American Friends Service Committee (Reno, Nev.)

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Reno Friends Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: 95-09
Abstract

The Reno Friends Meeting formed in 1961 and was officially incorporated in 1969. The group is dedicated to the facilitation of Quaker worship in Reno, Nevada as well as pursuing social concerns of interest to the Friends. The collection contains Reno Friends meeting minutes, correspondence, flyers, brochures related to Quakerism and other social issues, information on the Friends boarding school (active in the 1960s), and Pacific Yearly Meeting materials.

Dates: 1961-2000
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Reno Friends Meeting Records

William T. and Ann H. Scott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 97-15
Abstract

The collection consists of the personal papers and professional records of Ann and William Scott and their extended family. It includes documentation of Ann Scott's career as a children's author, such as manuscripts, correspondence, and academic and employment records and William Scott's research files in physics, teaching records, articles and correspondence related to cloud physics (1954-1993).

Dates: 1950-1994
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / William T. and Ann H. Scott Papers

William T. and Ann H. Scott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 95-92
Abstract Husband and wife William Taussig Scott (1916-1999) and Ann Herbert Scott (1929-2018) lived in Reno, Nevada, between 1961-1995. William taught physics and philosophy of science at the University of Nevada, Reno, from 1961-1981 and conducted research in cloud physics at the Desert Research Institute from 1965-1975. Ann was an author of children's books and a book on the U.S. Census. The collection consists of the personal papers and professional records of Ann and William Scott and their...
Dates: 1833-1994
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / William T. and Ann H. Scott Papers

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Children's literature -- Authorship 2
Conscientious objectors -- United States 2
Nuclear disarmament 2
Pacifism 2
Pacifists -- United States 2
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Peace 2
Society of Friends -- Nevada 2
Boarding schools -- California 1
Business correspondence 1
Children's literature 1
Cloud physics 1
Cosmic rays 1
Electricity 1
Fiction 1
Knowledge, Theory of 1
MX (Weapons system) 1
Magnetism 1
Mass spectrometry 1
Minutes (Records) 1
Missions -- China 1
Nevada -- Religion 1
Nuclear weapons -- Nevada -- Testing 1
Paiute Indians -- Social conditions 1
Personal correspondence 1
Philosophy and science 1
Photographs 1
Prisons -- Nevada 1
Programs (Publications) 1
Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation (Nev.) 1
Quantum theory 1
Religion and science 1
Scattering (Physics) 1
Science -- Philosophy 1
Society of Friends -- Nevada -- Reno 1
Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Nevada 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors 1
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