Northern Arizona Normal
School
Northern Arizona State
Teachers College
Arizona State Teachers
College at Flagstaff
Arizona State College
at Flagstaff
Northern Arizona University
Title:
History of Northern Arizona University collection
Inclusive Dates:
1899-2000
Quantity:
4.25 linear feet textual material and ephemera
(10 boxes)
Abstract:
The History of Northern Arizona University collection (NAU.ARC.MS.1) contains
university and student-produced records of Northern Arizona University (NAU) from its
founding in 1899, including correspondence, budget information, audits and financial records, and
ephemera.
Identification:
NAU.ARC.MS.1
Language:
Material in English
Repository:
Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives
Northern Arizona University
Box 6022
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6022
Phone: 928 523-5551
Fax: 928 523-3770
Email: special.collections@nau.edu
Historical Note
The Northern Arizona Normal School (NANS) opened on September 11, 1899 following
legislation to establish a Normal School in Flagstaff. Led by President and Professor A.N.
Taylor, NANS opened with 23 students and saw four women recieve lifetime teaching degrees in
the first graduating class of 1901.
In 1925, the Arizona State Legislature allowed the school was allowed to grant bachelor of
education degrees and changed its name to Northern Arizona State Teachers College (ASTC). By
1929, the school was known as the Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff.
The school once again changed its name to Arizona State College at Flagstaff in 1945 after
it expanded to offer science and arts degrees.
After further growth, the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) granted Arizona State College
university status as Northern Arizona University in 1966.
The History of Northern Arizona University collection (NAU.ARC.MS.1) contains eclectic
materials donated to Special Collections and Archives by NAU alumni, transferred to SCA by
staff at Arizona State University, and otherwise collected by SCA staff related to the
institutional history of Northern Arizona University (NAU) throughout its development.
Series 1: Northern Arizona Normal School (NANS) records (NAU.ARC.MS.1.01) features records
pertaining to the Northern Arizona Normal School and the Normal School Board of Trustees,
dating from 1899 to 1915. It includes correspondence, financial records, contracts,
clippings, and Board of Education minutes. Much of the correspondence concerns James
McClintock, who was a member of the Board of Directors of the Normal Schools in Arizona, and
A.N. Taylor, first President of the Northern Arizona Normal School. Series 1 also includes
diplomas from NANS students, materials from former NANS student J. Morris Richards, NANS
ephemera such as sports programs, ribbons regarding Arizona statehood, dance tickets, and
financial vouchers for NANS faculty and staff.
Series 2: Northern Arizona State Teachers College records (NAU.ARC.MS.1.02) includes
additional materials from J. Morris Richards and ephemera such as a 1926 banquest
program.
Series 3: Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff records (NAU.ARC.MS.1.03) includes
various account books, alumni bulletins, reports regarding Arizona State College, Flagstaff,
news clippings about ASTC, audit materials for ASTC (various years), student account and
departmental budget statements, ephemera related to homecoming, sample report cards, and
materials documenting the academic career of Emmett Thomas as ASTC between 1940-1941.
Series 4: Arizona State College at Flagstaff records (NAU.ARC.MS.1.04) include surveys and
reports, a poster for ASC's Annual All-Indian Show, homecoming and alumni materials, income
summaries, financial documentation for the bookstore and dining hall, and departmental
budget statements. It also includes documentation of the ASC Indian Show Committee and
Indian Show Scholarship Committee dating from 1954 to 1958, including correspondence from
President Lacey A. Eastburn and Agnes Allen. Committee members included John R. Salter,
Garland Downum, M. T. Lewellen, Melvin Hutchison, Ellery Gibson, Willie Coin, W. Tinsley, R.
Carrillo, Raymond Nakai, Lewis McDonald, George Kirk, Jimmey or Jimmie Kay, Wesley Bonito,
Milford Sanderson, Robbie D. George, Buster Madariaga, Gary Scott, Jane Masawiestewa, Elva
Gibson, Ellery Higson, Sherwood Numkena, and Willard Sakiewsta. Some materials pertain to
students who applied for the scholarship.
Series 5: Northern Arizona University records (NAU.ARC.MS.1.05) includes documentation of
NAU alumni and the Alumni Association's involvement in Homecoming between 1966-1977;
pamphlets, speeches, and other documentation of NAU's centennial celebration in 1999; and
documentation related to formal and informal reviews of NAU's undergraduate and graduate
programs, including reports to the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), between 1983-1995.
