WIM has an amazing institutional memory. I am putting together a course for the coming year on the history of HIV/AIDS in the USA and reached out to a couple of members of WIM for identification of photographs, as well as ideas and suggestions of reading, film and documentaries that they felt would be worthwhile. The response was instant and very helpful. It was a reminder to me that, unless we preserve artifacts from our lives, we will disappear. The movement to do things like “Death Cleaning” (Scandinavian tradition of older adults to declutter and discard things before they die so the heirs don’t have to deal with it) is admirable. But the papers, photographs and memorabilia you have acquired related to your career and your personal life, especially related to WIM and your life as a lesbian physician has a home.
The Women in Medicine Archive at Drexel University is accepting donations toward our WIM Archive there. Check out their already extensive holdings and programs here: http://archives.drexelmed.edu/. If you are not sure if what you have would fit their interests, please email, write or call Matt Herbison, Archivist for the WIM Collection, mherbiso@drexelmed.edu (215-991-8341), Drexel University College of Medicine, 2900 West Queen Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19129.
The Archives Committee thanks you for your participation in WIM and will be thrilled to view your contributions to WIM’s holdings at Drexel in the future.
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