phi Alpha Theta. The Pi Gamma Mu folders, in particular, contain financial information such as bank records, canceled checks, and a treasurer's notebook. The other groups' folders contain official documents, letters, and a Sigma Sigma Sigma song book. The folders on Phi Alpha Theta and Alpha Tau Pi also contain documents dealing with the opening of their chapters at Radford University. In addition, clubs and organizations mentioned in boxes 3-5 are the Home Economics Club, Ingles Literary Society, Radford Chapter of American Federation of Art Club, Choral Club, Commercial Club, Debate Council, and others - all of which have various miscellaneous handwritten and typed documents."," The Student Government Association has several documents within the collection including handwritten notes and official documents, most of which originated from the 1970's. In addition, the Executive Council, which was a branch of the Student Government Association that saw to disciplinary hearings has a notebook of several of these hearings from the 1920's that contained several hand-written documents dealing with the girls charged with breaking the rules. There are also documents pertaining to the Student Organization Committee from the 1920's and the 1970's. Boxes 6-8, the M'Ledge Moffett notebooks, are primarily day planners that Dr. Moffett wrote the occurrences of her day in with diary-like entries, most of which have to do with student teachers at high schools. The folders labeled appointment book list merely her schedule, or a particular event for a specific day, and do not contain such diary-like entries. All of the notebooks had within them several handwritten, and few typed, documents ranging from informal notes to an official document from the Department of Agriculture in 1944 pertaining to the World War II Liberty Gardens. The notebooks run from 1940-1954. 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See the full \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://mozart.radford.edu/archives/findingaids/moffett-dean.html\"\u003elist of materials\u003c/extref\u003e found in the online finding aid. \n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The collection contains various hand-written and typed documents from approximately 1913-1978. In addition, there are financial records, appointment books, and notebooks. The documents include assorted items such as telegrams, letters, hand-written notes, and official documents that correspond to their respective group or organization. The financial records vary from ledger books to bank statements, receipts, checkbooks, canceled checks, and documents recording inventories of items purchased. The collection additionally consists of items such as program guides, a songbook, newspaper clippings, and brochures. 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The collection is open for research. No interlibrary loan.\n","No additional accruals are expected.\n","Box 1: Maintenance and Supervision Box 2: Maintenance and Supervision Box 3: Student Organizations Box 4: Student Organizations  Box 5: Student Organizations Box 6: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks  Box 7: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks  Box 8: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks","Dr. M'Ledge Moffett joined the Radford State Teacher's College in 1913, the year of its initial opening. Beginning as the only member of the Household Arts Department, she quickly made her mark upon Radford, soon after being selected by President McConnell to be in charge of the college's dormitory - from this, there are many papers in the collection relating to day-to-day maintenance of the residence hall.\n Additionally, she was appointed as the college's first Dean of Women in 1920, a post she held until her retirement in 1962. Dr. Moffett had a hand in the initial creation of many of the student organizations listed in this collection. She, in fact, assisted in the beginning of the first two student organizations on campus: the Ingles and Pocahontas Literary Societies. \nThere are several letters and other documents of interest collected by Dr. Moffett within the collection pertaining specifically to the Ingles Literary Society, which outlived the Pocahontas group. The Student Government Association was another student-run organization that she helped initially organize in 1914, along with the Grapurchat in 1921, which was the student newspaper. \nThe Executive Council was a branch of the SGA. It was a disciplinary committee that kept extensive records, collected by Dr. Moffett's office, of the disciplinary hearings of the 1920's. In 1922 the Blue Gate Tea room was opened as a spur of the moment method of having enough dining space for visitors that flourished into a new area of interest on campus. It was a former storage closet attached to the school's gymnasium, ran primarily by the Home Economics Department, in which M'Ledge Moffett kept tedious records until 1927 when it became student-run. \nIn addition to these groups, Dr. Moffett was involved with several other organizations and committees, leaving behind records that can be found in this collection.\n","Processed by Chelsey Slemp and Gene Hyde, July 2010.