Mary Jeffries Bruce and the Sunday Evening Forum collection 1942-1976 Mary Jeffries Bruce and the Sunday Evening Forum collection

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Mary Jeffries Bruce and the Sunday Evening Forum collection 1942-1976 Mary Jeffries Bruce and the Sunday Evening Forum collection

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The collection consists of personal scrapbooks created by Mary Jeffries Bruce who was the director of the Sunday Evening Forum in Tucson, Arizona from 1942-1976. The 21 scrapbooks contain photographs, correspondence and newspaper articles chronicling the national and international prominent people who spoke at the Forum. They also contain personal correspondence and information regarding Ms. Bruce’s longtime work with the National Association for Mental Health, and a bound collection of letters written by previous guests of the Forum given to Ms. Bruce upon her retirement.

3 linear feet

eng,

University of Arizona Libraries, Library Special Collections

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Jeffries, Mary Bruce

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Mary Jeffries Bruce was born in Clinton, Kentucky and raised in Tennessee. She attended Peabody College in Nashville where she majored in Art and then Voice. Ms. Bruce taught school in Paris, Tennessee. She moved to Tucson in 1930 where she married V.T. Jeffries and became the mother of John Edgar. In 1942 she was appointed program chairman for a small Young Adult Discussion Group which met in the old University Catalina Methodist church (now known as the Catalina United Methodist C...