User:CmdrDan/Sherrill Redmon

Note: Sherrill Redmon is the former wife of Senate Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell: Mitch McConnell

Sherrill Redmon

"After nineteen years leading the Sophia Smith Collection, Sherrill Redmon worked her last day on August 31st, 2012. She left behind an organization transformed. As the staff contemplated her legacy for a final-day sendoff, it was hard to remember the Alumnae Gym she entered in the fall of 1993." https://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/news/redmon.html

AN ACTIVIST ARCHIVES The Sophia Smith Collection at 70

A Celebration in honor of Sherrill Redmon, Director of the Sophia Smith Collection, 1993-2012. Held on February 3, 2013 at Smith College. (Read about Sherrill Redmon and her contributions to the SSC)

Schedule of events:

In the Archives of Fun Home: A Conversation with Alison Bechdel:

Introductions by Carol Christ, Kelly Anderson, and Susan Van Dyne

Alison Bechdel: powerpoint presentation

Alison Bechdel and Susan Van Dyne

Activists and Archives: Allies for Social Justice

Introduction by Joyce Follet

Keynote address by Gloria Steinem

Panel: Loretta Ross, Anna Holley, Katsi Cook, and Marianne Bullock. Moderated by Jennifer Guglielmo

https://media.smith.edu/departments/ssc/activist_archives/ssc70thvideo.html

Invitation to: A Celebration in honor of Sherrill Redmon, Director of the Sophia Smith Collection, 1993-2012

February 3, 2013

Streaming video of entire event now available!! https://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/news/news-event70th.html

PDF of Invite: https://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/news/images/SSC70flier10x7.pdf

About the SSC: The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, archives, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history. It was founded in 1942 to be the library's distinctive contribution to the college's mission of educating women.

Under the inspired leadership of its first director, Margaret Storrs Grierson, the Sophia Smith Collection evolved from a collection of works by women writers into a historical research collection of material documenting the lives and activities of women. In 1946 it was named in honor of the founder of Smith College. http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/about.html