Susan Long Quainton Papers, 1953-1957
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Susan Long Quainton Papers
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Quainton, Susan Long, b.1936
Biographical History for: Susan Long Quainton Papers
Biographical Note Susan Dorothea Long Quainton, Mount Holyoke graduate and educator, was born on January 25, 1936 in Los Angeles, California to Joseph Abraham Long and Theresia Monrovia Rustemeyer Long. She was raised with an older sister Theresia and a younger brother Donald in Southern California where her father worked as a manager for the Beverly Hills District of the Southern California Edison Company. She enrolled at Mount Holyoke College after winning the Seven Women's Colleges Scholarship in the fall of 1953. After graduating with honors in English from Mount Holyoke College, she was awarded the Marshall Scholarship and attended St. Hilda's College in Oxford, England, earning a B.A. First Class Honours Degree in English in 1959. In addition, she earned a M.A. in English Language and Literature from Oxford University in 1963. While attending St. Hilda's College, she met Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton, whom she married in Oxford in October 1958. Mr. Quainton was a Foreign Service Officer and a U.S. Ambassador in posts across the world. Accompanying her husband to his foreign posts, Mrs. Quainton held a variety of positions, including: Fifth Grade English Teacher at the National Cathedral School for Girls (1972); the Director for the United States Information Service sponsored English Language Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal (July 1, 1974-December 15, 1975); an English Professor at the College Andre Malraux in Bangui in French Central Africa (October 1, 1977-June 12, 1978); an English Teacher at the National Cathedral School for Girls (1978-1981); a Lower School Secretary at the National Cathedral School for Girls (1982); and a High School English Teacher at the American-Nicaraguan School in Managua, Nicaragua (August 1982-January 1984). The Quaintons had two daughters and one son.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Papers of Susan Long Quainton (b. 1936) span the years 1953-1957 and consist of correspondence, course records, biographical information, and photographs that primarily document her experiences as a Mount Holyoke College student from 1953-1957. The Correspondence series, spanning August 1953-June 1957, is chiefly made up of letters sent by Susan to her family detailing her life at Mount Holyoke College. In order to remain in close contact with her family in California, she regularly wrote letters to her mother Theresia, her father Joseph, her brother Donald, her sister Theresia, her Aunt Marion, and her grandmother Lela throughout her four years as a student at Mount Holyoke College. Her correspondence covers a wide range of topics that discuss her feelings about the school, certain faculty members, classmates, roommates, coursework, student activities, local fashion, dating, social events, dances, freshman hazing, and Mountain Day, and include mentions of Mount Holyoke College regulations and restrictions regarding travel permission. In these letters she often mentions her English Professor Joseph Bottkol, her Philosophy Professor George Tovey, and many of her friends, including Mary Jean Mahler, Joyce Mitchell, Carol Kroeger, Franny Ward, and Alice Stone. The correspondence also includes postcards and Valentines. The Course Records series spans the years 1953-1957 and are comprised of notebooks, syllabi, class handouts, as well as graded assignments including Art projects; Physiology laboratory reports; a Physiology Special Report entitled "Comparison of Various Methods of Artificial Respiration;" examination bluebooks and questions; and various class papers and essays. The Course Records document her undergraduate studies, including her classes in Art, English, French, Greek, Geography and Geology, History, Philosophy, and Physiology. The bulk of the papers and essays relate to her major, English. The Biographical Information series consists of two newspaper clippings. The first clipping is from the April 26, 1953 edition of The Los Angeles Times and relates that at the age of seventeen Susan D. Long was chosen as a principal speaker at the National Convention of the Red Cross in June 1953. The other clipping is simply a photograph of Susan sitting with her two siblings, Theresia Jane and Donald, from an unknown publication circa 1954-1956. The Photographs series consists of five black and white photographs of Susan, circa 1953-1957. Three undated photographs are formal head shots of Quainton, measuring approximately 2.5 by 3.5, or 3 by 3.5 inches and are most likely from her student days at Mount Holyoke. A 3.5 by 3.5 inch black and white snapshot of Susan with Carla Wilson from Smith College, sitting and reading on a couch, is dated Feb. 12, 1955 and was originally attached to a letter sent to family by Susan on March 11, 1955. The final black and white photograph in the series, of Quainton working at a desk, measures 8 by 10 inches and is dated April 3, 1955.
