Morton and Kay Briggs papers

Collection

Identifier: 2011-014

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Letters, photographs, programs, books, brochures, reports, calendars and daytimers, travel diaries and clippings provide documentation of Morton and Kay Briggs’s academic and community life as well as their travels.

Topics of this collection include travel in France and elsewhere in Europe, and Middletown social life (Monday Club, Conversational Club, American Red Cross Middlesex Chapter).

Dates

Creation: 1930-2000

Creator

Briggs, Kay (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

University records - Copyright held by Wesleyan University; all other copyright is retained by the creator - In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted

Biographical / Historical

1916 June 9 - Kay Briggs born

1936 – Certificat d’etudes University of Paris
1937 – B.A. Cornell University, Phi Beta Kappa
1939 – M.A. Harvard University
1941 June 26 Kay and Morton married
1944 – Ph.D. Harvard University
1944 – Assistant Professor of Romance Language
1956 – M.A. in eundem gradum Wesleyan University
1956 – Professor of Romance Languages
1958 – Secretary of the Faculty
1964-1966 – Acting director MAT
1967 Associate director MAT
1969 United Fund Man of the Year
1985 Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus
1995-1996 – Director of Education Services Program French Review business manager, active with American Red Cross Middlesex Chapter