Ducro, Genevra, 1900-1987
Biographical notes:
Genevra Ducro papers, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, MA.
From the description of Ducro papers, 1918-1975. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 50647096
Genevera Ducro was born in Ashtabula, Ohio on August 1, 1900 to John P. Ducro, a merchant, and Carrie L. Butts Ducro. She was valedictorian of her class at Ashtabula High School and attended Mount Holyoke College from 1918-1922. She was secretary of her class and graduated with a B.A. in economics and English literature. Ducro was a Young Women's Christian Association secretary in New York and Illinois, and taught junior high school for many years in Ohio and in Hawaii. She attended Case Western Reserve University, receiving a Master's in Library Science in about 1944. She worked in various libraries and was a founding member of the Women's Fortnightly Club and the Ashtabula branch of the American Association of University Women. Ducro lived with Florence Brugger, a Mount Holyoke College classmate, for a number of years. She died in Ashtabula on August 30, 1987 at the age of eighty-seven.
From the guide to the Ducro papers MS 0798., 1918-1975., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)
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Subjects:
- College students
- College students
- Mountain Day
- Mountain Day
- Mountain Day - 1918-1922
- Mount Holyoke College
- Mount Holyoke College
- Mount Holyoke College
- Student activities
- Student activities
- Women college students
- Women college students
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- Holyoke, Mount (Mass.) (as recorded)
- Massachusetts--South Hadley (as recorded)
- Massachusetts (as recorded)
- Holyoke, Mount (Mass.) (as recorded)
