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Sara Jean Sutton and Dorothy Dodson Made

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  • This 1944 photograph showing Sara Jean Sutton (13 years old) and Dorothy Dodson Made standing in front of a house on Sara’s birthday is part of the Sara Madison Collection. Dr. Sara Jean Sutton Montgomery Madison (1931-2017) had a lifelong association with Western Carolina University, and was married to James A. Madison (1928-2015), grandson of the university’s founder, Robert Lee Madison (1867-1954). As a child, Sara lived in Davies Hall on the campus of Western Carolina University, and later on Buzzard’s Roost overlooking campus with her parents, Eddie Marie Wike Sutton and Ralph Coleman Sutton.