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Title: Harry Alley collection
Dates: 1930-1985
Collection number: MSS 298
Creator:
Alley, Harry Edward
Collection Size:
1 foot
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Dept. of
Special Collections
Stockton, California 95211
Abstract: This collection contains Harry Alley's mayoral
newsletters, Rio Vista Superintendent of Schools Newsletters, Letters to the
Editor, and various other speeches, writings (fiction and non-fiction),
biographical material, and school material.
Physical location: For current information on the location
of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as
the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
researcher.
Harry Alley collection. MSS 298. Holt-Atherton Department of Special
Collections, University of the Pacific Library.
Biography / Administrative History
Harry Edward Alley (1902-1999) spent virtually his entire life in the
small Sacramento River town of Rio Vista, California. He graduated from the
local high school (1920), passed state teachers' examinations shortly afterward
and began teaching in rural Solano County elementary schools. Alley rose slowly
through the ranks of his profession, becoming Principal of Rio Vista High
School during the late 1930s and Superintendent of the Rio Vista Schools
(1949-1967). Alley led a campaign for the fluoridations of the Rio Vista water
supply (1953-58). Following his retirement in 1967, Harry Alley was elected to
the Rio Vista City Council and ultimately served as Mayor (1970-1975). While in
his mid-eighties, Alley taught gifted eighth-grade math students in the local
Middle School.
Perhaps Harry Alley's greatest loves were writing and his hometown.
Although, as the collection reveals, he more than once tried his hand at
fiction, Alley most successfully combined his two passions in the newsletters
he penned while Superintendent and Mayor.
Scope and Content of Collection
Series One contains Alley's Rio Vista Superintendent of Schools
Newsletter (1949-1966), Letters to the Editor, and various other speeches,
writings (fiction and non-fiction), biographical material, and school material.
Series Two contains the manuscript and final versions of Harry's Alley, his
self-published newsletter while he was Mayor from 1970-1975.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Water - Fluoridation - California - Rio
Vista
School districts - California - Rio
Vista
Rio Vista (Calif.) - History