The dean's bible [electronic resource] : five Purdue women and their quest for equality / by Angie Klink.

9781612493251 electronic book
9781557536761 hardcover

West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2014.

©2014

English

1 online resource (xx, 460 pages) : illustrations, photographs

LD4672 .K54 2014eb

378.772/95

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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