Mary Fetter Stough Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of scrapbook materials. The Twentieth Century Club folder has an essay written by her mother playfully recording a moment of dissention in the book club. The Scrapbook, 1942-1946 folder contains programs, letters and receipts with comments written for each. The is also a copy of the Davidson Newsleader for July 20, 1946 and items relation the Transylvania Music Camp. The Echo was the Davidson High School annual. The Scrapbook Items, 1969-1986 are individual documents taken from their original pages. Along with programs for theater events, there is the program the honoring of James Woods and Salinda Mayhew for their medical contributions to Davidson. The Scrapbook, 1948, 1991-1999 is housed in Oversize. It contains more programs, clippings and photographs, many with annonations. Manuscript collection DC0329s contains a diary written by Mary Fetter Stough's grandmother.
Dates
- Creation: 1938 - 2010
Biographical / Historical
Mary Fetter Stough was born in 1931 to Samuel Tertius and Augusta Sapp Stough. She attended school in Davidson, graduating in 1948 and earned a BA from the University of South Carolina, a MS from Appalachian State University and a PhD from the University of South Carolina. She taught English at several colleges in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. An active member of the Athaenuem Book Club and the Davidson Historical Society, she wrote a series of articles on Davidson town history for the Mecklenburg Neighbors supplement of the Charlotte Observer.
Extent
6 folders_oversize (6 folders + oversize)
Language
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2010-21|2009-72
Processing Information
Processed on Jul-11
- Title
- Mary Fetter Stough Papers
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscript Collections Repository