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RESEARCH UNCOVERS 100-YEAR-OLD YEARBOOK FROM WHITWORTH FEMALE COLLEGE IN BROOKHAVEN
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those laws. … She will not marry before minutes, publications, broadsides, clipshe is twenty-five, rarely before thirty, and pings, memorabilia and a scrapbook. AR will be young at fifty.” Jennifer Ford (PhD 10), head of Archives and Special Collections, says the gift is historically important to the department. “This is a wonderful addition, especially as we house the papers of Lily Wilkinson Thompson. We are greatly indebted to the generosity of Mr. Caver,” Ford says. The Lily Thompson Collection possesses material related to the M i s s i s s i p p i Wo m a n Suffrage Association and the Equity League of Jackson. Thompson held various offices in both organizations. The collection includes corre- Mitch Caver and Jennifer Ford hold Caver’s donation of The spondence, manuscripts, Whitworth Clionian.
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n his research for the Chickasaw Nation in February, Mitch Caver (BBA 84) discovered a 1901 edition of The Whitworth Clionian, which included writings of the students of Whitworth Female College in Brookhaven. One of the included essays was “The Women of 2001,” written by Lily Wilkinson Thompson, on whom the Department of Archives and Special Collections in the J.D. Williams Library has a collection of papers. Caver discovered the essay featured Thompson’s predictions of what women would be like in 100 years. “This lady must have been a Nostradamus because almost every hopeful prediction she made in 1901 has come to be,” Caver says. “Her prophetic vision of today is worthy of remembrance.” Thompson notes in her essay, “The woman of 2001 will be the physical superior of the woman of today. She will be taller, stronger, longer lived. She will possess a comprehensive knowledge of the laws of life and health, embracing much that is not known by us, and will live in a conscientious application of