McNeese State University Resources

Archives and Special Collections


 
The Archives & Special Collections Department keeps materials concerning the history of McNeese State University from its foundation in 1939 to the present. Many of these items may be found in Frazar Memorial Library’s electronic holdings catalog. Other materials such as photographs and files on university departments, organizations, and past events may be accessed with the assistance of department attendants. These items may be found in the Library's online catalog:

                                The Log (yearbook)  1940 - present
                                The Contraband (student newspaper)  Fall 1939 - Spring 1944, Fall                                          1946 - present
                                The McNeese Review (academic liberal arts journal)  1948 - 1997
                                The Arena (student literary magazine)  1961 - present
                                Undergraduate catalogs  1939 - present
                                Graduate catalogs  1962 - present
                                Graduate theses  1963 - present

We also keep the following document collections pertaining to McNeese State University. They may also be found in the Library's online catalog:


#087    The Lether Edward Frazar Collection
The collection contains general and miscellaneous information about Lether E. Frazar, dean of McNeese Junior College (1944-50), first president of McNeese State College (1950-55), and lieutenant governor of Louisiana (1956-60). It also has correspondence to and from Lether Frazar dating from 1935-59, scholarships issued from 1956-60, information about Louisiana schools and government, a wool hat, boxing gloves, and photographs.

#058     The Frazar Memorial Library Collection
The collection contains annual reports from various departments in the library from 1953-1992, minutes of library staff meetings, and information and blueprints for library construction and renovation.

#012     The Dr. R. Gordon Holcombe Jr. / Friends of the Library Collection
The collection contains scrapbooks, a diary, correspondence, membership lists, and clippings about the Friends of the McNeese Library which Holcombe initiated. It also contains tape recordings of presentations made by Dr. Holcombe to various organizations and other miscellaneous information.

#031     The John McNeese Collection
The collection contains various biographical articles and papers, copies of military records, photographs, books, and miscellaneous documents concerning John McNeese, the first superintendent of Calcasieu Parish public schools (1888-1913) and the man for whom McNeese State University is named.

#061     McNeese State University/Academic Advisory (University Council, Deans' Council) Collection
        Agenda, containing mostly catalog curriculum changes, made by the University Council from 1981-1989 and, after its name change to the Advisory Council, from 1989-present.

#113     McNeese State University/Athletics Collection
         This collection consists of information resources and various items relating to all athletics on the McNeese State University campus.  It contains media guides, programs and film footage of athletic events.

#152     McNeese State University/Bookstore Collection
        Contains four scrapbooks, covering the years 1966-1970.  Each scrapbooks contains newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, articles, notes and cards.

#079     McNeese State University/Faculty Publications Collection
        Contains fifteen boxes of material on books written by Joe Gray Taylor, including drafts, correspondence and book reviews.  The collection also contains publications of faculty in various colleges.

#025     McNeese State University/Faculty Senate (Council) Collection
        The collection contains minutes, correspondence, proposals, reports, notes, etc. of the McNeese Faculty Senate (Council) from its organization in 1973-1974 to the present.

#027     McNeese State University/Faculty Wives Club Collection
        Includes scrapbooks of the organization from founding in 1952 to 1984, president's papers, meeting reports and yearbooks.

#047     McNeese State University/Film Collection
        Pieces of film showing scenes around the McNeese campus during the 1950s and 1960s.  Includes homecoming parades, football games, classrooms and the opening of the Alumni Center and Frazar Memorial Library.

#155     McNeese State University Chapter of the National Collegiate Association for Secretaries
        Contains scrapbooks, correspondence, meeting minutes and other items pertaining to the McNeese Chapter of the NCAS. 

#119     McNeese State University/Panhellenic Council Collection
        The collection contains correspondence, minutes, business papers, photographs and reports on the Panhellenic Council and campus sororities dating from 1951-1954 and 1970-1993.

#156     McNeese State University/Phi Chi Theta, Beta Upsilon Chapter
        The collection contains newspaper clippings, a manual and scrapbooks that consist of photographs, clippings and programs, which pertain to the McNeese Beta Epsilon Chapter of Phi Chi Theta, a co-ed professional business and economics fraternity.

#098     McNeese State University/ROTC Collection
        Contains administrative documents, newspaper articles, photographs, scrapbooks, yearbooks and awards from the McNeese State University ROTC from 1941-1947.

#041     McNeese State University/Scrapbook Collection
        Newspaper clippings concerning McNeese beginning in 1939 and continuing to the present.

#123     McNeese State University/60th Anniversary Oral History Collection
        Contains oral history interviews with several of the first students attending McNeese in 1939-1941, transcripts, current photographs, copies of photographs from the yearbooks of the time and from the photograph file.

#127     McNeese State University/Smith Hall Files Collection
        Contains correspondence, other miscellaneous documents concerning the use of the Chennault Air Force Base for the university, purchase of various properties by McNeese, sale of various properties by McNeese and construction and renovation of buildings on the McNeese campus.  Dates vary from early 1940s to the 1980s.

#071     McNeese State University/Theatre Collection
        Contains material from productions held from 1969 to the present, including photographs, playbills and reviews.  also contains information on Alpha Psi Omega, the dramatic fraternity.

#076     The Dr. Donald J. Millet Collection
The collection contains addresses on historical subjects, photographs from the Lake Charles vicinity, material related to the Seaman A. Knapp memorial on the McNeese campus, correspondence, and biographical material on area citizens written and collected by former McNeese history professor Donald J. Millet.

 


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