The Arkansas Vista Materials consist of letters, research notes, photographs, and other information which Marvin Schwartz used to research, write, and publish his book entitled In Service to America: A History of VISTA in Arkansas, 1965-1985.
The research material contains notes, published accounts, and personal insights of the VISTA program, its numerous activities in towns and counties across the state of Arkansas, and the activities of the VISTA volunteers. The publishing information covers the grants application that were both submitted and accepted to finance his research and publication costs, correspondences between Schwartz and the University of Arkansas Press, and other general information.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into three series:
Series I – Research Materials (Notes on individuals and agencies active in VISTA in Arkansas, Materials on Texarkana, Pulaski County, and Eastern Arkansas; Federal, State, and Local Documents and Oral Histories)
Series II – Book Publishing Data (Book description and progress reports, AEH Grant Application and Letters, and general publishing data)
Series III – Photographs – Negatives and Photographs
Box 1
File 1 – Notes for complete chapters, index of notes for file 1 thru file 8
File 2 – Notes for completed chapters
File 3 – Notes for completed chapters
File 4 – Notes for completed chapters
File 5 – Notes for completed chapters
File 6 – Notes for completed chapters
File 7 – Notes for completed chapters
File 8 – Notes for completed chapters
File 9 – Texarkana VISTA Project
File 10- Notes on Texarkana and VISTA volunteers
File 11- Newspaper Articles ‑ VISTA in Texarkana
File 12- Texarkana: Committee for Representative Government
File 13- Texarkana: Model Cities
File 14- Southwest Arkansas Development Council (SWADC)
File 15- Pulaski County: Design Cooperative of Arkansas
File 16- VISTA in Eastern Arkansas: Newspaper Articles
File 17- Mississippi County’s United People’s Coop, FBI Reports, Respect, Inc., and Committee on Police Relations, Wynne, Ark
File 18- Original Art: Black and White’s Opportunities, 1954-1974 and “Militant” by Don Meyer
File 19- Federal Publication: Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
End of Box 1
Series I – Research Materials
Box 2
File 1 – VISTA Volunteer Handbook and pamphlets
File 2 – ARKANSAS HEALTH & HUNGER Reports
File 3 – Arkansas: State of Transition
File 4 – Poverty Reports on Arkansas
File 5 – Magazines on Poverty
File 6 – Cassette tape: Richard J. First
File 7 – Cassette tape: Ollie Neal
File 8 – Cassette tape: Floyd Sexton
File 9 – Cassette tape: Bruce Neft and Texarkana, Arkansas 1969-1970
End of Box 2
End of Series I
Series II – Book Publishing Data
Box 1
File 1 – Manuscript description, progress reports, volunteer questionnaire, and general letters
File 2 – Grant Application to Ark. Endowment for Humanities, Sponsor and grant information, and related letters
File 3 – Mini-Grant Application to A.E.H., Project Status Report, Final Evaluation Report, and related letters.
File 4 – Publishing information and correspondence, with University of Arkansas Fayetteville Press, and related letters
End of Box 1
End of Series II
Box 1
File 1 – Photographs of Individuals associated with Vista, (A-F)
Env 1 – Steve Anderson
Env 2 – Jerry Cronin
Env 3 – Rex and Neva Erickson
Env 4 – Christel Brellochs
Env 5 – Joe Bruch
Env 6 – Earl and Cheri Anthes
Env 7 – Joan Baez’s letter to Governor Bumpers
Env 8 – Willie B. Berry and Bruce Neft
Env 9 – Dr. Dan Blumenthal making house calls
Env 10- Tony Bozynski
Env 11- Roselyn Carter and Rex Erickson?
Env 12- Goforth Coleman
Env 13- Jerry Cronin and Jesse Ware
Env 14- Beverly Feinstein?
