Guide to the Virginia Smith Spears Memorabilia
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Stanford, California
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Call Number: SC0670
Creator:
Spears, Virginia Smith.
Title: Virginia Smith Spears memorabilia
Dates: 1937-1938
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Summary: Collection includes programs from ASSU concerts, 1938; sheet music of four hits from the Big Game Gaieties, n.d.; programs,
photographs, and a newsletter of her sorority Chi Omega, 1937-38; Student Handbook, 1937; and programs from the 1938 commencement
week, including the Senior Week booklet.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Gift of Larry Spears, 2002.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Virginia Smith Spears Memorabilia (SC0670). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Virginia Juliet Smith earned her A.B. in political science at Stanford in 1938; during her senior year she was manager of
the ASSU Concert Series. She married fellow Stanford student Andrew McGue Spears, who earned his A.B. in economics in 1936
and his LL.B. in 1939.
Collection includes programs from ASSU concerts, 1938; sheet music of four hits from the Big Game Gaieties, n.d.; programs,
photographs, and a newsletter of her sorority Chi Omega, 1937-38; Student Handbook, 1937; and programs from the 1938 commencement
week, including the Senior Week booklet.
Spears, Larry
Spears, Virginia Smith.
Stanford University. Class of 1938.
Photoprints.
Box 1
Memorabilia