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  1. Kappa Epsilon Nu Sorority ScrapbookAugustana College, 1945-1949

    Date(s): 1945 to 1949 Location: Rock Island, Illinois Tag(s): KENs, Scrapbooks, Sororities, Kappa Epsilon Nu, Augustana College 

    “To our dearest Gene - The KEN pin-up boy. We would be delighted with the honor of your presence at the Augustana - North Central basketball game Saturday evening. We kill call for you at the Seminary about a quarter to 8. Be there. (Or Else) We guarantee to get you in at an early hour (we hope). Love and kisses, your KEN admirers”   “I wish to thank you for the kind invitation to attend the...

  2. Dorm Life at Augustana: Early 1900’s

    Date(s): 1905 to 1930 Location: Rock Island, Illinois Tag(s): Augustana College, Rock Island, Gender, Dorm Life 

    Ah the college life.  Something many today take for granted.  Back in the early 20th century not everyone had the opportunity to go to college, especially women.  At the time, it wasn’t seen as important for a women to have an education.  But this didn’t stop all women; some desired to be doctors, lawyers, and other such professionals.  So these women needed to go to school somewhere to get...

  3. Winsome Womanhood: Christianity as a Progressive Influence on Women’s Identity and Values During the Early 20th Century

    Date(s): 1890 to 1910 Location: ROCK ISLAND, Illinois Tag(s): Augustana College, Social Morality, women's rights, Women's History, Roles of Women, Progressive Era, Religion, Christianity, Women 

    “O Lord and Master of us all, Whate’er our name or sign, We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call, We test our lives by Thine.”   Winsome Womanhood, a book written by Margaret Sangster, provided young women of the early 20th century with a connection to God as well as a purpose/identity within the Christian faith. It was Sangster’s belief that all women, regardless of age, could benefit from the...

  4. Women's Involvment in the Basketball Demonstration of 1906 at Augustana College

    Date(s): October 23, 1906 to October 24, 1906 Location: Rock Island, Illinois Tag(s): Augustana Athletics, Women's Athletics, Womens Roles, Augustana College 

    “We want basketball, the Board of Directors is rotten.  Who killed basketball? I.M. Anderson! Anderson is rotten, rotten, rotten!”  Shouts rang throughout the quad as a large group of students assembled outside the College Building, gathered band instruments, and marched to Dr. C. E. Lindberg’s house and on to the residents of Professor I.M. Anderson, followed by Rev. A. Theo. Ekblad, before...

  5. The Role Education Played in Suffrage

    Date(s): January 1, 1895 to December 31, 1920 Location: ROCK ISLAND, Illinois, Washington City, District of Columbia Tag(s): Women's Suffrage, Education, Women, Augustana College 

    There she was, standing before Augustana College’s class of 1915 as Valedictorian. Margaret Olmsted gave a speech at commencement on the importance on what it meant to receive a liberal education. Olmsted made the claim that a liberal arts education gave recipients a “broader view and keener insight”[1] to the world. An education such as that comes with a greater reasonability claimed Olmsted;...

  6. Women in Protest and the Vagina Monologues

    Date(s): February 14, 1998 Location: Rock Island, Illinois Tag(s): third wave feminism, Augustana College, Vagina Monologues, women's rights 

    Sex is not a taboo topic on college campuses. Sex is everywhere. At late night weekend parties. In campus coffee shops as people fill their friends in on their latest hookup. In freshman orientations where free condoms are handed out and safe sex is highlighted. In dorm rooms as you’re trying to focus on your assigned reading and the rhythmic bang bang bang of a lofted dorm room bed hitting the cement...