Spencer R. Quick
Papers
Dates:1949-1968.
Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President, Dr. John Steelman, 1952-1953.
The papers of Spencer R. Quick relate predominantly to his work as Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President, John R. Steelman. The collection consists largely of correspondence between Quick, members of the Advertising Council, and colleagues on the White House staff regarding public service advertising campaigns. Also included in the collection are employment applications, pay stubs, personal records, photographs, printed material, travel vouchers and other items.
See also Spencer R. Quick Files.
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Size: Less than one linear foot (about 400 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: No donation of copyright was received with this collection. Documents
created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are in the
public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators
of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Elizabeth Carrington (2005) as part of the Truman Library Internship
Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
| 1922 (July 4) | | Born, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1940 | | Entered University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana |
| 1942-1945 | | Served in the U.S. Army Air Forces |
| 1948 | | Graduated from University of Illinois with B.A.
in Journalism and Advertising |
| 1948-1949 | | Sales Promotion Staff Member, Sears Roebuck
and Co. |
| 1949-1950 | | Assistant Sales Promotion Manager, Borden
Company |
| 1950-1951 |
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Assistant Advertising Manager, Orange Crush Company |
| 1952-1953 |
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Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President, Dr. John R. Steelman; Program
Coordinator under Charles W. Jackson, Advertising Council Liaison, The White House |
| 1953 |
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Entered Virginia Theological Seminary |
| 1956 |
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Graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary with Bachelor of Divinity Degree,
ordained as an Episcopal priest |
| 1957-1961 |
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Rector of Grace Church, Goochland, Virginia |
| 1961-1966 |
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Rector, St. Petere's Church, Smyrna, Delaware |
| 1966 |
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Became Vicar, St. Alban's Church, Hagerstown, Maryland |
| 1971-1986 |
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Worked with the Bishop of Kentucky |
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
The Papers of Spencer R. Quick document his work in the White House as Special Assistant to
the Assistant to the President, Dr. John R. Steelman. The collection includes correspondence,
memoranda, employment applications, notifications of personnel changes, pay stubs, personal
records, service contracts, photographs, printed material, acknowledgements of reference
letters, and travel vouchers. The collection is comprised of one series, a Subject File,
arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder chronologically.
Quick's chief role was as a liaison between the government and the Advertising Council, a
non-profit group comprised of representatives from the American advertising industry. The
Advertising Council's mission was to provide federal agencies, as well as private groups, with
free facilities and assistance in developing advertising for "non-controversial" causes and public
service announcements. Quick helped agencies develop public information campaigns in conjunction
with the Advertising Council. He inherited these duties from his predecessor on the White House
staff, John T. Gibson. Quick’s immediate superior was Charles W. Jackson, who worked directly
under John R. Steelman.
The bulk of the collection consists of letters, memoranda, and reports written by Quick and others
from January 1952 to March 1953, relating to Advertising Council campaigns in behalf of armed
forces recruiting, civil defense, the Ground Observer Corps, forest fire prevention, savings bonds,
and other causes deemed important to the national welfare.
Related collections in the Truman Library include the files of
Spencer R. Quick,
Charles W. Jackson, and
John T. Gibson. Their files are part of the Staff Member and Office Files of the
Harry S. Truman Papers.
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SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
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SUBJECT FILE, 1949-1968 |
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Correspondence, employment applications, pay stubs, travel vouchers,
printed material, and other items pertaining to Spencer R. Quick’s work as
Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President, John R. Steelman.
Arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder chronologically. |
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FOLDER TITLE LIST
Box 1
- Employment Applications
- Notifications of Personnel Action
- Pay Stubs
- Personal Records
- Personal Service Contracts
- Photographs
- Printed Material
- Reference Letters, Acknowledgements of
- Travel Vouchers
- White House Correspondence – Part I
- White House Correspondence – Part II
- White House Correspondence – Part III
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