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The Shield 1975, Shield

Murray State University Yearbooks

Murray State University Yearbook, 1975

Kentucky Historical Chronicle, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Newspaper with highlights of Warren County, Kentucky history with old times, R. K. Hulen company, Depot Café, Northside Car Wash, Lumber company, Green River Country, other businesses and Clinton Potter diary.

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 7), Sep-Oct 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Church support for Indian people is decreasing, it was reported at a conference sponsored jointly by the Lutheran Church and Indian People and the National Indian Lutheran Board.

In the five years that have elapsed since NILB's inception, participants observed, funds gathered for distribution among Indian communities and agencies have been considerably reduced.

0275: Dorothy Spain Jones Papers, 1915-1977, Marshall University Special Collections

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Diarist; homemaker in Detroit, Michigan and Huntington, West Virginia. Primarily diaries kept of daily activities on farm near Detroit and later in daughter's home in Huntington. Also newspaper clippings, programs, cards and family memorabilia.

0112: Jude Stewart Papers, 1975, Marshall University Special Collections

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`Activities of the Church of God in Jesus' Name,' a report on a Pentecostal church in Wyoming County, West Virginia, for the Oral History Collection at Marshall University.

United Methodist Church Draft Statement On Russell Means, United Methodist Church

American Indian Movement and Activism

This single-page typed document is a draft from the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church concerning Russell Means' incarceration. It outlines Means' leadership role in programs supported by the Church and lists the many trials and attempts made on his life. It resolves that Russell Means be recognized as a political prisoner and demands his immediate release.

Hi-O-Hi 1975, Oberlin College

Hi-O-Hi Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Know Your Schools, Rowan County (Kentucky) Schools.

Rowan County Histories Collection

A 1974 report of the Rowan County Public School System of Kentucky describing each K-12 school in Rowan County.

Members Of The Gov James T. Morehead Chapter Of The Daughters Of The American Revolution, Rowan County Historical Society, Alice P. Reynolds

Rowan County Histories Collection

Members of the Gov. James T. Morehead Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution complied by Mrs. Alice P. Reynolds in 1975. Collection includes all members, their ancestor, and a pamphlet.

Parnell And Elizabeth Martindale, Rowan County Historical Society.

Rowan County Histories Collection

Photographs and two newspaper articles regarding the passing of Parnell (1909-1975) and Elizabeth Martindale (1912-2000).

Hollins Index (1975), Hollins College

Student Handbooks

No abstract provided.

0117: Neal Family Papers, 1864-1957, Marshall University Special Collections

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Papers include diaries of Dr. Will Neal, Huntington, West Virginia, physician and member of Congress; diaries describe teaching school in Kentucky and Ohio in the 1890's, and life in Rome Township, Lawrence County, Ohio. Scrapbooks describing the career of Richard Nixon comprise the bulk of the collection.

0081: Henry Dourif Letters, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, businessman. Correspondence between Major Dourif and Colonel H. A. Toulmin of Dayton, Ohio, regarding Toulmin's book, Air Service American Expeditionary Force 1918 as well as other materials belonging to Dourif related to WWI.

0102: Lorene Enochs Dunlap Papers, 1917-1971, Marshall University Special Collections

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Scrapbooks and photographs of Cabell County, West Virginia, family from near Milton; bulk of correspondence dates from the First World War and 1935-1945.

0118: Jane Adams Dingess Papers, 1906-1976, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, West Virginia, clubwoman and educator. Papers consist primarily of scrapbooks of school days at Huntington High School, West Virginia University, and Washington and Lee University; also included are resource materials related to conservation and social studies and items concerning the Junior League, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames, and garden club activities. Photographs of Italy in WWI, papers from the Marshall University plan crash in 1970, extensive newspaper clippings from circ WWII and conservation resource material.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Jane Adams Dingess Collection, 1906-1976 here.

Thelma Ecord Busbee Papers - Accession 29, Thelma Ecord Busbee

Manuscript Collection

Thelma Ecord Busbee [1910-2004] was a Civic leader and club woman from Columbia, South Carolina. The Thelma Ecord Busbee Papers consist of correspondence, reports, constitutions, financial records, program notes, and other papers relating to her many club and civic activities. The collection covers the South Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs (1950-1959), The South Carolina Status of Women’s Conference (1961-1968), the Richland-Lexington Tuberculosis Association (1961-1964), South Carolina Alert, Inc. (1961-1962), the Palmetto Outdoor Historical Drama Association (1965-1968), the South Carolina State Library Board (1967-1968), the Lexington County Hospital Auxiliary (1970-1972), and the South Carolina Council for the Common Good (1966).

Where Past Meets Present: A History Of The Arthur Amish, Jane Ann Ping

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Octofoil, January/February 1975, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

0093: Wallace Garfield Hayner Papers, 1933-1973, Marshall University Special Collections

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Huntington, W. Va. insurance agent; papers consist of his correspondence and personal papers. Included are a manuscript of a history of West Virginia compiled from secondary sources and oral tradition, personal reminiscences of `Devil Anse' Hatfield, poetry, and personal papers.

0080: Hancock-Wilson-Baise Papers, 1887-1950, Marshall University Special Collections

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Correspondence of Proctorville, Ohio, and Huntington, West Virginia, families, including letters written during the first and second world wars. Also receipts, newspaper clippings, grade reports, and other personal papers.

0099: Cabell-Wayne Historical Society Collection, 1880-1973, Marshall University Special Collections

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The Cabell-Wayne Historical Society Vertical Files consist of a variety of topics related to the Huntington, Ohio, and Kentucky regions of the United States. The collection covers the time period from the 1880s to the time of the Cabell-Wayne Historical Society's closure in 1974. The boxes were arranged in alphabetical order based on topic.

The bulk of the vertical file collection relates to activities, events, buildings, and personalities of the Cabell County, West Virginia tri-state area of southwestern West Virginia, southeastern Ohio, and eastern Kentucky. The collection includes material related to the Civil War, railroads and transportation in West Virginia, …

0122: Huntington, Wv Phi Beta Kappa Associates, 1927-1960, Marshall University Special Collections

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Correspondence, minutes of meetings, membership lists, financial reports and pamphlets related to an attempt to establish a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Marshall College.

0092: Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church Records, 1873-1974, Marshall University Special Collections

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Register, minutes, annual reports; records of the Flats Presbyterian Church before it merged with the Point Pleasant church during the Second World War, when the Flats area was taken over by the War Department.

Interview With Ms. Lovett, Dale Lovett, Jay Fraser, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Ms. Lovett, Dale Lovett, and Jay Fraser were all interviewed by Esther Mallard, ca. 1975.