Inventory of the Lavona Marie Harvey Geurin Papers - Page 1

Description:	Lavona Marie Harvey Geurin PapersIndiana State University ArchivesUAC 208Scope and Content: The Lavona Marie Harvey Papers consists of two scrap books that contain newspaper clippings from various sources that depict the students of Indiana State Teachers College, teachers, sports activities, and news from around campus. Many of the clippings in these scrap books show student life as well as student organizations that exemplify academic excellence and community service and involvement. There are also a series of banquet programs, theatre and musical playbills, and items from school sponsored dances such as prom. These scrap books summarize and depict student life on campus from circa 1942-1948. Memorabilia from sporting events, campus renovations, Greek life, academics, and social clubs can all be found within this collection.Historical Information: Lavona Harvey passed away on Friday, November 14, 1997 in Winfield, West Virginia, at the age of 76 from complication due to Binswangers Disease, a Parkinson-related neurological disorder. She is survived by her daughter Tanya A. Harvey and her son-in-law, Jay Eiche, of Arlington, Virginia her daughter Hyla M. Harvey and her son-in-law, Ken OConnor, and their two children, Kala and Jewel, of Hurricane, West Virginia her brother Hobart B. Geurin of St. Louis, Missouri and her brother Gilbert G. Geurin of Las Vegas Nevada. A short graveside service was held on Saturday, November 22, 1997 at the Meharry Cemetery in Wingate, Indiana. Mother was born on February 22, 1921, in Bonita Louisiana. By 1927 her family moved to a farm close to Linden, Indiana, near her mothers birthplace. The family had a hard life on the farm. She, and especially her brother Hobart, bore the brunt of the farm work after their father went blind. Yet, she was valedictorian of her 1939 Romney High School class and earned the Citizenship Award from the Daughter of the American Revolution. Mother wanted to teach and received a scholarship to Indiana State Teachers College in Terre Haute. In 1942 she was listed in the Whos Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. She was a member of the Pi Omega Pi and Kappa Delta Pi scholastic honor societies. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1943. Subsequently she taught in Richmond, Lafayette and West Point, Indiana. She then worked her way through the University of Denvers Master of Business Administration program and received her MBA in 1948. Teaching was her passion, as was Indiana, and she returned to teach in Remington and Logansport. By all accounts, she was an energetic and enthusiastic teacher of home economics and business classes. She performed many volunteer and extracurricular functions—she choreographed school plays, she regularly chaperoned dances, she was advisor to all sorts of groups, including New Reporters, the Sunshine Girls, and was the 1951 class advisor. In 1953, she fell in love with Bill Harvey, one of the boys from Purdue rooming at her mothers boarding house in Lafayette. They were married on July 3, 1954 and traveled the Southwest for the next two years while my father worked as an engineer (or doodlebugger) on an Atlantic Refining seismographic team searching for oil. During this time, mother taught in Texas and New Mexico. In 1956 shereturned to the Rochester, NY, area where my father grew up as he had taken a job as an electrical engineer with Rochester Gas and Electric. They settled down on an acre of land in Honeoye Falls and Mother then began her homemaking days with much energy. Hyla and I were born in the late 50s. Mother and Daddy had a substantial garden and many fruit trees.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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