A photograph of the Society of Women Engineers caroling at a nursing home as part of their 1996 holiday social. The women shown are Tesha Sengupta, Heidi Mublerink, Danielle (no last name listed), K.P. (only initials listed), Rosen (no last name listed), Carol (no last name listed), Betts (no last name listed), Joyce (no last name listed), and Erica Clans.
Audio recorded by David Eisenman, Assistant Dean of Students from 1968 to 1970, during the years of Project 500. It includes his assessments of the implementation of Project 500 as well as the resulting conflicts, and touches on his first-hand accounts of the protests by African American students against their placement in sub-standard housing in the first weeks of the program.
A report written by Elaine Fiolka giving the results of her research done for the Lynn Barry Policy Study Internship with the University of Illinois College of Engineering.
Eleanor Saunders Towns eyes were initially set on Howard University, but an administrative error redirected her to the University of Illinois in 1961. Towns was a State Champion High School Debater, so she decided to study Drama with plans on teaching speech. She recounts her experience as one of around 200 black students on campus as unique compared to other black students because she came from a majority - white high school in Rockford, Illinois. The Deltas' emphasis on scholarship and opportunity for a connection to the black community on campus attracted her most to the sorority.
Elias Jackson (he/they), a transmasculine nonbinary individual, discusses his experience of participating in the Shire of Caer Gwyn, a local Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) branch. They discussed what it meant to be a part of a community like the Shire and how the Shire's culture differed from other SCA branches and events. This interview also covers the history of the Shire, as Elias holds documents and artifacts from the branch established before the Shire, as well as its transformation into an LGBTQ+ space.
A newspaper article published in the Daily Illini about the first chapter of Society of Women Engineers being formed at the University of Illinois. The article was found within an Engineering College Scrapbook covering 1959-62.
