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COLLECTION Identifier: SC 83

Scrapbooks of Audry Lynch, 1951-1985 (inclusive), 1951-1955 (bulk)

Overview

Scrapbooks of Audry McKenna Lynch, Radcliffe College Class of 1955.

Dates

  • Creation: 1951-1985
  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1951-1955

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials in English.

Access Restrictions:

Access. Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Audry Lynch is held by Audry Lynch. Upon her death, copyright transfers to her children: Stephanie Ann Lynch, Roberta Marie Lynch, and Gregory Richard Lynch, Jr. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.

Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.

Extent

1 linear feet (1 carton)

This collection consists of four scrapbooks of Audry Lynch's college years, 1951-1955 which include invitations, programs, newsclippings, football programs, correspondence and articles by Lynch for the Radcliffe News. There are also photographs of Audry Lynch McKenna, student groups, and Catholic Club material.

BIOGRAPHY

Audry McKenna Lynch, of Catholic extraction, was born in Cambridge on July 18, 1933, the daughter of Joseph George and Helen E. McKenna. Her father was head of the science department of Cambridge High and Latin School., Lynch was graduated from Marycliff Academy, Winchester, Mass in 1951 and from Radcliffe College in 1955. At Radcliffe she concentrated first in English and then in Government. Her chief extra-curricular activities were writing for the Radcliffe News and membership in the Catholic Club. In her senior year she was President of the Club.

Lynch married Gregory Lynch in 1956 and they had three children. She received her EdM from Boston University in 1967. She has taught in nursery school, in High School and has been a Junior Guidance Counselor. She writes freelance for numerous newspapers.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Accession numbers: R84-21, R85-14

This collection (part of Schlesinger Library acc. no. 83-M275), was given to the Library in December 1983 and by the Library to the Archives in July 1984. The collection was the gift of Audry McKenna Lynch.

Related Material:

There is related material at the Schlesinger Library; see Papers of Audry Lynch, 1937-1984 (83-M275--84-M60).

Processing Information

Processed: October, 1984

By: Isabelle Bland Dry '35

Creator

Subject

Title
Lynch, Audry. Scrapbooks of Audry Lynch, 1951-1985 (inclusive), 1951-1955 (bulk): A Finding Aid
Author
Radcliffe College Archives, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Language of description
eng
EAD ID
sch01083

Repository Details

Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository

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