Arrangement
Sean Evans and Sam(antha) Meier arranged the History of Northern Arizona University
collection (NAU.ARC.MS.1) into series based on the content of files:
The current arrangement of the History of Northern Arizona University collection
(NAU.ARC.MS.1) is based on the existing physical organization of materials found by Evans,
Meier, and Elizabeth Garcia in 2020.
At some point prior to the 2000s, SCA staff physically organized the materials in the
History of Northern Arizona University collection into groupings based on the name and
nature of the college at the time. For instance, staff grouped materials related to the
Northern Arizona Normal School records together, materials from Northern Arizona State
Teachers College together, and so on.
Staff then organized these materials into files chronologically and/or by record type.
No restrictions on use, except not available through interlibrary loan.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the
copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees,
heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the
Arizona Board of Regents for Northern Arizona University, its officers, employees, and
agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner
of copyright.
[Title or brief description of item.] History of Northern Arizona University collection,
Series [ ], NAU.ARC.MS.1, Box [ ], Folder [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Northern
Arizona University. Cline Library. Flagstaff, Arizona.
Acquisition Information
The bulk of the materials in Series 1: Northern Arizona Normal School (NANS) records
(NAU.ARC.MS.1.01) were transferred from President John W. Schwada of Arizona State
University to NAU President Lawrence J. Walkup in 1973. The NANS financial vouchers in
Series 1 were transferred from Alfred Thomas Jr. of Arizona State University to NAU
President Lawrence J. Walkup in 1972. SCA staff speculate that some of these materials may
have once been the property of Grady Gammage, but this has not been confirmed (June
2021).
Some materials in Series 1: Northern Arizona Normal School (NANS) records (NAU.ARC.MS.1.01)
and Series 2: Northern Arizona State Teachers College records (NAU.ARC.MS.2.02) appear to
have been donated by J. Morris Richards, a graduate of Northern Arizona Normal School.
Emmett Thomas's materials in Series 3 (NAU.ARC.MS.1.03) were donated to SCA by Thomas's
niece Kathe [last name unknown] via Brad Cole in 1996.
The provenance of other materials in the History of Northern Arizona University collection
is unknown as of June 2021.
Processing Information
Materials in Series 1: Northern Arizona Normal School (NANS) records (NAU.ARC.MS.1.01) were
inventoried circa 1973-1975. SCA staff, notably Danielle Dlugajczyk, re-organized certain files circa 2014.
In February and March 2021, Elizabeth Garcia created an Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
finding aid for the Northern Arizona Normal School records now found in Series 1
(NAU.ARC.MS.1.01).
In June 2021, Samantha Meier did minor reprocessing (foldering and adding folder titles and
numbers for loose materials) for materials found in Series 2, Series 3, and Series 4
(NAU.ARC.MS.1.02, NAU.ARC.MS.1.03, NAU.ARC.MS.1.04), in addition to adding those materials
to the finding aid in the order in which they were found. Meier added Series 5 to the
finding aid in September 2021.
Series 1: Northern Arizona Normal School records features records pertaining to the
Northern Arizona Normal School and the Normal School Board of Trustees, dating from 1899
to 1915. It includes correspondence, financial records, contracts, clippings, and Board
of Education minutes. Much of the correspondence concerns James McClintock, who was a
member of the Board of Directors of the Normal Schools in Arizona, and A.N. Taylor,
first President of the Northern Arizona Normal School. Series 1 also includes diplomas
from NANS students, materials from former NANS student J. Morris Richards, NANS ephemera
such as sports programs, ribbons regarding Arizona statehood, dance tickets, and
financial vouchers for NANS faculty and staff.
Arrangement
SCA staff arranged certain files within the Northern Arizona Normal School records chronologically by month
and year, often by record type. Certain files were further created to indicate Board of Education
materials. Materials donated to SCA by former students or their heirs were labeled with that student's name.
Processing Information
The Northern Arizona Normal School records were inventoried circa 1973-1975. SCA staff, notably Danielle Dlugajczyk,
re-organized certain files circa 2014. In June 2021, Samantha Meier added the financial vouchers as well as other materials to Series 1.
