Curtis-Wright Engineering Cadettes Records, 1938-2006.

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Curtis-Wright Engineering Cadettes Records, 1938-2006.

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This collection includes a textbook used by Mary Jean Logan Sweet while in the Curtiss-Wright Engineering Program, a copy of her certificate of completion, photocopies of meeting minutes and one pay stub from the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, a copy of the tenth anniversary newsletter, "Cadette Digest," an address list, and biographical information. Two artifacts used for instruction in the program are housed in the University Artifact collection: a model airplane and a model of a wooden airfoil rib. The collection also includes an oral history interview with Sweet recorded in October, 2006. In addition, a video recording of this interview (call no. DVD --1 748) has been cataloged and is available in Special Collections. Additional materials concerning the Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes Program may be found in Curtiss-Wright Cadettes Records, RS 13/16/1, and in the Jean Nickerson Patterson Curtis-Wright Engineering Cadette Records, RS 21/7/148.

0.21 linear ft. (1 half-document box)

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8197925

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Sweet, Mary Jean Logan, 1924-

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Mary Jean Logan Sweet, from Ruthven, Iowa and a student at Morningside College, was chosen along with nearly 100 other college women to participate in the Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadette Program at Iowa State College (University) in 1943. Sponsored by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, this was a nation-wide program designed to ease wartime labor shortages, and also included more than 700 female students at Cornell University, Purdue University, University of Minnesota, Pennsylvania State Colleg...

Curtiss-Wright Corporation

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On June 26, 1929, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company merged with the Wright Aeronautical Corporation to form the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. After this merger, the former Wright organization took over all of the engine and propeller manufacturing, while Curtiss concentrated on airplanes. This merger was completed by organizing two major divisions under their original names, but under the direction of a corporate headquarters located in New York City. However, the election of fo...