\n","The collection contains various hand-written and typed documents from approximately 1913-1978. In addition, there are financial records, appointment books, and notebooks. The documents include assorted items such as telegrams, letters, hand-written notes, and official documents that correspond to their respective group or organization. The financial records vary from ledger books to bank statements, receipts, checkbooks, canceled checks, and documents recording inventories of items purchased. The notebooks and appointment books vary in size and in category. Some are large and record several years' worth of material, while others are small and merely contain information for a single year. Several notebooks and ledgers contain accompanying documents. The collection additionally consists of items such as program guides, a songbook, newspaper clippings, and brochures. Box 1 and Box 2 of this collection deal primarily with general maintenance of the college. More specifically, these boxes contain financial records for the cafeteria and tea room, listing an inventory of food costs and other expenditures. Also, there are several notebooks from the Bureau of Information at the college that list visitors and their purpose for going to the President's Office, Dr. Moffett's office, and others. There are documents, in addition, dealing with various staff members and staff positions at the university. These boxes contain items primarily from the 1920's and 1930's. ","Boxes 3-5 contain information pertaining to several different student organizations. There are many documents from sororities and fraternities on campus, such as Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Tau Pi, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Phi Alpha Theta. The Pi Gamma Mu folders, in particular, contain financial information such as bank records, canceled checks, and a treasurer's notebook. The other groups' folders contain official documents, letters, and a Sigma Sigma Sigma song book. The folders on Phi Alpha Theta and Alpha Tau Pi also contain documents dealing with the opening of their chapters at Radford University. In addition, clubs and organizations mentioned in boxes 3-5 are the Home Economics Club, Ingles Literary Society, Radford Chapter of American Federation of Art Club, Choral Club, Commercial Club, Debate Council, and others - all of which have various miscellaneous handwritten and typed documents."," The Student Government Association has several documents within the collection including handwritten notes and official documents, most of which originated from the 1970's. In addition, the Executive Council, which was a branch of the Student Government Association that saw to disciplinary hearings has a notebook of several of these hearings from the 1920's that contained several hand-written documents dealing with the girls charged with breaking the rules. There are also documents pertaining to the Student Organization Committee from the 1920's and the 1970's. Boxes 6-8, the M'Ledge Moffett notebooks, are primarily day planners that Dr. Moffett wrote the occurrences of her day in with diary-like entries, most of which have to do with student teachers at high schools. The folders labeled appointment book list merely her schedule, or a particular event for a specific day, and do not contain such diary-like entries. All of the notebooks had within them several handwritten, and few typed, documents ranging from informal notes to an official document from the Department of Agriculture in 1944 pertaining to the World War II Liberty Gardens. The notebooks run from 1940-1954. There are several weeks in each book in which Dr. Moffett wrote no entries.\n","There are no restrictions.\n","The collection contains various hand-written and typed documents from approximately 1913-1978. In addition, there are financial records, appointment books, and notebooks. The documents include assorted items such as telegrams, letters, hand-written notes, and official documents that correspond to their respective group or organization. The financial records vary from ledger books to bank statements, receipts, checkbooks, canceled checks, and documents recording inventories of items purchased. The collection additionally consists of items such as program guides, a songbook, newspaper clippings, and brochures. 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The collection is open for research. No interlibrary loan.\n"],"accruals_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNo additional accruals are expected.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"accruals_heading_ssm":["Accruals\n"],"accruals_tesim":["No additional accruals are expected.\n"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eBox 1: Maintenance and Supervision\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eBox 2: Maintenance and Supervision\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e \n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eBox 3: Student Organizations\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e \n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eBox 4: Student Organizations \u003c/p\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eBox 5: Student Organizations\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e \n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eBox 6: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks \u003c/p\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eBox 7: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks \u003c/p\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eBox 8: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement\n"],"arrangement_tesim":["Box 1: Maintenance and Supervision Box 2: Maintenance and Supervision Box 3: Student Organizations Box 4: Student Organizations  Box 5: Student Organizations Box 6: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks  Box 7: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks  Box 8: M'Ledge Moffett notebooks"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDr. M'Ledge Moffett joined the Radford State Teacher's College in 1913, the year of its initial opening. Beginning as the only member of the Household Arts Department, she quickly made her mark upon Radford, soon after being selected by President McConnell to be in charge of the college's dormitory - from this, there are many papers in the collection relating to day-to-day maintenance of the residence hall.