RG 19. Student Life

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 OSCA Records consist of materials created and used by the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association between 1956 and 2015. Access copies of acidic newspaper clippings were created in 2026. Materials in the OSCA Records relate to the daily activities of OSCA and include correspondence, administrative files, event and programming documents, clippings, and a single photograph. The collection has been divided into six subgroups. Subgroup I. Correspondence includes intra-OSCA...

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This record group consists of publications and printed materials related to student life. This includes committee and organization handbooks, dance programs, programs, and course evaluations. The record group has been arranged in three series.

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This record group contains files related to dormitories used by Oberlin College from 1869-2016. It does not include records related to all campus dorms, however.

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Records related to Oberlin College Student Senate ranging in date from 1907-2007.

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 records of Pi Kappa Lambda, Theta Chapter, document the membership, programs, and governance of this honorary national musical fraternity from its establishment in 1927. The collection provides documentation concerning the history and operation of the national organization of Pi Kappa Lambda. The collection contains documentation concerning the work of the various presidents since 1961, including elections, correspondence, and honor recipients.The Administrative Series...

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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 records of the Zeta of Ohio Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa document the multiple administrative functions of the chapter, including electing new members, communicating with the United Chapters, and planning for the annual initiation banquets and Visiting Scholars Program. A small amount of material relates to the history of the United Chapters and its triennial meetings. Records are arranged into thirteen series.Within series, records are typically arranged either chronologically...