Wikipedia:Meetup:Philadelphia/Bryn Mawr College/American Archives Month

This is the project page for Wikipedia activities at Bryn Mawr College

Upcoming events

When: October 22, 4 - 7:30pm
Where: Bryn Mawr College, Canaday Library Room 205 (101 N. Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA) or remotely: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Bryn_Mawr_Archives_Month_2014
Who: All are welcome to come: learn to edit and contribute to articles using the holdings of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections.

Empowering community members and the general public to learn how to edit Wikipedia.
Creating or enhancing existing biographies of notable American women, especially those engaged in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, based on both published and original primary source materials.
Increasing access to the archives and manuscript collections of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections.
Adding authoritative references, citations, and images to improve the quality of existing articles of all types.

Julia Ward - WWII cryptographer and NSA Hall of Honor inductee
Elaine Surick Oran - Senior scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Lab
Harriet Randolph - Biologist
Kimberly Blessing - Web architect, Director of Think Brownstone, Inc.
Elizabeth Armstrong Wood - Crystallographer, geologist, first woman scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1942
Mary Winearls Porter - Crystallographer
Marguerite Lehr - Mathematician, pioneered math on television for Philadelphia's "University of the Air" (1953-4) (photo: http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/BMC_photoarc/id/336/rec/1)
Martha Evens - Computer Scientist who wrote the first spelling checker, and many other things; emeritus at Illinois Institute of Technology (http://www.cs.iit.edu/~martha/)

Kimberly Wright Cassidy add to Category: Presidents of Bryn Mawr College
Hilda Worthington Smith add image, De-orphan page, expand biography.
Nancy J. Vickers fix the link that goes to the College President's biography, which now is Cassidy, add image and expand info
Marion Edwards Park needs citations
Katharine Elizabeth McBride link to publications, expand, add image, external links
Mary Patterson McPherson link to publications, expand, add image, fix references
Harris Wofford add information about holdings in Special Collections
Albert M. Greenfield add mention of The Greenfield Digital Center
Marianne Moore link holdings in Special Collections
Mary Garrett expand and add citations, links, link holdings in Special Collections
Constance Applebee expand and add link to holdings in Special Collections
Carrie Chapman Catt link holdings in Special Collections
Laurence Housman link holdings in Special Collections
Richard Lattimore link holdings in Special Collections, perhaps add expanded bibliography of his works
Katharine Sergeant Angell White link holdings in Special Collections
Field Hockey add mention of Constance Applebee and citation
Josephine Clara Goldmark add her book of poems to a list of works (http://tripodclassic.brynmawr.edu/record=b4118713~S10)
Rhys Carpenter improve record and citations

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