Abstract Dr. Josephine Massyngbaerde Ford (1928-2015) was a professor emerita of theology at the University of Notre Dame, and the first female Notre Dame faculty member to receive tenure. This collection consists of Dr. Josephine M. Ford’s research files, primarily as related to the topics of the Apocalypse and the Beast in the Book of Revelation, as well as a small selection of personal papers including files on the Massyngbaerde family history and letters written to Dr. Ford upon her...

Scope and Contents The Mary Clemency Papers consist of materials collected by Mary Clemency related to the history of women’s basketball at the University of Notre Dame. The collection contains original documents, records, ephemera, photographs, and clippings related to the first organized women’s basketball teams on campus from 1972 through 1976, including bookstore basketball, interhall basketball, a women’s basketball interest group, and club basketball. The collection contains some correspondence between...

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Collection of letters written to and from Ann Arbour Olyniec, a member of the first cohort of female students to begin undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame in 1972. Letters document Olyniec’s experiences as an undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, Saint Mary’s College, and The University of Notre Dame from 1970 to 1974.