Gordon Heath McNeil Records
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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
- McNeil, Gordon Heath (Person)
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
- 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
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu