Harriet Speer '75

Harriet Speer, 1975 Graduate

Course notebooks, Hollins Abroad Paris, 1973

Five notebooks from courses on Balzac, Theatre, Religious Architecture, ‘Mansions’ Hotel Particuli, and French language and history from student Harriet Speer’s time abroad in France in 1973. These notebooks contain notes in French from Speer’s classes abroad as well as sketches of architecture. Speer found her study abroad experience so impactful that she taught French until she retired and encouraged her daughter to study abroad in Paris as well; her daughter even ended up living in Paris!

—Mary Zaengle ‘25