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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development. Born and raised on Long Island; lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar; moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ; oral history; queer; Long Island; San Francisco; Colgate
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| Repository: | Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries |
|---|---|
| Creator: | Ballenberg, Doris |
| Title: | Doris Ballenberg Papers |
| Dates: | 1931-1935 |
| Quantity: | 0.2 cubic feet (1 box) |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and poetry from Ballenberg's time as a student at Vassar College. Includes two poems by "Betty" and "Muriel." "Muriel" may be Muriel Rukeyser, VC 1934, but it may also be Muriel Fox, VC 1935. |
Doris Ballenberg Newman was a member of the Vassar College Class of 1935. She served on the student newspaper, the Miscellany News, from 1931-1932.
TopThe collection contains correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and poetry from Ballenberg's time as a student at Vassar College. Includes two poems by "Betty" and "Muriel." "Muriel" may be Muriel Rukeyser, VC 1934, but it may also be Muriel Fox, VC 1935. All three served on the Miscellany News, but because the poems are undated it is difficult to determine the authorship. "Betty" may be Elizabeth Brown, VC 1935, Muriel Fox's freshman roommate.
TopThis collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.
Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.
Encoded by Laura Streett, May 2008. Updated by Emma Gronbeck, January 2023.
TopDoris Ballenberg Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.
Processed by Laura Streett, May 2008.
Gift of Barbara Newman Morris, May 2008 (M2008-006).
| Folder 1 | Clippings, circa 1935 |
| Folder 2 | Correspondence, 1935, undated |
| Folder 3 | Ephemera, 1931-1935 |
| Folder 4 | Poems, from "Muriel and Betty" to Doris Ballenberg, undated |
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Correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and poetry from Ballenberg's time as a student at Vassar College. Includes two poems by "Betty" and "Muriel." "Muriel" may be Muriel Rukeyser, VC 1934, but it may also be Muriel Fox, VC 1935.
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1 letter, dated "Thanksgiving Night 1886," from Finley (VC 1889) to her cousin "Effie." Finley writes that an excellent Thanksgiving dinner was served at Vassar College, during which the students costumed themselves as English ladies and gentlemen. She describes the events after dinner as including
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