box
folder
1
2
Flagstaff Normal School: Funds and Deeds March 1899
1
1
Flagstaff Normal School: Board Meeting Minutes March 1899-1901
1
3
Correspondence with James H. McClintock, A.N. Taylor, and Normal Schools of
Arizona April 1899
1
4a
Flagstaff Normal School: Arizona Central Bank and Legal Matters May
1899
1
4b
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence May
1899
1
5a
Flagstaff Normal School: Personnel File June 1899
1
5b
Flagstaff Normal School: Purchasing Furniture June 1899
1
6
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education and Arizona
Central Bank July 1899
1
7a
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education and Arizona
Central Bank August 1899
1
7b
Flagstaff Normal School: Pamphlet August 1899
1
8
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education and Arizona
Central Bank September 1899
1
9
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education and Arizona
Central Bank October 1899
1
10
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education and Arizona
Central Bank November 1899
1
11
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education and Arizona
Central Bank December 1899
1
12
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education and Arizona
Central Bank January 1900
1
13
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education and Arizona
Central Bank February 1900
1
14
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education and Arizona
Central Bank March 1900
1
15
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education and Arizona
Central Bank April 1900
1
16
Flagstaff Normal School: Dedicatory Event and Library book
purchases May
1900
1
17
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence about NANS Fund June 1900
1
18
Flagstaff Normal School: NANS Fund Statement July 1900
1
19a
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence for furnishing NANS August 1900
1
19b
Flagstaff Normal School: Board of Education Meeting Minutes August 1900
1
20a
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education and Arizona
Central Bank September 1900
1
20b
Flagstaff Normal School: Furnishing Northern Arizona Normal
School September 1900
1
21
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Board of Education October 1900
1
22
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence concerning Northern Normal's bills
and funding November 1900
1
23
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence about furniture for the
School December 1900
1
24
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence January 1901
1
25
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Bank and Board of
Education February 1901
1
26
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Bank and Board of
Education March 1901
1
27
Flagstaff Normal School: Correspondence with Bank and Board of
Education April 1901
1
28
Flagstaff Normal School: Arizona Central Bank Statement November 1901
1
29
Flagstaff Normal School: Financial Statement 1912-1913
1
30
Flagstaff Normal School: Summer School Pamphlet June 16 to August 8, 1913
1
31
Flagstaff Normal School: Maintenance March 1914
1
32
Flagstaff Normal School: Maintenance April 1914
1
33
Flagstaff Normal School: Meeting Minutes for Board of Education January 1915
1
34
Flagstaff Normal School: Meeting Minutes for Northern Division Board of
Education February 1915
1
35
Flagstaff Normal School: Meeting Minutes for Northern Division Board of
Education March 1915
1
36
Flagstaff Normal School: Meeting Minutes for Northern Division Board of
Education April 1915
1
37
Flagstaff Normal School: Meeting Minutes for Northern Division Board of
Education May 1915
1
38
Flagstaff Normal School: Meeting Minutes for Northern Division Board of
Education June 1915
1
39
Flagstaff Normal School: Meeting Minutes for Northern Division Board of
Education July 1915
1
40
NANS-ATC: Guest register for graduating students 1923-1946
1
41
Receipt for fee 1911
1
42
Flagstaff Normal School: Papers and correspondence concerning the
establishing of the School 1899-1901
box
folder
2
1
NANS: Margaret H. W. Anderson's Diploma June 13, 1901
NANS: "Normal School Notes" column written by J. Morris Richards 1934-1925
2
6
"A Proposed Study for a Program for Fiscal Equalization of Educational
Opportunities in Arizona"
2
7
NANS "Single Statehood or Nothing" ribbon 1906
2
8
NANS Annual Announcement 1908-1909
2
9
NANS Halloween Masquerade ticket 1910
2
10
NANS: J. Morris Richards' Social Activity Ephemera 1923-1925
2
11
NANS: J. Morris Richards' Sports Ephemera 1925
2
12
J. Morris Richards job proposal June 19, 1925
2
13
NANS-NATC: J. Morris Richards' Verse "Each Day"
box
folder
3
1
Report to Governor George W. P. Hunt from Edgar A. Brown, Secretary, Board of
Education, Northern Arizona Normal School circa
1912-1913
3
2
Specifications of Material and Labor Necessary to Erect and Complete a School
Building for District No. 1, Flagstaff Arizona circa 1920s
3
7
Program of Recitations for Northern Arizona Normal School, Second Semester
1904-5 1905
3
8
Dance card, St. Patrick's Day Ball 1911
box
6
Northern Arizona Normal School (NANS) financial vouchers 1889-1901
Scope & Contents
This file contains financial claims or vouchers (documents titled "Demand on Northern
Arizona Normal School Fund") made by NANS staff and faculty between 1989 and 1901. It
also contains a monthly report dated November 6 - December 1, 1899.
