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This is the Associated Women Students page of the 1934 Cornhusker yearbook. -
This is a page from the 1940 Cornhusker Yearbook that shows the Barb Activities Board for Women. This was a group that the Associated Women Students (AWS) created for women who were unaffiliated with the sororities on campus. Sorority women on the Nebraska campus tended to be more involved in other campus activities, it was the Barb Activities Board that helped to promote unaffiliated women to become involved on campus. Many of the activities and events put on by the Barb Activities Board for Women were very similar, if not the same, as the activities and events of the AWS. -
Images of the women of the AWS in the 1965 Cornhusker Yearbook. The images on the top right and left show a scene in which a member of the AWS Court places notices into the mailboxes of women who have broken the rules and the second image is of a female student receiving a notice that she is called to the AWS Court for returning late to her dormitory. The bottom two images show the AWS Activities Mart and an AWS representative. -
A page of the 1969 Cornhusker Yearbook featuring images of the women of the AWS. The caption reads: "Traditional AWS activities in expanded form. (above left) Ten Best Dressed Coeds preen for camera angles. (above) new ammunition is displayed for gunners at the Freshman Activities Mart held both spring and fall semesters. (left) Key sanction descends to sophomores." -
The page for the AWS in the 1965 Cornhusker Yearbook. The caption and description: AWS Ponders Keys For Nebraska Coeds "To investigate the practicality of extended or unlimited hours for campus girls, Associated Women Students conducted a nationwide survey. In the project , AWS wrote to schools in the country using some form of key system. During Standards Week, sororities conducted discussions on etiquette and morals and heard Dr. Robert Palmer speak on "Sex and the College Girl". Explaining standards for women, AWS Board members toured freshman dorms. Speakers used drawings to entertain while illustrating rules of personal behavior." -
This is the AWS page of the 1943 Cornhusker yearbook. The description reads: "The AWS board makes the rules the coeds live by, creating and revising spasmodically, house regulations, the activity point system. They also carry the judicial end with their Friday court sessions when violators of said rules are called in for trial and punishment. To start of the year the AWS sponsored an all activities mart for freshman women, and later on, First Aid classes, a juke box dance after the Iowa basketball game, Intersorority sing and the Ivy Day Tea Dance. The Board made money and had fun with the Coed Follies show....Alpha Chi skit and Pi Phi curtain act were judged the best parts of all, while Helen Johnson stepped out as Typical Nebraska Coed." -
This is a page fro the 1943 Cornhusker Yearbook for the AWS Coed Follies. The description reads: "Sorry boys, not tonight, I'm going to Coed Follies and that is strictly for women only. I know you'd love to see the super skits presented by Nebraska's coeds, not to mention the style show. It certainly puts a highlight in the school years and offers lots of fun and laughs- and work for the AWS. Competition to win the cup for best skit and curtain act is usually stiff, but the judges try to be fair and everyone is happy sometimes. Well it's just about 7:30, so I'll be going. So long." The captions for the images read: (top left) "Tri Delt's excellent revue of 'Rosie the Riveter' or 'Working on the Production Line' was a highlight of the evening and won second place. Here Ann Stevens Hileman is climaxing the skit." (bottom left) "'Mantlepiece Melodrama,' a little song and dance worked up in a cute way was presented by the Chi Omega's. Of most concern this year was the revolting stage used for the style show." (bottom right) "Janet Curley, AWS prexy, congratulates Helen Johnson, Delta Gamma on being chosen as Typical Nebraska Coed of 1943. Helen's identity was revealed after she stepped out a pasteboard drum standing besides a pasteboard soldier." -
Dean of Women, Helen Hosp in the 1941 Cornhusker yearbook. The description reads: "A rather tall, slender brunette, graduate of Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland; and a formal pupil of Madam Schumann-Heink is Dean of Women Miss Helen Hosp. Her philosophy on life may be quoted in the words of William Allen White 'I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday, and I love today' Working with students is Miss Hosp's aim in life and she has carried it through all the stages. First teaching, then as a field secretary and finally entering the University of Nebraska as its Dean of Women. She has proved by her attendance at the school functions her belief that the faculty and students should be in closer contact. Dean Hosp also carries through the idea that there is nothing on earth from which one can learn more than from actual contact with people." -
