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Accession No. UA.2020.0114: Amanda Frey, 2020 October; Accession No. UA.2024.0045: Kevlin Haire, 2022 October
[identification of item],Brenda J. Drake Artifacts, and Oral History Transcript and Audio Recording, RG.3.Q.1, Ohio State University Archives, Ohio State University
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This collection is unprocessed. Finding aid written by: Audrey Wimbiscus, 2021 September
Brenda J. Drake is the wife of Ohio State University's fifteenth president, Michael V. Drake. She attended law school at the University of California, Berkeley, and practiced law for fifteen years before moving into the philanthropic field. At the Ohio State University, she served as First Lady during her husband's tenure as president from 2014 to 2020.
The Brenda J. Drake Artifacts, and Oral History Transcript and Audio Recording date from 2014-2022, and include a College of Pharmacy lab coat, and stationery and cards used by Drake while she worked at The Ohio State University in her capacity as First Lady to University's then-president, her husband Michael V. Drake. In 2024 an oral history interview that had been conducted in 2022 was added to the collection and consists of her recollections of the couple's time at Ohio State from 2014 to 2020.
College of Pharmacy lab coat with Drake's name stitched on the front, thank-you cards from luncheon attendees, personalized stationery, and notecards commissioned by Drake with an illustration of the President's Residence on front.