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Lettie Pate Evans: My Goal

I have gone to Episcopal High School for three years now, and I was never educated on who Lettie Pate Evans was and her amazing achievements. I had no idea that I was even living on the dorm dedicated to the women who broke so many gender stereotypes, gave back to so many communities, and made a huge difference in young girls' lives. When I dove into my research about Lettie Pate Evans, I was honored to be able to learn about her and educate my peers, teachers, administrators, and community members about such an instrumental person in your school's past, present, and future. In this Omeka site, I hope you enjoy learning about Lettie Pate Evans' biography, the history of Coca-Cola and her involvement, her foundation, and how she has made an impact on our very own campus. 

In 1806, Yale University published the first known bounded yearbook, Profiles of Part of the Class Graduated at Yale College. Its content was limited, primarily due to the absence of printed photographs. However, the book still included the basic necessities of any school yearbook: information on the students and faculty and a brief overview of the academic year. 

Although they were put on the scene nearly 100 years earlier, the American yearbook was not popularized until the 1890s and early 1900s. Episcopal responded to the popularization by creating their first annual publication in 1891, The E.H.S Annual. This book mirrored Profiles of Part of the Class Graduated at Yale College, as it was brief and didn’t include any photographs. Despite its name, the book was published sporadically, with no certainty when the next edition would come out. Short-lived, The E.H.S Annual was succeeded by Whispers in 1903. According to teacher Arthur B. Kinsolving II, Whispers was “a more stately and imposing publication.”

The first publication of Whispers was bounded in leather, and pages deemed important were embellished with gold leaf. Its content was much more substantial than The E.H.S Annual, as it went more into depth on student life, athletics, and activities and included student photos.

The name Whispers comes from some old EHS slang, explained by former student Churchill Gibson: “When we went ‘fussing’ at the dawn of the century, i.e. scouting the ‘Kalic,’ which is short for ‘calico’ – yo you moderns, calling on the girls – we hunted in packs. On a Saturday or Sunday night, a girl’s ‘parlor’ would be crowded with E.H.S boys. When the time grew nigh and when our presence was requested back at school, all time left at once – but perchance some lucky devil dawdled and had just one word ere he left and that end of the line. That one was said to ‘have a whisper’ and was set up above his fellows. The “whisper” was a great prize – and so came the name Whispers to be applied to the annual”

Through two World Wars, major social movements, an economic depression, integration, coeducation, and changes to the school itself, Whispers has published a yearbook every year since 1903. This project stands to show its importance.

Project Overview

Welcome to the website The Impact of Malaria on the World Wars, composed of original research conducted regarding the intricate relationship between the disease and the wars in historical, legal, social, economic, and medical ways. The overall mission of this website is to emphasize the significance of malaria in human history, particularly the world wars, and to promote better education in schools regarding the public health aspect of history. The content includes the following: An overview of the fatal disease malaria, an overview of the world wars, the ​​overall impact of malaria on world wars, measures taken against malaria, the development of drugs and diagnosis, a case study of the Pacific War, malaria’s impact on the current society, and a conclusion with a small quiz, respectively.

This angle of approach is essential for the students and the general public because it gives a new perspective on not only the world wars but also the subject of history itself by suggesting that history is not a single-dimensional study as it is, instead, an interdisciplinary field that requires the consideration and the incorporation of various, or all, seemingly unrelated subjects. By crossing borders between subjects, in this case, through the connection between medicine and history, this site also aims to empower people to go beyond what is normally thought.

My interest in history originated in elementary school in Mexico, where my friend Noam would share his great-grandpa’s experiences in Auschwitz. I was surprised because my grandpa regarded his sufferings during the Cultural Revolution and his memory of his father’s death in a labor camp in 1957 as taboo. In time, I realized an absurd fact: while I had read a lot about Auschwitz, I found few books about the Mao era, when up to 80 million deaths by unnatural causes happened. I wondered what Grandpa and Great-Grandpa had experienced.

Two years ago, Grandpa died. Bitterly regretting that I had not been able to ask more about his past, I felt obliged to explore the untold stories and started to research how Laogai (Reform through Labor) came into being.

During this research, I was touched by those wounds that had never healed. I remember that Food Supply Bureau document I unearthed in a dust-buried archive, without which the existence of 200,000 prisoner laborers would be erased. I remember Grandpa’s diary from the 1970s, in which he used “newspeak” as called by George Orwell, and ended his entries with “Long Live Chairman Mao!” I feel wretched upon reading those lines, under which lie wronged souls.

This research, along with my discussion of Chinese revolutions with students from different backgrounds at the Stanford Summer Humanities Institute, makes me understand how the CCP’s monopoly of the historical narrative silences Chinese people like Grandpa and intellectually isolates them from the world. 

As William Faulkner said, “The past is not dead.” Realizing how the past shaped the present, I am determined to reclaim more voices from the Mao Era.

Based in the city of Macau SAR, the Macanese are a minority that is rarely heard of on the international stage. The definitive characteristic of this ethnic group is that they are a result of colonial interactions between China and Portugal, since Macau was owned by Portugal for over 400 years (1557-1999). During this period, different ethnic groups brought along by Portuguese trade mixed in Macau and formed the Macanese identity.

With a size of around 8000 today, they make up just over one percent of Macau's total population. The unique traditions of this small Eurasian community is heading in decline after Macau's handover to China, as they are facing threats from the encroaching Chinese influence. I believe the Macanese have a long and fascinating history that deserves preservation.