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Collection Summary

Title	Dephane Hammond
Span Dates	1986-2005
Bulk Dates	(bulk dates, 1986-200)
Quantity	.25 linear ft.
Printed Material
Location	Archives and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of South Dakota.
Summary	Dephane Hammond was born on December 25, 1895, in Iroquois, South Dakota. She graduated with her BS from Huron College in Huron, South Dakota in 1918 and taught high school over the next six years in the towns of Salem, Howard, and Bridgewater. Ms. Hammond then secured a junior high teaching position in Mitchell, South Dakota. She taught American history and civics at Mitchell Junior High School for the next 42 years. Ms Hammond also served as a counselor in the government program at Girls State and later helped to revise the South Dakota course of study for U.S. history. Ms. Hammond retired from teaching in 1961 and moved to Long Beach, California, a year later. She died on March 23, 2005 at the age of 109.
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