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Correspondence,
programs, photographs,
clippings, and scrapbooks
Manuscript Collection 732
About
Willie Oates
Will
Etta Long Oates, of Little Rock, Arkansas, donated her papers
to Special Collections on November 26, 1986.
Willie Oates (1918- ) was born to Harry Lee Long and Roberta
Fern Jordan Long in Arkansas City, Kansas. She obtained a
B.A. in Spanish and French from the University of Arkansas
in 1941 and then married Dr. Gordon P. Oates, a Little Rock
physician. In 1959-1960 she served as a member of the Arkansas
State Legislature and became the first woman to serve as Vice
Chairman of the Arkansas House of Representatives' Public
Health and Practice of Medicine Committee. Mrs. Oates also
was active in a number of civic organizations, including the
Salvation Army, the Arkansas Medical Society, the Little Rock
chapter of the American Association of University Women, and
the Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs.
About
the Collection
The papers contain correspondence, programs, clippings, photographs,
scrapbooks, and other papers. Most correspondence is from the
1970's and 1980's and primarily pertains to club activities.
However, some correspondence between 1959 and 1960 concerns
Oates' tenure in the Arkansas legislature. Programs, clippings,
photographs, and scrapbooks pertain to club activities and have
been arranged chronologically. Most of the items from the Acropolis
Chapter of the American Business Women's scrapbook have been
placed in file folders in chronological order.
Processed
by Anthony J. Wappel, Special Collections, University of Arkansas
Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in February, 1989.
Contents
of the Collection (2 linear feet)
Volume 1. University of Arkansas scrapbook,
1936-1940.
Volume 2. Greater Little Rock Federation
of Women's Clubs scrapbook, 1954-1955.
Volume 3. Acropolis Chapter of the American
Business Women's scrapbook, 1966-1968.
Volume 4. Arkansas Federation of Women's
Clubs scrapbook, 1970- 1972.
Box 1. Correspondence
1. 1954-1959.
2. 1960-1970.
3. 1971-1975.
4. 1976-1980.
5. 1981-1985.
6-8. n.d.
Box
2. Programs
1. 1953-1970.
2. 1971-1975.
3. 1976-1980.
4. 1981-1985.
5-6. n.d.
Box
3
1. Papers concerning legislative career, 1959.
2. Papers concerning Mad Hatters club, 1971-1977.
3-7. Papers, clippings, and photographs from the Acropolis
Chapter of the American Business Women's scrapbook, 1966-1968.
8. Other papers, including Arkansas City (Kansas) High School
diploma, 1936-1980.
Box
4. Clippings
1. 1939-1948.
2. 1954-1960.
3. 1961-1969.
4. 1970-1972.
5. 1973.
6. 1974-1975.
7. 1976.
8. 1977.
9. 1978-1979.
10. 1980.
11. 1981.
12. 1982.
13. 1983.
14. 1984.
15. 1985.
16. 1986.
Box 5.
Photographs
1-2. 1928 [Long family].
3-4. 1964.
5-28. 1970-1974.
29-57. 1976-1979.
58-103. 1981-1985.
104-151. n.d.
Last
modified:
Friday, January 23, 2009
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