Cornelia Francis interview, 1989 May 3.

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Cornelia Francis interview, 1989 May 3.

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Francis describes her life as a child on the Canadian prairie and her education at home, at high school in New York, and at the University of Montana. She talks of the influence of English professors, H.G. Merriam and Edmund Freeman and her choice of English and creative writing as majors. She tells of her twenty-five years raising a family on a ranch in the Jocko Valley and of entering the teaching profession in 1959.

2 sound cassettes (80 min.) : analog + 2 tape counter indexes.

University of Montana, Mansfield Library

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University of Montana, Mansfield Library

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Harold Guy Merriam (1883-1980) was chosen in 1904 as one of the original 43 American Rhodes scholars and the first from the University of Wyoming. He later earned a Ph. D from Columbia University. Merriam taught English at Whitman College (1908-1910), Beloit College (1911-1913), Reed College (1913-1919) and Montana State University (1919-1954). During World War I, he took a leave of absence from Reed College to work for YMCA support efforts in France. From the description of Papers, ...

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University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.). Dept. of English

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Freeman, Edmund L.

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Francis, Cornelia, 1909-2005

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Cornelia Hawkins Klittke was born to Herman and Cora Klittke on 18 Jan. 1909 in Williams Bridge, N.Y. When she was ten months old, her family moved to Saskatchewan. At age thirteen her parents decided that Cornelia should pursue a formal education. She entered eighth grade in public school, graduating from Jamaica High School in Jan. 1928. She worked briefly for McGraw Hill Publishing House in New York City before enrolling at the University of Montana. She pursued degrees in journalism and crea...