Letters to Trustees

Many letters and other documents have been sent to the trustees and the current R-MWC administration from former R-MWC administrators, trustees, donors, and individual alumnae in addition to PEC. We have posted some of these materials here that may be of particular interest to PEC members. The presence of a letter from a person or group does not necessarily mean that the person or group endorses PEC or its mission. The letters are provided for informational purposes only.

Letters from Alumnae and Donors

Petition affirming that the alumnae signing it would never donate to R-MWC again if the coeducational strategic plan was approved (signed by 1,214 alumnae prior to the vote on September 9, 2006)

Petition calling for the trustees to delay for a year to allow alumnae and friends of the college to develop alternate plans to keep R-MWC single-sex (signed by 4,867 people as of November 19, 2006)

Results of R-MWC Alumnae Association survey highlighting potential harm to R-MWC from coeducation released to trustees prior to September 9 vote

Maier Foundation

Letters from Former R-MWC Administrators

Dr. William F. Quillian, Jr., R-MWC President 1952-1978; Madeline E. Miller '66, Trustee 1978-1992, 1993-1998, President Board of Trustees 1987-1992; and Dr. Carolyn Wilkerson Bell '65, Susan Duval Adams Professor of English, 1971-2006

Dr. Robert A. Spivey, R-MWC President 1978-1987

Robert Merritt, Admissions

Bert Hudnall, Admissions 1970-1974, 1988-1993

Letters from Faculty

Dr. Carolyn Wilkerson Bell ’65, Susan Duval Adams Professor of English, 1971-2006

Dr. Brad Bullock, Professor of Sociology/Anthropology, 1987-present

Dr. Jan Hullum, William E. Thoresen & Catherine Ehrman Thoresen '23 Professor of Sociology/Anthropology, 1980-present

Dr. Ivor Thomas, Professor of Religious Studies, 1968-present

• Letter to Dean William Coulter
• Letter to interim President Ginger Worden

Communications from PEC

Second Meeting Request

20 Reasons Why You Should Change Your Vote: An Analysis of the Arguments Used for Coeducation (cover letter)

Carrot or Stick? letter sent with carrots to trustee leadership and R-MWC administrators

Letter sent to R-MWC Board of Trustees from PEC counsel prior to September 9 vote