Records
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 235 Collections and/or Records:
MC84. Clarence W. Klassen, Love Canal Collection, 1981-1996
Collection — Box 2&3
Identifier: MC-84
Scope and Contents
Chief Sanitary Engineer for the State of Illinois, 1935-1970, first director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and environmental consultant. Served as an expert witness at a trial, 1979-1994, regarding the dumping of toxic wastes at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York. Love Canal was dug in the 1890s, used as a chemical dump, and later filled in and developed for housing. The area was declared unsafe and 239 families were evacuated in 1978. The Federal Government, State of...
Dates:
Created: 1981 - 1996; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1997
MC86. Michael Townsend, Micro-Radio Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-86
Scope and Contents
Records, collected literature, and audio and videotapes concerning the unlicensed, low-power radio station of Mbanna Kantako of Springfield, Illinois, and the micro-radio movement in general. The efforts of the FCC to shut down Kantako's radio station attracted international press attention. This material was largely collected or created by Michael Townsend, an associate professor of Child, Family and Community Services at UIS. Its primary focus is Mbanna Kantako (originally...
Dates:
Created: 1989 - 2002; Other: Date acquired: 10/26/1998
MC87. George C. Hoffmann Papers, 1960-1991
Collection
Identifier: MC-87
Scope and Contents
Springfield lawyer beginning practice in 1928; Chairman of the Springfield Committee for Higher Education (1960-1967); attorney for Sangamon State University on a retainer basis; and Springfield civic leader. Correspondence, memos, news clippings, reports, receipts, contracts, maps, and studies, chiefly 1965-1975, documenting the struggle to establish Sangamon State University and the university's legal transactions. The substance of the collection concerns higher education in...
Dates:
Created: 1960 - 1991
MC89. Illinois National Organization for Women, 1974-2000
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-89
Scope and Contents
The Illinois chapter of the National Organization for Women was founded in 1971. The first organizational meeting was held in the Chicago area and Irene Bennet was elected State Coordinator; the chapter's by-laws were passed in 1974. The purpose of NOW is "to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men." This collection was compiled by Luellen...
Dates:
Created: 1974 - 2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/16/2001
MC93. Illinois Central Blues Club Records, 1986-2006
Collection
Identifier: MC-93
Scope and Contents
The Illinois Central Blues Club was founded in 1986 by Vicki Biddle to promote public education and appreciation of Blues music as a cultural art form, to sponsor live Blues performances, to publicize the significant cultural contributions of Blues musicians, songwriters, and performers, and to promote and participate in Blues festivals in central Illinois. The ICBC collection contains organizational documents such as Articles of Incorporation, lists of founding members, board...
Dates:
Created: 1986 - 2006; Other: Date acquired: 05/00/2006
MC102/6. Recycling Archives: Tania Levy Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-102/6
Scope and Contents
A collection of materials from the personal papers of Tania Levy during her time as a Recycling Analyst for the City of Berkeley, California. These papers range from the late 1980s to her retirement in July of 2011. This collection contains a wide variety of materials including personal correspondence, financial records, contact lists, recycling public relations publications, manuals, training videos, and other assorted documents. The subject matter of the documents primary lies in ares of...
Dates:
Created: 1979-2011; Other: Date acquired: 12/17/2012
North Central Association Self-Study Records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0059
Scope and Contents
This collection contains SSU and UIS self-study records in preparation for North Central Association re-accreditation and to clarify its plans for improving and enhancing its programs and operations. Included in the collection are the working files of the North Central Association Self-Study Committee, the University President or Chancellor, and other members of the university community relating to the development of self-study reports and to North Central Association visits. Records include...
Dates:
1978-2007
Office of Budget and Planning Studies Records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0061
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the cost studies that were submitted to the Illinois Board of Regents for the fiscal years 1980 and 1981. The report cots per discipline, per faculty credit hour, and per program major.
Dates:
1979-1991
P/Adams. Nina Adams, Personal Papers (1976-1990) RESTRICTED
Collection — Box 2
Identifier: P-Adams
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers from the faculty files of Nina Adams, now retired faculty member, who taught Women's Studies and History in the Liberal Arts and Sciences program from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. Materials include journals, newsletters, bulletins, and papers concerning Vietnam and Southeast Asia; classroom materials such as syllabus and lists of research resources; pamphlets and flyers advertising feminist guest speakers (Charlotte Bunch), faculty meeting minutes; and...
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 11/05/2005
P/Catchpole. Mattilou Catchpole, Personal Papers, Series II
Collection
Identifier: P-Catchpole, Series II
Scope and Contents
Papers of Mattilou Catchpole, Professor Emeritus at UIS. Catchpole served as director of Sangamon State's Nurse Anesthesia and Nurse Anesthesia Completion programs (1978-1991), within the School of Health and Human Services. Catchpole was employed as associate professor in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1991-1994) and later as an adjunct instructor, teaching courses in the Women's Studies program (WMS). Materials include course syllabi, handouts, assignments, tests, notes, lecture...
Dates:
Created: 1977-2008; Other: Date acquired: 04/13/2011