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2013 Gold Needle Award program
A program for the 2013 Gold Needle Award event, where Sister Aloyse Hessburg received the award from Mount Mary University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). The program is subtitled "Fifty Years of Fashion" in honor of Sister Aloyse's decades of service to Mount Mary's fashion program. It contains an extensive overview of the fashion program and Sister Aloyse's contributions to it.
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Aileen Ryan and two unknown women
Aileen Ryan (center), women's editor at the Milwaukee Journal, stands between two unknown women.
The date range given (1960-1969) is an estimate. -
Aileen Ryan with students at Mount Mary College
This photograph appeared on page 106 of Arches 1966 (Mount Mary College's yearbook) with the following caption: "Miss Aileen Ryan points out the latest fashion trends to Sue Polanski, Monica McCue and Jan Rother."
Aileen Ryan was the women's editor at the Milwaukee Journal and a significant supporter of the new fashion design program at Mount Mary. She taught a class in fall 1965 (likely when this photograph was taken) as well as in the later 1960s and early 1970s. -
Announcement for Mount Mary College's Gold Needle Award 1970
The 1970 Gold Needle Award was presented to Bonnie Cashin at Mount Mary College on April 15, 1970. -
Announcement of guest speaker William Herrmann at Mount Mary College, February 1988
An announcement from the Mount Mary College Fashion Group inviting faculty and students to attend a lecture by guest speaker William Herrmann, Vice President of Advertising and Sales Promotion of JOCKEY International. The event was scheduled for February 10, 1988, on the Mount Mary College campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. -
Barkin, Herman, Solocheck and Paulsen, Incorporated press release, August 13, 1975
A press release from Barkin, Herman, Solocheck and Paulsen, Incorporated, a public relations firm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for release August 13, 1975. The press release contains information about Sister Aloyse Hessburg of Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) being chosen to receive the 1975 Gimbels Fashion Forum Award. It also contains information about Sister Aloyse's background, the fashion program's history and composition, graduates from the program, and Gimbels Fashion Forum.
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Bonnie Cashin holding her Gold Needle Award
Bonnie Cashin won Mount Mary College's Gold Needle Award in 1970. In this image she is holding the award, presumably shortly after winning it. -
Bonnie Cashin: Form Follows Function flyer
A flyer for a show sponsored by the Mount Mary College Fashion Department featuring Bonnie Cashin's designs at Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) in February 1991. Cashin attended the show in person. The "Historic Costume Collection" was the previous name of Mount Mary's Fashion Archive. -
Charles Kleibacker commentating at a Mount Mary College fashion show
Charles Kleibacker provides commentary for a fashion show in the cafeteria at Mount Mary College, Wisconsin, likely in the early 1970s. -
Charles Kleibacker with Mount Mary College fashion design student
Charles Kleibacker (left) with a Mount Mary College fashion design student. -
Charles Kleibacker with Mount Mary College fashion design students (1 of 3)
Charles Kleibacker (second from left) with four others in a Mount Mary College fashion design room in Spring 1970. -
Charles Kleibacker with Mount Mary College fashion design students (2 of 3)
Charles Kleibacker (center) with five others in a Mount Mary College fashion design room in Spring 1970. -
Charles Kleibacker with Mount Mary College fashion design students (3 of 3)
Charles Kleibacker (right) with two others in a Mount Mary College fashion design room in Spring 1970. -
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.
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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. -
Custom Tailoring Manual
This fashion design manual was written by three staff/faculty members in the fashion design program at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, around 1980.
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Donna Ricco and Karen Davidson at Treads and Threads fundraiser
Treads and Threads was a 2009 fundraiser for the Mount Mary College fashion design program. Karen Davidson (right, '81) speaks into a microphone with Donna Ricco ('81) to the left. -
Donna Ricco and Sandi Keiser at Treads and Threads fundraiser
Treads and Threads was a 2009 fundraiser for the Mount Mary College fashion design program. This photo shows Donna Ricco (left, '81) and Professor Sandra (Sandi) Keiser (right, faculty 1975-2019 and chair of the fashion program for 25 years).