Dippel papers
Scope and Contents
The Rosalie Peppler Dippel Papers consist of course records, biographical information and photographs. These papers primarily consist of notebooks for astronomy courses and papers written for religion. The papers include comments written by religion professors Henry W. Luce, Edwin E. Calverley, George W. Brown and Mary Inda Hussey. Topics of her religion papers include "A Life of Jesus", "Isaiah's place in history", "Political Ties binding Western Asia", "Arabia before Islam", "Muhammad and the Quran", "A composition of the Gita and the Lotus", "What it was in the beginning and what became of the end" and Hindu ideas on salvation". Biographical information is limited to her obituary, May 2001. The photographs are of Abbey Memorial Chapel, members of the Outing Club, and residents of North Hillside (later North Mandelle) dormitory. The collection also includes a photograph of music professor William Churchill Hammond, with an inscription to Dippel, June 12, 1933, and four copies of a photograph of Dippel taken in her senior year at Mount Holyoke College, 1932-1933.
Dates
- Creation: 1929 - 2001
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1929 - 1933
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted.
Biographical Note
Leona Rosalie Peppler was born on September 4, 1911 in Newark, New Jersey to Nelson H. Peppler, a construction engineer and Leona Coe Peppler. After attending public schools in Caldwell and Glen Ridge, New Jersey, she went to Mount Holyoke College between 1929-1933, graduating with a degree in religion and a minor in astronomy. She was briefly employed as a file clerk at Cum and Foster fire insurance agency and from 1933-1935 worked as a secretary with the Chase National Bank. She subsequently worked as a secretary to the principal of Milwaukee-Downer Seminary and to the head of the Community Development and Maintenance for the Federal Resettlement Administration in Washington, D.C. From 1935-1942 she worked as executive secretary to the vice president of Beneficial Management Corporation in Newark, N.J. In September 1939 she married John Willard Dippel, and attorney and they had two children. She died at the age of eighty-nine on May 5, 2001 in Brunswick, Maine.
Extent
1 boxes (Class of 1933 Peppler)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Dippel, Rosalie Peppler, 1911-2001; student. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1933. Papers contain course records, biographical information and photographs; primarily consisting of notebooks and papers for astronomy and religion courses taken at Mount Holyoke College.
Arrangement
Arranged in 3 series. Series 1. Course Records. Series 2. Biographical Information. 3. Photographs.
Genre / Form
Topical
- Astronomy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts
- College students -- Massachusetts
- Mount Holyoke College -- Curricula
- Mount Holyoke College -- Student notebooks -- 1929-1933
- Mount Holyoke College -- Student papers -- 1929-1933
- Mount Holyoke College Manuscript Collections
- Religion -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts
- Women college students -- Massachusetts
- Title
- Dippel papers, 1929-1933, 2001.
- Subtitle
- Finding Aid
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Date
- #169; 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Repository Details
Part of the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Repository
50 College Street
8 Dwight Hall
South Hadley MA 01075-6425 USA
413-538-3079
archives@mtholyoke.edu