\n Additionally, she was appointed as the college's first Dean of Women in 1920, a post she held until her retirement in 1962. Dr. Moffett had a hand in the initial creation of many of the student organizations listed in this collection. She, in fact, assisted in the beginning of the first two student organizations on campus: the Ingles and Pocahontas Literary Societies. \nThere are several letters and other documents of interest collected by Dr. Moffett within the collection pertaining specifically to the Ingles Literary Society, which outlived the Pocahontas group. The Student Government Association was another student-run organization that she helped initially organize in 1914, along with the Grapurchat in 1921, which was the student newspaper. \nThe Executive Council was a branch of the SGA. It was a disciplinary committee that kept extensive records, collected by Dr. Moffett's office, of the disciplinary hearings of the 1920's. In 1922 the Blue Gate Tea room was opened as a spur of the moment method of having enough dining space for visitors that flourished into a new area of interest on campus. It was a former storage closet attached to the school's gymnasium, ran primarily by the Home Economics Department, in which M'Ledge Moffett kept tedious records until 1927 when it became student-run. \nIn addition to these groups, Dr. Moffett was involved with several other organizations and committees, leaving behind records that can be found in this collection.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information \n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Dr. M'Ledge Moffett joined the Radford State Teacher's College in 1913, the year of its initial opening. Beginning as the only member of the Household Arts Department, she quickly made her mark upon Radford, soon after being selected by President McConnell to be in charge of the college's dormitory - from this, there are many papers in the collection relating to day-to-day maintenance of the residence hall.\n Additionally, she was appointed as the college's first Dean of Women in 1920, a post she held until her retirement in 1962. Dr. Moffett had a hand in the initial creation of many of the student organizations listed in this collection. She, in fact, assisted in the beginning of the first two student organizations on campus: the Ingles and Pocahontas Literary Societies. \nThere are several letters and other documents of interest collected by Dr. Moffett within the collection pertaining specifically to the Ingles Literary Society, which outlived the Pocahontas group. The Student Government Association was another student-run organization that she helped initially organize in 1914, along with the Grapurchat in 1921, which was the student newspaper. \nThe Executive Council was a branch of the SGA. It was a disciplinary committee that kept extensive records, collected by Dr. Moffett's office, of the disciplinary hearings of the 1920's. In 1922 the Blue Gate Tea room was opened as a spur of the moment method of having enough dining space for visitors that flourished into a new area of interest on campus. It was a former storage closet attached to the school's gymnasium, ran primarily by the Home Economics Department, in which M'Ledge Moffett kept tedious records until 1927 when it became student-run. \nIn addition to these groups, Dr. Moffett was involved with several other organizations and committees, leaving behind records that can be found in this collection.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Identification of item], Dean's office records, M'Ledge Moffet Collection, Radford University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA. Dean's office records: M'Ledge Moffett Collection , Accession # RU 4.1.2, University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University \u003c!-- Add your institution's citation information --\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Identification of item], Dean's office records, M'Ledge Moffet Collection, Radford University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA. 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Some are large and record several years' worth of material, while others are small and merely contain information for a single year. Several notebooks and ledgers contain accompanying documents. The collection additionally consists of items such as program guides, a songbook, newspaper clippings, and brochures. Box 1 and Box 2 of this collection deal primarily with general maintenance of the college. More specifically, these boxes contain financial records for the cafeteria and tea room, listing an inventory of food costs and other expenditures. Also, there are several notebooks from the Bureau of Information at the college that list visitors and their purpose for going to the President's Office, Dr. Moffett's office, and others. There are documents, in addition, dealing with various staff members and staff positions at the university. These boxes contain items primarily from the 1920's and 1930's. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoxes 3-5 contain information pertaining to several different student organizations. There are many documents from sororities and fraternities on campus, such as Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Tau Pi, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Phi Alpha Theta. The Pi Gamma Mu folders, in particular, contain financial information such as bank records, canceled checks, and a treasurer's notebook. The other groups' folders contain official documents, letters, and a Sigma Sigma Sigma song book. The folders on Phi Alpha Theta and Alpha Tau Pi also contain documents dealing with the opening of their chapters at Radford University. In addition, clubs and organizations mentioned in boxes 3-5 are the Home Economics Club, Ingles Literary Society, Radford Chapter of American Federation of Art Club, Choral Club, Commercial Club, Debate Council, and others - all of which have various miscellaneous handwritten and typed documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The Student Government Association has several documents within the collection including handwritten notes and official documents, most of which originated from the 1970's. In addition, the Executive Council, which was a branch of the Student Government Association that saw to disciplinary hearings has a notebook of several of these hearings from the 1920's that contained several hand-written documents dealing with the girls charged with breaking the rules. There are also documents pertaining to the Student Organization Committee from the 1920's and the 1970's. Boxes 6-8, the M'Ledge Moffett notebooks, are primarily day planners that Dr. Moffett wrote the occurrences of her day in with diary-like entries, most of which have to do with student teachers at high schools. The folders labeled appointment book list merely her schedule, or a particular event for a specific day, and do not contain such diary-like entries. All of the notebooks had within them several handwritten, and few typed, documents ranging from informal notes to an official document from the Department of Agriculture in 1944 pertaining to the World War II Liberty Gardens. The notebooks run from 1940-1954. There are several weeks in each book in which Dr. Moffett wrote no entries.