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Sondra Claudine Langtry Collected Papers

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399

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Call Number:
CDG-A.Langtry, Sondra Claudine
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
Date:
1978-1982 (bulk)
Abstract:
Collection consists of materials about the 9th International Peace Research Association conference in Orillia, Ontario in 1981; peace research abstracts from the Peace Research Institute-Dundas; Russian language disarmament periodicals (photocopies), 1979-1981; United Nations arms control literature; and reference files on the antinuclear "freeze" movement, chemical and biological weapons, peace studies, women and military employment, and military spending.

Sondra Claudine Langtry, 1944-1982; born in New York City, received B.A. in French from American University, M.A. in Russian literature from George Washington University, M.A. in Middle East studies from the University of Texas; employed by the Voice of America in the USSR; also abstracted materials for the Canadian Peace Research Institute (later Peace Research Institute-Dundas) in Dundas, Ontario, Canada. She was active in promoting peace and opposing nuclear weapons, and was a co-chairman of PeaceWorks in Wilmington, North Carolina at the time of her death at age 38.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of Sondra Claudine Langtry.

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