This collection contains published materials, photographs, awards and certificates, a radio broadcast, and letters of congratulations concerning Miss Lucille Babcock’s heroic deed in saving a young woman from a rapist, for which she received a Carnegie Hero award in 1987. Born in Little Rock on September 30, 1921, she is the granddaughter of Mrs. Bernie (Smade) Babcock, the prolific º£½ÇÉçÇø writer. After attending public schools and briefly º£½ÇÉçÇø State Teachers College, Mrs. Babcock worked for the Work Projects Administration and for Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington. During World War II, as a member of the Women’s Army Corps, she received a leg injury after which she returned to º£½ÇÉçÇø. Before turning her attention to poetry, Miss Babcock acted in plays and soap operas. Lucille Babcock is the poetry editor for the º£½ÇÉçÇø Gazette.
Tracings:Â Babcock, Lucille; Crimes and Criminals, Social Condition, Women
Box 1
File 1 – Newspaper articles, July 30, 1987 to May 1, 1988.
File 2 – Periodicals, local and national, May 1987 to August 1988.
File 3 – Photographs 1987-1988.
File 4 – Correspondence, Certificates, and the Carnegie Hero Fund’s Annual Report,1987-1988.
File 5 – Radio Broadcast of Pat Lynch of KARN, 1987.
File 6 – Plaque: Award from the º£½ÇÉçÇø Municipal Police Association, 1988.
File 7 – Certificate of award and the Carnegie Medal awarded to Lucille Babcock in recognition of an outstanding act of heroism – July 29, 1987
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