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Mount Mary College Faculty Memorandum No. 1294

Item

Faculty Memo1294 May 26 1964.jpg

Title

Mount Mary College Faculty Memorandum No. 1294

Description

This faculty memorandum consists of the announcement of an Honorary Degree being awarded to Harper Lee May 31, 1964.

In May 1964, Mount Mary College awarded an Honorary Degree to Nelle Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize winning author of To Kill A Mockingbird. In accepting the honor Ms. Lee traveled to Mount Mary and took part in commencement ceremonies, which resulted in a friendship between her and Sister John Francis Schuh, President of Mount Mary.

Date

1964-05-26

Source

School Sisters of Notre Dame North American Archives

Identifier

https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/files/original/78a8a675122ea0fa2ff0edde4f80168a.jpg

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/

Subject

Mount Mary College (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Lee, Harper

Type

Text

Format

JPEG

Language

eng

Citation

“Mount Mary College Faculty Memorandum No. 1294,” Mount Mary University Digital Collections, accessed November 24, 2024, https://digitalcollections.mtmary.edu/items/show/1317.