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Linear feet:  3 Linear Feet (2 oversize boxes)

Abstract:  This collection contains a scrapbook compiled by Miss Mildred Simpson.  The scrapbook documents her years at the University of Tennessee, approximately 1937-1941.  Among the contents of the scrapbook are invitations and programs for Greek sponsored events, and university sponsored games, plays, and ceremonies.  In addition there are loose miscellaneous materials that accompany the scrapbook.  The collection provides a glimpse into the University of Tennessee and the commercial world of the 1930s and 1940s.

Administrative Information

Statement of Provenance:  This collection was donated by Ms. Elizabeth Rochelle.

Copyright statement: Copyright (c) 2001. The University of Tennessee Libraries. All Rights Reserved.  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute these materials for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies, modifications, and distributions.  For commercial license to use contact, University of Tennessee Libraries, Office of the Dean, Permissions, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN  37996-1000.

Biographical Note/Information:  Mildred Simpson was a University of Tennessee student in the late 1930s and early 1940s.  She was active in Greek life and collected a large amount of ephemeral material for a scrapbook.

Scope and Content Note: This collection contains a scrapbook compiled by Miss Mildred Simpson.  The scrapbook documents her years at the University of Tennessee, approximately 1937-1941, even though some materials date to 1935.  The front and back covers of the scrapbook remain in good condition and each has a photograph of a group of girls presumably in front of the women's dormitory.  Among the contents of the scrapbook are invitations and programs for Greek sponsored events and university sponsored games, plays, and ceremonies.  Much of the memorabilia consists of newspaper articles, photographs, and clippings from the society pages.  She saved novelties such as restaurant napkins and menus, matchbooks, and candy wrappers, which provides a glimpse into the University of Tennessee and the commercial world of the 1930s and 1940s.  The collection consists of scrapbook pages and loose materials.

LCSH:
University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus) - Societies, etc.
Greek letter societies - Tennessee.
University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus) - Social life and customs.
Knoxville (Tn.) - Social life and customs.

Keywords:
Mickey Simpson
Mildred Simpson
University of Tennessee
Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Phi Gamma Delta
Volunteer Beauty Contest
Nahheeyayli
Rose Bowl
Orange Bowl
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Carnicus
Phi Mu
Tri Delta
Sigma Kappa
Delta Delta Delta
Aloha Oe
Alpha Tau Omega
Thirteen Club
Pieces of Pi
Greeks
University Events
Sororities
Fraternities
Social Life

Container List

Series 1:  Scrapbook Contents

Box 1:

Folder 1: Front Cover
Item 1: Front Cover with a signed photograph of a group of women in front of what is presumably the women's dormitory; silk flower.

Folder 2: Pages 1-10
Page 1:  Invitation to Fiji Isle party from Len Broughton, three name cards with "Mickey" "Mickey" and "Tockey;" invitation to Alpha Delta Pi brunch, bridge party score book; invitation for event with Alpha Delta Pi alumnus.

Page 2:  Envelope with a Chi Omega card; invitation to Chi Omega swim and picnic; Chi Omega fraternity buffet; Women's Pan-Hellenic Rushing Rules, Fall 1937; a sorority date card for Miss Mildred Simpson rushee 1937; letter from Pan-Hellenic council announcing Formal rush regulations and how to make "dates" with sororities wishing to meet with you, gum wrapper.

Page 3: Chi Omega nametag for Mildred Simpson; a red and gold banner with "Mickey Simpson;" a card with "Daisy Mae Simpson;" program for the Chi Omega initiation banquet; a receipt for $5.00 from Chi Omega; a receipt for flowers sent to Mickey from Chi Omega; a grade card ending July 20, 1938.

Page 4: 1937-1938 registration card; 1938 Summer School receipt, 1938-1939 registration card; piece of notebook paper containing Chi Omega songs; grade cards for 1937-1938.

