Bettie Rea Fox Hollingsworth papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 104

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Bettie Rea Fox Hollingsworth papers primarily consist of printed items, clippings, and photographs. This material documents Hollingsworth’s personal and professional connections to Centenary College of Louisiana and the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church. This includes items connected to Hollingsworth attending Centenary during the late 1940s and working as the Conference Director of Youth Work during the early 1950s. Also included are the memoirs of Hollingsworth’s colleague, Elizabeth Thompson (1907-2010), who worked as the Director of Rural Work for the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church during the 1950s.

Dates

1931 - 2008

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Physical rights are retained by the Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.

Biographical / Historical

Bettie Rea Fox Hollingsworth graduated from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1949. She earned a master’s degree from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in 1950. From 1950 to 1953, Hollingsworth worked as the Conference Director of Youth Work for the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church. In 1953, she married Bob Hollingsworth. From 1962 to 1963, she served as vice president for the Alumni Association of Centenary College of Louisiana.