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Sister Aloyse Hessburg talking with a Mount Mary fashion student
Sister Aloyse Hessburg and a Mount Mary fashion student looking at a fashion magazine and talking in a fashion department classroom at Mount Mary College. -
Sister Aloyse Hessburg working on a couture fitting with a Mount Mary fashion student
Black and white image of Sister Aloyse Hessburg fitting a dress on a Mount Mary fashion student in front of mirrors in a fashion department classroom at Mount Mary College. -
Letter from Sandra Keiser to Sister Ellen Lorenz and Sister Luetta Wolf, December 20, 1983
A letter from Sandra Keiser, instructor in the Fashion Design Program at Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), to Sister Ellen Lorenz and Sister Luetta Wolf, expressing her ideas regarding the organization of the Home Economics Department. Keiser was in favor of making the individual programs (including Fashion Design) into separate departments and had suggestions for department chairpeople. This was in response to the "Letter from Sister Ellen Lorenz and Sister Luetta Wolf to faculty, December 8, 1983" (linked below). -
Letter from Elaine Zarse to Sister Ellen Lorenz and Sister Luetta Wolf, December 20, 1983
A letter from Elaine Zarse, instructor in the Fashion Design Program at Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), to Sister Ellen Lorenz and Sister Luetta Wolf, expressing her ideas regarding the organization of the Home Economics Department. Zarse was in favor of making the individual programs (including Fashion Design) into separate departments and had suggestions for department chairpeople. This was in response to the "Letter from Sister Ellen Lorenz and Sister Luetta Wolf to faculty, December 8, 1983" (linked below). -
Letter from Barbara Borgwardt to Sister Luetta Wolf, December 22, 1983
A letter from Barbara Borgwardt, part-time instructor in the Fashion Design Program at Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), to Sister Luetta Wolf, expressing support for "keeping this [Fashion Design] program separate from the others." This was in response to the "Letter from Sister Ellen Lorenz and Sister Luetta Wolf to faculty, December 8, 1983" (linked below). -
Letter from Sister Ellen Lorenz and Sister Luetta Wolf to faculty, December 8, 1983
A letter from Sister Ellen Lorenz and Sister Luetta Wolf to faculty in Integrated Home Economics, Home Economics Education, Undergraduate Dietetics, Graduate Dietetics, and Fashion Design at Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), asking for ideas regarding department organization and personnel, in terms of separating the Home Economics Department into smaller departments by major areas.
They received at least three responses from Fashion Design program faculty, linked below. -
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). -
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.) -
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.
To see the entire file, click on the pdf file beneath the image (Fashion Design course schedule 1981-82.pdf). -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Letter from Sister John Francis Schuh to Eleanor Coleman, December 12, 1967
A letter from Sister John Francis Schuh, president of Mount Mary College, to Eleanor Colman of the Milwaukee Journal, expressing gratitude for the paper's "fine publicity" of the dress worn by Mrs. Frances Howard Robb at her son Charles Robb's wedding to Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, at the White House on December 9, 1967. Sister Aloyse Hessburg designed and created the yellow dress that Mrs. Robb wore.
The recipient's last name is misspelled as "Colman" here; "Coleman" is correct. -
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 (3 of 3)
Charles Kleibacker (right) with two 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. -
Letter from Judith H. Eiseman to Sister Ellen Lorenz, March 28, 1980
A letter from Judith H. Eiseman, daughter-in-law of Florence Eiseman and public relations manager of Florence Eiseman Inc., to Sister Ellen Lorenz, president of Mount Mary College. The letter was written for the Eiseman family and expresses their appreciation of the Gold Needle Award event (where Florence Eiseman received Mount Mary's Gold Needle Award) and of the award itself. -
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. -
Pauline Trigère working on a coat (3 of 3)
Pauline Trigère demonstrating her cutting and draping technique with a live model in the Mount Mary Fashion Department during her visit to campus in November or December 1973. The coat she is working on is part of the Digital Fashion Archive (Object ID #2003.04.01). -
Pauline Trigère working on a coat (1 of 3)
Pauline Trigère demonstrating her cutting and draping technique with a live model in the Mount Mary Fashion Department during her visit to campus in November or December 1973. The coat she is working on is part of the Digital Fashion Archive (Object ID #2003.04.01).