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Use of the collection is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
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Art - Study and teaching (Higher) - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
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Dating (Social customs).
English literature - Study and teaching (Higher) - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
French language - Study and teaching (Higher) - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
Geology - Study and teaching (Higher) - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
Greek language - Study and teaching (Higher) - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
Hazing - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
History - Study and teaching (Higher) - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
Mountain Day - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
Mountain Day - 1954.
Philosophy - Study and teaching (Higher) - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
Physiology - Study and teaching (Higher) - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
Proms - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
Student activities - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
Women college students - Massachusetts - South Hadley.
Quainton, Susan Long - 1936-.
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Mount Holyoke College - Curricula.
Mount Holyoke College - Examinations - 1953-1957.
Mount Holyoke College - Faculty.
Mount Holyoke College - Regulations.
Mount Holyoke College - Student life - 1953-1957.
Mount Holyoke College - Student notebooks - 1953-1957.
Mount Holyoke College - Student papers - 1953-1957.
Mount Holyoke College - Students.
Mount Holyoke College - Students - Family relationships.
Mount Holyoke College - Traditions.
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series
Correspondence 1953-1957
Aug.-Sept. 30, 1953
Oct. 1-Oct. 31, 1953
Nov. 4-Dec. 17, 1953
Jan. 4-Feb. 8, 1954
Feb. 10-Mar. 30, 1954
Apr. 7-June 2, 1954
Sept. 21-Dec. 13, 1954
Jan. 2-Jan. 31, 1955
Feb. 1-Mar. 31, 1955
Apr. 2-June 9, 1955
Sept. 17-Oct. 28, 1955
Feb. 7-May 18, 1956
Sept. 18-Nov. 15, 1956
Mar. 14-June 3, 1957
Course Records 1953-1957
3 Subject Notebook Fall 1953
3 Subject Notebook Spring 1954
Art B2 Notebook Spring 1954
Art Assignments Fall 1953-Spring 1954
English B3 Notebook Fall 1954
English 201 Notebook Fall 1955
English 211 Notebook Fall 1955
English 202 Notebook Spring 1956
English 212 Notebook Spring 1956
English Notebook Fall 1956
English 214 Notebook Spring 1957
English Notebook circa 1956-1957
Miscellaneous English Handouts circa 1953-1957
French 305 Notebook Fall 1955
French 308 Notebook Spring 1956
French Verbs Notebook circa 1953-1957
Geography B3 Notebook Fall 1953
Geography B4 Notebook circa Jan.-Apr. 22, 1954
Geography B4 Notebook circa May 1954
Greek Notebook circa 1956
History B1 Notebook circa Sept.-Oct. 1953
History B1 Notebook Oct. 29-Dec. 5, 1953
History B1 Notebook circa Dec. 1953-Jan. 1954
History B2 Notebook circa Jan.-Feb. 1954
History B2 Notebook circa Mar. 1954
History B2 Notebook circa Apr.-May 1954
Philosophy B1 Notebook Fall 1954
Philosophy B2 Notebook Spring 1955
Physiology B1 Notebook circa Sept.-Nov. 12, 1954
Physiology B1 and B2 Notebook circa Nov. 1954-Feb. 1955
Physiology B2 Notebook circa Feb.-May 1955
Physiology Special Report May 4, 1955
Physiology Laboratory Reports circa Sept. 1954-May 1955
English Examinations circa 1954-1957
Examinations circa 1953-1954
Examinations circa 1954-1957
Art Papers circa Oct. 1953-May 1954
English Papers circa Sept. 1953-Apr. 1954
English Papers circa Sept. 1954-May 1955
English Papers circa Nov. 1955-May 1956
English Papers circa Oct. 1956-Apr. 1957
French Papers circa Mar. 1954-Jan. 1956
History Paper Oct. 6, 1953
Philosophy Papers circa 1954-May 1955
Biographical Information circa 1953-1956
Photographs circa 1953-1957