Millicent Sloboda Lane
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- Title
- Millicent Sloboda Lane
- Date(s)
- 1/27/2008
- Interviewee(s)
- Millicent Sloboda Lane
- Interviewer(s)
- Chris D'Arpa
- Summary
- Arriving at UI shortly before the war, Millicent Lane (1923-2018) recalls the outpouring of emotion by fellow students following Pearl Harbor. Lane was a part of the collective of women who edited the Daily Illini during WWII and describes how they led the paper and featured a column about GIs to encourage greater civility between soldiers and students on campus.
- Subject(s)
- 1944 graduating class
- daily illini
- davenport hall
- journalism
- theta sigma pi
- world war ii