Bette Nance Terry
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- Title
- Bette Nance Terry
- Date(s)
- 3/28/2008
- Interviewee(s)
- Bette Nance Terry
- Interviewer(s)
- Chris D'Arpa
- Summary
- Bette Jean Nance Terry (1922-2016) enrolled at U of I in 1940 and became a member of the Alpha Chi Omega fraternity. In the interview Terry recounts her work as a reporter for the Daily Illini and the changes that took place on campus when many of the young men left school for the war, including her recollections of the only woman to assume the role of Chief Illiniwek, Idelle Stith.
- Subject(s)
- 1944 graduating class
- alpha chi omega
- chief illiniwek
- daily illini
- kappa tau alpha
- shi ai
- theta sigma phi
- womens league
- world war ii