Re this great website and blog
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Email Discussions | No Comments »Many thanks to Melanie for the new WITH website and blog! She has really done so much good work for us. I have tried, as I said, to find some funding to help compensate this work and will continue to, ...
Do you know the source of the name “murgatroyd” for MIT female students in 1940s?
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in Email Discussions, Help Us | 2 Comments »Dear Colleagues, Just received the following from a local high school teacher: "I would be interested if any of you know where the name "Murgatroyd" came from for a female student at MIT in the 1940s. I recall seeing a caricature of ...
Link to mystery tool-
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in Email Discussions, Help Us, Links | 1 Comment »The complete link for the mystery tool is here and here "Withniks, Perhaps you can help with this puzzle. We have, in our very small museum, this tool: http://people.whitman.edu/~lermanne/museum/What-is-this.html If you could tell me of a similar tool, a person who may know about ...
2006-2007 listserv discussion digest
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in Email Discussions, History, Member News | No Comments »The 2006-2007 WITH listserv discussions are available as digests, listed below. Molly Berger reports that: "What I have done is created a document with an index of original posts and then copied the entire discussion on separate documents. I started ...
2001 Listserv Discussion Digest
Thursday, January 3rd, 2002 Posted in Email Discussions, History, Member News | No Comments »Synopsis of listserv talk in 2001 There was a flurry of listserv activity in late 2000 and early 2001, followed by a long lull, and then a remarkable outpouring of issues in late September 2001 related to the terrorist attacks on ...