Nancy Watkins Sommer scrapbook, 1948-1949

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Summary

Creator:
Sommer, Nancy Watkins, 1930-2018
Abstract:
Nancy Watkins Sommers (1930-2018) attended Duke University's Woman's College and graduated with a Bachelor's in Music in 1952. Her scrapbook documents her first year at Duke University (1948-1949) and includes personal notes, invitations, newspaper clippings, and programs, particularly documenting her participation in the Duke Madrigals and her attendance and engagement with music, social gatherings, dances, and performance programs at Duke. Also includes materials from Goon Day, including her hairbow and sign, as well as some clippings from Oxford High School, her alma mater.
Extent:
2 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
UA.30.01.0103
University Archives Record Group:
30 -- Student and Alumni Papers and Materials
30 -- Student and Alumni Papers and Materials > 01 -- Individuals

Background

Scope and content:

The scrapbook documents Nancy Watkins' first year at Duke University (1948-1949) and includes personal notes, invitations, newspaper clippings, and programs, particularly documenting her participation in the Duke Madrigals and her attendance and engagement with music, social gatherings, sports, dances, and performance programs at Duke. Also includes materials from Goon Day, including her hairbow and sign, as well as some clippings from Oxford High School, her alma mater.

Groups with documentation or printed material present in the scrapbook include: Duke YMCA ("Duke Doings" weekly calendars for October-December 1948 and January-March 1949); assorted Page Bills programs for different performances at Page Auditorium; Men's Glee Club; Student Government; the Neptunalia Ball; Duke University Symphony Orchestra; and others.

Biographical / historical:

Nancy Watkins was born on February 25, 1930, in Oxford, North Carolina. She graduated Oxford High School in 1948 and Duke University in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in Music.

Nancy married Sebastian Christian ("C") Sommer on December 11, 1954, and moved to Winston-Salem. The couple had three children, and along with caring for her family, Nancy Watkins Sommer was an active Duke alumna and fundraiser, an involved community leader, and a female tenor in local choirs.

Nancy Watkins Sommer died in Winston-Salem on January 13, 2018.

Source cited: "Nancy Watkins Sommer" obituary, Winston-Salem Journal, 2018 Jan. 17 (accessed 2024 July 1).

Acquisition information:
The Nancy Watkins Sommer Scrapbook was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift from Sommer's family in 2024.
Processing information:

Processed by Meghan Lyon, 2024 July

Accessions described in this collection guide: UA2024-0040

Arrangement:

Scrapbook is bound but many items within are no longer adhered. The items are loosely placed within the pages.

Physical facet:
1 13"x15" bound scrapbook
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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[Identification of item], Nancy Watkins Sommer Scrapbook, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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