Mount Mary University Digital Collections

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  • 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).
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  • 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).
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  • 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).
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  • 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.
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  • 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).
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  • 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.)
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  • 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).
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  • 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.
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  • Four School Sisters of Notre Dame from Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, attend a runway show for fashion designers Burke-Amey in New York City. One of Sister Aloyse Hessburg's designs appeared on the runway.

    Original caption: “They are, left to right: Sister Mary Remy [Sister Remy Revor], chairman of the art department; Sister Mary John Francis [Sister John Francis Schuh], president of the college; Sister Mary Aloyse [Sister Aloyse Hessburg], co-ordinator of the school’s new fashion design course, who spent two weeks working on the Burke-Amey collection, and Sister Mary Willann [Sister Willann Mertens], chairman of the home economics department.”
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Mrs. Frances Howard Robb and her husband James Robb descend the stairs together at or shortly after the marriage of their son Charles Robb to Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, at the White House, December 9, 1967.

    Mrs. Robb is wearing a yellow dress designed and created by Sister Aloyse Hessburg of Mount Mary.
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  • Flat art sketch, black and white on Artists pressed cardboard, 7.5 inches by 10 inches, watercolor and pencil, back labeled with "9-80", made by designer of garment.
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  • D. Light taupe silk charmeuse teddy; bias-cut; V-neckline; spaghetti straps; gathering at bust; small inverted triangular cut-out just below center bust; seams down center back and center front; very short inseam.

    Worn with blouse (Object ID #2024.02.01.a), harem pants (Object ID #2024.02.01.b), and belt (Object ID #2024.02.01.c) as part of four piece ensemble.

    Accompanied by original sketch of garment (Object ID #2024.02.02).

    Designed and built by the Fashion Design student as a couture project in 1981 at Mount Mary College. Val recalls being mentored by Sister Aloyse Hessburg and Charles Kleibacker (especially in fitting). The fabric was purchased from Kovack Fabrics in downtown Milwaukee where she worked for numerous years.
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  • D. Light taupe silk charmeuse teddy; bias-cut; V-neckline; spaghetti straps; gathering at bust; small inverted triangular cut-out just below center bust; seams down center back and center front; very short inseam.

    Worn with blouse (Object ID #2024.02.01.a), harem pants (Object ID #2024.02.01.b), and belt (Object ID #2024.02.01.c) as part of four piece ensemble.

    Accompanied by original sketch of garment (Object ID #2024.02.02).

    Designed and built by the Fashion Design student as a couture project in 1981 at Mount Mary College. Val recalls being mentored by Sister Aloyse Hessburg and Charles Kleibacker (especially in fitting). The fabric was purchased from Kovack Fabrics in downtown Milwaukee where she worked for numerous years.
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  • D. Light taupe silk charmeuse teddy; bias-cut; V-neckline; spaghetti straps; gathering at bust; small inverted triangular cut-out just below center bust; seams down center back and center front; very short inseam.

    Worn with blouse (Object ID #2024.02.01.a), harem pants (Object ID #2024.02.01.b), and belt (Object ID #2024.02.01.c) as part of four piece ensemble.

    Accompanied by original sketch of garment (Object ID #2024.02.02).

    Designed and built by the Fashion Design student as a couture project in 1981 at Mount Mary College. Val recalls being mentored by Sister Aloyse Hessburg and Charles Kleibacker (especially in fitting). The fabric was purchased from Kovack Fabrics in downtown Milwaukee where she worked for numerous years.
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  • Black, white, and beige striped silk chiffon ensemble. A. Blouse; high neckline with small standing collar; four snaps at collar; long sleeves ending in bound cuffs; sleeves gathered at shoulder cap; flared and gathered peplum; large ruffle from left shoulder down and incorporated into peplum; hand-rolled hems on fly-away ruffle; two snap closures at left waist. B. Harem pants; band at waist; two snaps and zipper closure at center back; voluminous pant legs end in tight cuffs at ankles with each cuff closed with two snaps. C. Belt; middle part of belt lined with solid taupe fabric under silk, and black on the back; unbacked ties at either end; chiffon at middle of belt is gathered. D. Light taupe silk charmeuse teddy; bias-cut; V-neckline; spaghetti straps; gathering at bust; small inverted triangular cut-out just below center bust; seams down center back and center front; very short inseam. Accompanied by original sketch of garment (Object ID #2024.02.02).

    Designed and built by the Fashion Design student as a couture project in 1981 at Mount Mary College. Val recalls being mentored by Sister Aloyse Hessburg and Charles Kleibacker (especially in fitting). The fabric was purchased from Kovack Fabrics in downtown Milwaukee where she worked for numerous years.
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  • Red and black plaid plain weave mohair jacket; checks are two inches square; jewel neckline; cardigan style; single-breasted but with two horizontal rows of three buttons each; buttons are large black plastic; flap pockets on hips; long set-in sleeves; all edges finished in black binding; hip length; lined in red/black check silk, could be reversible.

    Worn by donor, Cynthia Lee Jenner.
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  • Red and black plaid plain weave mohair jacket; checks are two inches square; jewel neckline; cardigan style; single-breasted but with two horizontal rows of three buttons each; buttons are large black plastic; flap pockets on hips; long set-in sleeves; all edges finished in black binding; hip length; lined in red/black check silk, could be reversible.

    Worn by donor, Cynthia Lee Jenner.
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