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains various hand-written and typed documents from approximately 1913-1978. In addition, there are financial records, appointment books, and notebooks. The documents include assorted items such as telegrams, letters, hand-written notes, and official documents that correspond to their respective group or organization. The financial records vary from ledger books to bank statements, receipts, checkbooks, canceled checks, and documents recording inventories of items purchased. The notebooks and appointment books vary in size and in category. Some are large and record several years' worth of material, while others are small and merely contain information for a single year. Several notebooks and ledgers contain accompanying documents. The collection additionally consists of items such as program guides, a songbook, newspaper clippings, and brochures. Box 1 and Box 2 of this collection deal primarily with general maintenance of the college. More specifically, these boxes contain financial records for the cafeteria and tea room, listing an inventory of food costs and other expenditures. Also, there are several notebooks from the Bureau of Information at the college that list visitors and their purpose for going to the President's Office, Dr. Moffett's office, and others. There are documents, in addition, dealing with various staff members and staff positions at the university. These boxes contain items primarily from the 1920's and 1930's. ","Boxes 3-5 contain information pertaining to several different student organizations. There are many documents from sororities and fraternities on campus, such as Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Tau Pi, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Phi Alpha Theta. The Pi Gamma Mu folders, in particular, contain financial information such as bank records, canceled checks, and a treasurer's notebook. The other groups' folders contain official documents, letters, and a Sigma Sigma Sigma song book. The folders on Phi Alpha Theta and Alpha Tau Pi also contain documents dealing with the opening of their chapters at Radford University. In addition, clubs and organizations mentioned in boxes 3-5 are the Home Economics Club, Ingles Literary Society, Radford Chapter of American Federation of Art Club, Choral Club, Commercial Club, Debate Council, and others - all of which have various miscellaneous handwritten and typed documents."," The Student Government Association has several documents within the collection including handwritten notes and official documents, most of which originated from the 1970's. In addition, the Executive Council, which was a branch of the Student Government Association that saw to disciplinary hearings has a notebook of several of these hearings from the 1920's that contained several hand-written documents dealing with the girls charged with breaking the rules. There are also documents pertaining to the Student Organization Committee from the 1920's and the 1970's. Boxes 6-8, the M'Ledge Moffett notebooks, are primarily day planners that Dr. Moffett wrote the occurrences of her day in with diary-like entries, most of which have to do with student teachers at high schools. The folders labeled appointment book list merely her schedule, or a particular event for a specific day, and do not contain such diary-like entries. All of the notebooks had within them several handwritten, and few typed, documents ranging from informal notes to an official document from the Department of Agriculture in 1944 pertaining to the World War II Liberty Gardens. The notebooks run from 1940-1954. 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See the full \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://mozart.radford.edu/archives/findingaids/moffett-dean.html\"\u003elist of materials\u003c/extref\u003e found in the online finding aid. \n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The collection contains various hand-written and typed documents from approximately 1913-1978. In addition, there are financial records, appointment books, and notebooks. The documents include assorted items such as telegrams, letters, hand-written notes, and official documents that correspond to their respective group or organization. The financial records vary from ledger books to bank statements, receipts, checkbooks, canceled checks, and documents recording inventories of items purchased. The collection additionally consists of items such as program guides, a songbook, newspaper clippings, and brochures. 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Records show that many of the materials were collected by M'Ledge Moffett, who served as the school's Dean of Women from 1920-62. Box 1 holds publications from 1914 - 1926 such as State Normal School Bulletins from Feb-Oct 1924, The State Teacher's College Motto Christmas Card from 1924 and a State Teachers College Interesting and Attractive Features pamphlet for the 1929-1930 session. "," Box 2 holds publications from 1927 - 1934 such as State Teacher's College Bulletins from 1927-1932, flyers with program information regarding the 1932 Commencement ceremonies, and a schedule of debates for1932. Box 3 covers the years 1935 - 1971 and includes, but is not limited to, presentation of a portrait of President David Peters in 1949, a program for the Convocation of the 53rd Annual Session of Radford College in 1965 and a Radford College Office of Admissions Recruitment Booklet from October of 1971. 