Collection #

M 0587

 

 

audra snyder bailey
papers, 1965–1991 (bulk 1970-1975)

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Ellen Swain and
Paul Brockman
6 August 1991
Revised 22 April 2002
Updated 26 March 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF
COLLECTION:

1 manuscript box

COLLECTION
DATES:

Inclusive, 1965–91; Bulk, 1970–75

PROVENANCE:

Mrs. L. Rush Bailey, 700 N. Alabama, Apt. 1502, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204, 1 August 1991

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

None

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

None

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

1991.0630

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

Audra (Snyder) Lindley Bailey was born in Amboy, Indiana, in 1909.  She graduated from Indiana University in 1930, and received a master’s degree in administration from Butler University in 1944.  Audra Lindley married L. Rush Bailey, a professor of dentistry at Indiana University, Indianapolis.  She had one son, Craig Lindley, by a previous marriage.

After graduating from IU, Bailey began her teaching career at Mt. Auburn, Indiana, as a high school math instructor.  From 1931 until 1937, she taught in private schools in Maine and Wisconsin, returning to Indiana in 1937 to teach at Waterloo (Indiana) High School.  After a seven-year stint (1942–47) at Roosevelt Junior High School, Kokomo, Bailey was employed by Kokomo High School as Dean of Girls and Orientation Teacher (1949–57) and later served as a mathematics instructor and Director of American Field Service Student Exchange Program (1957–64).  Bailey ended her teaching career at Arlington High School in Indianapolis (1964–79) where she taught mathematics and directed such programs as "Keep America Beautiful," "Freedom's Foundation," and AFS Program.

Audra Bailey was also involved in many service, church, and political organizations.  These include Hoosiers for Equal Rights Amendment, Women's Political Caucus, Women United Against Rape; the Mayor's Task Force on Women, the Metropolitan Office for Women's Programs, and North United Methodist Women.

Sources: Who's Who in the Midwest, v.10, 1967–68, p. 53.
Information in collection.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection, filling one manuscript box, consists of materials about Audra Bailey's life including correspondence, committee minutes and reports, high school newsletters and programs, articles, and clippings that focus on her involvement on the issues of education and women's rights.  Five of the folders pertain to high school activities headed by Bailey while a teacher in Kokomo and Indianapolis.  Materials include correspondence and information regarding foreign exchange programs, Beautify America drives, Freedom's Foundation, and school-sponsored events. 

The remaining eleven folders deal with Bailey's organizational and church involvement.  These include Bailey's work on the Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women Task Force, the Hoosiers for Equal Rights Amendment, the Indiana Association of Women Deans and Counselors, the Indiana Women's Political Caucus, and the Metropolitan Office for Women's Programs.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

Biographical Information

Box 1, Folder 1

“In Focus: Educational Employment: Educational Opportunity,” May 1973

Box 1, Folder 2

Student Exchange Programs, Kokomo and Arlington High Schools, 1968–91

Box 1, Folder 3

By-Line Educational Articles in Topics, Journal of NAWDC, and Business Woman, 1972–80

Box 1, Folder 4

Freedom's Foundation Activities, 1972–79

Box 1, Folder 5

Hoosiers for Equal Rights Amendment (HERA), 1972–74

Box 1, Folder 6

Indiana (and National) Association of Women Deans and Counselors (IAWDAC) and (NAWDAC), 1967–74

Box 1, Folder 7

Indiana Jefferson Award, Big A Award, and Miscellaneous, 1965–85

Box 1, Folder 8

Indiana Women for Lugar (Senate Campaign), 1974

Box 1, Folder 9

Indiana Women's Political Caucus, 1972–73, 1981

Box 1, Folder 10

Keep America Beautiful Project, Arlington High School, 1976–82

Box 1, Folder 11

Lugar Fan Club, 1972–74

Box 1, Folder 12

North United Methodist Church Activities, 1968–80

Box 1, Folder 13

Special Events and Public Relations, Arlington High School, 1971–88

Box 1, Folder 14

Metropolitan Office for Women's Programs, 1975–76

Box 1, Folder 15

Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women Task Force, 1972–73

Box 1, Folder 16

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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