Collections

This collection comprises press clippings, genealogical records, personal correspondence, and photographs. Press clippings reference Frank Garcia, a local amateur archaeologist. Autograph book on file contains the signatures of several well-known professional wrestlers from the 1950s, including Don Eagle, Don Kalt, Ray Stevens and Judy Glover. The genealogical records document several families from Marion County, Florida. Because of the voluminous and fragile nature of the bulk of the papers concerning Frank Garcia, a bibliography was created and many items were deaccessioned.

The Sue Stanley-Green Faculty Papers contains documents pertaining to her role as Program Director of the Athletic Training Education Program and as a faculty member of Florida Southern College. The collection provides insight into the activities of a faculty member at Florida Southern College. It has been arranged into series alphabetically by topic.

The Susan Evans Papers include various materials surrounding her long serving term, such as items from Florida Gulf Coast University founding, campus planning, history, and athletics. Forms of media included text, photographs, VHS tapes, physical objects and letters. Topics and subjects range from University Groundbreaking to Susan Evans's time as a Vice President. The first part of this collection includes Series Athletics, Campus Planning, History and one Sub-Series Objects and Ephemera. The second part of her collection includes Series Early Years, Presidential Search, Events, FGCU Early Years Event Photography. The third and last part of this collection is, FGCU VHS Collection, Charlotte County Site Selection, Football Feasibility Study, FGCU News Article Releases.

The Sylwester B. Knap papers contain an oral history transcript and a political prisoner certificate. Knap's oral history focuses on his childhood during the time World War II began in Europe which includes attempting to find refuge in Czestochowa, his experiences in the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, forced labor, mistreatment, camp selections, contracting Typhus, liberation, becoming wounded, finding his family after the war, his uncles involvement in the resistance movement, and his feelings toward talking about the war.