Marilyn Church Collection
Collection
0074-MDHC
Marilyn Church was a professor in the Department of Early Childhood-Elementary Education and served as director of the Center for Young Children at the University of Maryland at College Park. Her papers relate to various aspects of early childhood education and concern primarily the teaching career of Esther G. Cristy and the film collaboration projects of James L. Hymes.
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The items in the Marilyn Church Collection date from 1909 to approximately 1960. The collection consists of scrapbooks, notebooks, and a toy from Esther G. Cristy and a photograph of a kindergarten class. Also included are five 16mm educational films which were made with the collabortion of James L. Hymes, Jr., who was a professor of education at the University of Maryland.
Marilyn Church was born and raised in Iowa, and between 1945 and 1954, she taught at several kindergartens and public schools in Iowa and Nebraska. She then served as Head Teacher at a nursery in Mason City, Iowa, until she entered Indiana University in 1959. She received her B.S. in elementary education in 1962, and continued her studies, taking her M.S. the next year and becoming a member of the Pi Lambda Theta Honorary Society for women in education. In 1969, she received her Ed. D. in educational psychology, also from Indiana University. Throughout her graduate studies, she continued teaching, serving as an instructor at both Indiana University and Central Missouri State University. In 1969 she came to the University of Maryland and taught as an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Head Start Regional Office, the Department of Early Childhood-Elementary Education, and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She has also served as the Director of the Center for Young Children of the University of Maryland at College Park.
The collection has been divided into two series.
The Marilyn Church Collection was donated to the University of Maryland College Park Libraries by Marilyn Church in 1988.
The materials in the collection have been divided into two series. Metal paper clips have been removed. Acid-free paper has been placed between the leaves of the scrapbooks to prevent acid migration. The scrapbooks and notebooks have been placed in acid-free folders in an acid-free box. The photograph has been transferred to the Photograph Collection. Childrens' books and reference sources on early childhood education originally included in the collection have been transferred to the Rare Books and Literary Manuscripts Department as part of the Association for Childhood Education International book collection (ACEI book numbers 675-687); a listing of these materials is appended to this guide. All films have been transferred to the Film Collection.
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