{"id":5121,"date":"2025-07-29T19:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:45:12","slug":"nancy-stagg-papers-available-for-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2025\/07\/29\/nancy-stagg-papers-available-for-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Stagg Papers Available for Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5123\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5123\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.05.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.05-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.05-817x1024.jpg 817w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.05-768x963.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Stagg (far right with headphones and glasses on), July 1998.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Center has completed the processing of the Nancy <span class=\"highlight0 bold\">Stagg<\/span> Papers and WILL Radio Station Administrative Records, an exciting new addition to our collections that provides crucial information about the life and work of Nancy Stagg and her work as a broadcaster with the University&#8217;s WILL Radio Station.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5127\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5127\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.01.jpg 1166w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.01-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.01-796x1024.jpg 796w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.01-768x988.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Channing Murray Foundation Newsletters, 1967-1968<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nancy Sue Stagg was born June 15, 1937 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.\u00a0 She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in organ performance from the University of Oklahoma in 1959 and a Bachelor of Divinity in religion and higher education from Yale Divinity School in 1962.\u00a0 Stagg was awarded a Master of Music degree in musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1972. Her thesis was entitled &#8220;Cyclic Coherence in Selected Song-Cycles of Robert Schumann.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stagg remained in Urbana-Champaign and served as a program assistant and organist at the McKinley Presbyterian Church between 1962 and 1976.\u00a0 Between 1973 and 1994 she worked at the University&#8217;s WILL Radio Station as a broadcast assistant, announcer, producer, program coordinator, music librarian, and music director.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5128 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.06.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.06-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.06-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.06-768x998.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.06-1182x1536.jpg 1182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Her papers and the WILL Radio Station administrative records document her work managing the University&#8217;s radio station, her role as a local church organist, and her deep interest and support for the community&#8217;s social justice movements, graduate student rights, and gardening.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5132\" style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5132\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.04.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.04-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.04-1024x808.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/2025.2620271.04-768x606.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodina Russian Music Convention, July 11-17, 1993.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The collection consists of University of Illinois&#8217; WILL Radio Station administrative records produced or compiled by <span class=\"highlight0 bold\">Stagg<\/span>, including correspondence, staff directories, salary information, radio show scripts, original interviews, promotional materials, artist and subject files, and a sound recording card catalog with Stagg&#8217;s research notes that were used by the station&#8217;s radio announcers. In addition, the collection also includes Nancy&#8217;s University of Oklahoma student student papers, her graduate research from Yale Divinity School and the University of Illinois, local Champaign-Urbana newsletters and bulletins collected as a graduate student and community member, and an audio recording of her senior-year organ recital.<\/p>\n<p>For further information about the <a href=\"https:\/\/archon.library.illinois.edu\/archives\/index.php?p=collections\/findingaid&amp;id=13306\">Nancy Stagg Papers and WILL Radio Station Administrative Records<\/a> contact Scott Schwartz at <a href=\"mailto:schwrtzs@illinois.edu\">schwrtzs@illinois.edu<\/a> or 217-333-4577.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center has completed the processing of the Nancy Stagg Papers and WILL Radio Station Administrative Records, an exciting new addition to our collections that provides crucial information about the life and work of Nancy Stagg and her work as a broadcaster with the University&#8217;s WILL Radio Station. Nancy Sue Stagg was born June 15, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}