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Elenora Albrecht Cawthon (1917–2016) was an American professor and university leader at
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. She served as president of the College Placement Council in 1972–1973 and was an officer of the
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in the 1950s.


Early life

Cawthon was born December 6, 1917, in Mission Valley in
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. Her parents were Lillie Lassmann and Otto H. Albrecht. She attended Patti Wlder High School and
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. She then attended the
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, receiving a BA with highest honors in 1938 and a master's degree in 1939. She then taught in public schools in
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, and Woodsboro, Texas. She married John Ardis Cawthon, who she met while they were graduate students. The couple married in 1948 at Zion Lutheran Church in Mission Valley, one day before receiving their PhDs from UT.Elenora A. Cawthon
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Her doctorate was in curriculum and instruction, psychology, education administration and educational supervision.Tech Dean Retiring, Reception Planned
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Her mother died on April 5, 1967, and her father died on July 21, 1971.


Career

She taught in public schools in Texas before starting at
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, where she worked from 1948 to 1954 as director of student teaching and acting head of the division of education. She was elected first vice president of the Arkansas Association of University Women in 1953 In 1954 she was elected president of the Business and Professional Women's Federation of Arkansas. She moved to Ruston in 1954 to join her husband who was faculty of
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. She then took a position at Louisiana Tech where she served as assistant director of placement services. In 1955, while still president of the Arkansas Federation of Business and Professional Women, she was elected vice-president of the
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. By 1956 she was the director of the department of placement and services at Louisiana Tech.Form New Tech Honor Society. The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana) 20 Jan 1956, page 9
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In 1962 she was elected education representative to the College Placement Council and by 1972 she was national president of the council, still serving as director of placement at Louisiana Tech. In the late 1970s, she was dean of student service at Louisiana Tech. She retired in 1988, continuing to serve as dean emeritus of student services. In 1990 she named the 5th District's second representative on the
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Board of Supervisors where she continued to serve for a number of years. During her career, she served a number of roles in civic and professional societies. She was a member of the American Association of University Women,
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(society for women teachers), Business and Professional Women's Club, National Council for the Social Studies, the Association for Student Teaching,Elenora Albrecht Cawthon Named Director at College
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and Alpha Tau Delta.


Death

She died on June 1, 2016, in
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. Her funeral was at Zion Lutheran Church in Mission Valley and she was buried in Mission Valley Cemetery.


References

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