Background
Duncan, Dorothy Wilber was born on March 12, 1908 in Chattanooga. Daughter of William Henry and Hattie Christian (Mitchel) Wilber.
Duncan, Dorothy Wilber was born on March 12, 1908 in Chattanooga. Daughter of William Henry and Hattie Christian (Mitchel) Wilber.
Bachelor, University Chattanooga, 1929. Master of Arts, Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone, North Carolina, 1961.
Music teacher, Hamilton County Board Education, Chattanooga, 1931-1934;
teacher, Chattanooga Board of education, 1938-1944;
teacher retarded children, The Matthews School, Baltimore, 1944-1945;
owner, teacher kindergarten, Chamblee, Georgia, 1949-1951;
teacher, DeKalb County Board Education, 1951-1954;
desk manager, Main Post Library., Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 1954-1956;
elementary teacher, Jacksonville/DuVall County Board Education, Florida, 1956-1977;
elementary teacher, Brevard County Board Education, 1957-1977. Retired;
head organist, choir director 1st Christian Church, Chattanooga, 1929-1943, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, 1943-1944, 1st Methodist Church, Savannah, Georgia, 1944-1945, 1st Baptist Church, Chamblee, Georgia, 1945-1952.
Volunteer Retired Senior Volunteer Progressive, Cocoa, Florida, since 1977, Museum History & Science, Cocoa, since 1985. Member vestry/senior warden St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Cocoa, since 1962. Secretary, Americanism chairman Merritt Island Federated Republican Women.
Member volunteer executive board Center Brevard Sharing Center, Cocoa, since 1977. Member American Association of University Women (education commission 1977-1979), Community Woman's Club Cocoa, Pi Beta Phi (charter member alumnae club, past president), Beta Sigma Phi (recording secretary, treasurer 1984, president 1990-1991, Valentine Queen, State Girl of Year 1980, Chapter Girl of Year 1988).
Married Alvin Campbell Shipp, 1934 (divorced 1942). Children: Janice L., Alvin W. Married Earl James Duncan, 1946 (divorced 1956).