T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Margaret Jameson # 4700.0226

IDENTIFICATION: [1920 - ] Dean of Women at LSU (1966 - 1976), Dean of Students

(1976 - 1989)

INTERVIEWER: Melisse Campbell and Pamela Dean

PROJECT: LSU History -- Sororities

DATES: 2/1/93 FOCUS DATES: 1966 - 1976

ABSTRACT:

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Family background; first visit to LSU; housing problems due to hurricane damage of sorority houses; reasons for not building sorority houses on the new campus; describes women involved in various sorority house corporations; working with a sorority while in graduate school; strength of LSU sorority system; Dean of Women Helen Gordon; Jewish sororities at LSU; dedication of sorority houses; hiring housemothers; problems caused by switching from Panhellenic Building to houses; hiring house boys; reasons for not allowing female students to move off campus; hiring an assistant dean of women in charge of sororities; rules for sorority house residents; sorority discipline boards; duties of housemothers; Assistant Dean of Women Julia Waits Farris; alumni involvement in fraternity houses; interviewing for position of dean of women at LSU; computerizing preferential bidding; stipulations she made before accepting the job; meeting Dean of Students James Reddoch for the first time; describes her first LSU Homecoming; drawing for sorority house lots; building additions to sorority houses; university involvement in building sorority houses; fire destroys Kappa Delta house; renovating the houses; use of Panhellenic Building after houses build; French House; Governor Edwin Edwards' visit to Phi Mu house; discusses architects who designed the houses;

TAPES: T328 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT/INDEX: 58 transcript / 10 index

RESTRICTIONS: None