Guide to the Harry and Lillian Pry Papers 1918-2008
1918-2008
Metadata Details
- Title
- Harry and Lillian Pry papers 1918-2008
- Creator
- Subject
- Pry, Harry, Pry, Kay Pry, Pry, Richard, Pry, Lillian, Westminster College., Wilkinsburg Senior High School (Pa.), White Oak Elementary School (McKeesport, Pa.), World War, 1939-1945--Phillippines
- Description
- The Harry and Lillian Pry papers are arranged into three series. Series I is primarily comprised of his correspondence with various family and friends throughout his service as a naval communications officer in World War II. In addition, this series also contains his personal diaries, records concerning his career as an educator and his later life. Series II contains diaries kept by Lillian Pry throughout her married life. In addition, this series also includes materials related to her education and her teaching career. Series III includes a small collection of records pertaining to Hugh Pry, father of Harry Pry, Kay Pry, daughter of Harry and Lillian Pry, and the Pry family home in New Wilmington, Pa., Harry and Lillian Pry Family papers, 1918-2008, MSS 0788, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Kay Pry Zaborowski Gift 2009 2009.0053, Born on September 12, 1910 in McKeesport, Pa., Harry Clay Pry (1910-2001) was the son of Hugh and Bertha Pry, who were north Irish immigrants. After completing his bachelor degree at the University of Pittsburgh, Pry began teaching English literature at his alma mater, McKeesport High School. Pry married a fellow McKeesport High School alumnus, Lillian McLellan, on August 2, 1934. Following her marriage to Harry Pry, Lillian began teaching third grade at White Oak Elementary School of the McKeesport Area School District. Together they had two children, Kay and Richard. Although married with two children, Harry Pry chose to enlist in the U. S. Navy and served in World War II aboard the USS Sierra, a Dixie class destroyer tender. While serving on the USS Sierra, Pry took part in the liberation of the Philippines. Pry went on to pursue a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Pry took a position as associate professor of education and psychology at Westminster College in Wilmington, Pa., Gift of Kay Pry Zaborowski., Processed MSS 0788 04/2012 S. Green, Collection level finding aid available.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Pry, Harry., Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1918-2008
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- Identifier
- oclc: 839934015, pitt: US-QQS-mss788
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss788, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Phillippines
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/