Spend 10-15 minutes browsing over the Duke University Archives' website. In particular, you may want to take a look at:
In one to two sentences, how would you describe what the University Archives does? Submit your University Archives description--along with any questions you might have about the University Archives--using this Google form. I'll compile the descriptions and questions into a document we'll discuss in class.
We're going to be working with past volumes of the Chanticleer (Duke's yearbook) during our class session. Here's a brief article about the creation of the Chanticleer (in 1912!), written by University Archives staff members.
In the fall of 1911, members of the Trinity College Class of 1912 began a movement for a yearbook, or "annual" as such books were then called. The history of the yearbook's founding can be traced in the student newspaper, The Chronicle. An article in the January 10, 1912 issue states that over 100 names for the proposed book had been submitted by the students, and that the name would be selected on January 15. The paper did not report on the selection procedure or the results, but the first use of the name in The Chronicle was on February 21, 1912 (see "Pictures for Annual In"). The first issue of the yearbook came out in May 1912.
There are various theories as to why the name, The Chanticleer, was chosen:
An article in the 1937 issue of the Chanticleer about its history claims the second theory as the reason for the yearbook's name.
With the exception of 1918 and 1919, every yearbook has been entitled The Chanticleer or just Chanticleer. Because so many students left for military service in 1918, a yearbook was not published that year, but The Trinity Archive featured senior portraits and coverage of the year’s activities. The following year, the annual was entitled Victory in celebration of the end of the war and to commemorate the twenty-one Trinity College students who lost their lives in World War I.