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Grace W. Gray papers
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Series Descriptions
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1941-1945
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10 linear inches
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Correspondence dates from 1941-1945 and reflects Gray's social and academic activities as a student at Mount Holyoke College. Letters are written to her parents and brother. They discuss courses, lectures by Robert Frost, Janet Murrow, and Eleanor Roosevelt, sermons, horseback riding, food, dances, student employment, and movies that she saw on campus. She talks about College traditions such as Mountain Day, Founder's Day, Junior Show, and Faculty Show. She mentions College President Roswell Gray Ham, and faculty members including Elizabeth M. Boyd, Leonora Branch, Ann Haven Morgan, and Christianna Smith, and several of her friends including Barbara Calhoun Ransom, Freddie (Frances) Chamberlin Carter, Gladys Fish Kurtz, Bobbie (Barbara) M. Moore, Doris-Jane Fondahl, Margaret Prideaux Cartmell, Virginia H. Hands, and Barbara Stoke Betts. Gray also describes the impact of World War II on the College. She discusses WAVES training on campus, air raid drills and blackouts, energy conservation efforts, food rationing, blood drives, a War Stamp Drive, farm work, and travel restrictions.
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1941-1945
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1.6 linear feet
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Course records consist of notebooks, projects, papers, examinations, notes, and glass slides for courses in zoology, English, and physical education at Mount Holyoke College, 1941-1945. Most of the records are for zoology courses in histology, embryology, ecology, and ornithology taught by Christianna Smith and Elizabeth M. Boyd. Materials for English and physical education classes consist of papers written as writing assisnments and a paper about canoeing. Some of these materials contain notes and comments made by professors.
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1954-1974
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1 folder
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Writings consist of published articles written by Gray between 1954-1975. Most of the articles concern scientific research. In an article written for the "Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly" in 1964 she also discusses her work as a teacher.
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1941-1945
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1 folder
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Memorabilia dates from 1941-1945 and consists of correspondence between the college officials and Gray's family concerning her course work and other correspondence announcing awards.
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1945, 2001
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1 folder
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Biographical information consists of newspaper clippings announcing her graduation and an obituary dated May 2001.
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1945
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1 folder
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Photograph is Gray's senior portrait taken at Mount Holyoke in 1945.
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