Co-education at the University of Virginia collection, 1973/1975

Access and use

Location of collection:: University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

University of Virginia

P.O. Box 400110

170 McCormick Rd

Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110

Contact for questions and access:: POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff

Email: scpubserv@virginia.edu

Phone: (434) 243-1776

Fax: (434) 924-4968

Web: library.virginia.edu/special-collections

Web: library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/reference-request

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

MSS 16898, Co-Education Collection at the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

MSS 16898, Co-education Collection at the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

MSS 16898, Co-Education Collection at the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Summary

Extent:

.012 Cubic Feet 1 Oversize folder (medium), 1 legal size folder

Creator:

Laudenschlager, Connie Clark

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

MSS 16898, Co-Education Collection at the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

MSS 16898, Co-education Collection at the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

MSS 16898, Co-Education Collection at the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains one poster campaigning for the presidency of Connie Clark. The poster has an image of Clark and says "Connie Clark for president of the graduating class Economic Honors- Intermediate Honors-Resident Staff-SR.Resident" Clark was part of the first coeducated class of undergraduates at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1974. She studied Economics. This presidential race ended with a run-off election, but ultimately Clark was not elected.

This addition 1 to the Coeducation at the University of Virginia collection contains the papers of Holly Peters. Peters was part of the first class of women attending the University of Virginia, graduating in 1974 with a B.A. in English and Religious Studies.

Peters's papers document her work on the Counselors Committee on Human Sexuality. Content includes a 1974 Commencement Exercises invitation, a 1974 photograph of the committee, "An Ounce of Prevention" pamphlet from 1973, "An Ounce of Prevention" pamphlet from 1975, a broadside for a March 1974 lecture by sexuality scholars Masters and Johnson, and an April 1973 Richmond News Leader page discussing coeducational dormitories at Virginia's public universities.

After graduating, Peters worked in Memphis at the Women's Resource Center, a United Methodist Church project. She was Director of the ACLU of Tennessee for three years before attending law school. After law school, Peters worked at the Legal Aid Society in Roanoke, where she remained as a lawyer until her retirement.

Rules or conventions:

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