Greenwood Library Archives and Special Collections
Janet D. Greenwood Library401 Redford Street
Farmville, VA 23909
Business Number: 434-395-2433
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Benedict Chatelain
Administrative Information
Custodial History
The materials in this collection were accumulated by Frances Harnsberger Swope while she was a student at Longwood College. In 2011 this collection was donated to Nancy Shelton of the Longwood University Office of Alumni Relations by Swope, through her classmate, Tilly Conley. It is unknown when this collection was transferred to the Greenwood Library Archives.
Biographical / Historical
Frances Slater Harnsberger was born in 1939, at Cherry Grove, the Harnsberger family farm in Port Republic, Virginia. In 1961, Harnsberger graduated from Longwood College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education. During her time at Longwood, she was a member of the Cotillion Club, the Wesley Foundation, the Longwood Choir, and Student Education Association and served on the staff of The Rotunda student newspaper. Shortly after graduation, she married Donald Edward Swope, a banker, and later Presbyterian minister, from Brownsburg, Virginia. Frances Harnsberger Swope worked for many years as a teacher, retiring in 1995 from the Hampshire County, West Virginia Board of Education.
Scope and Contents
This collection, which dates from 1958 to 1961, consists of student records, memorabilia, and ephemera from Frances Slater Harnsberger's time at Longwood College.
Container List
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Pygmalion1 Sheets
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Christmas Concert1 Sheets
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Joan Speaks1 Sheets
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Le Cercle Francais1 Sheets
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Youth Can Make Christ Live1 Sheets
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A Festival of the Fine Arts1 Sheets
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H2O Club, Christmas Production1 Sheets
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Christmas Concert1 Sheets
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Founders Day1 Sheets
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Choral Concert1 Sheets
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Twelfth Night, undated1 Sheets
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Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, undated1 Sheets
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The Glass Menagerie1 Sheets
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Snow White's Spring Fantasy, undated1 Sheets
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The Little Singer of Paris1 Sheets
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The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife1 Sheets
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Virginia Tech Glee Club1 Sheets
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Caledonia!, Singers & Dancers of Scotland1 Sheets
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The Reluctant Debutante, October 27, ____1 Sheets
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La Boheme, February 11, ____1 Sheets
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UVA Glee Club, May 7, ____1 Sheets