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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:

Raymond Johnson Papers, 1967-1974

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BH
Summary Papers of a former state Republican senator from Eau Claire who served in the legislature from 1967 to 1975. Included are general correspondence with constituents, colleagues, and other individuals on a wide range of topics such as aid to parochial schools, trucks and highway safety, the Sparta Child Care Center, and the 1974 budget proposed by Governor Patrick Lucey; and subject files concerning legislation introduced in 1973 to reorganize the Wisconsin court system, his work on the...
Dates: 1967-1974

Robert W. Dirks Papers, 1942-1945, 1990

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CN
Summary Letters written by Robert W. Dirks of Jackson County, Wis. to his future wife, Leatrice Sonenberg, during World War II and a reminiscence based on the letters written by Mr. Dirks in 1990. Dirks served from 1942 to 1945 with the 178th Signal Repair Company. He describes his training at Camp Shelby, Miss., the Midland Radio School in Athens, Ga., radio school in Lexington, Ky., and Camp Polk, La. After being shipped overseas, much of his duty time was spent installing radios in vehicles in...
Dates: 1942-1945, 1990

Ross Hastings Collection, 1917-2003

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 263
Summary Ross Hastings (1915-1991) was a composer, arranger and music editor during the mid-twentieth century from Southern California. He credits much of his musical training to his father, Dr. Ray Hastings. He ushered at the Philharmonic Auditorium for many years and won composition contests. He composed, orchestrated, edited, and published for music groups and companies in California and New York, such as the Hollywood Bowl Pops concerts, Warner Bros., Alfred Music Co., and Bourne Co. In 1981,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1917-2003

Roy P. Wilcox Papers, 1890-1925

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AV
Summary Papers of Roy P. Wilcox, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, attorney, Republican state senator from 1917 to 1920, and unsuccessful primary candidate for governor in 1918 and 1920 and for senator in 1925. The papers consist of materials from his political campaigns and his State Senate term, speeches, and a small subject file concerning the city commission form of government and workmen's compensation legislation. The political materials include lists of supporters, campaign literature, a few financial...
Dates: 1890-1925

Ryser Family Papers, 1923-1983

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BZ
Summary

Papers of a family that emigrated from Switzerland to a farm near Eau Claire, Wisconsin about 1923. Included is correspondence to Bertha Amacher Ryser from friends and family in Oberried, Switzerland (all in German and mainly 1970s and 1980s) and elsewhere; many letters written by her son Werner H. Ryser during his service with the 120th Engineers Combat Battalion during the Korean War; and personal expense books, diaries, and a farm account book, 1943-1944.

Dates: 1923-1983

Sarah Harder Papers, 1970-2000

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 586
Summary

Sarah Harder was a professor of English and an administrator from 1970 to 2000 at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire. She served on various committees concerning Affirmative Action, Title IX, the status of women, and underrepresented students, and helped establish the Women’s Studies program at UW-Eau Claire. The collection includes biographical and administrative files, publications, women’s issues in higher education, and records of women’s programs and events.

Dates: 1970-2000

School of Nursing Minutes, Correspondence and General Files, 1965-2015

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 433
Summary

Records include meeting minutes, correspondence, accreditation self-studies and reviews, and NCLEX manuals and program reports for the UW-Eau Claire School of Nursing.

Dates: 1965-2015

Sigma Gamma Zeta Records, 1940-2014

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Series 165
Summary

Records of Sigma Gamma Zeta Sorority, founded in 1940 by Mrs. Lyla Flagler and Mrs. Margaret Christofferson, and reactivated in 1979 as Sigma Gamma Zeta II. Includes organization records, scrapbooks, and artifacts.

Dates: 1940-2014

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Michael Griffith Camp No. 35 (Eau Claire, Wis.) Records, 1910-1952

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 286
Summary

Membership and ladies’ auxiliary records of a fraternal and political organization of Union Army veterans’ descendants founded in 1881, The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW). The collection includes ladies’ auxiliary meeting minutes and membership records. The bulk of the camp’s records consist of membership records, but fragmentary correspondence and financial records may be found as well.

Dates: 1910-1952

Stacy Jalowitz: My Experience in the Gulf War, 1990-1992

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Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CI-PH Eau Claire Mss CI-Tape 1428A
Summary Stacy Jalowitz, a UWEC freshman, recounts her experiences as a woman who participated in the Persian Gulf War, where she served in the 13th Evacuation Hospital with the Army National Guard during the Desert Storm operation in 1991. Included is her sixteen-page memoir in which she describes her experiences while stationed in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and in the desert, twenty miles south of the Iraq border. An oral interview on two audiocassette tapes, twenty photographs, and correspondence are...
Dates: 1990-1992