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OSU Alumni Collections
OSU graduates, students and staff share their own "objects of wonder" below. Alumni, students, faculty and staff: for information on sharing your collection, visit our Connect page.
Carolyn Jensen - Retired from OSU
"After September 11th, I expanded a small doll collection to include representatives of different cultures. I put these out at Christmas in memory of those who died but also to reflect how we are all the same, though we dress, act, or think differently. It is a season to think about world peace."
"There are many reasons to collect. The stronger ones for me relate to memories. I collect pre-1950 Christmas ornaments because some are from memories of my youth. Others remind me of things my mother honored from her youth."
Dayna Jalkanen - OSU Student
"Collecting and this exhibition are significant to me because I started collecting U2 memorabilia in college."
Denise Gresh - OSU Alumna
"I collect monkeys because I was born in the year of the monkey."
Kathy Bouc
Pottery collection
Lexy McPeek - OSU Student
"Every time I go to a baseball game I can't help picking up a foam finger."
"I just like the little quips of advice and I want to use them in a series of paintings."
Marti Worth - OSU alumna
"I collect studio photos and old photocards of little girls and dolls. It is fascinating to see the differences in socio-economic status among these black and white pictures from the 1890's-1940's."
Pam Edwards - OSU alumna
Collection of cocktail glasses
Collection of hats
Collection of "The Night Before Christmas" books
Erin Nance - OSU Alumna
"I have always loved Winnie the Pooh but no one ever seemed to like Eeyore because he was so gloomy. But how can you not love a donkey that keeps losing his poor tail?"
Pat Nance - OSU Alumnus
"I keep these tickets because they when I see them I remember where I was, how old I was and who I was with when I went to these various events."
Susie Underwood - OSU Alumna
"I started to find decorative owls from the 70's in thrift stores and thought they were cute. Then other people started getting them for me as gifts."
Cindy Foley - OSU Alumna
"I love these umbrellas because they are wonderful aesthetic objects and they go great with my plaid thermoses and plaid lunchboxes."
Nancy Colvin - OSU Alumna
Collection of souvenir glassware
Andy Hudson - Associate Director of Medical Education, OSU
"I am an avid collector of stuff, old toys, cameras, records, lab glass, projectors, outsider art, dictionaries, etc. The 'best' of these is a 'shell art' collection."
Michaeline Chance Reay - OSU Assistant Professor, Women Studies
"In addition to being artifacts of women's history, these jackets seemed to me the wonderful, whimsical, historic symbols of the antithesis of my busy, professional life as an historian and women studies professor. In reality they were most often seen on new mothers or older women in hospitals, nursing homes, or at home who were confined to bed for a period of time. One could properly receive visitors in a bed jacket."
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