Archives West Finding Aid

This series contains biographical information about S. Rae Logan and detailed genealogical information about his ancestors. There are notes on family photographs now located in Series VI.

This series contains Logan's personal and professional correspondence. It mostly includes incoming correspondence, but there are carbon copies of Logan's outgoin letters in many cases as well. The series is arranged chronologically. The bulk of the series focuses on Logan's education-related activities in Montana and Illinois, including the formation and maintenance of professional organizations and necessary exchanges with government officials to conduct business. For instance, he wrote the Missoula County Sheriff about illegal gambling in Arlee, Montana, that affected are schoolchildren. There are many long letters from editorial writer Quincy Sharpe Mills and from Carleton W. Washburne, a fellow educator and military man during World War II; he apparently carried out a long personal correspondence with both. There are many exchanges with politicians on both educational and other matters, including Joseph Dixon (on Roosevelt's Bull Moose campaign) Jeannette Rankin, Thomas J. Walsh, John M. Evans, and Mike Mansfield. He exchanged many letters with University of Montana--Missoula and Montana State University (Bozeman) faculty, and had a strong interest in the Louis Levine case at the University of Montana. He also continued his contact with the president and faculty at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The correspondence documents his active interests in religious and patriotic education, the cooperative movement, and democracy in schools. Post-retirement letters document his interest in promoting a Columbia Valley Authority (to be modeled on the Tennessee Valley Authority) that include more political correspondence;' he was also interested in water and irrigation issues on the Flathead. Some letters are also addressed to his wife, Frances, but the series does not include any replies from her.

This series contains materials collected by Logan for his educational and community activities. Most materials document his time at Skokie School, and include newsletters and other communications with faculty, parents, and students; materials from holidays and graduation; materials used to accompany slide lectures he did about the school; and materials from the student council and other leadership groups within the school. Materials in this series also document his deep and lifelong interest in right-wing extremism and its effect on eduction and academic freedom in Montana. There are many materials collected from the John Birch Society and similar groups, especially those who had active groups in Montana and Lake County. There are also a few materials related to taxation and its effect on educational opportunities in Montana.

This series contains Logan's published articles, speeches, and his autobiography (posthumously completed by Frances Logan), These Things Should Be. Published articles appeared in a variety of education publications and appear here in their published form. Speeches, almost all given in education settings, also include a talk given at a memorial service. The bulk of the series is the typed manuscript and one copy of These Things Should Be, which details his life and career and has an introduction and commentary added by Frances Logan.

This series contains a variety of materials that document S. Rae Logan's career and interests. They include articles about him and Winnetka Schools by others, clippings on topics of interest to him, awards and certificates, and a two-volume scrapbook of mixed materials assembled for his sixtieth birthday in 1945.

This series contains materials about the Logan ranch in St. Ignatius, Montana. It includes material on agricultural practices, buildings, cattle crops, and well drilling, but mostly concerns the leases and activities of tenants that rented the ranch while the Logans lived in Illinois.

This series contains primarily Logan family photographs and images of S. Rae Logan. They are mostly well-identified and include his ancestors, parents, siblings, early Montana and North Carolina scenes, his college days in Chapel Hill, the St. Ignatius, Montana, ranch and surrounding areas, Distict #28 and Winnetka Schools scenes, and images from Hardin, Montana.