Mary Alice Jaqua Papers 1940-1970

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Mary Alice Jaqua Papers 1940-1970

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Correspondence, photographs, and other materials, relating to Mary Alice Jaqua (1913-1987), daughter of Ernest J. Jaqua, first president of Scripps College. The materials document in particular her career, 1941-1946, first as secretary to the director of the American Red Cross-Harvard Field Hospital Unit in Salisbury, England, then as civilian secretary in the office of the Commander in Chief, European Theater of Operations (successively Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, and Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers) in London, Algiers, and Caserta, Italy, and from 1945 as secretary to Jock Dunning, Executive Vice President of Whitney Industries in New York City.

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