Religion and spirituality

Campus Clipboard Announces Women's Interfaith Seder Discussion
Campus Clipboard 3/28/88

This March 28, 1988 edition of the Campus Clipboard announces a Women's
Interfaith Seder Discussion to be held Tuesday, March 29th of  Holy Week
at the Women's Center.

Date: March 28, 1988
All terms: 1980-1989, Religion and spirituality, Women's Center, Women's Center (student run)
Voices of Today's Woman Seminar Held in 1972
Voices of Today's Woman Seminar Booklet Cover

In 1972 on October 5, 6 and 8, Dickinson held a seminar on women in
coordination with the Bicentennial Homecoming the same weekend.  The
seminar was "designed to examine the political, educational, legal, and
social conditions in our society which sometimes tend to reduce women's
participation as full partners with men in many aspects of life."  It was the first seminar on women ever held at Dickinson
and included a play by the Mermaid Players, speeches, workshops and
exhibits.  C. Delores Tucker, Secretary of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, was the major speaker. 

Date: October 5-8, 1972
All terms: 1970-1979, Admissions, Affirmative action, Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, Boyd Lee Spahr Library, Counseling services, Equal Rights Amendment, Firsts, Health services, Holland Union Building, Jaffe, Legislation, Lorna S., Mary Dickinson Club, Mermaid Players, Polen, Esther, Raffensperger, Mary Ames, Raymond, Janice, Religion and spirituality, Seminar, Sexual behavior, Sexual orientation, Social codes/rules, Social Hall, Tucker, C. DeLores, Vogel, Susan Raymond, Voices of Today's Woman Seminar, Voices of Today's Woman Steering Committee
Talk and Reading by Margaret Starbird
Margaret Starbird Talk Poster

The Women's Studies Program and the Religious Affairs Office sponsored a talk and reading by Margaret Starbird, entitled "Was Jesus Married?" which looked at her book The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail.  The talk was held on April 2, 1997 in the Hartman Alumni House.

Date: April 2, 1997
All terms: 1990-1999, Hartman Alumni House, Religion and spirituality, Religious Affairs Office, Starbird, Margaret, Women's Studies, Women's Studies Speakers
Letter from Dr. Letty Russell to Chaplain Morefield about Speaking at Baccalaureate
Dr. Letty M. Russell to Rev. Mary Anne Morefield, 1982

Dr. Letty M. Russell, of Yale Divinity School, writes to Chaplain Mary Anne Morefield about arrangements for Baccalaureate.  Dr. Russell will be the first woman speaker at Baccalaureate.  Her sermon title is "Nobody, Somebody, Nobody..." and is based on Pslam 8 and Luke 2:8-14.

Date: March 16, 1982
All terms: 1980-1989, Baccalaureate, Firsts, Morefield, Mary Anne, Religion and spirituality, Russell, Letty M.
Chaplain Morefield's Sermon: "Women and Men Together"
chapelSermon_1988.jpg

Chaplain Morefield's sermon entitled "Women and Men Together" discusses issues brought up in a recent letter to the Dickinsonian [January 28th, p. 7] about "a fraternity party whose alleged theme was 'be rude, crude, and abusive' to women."

Date: February 7, 1988
All terms: 1980-1989, Chaplain's Office, Greek life, Morefield, Mary Anne, Religion and spirituality
Chaplain Morefield Preaching on "Women & Men Together"
Women & Men Together

Poster advertising the Sunday chapel service in the Interfaith Lounge.  This week Chaplain Morefield will be preaching a sermon entitled "Women & Men Together."

Date: February 7, 1988
All terms: 1980-1989, Chaplain's Office, Interfaith Lounge, Morefield, Mary Anne, Religion and spirituality
Dickinson College Chapel: A Celebration of Women
A Celebration of Women

Dickinson College Chapel program for "A Celebration of Women" as part of the observance of the women's decade.  Chaplain Mary Anne Morefield preaches the meditation or sermon, entitled "Women: Celebration and Solidarity."

Date: February 26, 1989
All terms: 1980-1989, Chaplain's Office, Memorial Hall, Morefield, Mary Anne, Religion and spirituality
"Are You a Jewish Feminist?": Susannah Heschel to visit Dickinson
The Sheepskin, March 1986

Susannah Heschel, daughter of the Jewish philosopher Abraham Heschel, to visit Dickinson College on April 1st, as announced in The Sheepskin, the Chaplain's Office newsletter.  She is scheduled to teach two religion classes and then give an evening lecture titled "On Being a Jewish Feminist."

Date: March 1986
All terms: 1980-1989, Chaplain's Office, Heschel, Susannah, Memorial Hall, Religion and spirituality
Mary Eleta Witmer's 1911 Essay "Female Suffrage"
Essay

In her 1911 essay "Female Suffrage," Mary Eleta Witmer analyzes the history and condition of the Suffrage movement. She argues that the American Suffrage movement has fallen short due to its association with such groups as socialists, abolitionists, and orthodox theology. Witmer closes her essay by comparing the strengths and weaknesses of the American and English Suffrage movements.

Date: 1911
All terms: 1910-1919, Activism, Civil rights, Labor, National Women's Suffrage Association, Religion and spirituality, Witmer, Mary Eleta, Women's rights movement, Women's suffrage
The Equality House Constitution
Constitution

In 1994, the Equality House gained Student Senate Recognition. According to their constitution the purpose was to establish "equal opportunity for every person without regards for the indivdual's sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, and monetary or physical status... The Equality House is formed with the purpose of working for the development and preservation of the Equal Rights of every person in the Dickinson Community."

Date: October 5, 1994
All terms: 1990-1999, Activism, Equality House, Equality House, Race relations, Religion and spirituality, Sexual behavior, Sexual orientation, Socio-Economic Class, Women of color, Women's rights movement