Videos From the College Archives
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Item Metadata only "16 Minutes" Warren Wilson College Library Video, 1986(1986)This video served as an introduction to the library. It was created in 1986, and is a spoof of the 60 Minutes television show (this video is just over 16 minutes in length).Item Metadata only Alma Shippy Memorial Dedication(Warren Wilson College, 2017-10-07) Lytle, Rodney; Morton, Lynn; Wheeler, Billy Edd; Shippy, Perry; Wykle, JohnAlma Joseph Lee Shippy enrolled at Warren Wilson College in 1952, two years before Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional. By a vote of 54 to 1, the boys of Sunderland Hall welcomed Shippy "on the same basis as any other boy in any activity or work crew on which boys participated.”Item Metadata only Asheville Farm School Library(2019) Mah, Mei; Sanderson, Diana; Bradshaw, David O.; Burke, Jack; Darby, Joshua S.; Gifford-Bell, Stephen; Huffman, Andrew; Richardson, Olatunde S.; Via, Mason; Woolsey, Gus; Gellert, RaynaDescribes the history of the Asheville Farm School from its founding in 1894 through 2019. Highlights the building of the library in 1932-33 by the boys of the Farm School, from logs harvested from the school's forest.Item Metadata only Dear Sally: How Kuni and Sally Came to Warren Wilson College(Warren Wilson College, 2021-04-26) Mah, Mei; Miyakawa Cloke, Jennifer; Sanderson, Diana; Bradshaw, David O.; Conlan, Brian; Hidalgo, Ainara; Lalley, Annie; Mycoff, David; Orr, Doug; Palmer, Bridget; Razo Villaseca, Monica; Valentine, Heaven; Williams, Jess Burkett;In 1943, as the United States was embroiled in World War II and anti-Japanese hysteria, Kuniko Hirokawa and Sally Mizokami, Japanese American women from a concentration camp in Arizona, attended Warren H. Wilson Vocational Junior College. Combining resources from the College Archives with national and local sources and with technical support from the Warren Wilson College Sound Lab, this film uses the voices of Warren Wilson College students, faculty, and alumni to tell the story of a significant chapter in the history of the college.Item Metadata only Frontiers yet unknown: the history of Warren Wilson College(2013) Hunt, Jeremey Max; Grant, Faye; Pullman, Bill; Collins, Stephen; Banker, Mark; Sanderson, Diana; Warren Wilson College Archives; Blomgren, Richard; Green, Katie; Heller, Andrew; Disher, JohnTraces the history of Warren Wilson College from its founding in 1894 until 2013. Founded in 1894 in Swannanoa as the Asheville Farm School by the Woman’s Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, it was a boarding school that offered the first three grades of elementary education to underprivileged boys in the Appalachian mountains. The Farm School graduated its first high school class in 1923. In 1942, the Asheville Farm School merged with two other Presbyterian mission schools for girls, the Mossop School in Harriman, Tennessee, and the Dorland-Bell School in Hot Springs, North Carolina, to form the coeducational Warren H. Wilson Vocational Junior College, located on the Farm School campus. The junior college became Warren Wilson College, a four-year liberal arts college, in 1962.Item Metadata only Perspectives on Work Day: 1 April 2021(Warren Wilson College, 2021-04-01) Work Program OfficeThis reflection on the history and impact of Work Day at WWC was recorded on 1 April 2021 with retired Dean of Work Ian Robertson, current Associate Dean of Work Paul Bobbit along with faculty, staff and students.Item Metadata only "Warren Wilson College 1986" Promotional Video(1986)This is a promotional video made by the College in 1986. It was digitized from a VHS tape.Item Metadata only Warren Wilson College Commercials, 1986(1986)This video is a short collection of two commercials for the College, made in 1986. These videos were digitized from VHS tapes.