Scope and Contents In the 1910s and 1920s, a number of individual students maintained scrapbooks documenting their college years. They included a variety of ticket stubs, programs, photos, name and place cards, party favors, letters and notes, and invitations. A few of the scrapbooks are largely news clippings. The container list for this series provides a brief description of each scrapbook including compiler, dates covered, types of items included, and any special interest or focus...

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This series consists of honors theses completed and submitted by members of the College Scholars Honors program during their senior year. Topics represent all areas of the College curriculum, including business, humanities, arts, and sciences. The earliest thesis is from 1985, with only one or two submissions each year until 1994. After 1994, the number of theses increased.

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This collection includes sheet music produced by and about North Central College. It includes copies of the Alma Mater and the book College Song of North Western (as North Central was known before 1927). There are fight songs and an ode to Old Main in this series, as well.

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The Spectrum is the College yearbook containing photographs of students, faculty, campus events, clubs, and sports. Early Spectrums contain detailed descriptions of campus buildings, faculty members, seniors, class histories, clubs, and sports teams. The Spectrums are bound in a hard cover with one exception. The 1975 issue titled “Card Catalog” is much smaller, bound in a paper cover and only contains campus building, faculty, sports, and random student pictures.

Scope and Contents These photographs captured life on the North Central Campus from 1986-1999. The majority of the photographs are from 1994-1998. Photographs document student clubs, athletics, events, academic buildings, and students and faculty and staff on campus. Some photographs appeared in the 1986, 1992, 1994, and 1995 Spectrum yearbooks. These photographs had tags adhered to the bottom or back of the photograph for the yearbook printer, Jostens. These tags contained the page number,...

Scope and Contents This collection contains department meeting minutes, agendas, and reports of the North Central College Speech Communication-Theater department. The majority of the material in this collection is related to the department’s curricular self-study in 1988-1989. Emails sent by the Department of Communication and Media Studies, formerly known as the Department of Communications and before that the Department of Speech-Communication, to the campus community about resources, including...

Scope and Contents Sports represented in this collection include men’s and women’s basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, and track and field as well as men’s baseball, football, and wrestling and women’s softball and volleyball. The files on each sport contain schedules, rosters, news clippings, statistics, programs, and sometimes records of game or meet results. The files may also include media guides produced by the Sports Information Director, which list the schedule, participants,...

Scope and Contents This collection contains records from the Student Affairs Office from 1954 to 1986. The Student Affairs Office is one of the College’s tools to support the total development of its students. These files contain information about housing, food service, career development, international students and studies, religion and religious life in the form of meeting minutes, agenda, and fliers. Documents related to events handled by the Office of Student Affairs during this time period, such as...

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Series 1: Student Council Minutes and Series 2: Student Governing Association Files. See series descriptions for details.

Scope and Contents This collection contains Student Handbooks from 1950 to 2004 in hard-copy format and from 2008-2023 in digital format. Student handbooks from 2004-2007 and 2020-2021 are not in this collection. Student Handbooks dating from 1950 to 1986 mainly contain a calendar of scheduled campus events, telephone extensions for general college offices, a directory of local churches, and general information about the College including, traditions, activities and organizations, athletics, points of...