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The Deans' Bible - Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality (Paperback)
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The Deans' Bible - Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality (Paperback)
Series: The Founders Series
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Like pearls threaded one-by-one to form a necklace, five women
successively nurtured students on the Purdue University campus in
America's heartland from the 1930s to the 1990s. Individually, each
became a legendary dean of women or dean of students. Collectively,
they wove a sisterhood of mutual support in their common-sometimes
thwarted-pursuit of shared human rights and equality. 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 also
were respected throughout the United States as founding leaders of
the Coast Guard Women's Reserve (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 sheds light on 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 1960s, women's
liberation, Title IX, 1980s AIDS and alcohol epidemics, the
changing mores for the disabled, and ends in 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 lowercased word "bible" is often used
in connection with reference works or "guidebooks." The Deans'
Bible serves as a guidebook, brimming with stories of courageous
women who led by example and lived their convictions.
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