Robert Cohen and Selma Hill, Student Life Records
Scope and Contents
The records consist of telegrams from the wedding of Robert Cohen and Selma Hill at the Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1941. Included are Selma Hill's club memberships, certificates, and awards including the Lincoln Spelling Improvement Project, Mortar Board, and Sigma Alpha Iota, photographs of Selma Hill as a member of Tassels and Sigma Delta Tau. A single artifact is a University of Nebraska sweater from when Selma Hill was president of Tassels, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln pep club.
Dates
- 1929-1956, 2000
Creator
- Cohen, Selma Hill (Person)
- Cohen, Robert (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The records are only minimally processed but are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with the University of Nebraska. Copyrights are retained by the creators of the records or their designees. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
Biographical / Historical
Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on June 22, 1918, Selma Hill Cohen earned her bachelor of arts degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1940. She served as a member of numerous clubs including the Sigma Delta Tau sorority, Mortar Board, Tassels, and the city Camp Fire Girls Council. She married Robert Cohen, from Omaha, on September 14, 1941. He earned his bachelor of science in engineering at UNL in 1941. They lived in Lincoln until 1959 and both died in Denver, Colorado, in 2007.
Extent
1.25 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
- College students Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- University of Nebraska--Lincoln Subject Source: Local sources
- Women -- Societies and clubs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Source
- Cohen, Barbara (Person)
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Sarah Glover, 2022.
- Date
- (cc) 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries Repository
Archives & Special Collections
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
P.O. Box 884100
Lincoln NE 68588-4100 United States
402-472-2531
archives@unl.edu
