Mary Jeffries Bruce and the Sunday Evening Forum collection, 1940s - 1980s, (bulk 1942-1976) .

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Mary Jeffries Bruce and the Sunday Evening Forum collection, 1940s - 1980s, (bulk 1942-1976) .

The collection consists of personal scrapbooks created by Mary Jeffries Bruce who was the director of the Sunday Evening Forum in Tucson, Arizona from 1942-1976. The 21 scrapbooks contain photographs, correspondence and newspaper articles chronicling the national and international prominent people who spoke at the Forum.

3 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8115903

University of Arizona Libraries

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Mary Jeffries Bruce was born in Clinton, Kentucky and raised in Tennessee. She attended Peabody College in Nashville where she majored in Art and then Voice. Ms. Bruce taught school in Paris, Tennessee. She moved to Tucson in 1930 where she married V.T. Jeffries and became the mother of John Edgar. In 1942 she was appointed program chairman for a small Young Adult Discussion Group which met in the old University Catalina Methodist church. This small discussion group becameThe Sunday...

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