Helena "Pete" Adelaide Wheeler scrapbook

Collection — Box: DC949

Identifier: MSD-1925-005

Staff Only

Collection Statement

Student scrapbook of 1925 alumnus, Helena Wheeler containing photographs and articles about Miss Wheeler and her friends competing in athletic competitions at DePauw University. Items included are: Certificate of Matriculation, receipt for subscription to The DePauw, notes from friends, newspaper clippings of articles and advertising, photographs of Helena and friends (including one of Helena running on May Day, 1925), bowling score sheet, dance card with pencil, rifle range target and Women's Rifle Team article, announcement of the marriage of George B. Manhart and Florence M. Heritage (class of 1917), instructor of physical education for women, card, label and photographs from Highland Nature Camps, South Naples, Maine (with a pressed oak leaf, where Helena attended or worked in the summer), track meet ribbons, May Day programs, Sigma Delta Chi's lampoon newspaper The Scab, at Eel River [Cataract Falls], Women's Athletic Association program, program for The Summons an "accidental judicial organ" of Theta Sigma Pi and some items relating to her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega.

Dates

1921 - 1925

Creator

Wheeler, Helena "Pete" Adelaide (class of 1925) (Person)

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Usage Restrictions

Biographical Sketch

Helena Adelaide "Pete" Wheeler was from Ossining, New York, a 1925 DePauw graduate. A newspaper clipping on the last page in the scrapbook, probably from The DePauw, states, "The Senior Class of this year is unique in having six girls ... who have stuck together throughout the four years of their college course and have walked away with most of the athletic honors during that time."

Pete Wheeler almost had enough points for her third "D" sweater and she had the coed record for bowling, tennis and swimming and a perfect score on the Rifle Team. She died February 12, 1987, in New Rochelle, NY where she had been a coach and teacher in the New Rochelle school system for 40 years.