Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

An appointment for research is required. The collection is open for research. No interlibrary loan.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, M'Ledge Moffet Collection, Radford University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks: M'Ledge Moffett Collection, Accession # RU 4.1.3, University Archives, McConnell Library, Radford University

Accruals

No additional accruals are expected.

Processing Information

Processed by Amanda Altice with additional finding aid information by Gene Hyde, Spring 2011.

Biographical Information

M'Ledge Moffett was born in 1892, the only child of William Ledgerwood Moffett and Mary Stoops Moffett. The name M'Ledge was formed from shortened versions of her parents names, Mary and Ledgerwood. M'Ledge came to teach at what is now Radford University in 1913 as the youngest faculty member and the only member of the Household Arts Department. For the first several years after the college opened, Moffett taught all of the Household Arts courses (Elementary Sewing, Elementary Cooking and Household Management) which met five times a week.In 1920, the Radford Normal School was reorganized and McConnell appointed Moffett as the new Dean of Women, a year before she received her Master of Arts degree. She was the first person to hold that post at any of the Virginia institutions of higher education. She held the Dean's post until her retirement in 1962.She died in 1969.

Beginning in 1915, Moffett began collecting newspaper articles related to Radford and its students, faculty, and staff, pasting them into scrapbooks in chronological order.

Scope and Content

The M'Ledge Moffett Collection: Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks contains the original scrapbooks and clippings collected by M'Ledge Moffett beginning in 1915, along with photocopies of the scrapbook pages. The six boxes identified in this collection are photocopies of the originals. Newspapers are not specificially identified, but the clippings appear to come from various papers from Radford, the New River Valley, and Virginia. Researchers should note that the individual newspaper clippings rarely contain information about what specific newspaper a clipping is from, and sometimes do not have specific dates for individual clippings.

Arrangement

Box 1: Clippings 1915-1936

Box 2: Clippings 1937 - Feb 1941

Box 3: Clippings Feb 1941 - Nov 1945

Box 4: Clippings Nov 1945 - Mar 1951

Box 5: Clippings Mar 1951 - Jan 1957

Box 6: Clippings Feb 1957 - May 1962