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Records of TCU Community Projects

 Collection
Identifier: RU-073

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, photographs, agendas, invoices, drafts of speeches, printed material and ephemera document the activities of the office of TCU Community Projects under the supervision of Margaret Kelly, Executive Director of Community Projects at TCU, from 0000. The collection is divided into five series, TCU Events, Inaugurations, Convocations and Commencement, Schieffer Symposiums, and assorted ephemera. The files document the planning and execution of events organized for the Women’s Faculty Club, the Monnig Meteorite Gallery, the Mary Couts Burnett Library, the TCU Ranch Management department, as well as the inaugurations ceremonies of three TCU Chancellors: William Tucker, Michael Ferrari, and Victor Boschini. The records also document the planning of commencement and convocation ceremonies from 1997 to 2005. There is also extensive documentation of the planning of the Schieffer Symposium on the News, a gathering of media leaders who discussed the state of journalism which ran for 11 years with the participation of TCU alum and CBS journalist Bob Schieffer. The ephemera series includes t-shirts created for various TCU events.

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1992 - 2019

Conditions Governing Use

This collection is available for research.

Extent

4 Linear feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

In four series. Series I: Community Project Papers, 1982-2019; Series II: Ephemera, 1992 -2019; Series III: Inaugurations and Convocations, 1965-2004; Series IV: Convocations and Schieffer Symposiums, 1999-2005.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Boxed from the office of Margaret Kelly

Title
Records of TCU Community Projects
Author
Anne Dorf
Date
08 2021
Language of description
English
Script of description
Adlam

Repository Details

Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library Repository

Contact:
TCU Box 298400
2800 S. University Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76129-0001
Fort Worth Texas 76129
(817) 257-4566
(817) 257-7282 (Fax)