Series 2: Northern Arizona State Teachers College records (NAU.ARC.MS.1.02) includes
materials gathered and donated by J. Morris Richards, such as ephemera from the
1920s-1930s.
box
folder
2
14
NATC: "The William J. Long Writers' Club" member J. Morris
Richards 1926
2
15
Northern Arizona Teachers College: Orchestra presentation, J. Morris
Richards
2
16
1926 banquet program and 1930 Homecoming Ball dance card 1926, 1930
Series 3: Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff records (NAU.ARC.MS.1.03)
includes various account books, alumni bulletins, reports regarding Arizona State
College, Flagstaff, news clippings about ASTC, audit materials for ASTC (various years),
student account and departmental budget statements, ephemera related to homecoming,
sample report cards, and materials documenting the academic career of Emmett Thomas as
ASTC between 1940-1941.
box
folder
3
4
Account books 1928-1947
3
6
"Classification of Pupils for the Purpose of Teaching" by T. J.
Tormey circa 1933-1934
3
9
News bulletin - Shrine of the Ages Choir April 1939
box
folder
4
1
Reports on Arizona State College, Flagstaff, including 1918 influenza
epidemic 1932-1953
4
2
A.S.T.C. Flagstaff: Alumni Bulletin 1934-1943
4
3
Arizona State Teachers College: News clipping about Freddy Dixion - Boxer
[Phoenix Gazette] January 1938
4
4
A.S.T.C. in Flagstaff: News clipping about rising enrollment rates [Flagstaff
Journal] April 1938
4
5
A.S.T.C. in Flagstaff: News clipping about the football program [Phoenix
Republic] May-June
1938
4
6
ASTC in Flagstaff: Telegram to Dr. Elden A. Ardrey April 21, 1940
4
7
Audit of Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff for 1935-1936 by Frances
L. Decker, CPA February 1937
4
8
Arizona State Teachers College in Flagstaff: Ana Frohmiller - State
Auditor May 10, 1937
4
9
ASTC in Flagstaff: Student Account and Departmental Budget
Statements 1939-1940
4
10
ASTC in Flagstaff: Student Account and Department Budget
Statements 1940-1941
4
11
ASTC in Flagstaff: Student Account and Departmental Budget
Statements 1938-1939
4
12
ASTC in Flagstaff: Examination of the Records Arizona State Teachers College,
Flagstaff, Arizona, July 1st 1931 to June 30th, 1935, F. L. Decker, Flagstaff,
Arizona, Auditor 1935
4
13
ASTC Flagstaff: Teacher's Manual and Study Outline March-April
1940
4
14
ASTC Flagstaff: Homecoming Banquet October 25, 1930
4
15
ASTC Flagstaff: S.B. 57.103, 187 1939
4
16
ASTC - ASC Flagstaff: Emmett Thomas educational materials 1940-1941
4
17
"Historical Record of Arizona State Teachers College at Tempe, Arizona,"
compiled by Dr. Grady Gammage
4
18
(Experimental Edition) Report card for College Elementary School, Arizona
State Teachers College, Flagstaff, Arizona
Series 4: Arizona State College at Flagstaff records (NAU.ARC.MS.1.04) include surveys
and reports, a poster for ASC's Annual All-Indian Show, homecoming and alumni materials,
income summaries, financial documentation for the bookstore and dining hall, and
departmental budget statements. It also includes documentation of the ASC Indian Show
Committee and Indian Show Scholarship Committee dating from 1954 to 1958, including
correspondence from President Lacey A. Eastburn and Agnes Allen. Committee members
included John R. Salter, Garland Downum, M. T. Lewellen, Melvin Hutchison, Ellery
Gibson, Willie Coin, W. Tinsley, R. Carrillo, Raymond Nakai, Lewis McDonald, George
Kirk, Jimmey or Jimmie Kay, Wesley Bonito, Milford Sanderson, Robbie D. George, Buster
Madariaga, Gary Scott, Jane Masawiestewa, Elva Gibson, Ellery Higson, Sherwood Numkena,
and Willard Sakiewsta. Some materials pertain to students who applied for the
scholarship.
