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The John B. Ervin Scholars Program Records consists of anniversary materials, event programs, office files, publications, publicity materials, scholarship applications, and scholarship program scholar directories.

Scope and Contents This collection contains material from 1925 to 2012. Awards were given every year except the following: 1926, 1934, 1941, 1943-1948, 1951-1952, 1955, 1975-1977, and 1989. After 1988 the Governing Committee decided to make the Fellowship biennial in order to provide more financial resources for the year of foreign travel. There was no winner awarded in 1926, the first year of the Competition, because the jury felt that the competitors failed to grasp the purpose of the program and had not...

Scope and Contents

This collection includes publications created and distributed by the Women's Society of Washington University. The Women’s Society supports scholarships, university programs and lectures for the benefit of Washington University in St. Louis and the community.