Box Manuscript Collections Oversize Box 8
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Contains 4 Results:
Records and programs pertaining to studies at Texas State College for Women, College of Industrial Arts, Denton (CIA). Diploma
File — Box: Manuscript Collections Oversize Box 8, Folder: MC 779, Folder: Box 20 Folder 3
Identifier: MC 779 6
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From the Series:
The donor, Marjorie Lighton (usually called Betty), was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, 15 November 1912. She graduated from the College of Industrial Arts (now Texas Women's University) in Denton, Texas, with a major in speech in 1934. That summer she traveled across the country with her mother and sister Suzanne, visiting the Nine Bar Ranch in Wyoming and her brother Louis in Hollywood. Betty Lighton worked for the Triangle Producing Company of Greensboro, North Carolina, in the summer of...
Dates:
1828-1987
Personal items pertaining to Suzanne Lighton's birth, childhood, high school, and college- Oversize
File — Box: Manuscript Collections Oversize Box 8, Folder: MC 779, Folder: Box 17 Folder 1
Identifier: MC 779 5
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Suzanne Chalfant Lighton (frequently called Peggy Sue) was born 24 July 1905 in Omaha, Nebraska. After graduation from the University of Arkansas in 1925, and her unsuccessful attempt to become a newspaper reporter in California, she did some free-lance writing, then read law with Judge Lee Seamster of Fayetteville and became a lawyer in 1933. She was active in politics (she organized the Arkansas State Democratic Women's Club) and community affairs (in particular, Red Cross blood drives,...
Dates:
1828-1987
Items pertaining to Suzanne Lighton's law career: attorney's license, Ft. Smith, January 24, 1941
File — Box: Manuscript Collections Oversize Box 8, Folder: MC 779, Folder: Box 18 Folder 7
Identifier: MC 779 5
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From the Series:
Suzanne Chalfant Lighton (frequently called Peggy Sue) was born 24 July 1905 in Omaha, Nebraska. After graduation from the University of Arkansas in 1925, and her unsuccessful attempt to become a newspaper reporter in California, she did some free-lance writing, then read law with Judge Lee Seamster of Fayetteville and became a lawyer in 1933. She was active in politics (she organized the Arkansas State Democratic Women's Club) and community affairs (in particular, Red Cross blood drives,...
Dates:
January 24, 1941
Materials pertaining to Andrew Campbell McMaken's Civil War service- Oversize
File — Box: Manuscript Collections Oversize Box 8, Folder: MC 779, Folder: Box 24 Folder 3
Identifier: MC 779 7
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Dorothy Lighton was born 21 April 1893 in South Omaha, Nebraska. After several years as Assistant to the Registrar, University of Arkansas, Dorothy married (12 February 1929) Sidney Wright Benton, a 1917 graduate of the University. They had two children, Meah Elizabeth (Betsy) and William Briant. Betsy married Wiley Washington Murrell, Jr., 6 June 1949, in Fayetteville, and had three children, Wiley Washington III, Rebecca Jane (Becky), and Laura Ann. A number of items, mostly newspaper...
Dates:
1828-1987