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This collection contains papers, correspondence, news clippings, and memoranda related to the Slippery Rock presidential search committees overseen by the Council of Trustees between 1966 and 1984.

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The materials in this collection, the Council of Trustees Meeting Records, include minute inventories, meeting minutes dating from 1888 through 2025, meeting agendas, and meeting recordings. These records contain vital information detailing decisions, resolutions, key discussions, attendees, actions, and voting outcomes.

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This collection includes copied news clippings from local publications, Slippery Rock University news releases, and official memorandums regarding the activities and actions of the Slippery Rock University Council of Trustees between 1908 and 2003.

Scope and Contents The Emma Guffey Miller Collection consists of materials regarding the personal and political life of Emma Guffey Miller. Material types include speech transcripts, personal correspondence, photographs, and written works by and about Miller. In addition, the collection contains personal and political invitations from influential figures such as Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Other series contain political programs, pamphlets, and other informative...

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These papers include a resolution, dated in 1912, by the Board of Trustees on the death of Judge John Morgan Greer, member of the Pennsylvania Senate from 1877 to 1884. Greer, a native of Butler County, Pennsylvania, was also a founder and trustee of Slippery Rock State Normal School in 1889.

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The Leila Vincent Collection consists primarily of assorted papers, including academic records, correspondence, and other documents. Publications and memorabilia, along with other records regarding the Faculty Women’s Club, can also be found in this collection.

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This collection includes a short biography of Slippery Rock State Normal School Trustee, Origen Kerr Bingham, as well as other copied photographs and a copied composition notebook from Bingham’s wife, Edith Poellot.

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This speech titled, Rights, Privileges, Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee for the State System of Higher Education, was delivered by Wayne M. Richardson, Chief Legal Counsel of the State System of Higher Education, at the Fall 1983 Conference to the Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees.

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The collection consists of various publications, pamphlets, and programs as well as several post cards all accumulated by Slippery Rock University Council of Trustees member, William McCarrier.