Gordon and Doris Wear papers, ca. 1920 - 1984.

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Gordon and Doris Wear papers, ca. 1920 - 1984.

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The collection consists of 6 photograph albums and 7 scrapbooks. Photograph subjects include Gordon Wear as a child, friends and family, military parties, and images of the Gordon Wear insurance agency. Scrapbook clippings and correspondence describe the 1967 flood in Fairbanks, Alaska, the 1963 Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, meetings in Puerto Rico, awards ceremonies, and materials from Wear's insurance company.

2.0 cubic feet.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6949758

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Wear, Dolores, 1908-1996.

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United States. Civil Air Patrol

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"The first Civil Air Patrol members of 1941... served their country by sinking or chasing away German submarines off America's East and Gulf coasts... Today, CAP handles 90 percent of inland search and rescue missions." -- "Civil Air Patrol: A Proud Legacy Continues." Civil Air Patrol. http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/html/commander.htm (Retrieved June 20, 2009) From the description of U.S. Civil Air Patrol letters, 1942 September. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 42873298...

Wear, Gordon, 1907-1996.

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Gordon Wear drove up the Alaska Highway in the early 1950s, with his wife Doris, opened an insurance company, and settled in Fairbanks, Alaska. Gordon Wear was a prominent civic leader, member of the Civil Air Patrol and the Military National Civilian Advisory Board, as well as President of the Fairbanks Rotary Club. Doris Wear was a schoolteacher at Fort Wainwright and an active member in the Top of the World Garden Club. (From: Alaska magazine, v. 63, no. 2 [March 1997] p. 91; AYP news, [Sept....