University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Arkansian Libraries Spring 2008 The Arkansian, Spring 2008 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries. Special Collections Department Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/arkansian Citation University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries. Special Collections Department. (2008). The Arkansian, Spring 2008. Arkansian., 1 (2) Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/arkansian/8 This Periodical is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansian by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Are you Arkansas-literate? Spring 2008 1.) the first capital of Arkansas territory was: Volume 2 • Issue 1 Camden, Hot Springs, Washington, Arkansas Post 2.) Which of the following is not one of the six natural divisions of Arkansas: Ozarks Plateau, Ouachita Mountains, Piney Woods, Crowley’s Ridge, Mississippi Alluvial Plain 3.) Arkansas became a state in: 1819, 1836, 1843, 1849, none of these 4.) the first Arkansan to be selected Miss America was: Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Betty Fowler, Janine Parry, Donna Axum 5.) only four Arkansas governors have served more than two terms. Which of the following was not one of them: Francis Cherry, Orval Faubus, Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee Newsletter of the University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections Department 6.) the ozark Folk Center is located at: Mountain Home, Mountain Pine, Mountain View, Mount Gaylor 7.) the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff was originally known as: Honors College Interns Bring Branch Normal College, Arkansas AM&N College, Corbin College, Pine Bluff College ContEntS 8.) the Delta town that is home to the Arkansas Blues Festival is: Energy to Special Collections Lake Village, Marianna, Forrest City, Helena-West Helena • Honors College 9.) the author of the novel true Grit is: Interns..............................1 Charles Portis, Vance Randolph, Rupert Vance, John G. Ragsdale the Special Collections Department has been extremely • Leadership Report.............2 10.) the Quapaw Indian whose tombstone described him as fortunate to have the services of six Honors College interns this “Friend of the Missionaries; Rescuer of captive children.” past school year. Students from all majors who meet its eligibility Sarasin, Heckaton, John Ridge, John Ross • Historic Film Donated to ANSWERS: 1.) Arkansas Post 2.) Piney Woods 3.) 1836 4.) Donna Axum 3.) 1836 4.) Donna Axum 2.) Piney Woods ANSWERS: 1.) Arkansas Post Cherry5.) Francis Normal 6.) Mountain View 7.) Branch College 10.) Sarasin Helena 9.) Charles Portis 8.) Helena-West Special Collections............3 requirements are invited to join the Honors College, thus becom- ing eligible for enhanced opportunities for scholarship support, • Featured Collections: research, interaction with faculty and study abroad. “the Honors Arkansas & the W.P.A........5 College interns have had a profound impact on the Special Collections Department. they bring enthusiasm, intelligence, • Arkansas Collection a desire to do things well, and a unique perspective in terms of Featured Book...................7 addressing problems and needs. I hope the Department has, in turn, provided beneficial experiences for the interns,” says tom • Images of W. Dillard, Special Collections Department Head. Transportation..................8 • tips for Preserving ALEx GoUGH works as a manu- Papers & Photos.............10 scripts processor with the John Paul • In Memoriam...................10 Hammerschmidt Project. A junior majoring in history with a minor in • Staff Profiles.....................11 art history and French, Alex hopes to teach American history at the college • Dillard Honored..............12 level one day, focusing on the American West and U.S./Native American rela- • news from Research tions. Alex enrolled at the University at Services............................13 the tender age of 16 and is the recipient of the History Department’s David W. • news from the Edwards scholarship. Of her work in Manuscript Unit...............13 Alex Gough Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 Arkansas Fayetteville, Special Collections, she says, “I have orth McIlroy Avenue McIlroy orth n 365 365 • news from the Pryor learned so much more than I ever to the radio and playing violin in the Permit #853 Permit University of Arkansas Libraries Arkansas of University Center...............................14 thought I would. I previously worked Civic Symphony of Benton County. Little Rock, AR Rock, Little Special Collections Department Collections Special at Barnes & Noble, but working in an Alex says she is a fan of “anything PAID • Former Student academic environment is a lot more sat- vintage.” She especially enjoys “keep- Workers Supported Special US Postage US isfying.” An Arkansas resident for four ing history alive through the lost art Collections Department...15 PRSRT STD PRSRT years, Alex grew up in Ozark, Missouri. of