Env 15- Mrs. “Willie” Ferguson
Env 16- Corrinne Cass
Env 17- Joe Edelman and Mrs. Gothard
Env 18- Carol Brage and the Phillip’s Family
Env 19- Carol Brage and Sherry Prozzo
File 2 – Individuals associated with VISTA, (G-P)
Env 1 – Loren Ivener
Env 2 – Katherine Knight (no negatives)
Env 3 – John Lewis at a birthday party
Env 4 – Freeman McKindra
Env 5 – Estella Morris
Env 6 – Ollie Neal
Env 7 – Bobby Morgan
Env 8 – Mrs. Zelma Miller
Env 9 – Michael McCarthy
Env 10- James R. Palenscar (#1)
Env 11- James R. Palenscar (#2)
File 3 – Individuals associated with VISTA, (P-Z)
Env 1 – Linda Patrick and Mary Potter
Env 2 – Bill Peters
Env 3 – Sherry Prozzo (see also Carol Brage)
Env 4 – Joan Smith (#1)
Env 5 – Joan Smith (#2)
Env 6 – Jim Ranchino
Env 7 – Gene Richards
Env 8 – Joann Rose
Env 9 – Sandy Smegelsky
Env 10- Bob Torvestad
Env 11- Joann Utterback and David Stephens
Env 12- Joan and Tom Utterback
Env 13- Lou Vitale
Env 14- Mike Watts
Env 15- Frances Wood
File 4 – Photographs regarding VISTA operations in Lee, Mississippi and Pulaski counties; also group photographs of VISTA volunteers
Env 1 – Lee County Co-operative Clinic
Env 2 – Lee County Clinic Recruiting Poster
Env 3 – Lee County: Medical Clinic (original building and new facility)
Env 4 – Newspaper article (features: Charles Imhof, Dorrie Lynch, Eugene Richard, and Earl Anthes, plus poverty scenes
Env 5 – Design cooperative of Arkansas: Volunteers
Env 6 – Burdette Youth Recreation Program
Env 7 – Blytheville Church and Youth Organization
Env 8 – Birdsongs, Oct. 1968
Env 9 – Texarkana Volunteers (Bruce & Gail Neft, Tom & Joann Utterback, John & Carol Hoerster, David Jewett, Jack Fleck, and Vera MacAlister), Sept. 1970
Env 10- Pulaski county home (before and after)
Env 11- Mississippi County: Number nine center
Env 12- Group photo: (Vista) Dave Jewitt, Gail & Bruce Neft, Tom & Joann Utterback, John Hoerster, Carol Hoerster (Model Cities) Ben Mosely (Welfare Worker) Sharon White
Env 13- Vista staff member (Alice F. White) delivering food to the needy or elderly 1972
Env 14- Vista staff member (Alice F. White) delivering food to the needy or elderly 1972
Env 15- Respect, Inc. (Charles Imhof, Dorothea Lynch, and Gene Richards)
Env 16- Vista workers meet the Press
Env 17- Vista architects (Kozinsky, Gullaksen, and Peters)
File 5 – Photographs regarding Sweet Home and Texarkana, Poverty Scenes and general photos
Env 1 – Southern Texarkana Family assisted by Vista
Env 2 – Texarkana model cities sign
Env 3 – Sweet Home Community Center (negatives)
Env 4 – Texarkana City: general photos
Env 5 – Booklet cover: United People’s Cooperative
Env 6 – United People’s Cooperative annual report 1970
Env 7 – Building: Hall Engineering Company
Env 8 – “Court For Colored” sign
Env 9 – unidentified homes
Env 10- grave marker
Env 11- Scenes of poverty and blacks / African Americans
Env 12- Photo of two Vista workers (Charles and unidentified lady)
Env 13- Vista recruiting poster
Env 14- Poverty and blacks / African Americans
Env 15- Poverty, photo by Gene Richard Schwartz Vista, pg. 212
Env 16- Two unidentified black women
Env 17- unidentified negatives
End of Box 2
End of Collection