Page 5: Invitation to Phi Gamma Delta's Fiji Isle summer formal from Bill Boline; delivery card from "The Benton Oriental Art and Dry Goods;" golf card; schedule fro "Freshman Days at UT" Sept. 22-28, 1937; notebook paper with two poems; engagement announcement for Juliette Tabb and Winston Dustin; 1937 season football tickets; flower receipt to Mildred from Bo Bo.

Page 6: Program for 1937 Volunteer Beauty Contest.

Page 7: "Bill" name card; scorecard; program for Nahheeyayli Club Mid-Winter Dances; "Mickey Simpson" name card; 1937 Keyston Engagement Calendar and stamp case; invitation to 1938 Arlington Hall graduation from Louise Hickman and commencement program; love letter; order of dances and pencil for Nahheeyayli Spring Dance 1937; order of dances for Seventeenth Annual Barnwarmin' party.

Page 8: Newspaper clippings for a Chi Omega big sister/pledge dinner, a buffet supper by the Pi chapter, gifts of engraved gold bracelets, open house at Miss Evelyn Darst's home, list of names (probably pledges), Mardi Gras Dance at Holston Hills Country Club.

Page 9: Queen O Diamonds Talley Card signed by Mickey Simpson, article "Excited Girls Fly to Nashville" concerning Miss Mary Allison Frierson's, Miss Laverne Emert's, and Miss Mardite Edward's first trip of several hundred miles; ribbon and pin; plastic umbrella; nametag for Mickey; scorecards with illustration of Southern Belle and Beau in top hat and tails, graduation hat made of paper.

Page 10: Girl Scouts certificate of registration; ticket with "Souvenir of Chicago Day Oct. 9, 1933;" receipt from Marshall Field and Company; admission ticket to exhibition at Fort Dearborn during "A Century of Progress 1933 Chicago;" a cartoon strip.

Folder 3: Pages 11-19

Page 11:  Newspaper marriage announcement for Miss Ruth Petty and Mr. Walter Harris, Jr.; clipping announcing marriage of Sara Hasson and Richard Myers, Jr.

Page 12: The UT Directory, Fall 1937; receipt of flowers for Miss Simpson from NO.

Page 13: Ribbon; paper with the Songs of UT; small day diary; program for the Events of Women's Swimming Meet Oct. 26, 1938; "Fellowship Outlook" pamphlet.

Page 14: "Rosebowl Bound!" Shirt pin, sheet music for Vandy fight song; menu for Peggy Ann Hotel Café; scorecard.

Page 15: Napkin and beverage stirrer; two labels fro businesses; 1938 booklet of Tennessee Songs and Cheers Football Season; ticket for Red Nichols (musician); 1938 U.T. Football ticket book.

Page 16: Wine and Alcoholic Beverage list; napkin from Smitty's with Leonard Maime written on it; toothpick and napkin with writing on it; theme park ticket; Pass Out check for Country Club of Coral Gables.

Page 17: 1939 Orange Bowl; Orange Bowl shirt pin; name card for Jane Geistman; receipt for Winter Quarter tuition; two Christmas gift tags; handmade roses; receipt.

Page 18: Program for Seventeenth Annual Intra-Mural Relays with notes on it about systems of agriculture; card "Love Leonard;" Whitman's Valentine wrapper; doily; program for Eight Annual All University Sing.

Page 19: Newspaper cutout of a girl reading a Valentine.

Page 20: Program for Nahheeyayli Mid-Winters Dance 1939; Crouch Art Florist card; stocking shaped matches advertising "The New Gotham Gold Strip Beautiful silk stockings;" Athletic Association ticket book 1938-1939 second quarter; invitation to Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity formal dance at Holston Hills Country Club and card to present at door.

Folder 4: Pages 21-30

Page 21: Program for Junior Prom; card from Elsie Stair Flower Shop, card signed "Leonard;" invitation to Sigma Alpha Epsilon formal dance at Cherokee Country Club.

