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Title: MS 104 Cecilia P. Dulin Papers, 1908-1954

Processor: Mary Kalfatovic

Cecilia P. Dulin (1872?-1968) was a teacher in the District of Columbia Public Schools from 1893 to 1941. She graduated from the D.C. Normal School in 1892, and received a bachelor's degree from George Washington University in 1927. She taught elementary grades at various schools, including the Force School at Massachusetts Ave. between 17th and 18th Streets, where she taught Quentin Roosevelt, the son of President , and Charles Taft, son of Vice President in 1907-1908. She later taught at the junior high school level. In 1931, she became principal of the Buchanan School in Southeast Washington. During her years as a teacher she organized the D.C. Parent Teacher Association and served on the Neighborhood Council of Southeast. As a member, and later chairman, of the Neighborhood Council she helped incorporate the resources of Southeast Washington into the school curriculum. After her retirement in 1941 she was a consultant to the juvenile protection division of the D.C. Parent Teacher Association and was D.C. Public Schools representative to the National Symphony Orchestra children's concert program.

Scope and Content: The Cecilia P. Dulin Papers, 1908-1954, consist of autobiographical and biographical material, correspondence, newspaper clippings, inaugural and other material documenting Dulin's career as a public school teacher in the District of Columbia.

This collection is arranged alphabetically by document type. Correspondence is arranged chronologically.

Donor: Mrs. Florence N. Cornell

Size: 3 folders

Restrictions: None

Container List

Folder 1: Biographical material, including a photograph of Dulin, ca.1908; retirement biography, June 28, 1940; newsclipping, February 15, 1950; "A Teacher Remembers," a handwritten memoir of teaching Quentin Roosevelt, ca.1954; draft of entry for Who's Who of American Women, 1957.

Folder 2: Correspondence, 1908-1913, including letter of recommendation by Theodore Roosevelt 1908; notes from Theodore Roosevelt and Edith , excusing their son Quentin's tardiness for school, 1908; formal invitation to , 1908; notes from William Howard Taft and Helen Taft, c.1908; letter from Charles Hilles about admittance to Presidential galleries of Congress, 1913.

Folder 3: Newsclipping about Theodore Roosevelt's sons, 1944;

Programs and invitations for Presidential inauguration ceremonies, 1949 and 1953, and illumination of the new portion of Capitol rotunda frieze, 1954.