| Abstract |
This interview was conducted by Charles Doak, Jr. in 1952 with his parents. Major topics pertain to the family backgrounds of Mr. & Mrs. Doak, their courtship and marriage, and their early life together. Copied from tape in the possession of Mrs. Steven Safran of Fayetteville, N.C., daughter of the interviewess. |
| General note | Interviewer: Charles Doak, Jr. Interview date: 1952. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Frances Renfrow Doak and Charles Glenn Doak Oral History Interview (#OH0048), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Repository does not own copyright to the oral history collection. Permission to cite, reproduce, or broadcast must be obtained from both the repository and the participants in the oral history, or their heirs. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Frances Renfrow Doak and Charles Glenn Doak. |
| Biographical note | Frances Renfrow Doak (1887-1974), native of Nash County, N.C., studied at Littleton College (1901-1903) and graduated from Draughton's Business College in 1905. She began her career as a stenographer in 1906, and from 1909 to 1913 was clerk-stenographer for the firm of Charles B. Aycock and Robert Winston. Between 1928 and 1931 she aired the first radio program by a woman in the South and subsequently became very active in the N.C. Federation of Women's Clubs, serving as state executive secretary (1941-1951). Mrs. Doak campaigned for numerous Democratic candidates, including Senator Frank P. Graham, Terry Sanford, W. Kerr Scott, and John F. Kennedy and became the Democratic Party's vice-chairwoman of the Seventh Precinct (1960). She held various government positions, including assistant to Governor Charles B. Aycock (1909-1913) and an employee of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (1934-1941) and the National Youth Administration (1940-1942). She also was a practicing Quaker and very active in Quaker-related activities. Mrs. Doak was married to Charles G. "Chick" Doak, longtime baseball coach and athletic director at N.C. State University. |
