This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features our collection of Mortar Board Records. Mortar Board, Inc., is a national honor society of college seniors, which recognizes in its membership the qualities of superior scholastic ability, outstanding and continual leadership, and dedicated service to the college or university community.
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Lily Wai
Wonder Women
![Lily Wai [1]](https://webpages.uidaho.edu/library/spec/harvester/objects/thumbs/mg390_box4-folder70_th.jpg)
Lily Wai was born in Hangzhou, China on 29 September 1939. In 1946, her parents and three siblings moved to the village of Wu-er in Taiwan. In 1961, Wai moved to Kansas for graduate school and met her husband Chien. They married in Los Angeles in 1965.
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Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Records, 1979-1988 collection. Special Collections houses 4 boxes of meeting minutes, agendas, reports, and supporting documents relating to Native American fisheries, distributed to Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission members and collected by Robert Strom, commission member representing...
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Sunshine Mining Company annual reports
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Sunshine Mining Company was located between Kellogg, Idaho and Wallace, Idaho and was one of the most successful and highest-producing silver mines in the United States and the world. “By 1931, the Sunshine mine was the second largest silver producer in the United States. In 1937, the Sunshine was the...
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Grace Fenton
Wonder Women
Grace Fenton Roberts was the first woman to graduate from the College of Engineering at the University of Idaho, graduating in 1938. Unfortunately, not much is known about her exact degree program or what she went on to do with her degree.
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Living Treasures - Hispanic Artisans & Traditionalists of the Snake River Valley
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the book, Living Treasures: Hispanic Artisans & Traditionalists of the Snake River Valley, published by the Hispanic Folkarts Survey Committee in 1991.
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reimagining the Library website
Our Library website is currently themed with the official Vandal colors of Pride Gold and Black. But “Wild Rose” is also an official Vandal color, and Spec thinks it should be utilized more! What if the Library website was Wild Rose instead of Pride Gold? We tested it! The world...
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Japanese American Contributions to Idaho's Economic Development
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the book, Japanese American Contributions to Idaho’s Economic Development by Robert C. Sims. This book discusses how “Japanese, like other early Idaho pioneers, came to the Gem State in search of economic opportunity. Through their efforts, they not only achieved many of their...
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Unrolling in the Deep
Last week was National Preservation Week where libraries and archives promote the importance of preservation work and often share resources on how to preserve various materials. As is often the case, we got caught up with other projects and reference and just the day to day distractions of archival work,...
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Rei Kihara Osaki
Wonder Women
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(All information here adapted from the 2002 UI College of Law Annual Report.)
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