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The Meredith College Subject Files contain clippings, ephemera, flyers, brochures, and other secondary sources organized by subject.  All subjects relate to people, places, and events connected to Meredith College and its history. Files are likely incomplete and additions are welcome.

To view information in the Subject Files contact Carrie Nichols, Head, 919-760-8047 or
email us at archives@meredith.edu.

A

Academic Regalia

Academics in the News

Academy

Accelerated Law Program

Accessibility

Activism on Campus (Students)

Admissions

African-American Staff

After School Program

Alcohol Policy
Alma Mater

Alumnae Board
Alumnae Legacy Scholars
Amendment One
Angels / Angel Farm / Avenging Angels

Angels for the Environment
Aqua Angels
Architectural History
Armistice Day
Athletics History
Archaeology

Archives

Association of Black Awareness / Cultural Awareness / Black Emphasis Week

Astros and Phis (Astrotekton and Philaretian)

Athletic Field

B

Band

Baptist State Convention
Baptists
BB&T Proposed Gift
Beauty Queens
BeeHive
Bell Outside Belk

Beltline Expansion
Betsy Ross Flag (1975)
Bibles to Graduates(1903)
Biblical Recorder

Blackface

Bloomsbury Park
Bonds (1924)
Business, School of

C

Calendars
Camp Polk Property

Celebrating Student Achievement
Charter-Upchurch Medal
Chapel/Convocation

Chaplains
Charming Evening
Chaucer Reading/Guinness World Record

Cheers
Child Care
Choir
Christmas at Meredith
Christmas Cards

Civil Rights Movement
Class of 1902 (Immortal 10)

Class Day
Class Dolls

Class Gift
Class Rings

Class Songs
Clothing in Collection
Club, The
Co-ed Education
Colton Review / Acorn

Commemorative Plate
Commencement

Community Garden
Computers

Conduct on Campus
Confederate Money
Cookie Jar

Cooper Organ

Cornhuskin' (general)

Cornhuskin' (pre-1970s)

Cornhuskin' (2000s)

Cornhuskin' (research papers)

Corporate & Community Engagement
Cornerstone
Coronavirus / Covid-19 (2020-2022)

Course Offerings

Corporate 
Crook Hunt

D

DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)
Daisy Chain

Daisy Trade
Dancing (Social) at Meredith

Deans at the College (paper by Rebecca Murray)

Deeds, Maps, etc. (Land Use)

Disability Services
Depression at Meredith
Doll Symposium
Dormitories' Names
Dress Code

Driveways

E

Edgerton, Clyde

Emergency Preparedness

Equal Rights Amendment & Conservative Caucus, Inc.
Equestrian Program 

Expansion Program (1962)

ERA & Conservative Caucus

F

Facility Services

Faculty

Faculty, First

Faircloth Cornerstone (Old Campus)

Fashion Design
Fidler / Fidler Drawings

Finding Aides (for Archives's collections)

Fire and Water Ceremony
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Charter (1942)
Fiftieth Anniversary of  Opening) 1949
Financial Evolution of Meredith (1891-1924)
Flower, College (Iris)

Food

Foreign Exchange Students

Founders' Day
Freshmen

Friday, Ida H., Fund & Award

Fuller, Buckminster

Fundraising Campaigns

G

Ghost Stories 

Gifts to College
Governor's School East
Graduate School

Grounds: Site Plan

Grounds: Athletic Fields

Grounds: Benches

Grounds: Biological Diversity Garden / Greenhouse / SMB

Grounds: Cate Brick Naming Project (1996)

Grounds: Campus (1926-1940)
Grounds: Campus (1941-present)
Grounds, Cleo Perry Garden (1989)

Grounds: Dickson / Three Sisters / Community Garden

Grounds: Elizabeth Triplett Beam Fountain (2017)
Grounds: Elva Bryan McIver Amphitheatre
Grounds: Elva Wall Davis Gate (Faircloth St.)
Grounds: Erika Woodlief Garden

Grounds: Faw Garden

Grounds: Fannie Heck Fountain (1929)
Grounds: Free Expression Wall (razed)
Grounds, Gatehouse
Grounds: Greenway
Grounds: Jane Williamson Teague Sculpture Garden
Grounds: Labyrinth
Grounds: Landscape Plant Inventory
Grounds: Maps
Grounds: Martin Garden

Grounds: Thomas Meredith Memorial Marker (2016)
Grounds: McDonogh Oak
Grounds: McSwain Courtyard (CCL)
Grounds: Meredith Lake

Grounds: Norma Rose Garden

Grounds: Oak Grove Amphitheater

Grounds: Plants (other than trees)
Grounds: Railroad Tracks
Grounds: Rumley Gazebo
Grounds: SMB (Science Math Building) Garden
Grounds: Shaw Fountain

Grounds: Site Plan
Grounds: Spangler Gazebo

Grounds: Spur Track (sold 1960)
Grounds: Stone Entrance (Hillsborough St.)
Grounds: Summer Houses (razed)
Grounds: Swimming Pool (Outdoor) (1949-1968)

Grounds: Teague Sculpture Garden
Grounds: Thomas Meredith Memorial Plaque (1976)
Grounds: Thomas Meredith Memorial with 125th Anniversary Time Capsule (2016)

Grounds: Trees, Centennial (1992-93)

Grounds: Trees, Inventory of 
Grounds: Trees, Magnolia Collection

Grounds: Trees, Meredith Forest (2011)

Grounds: Trees, Oaks

Grounds: Trees, Other
Grounds: Water Tower (razed)
Grounds: Zeno Martin Arena
Guardian Angel/Father Daughter Dance

H

Habitat for Humanity
Halo Awards

Handbells
Harris Bell Award
Harris Room (Carlyle Campbell Library)

Herald, The

"Hidden Figures"

Historical Marker: Fannie Heck House (Blount St.)

