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RG02. Student Life

 Record Group
Identifier: RG02
Includes: student government, clubs and organizations, Phi Beta Kappa, newspapers, and yearbooks

Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:

Sophomore Cotillion Records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RG02.0008.005
Dates: -

Quill and Scroll Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG06.0019.002
Scope and Contents

Quill and Scroll National Honor Society records Q&S publication in University Serials and Journals Collection (RG01.0009.002)

Dates: -

Athletics Film Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG30.0005.002
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of film reels of different University of Iowa sports throughout the 1900s. The sports covered in this collection consist of football, basketball, and wrestling, with football making up the majority of the collection. The films cover overviews of many of the sports games, game highlights, and a few of the films highlight students and coaches who were prominent at the University of Iowa.

Dates: 1938 - 1982

Mary Ingram dance card collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RG02.0004.002
Scope and Contents

Over 70 dance cards and other items, 1922-1934

Dates: 1922 - 1934

Refocus Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0003.026
Scope and Contents

Refocus was founded in 1965 as a joint student-faculty-staff project coordinated initially by the Iowa Memorial Union Board Films Area and, later, funded by UI Student Government.

The Refocus collection in the Archives (RG02.0003.026) includes 6.0 lin. ft. of material from 1965 to 1979, mainly correspondence, programs, and sample posters. The collection is not processed but is open for research. We also have two folders, mostly of newspaper clippings, in our student clubs and organizations vertical file (RG01.0015.004). There is no evidence of any Refocus activity after 1979.

Dates: 1965-1979

Billy Mitchell Squadron Angel Flight, UI Chapter

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0002.009
Scope and Contents

The chapter was founded in 1962 as a women's military support organization. The collection consists of one scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, photographs, newsletters and other material.

Dates: -

Iowa Medical Partners

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0002.010
Dates: 1945-2003

Sigma Lambda Beta records

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0003.044
Scope and Contents

The Sigma Lambda Beta Records include administrative documents, meeting notes and agendas from organizational events, newspapers and magazines that featured the fraternity, various documents from affiliated chapters of Sigma Lambda Beta, photographs of members, and artifacts. The majority of these records contain materials pertaining to the greater international organization of Sigma Lambda Beta and documents from affiliated organizations. Documents in the collection pertaining directly to the University of Iowa include original member certificates, news coverage of the University of Iowa chapter, various administrative documents, and photographs from the fraternity's founding in 1986 to 2011.

Dates: 1986 - 2011

Students Against Sweatshops records

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0006.006
Scope and Contents

The records of Students Against Sweatshops consist of correspondence between SAS, the UI Office of the President, and other individuals and offices. They are arranged chronologically by year.

Dates: 2000 - 2009

Stephen Lynn Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0009.032
Abstract

State University of Iowa alumnus and activist.

Dates: 1964-2016

Janet Pease papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0009.037
Abstract

SUI freshman history honor student living in Burge Hall in 1962. Photographs of typical dorm life and clippings, as well as course notes and correspondence to a friend during graduate student years and while teaching history at the high school level in Colorado.

Dates: 1962 - 1973

Phi Gamma Nu, Delta chapter, scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG02.0003.047
Dates: 1951 - 1972

Green Flag Campaign collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA10013
Scope and Contents

The Green Flag Campaign collection consists of items from one of the Green Flag Campaign events. This includes green flag heart cards which include words and phrases that individuals who attended the event felt were green flags, extra booklets that include fill in the blanks for finding your own green flags, paper cut outs from the event, and a tote bag that comemorates the event.

Dates: 2020 February

Iowa Hillel records

 Collection
Identifier: UA10032
Scope and Contents

This collection documents different events held by the Iowa Hillel student organization. This includes their leaves from the "Leaf-a-leaf" project and the program from one of their dinner galas.

Dates: 2006; 2024 - 2025

Food for Thought Café scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31858071027571]
Identifier: UA10037
Content Description

This scrapbook was created during and to June 2025 from the the COVID-19 pandemic by the students and staff who worked at the Food for Thought Café in the Uiowa Main Library.

Dates: 2020-2025 June

Anna Marie Brinker scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: UA10022
Content Description

This scrapbook contains photographs, newspaper clippings, doodles, programs, notes and more documenting Anna Marie Brinker's time as a student in the College of Nursing program at the University of Iowa. While the scrapbook contains a small portion of her life before the University of Iowa, most of it showcases her experiences within the nursing program and her relationships with others.

Dates: 1916 - 1918

Rich Rubin photograph collection

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31858071026987]
Identifier: UA10023
Dates: 1967 Fall Semester

Lilah B. Crum Terwilliger papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA10024
Content Description

The collection documents the life of a female physics student in the early 1900s, including her coursework and class notes, her social circles and interactions on campus, and her master's thesis.

Dates: 1905 - 1913; Majority of material found within 1907 - 1910

Center for Draft Information and Counseling Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0002.002
Scope and Contents

The records of the University of Iowa Center for Draft Information and Counseling are comprised of correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, brochures, training guides, personal notes, and newsletters.The organization also had one of its original founders, Emil Rinderspacher, record and explain the history and mission of the Center. This memoir is in Box 1, University of Iowa Draft Counseling and Training History folder.The documents provide significant insight into the thoughts and views of various groups about the military draft on the University of Iowa campus from 1969 to 1973.

Dates: 1969-1973

Associated Women Students Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG02.0003.003
Scope and Contents

The Records of the Associated Women Students consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, and pamphlets. These materials document the activities of female students involved in this organization. The records cover three decades of the organization's more than 50-year presence on the University of Iowa campus, from 1916 to the early 1970s. One file includes the records of the Intercollegiate Association of Women Students (IAWS). Helen Reich, associate director of Student Affairs, was appointed to the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women for 1969-1970. Her research file for these years is included.

Dates: 1924-1970