Cream-Coloured Western University Blazer
Date1935-1939
DimensionsOverall: 54 x 63 cm
Credit LineGift of Ms. Doris Oatman, Tillsonburg, Ontario, 2006
Object number2006.023.001
Label TextDoris Oatman wore the blazer as a University of Western Ontario student between 1935 and 1939. She followed in the footsteps of Mary Cowan, the first woman to graduate in 1898. Established in 1878, Western began with four faculties: art, divinity, medicine, and law. It graduated its first two students in 1883. Today, the University has 12 faculties and graduates 10,000 students a year.
NameBlazer
c. 1950s
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