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Title: Katherine Scott Cameron papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC1029
Contributing Institution:
Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 linear foot
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1965-1969
Date (inclusive): 1965-1999
creator:
Cameron, Katherine Scott
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.
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisiton
Materials were the gift of Katherine Scott Cameron, 2011.
Katherine Scott Cameron Papers (SC1029). Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Access: Materials are open to research use.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Stanford University. -- General subdivision--Students.;
Stanford University.. Overseas Studies Program..
Women college students--California.