Alexander "Sandy" Gilliam papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Terms of access:

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by the University of Virginia. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from repository.

Preferred citation:

RG 2/6/1 Alexander "Sandy" Gilliam papers, box number, folder number, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
.5 Cubic Feet 1 legal document box
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

RG 2/6/1 Alexander "Sandy" Gilliam papers, box number, folder number, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains materials collected by Alexander "Sandy" Gilliam in his role as University of Virginia Historian. Included are professional and personal correspondence, lectures, notes, letters, clippings, and promotional material. This addition pertains to committee's he served on, lectures and papers he produced about the University of Virginia, correspondence with guests to the university, correspondence to Gilliam on a variety of topics including his retirement, recipients of the Alexander Gilliam Medical Scholarship, and other correspondents. Also included are promotional materials and ephemera collected from events at the University like the Inauguration of President Ryan and the retirement of faculty. It also includes the book "Recollections of a Virginia Gentleman" by Lawrence Grim, Jr.

This is part of RG 2/6: RG 2: Office of the President Series 6: Special Assistants and Assistant to the President.

Biographical / historical:

Alexander G. "Sandy" Gilliam Jr. studied history at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1955. After graduation, he joined the Counter-Intelligence Corps and was sent to Germany in search of Soviet spies. He briefly attended graduate schools but left by his second year and then taught at St. Christopher's in Richmond followed by the Foreign Service. He was posted in Tel Aviv and later Chad. Sandy began working at UVA in 1974, working until his retirement in 2014. He was the History and Protocol Officer at the time of his retirement.

Physical description:
Good
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard