Collections : [Wesleyan University -Special Collections and Archives]

The Wesleyan Spirits are an all-male a capella vocal group at Wesleyan.

WESU was founded in 1939 as a student radio station. From 1967 until 1990, it operated under the purview of the Wesleyan Broadcast Association, independent from Wesleyan University, broadcasting on the FM band at 88.1 megahertz. In 2003, Wesleyan University acquired the license to broadcast at 88.1 megahertz, and WESU became a subsidiary thereof.

This collection of printed ephemera and subject files about fine presses has been accumulated by Olin Library throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

In the 1970s, Wesleyan University students became active against national nuclear arms polices and practices, especially those in New England. The groups of Wesleyan University students involved were the Committee on Environmental Awareness, Connecticut Citizens Conference, Nuclear Resistance Group and Students Opposed to Nuclear Arms Race. These groups organized campus wide informational meetings, showed films and actively participated in walking onto a nuclear arms site in Seabrook, New Hampshire, on April 30, 1977. Around forty Wesleyan Students, along with other activists, were arrested, and some were convicted of criminal trespass due to the April 30 protest.

Beatrice Witkin (1917-1990) was an accomplished composer and one of the first women to produce electronic music compositions.

Carl Carlson was a Wesleyan University student between 1937 and 1941 but did not graduate. He was killed in World War II.

The Athletic Teams' Records contain a number of volumes that document personal and team records for Wesleyan teams including both Wesleyan records and intercollegiate athletic records set during athletic contests. Some volumes contain detailed scoring information and statistics from teams including baseball and football. Other sports represented in the collection include golf, hockey, lacrosse, basketball, swimming, boating, softball, and tennis.

Willis Kimball Stetson, son of Daniel Kimball Stetson and Mary Weeks Sanborn Stetson, born 1858 and died 1942. After graduating from Wesleyan University, Class of 1881, he taught public school in Ansonia, CT then became the Assistant Librarian and Librarian at Wesleyan University from 1882 to 1887. Willis Kimball Stetson married Lillian Minor and had three children: John Minor Stetson (born 1887), George Albert Stetson (born 1889) and Mary Mead Stetson (born 1891). Margaret Buell Allen is the daughter of Frederick G. and Mary Mead Stetson Allen. There is no accompanying biographical information regarding the Minor family photographs or other Stetson family member photographs.

Following graduation from New York University Law School in 1967, Roy Lucas published a landmark article, "Federal Constitutional Limitations on the Enforcement and Administration of State Abortion Statutes," in the North Carolina Law Review. Soon his interest in student rights and other civil liberties issues were overwhelmed as abortion litigation came to him in ever-growing volume. In 1969 and 1970 he helped found, with Morris Dees, the James Madison Constitutional Law Institute with offices in New York City and Montgomery, Alabama.

Vivienne Mader (1901-1972), who received the name "Huapala" from native Hawaiian dancers, was an authority on dance and music of Hawaii. She was the first person to perform the hula on the concert stage.