Scope and Contents The University Relations subject File, 1981-2001 consists of memos, correspondence, reports, speeches, meeting notes, news clippings, and other material between the UIS campus community and internal and external entities. This file contains recruitment reports, including the search for a new Chancellor when Naomi Lynn retired and Richard Ringeisen was selected; the expansion of the campus with the construction of the Health and Sciences Building; the implementation of the Capital Scholars...

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...

Scope and Contents The Taylorville "Mine War" Scrapbook, March l7, l933 - October 11, l933 consists of clippings chiefly from Taylorville, Illinois daily newspapers, the Daily Breeze and the Courier, documenting eight months of the Illinois mine wars which started in 1932 as a wage dispute but soon became a power struggle between the United Mine Workers (UMW) and the Progressive Miners of America (PMA) for control of the mines in central and southern Illinois. The articles document the violence,...

Scope and Contents Includes copies of newspapers dealing with the assassination of John K. Kennedy (1963), Martin Luther King (1968) and Robert F. Kennedy (1968), the death of Winston Churchill (1965), the first lunar landing (1969), the reconstruction of the Old State Capitol in Springfield (1968) and the U.S. Bicentennial (1976). Newspapers include the Illinois State Register, the Illinois State Journal-Register, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and others. ...

Scope and Contents The Guild is a not-for-profit organization incorporated in 1968, dedicated to promote interest in the arts, crafts and culture of early Illinois. It sponsors Folk Life Festivals at the Clayville Tavern near Pleasant Plains, Illinois and operated a crafts shop and other activities there. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, statement of purpose, master plans, interpretive guidelines, membership lists and list on contributors to the tavern restoration. Also included are agreements...

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The W. Russell Arrington gift consists of 21 scrapbooks dating from 1946 to 1979, including original newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, programs, and other documents and memorabilia relating to the career of W. Russell Arrington in the Illinois House of Representatives (1945-1954) and Senate (1955-1972).