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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection of scrapbooks documents the career of Emma Case, longtime Dean of Women at Eastern. As Dean of Women Mrs. Case instituted several initiatives to recognize the achievements of female students such as the Women's Honor Program and the Senior Women's Dinner and these events are documented, as well. She was very active in the cultural activities of the college and the invitations, programs and other ephemera she collected document student life on Eastern's campus.
Biographical Note
Emma Y. Case was born in Anderson County, Kentucky in 1892. She married Robert P.M. Case and had two daughters Lucille and Jane. Emma taught at several schools in Kentucky and New Mexico before beginning to teach at Eastern in 1925. She graduated from Eastern in 1926 and received her Master's in Education from Peabody College for Teachers in 1930.
She became Dean of Women in 1932 and held that position for thirty years. During that time she founded four campus honor societies: Cwens, Collegiate Pentacle, Kappa Iota Epsilon and Omicron Alpha Kappa. She also founded the Mother's Day Program, the freshman women's Christmas dinner, the Senior Women's Dinner and the men's and women's honor's day programs.
Emma Case retired from Eastern in 1962 and she died in 1988.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Case, Emma
Finding Aid Revision History:
Collection was listed as processed in 1989, but had no finding aid. Materials were reboxed, the Dean of Women Records (1989A010) were added and a finding aid was created in 2017.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 1
- Barcode: 31234014056855
- Folder 1: Burnam Hall Scrapbook, 1932-1935
- Consists of student ephemera such as dance cards, event programs, invitations, news clippings and more. Of note are a poem about Emma Case written by a student, small paintings most likely painted by Maude Gibson and the occasional program from plays outside Eastern that Mrs. Case attended.
- Folder 2: Senior Women's Dinner Scrapbook, 1946-1976
- Includes programs from the Senior Women's Dinner and news clippings about the dinner as well as a photograph of the EKU Class of 1926 at their 50th reunion.
- Folder 3: Women's Honors Day Program Scrapbook, 1958-1960
- Photographs and news clippings from the Women's Honors Day Dinner. Also includes a few clippings about the Vocational Information Conference which Mrs. Case helped organize.
- Folder 4: News Clippings, 1950-1955
- Loose news clippings that were not in scrapbooks covering mostly the Vocational Information Conference.
- Folder 5: Programs, 1960-1986
- Programs from events on campus.
- Box 2
- Barcode: 31234014031304
- Folder 1: Certificates, 1937-1976
- Folder 2: Mother's Day Program Scrapbook, 1937-1962
- Programs and news clippings about the annual Mother's Day Program.
- Folder 3: Personal Scrapbook, 1936-1939
- News clippings, conference programs, invitations and more documenting Mrs. Case's career. Also included is ephemera from Eastern for various events. These include small paintings by Maude Gibson.
- Folder 4: Women's Honors Day Program Scrapbook, 1944-1962
- Photographs and news clippings from the Women's Honors Day Dinner. Also includes a few clippings about the Vocational Information Conference which Mrs. Case helped organize.
- Box 3
- Barcode: 31234014031312
- Folder 1: Personal Scrapbook, 1937-1960
- Mostly information about Mrs. Case's career as Dean of Women including information from state and national conferences (Kentucky Association of Deans of Women and the National Association of Deans of Women). Also contains postcards from various locations and some ephemeral materials from Eastern.
