Loda Mae Davis papers
Finding aid prepared by Serena Rodholm
Special Collections & University Archives
The UCR Library
P.O. Box 5900
University of California
Riverside, California 92517-5900
Phone: 951-827-3233
Fax: 951-827-4673
Email: specialcollections@ucr.edu
URL: http://library.ucr.edu/libraries/special-collections-university-archives
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Loda Mae Davis papers
Date (inclusive): 1898-2002, undated
Collection Number: UA 082
Extent:
5.8 linear feet
(14 boxes)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Abstract: This collection includes correspondence, publications, fiction and non-fiction manuscripts, speech transcripts, photographs,
videos, video logs, audio cassettes, and other material. Loda Mae Davis (1898-1989) was the first Dean of Women at the University
of California, Riverside when it opened in 1954. The entire collection was for the Loda Mae Davis Women's Archive. The first
part of the collection describes Davis' papers and the rest of the collection documents the life and work of female faculty
members who contributed to the UCR academic community. Each file includes an oral history interview and supporting material.
Languages: The collection is in English.
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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and/or commercial use, of some materials may be restricted by gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and
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Preferred Citation
[identification of item], [date if possible]. Loda Mae Davis papers (UA 082). Special Collections & University Archives, University
of California, Riverside.
Processing History
Processing of the Loda Mae Davis papers was completed by undergraduate students from the University of California, Riverside
as part of the Special Collections & University Archives Backlog Processing Project started in 2015. This project was funded
by the UCR Library and administered by Jessica Geiser, Collections Management Librarian.
Collection Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, publications, fiction and non-fiction manuscripts, speech transcripts, photographs,
videos, video logs, audio cassettes, and other material. Loda Mae Davis (1898-1989) was the first Dean of Women at the University
of California, Riverside when it opened in 1954. Davis earned an undergraduate degree in commerce (1923) and a graduate degree
in business (1932) at UC Berkeley. An economic analyst, consumer rights advocate, and world traveler, she worked for the WPA
and other Federal entities during the Roosevelt administration, then for the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration following
World War II. She also completed graduate work in psychology at University of California, Berkeley (UCB) prior to her appointment
as Dean at UCR. Included are Davis' personal and professional papers and an oral history interview. The rest of the collection
documents the life and work of female faculty members who made notable contributions to the UCR academic community. Each
file includes an oral history interview, and supporting material
Collection Arrangement
The collection is serparated into personal papers of Loda Mae Davis and Betty Clark Moore under series one and two. The next
two series regard the Loda Mae Davis Women's Archive's creation and the Oral History Project that was to be apart of the archive.
The last two series consist of Audio/Visual and Digital materials that were recorded for the Oral History Project. The collection
is arranged into six series as follows:
- Series 1. Loda Mae Davis personal papers, 1898-1998
- Series 2. Betty Clark Moore personal papers,m 1932-1998
- Series 3. Loda Mae Davis Women's Archives, 1986-2002
- Series 4. Oral History Project, 1962-2002
- Series 5. Audio/Visual materials, 1954-2000
- Series 6. Digital materials, 1987-2000
Biographical / Historical
Loda Mae Davis (1898-1989) was born in Washington State to homesteaders in 1898. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1923 and
continued on to obtain a Master's of Science in Business in 1932. She continued to study at Berkeley as a graduate student
in Psychology. During the Great Depression she traveled the world for several years before returning to the United States
and joining the Works Project Administration. She spent well over a decade working for the US Government or as a consultant.
Davis joined the new University of California, Riverside faculty in 1953 as the Dean of Women and also served as an Associate
Dean of Students during her over ten years at UCR. She remained a part of the UCR community after her retirement, helping
to found the Loda Mae Davis Archive and serve as a mentor to women in academia.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Davis, Loda Mae
Moore, Betty Clark, 1915-2011
Riverside (Calif.)
Women
Genres and Forms of Materials
Oral histories
Series 1
Loda Mae Davis personal papers
1898-1998
Series Scope and Contents
The series covers Loda Mae Davis's personal and professional materials. Specifically there are her published work and magazine
edits, correspondence with her family and fellow scholars. In 1960, Loda Mae Davis went to Samoa on sabbatical to study nutrition
and living conditions. Her field notes and letters to others during this time is included. This series also discusses Loda
Mae Davis's time at the University of California, Riverside as a professor and advocate for women's rights within the university.
Series Arrangement
The series is arranged in alphabetical order by type.
Correspondence Series 1: Sub-Series 1
1934-1977
Sub-Series Scope and Contents
The sub-series contains letters to and from Loda Mae Davis and her famiy, friends, and fellow scholars. They revolve around
themes such as Loda Mae Davis's sabbatical trip to Samoa, personal updates, her United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
(UNRAA) work, and her position as the Dean of Women at the University of California, Riverside.
