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Cameron (Katherine Scott) Papers
SC1029  
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Description
Collection includes a scrapbook containing university forms, clippings, programs, brochures, photographs, and other memorabilia from Cameron's student days at Stanford, 1965-1969; and outgoing letters to family, 1965-1967, discussing her social life, fashions, dorms, athletic events, excursions off-campus, and her time in the overseas program in Britain. Some of the letters were typed in the form of a newsletter she called the "Stanford Scandal Sheet." Items of note in the scrapbook include Operation Match questionnaire (computerized dating service), memo re pre-football game activities on campus involving a cable car and photographs of the cable car, a white armband from a Vietnam War protest, 1967, and the undergraduate women's bill of rights (re living off-campus), 1967.
Background
Katherine (Kit) Cameron earned her AB in English at Stanford in 1969; as a student she was active in campus theatricals, served on the Ram's Head board in 1966/67, and participated in the overseas program at Harlaxton Manor in England, June-December 1967.
Extent
2.25 Linear Feet
Restrictions
While University Archives is the owner of the physical and/or digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Availability
Materials are open to research use.