Background
Hays, Mary Katherine Jackson was born in Flora, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Rufus Lafayette and Ada (Collum) Jackson.
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Mary Katherine Jackson Hays
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Student, University Mississippi, 1925-1926; student, Millsaps College, 1926-1927, 43-44; graduate, Clark Business School, 1934; stuent, Columbia University, 1935; stuent, Strayer Business College, 1951.
Career
Secretary to president, McCullough Box and Crate Company, Pharr, Texas, 1934-1936; secretary to field supervisor, Mississippi Unemployment Compensation Commission, 1936-1937; representative, Homes of Tomorrow, 1940 New York World's Fair secretary to head interior design, Lord & Taylor, New York City, 1940; sales department, Knabe Piano Company. New York City, 1941-1943.
Achievements
Membership
Active, Little Theatre, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, 1937-1939. Charter member, incoroporator Conference State Socs., Washington, 1952. Volunteer worker American Cancer Society, Washington, 1957.
Member Center City Residnets Association, Philadelphia, 1956. Member women's committee National Symphony Association, volunteer worker United Service Organizations, 1945-1948,member symphony sustaining committee drives, 1957. Member women's committee Corcoran Gallery Art, Wasington, 1957-1962.
Member Pierce-Warwick Adoption Association of Washington Home for Foundlings. Volunteer Washington Heart Association, 1959-1966. Member National Capital Area chapter United Church Women, 1957-1972.
Member District of Columbia Episcopal Home for Children, 1961-1986, District of Columbia Salvation Army Auxiliary, since 1962. Member Mississippi State Society District of Columbia (secretary 1950-1953), Mississippi Women's Club District of Columbia, Daughters of the American Revolution (chapter regent 1972-1974, vice chair District of Columbia committee celebration Washington's birthday 1972-1976, state library 1974-1976, state officers club since 1976), United Daughters of the Confederacy (chapter historian 1982-1984, 86-, chaplain 1984-1986), Johnstone ClanAm. (executive county 1976-1981, national chair membership committee 1976-1981), FirstFamilies of Mississippi, Women's Club of Flora, Mississippi, The Washington Club.
Connections
Married Halbert Puffer Oliver, August 9 1927 (deceased 1934). Married Donlad Osborne Hays, August 30, 1937.