Sub-Series Arrangement
The sub-series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 1, folder 2
From Margaret A. Bartlett
1949
Box 1, folder 3
From Jean Bejeman
circa 1948
Box 1, folder 4
To and from Marie Berger
1952-1972
Box 1, folder 5
To and from Louise Cripps
1949-1952
Box 1, folder 6
To the Davis family
1934-1954
Box 1, folder 7
Regarding Dean of Women
1953
Box 1, folder 8
To and from Lura Elliot
1949
Box 1, folder 9
From Theodore Irwin
undated
Box 1, folder 10
To and from Michael Kley
circa 1946-1955
Box 1, folder 11
From Douglas E. Lurton
1951
Box 1, folder 13
To and from F. Eugene Miller
1957-1960
Box 1, folder 14
Personal correspondence
1959-1977
Box 1, folder 15
From Madalynne Reuter
1951
Box 1, folder 16
From Frances Rintz
1946-1953
Box 1, folder 20
To and from Consumers Union employee Colston E. Wayne
1960
Box 1, folder 21
"Who's Who in California"
circa 1967
Box 1, folder 22
To Lilian D. Wilson
1956-1960
Personal materials Series 1: Sub-Series 2
1898-1989
Sub-Series Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains information on Loda Mae Davis's background from childhood to adulthood. There are images of the Davis
family dating from 1898-1984, five years before Loda Mae Davis's death in 1989. It includes the telling of her own story,
genealogy research, and awards received and recognition of the organizations she was a part of such as the Delta Kappa Gamma
Society and American Association of University Women. This sub-series also discusses Loda Mae Davis's death and memorial.
This sub-series is connected to the Loda Mae Davis Memorial tapes in the Audio/Visual series in box 11.
Sub-Series Arrangement
The sub-series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 1, folder 23
Biographical information
1948-1983
Box 1, folder 24
Certificate and awards
1947-1960
Box 1, folder 25
College transcripts
1940-1948
Box 1, folder 26
Genealogical research
1938-1979
Box 1, folder 27
Government documents
1940-1962
Box 1, folder 28
Lora Mae Davis funeral & death
1989
Box 1, folder 29
Photographs and negatives
1898-1984
Box 1, folder 30
Michael Kley Playlet clipping
1956
Box 1, folder 31
Short auto biography by Loda Mae Davis
1985
Printed materials Series 1: Sub-Series 3
1930-1998
Sub-Series Scope and Contents
The sub-series contains published articles written and edited by Loda Mae Davis or pertaining to her. Loda Mae Davis both
wrote articles and edited magazines on topics such as education, women's rights, and her own experiences told in story form.
There are also newspaper articles about her role in making the University of California, Riverside more open to female faculty,
UCR events she was a part of, and her retirement from the Consumer Division on National Defense Commission.
Sub-Series Arrangement
The sub-series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 1, folder 33
Articles by Loda Mae Davis
1956
Flat-File-Folder 1, Item 1
Changing attitudes to women
1967-1989
Box 1, folder 35
The Christian Advocate
1950
Box 2, folder 1
Critiques of professional and personal writing
undated
Box 2, folder 2
The Daily Californian
undated
Box 2, folder 4
Fiction and non-fiction professional writing
undated
Box 2, folder 5
Medical Woman's Journal
1949
Box 2, folder 6
National Conference on Consumer Education Speech
1939
Box 2, Folders 7-8
Personal and professional writing
1948-1957
Box 2, folder 10
Promotional materials
circa 1960
Box 2, folder 11
Post-UCR women events
1971-1987
Box 2, folder 12
Publication of professional writing
1957-1961
Flat-File-Folder 1, Item 2
Tenure as officer at Consumer Division on National Defense Commission
1937-1942
Box 2, folder 13
UC Riverside Magazine
1941-1984
Flat-File-Folder 1, Item 3
UCR related clippings
1954-1986
Box 2, folder 14
The Washington Post
undated
Travel Series 1: Sub-Series 4
1935-1960
Sub-Series Scope and Contents
This sub-series includes documents and personal materials from Loda Mae Davis's travels to Russia and Europe in the mid-1930's.
Her travel materials, notes, and writings on malnutrition in Samoa while on sabbatical in 1960 are also in this series.
Sub-Series Arrangement
The sub-series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 2, folder 15
The Fa'a Samoa- The Old Samoan Way slide table of contents
1960
Box 2, folder 18
Traveling notes
1935-1936
University of California, Riverside Series 1: Sub-Series 5
1947-1984
Sub-Series Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains pamphlets for UCR affiliated programs, copies of newspaper clippings regarding women's rights and
Loda
Mae Davis's connections to UCR, as well as copies of articles about UCR's discrimination of women in the 1970's and women's
slow growth into academia through the twentieth century.
