{"id":499,"date":"2020-04-22T12:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/?page_id=499"},"modified":"2020-04-27T11:26:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T16:26:59","slug":"3c-delaware-college","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/home\/3-delawares-suffrage-organizations\/3c-delaware-college\/","title":{"rendered":"3c &#8211; Delaware College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When Delaware College (University of Delaware since 1921) was briefly co-educational (1872-1885), the women students of the Pestalozzi Literary Society invited presidential candidate Belva Lockwood (1830-1917) to campus. In her 1884 address, \u201cThe Era of Woman,\u201d for which she received a $12 fee, Lockwood endorsed the causes of temperance and women\u2019s suffrage\u2014as well as that of sewing buttons onto husbands\u2019 shirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lawyer Belva Lockwood, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, between 1880-1890. Brady-Handy Collection. Facsimile image courtesy of Library of Congress.<\/li><li>Pestalozzi Literary Society. \u201cIt is said that Belva Lockwood \u2026 \u201d (excerpt from minutes). <em>Pestalozzi No Name<\/em>. Newark, Del., October 31, 1884. University of Delaware Archives and Records Management.<\/li><li>\u201cThe Era of Woman,\u201d Delaware College Review, Volume III, No. 2, November 2, 1884. University of Delaware Archives and Records Management. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WOMEN AT UD<\/strong> &#8211; Once the College trustees ended co-education, there was no state-supported college for women in Delaware. Suffragists such as Emalea Pusey Warner (1853-1948), head of the Delaware State Federation of Women\u2019s Clubs, lobbied the state legislature to create a women\u2019s college affiliated with the men\u2019s college. Her form letter to \u201cDear Co-Worker,\u201d urging recipients to mobilize support for the plan, reflected the political lobbying skills that suffragists applied to the task at hand. The Women\u2019s College of Delaware opened in 1914, with Dr. Winifred J. Robinson as dean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n1940, the Women\u2019s College\u2019s two original buildings were renamed to honor Warner\nand Robinson. After the University of Delaware resumed co-education by merging\nwith the Women\u2019s College in 1945, Robinson wrote a history of the college. In\n1950, under a court order, African American students were admitted to the\nUniversity. In 2020, after over a century of serving as student housing, Warner\nHall was repurposed as a student health facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Emalea P. (Emalea Pusey) Warner (1853-1948). Photograph of \u201cComrades : Dean Robinson and Mrs. Warner,\u201d August 7, 1914.  Emalea Pusey Warner Scrapbook number 1. University of Delaware Archives and Records Management. <\/li><li> Emalea P. (Emalea Pusey) Warner (1853-1948).  Typed form-letter (carbon), Wilmington, Del., to \u201cDear Co-Worker,\u201d February 25, 1913. Emalea Pusey Warner Scrapbook number 1. University of Delaware Archives and Records Management.<\/li><li>Winifred J. (Winifred Josephine) Robinson (1876-1962). <em>History of the Women\u2019s College of the University of Delaware, 1914-1938<\/em>. Newark, Del. : <em>Delaware Notes<\/em>, 1947.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Delaware College (University of Delaware since 1921) was briefly co-educational (1872-1885), the women students of the Pestalozzi Literary Society invited presidential candidate Belva Lockwood (1830-1917) to campus. 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