Since my last blog post about the final project, my group has started finding information from Carleton’s archives about specific Carleton traditions. Here’s a link to our post laying out an updated timeline and our plan for the rest of term.
We’ll be working with Carleton Digital Archivist Nat Wilson to have certain items from Carleton’s Archives digitized, since only a fraction of it is currently available online.
I’ve been trying to find interesting material from Carleton’s archives that have already been digitized that we can incorporate into our project, like this quote about campus traditions following World War II.
Many college traditions, now departed, were in full swing and enthusiastically observed even by veterans of World War II. Each fall Carleton and St. Olaf men tried valiantly to burn prematurely each other’s homecoming bonfire.
Merrill E. “Casey” Jarchow, former Carleton Dean describing Homecoming traditions following World War II in Carleton Remembered, 1909-1986, eds. David H. Porter and Merrill E. Jarchow (Northfield, MN: Viking Press Inc.,Carleton College, 1987), pp. 77.
I’ve specifically been working on trying to find more information on Carleton traditions that are only mentioned briefly, or who don’t have a listed “start date” of any kind on the Carleton traditions web page currently maintained by the College. Since one of our deliverables is a timeline, we want to have at least a general idea of events and traditions that seem to have “always” been around.
Before our class on Thursday (and over the remainder of the term), I will continue to find specific, engaging material in from Carleton’s archives to embed in timeline items, or on their subpages on our planned WordPress project website, as appropriate. I want to make sure that we include students’ perspectives on these events when possible, not just descriptions provided by the College’s current administration.
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