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Marion Hay Collection, 1891-1980

 

Summary

Creator:
Hay, Marion Jewell
Extent:
28.00 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Marion Hay Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-82-3

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes personal correspondence, classroom notes, and handouts, newspaper clippings and information about the travel agency Hay and her husband owned and operated in the 1930s.

Biographical / historical:

Marion Jewell Hay was born near Irving, Kansas, March 9, 1900. She received her secondary school education in Colorado, graduating from the Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs. She received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois in 1921, following which she taught a year at Henderson Brown College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas. She attended Ohio State University on a scholarship in 1923, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in 1924. During the year 1924-25, Mrs. Hay held a graduate assistantship in the Department of Principles of Education and an assistantship in Spanish. From September 1925 to December 1928 she served as an instructor of the Department of Romance Languages while pursuing the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education. In 1929 she became a professor of education at Florida State College for Women, and remained at Florida State until her retirement in 1967. Marion Jewell Hay traveled extensively before she came to Florida State. Among her travels were foreign study trips to Universidad Nacional de Mejico, 1922-1924; Centro de Estudios Historicos (Madrid) and Alliance Francaise and Sorbonne (Paris) 1928-1929. In 1926, after her marriage to Harry Hilts Hay, he accompanied her abroad.

Acquisition information:

Estate of Marion Jewell Hay

Gift

Processing information:

Hay Collection processed November 1986. Philosophy of Education Society Papers processed May 1987.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Marion Hay Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-82-3

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA