Richards, Carmen Nelson.

Carmen Richards was born in Minneapolis and received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1913. She was public school teacher and taught at various schools in Minnesota and Florida.

She joined the University of Minnesota Alumnae Club in 1945, and from 1958-1960 served as president. During her tenure as president, the Alumnae Club Scholarship Fund was started. Upon retirement in 1964, Richards moved to Dunedin, Florida where she established the Suncoast Chapter of the Minnesota Alumnae Club, also serving as its president. She received an Alumni Service Award in 1967.

Carmen Richards was also active in various literary societies, including the League of Minnesota Poets, the Minneapolis Poetry Society and the National League of American Pen Women. She was an editor of The Moccasin, a poetry magazine, and Minnesota Skyline, coeditor of Minnesota Writes, published in 1945 and editor of Minnesota Writers, published in 1961. She authored Death Stalks the Philippine Wilds, published in 1951.

Carmen Richards died on June 9, 1978 in Dunedin, Florida.

From the guide to the Carmen Nelson Richards papers, 1940-1945, (University of Minnesota Libraries. University of Minnesota Archives [uarc])