LU_225Louise Doyle ScrapbookLU.225Benedict ChatelainGreenwood Library Archives and Special Collections

March 11, 2021

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-07 13:51:21 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Greenwood Library Archives and Special Collections Louise Doyle Scrapbook Doyle, Louise. LU.225 1.75 Linear Feet 1 archival flat box and 1 archival photograph binder 1920-1937 English . 01 Binder 15 Restrictions on Access

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 Biographical sketch

Louise Doyle was born in McKenney, Virginia in 1901. She attended [then] State Normal School for Women from 1920 to 1921. While at the school she served as President of the Dinwiddie Club and on both the Music and Membership Committees of the YWCA. Additionally she was a member of the Glee Club, the Athletic Association, the Cunningham Literary Society, D.I.R.K., and the Rural Club. After graduation she taught for several years in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. In 1927 she married Clarence W. Rigdon who unfortunately died just one year later. Louise Doyle Rigdon returned to [by then] State Teachers College to earn her bachelor's degree and graduated in 1939. For many years, Louise Doyle Rigdon served as the President of the Hopewell Chapter of the Alumnae Association.

 Ownership and Custodial History

This collection was donated to the Longwood College Office of Alumni Relations by Mary Burton of Richmond, Virginia in 1993. It is unknown when the collection was transferred to the Greenwood Library Archives.

 Scope and content

This collection, which dates from 1920 to 1937, consists of Louise Doyle's students records, ephemera (1) portrait photograph, and a scrapbook which documents her initial time at Longwood from 1920 to 1921.

 Doyle, Louise. Rigdon, Louise Doyle. Louise Doyle, class scheduleSeptember 192001The RotundaJanuary 14, 1921February 4, 192101Glee Club Opera, flyer for performance, "By the Zuyder Zee"February 11 & 12, 192101Lasell Seminary, Commencement Program193001Soongbook, "Singing on the Steps at Longwood"193701State Female Normal School, color lithograph, undated01General

Likely clipped from S.F.N.S. catalog

State Teachers College, Alma Mater songbook, undated01School songs, undated01Paper hatchet01General

Likely originally part of scrapbook

Scrapbook1920-192101

Louise Doyle Scrapbook

Louise Doyle portrait photograph225.0011 Photographic Printsblack and white1.25"x1.0"Binder 15