Ann Arbour Olyniec Papers
Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1970 - 1999
- Majority of material found within 1970 - 1974
Creator
- Olyniec, Ann Arbour, 1952- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Biographical / Historical
Ann Frances Arbour was born on January 6, 1952 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She graduated from Saint Joseph’s Academy high school in Baton Rouge in 1970. That year, she began her college studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Arbour transferred to Saint Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana for the Spring 1972 semester.
Beginning in the early 1970s, there were proposals to merge the all-female Saint Mary’s College with the nearby all-male University of Notre Dame. An agreement was never reached, but nonetheless, the University of Notre Dame opened its enrollment to female undergraduate students for the Fall 1972 semester. Although women had quietly been studying at Notre Dame since 1917, when two Holy Cross sisters became the first women to graduate with master’s degrees, this 1972 decision was widely understood to be the first time that Notre Dame formally opened its doors to female undergraduate students.
Ann Arbour transferred from Saint Mary’s College to the University of Notre Dame starting in the Fall 1972 semester, becoming a part of this cohort of female undergraduate students to begin their studies at the university that year. Arbour graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies. After graduating from Notre Dame, she married Peter Michael Olyniec. She went on to pursue a master’s degree in library science at Louisiana State University.
Extent
0.5 cubic feet (1 legal size documents box.)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Immediate Source of Acquisition
- Black-and-white photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Catholic universities and colleges Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Color photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Letters (correspondence) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Personal correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- University of Notre Dame -- Students
- Women -- Education (Higher) -- Indiana -- Notre Dame Subject Source: Local sources
- Women college students -- Indiana Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women college students -- United States -- History -- 20th Century Subject Source: Local sources
- Women in higher education -- Correspondence Subject Source: Local sources
Creator
- Olyniec, Ann Arbour, 1952- (Person)
- Title
- Ann Arbour Olyniec Papers
- Author
- Tyler Davis, Archives Specialist
- Date
- 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Notre Dame Archives Repository