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Lonita Gustad Corothers Papers

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Title

Lonita Gustad Corothers Papers

Identifier

MA 48

Creator

Lonita Gustad Corothers

Dates

1942-2010

Extent

6.0 linear feet (six records center boxes)

Abstract

Lonita Gustad Corothers was a student in the Division of Pharmacy at South Dakota State College starting in September 1946 and graduating in the spring of 1950. Her graduating class was comprised of eight women and 56 men. Her minor was in chemistry. She began keeping a diary in 1945 when she was 17 years old and realized that she was "living in momentous times." The collection is composed of her diaries from 1946 through 2010, excerpts from and a timeline index of the diaries, correspondence with Tom Corothers written primarily during their courtship, a grief notebook written after her husband died and her original writings and poetry.

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