Grace Strickland Chaires, class of 1927, papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-0165

Staff Only

Scope and Contents Note

This collection contains the military records of Grace Strickland Chaires and items collected from her training for the United States Navy’s Women’s Reserves (WAVES) including items from the Naval Reserves Midshipman School, correspondence, certificates for her service, programs, pamphlets, and clippings. There is also her diploma from the University of Michigan.

Dates

Creation: 1942-1958

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Publication rights

Copyright has not been assigned to Washington College. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Washington College 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.

Biographical Information

Grace Strickland Chaires (1903-2004) grew up in Berlin, Maryland. Her parents were Alfred G. Stickland (1866-1906) and Effie Tilghman Strickland Cox (1869-1952). She graduated from Washington College in 1927 with a Bachelor of Library Science. Grace also graduated from the Beacon School of Business in Wilmington, Delaware. During World War II she attended the Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School and served in the WAVES as a Lieutenant. She enlisted in February of 1942 and was honorably discharged in 1953. During her military career, she married Thomas S. Chaires (-1971). Grace served as the head librarian at Salisbury University. She passed away on October 11, 2004, in Princess Anne, MD.