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Nebraska Authors

Dorcas Cavett

AKA: Dorcas Esther Crawford, Dr. Dorcas Cavett

Born 1916-07-01 Alliance, NE (USA)

Died 2007-09-08
Lincoln, NE (USA)

Buried
Lincoln, NE (USA)
First Plymouth Church Columbarium

The first female Marine, Dorcas Cavett served in WWII and marched in Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral procession. After the war, she dedicated her life to teaching and, in a letter to the editor in 1984, Dorcas Crawford Cavett wrote: “To become an authentic teacher, one must have intelligence, character, ability, imagination and energy.”
She is the stepmother of Dick Cavett.

Places Lived

Alliance, NE
Chadron, NE
Lincoln, NE
Snyder, NE
Des Moines, IA

Author Of

  • Biography
  • Nonfiction

Keywords

Autobiography

Occupation

Marine
Teacher
Television personality and educator
Professor

Places Worked

United States Marines
Bancroft School
Nebraska Educational Television (NET)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

Honors

Cavett Elementary School, Lincoln, NE, was named in honor of Alva and Dorcas Cavett, 1995

Associations

Step-mother of Dick Cavett

Bibliography

My First 81 Years. 1999.

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