Moore, Dorothy Gleason,
Moore papers,
1924-1993.
Manuscript Collection: MS 0712
1
box
Agency History/Biographical note:
Dorothy Beatrice Gleason was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on April
16, 1905 to Albert J. Gleason and Emma Searle Gleason. Her father
owned and operated Drake Secretarial Colleges in New Jersey. She
attended Bergen School for Girls in Jersey City from 1916-1920, then
went to the Beard School for Girls in Orange, New Jersey from
1920-1923. She entered Mount Holyoke College in 1924, where she
majored in English and graduated 1928. She received a M.A. in
English from Columbia University in 1935. From November 1929-August
1931 she worked as a hostess and secretary at the Mayflower
Apartments in Jersey City. From about 1939 until her retirement in
1968 she was the owner and president of the Drake Secretarial
Colleges in New Jersey. She married William Cecil Moore, a teacher,
on September 3, 1938 and they had a daughter. Moore died on February
13, 1993 in Teaneck, New Jersey, at the age of eighty-seven.
Scope and Content:
The Dorothy Gleason Moore Papers include a diary, correspondence,
memorabilia, a scrapbook, biographical information, and photographs
dating from 1924-1993. Most of this material relates to her 1926 trip
to England, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Switzerland,
France, Latvia, and Lithuania. These documents include a travel
diary, letters and postcards to and from Moore, itineraries,
guidebooks and other memorabilia, and photographs. The scrapbook
reflects her activities as a student at Mount Holyoke College during
her freshman year, 1924-1925. It includes comments about faculty
members and the campus, class songs and yells, lists of "favorite
things," social functions, "memorable trips," and "dates and doings."
Biographical information consists of newspaper clippings, an
invitation to her wedding in 1938, and copies of her obituaries.
Photographs are of Moore and some of her friends, including several
Mount Holyoke College classmates.
Cite as: Dorothy Gleason Moore Papers, Mount Holyoke
College Archives and Special Collections, South
Hadley, MA.
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted.
Series List:
- Diaries
, 1926
, 1 folder
- Correspondence
, 1926-1927, 1974-1990
, 2 folders
- Memorabilia
, 1926
, 9 folders
- Biographical Information
, ca. 1926-1993
, 1 folder
- Scrapbook
, 1924-1928
, 1 folder
- Photographs
, ca. 1924-1990
, 1 folder
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