Texas Bluebonnet Girls' States records, 1958-.

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Texas Bluebonnet Girls' States records, 1958-.

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Scrapbooks, printed material, correspondence, clippings, photographs, videocassettes and motion picture film document the ongoing operation of the Texas Bluebonnet Girls' State program. In addition to the organization's scrapbooks, materials donated by two former participants, Connie Bridges and Mary Ellen Trahan, provide a view of Girls' State activities from a personal perspective. The records reflect the influence and leadership of longtime director Frances Goff.

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Goff, Frances, 1916-1994

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Frances Goff of Kenedy, Texas, began her career in 1937 as secretary to a Texas state legislator, became secretary to Governor W. Lee O'Daniel after his re-election in 1940, worked for the House Appropriations Committee in 1941, and was appointed the first personnel director of the Texas Railroad Commission. In 1944 she enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps, rising to the rank of sergeant major before her release and return to Austin in 1946, when she was named State Budget Director and a...

Bridge, Connie.

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Girls State. Texas.

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Texas Bluebonnet Girls' State, a program similar to the American legion Lone Star Boys' State, was instituted by the American Legion Auxiliary in 1940. Its purpose is to educate high school age girls in American citizenship by participation in the government of ficticious cities and states using American democratic principles and methods. Each year two girls are selected as members of Girls' Nation, held in Washington, DC. Meetings were held at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in 1941 and 1942,...

Trahan, Mary Ellen.

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