Historical Marker: Human Computers (Jones St.)
Historical Marker: Meredith College (Hillsborough St.)
Historical Collection
History: New Campus
History: Old Campus

History: Student/Staff Papers

Holocaust Observation

Home Economics Department

Home Economics Practice House

Honor Code
Honorary Doctorates
Hut, The

I

Ida H. Friday Fund & Award (see Friday, Ida H., Fund & Award)
Immortal 10
Infirmary
Influenza (1918-1919)
Influenza (2009-2010)

Initiative for Womens' Leadership (2000s)
Initiative to Educate Afghan Women
Integration / Minority Enrollment (Students, Faculty, Timeline)
Intellectual Property Policy
Interdisciplinary Studies

Iris

J

Joint Engineering Degree with NCSU

Junior Blazers (Sweaters, Jackets)

Junior Diplomas

K

Kappa Delta Sorority

Krazy Kritics Klub (KKK) / Krazy Kritics Club

L

Lacrosse

Lassiter Park

Leadershape

Leadership Summitt

LGBQUA Issues

Letters: Burrus

Letters: Cook (1950)
Letters: Holyfield (1940)
Letters: Jenkins 
Letters: Wall
Letters: Wyche
Library Art Award
Loan Fund

Lux (Seal)

M

Mace
Maids at Meredith

Mansion Park Hotel ("Old Main" downtown campus)

Marker, Historical (see Historical Marker)

Marshalls
Master Plans

May Day

MCTV
Men at Meredith (4 folders: Some Restricted)

Meredith University (name change proposal) (1996)
Meredith Victory (ship) (see S.S. Meredith Victory)

Method Community (student paper)

Minstrel Shows

Miss Meredith
Mission Statement
Missionaries
Money Guide
Monogram Club
Movie Camera (1935)

N

Name Changes

Nominating Committee For Dr. Brewer's Successor
North Carolina Athletic Foundation of College Women
North Carolina Education Association

New Campus (History)

O

Oak Leaves
Olympic Festival (1987)

One Million Dollar Campaign (1918)
Oral History, Abernethy (1933)
Oral History, Matthews (1918)
Oral History, Potter (1926)
Oral History, Worth (1927)

Oxford Seminary (see Raleigh Seminary)

P

Paralegal Program

Phis (Philaretian) (See Astros and Phis)

Phones (see Telephones)
Plaques on Campus
Politics / Activism / Protests
Playhouse
Presidential Medallion
Program Review 2009

Protests/Demonstrations: Hem Lengths (1963)

Protests: "Planning a Wedding" Class (1991)
Public Health Major
Publicity
Pullen Memorial Church

Q

Quarantine, Meningitis (1941)
Quilt Symposium

R

Race for the Cure
Raleigh Female Seminary & Oxford Seminary (and others)
Religious Heritage Meredith (by Mary Lynch Johnson)
Rezoning (1980s)
Ridgecrest
Ring Dinner
Roanoke Ferry

Rules and Regulations

S

SACS
Sanborn Maps
Scholarships: Alumnae Legacy & Presidential
School for Ministers at Meredith (1929)
Secret Societies

Seminaries (schools) (See Raleigh Seminary, etc.)
Senior Night
September 11, 2001 at Meredith
Service Learning
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary (1966)

Seventy-Five Million Dollar Campaign (1918?)
Sigma Alpha Iota
Silver Law Suit

Society Night
Softball Team

Song: Copyright Application
Songs:"Alma Mater"

Songs:"Big Sister ~ Little Sister"

Songs: "Bones" /"Dem Bones" / "Them Bones"
Songs: "Class Songs"

Songs: "Daisy Chain Song"

Songs: "Dedication"

Songs: "Farewell to Meredith"

Songs: "Meredith Hymn"

Songs: "Parade of Class Day Dresses"

Songs: "Queen of Our Hearts"

Songs: Various Song Sheets
Sorosis
Southeastern Seminary
Speaker Ban Law (1963)
Special Olympics (1999)
Speech and Theatre (written by Rebecca Murray)

S.S. Meredith Victory (ship)
Stationary
Strategic Planning Documents
Student Editors
Student Life (1899-1920)
Student Officers Student Survey (1970)
Summer Reading Program
Sundials

Swimming Pool, Outdoor (See: Grounds: Swimming Pool)

T

Tea for Two/Mother-Daughter Tea
Teacher Awards 1970-2000
Technology Initiative
Tedx

Telephones
Time Capsule 1978
Traditions
Trees
Trees, Centennial
Tunnels
Twenty Three Plus (23+) Program
Twig / Herald

U

Undergraduate Research

U.S. News and World Report on Colleges

V

Veterans
Vietnam Memorial
View book
Vision 2010
Vocational Information Week

W

Wake Forest College
Wake Forest College Mergers
Wake Forest College Presidents
Water Shortage in Raleigh 1921

Water Tower (See Grounds, Water Tower)
Woman's Missionary Union
World War I
World War II