Betty Torre Reck Collection
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Folder Listings 

General note

1) Education. Vol. 94, 4

2) Family Planning

3) Global development

4) Anthropology

5) Child development

6) Christianity

7) Psychology

8) Mead in Samoa

9) Science. Vol. 191

10) Christmas postcards from Mead

11) Mead Biographical info and obituaries

12) Reck Correspondence

Books 

Books

1. Mead, Margaret, and Ken Heyman. "Family." New York: The MacMillan Company, 1965. Hardback. Author's inscription: "For Matthew and Betty Torre - with love and happy memories. Margaret Mead, Mardi Gras 1966" (Placed in the non-circulating Special Collection in the Upstairs Archives.)

2. Mead, Margaret, and Rhoda Metraux. "A Way of Seeing. New Perspectives on a changing world: from youth and marriage to power and politics." New York: The McCall Publishing, 1970. Hardback. Authors' inscription: "For Betty and Matt / Affectionately / Rhoda / Margaret / March 1970" (Placed in the non-circulating Special Collection in the Upstairs Archives.)

3. Mead, Margaret, and Ken Heyman. "World enough: Rethinking the Future." Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. Hardback. Author's inscription: "For Betty and Matthew Torre. Margaret Mead [March?] 1976." (Placed in the non-circulating Special Collection in the Upstairs Archives.)

Inside the book are the following items:

a. a press release for the book;

b. a Christmas card "from Margaret Mead in New York and Sevanne Kassarjian in Tehran, 1975" (which was removed and placed in the folder labeled "Christmas postcards from Mead");

c. a City of Eunice proclamation designating Dr. Margaret Mead an Honorary Citizen of Eunice, Louisiana on March 10, 1976 (removed from the book and placed in the folder "Mead Biographical Info and Obituaries").

4. Howard, Jane. "Margaret Mead: A Life." New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. Hardback. (Placed in the circulating collection of the Nadine Vorhoff Library.)

Related Collections 

General note

See Newcomb Archives Bio File “Reck, Elizabeth Torre”