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Sullivan, Vic, Collection, 1923-1974, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
Sullivan, Vic, Collection, 1923-1974, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
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This collection consists of collection of documents and reports on the planning and construction of the Kansas Technology Center; slides of university trips and family; and miscellaneous.
Frank Victor Sullivan was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1931. He became fascinated with airplanes and flying growing up in Wichita, and was a member of the Boy Scouts. He would go on to earn a private pilot’s license. He received his bachelor’s degree from Friends University (Wichita). He met his wife, Mary-Kate Larson, while he was in graduate school at the University of Northern Colorado, in Greeley. After they married, they moved …
Timmons, Bess Spiva, Collection, 1966-2001, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
Timmons, Bess Spiva, Collection, 1966-2001, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
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This collection includes accolades, meeting minutes, photographs and other miscellaneous materials.
Bess Cole Spiva was born in 1901, in Galena, Kansas to George Newton Spiva and Bessie Tamblyn Spiva. Her family soon moved to Joplin, Missouri where they stayed. She graduated from Monticello College in Illinois in 1921. In 1923, she married Leroy K. Timmons (1899-1954) and they moved to Pittsburg in 1928. In 1951 she started the Spiva Emergency Loan Fund which became the Spiva Scholarship. In 1966 The Timmons Chapel of All Faiths was built and donated to Pittsburg State University by Mrs. Timmons. In 1985, she started …