Drake, Frances, 1912-2000

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Bernice Tuller with Frances Drake in Argentina, 1921

Frances "Fannie" Drake was born May 5, 1881 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, to H. Brown and Emma J. Drake. After earning an A.B. from the University of Nebraska in 1906, she studied for three months at the Bible Teachers' Training School and then joined the staff of the Young Women's Christian Association in January 1907 as an Extension Secretary in Rochester, New York. In May 1910 Drake returned to Nebraska where she worked for a year as an Extension Secretary in the Lincoln YWCA and then as a Student Secretary in the University of Nebraska YWCA. In 1919 she joined the national YWCA staff traveling to Montevideo, Uruguay to help establish a YWCA in that city. Drake returned to the U.S. in 1925 and worked as General Secretary of the Lincoln, Nebraska YWCA. She died in December of 1973 in Omaha, Nebraska.

From the guide to the Frances Drake Papers MS 220., 1919-1925, (Sophia Smith Collection)

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creatorOf Frances Drake Papers MS 220., 1919-1925 Sophia Smith Collection
referencedIn John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979. Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
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Birth 1912-10-22

Death 2000-01-18

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