Dorothy "Dorotha" Estella Rector was born June 1903 in Cascade, Montana. She attended Great Falls Public Schools prior to attending the State University of Montana in Missoula (now known as the University of Montana.) She attended college from 1921 to 1925, with a brief year at the University of Minnesota in 1922. She received her Bachelors of Arts, paired with a teaching certificate, from the University of Montana in 1925. While at the Missoula campus, she was actively involved in Alpha Phi Sorority, Glee Club, and Rotary. She was an avid dancer and performed at many productions both on and off campus. Following her time at the college, not much is known about her life. In 1940, she lived in Panama Canal Zone in Panama, to be with her married sister, and obtained work as a secretary for a mining camp. She returned to Cascade, Montana after two years, and lived there until her death in 1983.
The Dorothy E. Rector collection contains photographs of Rector's time as a student at the University of Montana, and correspondence between friends and family both while Rector was a student and later in her life. The collection also has several performance programs, most from shows that Rector was involved in while at the University of Montana, and a few from other shows in and around Montana. There is also a scrapbook highlighting Rector's college experience at the University of Montana between 1921-1925.
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Dorothy E. Rector Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.
This collection was held by the Montana Museum of Art and Culture at the University of Montana prior to its transfer to Archives and Special Collections. No information is available about its acquisition by the Museum.
This collection was transferred to Archives and Special Collections from the Montana Museum of Art and Culture in 1982 or 1983.
Contents in this collection were arranged alphabetically by folder title and by format.
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This scrapbook is fragile.