Widowed Services Program/Displaced Homemaker Center and Widowed Services Program records, 1973-1991.

ArchivalResource

Widowed Services Program/Displaced Homemaker Center and Widowed Services Program records, 1973-1991.

Collection comprises materials relating to the Widowed Services Program and the Displaced Homemaker Center, established by Hazel Foss at the University of Oregon in the mid-1970s to provide services to widows and displaced homemakers. Materials include correspondence, program proposals, legislative and funding grant materials, workshop and conference papers, media presentation files, newspaper articles, press releases, photographs, materials from presentations by Hazel Foss and courses she taught, miscellaneous items, and materials relating to various organizations including the Center for Gerontology, national and regional displaced homemaker networks, and the Older Women's League (OWL). Also included in this collection are biographical materials about Hazel Foss.

8.5 linear feet (25 containers)

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7085100

University of Oregon Libraries

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

National Displaced Homemakers Network

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Older Women's League (U.S.)

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University of Oregon. Center for Gerontology

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Widowed Services Program (University of Oregon)

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The Widowed Services Program and the Displaced Homemaker Center/Widowed Services Program were established at the University of Oregon by Hazel Foss in the mid-1970s to provide guidance and support to widows and displaced homemakers and to help them develop skills to enter the workforce. From the description of Widowed Services Program/Displaced Homemaker Center and Widowed Services Program records, 1973-1991. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 228413918 ...

Foss, Hazel, 1924-

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