Nancy Vogel Papers

The collection contains information about Maureen Daly, whom Nancy Vogel researched for her manuscripts and articles. Maureen Daly was a Young Adult Literature author, and writer at several newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune. She is famous for her Young Adult Literature book, Seventeenth Summer, published in 1942. This series contains stories, interviews, articles, and autobiographical information all written by Maureen Daly. There are also book reviews, articles, audiotapes, videotapes and interviews with information about Maureen Daly. Also included is Maureen Daly’s personal correspondence.

One of the boxes contains information over Dwight D. Eisenhower and his family. Nancy Vogel went to the Eisenhower Presidential Library to research Eisenhower, Robert Frost, and Andrew Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth was a painter that did some paintings for Dwight Eisenhower. Included in this box is research done on all three men and correspondence. Nancy Vogel was also on the Eisenhower Centennial Committee and corresponded with some of Eisenhower’s family members. There are also meeting minutes, brochures, pamphlets, newspaper articles, committee correspondence, and a videotape of Dwight’s son, David Eisenhower’s, speech and press conference. The box also contains information over Susan Eisenhower, Dwight’s granddaughter.

Nancy Vogel’s personal papers include correspondence between her and Maureen Daly, and general correspondence with others. She also had a Young Literature stamp collection, articles, brochures and pamphlets over churches and parishes and a proposal for a book over Maureen Daly. In her Fort Hays State University papers she has folders for the Conferences she attended with some of the folders containing papers she presented, photographs of her at the conference and correspondences over the conferences. One of the folders contains information from the Fall English Conference held at Fort Hays State University in 1989 where Maureen Daly came to the University to give a lecture.

Also included in her Fort Hays State University collection is information on Nancy Vogel’s sabbatical, correspondence, and her many manuscripts over articles and books she wrote. There are folders that contain research over Maureen Daly and William McGivern (Maureen’s husband) and notes and biographical information. At the end there is information on the President’s Distinguished Scholar Award that Nancy won, and her involvement with Phi Delta Kappa and the Fort Hays State University Board of Trustees. She also has a folder with published journal and periodical articles and then various pictures and memorabilia.