Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Betty Lynn Schwab fonds
General material designation
- Textual record
- Graphic material
- Sound recording
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
1965-1969 (Creation)
- Creator
- Schwab, Betty Lynn
Physical description area
Physical description
16 cm of textual records
ca. 90 photographs
10 reel to reel tapes
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Betty Lynn Viney (now Schwab), formerly of Kenora, Ontario, was a student at Trent University from 1965 to 1969. When Viney arrived at Trent’s Catharine Parr Traill College in 1965, the residence rooms were not yet ready; she lived with Professor Sandeman and his family until the rooms were completed. Viney is married to Robert Schwab and lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Custodial history
Fonds was in the custody of Betty Lynn Schwab before being donated to Trent University Archives in 2018 and 2019.
Scope and content
Fonds is comprised of audio tapes, scrapbooks and photographs related to Betty Lynn Viney’s experience as a student at Trent University from 1965 to 1969.
Notes area
Physical condition
Good
Immediate source of acquisition
Fonds acquired from Betty Lynn Schwab in 2018 and 2019.
Arrangement
Fonds arranged as received.
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
None
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Associated materials
Accruals
General note
A project to create digital copies of the reel-to-reel audio tapes is underway; this finding aid will include links to the digital files after this project is completed.
General note
Box 1
Ten reel-to-reel audio tapes recorded by Viney and members of her family living in Kenora, Ontario while Viney was a student at Trent University.
The tapes, purchased by Viney’s parents for their daughter upon her leaving for University and recorded during the academic years 1965-1969, served as a means of communicating back and forth; they include weekly accounts of the minutiae of daily University life. In Viney’s words, “these tapes are the weekly accounts of the minutiae of daily life as a naïve, young, brand new Grade 13 graduate, from a little, distant town, entering the academic life in which she would dwell...” These tapes, created during Trent’s early years of operation, provide a first-hand student perspective of daily life at the new undergraduate institution and offer a glimpse of historical family dialogue during this period of transition.
Trent University philosophy course notes and exercises, 1967-1968
Photographs: ca. 90 photographs depicting Betty Lynn Viney’s student days at Trent:
- Viney and other students in residence rooms and at other locations at Traill College;
- Champlain Cornerstone Laying ceremony;
views of the various Trent buildings: Traill (Scott House), Rubidge Hall, Champlain, Bata, Peter Robinson College (Sadleir House); - Bob Santen photographs of Viney jumping with joy at Convocation ceremony, one of which was published in the Peterborough Examiner in 1968;
- Hike for Hundreds event, 27 January 1968.
Loose on Shelf
Three scrapbooks compiled by Viney, 1965-1969.
Items in the scrapbooks relate to Viney’s Trent student experience: letters from professors, a scolding from a don, notes from student friends, cards and notes from Viney’s mother, posters, invitations, ticket stubs, newspaper articles, pamphlets and advertisements, announcements, and memos. The scrapbooks also cover part of Viney’s final year of high school in Kenora as she prepared to move to Peterborough.