Evelyn Johnson Chapman Mortar Board scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: WCMss-729

Staff Only

Content Description

The Evelyn Johnson Chapman Mortar Board Scrapbook chronicles the academic years of the Mortar Board beginning with the 1949-1950 academic year and ending with the 1953-1954 academic year. Mortar Board was an honors society for senior female Whitman College students. The scrapbook, which likely passed hands during its creation, relays a social history of the Mortar Board as recorded through newspaper clippings, letters, and memorabilia. The majority of the scrapbook contains newspaper clippings that capture the activities and events that made up the social lives of Mortar Board members. This includes membership announcements, columns on dating culture, sorority news, the annual May Fete, homecoming, Mortar Board King, student “Wheel of the Week” profiles, clippings with mentions of members, and “Who’s Who” accolades.

Dates

1949-1957

Creator

Chapman, Evelyn Johnson (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Evelyn Ruth Johnson Chapman was born November 28, 1935 in San Francisco, CA and died November 19, 2016 in Seattle, WA. She graduated from Whitman College in 1957 with a degree in English. She was a member of Alpha Phi sorority. She was involved with multiple honor societies including Mortar Board, of which she was a member and historian from 1956-1957, Signet Table, Spurs, and Phi Beta Kappa. Her campus activities included Associated Students of Whitman College, choir, theater, and Associated Women Students of Whitman College (AWWC). She was president of AWWC as of December, 1956. She stayed involved with Mortar Board as a member of the Seattle alumnae group, serving one year as president.

She was married September 12, 1959 to John Hume Chapman in Ramsey, NJ. They later moved to Seattle in 1960 where they raised their three children. She went on to attend the University of Washington and to work in child and family services, chiefly for people with disabilities.

Extent

1.6 Linear Feet (1 flat box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Evelyn Johnson Chapman attended Whitman College from 1953 to 1957. This collection contains a scrapbook which documents the social history of Mortar Board, a women’s honors society at Whimtan College, from 1949-1954.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives by Mary Chapman Cole on September 23, 2020. The accession number associated with this donation is 2020-011.