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The collection documents the history of the Student Affairs Office, the Leadership Experience, through photos, documents, awards, and publications.

In 1973, Dr. Glenwood L. Creech became Florida Atlantic University's second president.  The new president hailed from the University of Kentucky, where he had been vice president of university relations. Dr. Creech was ideally suited to tackle the urgent challenge of increasing financial support for FAU. To encourage substantial private donations, the state had introduced a program that would match every gift of $600,000 made to endow an Eminent Scholar Chair with $400,000 in state funds, boosting the value of the donation to $1 million. Dr. Creech used this leveraging tool with great success, and FAU soon became the state leader in the procurement of these endowed chairs.

Correspondence, financial records of Florida churches and missions, and additional enclosures.

Records and papers, 1953-1983, of the Pensacola Altrusa Club including correspondence, publications, minutes, newsletters, and other materials including a history of the Club by Maude Hollowell. Includes records concerning the local club, the clubs in Districts 3 and 4, and materials concerning the Altrusa International, including annual reports and publications. [4,608 pieces]

Personal papers comprising of scrapbooks and records of organizations in which she was a member or officer. Scrapbooks cover the U.S. Space program, th election and assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the end of the vietnam war and return of the Prisoners of War, Pensacola Catholics, and Pensacola businesses. Organization records include Altrusa of Pensacola, the League of Women voters, the Northwest Florida Crippled Children's Association, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, the Warrington American Legion Auxiliary, and the Warrington Business and Professional Women's Club.

The Nell Carlile Collection was created by Nell Carlile while a student at Florida State College for Women in the early 1940s. It contains newspaper clippings and magazine articles about FSU and its history; campus maps; a freshman bulletin, student handbook, and physical education manual; issues of Distaff; postcards; correspondence and holiday cards; event programs; ephemera; a telephone directory; and other FSU publications. The collection also contains a stuffed dog from the Odds team, an Odds team beanie cap, and a home economics dress.

This collection contains FAU Alumni Association events and portraits. A selection of photographs from each box was described to provide a sample of the collection. To see more photographs, please contact lysca@fau.edu to make an appointment.

The items in the collection include programs, photographs, and other memorabilia and ephemera related to the Flying High Circus.  (See box list.)