Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008. Membership Files, 1951 - 1984.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008. Membership Files, 1951 - 1984.

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26414842

This series contains correspondence, newspaper articles, biographical information, news releases and other records related to the members of the of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACWITS) that were appointed from 1951 through 1959. Some of the notable women whose membership files are included in the series are Colonel Oveta Hobby, Helen Hayes, Mary C. Rockefeller, Helen Rogers Reid, Helen C. White, Dr. Esther Lloyd-Jones, Dorothy C. Stratton, Margaret D. Craighill, Irene Dunne, Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, Dorothy I. Height, Dean Millicent C. McIntosh, Rachel Louise McManus, Dorothy Shaver, Colonel Ruth Streeter, Lt. Colonel Florence K. Murray, Mary Roebling, and Bertha Adkins.

5 linear feet, 3 linear inches

eng, Latn

National Archives at College Park

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11641262

National Archives at College Park

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Murray, Florence Kerins, 1916-2004

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6456ddd (person)

Florence K. Murray (1916–2004) was a high-ranking officer in the Women's Army Corps, the first female state senator in Rhode Island, the first female judge in Rhode Island, and the first female member of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. ...

Stratton, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Constance), 1899-2006

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66d8qxn (person)

Dorothy Constance Stratton served as Dean of Women at Purdue from 1933 until 1946, at a time in which the enrollment of women students jumped from less than 500 to more than 1,400. During her tenure at Purdue, she oversaw the creation of a liberal science program for women in the School of Science as well as an employment placement center. She helped established the Housemother Training School that gave intensive training to fraternity and sorority housemothers from across the United States. ...

Reid, Helen Rogers, 1882-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nm470b (person)

Helen Rogers Reid was the first woman chair of Barnard's Board of Trustees. She served from 1947-1956 when she was made a trustee emeritus. Reid Hall on the Barnard campus is named for her. Reid Hall, in Paris, was established by Elizabeth Mills Reid, mother-in-law of Helen Rogers Reid, as a club for American women artists and intellectuals in 1893. By 1922, through the efforts of Helen Rogers Reid and Virginia Gildersleeve, it had become a residence for American university women and a center fo...

Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v51k6d (person)

Oveta Culp Hobby (January 19, 1905 – August 16, 1995) was the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first director of the Women's Army Corps, and a chairperson of the board of the Houston Post. Hobby went to Washington, D.C., in 1941 to head the newly formed women's division of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations. At the request of Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall she drafted plans for the formation of a women's auxiliary to the male army, ...