KWINK Minutes
Scope and Contents
The collection contains one folder of the minutes of the Society of KWINK, 1951-1960.
Dates
- Creation: 1951-1960
Creator
- Swarthmore College. Society of KWINK (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Biographical / Historical
The Society of KWINK was an organization of the managers of the men’s athletic teams at Swarthmore College. It was organized in 1916 and remained active until the mid 1960s. KWINK is short for the Latin word quinque, five, representing the five ideals of the Society: Service, Spirit, Scholarship, Society, and Sportsmanship. The organization's responsibilities included printing programs for home games, maintaining refreshment stands during games, and co-sponsoring the Sports Banquet. In 1951, KWINK established a trophy to be awarded to a senior man who best exemplified the five principles of the Society of KWINK .
GWIMP was the women's version for women's sports.
Extent
0.1 linear ft. (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Society of KWINK was an organization of the managers of the men’s athletic teams at Swarthmore College. The collection contains one folder of the minutes of the Society of KWINK, 1951-1960.
Arrangement
The collection is contained in 1 folder.
Physical Location
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Subject
- Swarthmore College -- Sports (Organization)
- Swarthmore College. Society of KWINK (Organization)
- Title
- KWINK Minutes, 1951-1960
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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