Page 22: Program for Fourth Annual Meeting of Southeastern Folklore Society; program for Southeastern Conference Basketball Tournament.

Page 23: Program for Easter Sunrise Service at Ayres Tower, invitation Fiji Isles party, Elsie Stair Flower Shop card, "Mickey Simpson" nametag.

Page 24: Carnicus announcement, "University of Tennessee Annual Carnicus Parade Enthralls Thousands Along Gay Street," article which features pictures of "The winning float, a satire on state legislature's 'boiling down of UT appropriations,' depicted coal-black cannibals stewing a UT student in a boiling pot." In another float "Mussolini and Hitler tossed the world back and forth, while British Prime Minister Chamberlain looked on."

Page 25: Carnicus program Alumni Memorial Gym 1939.

Page 26: May Day in Old England program, Fourteenth Annual Aloha Oe program.

Page 27: Program for "Three-Cornered Moon" at the UT playhouse; program for UT Faculty Players' "Berkely Square" at Tyson Junior High School.

Page 28: Program for Military Ball, Nahheeyayli Spring Final Dances; three cards from Len Broughton from Crouch Art Florists; heart-shaped announcement for "The Young in Heart" at the Booth Theater; program for Chi Omega Spring Banquet.

Page 29: Straw wrapper from Candyland "The Home of Sweets:" invitation to a Program Dance in Honor of Senior Class; brochure on Genuine Orange Blossom Rings by Traub with "Marriage fro Emily" written on front; flower card for Miss Mickey Simpson from Fritschler's in Nashville; program for commencement dance; slip from Sonner's Kingston Pike Pharmacy; straw wrapper from Tally-ho of Nashville.

Page 30: Ad for Dixie System that says "Loafer;" "Chi Omega's Take Volleyball Crown" clipping, clipping about romance of Mickey Simpson and Len Broughton; clipping about Suki and Bill Brakebill double dating with George Bass and Mickey; clipping about officers elected by Sigma alpha Epsilon; nametag for "Mickey;" Great Smokey Wildflower Festival Ball ticket; weekly schedule including lunches at Terrace Tea Room and bridge parties.

Folder 5: Pages 31-38

Page 31: Society page headlines; "Dance Friday Night: Chi Omega Gym will be converted into Spring Garden Scene" article; "Chi Omega Give Picnic and Party for thirty rushees at home of Miss Gertrude Handly;" special delivery notice.

Page 32: Dance order [worn around wrist with list of dance partners for the evening] with pictures of various themes on the front: lady with parasol, watering can and flower, dog playing trumpet, lady with flowers, ox and covered wagon.

Page 33: UT directory colleges at Knoxville Fall 1939; ticket to Junior Prom issued to Len Broughton.

Page 34: Note regarding Phi Mu Mother's Club; invitation to Tri Delta picnic; invitation party for Sigma Kappa Sorority; invitation from Miss Frances Latimore Walker; invitation to Rho Chapter Tri Psi Sorority, Mothers of Delta Delta Delta tea party.

Page 35: Fragment of a page with letters inserted between pages:
Invitation to Phi Gam Apache Party written in French; Phi Mu Program Dance and order of dances and invitation to summons for Mickey Simpson before the Grand Amster Lambda Chapter of Kappa Sigma to answer the "charge of being a photographer's nightmare- underdeveloped and overexposed;" nametag for Mickey Simpson; receipt for $3.00.

Page 36: clipping with photograph of Chi Omega Singers.

Page 37: Cards "Love Jane", "To Mickey with love Leonard;" photo of a carnival cart; ticket to Dairy Festival Queen's Coronation Ball; 1939 appointment book; UT directory Fall 1938 inside a card for the 1938-1939 Religious Consensus and a course completion sheet for Home Economics for "Simpson, Mildred Hope."

Page 38: LUCKY card [like BINGO], Halloween napkin, announcement for Miss Tennessee Beauty contest at Dunbar-Cave Clarksville, TN; Junior Prom Program; Engineers "Ace Dance" Program.

