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This collection consists of pictures, membership lists, newspaper articles, show programs, and other materials related to the A Cappella Choir during its biggest period of success under the direction of music teacher Clara Mae Ward.

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Arthur Julius Fox, one of the original faculty members of the Eau Claire State Normal School, was a former registrar and dean of instruction at Eau Claire State Teachers College. He retired in 1948 after 32 years of service at the college. This collection includes the general correspondence of A.J. Fox from 1939 to 1948 as well as his Teacher’s Program and Service Reports, his transcript from the University of Chicago, and newspaper clippings of his death in 1958.

Summary Programs, brochures, correspondence and news articles pertaining to dedications of many of the buildings on campus, for the original buildings and additions to buildings. Information pertains to: Allied Health and Clinical Services Center (Human Sciences and Services); Campus School complex (education building, physical education building (Zorn Arena), campus school, Kjer Theatre);W.R. Davies University Center; Ecumenical Religious Center; Haas Fines Arts Center; Hibbard Humanities Hall;...

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Planning files of the Centennial Celebration Planning Committee, event timelines, budgets, promotional material, publications, and memorabilia documenting UW-Eau Claire’s Centennial Celebration prior to and during the 2016-2017 school year. Includes digital materials.

Summary Meeting minutes, correspondence, and organizational records of the Eau Claire Area Committee (1946-1973), a committee of citizens from Eau Claire and the surrounding communities, formed to help disseminate information about the university to the primary region from which the institution draws its students and form better relations. President William R. Davies created the Area Advisory Committee in 1945. After the creation of the University of Wisconsin System, the committee was replaced by...

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After service in World War II, Eugene R. McPhee became director of teacher training at Eau Claire until leaving for Madison in 1948. Contains personal and professional papers of McPhee’s military career in the United States as well as while he was stationed in Italy. McPhee’s thesis and other documents from his educational career. There are early University of Wisconsin -- Eau Claire financial documents regarding scholarships, memorials and other aspects of the university.

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The collection contains financial records, programs, reel-to-reel audio tapes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, awards, some correspondence, and other general files related to the forensics and debate programs at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire. Includes files created by and pertaining personally to Grace Walsh, a professor and director of speech and forensics from 1944-1980.

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Correspondence, payroll reports, time sheets, applications, and questionnaires related to the National Youth Administration program at Eau Claire State Teachers College. The program ran at the college from 1935-1943.

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The majority of the collection features correspondence and forms related to Certificates of War Necessity and gas rationing for the university vehicles mainly during WWII. A small amount of correspondence and forms related to the purchase of a Ford pickup truck and obtainment of a certificate of title for it by the university in 1943 and 1944.

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The scale of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire grew with the addition of buildings and acquired lands. The contents of this collection include land deeds, quit claims, land easements, and correspondence associated with the history of land acquisitions and changes impacting the University.