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Various university memorabilia collected by Frank Masters, Southeast Missouri State University alumnus, class of 1952. Memorabilia includes programs, newsletters, certificates, and a “Chief Sag” doll, all dating from 1935-1959. Also includes two photographs of Leming Hall.

Photocopied typescript (3p) possibly by William [Kaempfer], City Clerk, Cape Girardeau, regarding Frank Carroll, an African-American food vendor in the city.

Typescript speeches by Fred Goodwin, former professor of Communications and Dean of the College of Humanities (1955-1988) at Southeast Missouri State University, pertaining to the rededication of Rose Theatre (2p) the naming of the education building after former university president Dr. Mark Scully (5p), and the naming of the Aleen Vogel Wehking Alumni Center (4p). *also listed as a Regional History Collection

Satirical publication for students at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College. Includes four different versions, all dated August 1926.

Personal, business and legal correspondence, financial and legal papers, school, church and genealogical records, scrapbooks, photographs, postcards, and artifacts from the four allied families of Friend, Bollinger, Heise and Heldermon of Southeast Missouri. The Friends were a pioneering family in Scott County, first settling there in 1796, near Benton.

Awards, professional writings, photographs, slides, 8mm film, and commencement regalia of G. Carl Schowengerdt, professor and chair of the department agriculture at Southeast Missouri State University from 1938-1971.

Bound photocopied typescript (38p) by McDowell entitled “Toward a History of the Methodist Churches of Indian Creek Valley” [Mo] prepared for the bicentennial celebration of American Methodism in the valley. Provides information on Draby’s Chapel, McLain Chapel, Shilo Church, Rock Hill or Stewart’s Chapel, Pleasant Hill A. M. E., Oak Hill, Fairview, Fruitland, and the Wesley United Methodist Churches.

Typescript (28p) by McDowell, of the Commission on Archives and History of the Missouri East Conference of the United Methodist Church, concerning the factual errors in Frank C. Tucker’s books Old McKendree Chapel and The Methodist Church in Missouri, 1789-1939.

Southeast Missouri State Teacher’s College sports memorabilia including a letter blanket, 2 track and field letters, 2 football letters, and 1 unaffiliated letter.

Program from lecture by Salvation Army founder Booth, at the Community Arena [A. C. Brase Arena Building], Cape Girardeau, May 14, 1940. Provides information on new community building.