Leila M. Foster (1929-) Scrapbooks 1946-1949

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Leila M. Foster (1929-) Scrapbooks 1946-1949

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Leila Foster's scrapbooks illuminate the life of a university student in the postwar era. Ephemera and form letters are interspersed with personal correspondence and other personal documents.The series consists of three scrapbooks, from Foster's first three academic years at Northwestern: 1946-1947, 1947-1948 and 1948-1949.

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Foster, Leila Merrell

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Leila Merrell Foster was born in 1929 to Leila Foster and George H. Foster (NU 1912.) Foster attended high school at Milwaukee-Downer Seminary and DeKalb High School. At Northwestern, Foster was an active member of Alpha Phi sorority, the assistant business manager of the Pegasus literary magazine, and the press representative for the 1949 Waa-Mu Show (a student-produced musical revue). She was co-chairman of the Campus Conference on Religion and was awarded the Sigmund Livingston I...

Northwestern university

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During World War II, Northwestern offered its facilities for use by the War Department. The Army, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics Administration operated eleven training programs at Northwestern in addition to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (N.R.O.T.C.) established in 1926: the Navy V-7, Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School; the Navy V-5, Naval Aviation Prepatory Program; the Navy V-1, Accredited College Program; the Naval Training School (Radio); the Army Signal Corps Officers Training Scho...