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              <text>April 20, 1969 Letter from Catherine Jane Garske to Carleton College President John W. Nason</text>
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              <text>This source is a letter sent from Carleton College freshman Catherine Jane Garske to President Nason as well as Dean Philips and the Student Policy Committee at Carleton College. In this letter she expresses her opinion that Carleton College should keep gender segregated dormitories due to opportunities for personal growth and sisterhood that women-only dormitories offer. She also expresses an anti-student marriage opinion.</text>
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              <text>Carleton College Archives: "President's Office Records (Nason), 1962 – 1986" collection, "Co-ed Dorm Issue, 1969-70" folder.</text>
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