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Carol
Lynn MacGregor (b.1942) Papers, 1970-1982 MSS 100q The daughter of Gordon Angus and Nellie Irwin MacGregor, Carol L. MacGregor grew up in Boise. She graduated from Borah High School, studied at Wellesley College, and received a degree in history from the University of California in 1964. She worked as a research assistant to Senator Len B. Jordan in Washington, D.C., before returning to Idaho. After her first marriage to Joseph Leonard Schwarz, she married Harry L. Bettis in 1970. She has one son, Joseph Gordon Schwarz, and three daughters, Laura MacGregor, Catherine Moore, and Janelle Agnes Bettis. Her marriage to Harry Bettis ended in divorce in 1983. Carol MacGregor has taught foreign languages at the high school and college levels and has also taught English to migrant workers. She oversaw the restoration of the Moore-Cunningham mansion, 1977-81, and has been active in numerous civic causes in Boise. She received a masters degree in international relations from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1987. [She earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of New Mexico in 1999 with a dissertation entitled “Founding Community in Boise, Idaho, 1882-1910 .”]
These papers, which (with the exception of the biographical material) are
closed until the year 2014, consist chiefly of letters that Carol MacGregor
wrote to her father-in-law, Laurence Moore Bettis. Container List Box 13, Folder 22 Biographical Material Box 12, Folder 19 Letters to Laurence Moore Bettis: 1970-1974 (closed) Return to Moore-Cunningham-Bettis collection main page Return to Special Collections main page For questions or comments about this page, contact Special Collections Department This page last changed: 10 September 2004 |
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