Dotti McClenaghan "Follies" collection
Overview
This collection consists of a scrapbook, some sheet music, and a program from the 1959 "Follies" production by the Parent Teachers Association at the Antioch Elementary School of Overland Park, Kansas. The production was directed by Dotti McClenaghan. There is also a letter dated November 11, 1963 from Bill Sands to Mrs. Mary E. Bartz about speaking before an unnamed group, sent in care of the McClenaghans.
Dates
- Creation: 1959, 1963 (bulk 1959)
Creator
- McClenaghan, Charlotte A. (Compiler, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Biography of Charlotte "Dotti" McClenaghan (1920-2004)
Charlotte A. "Dotti" McClenaghan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1920. She and her husband Leroy R. "Pete" McClenaghan opened Overland Auto Parts in Overland Park, Johnson County, KS in 1946.
Dotti McClenaghan was president of the Parent Teachers Association at Antioch Elementary School in Overland Park in the late 1950s. She was later active with the Kansas City Zoo, serving as a docent, founding the Docents' Discovery Lab, and establishing a tour at the Zoo specifically for the visually impaired. She was also a member of the Friends of the Zoo and supported the Children's Center for the Visually Impaired in Kansas City, Missouri.
Dotti and Pete McClenaghan had two children, Lee and Kathi (McClenaghan) Schlegel. Pete McClenaghan died in 1992, and Dotti McClenaghan died on December 16, 2004.
[Information retrieved from "Charlotte McClenaghan" obituary, Kansas City Star, December 20, 2004.]
Extent
.25 Linear Feet (1 document case)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook contains photographs of each of the acts with the names of the presenters, including a photograph of the grand finale when the entire cast sang "There's No Business Like Show Business." The last few pages of the scrapbook include names of the backstage crew with drawings, along with some photographs cut out showing only the heads of the ushers with drawings for the bodies. The very last few pages of the scrapbook were not used.
Some of the sheet music used in the production is included in the collection, along with a program listing all of the numbers and the names of the performers. The sheet music is for the songs "There's No Business Like Show Business" from Annie Get Your Gun; "Two Lost Souls" from Damn Yankees; and "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (A Burlesque Ballad)" by Edgar Smith and A. Baldwin Sloane. All three pieces have "Dotti McC" written on them and varying levels of annotations by McClenaghan for the production.
Physical Location
RH PH 563
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase, Between the Covers Rare Books, 2021.
Source
- Between the Covers Rare Books (Bookseller, Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Dotti McClenaghan Collection
- Subtitle
- Dotti McClenaghan "Follies" collection
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by mwh. Finding aid encoded by mwh.
- Date
- 2022-01
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- https://hdl.handle.net/10407/5666597587
- Preferred citation
-
Dotti McCleanaghan "Follies" collection, RH PH 563, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository