Emma Burgess Herrick papers
Emma and George Herrick, 1940-1950 (MS 654 Box 1 Folder 2).
Collection area: University of Arizona
Collection dates: circa 1880-2000 bulk (bulk 1945-1980)
Photographs, letters, awards, news articles, financial documents, poetry and a typescript speech or article relating mostly to Emma Burgess Herrick's retirement from the University of Arizona in 1973 and the resulting awards and recognition, and the last years of her life following retirement. There are also photographs of the Burgess and Herrick families and a few photographs of Emma and George Herrick. One photograph, possibly of George Herrick's sister, shows her at a telephone switchboard. Photographs of a recognition party in 1973 includes local and University leaders. Also photographs are present of a scholarship award party about 2000. The poetry consists of handwritten poems by mostly well-known poets copied into several notebooks. A highlight of the collection is a typescript speech or article by Emma Herrick, about her life and adventures with the students as a head resident or house mother written following World War II.
University of Arizona Dean of Women briefly, then head resident of various men's dormitories on campus from 1943 until her retirement in 1973. Emma Burgess was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1901, graduated froorm Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1922, and worked many years for the Y.W.C.A. before arriving at the University of Arizona in 1936. She was head resident in women's dormitories until her marriage to George Herrick, a B.P.A. professor. Following her marriage, she had to resign and she and her husband became head residents at Yavapai Hall, then later Cochise Hall, both men's dormitories. After her husband's death in 1959, she stayed on has head resident or house mother after students petitioned the Dean of Men to let her stay. She died in 1982.
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