Collection #:
SC 2256

KATHERINE DAVIS MAYE
HALL OF FAME PROJECT, 1968–1986

Processed by:
Wilma L. Gibbs
11 March 1994
Updated 22 November 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: 3 folders

COLLECTION DATES: Inclusive 1968-1986

PROVENANCE: Katherine Davis Maye, Indianapolis, Indiana, 17 July 1986

RESTRICTIONS: None

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

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: None

ACCESSION NUMBER: 1986.0576

NOTES:

In February, 1968, Katherine Davis Maye, a teacher at Indianapolis Public School #87, initiated a Hall of Fame wall to proclaim the achievements of a select group of alumni. The purpose of the Black History Month exhibit was to surround the school's students with an atmosphere of success; to honor former students; and to spotlight careers uncommon in the black community. During the 14-year tenure of the program, honorees included a cardiologist, public affairs director of a television station, an author, attorneys, a foreign diplomat, and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Navy.

Although several of the inductees lived throughout the United States, many had settled in Indianapolis.

Sources: Materials in the collection.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

From 1968-1982, schoolteacher, Katherine Davis Maye, collected biographical materials from former School #87 pupils. Maye's collection includes the files of the School #87 Hall of Fame project. The three folder collection includes a project description by Maye. An Indianapolis Public School newsletter (Intergroup Relations Communications, May, 1976) contained within the collection has an article about the project. The project description and newsletter, as well as some newsclippings, are in folder 1. Biographical materials and photographs (folder 2) and permission statements to submit information to the Indiana Historical Society (folder 3) from Hall of Fame alumni represent the bulk of the collection. There is a summary statement and a photograph for each participant. Some of the summary statements, compiled by Katherine D. Maye, are supplemented by her handwritten updates and/or resumes and other supporting documents, probably supplied by the participants in 1986. The inductees and the years they were honored include Carl D. Anderson (1973), Larry O. Banks (1969), Dr. Paul Terry Batties (1975), Dr. Warren R. Betty (1970), Brenda E. Bowles, Esq. (1975), Rozelle Boyd (1969), Colonel Harry W. Brooks (1971), Donald R. Davidson (1982), Major Fred Davidson III (1982), Charline C. Duline (1970), Dr. Jacqueline Bottoms Hoop (1978), William L. Jackson (1979), Jean McAnulty Lamm (1968), Raymond A. League (1969), Carolyn R. Mattocks, Esq. (1981), Joan Myers (1968), Dr. Alice Roberts Palmer (1980), Claudia Polly (1968), Rear Admiral William E. Powell, Jr. (1974), James W. Pyles (1968), Henry J. Richardson III, Esq. (1968), Lawrence Ridley II (1972), Kaaren Burke Rodman (1968), Wallace Terry (1968), Lieutenant Colonel William W. Walker (1971), and Judith R. Waugh (1977).

FOLDER INVENTORY

FOLDER

1 Project Statement and Background

2 Biographies and Photographs of Participants (Photographs are stored in Visual Collections.)

(VC) Folder 2a: Participants, A-L

(VC) Folder 2b: Participants, M-Z

(VC) Color Storage: Participants, Mattocks and Powell

3 Permission Statements

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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Collection #: SC 2256