The Loretta M. Schaechterle Fund

Established in April 2010 in memory of Mrs. Loretta M. Schaechterle to purchase books and multimedia materials about Women in the United States. Mrs. Schaechterle was a life-long learner with a love for reading, and books purchased through this fund will help to provide an understanding of women's lives in the United States, with a focus on the 20th century.

Books purchased on this fund include:

Beyond combat : women and gender in the Vietnam War era / Heather Marie Stur

Flappers : a guide to an American subculture / Kelly Boyer Sagert

Girls to the front : the true story of the Riot grrrl revolution / Sara Marcus

The miracle worker and the transcendentalist : Annie Sullivan, Franklin Sanborn, and the education of Helen Keller / David Wagner

The girls' history and culture reader : the twentieth century / edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell and Leslie Paris

See all the books purchased on this fund..