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Women educators

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Women who have worked to educate students such as teachers, educators, or faculty.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Bertha Kate Gaddis diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 21
Scope and Contents

Includes 18 diaries written by Bertha Kate Gaddis, a long-term teacher in the Lafayette area and sister to Lella Gaddis, Indiana's first state leader of Home Demonstration. The diaries contain detailed accounts of Kate and Lella's lives, interactions, and activities of important persons at Purdue University, and events and the changing landscape in both Lafayette and the United States. Also includes the shoebox where the diaries were kept.

Dates: 1906-1937, 1945-1946

Lella R. Gaddis papers

 Collection — Communal collections box 22, Placement: 07
Identifier: MSF 138
Scope and Contents

This collection includes an article written by Lella Gaddis in 1917 as well as clippings and photographs pertaining to her life, activities, and work.

Dates: 1917 - 2009