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Summer Spotlight
The collection contains printouts of the Summer Spotlight newsletter.
Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys (Cheyney, Pa.) Records
Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys was founded in 1855 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Home for Destitute Colored Children, a Hicksite Quaker women's charity which provided shelter and education for black children (generally boys) and then placed them with private families. The Home built a new facility in Cheyney, Pa, in 1922, and the name was changed to Sunnycrest Farm for Negro Boys in 1945. The collection contains minutes, financial and legal records, and reports.
Survivors of Assault and Rape (SOAR) records
This collection contains documentation of Haverford's Survivors of Assault and Rape (SOAR) group from 2011. It printouts of the club website "Consent is Sexy" and printouts from Haverford Go Boards about the "Consent is Sexy" project.
Bertha von Suttner Collected Papers
Bertha von Suttner was an Austrian peace activist and intellectual, and the author of one of the first international bestselling novels focused on peace ("Lay Down Your Arms") published in 1891. In her life-long correspondence on peace matters with Alfred Nobel she urged him to establish a prize for peace. Von Suttner was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905, the first woman to be thus recognized.
Joseph Swain Papers
This collection contains the official and personal correspondences and related papers of Joseph Swain, sixth president of Swarthmore College (1891-1921). He was notable for presiding over the development of the college into a top-ranked academic institution.
Joseph Swain correspondence
This collection primarily includes correspondence between the Hoovers and the Swains. Also included are letters from Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry regarding Joseph Swain, and letters from Frances Swain regarding her political support of Hoover. There are also two letters of Joseph Swain to his wife on their anniversary.
Donald Swann papers
Contents deal with the production of Perelandra at Haverford College in 1969 such as scripts, one of which was Swann's, clippings, programs and photographs; also letters of Swann to Robert Butman, 1969-1981, concerning the production, personal news and other work in which Swann was involved.
Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers
The Swanns were Quaker peace activitists who were particularly well known for their part in nonviolent direct action against nuclear weapons testing and deployment in the 1950s-1960s.
Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting (Black Mountain, N.C.) Records
Records include both physical and born-digital records. The collection includes a nearly comprehensive run of minutes, membership directories and reports, State of the Meeting reports, a sampling of committeee records (including Peace and Social Concerns and Ministry and Counsel), and miscellaneous records largely related to the history of the meeting and its affiliation and disaffiliation with SAYMA.
Helena M. Swanwick Collected Papers
Helena Maria Sickert was born in Germany and moved to England early on. She was an author, journalist, and lecturer involved in peace activism, feminism, and social justice. She became chair of the British Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was a British delegate to the League of Nations. Her dream was that women, if they used their power, could make an end to war.