Scrapbooks

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Alpha Phi Omega is a co-educational, non-profit national service fraternity. These records contain organizational paperwork for the Tau Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, founded at Appalachian State University in 1967. Also included are 5 photo albums and 9 scrapbooks documenting organizational activities of the Tau Beta Chapter.

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This collection consists of two ballad books created by the sisters, Bessie and Cora Shoun, circa 1910 to 1916. The books are constructed like scrapbooks with clippings and handwritten pages pasted onto old magazine or catalog pages.

Scope and Contents This scrapbook was created by Edward W. Hearne, a member of the North Carolina National Guard, in 1916, while he was deployed to Camp Stewart in Texas during the United States' Mexican Expedition against the paramilitary forces of Mexican revolutionary Francisco "Pancho" Villa. Hearne gave the scrapbook a handwritten title, "A Kodak Review of the Terrors of Texas, and the Horror of War." The scrapbook contains 90 sepia-toned or black and white photographs of Camp Stewart in Texas, a...

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Gamma Beta Phi, a national honor society and service organization, has a local chapter at Appalachian State University. The various service projects completed by the ASU chapter are documented in these scrapbooks ranging in date from 1981-1988.

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J. Paul Winkler was a graduate of Appalachian State Teacher's College. He was instrumental in organizing the Burke County chapter of alumni. The J. Paul Winkler Scrapbooks, created by Winkler himself, are predominately related to the Appalachian State Teachers College football team, but also includes information realted other ASTC athletic teams and to the college.

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This collection contains a leather scrapbook compiled by James "Jim" Thornhill, that holds ephemera and newspaper clippings from his time at Appalachian State Teachers' College from 1962 to 1964. There are loose pages from a second scrapbook.

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Louise Parks, from Huntersville, NC, was a student at Appalachian State Teachers College from 1929-1934. This scrapbook dates from 1928-1931, in which she documents the activities she was involved with. The collection contains various candy wrappers, letters, cards, programs, postcards, and poems that Miss Parks glued to the scrapbook pages.

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This collection consists of one scrapbook of newspaper clippings, mostly from West Virginia newspapers, with inspiring thoughts of the day, historical occurrences of the area and nation, articles about George Washington, cartoons, and columns by Charles Connor. The scrapbook dates between 1950-1953.

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Francis T. Borkowski served as Appalachian State University's fifth chancellor from 1993 until 2003. The records reflect the academic and administrative operations within the university, interactions with higher education organizations in North Carolina and the South, athletic programs, cultural outreach efforts, student life, relations with Boone, N.C. and other communities in western North Carolina, alumni relations, and fundraising for the university.

Scope and Contents This handmade scrapbook contains black and white photographs, original poems, and typed narratives of a trip to the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and Gatlinburg in June 1923. The scrapbook was compiled by Orpheus M. Schantz with one poem reading "This is the tale of the jolly four / who spent the night on a balsam floor / on top of Leconte in Tennessee / above the clouds 'neath a balsam tree." All the poems are written by Schantz. The typed narratives are from Jennie A. Russ and...

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The Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA) is a student organization at Appalachian State University and grew out of the former “BLGAAD” - Bisexual, Gays, Lesbians, and Allies Associated for Diversity. These records include photos, ephemera, and financial records for SAGA, dating 2005-2007.

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6 scrapbooks with photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, letters, and genealogy.