On May 22, 1937, Mabel Pearl Frazer, an assistant professor of art at the University of Utah, filed an official complaint with the university president regarding a pattern of sexual misconduct toward women students exhibited by her colleague and department chair, Alma Brockerman (“A. B.”) Wright. Frazer's letter to President George Thomas begins with the reminder of a prior conversation they had regarding this matter, stating: “I told you in substance that for three years reports had been coming to me that I felt it in my duty to pass on to you . . . that two of these girls, Miss Williams and Miss Bartlett, had personally told me their own stories, but that the others had come to me through third persons.”1 She went on to detail the allegations against Wright that students had shared with her and other women faculty members, which included sexual harassment, retaliating...

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