Marjorie May Cowan (1911-) Papers 1929-1933

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Marjorie May Cowan (1911-) Papers 1929-1933

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Cowan obtained a B.S. degree in Liberal Arts from Northwestern University in 1933. As a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority she was active in campus activities and social affairs. The Marjorie May Cowan papers are arranged in one half-size box and date from 1929-1934, 1949, and 1984. The bulk of the papers is comprised of Cowan's diaries. During the years 1932 through 1934 she kept detailed accounts of her social and academic activities and interests.

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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...

Geisler, Marjorie Cowan, 1911-

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Marjorie May Cowan (Mrs. Carl Geisler) was born April 1, 1911, in Chicago, Illinois. She attended that city's Field Grammar School, and in 1929 graduated from Roycemore Intermediate School in Evanston. Cowan obtained a B.S. degree in Liberal Arts from Northwestern University in 1933. As a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority she was active in campus activities and social affairs. In addition to her scholastic work as an undergraduate Cowan served as a reader for Prof. Franklyn Bliss Snyder of the ...