Patricia (Patty) Caron Crowley papers

Descriptive Summary

Title: Patricia (Patty) Caron Crowley papers
Identifier: BMRC.LOYOLA.CARON_CROWLEY
Repository: Loyola University Chicago, Women and Leadership Archives
Language: English
Size: 40.0 Linear feet
Dates: 1913-2005
Creator: Crowley, Patricia Caron, 1913-

Biographical note

Patricia (Patty) Caron was born 24 July 1913 in Chicago, Illinois, to Ovidas Joseph Caron, who owned and operated the Caron Spinning Co. of Rochelle, Illinois (now Caron International) and his wife, Marietta Higman Caron. She is the oldest of five children (Marietta, Richard, Joan, and John. In 1921, Patty attended school at the Sacred Heart Convent in Lake Forest, Illinois, before moving to Sacred Heart School in Chicago. Patty then attended Immaculata High School in Chicago for her first two years of high school before returning to Sacred Heart for her final two years, graduating in 1931. During her school years Patty was active in the Girl Scouts, founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low. After high school, Patty attended Trinity College in Washington, D.C., spending her junior year abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris, and graduating in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts.

Scope and Contents note

Includes biographical materials, correspondence, records of Caron's activities, scrapbooks, photographs, artifacts, audiovisual materials, and published materials relating to Catholicism, women in religion, and dissent in the Catholic Church.

Custodial History note

Patricia Caron Crowley donated all materials to the Women and Leadership Archives on 7 December 1994 as original accession WLA1994.16, and addendums WLA1995.01, WLA1996.30, WLA1998.02, WLA1999.12, WLA1999.32, WLA2000.17, and WLA2001.04.

Processing Information note

This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2011 January 18 by Andrew Steadham.

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