TY  - GEN
AU  - Trent,Mary Vance
TI  - Mary Vance Trent papers,
KW  - Deane, C. W.
KW  - Green, Marshall.
KW  - Soeharto,
KW  - Soekarno,
KW  - Trent, Madeline
KW  - Trent, Ray S.
KW  - Trent family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Department of State
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Office for Micronesian Status Negotiations
KW  - Our Chalet (Adelboden, Bern, Switzerland)
KW  - Smithsonian Institution
KW  - United Nations
KW  - Christian Science monitor
KW  - Anti-communist movements
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - Christian Science
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Micronesia (Federated States)
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, American
KW  - Diplomats' spouses
KW  - Education
KW  - Equality before the law
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Girl Scouts
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - Women
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1950-1966
KW  - 1966-1998
KW  - Missouri
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Foreign service officers
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research; Classified, in part
N2  - Correspondence, memoranda, family papers, reports, speeches, writings, photographs, clippings, travel notes, and printed matter relating primarily to Trent's career as a foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department, in particular her assignments in Indonesia (1957-1958 and 1964-1967), Wellington, N.Z. (1969-1972), and Saipan, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Micronesia) (1972-1974), and as a lecturer for the Smithsonian Institution's travel program.  Of particular interest are letters from Trent to her sister, Madeline Trent, religious writings and short stories by Trent's father, Ray S. Trent, and a letter by Trent's Confederate ancestor, C. W. Deane, from the Civil War battlefield at Wilson Creek, Missouri; Subjects include Trent's activities as U.S. liaison for East Asian affairs to the United Nations and as advisor and director of the U.S. Office for Micronesian Status Negotiations, self-government in Micronesia, the 1965 anti-Communist uprising in Indonesia which replaced President Soekarno with General Soeharto, Marshall Green, the former ambassador to Indonesia, the status of women in Indonesia and other countries, a training course for diplomats' wives taught by Trent from 1962 to 1964, the women's pages of the Christian Science Monitor covering topics such as women's liberation and equal rights, Trent's childhood, family, and religious faith (Christian Science), and the Girl Scouts, including Trent's 1932 trip to the inauguration of Our Chalet, the Girl Guide and Girl Scout headquarters, in Adelboden, Switzerland
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010254
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010254.3
ER  -