Box 2:

Folder 6: Pages 39-46

Page 39: Loose- Nahheeyayli Mid-Winter Dances Program; Activities Calendar 1937-1938 Mounted on the page- Menu for the Rathskeller "tops in taste" by Tally-ho  of Nashville; dance order cards; SAE nametag for Brother Len Broughton.

Page 40: "Apache Parti" invitation; calendar from The American Insurance Company; Student Football tickets 1939 student section for women; program for Sigma Chi Derby; "Newlyweds Hurry from Church clipping of Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Wilkerson, Jr.

Page 41: Picture of Margie Elgin, UT band sponsor; The Tennessee Girl Handbook by the Women's Student Government Association, clipping of picture of Peggy McCready.

Page 42: Articles "Mrs. Hughes Reveals Plans for the Wedding" and "Bride Takes Southern Recipes to Yankee Home."

Page 43: Clipping of Miss Juliet Caruthers Hughes; article by George Dempster about wedding of Juliet Hughes.

Page 44: Picture of Miss Susan Gaines Harril; card from Betty Pearman; Tally Card with picture of wedding cake; wedding invitation for Susan Gaines Harril and Mr. William Goddard Polk.

Page 45: Newspaper clipping of Mrs. William Polk Jr. in her wedding gown.

Page 46: Clipping of "Miss Moore, Robert Moss To Marry;" and newspaper photo of Miss Adelaide Moore.

Folder 7: Pages 47-56

Page 47: Fill-in-the-blank story "Love in the Kitchen;" Western Union Telegram from Margery McDonald; Boone Tavern Berea College; Texaco Bear; Tapoco Lodge Emblem; Matriculation Card for Mildred Simpson.

Page 48: "Yours in The Bonds" a Sigma Alpha Epsilon poem; book of Tennessee cheers and songs; Tennessee pin with orange and white ribbons; 1939 football schedule and score book; program for Volunteer Beauty Contest; program for University All-Sing; Intramural Relays Program.

Page 49: "Miss Moore, Mr. Moss are Married," newspaper picture of the couple, marriage announcement in paper.

Page 50: "Luncheon Party Honors Miss Harril Bride-To-Be;" newspaper clipping of sponsors for Tennessee and Vanderbilt Football game.

Page 51: "Miss Susan Harril. Bride-Elect, Feted;" publication called the Barnwarmin' Special.

Page 52: Aloha Oe program; Tennessee vs. Alabama football program.

Page 53: Ribbons from Chi Omega Formal, Senior Ball, and Phi Gamma Delta Formal; nametags for George Bass and Mickey Simpson; Phi Gamma Delta "Fiji Island" Party Invitation; Crouch Art Florist Card from George Bass.

Page 54: Invitation to Kappa Sigma Formal; invitation to Sigma Nu Alumni dance; invitation to Sigma Phi Epsilon Formal, invitation to Sigma Alpha Epsilon Formal Dance at Cherokee Country Club; two cards from Crouch Art Florist.

Page 55: Invitation to Alpha Tau Omega formal dance; two cards from Crouch Art Florist, order of dances for 1940 Junior Prom; program for Senior prom; Nahheeyayli May Garden Dance Program.

Page 56: Valentine Card from Leonard; Holiday Greeting Postcard of Ayres Hall in the snow--from Marium Simpson; Christmas Card from Eleanor and Dan Robertson; Valentine from Mother; flower clip.

