Charles Wise papers and photographs

The collection contains correspondence with colleagues in the Indiana General Assembly from roughly 1969 to 1975. Individual bills that Wise addressed as a Congressman contain commentary from constituents and other legislators in separate folders. A detailed file of Wise’s struggle to ban phosphates from laundry detergent is within the collection. Wise was also a member of the Committee on Cities and Towns in the General Assembly and the Governor’s Task Force for the Employment of the Handicapped. There are records and artifacts for the 1976 American Revolution Bicentennial in Delaware County and in other locales. Wise’s work with Ball State’s Young Republican Club is complete with financial records, meetings, scrapbooks, a card file containing members of the 107th General Assembly, (1991), and an award plaque dated 1967. There are records of the Delaware County Lions Club, and various publications including newsletters and magazines like VFW Magazine and Monday. Legal size records are located in boxes 6 and 7. Also included are photographs (PSC 244), slides (S 17), a teaching diploma (OVB 32), and films (F 003). Miscellaneous artifacts include an Eighth Army patch, and a Sigma Xi Annual Meeting nametag from the year 1971.