Title |
Your Smoking Hurts My Lungs [button], circa 1980s |
Identifier |
W065_artifacts_02_004 |
Decade |
1980s |
Scope note |
Correspondence, manuals, newsletters, bylaws, minutes, financial records, conference programs, news clippings and artifacts make up the Nancy S. Hall papers. The bulk of the papers document Hall's work with Georgia Women's Political Caucus, and they include Caucus records, as well as more general materials relating to politics and the search for feminist political allies. Also documented is her involvement with other women's groups,such as the Council on Battered Women, and the National Organization for Women (NOW), as well as her attendance at conferences, such as The Women and the Constitution Conference (1988) and the 1989 Women and the Law Conference. |
Biographical or historical note |
Nancy Hall was born in Savannah, GA in 1949, and graduated from the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism in 1972. She served as Special Assistant to the Georgia Superintendent of Schools, working in the area of public affairs and with intergovernmental initiatives, including serving as the Department's legislative liaison. She was also co-chair of the Executive Committee of Family Connection, and served on Governor Miller's Policy Council on Children and Families. Hall has also held positions with Mercer University in Macon, East Georgia College in Swainsboro, and University Publications in Blacksburg, Virginia. Hall has served as Interim Executive Director of Georgia Public Broadcasting since July 2004. Prior to being appointed to the Interim position by the GPB Board of Directors, she was the Director of External Affairs and served as the liaison to the Georgia General Assembly and Georgia's Congressional delegation for GPB. She also serves as President of the Foundation for Public Broadcasting in Georgia. Active in several women's organizations, as well as education and children's organizations, Hall was a member of the Georgia Women's Political Caucus, serving as co-chair from 1989-1990, and was a member of the Board of Directors and Advisory Council of the Council on Battered Women. She also served as president of the Georgia School-Age Care Association Board of Directors and as an ex-officio member of the Georgia Child Care Council. She currently is a member of the Board of the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education and the Georgia Peach Credit Union. She has participated in both Leadership Georgia and the Regional Leadership Institute. |
Language |
English |
Subject |
Antismoking movement |
Collection |
Nancy Hall papers |
Curatorial area |
Donna Novak Coles Georgia Women's Movement Archives |
Digital publisher |
Georgia State University Library |
Finding aid |
http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/1790 |
Rights information |
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Citation |
W065_artifacts_02_004, Nancy Hall papers, Donna Novak Coles Georgia Women's Movement Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University. |
Source format |
information artifacts buttons (information artifacts) |
Format |
image/jp2 |
Type |
Image |