Minutes
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:
MC47. Springfield, Illinois, Citizens Advisory Committee Records, 1973-1976
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-47
Scope and Contents
Appointed by the Mayor. Advises City Council on federal and state programs which require citizen input.
Minutes, agendas, reports and newsclippings regarding the Eastside urban renewal project, community development, community development block grants, fire protection and the Neighborhood Facilities Building.
Dates:
Created: 1973 - 1976; Other: Date acquired: 04/00/1980
MC61. Springfield Mobilization for Peace & Freedom, Records, 1982-1984
Collection
Identifier: MC-61
Scope and Contents
Founded in 1982 as the Springfield Peace Coalition by Ed Haber, Phil Salisbury, Alice Kaige, Jarl Tremail, Tom Kinzie, and John Williams. Aligned with the Illinois Nuclear Weapons FREEZE, its purpose was to educate the public about the threat of nuclear war and to secure public support for actions which would reduce the chance of nuclear confrontation between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. In 1985, the Coalition affiliated with the national Mobilization for Survival and changed its name to...
Dates:
Created: 1982 - 1984; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1986
MC62. School Enrollment Composition Study Committee, Records, 1970-1971
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-62
Scope and Contents
Appointed by the District 186 School Board in 1970. More than one hundred members chosen after contacting Springfield churches, clubs and civic organizations. Charged to develop plans to reduce racial imbalance which existed in Springfield public schools. Minutes, agenda, memoranda, membership and committee lists, news clippings and reports documenting the Committee's attempts to plan for equal educational opportunity and racial desegregation of the schools. Also contains a...
Dates:
Created: 1970 - 1971
MC63. Springfield Desegregation Monitoring Commisson, Records, 1977-1978
Collection
Identifier: MC-63
Scope and Contents
Established by order of the U.S. District Court in March 1977, following the Court's December 1976 order providing for the integration of Springfield public schools. Chaired by Ed Armstrong, editor of the Illinois State-Journal Register. Volunteers monitored classrooms and observed bus routes during the first year of integrating Springfield's public schools, rating student-teacher and black-white student relationships, discipline, and health and safety. Administrative records,...
Dates:
Created: 1977 - 1978; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1981
MC65. Springfield National Organization of Women, Inc. Records, 1971-1991
Collection
Identifier: MC-65
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...
Dates:
Created: 1971 - 1991
MC75. Mother Jones Foundation Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-75
Scope and Contents
The Foundation was established in 1986 to present an annual lecture series marking the deadly coal miners' strike in Virden, Illinois in 1898. For many years the Foundation held its annual Mother Jones Dinners at Sangamon State University.
The collection includes financial records, membership lists, minutes, correspondence, posters, flyers, and newsletters; also records of arrangements, donations, ticket sales, entertainment, and speakers for the annual Mother Jones Dinner and lecture...
Dates:
Created: 1976-2010; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1991
MC96. Harold A. Katz Papers, 1965-1983
Collection
Identifier: MC-96
Scope and Contents
Harold A. Katz was elected Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from Glencoe in 1964. He served for nine terms from 1965-1983 and was active in many areas. His special interests included civil liberties, public health and safety, criminal law, regional transportation, licensure legislation, "sunset" legislation, legislative rules and procedures, and the convention for a new state constitution. Perhaps, though, his greatest contribution to the legislature was...
Dates:
Created: 1965 - 1983; Other: Date acquired: 11/19/2009
MC42/6. James Jones Literary Society Papers, 1978-2008
Collection — Scrapbook
Identifier: MC-42/6
Scope and Contents
James Jones Literary Society, founded in 1991, became a national organization devoted to promoting the general and academic interests in the literary works and life of Robinson, Illinois native - James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity,The Thin Red Line, and others.This collection consists of the James Jones Literary Society records including board meeting minutes, membership rolls, event programs, newspaper articles, photographs of members and events, and copies of the...
Dates:
Created: 1978 - 2008; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2009
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
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