Dean of Women Amanda Henrietta Heppner pictured in the 1927 Cornhusker yearbook. Dean Heppner served as the Dean of Women from 1918 to 1938, she held the position the longest. As the description notes, Dean Heppner was in charge of the "approximately twenty-four hundred undergraduate and one hundred graduate women" registered at the University of Nebraska in 1927 and number that increased each year. -
Dean of Women, Elsie Ford Piper pictured in the 1939 Cornhusker yearbook. Dean Piper took over the position for previous Dean of Women, Amanda Heppner when she resigned in 1938. Piper served as Dean of Women for only one year and then went back to her regular position as Assistant Dean of Women. On her position as the new Dean of Women she said, "I consider it a privilege to work with our young women who are unusual in their ambition to maintain the highest scholastic standards and ideals, and who above all exhibit a cooperative and understanding spirit." -
Dean of Women, Marjorie Johnson pictured here in the 1947 Cornhusker yearbook. Johnson served as Dean of Women for ten years, 1947-1957. The caption reads: "Dean Johnson Solves UN's Women's Problems" It is quoted that she was "always ready to listen to and work with those who are interested in matters affecting the students, she has down much to improve and strengthen activities on campus." -
This is the W.S.G.A page of the 1919 Cornhusker Yearbook. The Women Students Government Association (W.S.G.A) was the organization prior to the creation and establishment of the Associated Women Students (AWS). In 1920, the W.S.G.A. became the AWS. -
This is an article from the Daily Nebraskan from 1952 describing the incident in which 200 male students invaded the all girls event, the AWS Coed Follies. -
This is the page for the AWS in the 1970 Cornhusker Yearbook. It quotes several female students' thoughts on the last days of the AWS. -
From the 1965 Cornhusker Yearbook, the winner of the Ideal Nebraska Coed, Vicki Dowling, and the winner of the Outstanding Collegiate Man, "Buzz" Madson. -
A page from the 1969 Cornhusker Yearbook for the AWS. It features images of the Ideal Nebraska Coed and Outstanding Collegiate Man, and an image from the Coed Follies that year. -
This is an issue of a series of weekly calendars created by the AWS to encourage female students to become more active on campus. "The Women" began publication in October of 1940 and only had eleven issues before it was discontinued. "The Women" was edited by Dorothy White. -
This is a page from the 1943 Cornhusker Yearbook that includes Dean of Women, Verna Boyles and also includes Assistant Dean of Women, Elsie Ford Piper. -
This is the "obituary" for the AWS from the Daily Nebraskan (April 10, 1970). The article discusses the last days of the AWS and quotes Chris Hanus, a previous AWS Congresswoman, "We felt that AWS had been groping for purpose since the abolition of women's hours." The AWS struggled to maintain a balanced government that suited the needs of "off-campus women, dormitory women and sorority women." -
This document is a sign out sheet for White Hall on of the female residence halls on the Nebraska campus. It also includes a Housemother's Report allowing special permission for one female student to visit her relatives out of town. -
This is the page for the Associated Women Students in the 1926 Cornhusker Yearbook. -
This sheet is apart of the AWS Court Minutes for May 8, 1959. The AWS Court trials were held on Friday afternoons and women who violated the rules were summoned to explain their case. For this particular day, two female students were tried for being caught sneaking back into their dormitories after curfew. -
This is the AWS Constitution printed in the 1968 AWS Handbook. It explains the purpose of the organization: 1. To further the spirit of unity among women of the University of Nebraska and to foster a personal sense of responsibility to themselves and to the university. 2. To stimulate awareness of the opportunities and needs of educated women. 3. To encourage a successful balance of scholastic endeavor, social life and extracurricular activities. 4. To administer a representative form of government whereby the interests of all women students shall be served and to cooperate with the University of Nebraska in formulating and administrating policed and regulations which pertain to those women students. 5. To consider any matter of concern to women students and to offer a means of expression and action. The AWS Constitution also breaks down the various "branches" and positions within the organization. -
This document explains what the AWS is according the the president of the organization in the 1940s. The document explains that the AWS is organized into three sections, the AWS Board, the AWS Council and the AWS Court. The document also lists the organizations various activities, such as the All-Activities Tea and Coed Follies. The author of this document also voices a concern with involving all of the women on campus, not only those on the board, council and court. -
This is a report that was given at the one of IAWS Conventions that students of the AWS at Nebraska attended. The report covers topics that were of a concern to women at the time, Scholarship, Conduct and Other Opportunities. Topics include: Scholarship, extra curricular activities, drinking, Bermuda shorts, rumors, manners, interest in cultural events