Coeducation: Looking Back over the Years
In 1975, nine women who were already at Amherst as part of the 12-College Exchange were admitted as transfer students to become members of the Class of 1976. This was the beginning of coeducation at Amherst. The more than fifty photographs in this virtual exhibition show the new Amherst. The photographs were drawn from the holdings of the Archives and Special Collections and the Public Affairs Office. They are a just small sampling of images that chronicle individual students, student life, campus events, Amherst faculty and staff, athletic events, classroom activities and just ordinary life at the College during last twenty- five years. We hope you enjoy looking at our recent history.
Most of the photographs came to the Archives and Special Collections without identification. As a result, the brief captions are sometimes just a best guess or captions don’t exist at all. We welcome your help identifying the events, people, and dates of the photographs - anything you can tell us. If “this is you” please let us know. Clicking on the light bulb icon (left) will connect you to us electronically. Please write and set the record straight. (Be sure to tell us the caption of the photo.) Thanks.
This exhibition has been made possible through the generous support of:
The Amherst College Library
The 25th Anniversary of Coeducation Planning Committee
Commencement, May 1999
Lauren Gaskill '99 (center)
Commencement, May 2000
Commencement, May 2000
Naana Frimpong '00
Commencement, May 1981
Commencement, May 1991
Converse occupation, May 1992
Football fans, October 1986
Moving in, September 1989
Aerobics class, January 1984
Students identified in this picture:
Peter Sands 1986 (center, wearing Phillips Andover t-shirt); to his left is Rafael Campo 1987.
Rebecca Sinos, Professor of Classics
Photograph by Frank Ward, 1994
Onawumi Jean Moss, Associate Dean of Students
Football fans in the rain, October 1995
Frisbee players
In the research lab
Students in Professor Richard Goldsby's genetics research lab.
Senior Assembly procession, May 1996
Left to right: Janice Denton, Trinda Lee, Elisabeth A. Graves,
Kim Gittens, Dana Z. Hopings, Nicole Roux
Senior Day, May 1990
Students in Merrill Lecture Hall, February 1995
Students in Merrill Lecture Hall, February 1995
Students before class,
Merrill Lecture Hall, April 1998
Students working on a geology project, October 1998
At far right: Charlotte Taylor '01.
Students meeting with President Tom Gerety to protest the loss of Assistant Dean of Admissions Michael Whittingham, [1995?]
Affinity groups at Orientation, September 1998
Professor Andrea Rushing teaching outside the Keefe Campus Center
Students in outdoor class, 1990
Singing at Reunion, June 1990
Reunion Run
Runners
Senior Assembly, May 1991
Softball game, [no date]
Sabrinas, February 2000
The 1999-2000 Sabrinas, Amherst's all-female a cappella group, are pictured at the annual Drew Bop, a celebration of music by African-American artists. Pictured from top to bottom: Vanessa Olivier '01, Hannah Gersen '00, Kathy Klein '00, Kim Rosenstock '02, Denise Lee '01, Erica Sussman '02, Tama Suderman '00, Elisa Choi '00, Min Kim '02, Sarah Wolf '03, Mardi Fuller '01 and Shruti Raju '01.
Thanks to Becca Louick for providing caption information.
Audience at the Winter Carnival Talent Show, [no date]
Audience at the Winter Carnival Talent Show, [no date]
Campus tour, August 1993
Class in Merrill Lecture Hall, February 1995
Seniors by Johnson Chapel, Commencement, May 1996
Honorary Degree recipient Jacob Lawrence, May 1996
Left to right: Rowland Abiodun, Hermenia Gardner, Janice Denton, Jacob Lawrence , Marni Sandweiss
Doris Kearns Goodwin receiving an honorary degree
from President Tom Gerety at Commencement, May 1996
Students singing at Commencement, [no date]
June Kim '98 and Jill Meredith, Mead Art Museum, March 1998
Mead Art Museum Director Jill Meredith and Associates of Fine Arts Fellow June Kim '98 discuss the prints in "The Age of Hogarth" exhibition at the Mead Art Museum, March 1998.
Shaunette Richards '98 receiving the Mossman Trophy, 1998
Shaunette Richards '98 receiving the Mossman Trophy for outstanding athlete of the graduation class from President Tom Gerety as Dean Ben Lieber looks on, Class Day, May 1998.
Students in Merrill Lecture Hall
Alumni cyclists, May 1988
Protest in Converse Hall, ca. 1983
Students occupying the lobby of Converse Hall to protest
the elimination of fraternities on campus, ca. 1983.
Commencement procession, May 2000