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Historic Radford College Publications , Accession # RU 8.4, University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University \u003c!-- Add your institution's citation information --\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Identification of item], Historic Radford College Publications, Radford University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA. Historic Radford College Publications , Accession # RU 8.4, University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University "],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eProcessed by David Atkins, Spring 2013.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information\n"],"processinfo_tesim":["Processed by David Atkins, Spring 2013.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Historic Radford College Publications Collection contains recruitment flyers, college bulletins, pamphlets, pictorial display booklets, programs, and other materials published between 1914-71. Records show that many of the materials were collected by M'Ledge Moffett, who served as the school's Dean of Women from 1920-62. Box 1 holds publications from 1914 - 1926 such as State Normal School Bulletins from Feb-Oct 1924, The State Teacher's College Motto Christmas Card from 1924 and a State Teachers College Interesting and Attractive Features pamphlet for the 1929-1930 session. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Box 2 holds publications from 1927 - 1934 such as State Teacher's College Bulletins from 1927-1932, flyers with program information regarding the 1932 Commencement ceremonies, and a schedule of debates for1932. Box 3 covers the years 1935 - 1971 and includes, but is not limited to, presentation of a portrait of President David Peters in 1949, a program for the Convocation of the 53rd Annual Session of Radford College in 1965 and a Radford College Office of Admissions Recruitment Booklet from October of 1971. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Box 4 contains undated material such as miscellaneous clippings and pictures from recruitment bulletins, a program for \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Great European Passion\u003c/title\u003e play and a bumper sticker with the slogan \u003ctitle render=\"doublequote\"\u003eYes I am Radford College\u003c/title\u003e. 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Box 3 covers the years 1935 - 1971 and includes, but is not limited to, presentation of a portrait of President David Peters in 1949, a program for the Convocation of the 53rd Annual Session of Radford College in 1965 and a Radford College Office of Admissions Recruitment Booklet from October of 1971. "," Box 4 contains undated material such as miscellaneous clippings and pictures from recruitment bulletins, a program for  The Great European Passion  play and a bumper sticker with the slogan  Yes I am Radford College . 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See the complete collection inventory in the Radford University Archive \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://mozart.radford.edu/archives/findingaids/historical-radford-publications.html\"\u003efinding aid \u003c/extref\u003e for this collection. \n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Historic Radford College Publications Collection contains recruitment flyers, college bulletins, pamphlets, pictorial display booklets, programs, and other materials published between 1914-71. 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Moffett's came to what is now called Radford University as a faculty member in 1913 as the youngest faculty member and the only member of the Household Arts Department. For the first several years after the college opened, Moffett taught all of the Household Arts courses (Elementary Sewing, Elementary Cooking and Household Management) which met five times a week. In 1920, the Radford Normal School was reorganized and President J.P McConnell appointed Moffett as the new Dean of Women, a year before she received her Master of Arts degree. She was the first person to hold that post at any of the Virginia institutions of higher education. She held the Dean's post until her retirement in 1962. She died in 1969."," The Home Management House (or Cottage) provided Home Economics majors at Radford to live together in a house situation and actively practice skills such as home budget planning, cleaning, cooking, meal planning, housekeeping, and other tasks. Living in the Home Management Cottage carried credit, and was listed as Home Economics 46: Home Management Cottage in the 1934 Radford State Teachers College Bulletin. From the 1934 Bulletin: Home Economics 46: Home Management Cottage: This unit of work is an experiment in co-operative living, giving ample opportunity for each student to put into practice the knowledge gained previously and to develop responsibility. Each of the housekeeping activities - cooking, table setting and serving, cleaning, acting as hostess and manager, budget-making and buying - is done in the home atmosphere rather than in a laboratory. Here classroom theory and laboratory experimentation are converted into real home-making knowledge. Emphasis is placed on development of appreciations, ideals and standards rather than skill. Required of all seniors one quarter. 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To see the full collection consult the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://mozart.radford.edu/archives/findingaids/moffett-home-management.html\"\u003eRadford University Archive finding aid.\u003c/extref\u003e\n\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Home Management House Diaries portion of the M'Ledge Moffett Collection holds a guest book and various diaries spanning the years 1932-1937.This collection includes diaries kept by the students who lived in the Home Management Cottage from 1932-1937. It also includes a guest book and a paper written by M'Ledge Moffett that describes the diaries and the purpose of the Cottage.\n Also included are the envelopes that contained the diaries. 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