Professional
Creator: Menninger Foundation Archives. Catharine Wright Menninger
Date: circa 1928 - 1970
Level of Description: Series
Material Type: Manuscripts
Call Number: Unavailable
Unit ID: 223150
Space Required/Quantity: 1.30 cubic feet
Title (Main title): Professional
Part of: Menninger Foundation Archives. Papers of the Menninger Family. Papers of Catharine Wright Menninger.
Scope and Content
Scope and content:
Materials related to Cay Menninger's professional and paid activities, including home economics and life courses she taught during the 1930s-1940s at Washburn University, Child Care articles she wrote in Kansas Farmer and in other publications (circa 1929-1934), the nursery school she helped found in Topeka in 1928, and particularly related to her work on behalf of the Menninger Foundation, either as a membership secretary and in her travels with Dr. Will or as a member of the Board of Trustees.
Types of records include planning materials and syllabi, school planning documents, schedules, budget and financial information, articles, reports, statistics, lists of contributors, charts, memoranda, contribution figures, etc.
Portions of Collection Separately Described:
- Catharine Wright Menninger files.
- Catharine Wright Menninger files.
- CWM Files: Child Development Course; Civil Defense Council; Home Economics Course; Leadership Course; Minority Groups; Nat'l League/Women Voters; Westwood Weekly; Family Mementos; Roy V. Wright (father); books, album, scrapbook (cd).
Locators:
| Locator | Contents |
|---|---|
| 107-10-01-01 to 107-10-01-02 | CWM-PRO-1 and CWM-PRO-2 |
| 118-10-02-12 | Courses taught at Washburn, Westerminster Nursery School notebook; some TMF material |
Index Terms
Subjects
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Menninger Foundation. Board of Trustees
Menninger Foundation -- Finance
Menninger Foundation -- Membership
Menninger, Catharine Wright, 1902-1994
Early childhood education -- Kansas -- Topeka
Home economics -- Study and teaching -- Kansas -- Topeka
Nursery schools -- Kansas -- Topeka
Agency Classification:
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Organizations/Corporations. Menninger Foundation Archives. Family. Catharine Wright Menninger.
