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Edith Stallings collection

Edith Stallings collection

Descriptive Summary

Title: Edith Stallings collection
Creator: Unknown
Inclusive Dates: 1935-1963
Language(s): English
Extent: 1 Linear Feet (2 document boxes, 1 half box)
Collection Number: ms2568
Repository: University of Georgia Archives
Abstract: The collection consists of the correspondence, travel notes (from England, Europe and a world cruise), certificates and other materials of the late Edith Langdale Stallings. Included are papers relating to the Georgia Museum of Art which date from 1948-1963 and a photo of Mrs. Stallings and a fellow WAVE, Joy Hancock.

Collection Description

Historical Note

Edith Stallings (1903-1987) held the position of Dean of Women for the University of Georgia from January 1, 1948 through August 1, 1963. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a B.S. degree, did post-graduate work in dietetics at John Hopkins University, and received her M.A. in English from the University of Alabama. Stallings was widowed five years after her marriage to a lung and heart specialist and in 1942 joined the WAVES. While in the WAVES, she served in administrative positions through 1947 when she decided to retire in order to accept the position of Dean of Women at the University of Georgia. Stallings was a world traveler and lived in England for a while after her husband's death. She was active in the installation of four Georgia chapters of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority, the only woman on the board of the Georgia Museum, and president of the Georgia Association of Women Deans and Counselors. In addition she was a supporter of Triquetra, a leadership organization for non-sorority women, at the University.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in chronological order.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Edith Stallings collection, 1935-1963. MS 2568. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.


Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Certificates.
Correspondence
Deans of women -- Georgia -- Athens.
England -- Description and travel.
Europe -- Description and travel.
Georgia Museum of Art
Hancock, Joy Bright, 1898- -- Photographs
Notes.
Papers (document genre)
Stallings family -- Correspondence
Stallings, Edith Langdale, 1903-1987 -- Correspondence
Stallings, Edith Langdale, 1903-1987 -- Photographs
University of Georgia -- Faculty--Correspondence

Related Collections in this Repository

Related materials available in the following collections of this repository: Edith Langdale Stallings papers, 1949-1963.


Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 
boxfolder
11Appointments/certificates - U.S. Navy
 
12Correspondence - family, 1863-1900
 
13Correspondence - personal
 
14Correspondence empty envelopes
 
15-8England - correspondence & postcards, 1935
 
19Europe - correspondence & postcards, 1937
 
boxfolder
21Georgia Museum of Art, undated
 
22Georgia Museum of Art, 1948 - 1949
 
23Georgia Museum of Art, 1950-1951
 
24Georgia Museum of Art, 1952-1954
 
25Georgia Museum of Art, 1955-1957
 
26Georgia Museum of Art, 1958
 
27Georgia Museum of Art, 1959
 
28Georgia Museum of Art, 1961-1963
 
boxfolder
31Navy, 1942-1944
 
32Navy, 1945-1946
 
33Navy, 1947-1948
 
34Navy, 1949-1953
 
35Photo (with Captain Joy Hancock)
 
36Poems/psalms - Rev. Langdale
 
37-8Semantics
 
39University of Georgia - activities
 
310World tour - correspondence, 1955