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Syracuse Herald, December 26, 1936, p. 11 — "Alumna of Miss Wheelock’s School Engaged to Yale Man; Bridal Next June", with the portrait of Miss Dorothy Jane Brown

Date
December 26, 1936
Type
newspaper
Repository
NewspaperArchive (subscription); page image in the house archive
Locator
p. 11
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Rights
Newspaper page, 1936. Shown under the owner’s ruling of October 28, 2026 on public-domain and unrenewed newspaper pages; the Syracuse Herald’s copyright renewals have not been searched. It will be removed on request.

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  1. Syracuse Herald, December 26, 1936, p. 11 — "Alumna of Miss Wheelock’s School Engaged to Yale Man; Bridal Next June", with the portrait of Miss Dorothy Jane Brown: Syracuse Herald, December 26, 1936, p. 11, with the engagement notice and portrait of Miss Dorothy Jane BrownSyracuse Herald, December 26, 1936, p. 11, with the engagement notice and portrait of Miss Dorothy Jane Brown

Statements this record supports

  • C-1100 — Dorothy Jane Brown's engagement to Richard Bates Chaffee was announced in December 1936. 'Dr. and Mrs. Mortimer G. Brown ... announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Dorothy Jane Brown, to Richard Bates Chaffee of Auburn, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Chaffee of Newark, N.Y.' She had graduated from the Goodyear-Burlingame School and Miss Wheelock's School in Boston; he had prepared at Andover, graduated from Yale in 1933 and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. The wedding was to be in June [1937]. The notice prints her studio portrait, captioned 'Miss Dorothy Jane Brown'.