Freshman Traditions

The "Odd Team" cap, and the Sophomore Council cap and pin of Florida State College for Women/Florida State University student Betty E. Redd (BS, Chemistry, 1947).

Personal items of Florida State University student Joan Cunningham (BS, English, 1957). Items include her "Rat Cap," personal photographs, and assorted ephemera and memorabilia.

Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library as part of a larger photograph collection.

Evelyn L. Mudge was a Florida State College for Women student, class of 1925 (BS, Education).  This is the typescript memoir of her freshman year at FSCW.

The Reubin Askew Student Memorabilia documents his activities as a student in the late 1940s and as president of Florida State University's Student Government Association in 1951. Includes an FSU Student Honor Code pamphlet, "Honorbound," Askew's student government presidential campaign paper insert for badge, on which is written "Vote for Rube Askew for President U.G.A," and his Freshman Beanie, on which his nickname "Rube" is stitched.