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Ronald Amey with students and Sister Aloyse Hessburg at Mount Mary College
This photograph appeared on page 44 of Arches 1968 (Mount Mary College's yearbook) with the following caption: "Cindy Gefke, Pat Day, Ellen Van Horn, and Sister M. Aloyse [Sister Aloyse Hessburg] listen attentively as Mr. Ronald Amey, New York designer, gives a critique on a budding designer’s sketch."
The exact date of the photograph is unknown, but Amey first visited Mount Mary College in 1965 and returned for student counseling sessions in 1966 (among possible other trips). -
Memo regarding Sister Aloyse Hessburg's appointment to Mount Mary's fashion design program, October 10, 1965
Memo from a meeting on October 10, 1965, in which Sister Aloyse Hessburg was appointed coordinator of Mount Mary College's Fashion Design program. The rationale for her appointment is included. -
Memorandum on plans for inauguration of fashion design course
Information about fashion design-related coursework in the first and second 1965 semesters of the fashion design program at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. -
Itinerary for 1975 tour of fashion manufacturing plants
Itinerary for a five-day trip in August 1975 to visit fashion manufacturing plants in the Midwest. Stops included the Stanbury Band Uniform plant (Brookfield, Missouri), the Allen-A plant (Piqua, Ohio), the Sand Knit plant (either Waupun or Berlin, Wisconsin, or possibly locations in both towns), and the "sox factory" (possibly Portage Hosiery Company) in Portage, Wisconsin. Members of the Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) fashion design program undertook this trip. -
Fashion design program course schedule for 1981-82
A tentative list of courses and the faculty teaching them for the 1981-82 fashion design program at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Fashion design faculty (1973?)
A list of Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) fashion design program faculty with their credits, contact hours, and equivalency credit hours, and a list of pre-registration student numbers by course in the fashion design program. The full names of the faculty are almost certainly: Barbara Borgwardt, Elaine Zarse, Carol Stowell, Sister Aloyse Hessburg (Fashion Program Coordinator).
This item is undated but is likely from 1973-74. (According to the fashion show program from spring 1974, there were five faculty members that year, including the four names listed on this item, and the name "Stowell" doesn't appear in the fashion show programs under "Faculty" in any other program 1972-1982.) -
Rationale for the Fashion Department (1984?)
A document giving a brief description of the fashion program at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a rationale for why the program should become its own department.
This item is undated but is likely from 1984.
To see the entire file, click on the pdf file beneath the image (Rationale for Fashion Dept mid-1980s.pdf). -
Norman Norell Remembered program
A program for an event focused on deceased fashion designer Normal Norell and his designs, presented by the Mount Mary College Fashion Department and Steven Stipelman (Fashion Illustrator, Women's Wear Daily) at Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) on October 1, 1988.
To see the entire program, click on the pdf file beneath the image (Norell Lecture brochure.pdf). -
Let The Hips Fall Where They Will: Evening Fashion From The 1920's program
A program for an event focused on exhibiting garments from the 1920s, mainly from Mount Mary College's Fashion Archive (likely called the Historic Costume Collection at the time). This item is undated but the event probably took place in the late 1980s or early to mid-1990s. It likely occurred on the Mount Mary College campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin Creates Fashion program
A program for the June 28, 1983, event entitled Wisconsin Creates Fashion, a show featuring Wisconsin manufacturers and Mount Mary College student work. The event took place the Hyatt Regency Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
To see the entire program, click on the pdf file beneath the image (1983 Wisconsin Creates Fashion program.pdf). -
Curriculum of the Home Economics Department 1954-1955
An outline of the curriculum of the Home Economics Department at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with divisions and, within those, majors and minors. -
Curriculum of the Home Economics Department 1965
An outline of the curriculum of the Home Economics Department at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with programs offered and, within those, majors and minors. -
Course descriptions as they appear in the Mount Mary College catalog,
1965-67 editionA list of Home Economics course descriptions from the 1965-76 catalog of Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This includes fashion design courses.
To see the entire file, click on the pdf file beneath the image (Home Ec courses in Mt Mary catalog 1965-67.pdf). -
Fashion show program 2007: Auric Allure
To see the entire program, click on the pdf file beneath the image (FashionShowProgram2007.pdf). -
Fashion show program 2009: Redux
To see the entire program, click on the pdf file beneath the image (FashionShowProgram2009.pdf). -
Fashion show program 2010: Rapture
To see the entire program, click on the pdf file beneath the image (FashionShowProgram2010.pdf). -
Fashion show program 2012: Evoke style
To see the entire program, click on the pdf file beneath the image (FashionShowProgram2012.pdf). -
Fashion show program 2013: Juxtapose
To see the entire program, click on the pdf file beneath the image (FashionShowProgram2013.pdf). -
The Times article: "Designer Amey Visits MMC; Receives Gold Needle Award"
This is a clipping from the Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) school newspaper, The Times. It describes Ronald Amey's visit to Mount Mary to receive the Gold Needle Award. -
The Times article: "Current Styles Intrigue Nun"
This is a clipping from the Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) school newspaper, The Times. It describes Sister Aloyse Hessburg's trip to the Burke-Amey fashion workroom is New York City.