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Cecile Bolton Finley Papers, 1921-1987, Accession #10913, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
These papers were given to the Library by Cecile Bolton Finley, Martha Jefferson House, Charlottesville, Virginia, on March 1, 1990.
Cecile B. Finley was born to Channing Moore Bolton and Alma Anne Baldwin in 1897, and married "Jack" Finley in 1935. She received her education at St. Anne's School (1915), Bryn Mawr College (1917-1921, B.A.), and the University of Virginia (1928-1934, M.A. & Ph.D.) and conducted research at Cambridge University in 1937. She taught at St. Anne's School, Charlottesville High School, the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia, Sweet Briar College, and Hollins College, and was the Chief Psychologist in the Montgomery County School System in Maryland, 1951-1961, retiring to Charlottesville in 1965.
This collection consists of ca. 375 items, 1921-1987, chiefly the papers of Cecile Bolton Finley (1897- ), the first woman appointed to the academic faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, as the acting head of the Department of Psychology, 1941-1946, and author of the first test of social maturity, the Social Opinions Inventory .
The papers include biographical information and personal vita of Cecile Finley; information concerning the role of her husband, John Norville Gibson Finley (1898- ?), in the founding of George Mason College (later called George Mason University) in Northern Virginia; correspondence concerning the Finleys' trips to Europe in 1964 and 1967, and the Social Opinions Inventory ; a paper for the Fortnightly Club; printed material; photographs of family, friends, and vacations; and a certificate of membership in the Thomas Jefferson Society of Alumni.
Correspondence pertaining to European trips includes the following topics: the postal strike in Great Britain (1964 Jul 23 & 25); the English uneasiness about the nomination of Barry Goldwater for President in the United States (1964 Aug 2); the political skill of Lyndon Johnson and his anti-poverty campaign (1964 Aug 9); the Finleys' anti-poverty campaign plans and mention of the new British youth movement of "mods" and "rockers" (1964 Aug 24); the rebuilding of the Le Havre (1964 May 7); impressions of Yugoslavia (1967 Jun 25 & Jul 8); Communism in Yugoslavia (1967 Jul 12); a folk dance festival in Zagreb (1967 Jul 27); and the Museum of the Liberation War, Maribor, Yugoslavia (1967 Aug 4).