Article on Sophia Smith Archives and Women's eNews

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<p>Kate Kelly, a Smith alum, writes a column on Huffington Post, an influential current events website. In this article she highlights the Sophia Smith Archives and a prominent women's internet website, Women's eNews, which had a luncheon yesterday to celebrate significant NY women during Women's History Month. My daughter as a STRIDE student, using the Sophia Smith Archives, had the opportunity to research and write one of the highlighted biographies which was presented. Exciting, empowering history in the Sophia Smith Archives! She loves her STRIDE job!</p>

<p>Kate</a> Kelly: Assuring That Women's Stories are Told</p>

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<p>I love the archives. I like to go in and ask to hold the Academy Award that was donated by one of the alums. I may never win an Oscar, but I can pretend :slight_smile: I also really like the old scrapbooks and old newspapers they have there. It’s fascinating to read about the daily lives of Smithies from the past.</p>

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<p>Who donated the Oscar?</p>

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<p>Nancy Hamilton</p>

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[Nancy</a> Hamilton Papers, 1862-1992: Biographical and Historical Note](<a href=“http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss476_bioghist.html]Nancy”>http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss476_bioghist.html)</p>

<p>Cynthia Wade '89 also won an Oscar for a documentary.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.independent-magazine.org/magazine/2009/02/cynthiawade[/url]”>http://www.independent-magazine.org/magazine/2009/02/cynthiawade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.cynthiawade.com/[/url]”>http://www.cynthiawade.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Must check out the Archives at my next visit. I liked the article’s opening quote from Gloria Steinem, “If we don’t see a history with women, we don’t know that we can create it.” Thanks for posting this!</p>

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<p>Upbeat, you’re welcome. My daughter is taking an English Lit course this semester and most likely will be an English major. Just the other day the professor took them to the Sophia Smith archives where they were able to “experience” a number of authors they’ve studied. They got to hold letters written by Wordsworth and Tennyson; a Rossetti manuscript; books bound by Virginia Woolf; and Robert Browning’s travel desk. My daughter was higher than a kite!</p>

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<p>Sophia Smith collection or Mortimer Rare Book Room? :)</p>

<p>[Mortimer</a> Rare Book Room: Collections | Smith College Libraries](<a href=“http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/rarebook/collections.htm]Mortimer”>http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/rarebook/collections.htm)</p>

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<p>You know, Borgin, I’m not entirely sure, but after looking at your link to the Mortimer Rare Book Room, I suspect it was there instead. Thanks for the correction. I haven’t had the two collections straight in my head; my daughter talked about the archives and then she switched to talk about that experience and I didn’t catch the distinction. No matter where they are, it’s amazing that Smith has them! </p>

<p>Thank you for the listing; I keep forgetting that Anne Morrow Lindbergh was also a Smithie. I fondly remember decades ago reading “Gift from the Sea” and found it to be exquisitely beautiful. I should read it again.</p>