@article{716544,
      recid = {716544},
      author = {Klink, Angie,},
      title = {The dean's bible five Purdue women and their quest for  equality / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xx, 460 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {"Dorothy C. Stratton, Helen B. Schleman, M. Beverley  Stone, Barbara I. Cook, and Betty M. Nelson opened new  avenues for women and became conduits for change, fostering  opportunities for all people. They were loved by students  and revered by colleagues. The women were also respected  throughout the United States as founding leaders of the  Women's Reserve of the Coast Guard (SPARS), frontrunners in  the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, and  as pivotal members of Presidential Committees in the  Kennedy and Nixon administrations. While it is focused on  changing attitudes on one college campus, The Deans' Bible  opens a window onto cultural change in America as a whole,  exploring how each of the Deans participated nationally in  the quest for equality. The story rolls through the  "picture-perfect," suppressive 1950s, the awakening  sixties, women's liberation, Title IX, 1980s AIDS and  alcohol, the changing mores for the disabled, and sails  into the twenty-first century. As each woman succeeded the  other forming a five-dean friendship, they knitted their  bond with a secret symbol--a Bible. Originally possessed by  Purdue's first part-time Dean of Women Carolyn Shoemaker,  the Bible was handed down from dean to dean with favorite  passages marked. The lowercase word "bible" is often used  in connection with reference works or "guidebooks." The  Deans' Bible is just that, brimming with stories of  courageous women who led by example and lived their  convictions"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/716544},
}