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This booklet describes Madison College, and the benefits of further education, to prospective students. They include a section on “Happy Living” and claim that Madison realizes “the desire of every young girl for a personalized ‘room I can live in’”…

An inner page from the "After High School What" booklet depicting Madison College students.

An inner page from the "After High School What" booklet describes resisdence life at Madison College.

Iris Alina Ruiz, nicknamed "Titi," was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico in 1921. When she was 17, she traveled to the United States to attend Madison College for Elementary Education from 1939-1942. Her drawings included in this collection depicted the…

The Student Handbook was, and still is, a major reference for students to find information about school. Dormitory regulations and dating rules are particularly interesting in this handbook from 1941. All students had to register with the Dean of…

These inner pages from an early 1940s student handbook discuss dating rules and various dormitory regulations.

This is a letter of appoinment for Elizabeth Carroll, who was designated as Head Monitor for Jackson Hall by the Student Council.

Letter signed from Dorothy Garber, a faculty member and later Dean of Women, encouraging alumni to return for commencement exercises. Describes, with small drawn illustrations, activities that the girls did during their time at the school including…

This scrapbook was compiled during Elizabeth Arrena Carroll’s enrollment in professional courses at the State Normal School for Women from 1921 to 1925. Elizabeth included images of the dorms during her time, paper pennants for the school, a…

A quiz with questions pertaining to various school codes of behavior, including inquiries into quiet hours, dating privileges, banned items, and other dormitory regulations.