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Photos through the Decades at Meredith College: 1990s

In the Meredith College archives are literally hundreds of photos. With them, we can see both what students over the decades have in common, and how things have changed.

1990s

Faces of Meredith College, 1990s.

A woman works out at a arm press machine.

Working out, 1990.

A student with a pencil lies flat on the floor, her head tilted toward her drawing under her.

Focusing or napping? 1990

A photograph of the crowd in the stands cheering.

Cheering on their team.

Two photos: a goup of students in matching aqua sweatshirts huddled under umbrellas. The other os a student looking inot the camera.

Despite the rain, Cornhuskin' must go on.... 1990.

Three students lean over a fourth lighting a paper bag luminary.

Luminaries lined the driveway for Christmas, 1990.

Two photographs of student groups performing outside.

Dance performance has long roots at Meredith.

A students poses in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Study abroad in France.

Members of the Bathtub Ring dressed in

Bathtub Ring, 1991.

Five photos of students singing in a karaoke contest.

Karaoke competition!

President Weems greets a graduating senior at commencement.

Commencement, 1991.

Two women posing for the camera in Halloween costumes, one as an elephant, one as a mouse.

Halloween, 1992.

Two students joyfully find the crook in a row of shrubbery.

Finding the crook, 1994.

Five students pose with their new class rings in front of the student store.

Juniors picked up their rings from the student store - and cannot wait to show them off, 1994.

A large goup of students pose together at their Class Ring Dinner. Behind them is a

Ring Dinner: the first Ring Dinner was in 1992.

Four student, 3 seated or crouched on the ground and one in a wheelchair weave together the elements of the Daisy, which this year includes brioghtly colored flowers.

Creating the Daisy Chain for Class Day, 1994

Commencement, 1994.

Two women wearing heavily padded sumo wrestling costumes and helmets.

Sumo wrestling match, 1995.

Several students sit at keyboards in a classroom with an instructor leading them.

Piano class in Wainwright, 1995.

Enjoying Spring....

A student wearing a hat with large elephant ears.

Cornhuskin' costume, 1996

Several students relax at various points in the student lounge in a posed photograph,

Honors Lounge, 1996.

Five women ride down a snow-covered hill in a laundry baskets.

Snow, 1996.

A student works with a caculator.

Calculating.

A young woman leans over a table with two small cjildren ina school setting.

Student teaching.

Three students concentrate on their work repairing the exterior of a house.

Starting in 1988, and continuing through the 1990s to about 2005, the Meredith Christian Association (MCA) sponsored a service trip to Florida for students to work on a Habitat for Humanity House. During this period, there was also a Meredith Habitat for Humanity Club that volunteered regularly for the Wake County organization. This photo was from the 1990s.

Students form a ring by sitting in each other's laps.

Teambuilding -- perhaps.

Two students, surrounded by their belongings, study in their dorm room.

Dorm room.

Two tennis players playing doubles.

Tennis doubles, 1998.

Three students appear to be clogging on a sheet of plywood for the camera, while others in the dance facing the other way/ background

Clogging? Flatfooting? Buck dancing? Or just having a good time....

Class Day, 1998.

Seated at a desk, a student works at a computer.

Computing.

A view of a graduate from the back, revealing the inscription on her mortaboard:

Into the next century: Commencement, 1999.

On the Timeline....

1990 Stunt changed from play competition between classes to games and races event.

1990 First Can Art competition. (Replaced toilet paper fights.)

1991 "Father-Daughter Dance" renamed "Guardian Angel Dance."

1991 "Mother-Daughter Tea" renamed "Tea for Two."

1992 "Winter Semi-Formal" renamed "White Iris Ball."

1992 First Ring dinner

1992 Car privileges on campus extended to sophomores

1993 Replacement of card catalog with ALIS (Automated Library Information System)

1994 Introduction of CamCards

1995 Department of Home Economics becomes Department of Human Environmental Sciences

1995 Car privileges extended to freshmen

1998 First Charming Evening

1999 Creation of “Ring Week”

1999 First Summer Reading Program