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McCurdy, Avis Hunter (Marshall)
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1906-?
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Avis Hunter Marshall was born in 1906 in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, to G. Ross Marshall and Nellie Blanche Taylor. A member of the class of 1927, Avis was an active member of the Dalhousie University student community. She belonged to the women’s debating team and the Council of the Students, serving as vice-president in 1925-26. She was an associate editor of the Dalhousie Gazette, for which she was awarded a “D,” and the editor of Dalhousie’s first yearbook in 1927. She was nominated to the Malcom Honor Society in her senior yearand elected Life Vice-President of the Class for 1927. In 1929 Avis married William Jarvis McCurdy, a fellow Dalhousie alumnus and Life President of the Class of 1926. The couple had four children and lived in Toronto, Ontario. Avis was active in many social and political causes, including running for office as a Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate. She was a longtime member of the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto and was vice president of her local Dalhousie reunion committee for the Class of 1927.
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McCurdy, William Jarvis (1904-1988)
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