HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG5086.AM: Wayne O. Reed, 1911-1974
Papers: 1942-1973
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Neb.: State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Size: 3.5 cu.ft.; 1 box + oversize
BACKGROUND NOTE
Born at Douglas, Otoe County, Nebraska, on July 2, 1911, Wayne Otis Reed served as the Otoe County Superintendent of Schools before being elected as the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1942. Reed later served as the Deputy Commissioner of Education for the U.S. Office of Education in Washington, D.C. Wayne Otis Reed died in Washington, D.C., on October 28, 1974.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
This collection consists of one box of papers and seventeen oversized scrapbooks relating to the career of Wayne Otis Reed. The bulk of the collection relates to Reed’s work as the Nebraska Superintendent of Public Instruction, and later to his time as Deputy Commissioner of Education. Materials include articles, reports, subject files, certificates, and scrapbooks dating from ca. 1942 to 1973.
Box 1
Folder
- Writings by Wayne O. Reed
- Public Statements by Wayne O. Reed, 1951-1969, Volume I
- Public Statements by Wayne O. Reed, 1951-1969, Volume II
- Public Statements by Wayne O. Reed, 1951-1969, Volume III
- Public Statements by Wayne O. Reed, 1951-1969, Volume IV
- Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education Regional Conferences Report, October-November 1971
- Aviation and aerospace education
- School and politics
- Certificates and miscellany
Oversized scrapbook volume
- Election, 1946-1947
- Reading, 1939-1941
- Cooperative Study, 1939-1941
- Miscellaneous, 1939-1941
- School scrapbook (general information), 1949-1950
- General, 1947-1948
- Election, 1942-1943
- School year, 1941-1942
- General, 1941-1942
- General, 1946
- Legislature, 1947
- Legislature, 1949
- Legislative, Jan. 1, 1945 to Jan. 1, 1946
- General, Jan. 1, 1944 to Jan. 1, 1945
- General, Jan. 1, 1943 to Jan. 1, 1944
- General, Jan. 1, 1945 to Jan. 1, 1946
- General School scrapbook, 1942-1950
Subject headings:
Education — Nebraska
Nebraska. Department of Public Instruction
Schools — Nebraska
Reed, Wayne O., 1911-1974
United States. Department of Education
TMM 02-25-2022