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The Athletics & Recreation Offices Subject File contains correspondence, budget material, program, memos and photographs concerning intramural basketball, the University YMCA, softball, martial arts, tennis, flag football, and soccer. The file was primarily created by Aydin Gonulsen & Homer Butler.

Scope and Contents File contains information pertaining to athletics at SSU/UIS from 1978-2006. Sports included are Men's Soccer, Men's Tennis, Men's Basketball, Women's Tennis, Women's Basketball, Women's Volleyball and Women's Softball. Documents include team schedules, rosters, and records as well as tournament programs and team and sport guides. Also contains newspaper clippings from each sport. Documents included in the oversize file are NAIA certificates, publicity posters for Prairie Star teams and...

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File contains information pertaining to the origination Friends of the Prairie Stars. Founded in 1979, this non-for-profit athletic booster club has sought to provide financial support to the athletic teams at SSU/UIS. Documents include meeting agendas and minutes, membership lists, financial reports and tax documents as well as records of athlete scholarships, fundraisers and membership drives.

Scope and Contents The International Festival is an annual program that highlights the cultural diversity at Sangamon State University/University of Illinois at Springfield. Organized by the International Student Organization, the festival features exhibits, food, and entertainment provided by international students and featuring their home countries. Each yearly festival is centered on a theme that explores the unique differences between the featured countries. Examples of themes include wedding...

Scope and Contents Papers and tapes including schedules, programs, posters and other materials of Black Awareness Week (Spring 1973) which was held March 24-31, 1973. Sponsored by the Black Student Union, the week was subtitled, "A Journey Into the Black Culture." Speakers and groups included the Tony Zamora Combo, Alex Haley, Dick Gregory, and Aliza Thnadeka Ngono. Other group participants were: a panel discussion on affirmative action with Arnold Jones, Lowell Turley, John Flamer, William Jacobs and...

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Life insurance salesman, 1896-1968. Purchased Franklin Life Insurance Company of Springfield in 1939.

Brochures, letters, pamphlets, stationery, programs, photographs and photographic slides concerning the Franklin Life Insurance Company in Springfield and its growth under Becker, and his induction into the Illinois Business Hall of Fame.

Scope and Contents American Association of University Women Springfield Branch (AAUW-S) records 2007-2016, including meeting minutes, budget documents, membership lists, by-law revisions, branch publicity and publications, lobbying records, and the branch president’s email communications. Also documented are the AAUW-S’s efforts to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified in Illinois (2014) and publications of the national AAUW organization, 2014-2016, including the magazine ...

Scope and Contents Minutes, articles of incorporation, by-laws, correspondence, grant proposals, reports, newsletters, news clippings, brochures, printed material, photographs, and administrative, personnel, financial and programmatic records documenting the structure, goals, fundraising, publicity and feminist educational, cultural, athletic, and research activities of the Alliance. The controversy surrounding its participation in the Coal Employment Project, and its annual sponsorship of a women's art show...

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The Thea Chesley papers: SSU clerical Employees AFSCME representation election materials, 1983-1985.

Materials consist of letters from AFSCME; SSU president Durwald Long, Carl Long, Chairperson of the advisory committee on Collective bargaining. AFSMCE literature consists of brochures, memeos, flyers and pamphlets.

Scope and Contents Local chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Committed to obtaining equal rights for women. Organized in 1971 and chartered in 1972. By-laws, membership lists, correspondence, press releases, clippings, memoranda, photographs, announcements, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) campaign material, phone bank manual and script, position paper, and business records generated by this chapter documenting its campaign and educational activities, including the 1973 ERA Day, 1980...