Sub-Series Arrangement
The sub-series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 2, folder 20
UCR and women in academia related clippings
undated
Box 2, folder 21
Women in academia articles
undated
Series 2
Betty Clark Moore personal papers
1932-1998
Series Scope and Contents
This series includes books, pamphlets, and research on Betty Clark Moore's personal and professional materials. Family trees
and seperate research as well as her high school and college graduation and reunion books tell of her achievements in zoology.
Some of her professional writing/editing on subjects like zoology and biology.
Series Arrangement
The series is arranged in albhabetical order by type.
Personal materials Series 2: Sub-Series 1
1932-1991
Sub-Series Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains yearbooks, awards, reunion books, genealogical research, and commencement information about Betty
Clark Moore's personal and academic background. There is a family tree, and writings about her geneaology.
Sub-Series Arrangement
The sub-series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 3, folder 1
Awards and degrees
1946-1950
Box 3, Folders 2-3
College reunion programs
1936-1986
Box 3, folder 4
Columbia University Commencement program
1948
Box 3, folder 5
Dedham High School yearbook
1932
Box 3, folder 7
Family and personal history
undated
Box 3, folder 8
Radcliffe College yearbook
1936
Publications Series 2: Sub-Series 2
1936-1998
Sub-Series Scope and Contents
These materials regard Betty Clark Moores editing and writing in the fields of zoology and biology. She wrote a newsletter
of the changes in the Zoology Department at Columbia University and wrote in the field of biology about Drosophila, light
adaptation, and frog hybrids.
Sub-Series Arrangement
The sub-series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 3, folder 9
"The Collecting Net"
1937-1987
Box 3, folder 10
Department of Zoology newsletter
1963
Box 3, folder 11
Publications
circa 1936-1998
Series 3
Loda Mae Davis Women's Archive
1986-2002
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains information on the creation of the Loda Mae Davis
Women's Archives which was originally created in the early 1990's. An oral history project began in 1987 when Loda Mae Davis's
oral history was recorded. This series includes the inventories of the collection, descriptions of the original collections
order, and correspondence of the founding of the Loda Mae Davis Women's Archives.
Series Arrangement
The series is arranged alphabetically.
Box 3, folder 12
Annotated slide inventory
undated
Box 3, folder 13
Correspondence and legal contracts
1986-1990
Box 3, folder 14
Founding of Loda Mae Davis Women's Archive
1997
Box 3, folder 15
Friedman collection description
1999
Box 4, folder 1
Friedman collection description by object
1999
Box 4, folder 2
Guidelines on how to use and revise finding aids
2001
Box 4, folder 3
Introduction to the Loda Mae Davis Women's Archive
1998
Box 4, Folders 4-5
Inventory by location
1997-2002
Box 4, Folders 6-7
Inventory by subject
1999-2002
Box 4, folder 8
List of finding aids
2000
Box 4, folder 8b
Loda Mae Davis Women's Archive
undated
Physical Description:
1 folder
Series 4
Oral History Project
1962-2002
Series Scope and Contents
This series is based on the oral history project a part of the Loda Mae Davis's Oral History Project which began in 1987 Loda
Mae Davis was interviewed. Two graduate students Ms. Jennifer Fisher and Jeff Friedman recorded women in academia associated
with Loda Mae Davis and processed the collection until 1999. The materials in the series pertain to each individual that was
interviewed, with subjects a part of the interview process separated out. Many of the women's information contains letters
of agreement for the interview, response to questionnaires, draft and edited transcripts of the interviews, publicatiions,
and research on the women's background.
Most of the women who were interviewed also have a tape or floppy disk recording of their interview. These are located in
boxes 11-14.
Series Arrangement
This series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 4, Folders 9-10
Loda Mae Davis oral history project and archive creation
1986-1998
Box 4, folder 11
Loda Mae Davis table of contents
undated
Box 4, Folders 12-13
List of interviews conducted
1999-2002
Box 4, folder 14
Jennifer Fisher and Jeff Friedman interview notes
1994-1998
Box 4, folder 20
Christina M. Ashby-Martin
1998
Box 4, folder 24
Jean Sutherland Boggs
1998
Box 4, folder 25, Box 5, Folders 1-4
Sylvia Broadbent
1991-2000
Box 5, folder 16, Box 6, Folders 1-7
Box 6, folder 8
Marilyn Vaughan Drown
1998
Box 6, Folders 10-15
Isabelle Emerson
1999-2000
Box 6, Folders 16-18b
Françoise Forester-Hahn
2000-2001
Box 6, folder 19
B.J. Goodwin
circa 1997-1998
Box 6, folder 21-24, Box 7, Folders 1-3
Jacquelyn Haywood
1994-1998
Box 7, Folders 15-17
Margaret Mann Lesley
1987-2000
Box 7, folder 23-24, Box 8, Folders 1-2
Betty Clark Moore
1987-1998
Box 8, Folders 3-9
June O'Connor
circa 1990-2001
Box 8, folder 18
Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter
1963-1997
Box 9, Folders 1-7
Christena L. Schlundt
1966-1998
Box 10, Folders 1-4
Barbara Sinclair
1999-2000
Box 10, folder 11
Paige Whitley-Bauguess
1989-1998
Who's Who of American Women, first edition
1958
Physical Description:
1 volume
Physical Location: Book is located on the shelf at the end of the collection
Series 5
Audio/Visual materials
1954-2000
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains audio/visual materials of Loda Mae Davis and women in academia at the University of California, Riverside
taken from 1987-2000. Most of the material in this series are interview tapes of women who made a difference at UCR and/or
were associated with the work of Loda Mae Davis. These tapes are connected to the oral history interview transcripts in boxes
4-10 and digital material in box 14. There is also a VHS tape titled "Loda Mae Davis: A Remarkable Woman" and record on a
dedication event to those in the science field.
