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Rotary Club--Valdosta, Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Emory Bass Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-2
Scope and Contents Emory Pate Bass, born on 27 December, 1891, in Sumner, Georgia, became known as “the man who kept the fire alive in Washington” until Moody Air Force Base (closed from 1946-51) was reopened as a permanent base. He served in WWI as an officer and with Patton’s Third Army in Europe in WWII. Taking an active part in the American Legion, he served as State Commander in addition to serving as president of the local Rotary Club and as a two-term president of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of...
Dates: 1940 - 1966; Acquired: 1972
Found in: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections / Emory Bass Collection

Folder 2: Rotary Documents and Community Correspondence , 1954

 File — Box 4, Folder: 2
Collection number: 2
Scope and Contents

Rotary Documents and Community Correspondence from 1954.

Dates: 1954
Found in: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections / MS-2, Emory Bass Collection / Box 4: Correspondence and Personal Files

Folder 3: Rotary Club International Golden Anniversary , 1955

 File — Box 4, Folder: 3
Collection number: 3
Scope and Contents

Rotary Club International Golden Anniversary. Flyers for the convention in Chicago. Yellow ribbon for District 241 of Gainsville, Georgia. Outlines for Golden Annniversary speeches booklet sent from Evanston, Illinois. As well as many letter back and forth between Rotary members and Emory P. Bass.

Dates: 1955
Found in: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections / MS-2, Emory Bass Collection / Box 4: Correspondence and Personal Files

Folder 20: Rotary International miscellaneous files , 1945 - 1955

 File — Box 4, Folder: 20
Collection number: 20
Scope and Contents

Miscelleanous Rotary Club materials from District 692, club 481 of Valdosta. Documents include flyers, Rota Reel copies and brochures, and personal letters to Emory Bass.

Dates: 1945 - 1955
Found in: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections / MS-2, Emory Bass Collection / Box 4: Correspondence and Personal Files

M.E. Thompson Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-27
Scope and Contents Melvin Thompson, the first person elected to the office of lieutenant governor of Georgia, served as the state's governor in 1947-48. He is best remembered for his fight with Herman Talmadge over the governorship after the death of Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in 1946. The papers of M.E. Thompson consist primarily of correspondence relating to the Three Governors Controversy and Thompson’s subsequent campaign years.  The major correspondents include Jimmy Carter, Phil Landrum, Herman...
Dates: 1947-1980; Other: Majority of material found in 1947, 1954, 1956
Found in: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections / M.E. Thompson Papers