Order of the White Duchy records, 1925-1968.

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Order of the White Duchy records, 1925-1968.

Records include constitution, initiation ritual, minutes, correspondence, photographs, membership and alumnae lists, financial records, clippings, issues of the Lucky Number alumnae newsletter, and two scrapbooks. Major subjects within the collection are collaboration between student leaders and college administration and opinions concerning sororities, social standards, and the honor code. Prominent members include Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, Margaret Taylor Smith, Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Dorothy Newsom Rankin, and Dorothy Battle Rankin.

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Dole, Elizabeth Hanford, 1936-

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Duke University. Woman's College

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Smith, Margaret Taylor

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Semans, Mary Duke Biddle Trent

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Rankin, Dorothy Newsom

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Duke University. Order of the White Duchy.

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The Order of the White Duchy was a secret women's honorary at Duke University. The group was formed in May 1925 by the Order of Red Friars, a secret men's honorary, to recognize members of the Woman's College of Duke University. The members of the Order of the White Duchy voluntarily disbanded the organization in 1968. From the description of Order of the White Duchy records, 1925-1968. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 52170112 The Order of the White Duchy was ...

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Rankin, Dorothy Battle.

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