RG 19. Student Life

Scope and Contents The records of the Sexual Information Center (SIC) at Oberlin College document over four decades of student-led sexual health advocacy, education, and peer support, spanning from 1976 to 2019. Materials in the collection reflect the administrative, educational, and operational aspects of SIC’s work, including its evolution from a peer counseling center to a broader reproductive justice organization. The collection includes foundational documents, meeting minutes, daily office logs, financial...

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This record group consists of archival and duplicate sets of student publications, microfilmed issues of 15 publications, and other records related to student publications. This includes historical information and charters. It is arranged in four record series.

Scope and Contents The materials contained in the LGBTU Collection date from 1973 to 2001. They reflect portions of the LGBTU’s operations. Most of the materials are from the late 1980s and 1990s. A majority of the files consist of printed materials, such as meeting minutes, administrative materials, records related to programming, posters, and publications that were collected by the LGBTU's librarian. The posters are primarily undated. Publications include Hotlines, a...

Scope and Contents The ten autograph albums in this collection are those not associated with a personal paper group; they date from the mid- to late nineteenth century. Some of the albums were kept for a long period of the owners’ lives, chronicling the persons that were of most influence for the owners. One of the albums, that of Kittie Mason Purdy, contains entries dating from 1867 to 1885. Four of the albums were owned by students who attended the Preparatory School operated by the College, a group not well...

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The diaries in this collection are those not associated with any personal paper groups; they date from 1844 through 1937. Diaries not with papers can also be found in the Oberlin File, RG 21. Two diarists also assembled scrapbooks; these materials are all stored with scrapbooks in RG 19/4/3, as noted on the inventory.

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The Student Papers collection consists of research papers written by Oberlin College students. The majority of the research topics concern Oberlin issues or people, but some cover other topics. The collection is one series, listing student papers in alphabetical order by author.

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This record group includes files from the following organizations: Sigma Xi and the Oberlin Honorary Mathematical Society.

Scope and Contents The scrapbooks in this collection, assembled primarily by former Oberlin College students, are those not associated with a personal paper group. Not all scrapbooks are intact. Some were donated as dissembled or photocopied books, while others were dissembled and/or copied by Archives staff for preservation purposes.The inventory lists names of creators in alphabetical order. Married women’s names appear twice in the inventory, under two different surnames, maiden and married, for...

Scope and Contents The earliest records in this group reflect Oberlin’s support of missionary endeavors of Protestant organizations both at home and abroad in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The organizations affiliated with Christian missionary activity were the Foreign Missionary Volunteers, the Students Missionary Society, the Student Volunteer Band, the Union Missionary Society, the Young Ladies Missionary Society, and the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor. Later twentieth and early...

Scope and Contents The Jewish Life collection documents various aspects of Jewish student life at Oberlin. The majority of the materials are from various Jewish student groups and publications, Kosher Halal Cooperative (founded originally as Kosher Cooperative), the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies (JNES) Department, and Hebrew House. There are also smaller amounts of religious materials, materials concerning interfaith/intergroup work and the role of non-profit organizations, and discourse surrounding...