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President Alex B. Lacy – Subject Files records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0049

Scope and Contents

The President Alex B. Lacy Subject Files consists of personal correspondence, correspondence with Division Heads, and off-campus correspondence, social invitations, holiday cards, President's Calendar, minutes and memos of President's Cabinet, travel records' reports and other material on Clayville, intersessions, commencement, and tenure cases. The file also includes letters of recommendations from Lacy, individual employment files, memos of employment opportunity and applications for employment at SSU, and search committee material for VPAA, Comptroller, Director of Continuing Education, and Director of University Relations positions. Also included is material on SSU foundation, Waterhouse Accounting consultant and internal auditing.

The collection is organized alphabetically. Due to their nature, folders 339-343 are restricted and only available with the chancellor’s written permission. Note: There is no folder 222 due to error in numbering.

Dates

  • 1972-1974

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the University of Illinois- Springfield (UIS)

Copyrights

Copyrights to this collection are held by UIS.

Biographical / Historical

Alex B. Lacy, Jr. was born November 26, 1936, in Clover Virginia to Alex B. Lacy and Josephine (Anderson) Lacy. He earned is Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1959 in Political Science. He would go on to earn his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Virginia in 1936. He worked in a variety of positions from Tulane University to The Brookings Institute, to the University of Virginia, before finally becoming Dean at the School of Urban Life at Georgia State University in 1968. He was there until 1974 when he became the Deputy Director in the Division of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was at the NEH until 1978 when he became the president of Sangamon State University. He was at SSU until 1984 when he was succeeded by Dr. Durward Long.

He married Mary Lois LaRoe, and they have three children. As of 2020 he resides in Arkansas.

Extent

9 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Provenance

UIS owns the property rights to this collection.

Property Rights

UIS owns the property rights to this collection.

Processing Information

This collection was reprocessed in June and July 2024. The order of the collection as kept as close as possible to the original order.

Source

Title
Finding Aid to the President Alex B. Lacy – Subject Files records
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
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Springfield IL 62703-5407 US
217-206-6520