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Gordon Heath McNeil Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS M233 412

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, memoranda, notes; clippings (electrostatic copies) and news releases; committee reports, minutes, statements, resolutions, constitutions and questionnaires; handbills, bulletins, brochures and other printed material.

Records pertain to University of Arkansas' professor of history Gordon Heath McNeil's involvement with, as 1962 president of the Arkansas Chapter, American Association of University Professors, and to his interest in the controversy surrounding Act 10 of the 1958 2nd Extraordinary Session of the Sixty-second General Assembly of the state of Arkansas, entitled, "An Act to Provide Assistance in the Administration and Financing of Public Schools, and to Require Affidavits from Administrative and Professional Employees, Including Superintendents, Principals, and Instructors of the Elementary and Secondary Schools, and Colleges and Universities of the State of Arkansas Relative to All Incorporated Associations and Organizations to Which They Have Belonged or Have Been Affiliated with for the Past Five Years; to Provide Penalties for Failure to Comply, and for Other Purposes." Records also pertain to McNeil's membership on the College of Arts and Sciences Ad Hoc Committee on Facility Use Policy, 1963-65; and to his chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Disadvantaged Student, 1968-70.

Dates

  • 1955, 1958-1965, 1968-1970

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Gordon Heath McNeil (1913-) was a University of Arkansas professor of history, and 1962 president of the Arkansas Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

Extent

0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Arrangement of the Papers

Six folders arranged, in received order, as 3 files; file descriptions and folder inventory.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Professor McNeil, August 1981.

Processing Information

Processed by Samuel A. Sizer Curator, Special Collections

Creator

Source

Title
Gordon Heath McNeil Records
Status
Completed
Author
Samuel Sizer
Date
October 1981
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Department Repository

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444