James C. Worthy (1910-1998) Papers 1930-1999

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James C. Worthy (1910-1998) Papers 1930-1999

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James Carson Worthy, businessman, professor, and public servant, was born January 8, 1910 in Midland, Texas. After growing up in the southern Chicago suburb of Glenwood, Illinois, Worthy entered Northwestern University's College of Liberal Arts in 1929 as an Austin Scholar. The James C. Worthy Papers fill 53 boxes and 25 bound volumes, spanning the years 1932 to 1999. The bulk of the records consist of correspondence, speeches, reports, and published or unpublished papers. A substantial portion of the Papers documents Worthy's political activities. The papers are divided into six subseries, based upon Worthy's original order and organization of the materials: Biographical Materials, Correspondence, Career, Organizations, Political Activities, Publications and Speeches, and Numbered Materials. Indexes and Cross-References include indexes to the speeches and bound volumes included in the Papers (Speeches, Box 44; Bound Volumes 1-25). One folder holds container lists of materials that Worthy deposited in the archives of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and the Academy of Management (Cornell University) in 1988.

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