Maria Leonard Papers, 1927-1949, 1964, 1966 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Maria Leonard (1880-1976), Dean of Women (1923-1945), including newspaper clippings, photographs, publications, certificates and correspondence relating to the functions of the Dean of Women; aims and conduct of college women, lectures and speeches, student contacts, Alpha Lambda Delta, sororities, women's war work (war bond sales, WATC unit and recruiting for WAC, WAVES, and SPARS) and publications. The series includes Miss Leonard's "Building and Balancing Budgets for...Fraternities" (1934) and "The Chaperon and Housemother, Builders of Youth" (1939).