box
folder
3
3
Special Survey Committee of the Board of Regents of the University and State
Colleges of Arizona reports 1946
3
5
Annual All-Indian Show, Arizona State College Flagstaff, to benefit Indian
Scholarship Fund poster
box
folder
5
1
ASC Flagstaff: Alumni at Homecoming 1953
5
2
ASC Flagstaff: Homecoming 1954
5
3
ASC Flagstaff: Homecoming 1955
5
4
ASC Flagstaff: Homecoming 1956
5
5
ASC Flagstaff: Homecoming 1957
5
6
ASC Flagstaff: Homecoming 1959
5
7
ASC Flagstaff: Alumni at Homecoming 1960
5
8
ASC Flagstaff: Alumni at Homecoming 1961
5
9
ASC Flagstaff: Alumni at Homecoming 1962
5
10
ASC: Alumni Homecoming Registration 1958-1965
5
11
ASC in Flagstaff: Correspondence concerning the establishment of the College
of Forestry 1949
5
12
ASC in Flagstaff: Bookstore profit and loss 1948-1949
5
13
ASC in Flagstaff: Credit manager files 1951
5
14
ASC in Flagstaff: Dining hall finances 1949-1951
5
15
ASC in Flagstaff: Summary of income 1950
5
16
ASC in Flagstaff: Summary of income 1951
5
17
ASC in Flagstaff: Summary of income 1952
5
18
ASC in Flagstaff: Summary of income 1949
5
19
ASC in Flagstaff: Summary of income 1948
5
20
Report to the Board of Review of the Commission on Colleges and Universities,
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Arizona State College,
Flagstaff, Arizona 1947
5
21
ASC in Flagstaff: Statements of Departmental Budgets 1948-1949
5
22
ASC in Flagstaff: Statements of Departmental Budget 1949-1950
5
23
ASC in Flagstaff: Statements of Departmental Budget 1950-1952
Series 5: Northern Arizona University records includes documentation of NAU alumni and
the Alumni Association's involvement in Homecoming between 1966-1977; pamphlets,
speeches, and other documentation of NAU's centennial celebration in 1999; and
documentation related to formal and informal reviews of NAU's undergraduate and graduate
programs, including reports to the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), between
1983-1995.
box
folder
8
1-3
NAU: Centennial Year Promotions 1999
8
4
NAU: President's Fall Convocation Speeches 1994-2000
8
5
NAU: Centennial Moments 1999
8
6
NAU: Honors Convocation Address 1973-2000
box
folder
9
1-2
NAU: End of the Year Report on the Center for Excellence in
Education July 1985
9
3
NAU: Report of the Task Force for the Improvement of Undergraduate
Education May 1988
9
4
NAU: Assessment and Undergraduate Report May 1, 1989
9
5
NAU: University Program Review Committee Final Report 1991-1992
9
6-7
NAU: Report of the Task Force for the Improvement of Undergraduate
Programs 1992
9
8
NAU: Proposal for Comprehensive Restructuring of NAU Honors
Program June 5, 1992
9
9
NAU: Spring 1996 Grade Reports 1996
9
10
NAU: Various Perceptions of Northern Arizona University History 1978
box
folder
10
1
NAU: Alumni registration for Homecoming 1966
10
2
NAU: Alumni involvement in Homecoming 1966
10
3
NAU: Personal resumes for NAU Alumni Association 1967
10
4
NAU: Alumni registration for Homecoming 1967
10
5
NAU: Alumni Association at Homecoming 1967
10
6
NAU: Alumni Association at Homecoming 1969
10
7
1970 NAU: Alumni Association at Homecoming 1970
10
8
197 NAU: Alumni Association at Homecoming 1971
10
9
197 NAU: Alumni Association at Homecoming 1972
10
10
197 NAU: Alumni Association at Homecoming 1973
10
11
197 NAU: Alumni Association at Homecoming 1974
10
12
197 NAU: Alumni Association at Homecoming 1975
10
13
197 NAU: Alumni Association at Homecoming 1976
10
14
197 NAU: Reunion of Classes 1935-1942 at Homecoming 1977
10
15
197 NAU: Graduate Program Review May 2, 1983
10
16
197 NAU: Final Report of the AD HOC (Undergraduate) Program Review
Committee May 1, 1983
10
17
197 NAU: Academic Program Reviews for ABOR meeting` 1983-1984
10
18
197 NAU: Academic Program Review for ABOR meeting 1984-1985
10
19
197 NAU: Academic Program Review for ABOR meeting 1986-1987
10
20
197 NAU: Academic Program Review for ABOR meeting 1987-1988
10
21
197 NAU: Academic Program Review Reports for ABOR meeting 1988-1989
10
22
197 NAU: Academic Program Review Reports for ABOR meeting 1990
10
23
197 NAU: Academic Program Review Reports for ABOR meeting 1991
10
24
197 NAU: Academic Program Review Reports for ABOR meeting 1992-1993
10
25
197 NAU: Academic Program Review Reports 1993-1994
10
26
197 NAU: Academic Program Review Reports for ABOR meeting April 1995
