Fall 2019 EditionAlumni & Friends Magazine
What’s been kept
Tucked away in Alden Library is the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, where University Archivist Bill Kimok works to preserve and capture OHIO’s rich history through donated objects and the stories behind them. A look at select items from the archive follow.
By Kelee Garrison Riesbeck, BSJ, CERT ’91, and Jamie Clarkson, BSJ ’20 | October 19, 2019
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LEFT: This pom-pom, sideline pass, and ticket are from the 1999 OHIO v Ohio State game. CENTER: OHIO pennants, old and new, illustrating the evolution of the university’s mark. RIGHT, CENTER: A ticket to President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign speech in Athens on College Green. RIGHT, BOTTOM: Ceramic jug by Alpine Pottery in Roseville, Ohio, celebrating the 5th annual Women of Appalachia National Conference at OHIO's Zanesville Campus.
Inside a scrapbook illustrating Women’s Athletics from 1973 to 1984.
This is an early-20th-century, 100% wool OHIO sweater.
ABOVE: Frosted glass from the 1954 Ohio University Employees Sesquicentennial Christmas Party. BELOW: A commemorative glass celebrating OHIO Football's 1968 10-0 regular season MAC championship team
In the ’60s, men and women were to abide by separate sets of rules, outlined in these handbooks.
In this image, OHIO’s 1932 football team stands for a photo with President Herbert Hoover the day before the game against Navy.
The first volume of OHIO Board of Trustees minutes, 1804-1809, handwritten in impeccable cursive.
A poster from 1974 promoting the fourth annual Ohio University Music Festival in the Convocation Center.
A 1919 photo of Alpha Phi Alpha men, members of OHIO’s first Black fraternity.
A flyer from President John F. Kennedy’s campaign stop in Athens in 1959.
Before Instagram, OHIO student life was documented in scrapbooks like this one by Jan Rienerth, BS ’65, AB ’66.
These 25-cent football programs had game-day information and plenty of ads promoting local businesses.
OHIO women booked dance partners at formal parties in these DIY dance cards.
This university songbook was compiled in 1915 and includes songs like “Alma Mater, Ohio.”
OHIO baseball captain Frank “Cap” Gullem’s bat, unique carrying case, and his shoes, complete with ominous-looking metal cleats.
Afro-American Affairs newspaper from October 1978
ABOVE: Bobcat fans could buy box seat OHIO Football tickets for $3.50 apiece in 1965 at Grover Center. BELOW: A brick salvaged from South Green’s Fenzel House, demolished in 2017.
Mortarboard worn by John Calhoun Baker, OHIO’s 14th president, who led when Time dubbed OHIO “Harvard on the Hocking."
Sign from the grand, Gothic-styled Ewing Hall, formerly located behind McGuffey Hall.
OHIO’s football team, 1903. Arthur Carr, fourth from the left, back row, was one of OHIO’s first Black student athletes.
This is the helmet worn by John Wilhelm, WWII correspondent and the first dean of the College of Communication, founded in 1968.
WOUI’s first broadcast in 1949 was saved onto this record. WOUI later became today’s WOUB Public Media.
Audio tape from one of OHIO President Claude Sowle’s regular press conferences, c. 1970.
Alpha Epsilon Rho, the honor society for electronic media, produced this 45, “Sounds of Ohio University,” in 1959.
Before RateMyProfessors.com, students produced and printed guides that reviewed courses and professors.
This 1907-08 pocket-sized handbook was carried by members of the student body.
The football from OHIO’s 1932 14-0 shut out over Navy.
ABOVE: A ~5,000-year-old stone axe found in 1961, used by the Adena, probably to strip bark. BELOW: The class of 1932’s 50th reunion leather coaster giveaway, embossed with an OHIO Alumni Association logo.
ABOVE: Made of white porcelain, this plate commemorates the 1904 Athens Homecoming. BELOW: Saucer and a cup depicting Cutler Hall’s cupola (provenance unknown.)
This well-loved felt Bobcat is an early depiction of OHIO’s mascot, established in 1925.
An East Green LGBTQ Ally t-shirt advocating for allies to “Stand and be counted.”
A stair banister from Cutler Hall, salvaged during the hall’s 1947 remodel.
OHIO’s first Dean of Women Irma Voigt received this well-used gavel and its holder from her “girls” in 1924.
Sign from Monomoy Theatre, a lab for theater students for 57 years.
A State of Ohio flag that flew atop Cutler Hall for decades.
Poster for OHIO President Claude Sowle’s weekly call-in radio show.
OHIO Baseball’s score book from 1970, the organization’s highest-performing season.
Lindley Lines was a dorm-centric, student-produced newsletter for occupants of Lindley Hall. Other residence halls distributed similarly alliteratively named newsletters, including The Howard Howler, Voight Views, (Scott) Quad Crier, and Crook Capers.
Photography by Ben Wirtz Siegel, BSVC ’02, and Erin Wilson
