Sandra Nichols Ward correspondence
Scope and Contents
The Sandra MacDonald Nichols Ward Correspondence contains letters to Ward's parents and sister, describing social and academic activities while a student at Mount Holyoke College. Also includes letters describing summer employment as a chambermaid at Star Island, New Hamphsire, a Unitarian-Universalist conference site, 1962 and 1963, as well as her experiences working with Operation Crossroads Africa in Gambia, in 1964.
Dates
- 1961-1965
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted
Biographical Note
Sandra MacDonald Nichols graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1965, and married Peter Langdon Ward that summer. She received an M.A. from the Columbia University School of Library Sciences in 1966, and worked for fifteen years as the Undergraduate Science Librarian at Stanford University. In 1992 she became the Science Librarian at Mount Holyoke College.
Extent
1 boxes (Faculty/Staff)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Ward, Sandra MacDonald Nichols, 1943- ; Librarian. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1965. Mount Holyoke College faculty member, since 1992. Papers contain letters written to her family. Primarily documenting her life as a student at Mount Holyoke, her summer employment and her work with Operation Crossroads Africa in Gambia.
- Africa Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Gambia -- Social conditions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mount Holyoke College -- Biography Subject Source: Local sources
- Mount Holyoke College -- Student life -- 1961-1965 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mount Holyoke College -- Students -- Summer employment Subject Source: Local sources
- Mount Holyoke College Manuscript Collections Subject Source: Local sources
- Student volunteers in social service Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women college students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Ward correspondence, 1961-1965.
- Subtitle
- Finding Aid
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Date
- © 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