quilting.” She enjoys sewing, quilting, listening (HONORS INTERNS continued on page 4) Former Student Workers Supported Leadership Report Special Collections Department From the Desk of tom W. Dillard, Elizabeth Morris Walker & Robert L. Morris Head of the Special Collections Department Welcome to the second issue sistance provided by student em- of The Arkansian. We have had a ployees. wonderful response to the intro- Student archivists process a large duction of this new newsletter, number of our smaller collections. and I am grateful to everyone who In the past few months, our student contacted me employees have about it. I hope one of the wonderful processed collec- you will find this aspects of my work is tions ranging from issue to be re- getting to associate with the papers of nov- warding reading. student researchers. elist Douglas Jones I am a bit to the records of pensive as I write the northwest this report because the end of the Arkansas branch of the national spring semester is here and that League of American Pen Women to means we will be losing many the papers of El Dorado oil magnate of our student employees and t.H. Barton. interns. Like libraries in general, Zach Moseley, a senior from special collections departments Little Rock, has worked steadily to could not survive without the as- help us document and more properly store our art collection. Every piece Tom Dillard Elizabeth Morris Walker Robert L. Morris of art in the collection has been the face of a young student doing carefully documented, fitted with research for the first time when he The vitality of the Special Collec- taught literary criticism and pioneered Walker and Morris were fans of proper hanging wires, and hung in or she is delivered a box brimming tions Department is largely due to the courses in creative writing and folklore the theater, making frequent trips our climate-controlled off-site stor- with original letters and docu- generosity of Dr. Robert L. Morris and at the University of Arkansas, where to New York to attend Broadway “Arkansian” was the name commonly age facility. ments. We assist a first-semester his sister Elizabeth Morris Walker, bene- he was a faculty member in the English performances. Morris wrote plays used throughout the 19th century to one of the wonderful aspects freshman just as we do a seasoned factors who worked in the library as Department from 1931 until his retire- which were produced at the Univer- denote residents of Arkansas. It was also of my work is getting to associate student workers in the 1920s and 1930s. ment in 1969. A writer of plays, poetry, sity Theater, including “Giant from the name of a prominent Fayetteville historian or any other researcher. newspaper before the Civil War. The with student researchers. Every day We have had a wedding among Natives of Indiana, Walker and Morris periodical articles, and book reviews, he the South,” a play based on the life name “Arkansan” evolved from this ear- of the week we have a variety of our staff. Cheri Pearce, a 10-year attended high school in Fort Smith, con- also penned the 1965 biography Opie of Thomas Wolfe, and “The Story in lier form. The Arkansian is published two students using Special Collections veteran as departmental secretary, tinuing their education at the University Read: American Humorist. Read published Song,” a 1972 production commem- times a year by the Special Collections of Arkansas. They endowed funds at the humorous Arkansas Traveler periodi- orating the history of the University. Department, University of Arkansas research materials. Many of the has gotten married and moved to Libraries. Inquiries should be directed to students are undergraduates, young- central Arkansas. the lucky hus- the University of Arkansas Foundation cal, wrote fiction about the South, and Tom W. Dillard, head of the Diane Worrell, University of Arkan- to support the work of Special Collec- was city editor of the Arkansas Gazette Special Collections Department, ob- er students who are for the first band is John Riggs, an archeolo- sas Libraries, 365 N. McIlroy Avenue, tions, and in 1995 the university named in the 1870s. served, "Mrs. Walker and Dr. Morris, time doing research using primary gist. We are in the final phase of Fayetteville, AR. 72701-4002, telephone the Special Collections reading room Walker majored in music and voice by their generous gift, have made it 479/575-5577, fax 479/575-3472, or to sources. hiring a replacement—which is not the “Robert L. Morris and Elizabeth M. at the University of Arkansas. In the possible for the Special Collections [email protected]. Primary sources are all those an easy task for this position is far Walker Reading Room.” 1930s when she worked in the library, it Department to excel. Without the The Special Collections Department “eye-witness accounts” that we more than the title might suggest At the time Morris worked in the was located in Vol Walker Hall. Walker foresight of Mrs. Walker and Dr. collects, organizes, and provides access to collect—manuscripts, oral histories, and we have high expectations.