Helen Matthewson Laughlin Papers, 1920-1950

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Helen Matthewson Laughlin Papers, 1920-1950

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Helen Mattheson Laughlin (1883-1960) was the Dean of Women at UCLA. She supervised the working conditions and standards of pay for the many women working part time at the university and was active in providing a housing service and vocational counseling for them as well. The collection consists of scrapbooks compiled by Laughlin relating to her career as UCLA Dean of Women.

2 oversize boxes

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Biography Cox was born Jan. 5, 1926 in Fresno, CA; BA, political science, Stanford, 1949; associate for Bill P. Wreden, antiquarian book dealer, San Francisco; MLS, UC Berkeley, 1954; began working at the UCLA library in 1954, serving in gifts and exchange, as head of the Geology Library, and head of circulation (1960-77); compiled and donated Albright library bibliography; Acting Assoc. University Librarian for Public Services, UCLA, 1977-79...

Laughlin, Helen Matthewson

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Biography Laughlin was born on February 2, 1883 in Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand; came to California; in 1910 became an instructor in physical education at the Los Angeles State Normal School; in 1914 she served as head of practice teaching and Dean of Women, and continued in the latter position when the school became the Southern Branch of the University of California and then UCLA; as Dean, she was active in providing a housing service...