On the Tuesday before our Spring Break, I was in my Social Justice class listening to the university’s archivist lecture on the history of Montevallo and the university in regards to “place-based education” and social justice. He passed around some old yearbooks from when the University of Montevallo was known as the Alabama Girls’ Technical Institute, and I noticed in the 1925 edition this particular page.
If you look at the photo on the right middle, you can see that there are two female students in an intimate pose, and it seems that they are also in the pictures throughout the page. I talked to the archivist, and he said he was not sure what is supposed to be happening in the picture, and that he does not know what the students in 1925 meant by “Sport Models.” However, he did give Lillian and I some information about a professor doing research on “Wellesley marriages,” and that he would let her know that we were interested in talking to her.
On the topic of pictures, I have been gathering photos from the library’s archival site to see what Lillian and I should include in our photo gallery for the history of the town and the university. As of now, the archive site does not have the copy of the school’s newspaper about the NDO, but I am getting in contact with Jamie Hass (online editor of the The Alabamian) to see if we can get permission to use the pictures they have. As of now, here are a few links I have found: