Title: Nancy Stagg Papers and WILL Administrative Records, 1946-2003
Arrangement
Organized in two series. Series 1, Personal Papers, 1946-2000, is organized in three sub-series: Sub-series 1, Early Life and University of Oklahoma, 1955-1959, Sub-series 2, Yale Divinity School, 1959-1962, and Sub-series 3, University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, 1946-2000. Series 2, WILL Radio Records, 1959-2003, is organized in three sub-series: Sub-series 1, Administrative Records, 1970-2000, Sub-series 2, Programming, 1963-2003, and Sub-series 3, Publicity and Outreach, 1959-2001. Content in each series and sub-series is arranged chronologically.
Biographical Note
Nancy Sue Stagg (1937- ) was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma on June 15, 1937. Stagg is an organist and scholar of musicology. She received her bachelor’s degree in organ performance at the University of Oklahoma in 1959, and she earned her Bachelor of Divinity in religion and higher education from Yale Divinity School in 1962. Her Bachelor of Divinity was later changed to a Master of Divinity in 1971 by Yale School of Divinity. Stagg earned her Master of Music in musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1972. Her thesis was entitled "Cyclic Coherence in Selected Song-Cycles of Robert Schumann." She began coursework for a doctorate degree in musicology at UIUC, but never finished. Stagg remained in Urbana-Champaign and worked various jobs until her retirement. She served as a program assistant and organist at the McKinley Presbyterian Church (1962-1976), and she was a graduate teaching assistant at the School of Music (1969-1972). She served at WILL Radio Station in many capacities including as a broadcast assistant, announcer, producer, program coordinator, music librarian, and music director (1973-1994). Stagg preserved her coursework as a student and her administrative records from WILL Radio. Her papers also reflect her interests in social justice movements, graduate student rights, and gardening.
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