LibGuides: Photos through the Decades at Meredith College: 1970s

1970s

Meeting of the Class of 1970.

Members of the first Bathtub Ring definitely and deliberately had a "hillbilly" ethos. (1971)

Shirely Chisholm is surrounded by students interested in talking to her.

Meeting with presidential candidate Shirley Chishom when she spoke on campus in 1972.

The second floor of the newly opened Cate Student Center included a fireplace. (1972)

The four offivers pose in the branches of a tree, with one woman hanging upside down.

Junior Class officers. (1973)

Five students seated on the floor around a low table playing a card game.

Despite admonitions against card playing in lists of rules from early in the century, the pastime has endured. This game uses a board as well.

Three women sing in front of microphones.

Members of the Class of 1974.

Multiple students play in the snow. One slides from on a tray down a hill whhile others in the background throw snowballs.

Snow Day!

The photographer looks down on four women in bathing suits lying in the sun with their books.

Sunbathing (1975.)

A student crouches at a card catalog file with a drawer open.

Using the card catalog in the library (1976.)

Several people skate across the frozen lake on campus.

A rare instance of the lake freezing prompted ice skating. (1977)

Ducks in the lake look toward picnickers as they drop food to them. In the background, others on the island froup around serving tables.

Feeding the ducks during a lake picnic.

Studetns carrying books head into Jones Auditorium. Johnson Hall is in the background.

Heading into Jones Auditorium, possibly for Chapel.

A student sits on a step in the amphitheater with a book. A pievce of artwork leaning next to her.

A quiet place.

Seven women seated on the lawn sing together. One is playing a guitar.

Singing for the photographer. (1975)

Multiple phtographs os students studing in various places on campus.

Studying is a constant across generations of students.

Stunt - at the height of Saturday night fever. (1977-1978)

Two students create a papier mache caterpillar.

Possibly a project for Cornhuskin'....

Students cheer on sidelines while one runs toward the camera.

Play Day!

Prior to the Tunnel, the painting spot was the exterior of the (second) BeeHive. (1979)

Numerous students cross campus on a sunny day.

The daily commute.

Handbell choir.

Dorm life.

Bio Health science class.

Choral performance in the rotunda of Johnson Hall.

Corn '78.

A woman sits at a table writng calligraphy letters.

Practicing calligraphy in an art class.

Two students are seated next to one another on a couch, one listening while the other plays guitar.

In the dorm. (1978-79)

One woman stand next to the other with her head on the other's shoulder. The second has an armload of books.

Friendships, always. (1979)

On the Timeline....

1970 “May Queen” festival renamed “Spring Queen.” The name would change a few more times before this festival was discontinued late in the decade.

1970 Mandatory attendance at chapel ends.

1971 Students allowed to wear pants to class.

1971 First demonstration by the synchronized swimming class. The performance group is later named "Aqua Angels."

1971 The first African-American student, Gwendolyn Matthews Hilliard, graduates. (She enrolled in 1968.)

1972 President Weems speaks at the North Carolina legislature in support of the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) to the U.S. Constitution.

1972 Black Voices in Unity formed.

1972 Shirley Chisholm, representative from New York and presidential candidate, is keynote speaker to the “Urban Life and the Political Process” symposium held on campus.

1972 Margaret Bright Gallery for class dolls dedicated.

1974 Cate Student Center dedicated.

1974 Sandra Thomas named first female vice-president of Meredith College.

1976 “Hut” demolished to make room for new music building/addition (Wainwright Building.)

1978 First Lillian Parker Wallace Lecture delivered by former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. The lecture was created and funded by the Class of 1971.

1979 SGA (Student Government Association) adopts Angel as Meredith College mascot.