Folder 8: Back Cover
Item 1:  Back cover with a photograph of a group of women presumably in front of women's dormitory

Series II: Loose Materials

Folder 9: Events, part 1
Item 1:  Program for Seventh Annual Carnicus 1935
Item 2:  Program for Carnicus 1938
Item 3:  Program for the Seventh Annual All University Sing 1938
Item 4:  Program for May Festival 1938
Item 5:  Program for Aloha Oe 1938
Item 6:  Program for Nineteenth Annual Intra-Mural Relays 1941
Item 7:  Program for The Original Luenen Passion Play of the Black Hills
Item 8:  Program for Tenth Annual All University Sing 1941
Item 9:  Program for Carnicus 1941
Item 10: Program for University Concerts, Inc. Knoxville May Music Festival Concert 1941
Item 11: Program for Thirteenth Annual Mid-Winter convocation
Item 12: Program for Aloha Oe ceremony 1941
Item 13: Program for Martha, an Opera performed by the UT and Knoxville High School combined Glee Clubs
Item 14: 1938-1939 Activities Calendar
Item 15: 1939-1940 Activities Calendar
Item 16: 1940-1941 Calendar of Events, Democratic Instruction Card Election Nov. 5, 1940
Item 17: St. John's Episcopal Church Sept. 8, 1940

Folder 10: Events, part 2
Item 1: Dance order for the 15th Annual Barnwarmin' 1935
Item 2: Dance order Nahheeyayli Mid-Winter Dances 1936
Item 3: Program for Senior Waltz 1938
Item 4: Program for Candyland Chi Omega Banquet 1941
Item 5: Program for Senior Flag Dance Summer Session 1941
Item 6: Football ticket TN vs. Vanderbilt Nov. 18, 1933
Item 7: Season football tickets (note on inside "season football ticket with Grace and Len Broughton 1934
Item 8: Football season tickets "with Maxine" 1940
Item 9: "Monday Morning Quarterback" addressed to Mr. Roy Rochelle, Jr.- football record and schedule for Nov. 7, 1953
Item 10: "Monday Morning Quarterback" addressed to Mr. Roy Rochelle, Jr.- football record and schedule for Nov. 14, 1953
Item 11: Business card for Geo. W. McGoldrick, Fowler Brothers Furniture
Item 12: Card announcing Inter Fraternity Ball 1935
Item 13: Invitation to Kappa Sigma formal dance
Item 14: Invitation to Chi Omega Formal from Helen Hutchinson
Item 15: Flyer for Tommy Christian and his orchestra at the Thirteen Club mailed to Roy Rochelle
Item 16: Thirteen Club Dance postcard for Isham Jones and his orchestra addressed to Roy Rochelle
Item 17: Invitation to the Thirteen Club "Collegiate Ball"
Item 18: Hand-written schedule of parties and lunches

Folder 11: Miscellaneous
Item 1: Roster for Alumni Class of 1939 printed on 03-28-69 which includes name, address, city and state, spouse and college
Item 2: Grade report for Mr. Roy S. Rochelle
Item 3: Clipping and photo "Delegates Leave for West Coast." Five representatives of Phi Gamma Delta go to Portland, Oregon to attend the fraternity national convention
Item 4: Brochure for the John Randolph Neal College of Law
Item 5: Clipping of "Around Knox" events and club meetings (probably from 1981) includes The Pacesetter Club, Knoxville High School Class of 1941-B 40th Reunion, Senior Citizen trip to Opryland, the Keenagers Club picnic, Sex Education workshop, UT staff, Faculty Flea Market, South Knoxville Ruritan Club, The Karns Dixie Derby's square dance
Item 6: Class of 1943 reunion questionnaire
Item 7: Orange and White Vol. XXXII No 1. September 25, 1937, UT, front photo, "This Gentleman Was Once a Freshman Too," showing President James D. Hoskins outside of administration Building
Item 8: "Pieces of Pi" Vol. 12 No. 1, August 1939, Pi Chapter of Chi Omega, Knoxville, TN
Item 9: "Pieces of Pi" Vol. 12 No. 1, August 1939, Pi Chapter of Chi Omega, Knoxville, TN
Item 10: "Pieces of Pi" Vol. 13 No. 1, June 1940, Pi Chapter of Chi Omega, Knoxville, TN
Item 11: "Tennessee Alumnus" Spring 1979 pp. 1-6