Series Arrangement
The series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 11, Item 1
Ruth apRoberts- master
1995
Box 11, items 33-36
Shirley Blum - master & duplicate
1999
Physical Description:
4 Cassettes
Box 11, items 2-6
Sylvia Broadbent- master
1994-1995
Box 11, items 7-10
Selma Jeanne Cohen- master & duplicates
2000
Box 11, items 11-14
Ruth Cooper- master & duplicates
1999
Box 11, items 15-16
Loda Mae Davis memorial
1989
Box 14, Item 2
Dedication University of California College of Letters & Science Riverside, California
1954
Box 11, items 17-20
Isabelle Emerson- master & duplicates
1999
Box 11, items 21-22
Françoise Forster-Hahn - master & duplicate
2000
Box 11, items 23-24
Jacquelyn Haywood- master
1994
Box 11, items 37-38
Anne Kernan - master
1995-1996
Physical Description:
2 Cassettes
Box 11, items 25-28
Elizabeth Lang- master & duplicate
1998
Box 11, items 29-32
Margaret Mann Lesley- master
1987
Box 12, items 5-11
Betty Clark Moore- master
1987-1994
Box 12, Item 12
Anne Platzer- master
1996
Box 14, Item 3
"A Remarkable Woman"
undated
Box 12, Item 13
Irene Richard- master
1994
Box 12, items 17-32, Box 13, items 1-2
Christena Schlundt- master & duplicate
1998
Box 12, items 14-16
Ada Schmidt- master & duplicate
1996-1997
Box 13, items 3-7
Barbara Sinclair- master & duplicate
1999
Box 13, items 12-13
Jolinda Traugh - master
2002
Physical Description:
2 Cassettes
Box 13, items 8-11
Alice Wexler- master
1985-1986
Box 15, items 1-3
Loda Mae Davis
1986-07-31
Physical Description:
3 Cassettes
Box 15, items 4-6
Loda Mae Davis
1986-09-19
Physical Description:
3 Cassettes
Box 15, items 7-9
Loda Mae Davis with Alice Wexler
1987-01-13
Physical Description:
3 Cassettes
Box 15, items 10-11
Loda Mae Davis with Sarah Stage and Alice Wexler
1987-01-15
Physical Description:
2 Cassettes
Box 16, Item 1
Loda Mae Davis Photographs
undated
Physical Description:
1 Cassettes
Box 16, Item 2
Loda Mae Davis Photographs and Slides
undated
Physical Description:
1 Cassettes
Box 16, Item 3
Loda Mae Davis: A Remarkable Woman
1994-08-13
Physical Description:
1 Cassettes
Box 16, Item 4
Loda Mae Davis: Sherna Gluck Seminar
1986-10-31
Physical Description:
1 Cassettes
Box 16, items 5-10
Loda Mae Davis: Christina Shlundt
1987-01-11
Physical Description:
6 Cassettes
Box 16, boxes 17-19
Loda Mae Davis Slide Collection
1960-1964
Physical Description:
3 boxes
Physical Location: Three slide boxes are located inside box 16
Box 16
Loda Mae Davis Slide Collection Descriptions
Physical Description:
1 folder
Series 6
Digital materials
1987-2000
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains floppy disks of the oral history interviews taken of women in academia at the University of California,
Riverside from 1987-2000 who made a difference to women's rights on the campus. These interviews are related to the interview
transcripts and recordings in boxes 4-14.
Series Arrangement
The series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 14, items 4-5
Selma Jean Cohen
circa 2000
Box 14, Item 9
Françoise Forster
undated
Box 14, Item 11
Margaret Mann Lesley
1987
Box 14, items 14-18
Betty Clark Moore
circa 1987
Box 14, Item 20
Christena Schlundt
undated
Box 14, items 22-23
Barabara Sinclair
undated
