Fay I. and Clara Price Wallace papers, 1938-1947.

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Fay I. and Clara Price Wallace papers, 1938-1947.

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Photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, and printed items, created or collected by Fay I. Wallace and his wife Clara, relating to their activities while residing in Ely and then Reno, Nev., and their travels in the state. In Ely, during the early 1940s, Fay was in charge of vocational education at the White Pine County High School; in 1945, he and Clara moved to Reno where he was an administrator with the U.S. Veterans Administration before relocating to Carson City, Nev., in 1952 and becoming supervisor of the Trade and Industrial Education section of the State Department of Education. Some of the materials, chiefly mounted in a scrapbook, relate to the Wallace's daughter, Ruth Wallace Curtis, who attended the University of Nevada at Reno in the mid-1940s.

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United States. Veterans Administration

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Nevada. State Dept. of Education. Trade and Industrial Education.

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Curtis, Ruth Wallace

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White Pine County High School

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Wallace, Fay I., 1897-1982

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Wallace, Clara Price, 1895-1988

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University of Nevada

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College Bowl began in 1953 as a radio program under sponsorship of the General Electric Company, moving to television in 1959. Each week two collegiate undergraduate teams would compete to be the first to correctly answer a variety of scholarly questions. The winner would return the following week, and the school would receive a General Electric scholarship grant. In 1963, the University of Nevada was invited to compete. Traveling to New York City with team coach Harold Kirkpatrick, the Nevada t...

Wallace family.

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