Hilliard Endowment Records, 1971-

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Hilliard Endowment Records, 1971-

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The Albert and Emily Hilliard Endowment Records consist of annual reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, Hilliard Scholar nominations, programming suggestions, exhibit brochures, and publicity material. Resumes for many Hilliard Scholars are included in the collection. There is also information about the Joanne De Longchamps house in Reno, where several visiting Hilliard Scholars stayed during their residencies at the University. Several University faculty and other Nevada writers who served on Hilliard Fund committees were later inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, including William Fox, Dr. Robert M. Gorrell, Dr. James Hulse, Dr. Charlton Laird, Dr. Ann Ronald, and Professor Sessions S. Wheeler. Frank Bergon, a Professor of English at Vassar College and a novelist, was a Hilliard Scholar in 1992 and inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1998. Teresa Jordan was a Hilliard Scholar in 1994 and was one of the first Nevada writers to receive the Friends of the University Library's Silver Pen Award. The collection includes correspondence from these authors, as well as correspondence from Robert Blesse, Director of the Black Rock Press, who served as Chairman of the Hilliard Endowment Committee for several years.

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University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

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University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

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Bergon, Frank, 1943-

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Frank Bergon was born in Ely, Nevada, and grew up on a ranch in Madera County in California’s San Joaquin Valley. After attending elementary school at St. Joachim’s in Madera and high school at Bellarmine in San Jose, he received a B.A. in English at Boston College, attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow, and completed a Ph.D. in English and American Literature at Harvard University. He has published twelve books—four novels, a critical study, a book of essays, a memoir, an...

Wheeler, Sessions S., 1911-1998.

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Ronald, Ann, 1939-....

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De Longchamps, Joanne, 1923-1983.

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Fox, William L., 1949-....

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Reno, Nevada poet and publisher of the poetry journal West coast poetry review and member of the boards of the National Endowment for the Humanities Literature Panel, Nevada State Council of the Arts, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Reno. Fox also writes under the name of Ian Tarnman. From the description of Papers, 1964-1992. (University of Nevada, Reno). WorldCat record id: 34269409 ...

Laird, Charlton, 1901-1984

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Charlton G. Laird was a linguist and professor of English at the University of Nevada, 1945-1968. In addition to his own publications, he co-authored English text books with Robert M. Gorrell, and a language book with wife, Helen Gent Laird. His correspondence includes folklorist and linguist Sven Liljeblad and his wife, Astrid; Nevada author Walter Van Tilburg Clark; Max and Michaline Urban, promoters for Latin America music in the United States; and Helen S. Carlson, author of a book on Nevada...

Gorrell, Robert M.

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Robert M. Gorrell, a graduate of Cornell University, taught at Deep Springs College, California from 1939 to 1942, and at Indiana University from 1942 to 1945. He joined the English department of the University of Nevada in 1945, serving as chairman from 1947 to 1965. Gorrell also served as dean of the Graduate School, dean of General University Extension, and dean of the College of Arts and Science, remaining in that post until becoming vice president for acadmic affairs in 1976. In 1980, Gorre...

Hulse, James W., 1930-

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University of Nevada, Reno. Albert and Emily Hilliard Endowment.

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Emily Robinson Hilliard was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of Charles Robonson and Sabine Antoinette. She married Albert Hilliard in Reno in 1933. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in language and literature from the University of Nevada in 1946. She was a member of the Nevada Artists' Association and exhibited her oil and pastel portraits in northern Nevada. A short story writer and guest newspaper columnist, she was a state president of the National Pen Women and the R...

Jordan, Teresa, 1955-

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Blesse, Robert E.

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