Carolyn Wilkerson Bell This is Me

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1. 1. www.lynchsferry.com

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   Published on: 5/12/2007   Last Visited: 5/12/2007

   About the writer: Carolyn Wilkerson Bell is Susan Duval Adams Professor of English at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, where she has taught for thirty-five years. She is an alumna of R-MWC and holds an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently she is working on a history of R-MWC from 1950 to 1993.

2. 2. Civil War - Artifacts - story

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   Published on: 1/9/2001   Last Visited: 5/23/2001

   There's not much about African-Americans in the local museum ; therefore , a lot of African-Americans didn't feel comfortable going , said museum board member Carolyn Bell , an English teacher at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. That demonstrated to me that there was a need and a place for this museum..
   
   The first exhibit in the Legacy Museum , which opened last month , focuses on health care. Subsequent exhibits will showcase education , the black church , political life and entertainment and sports.
   
   The health care exhibit includes artifacts , memorabilia and documents that tell about the struggles of blacks dating from the use of herbal medicines during the Antebellum period through segregation and the present day.
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   Bell said it is important for blacks and whites alike to visit the Legacy Museum.
   
   Until we make an honest effort to understand this part of American history , we're not going to make much progress in race relations , said Bell , who is white.
   
   Too many people say , 'Slavery was bad , segregation was bad , but it's in the past.' Everyone needs to take into account what those things meant and the impact that they have on the county today..

3. 3. NewsAdvance.com | Manners matter

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   Published on: 2/20/2006   Last Visited: 2/21/2006

   Carolyn Bell, a former student and now an English professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, is writing a history of the college from 1950 to 1993 and says she sees how manners have changed over the years on campus. She says they have changed in two main ways: deference and table manners. Deference was part of what every student was taught at orientation until the late 1960s, and it basically meant that students had to defer to anyone who was their senior, both older students and faculty members. "You would hold a door for someone who was older than you," Bell says. "And you could be yelled at if you didn't." Bell says it disappeared at the end of the 1960s when a lot of hierarchical differences, "the markers of class status, gender status and race status," began to disappear. R-MWC is a much more diverse campus than it was in the 1950s and early 1960s in terms of ethnicity and socioeconomic status, she says. "With that diversity comes cultural differences," she says. "And manners are just a part of culture." Because manners differ from culture to culture, people have learned different versions of what is the right way to behave. As for table manners, until the 1980s, every dorm on campus had its own kitchen and dining room where all students had family-style meals around a big table. Every meal - breakfast, lunch and dinner - was seated, and students would stand and give a blessing before eating. "That changed mainly for economic reasons," Bell says. "It was too expensive to staff and have separate kitchens." They would also use linen tablecloths and linen napkins, so the laundry was expensive, too. Now, of course, students partake in buffet-style eating, which "did introduce a lot of informality into the ritual of eating," Bell says, "because people weren't all eating at the same time."