Letters to Mrs. Clements about a variety of issues including personal problems, mental health, prisons, drugs, highway safety, and education. Also includes a copy Patti Hayden chair of the Kansas Commission on Children and Families enclosing a copy of the report of that commission

Letters, notes, clippings, photographs and booklets dealing with the preservation of the Administration Building at the Austin State Hospital and a musical comedy in two acts titled A Country Christmas Carol regarding issues of interest and importance to Mrs. Clements such as tourism, historical preservation, and education

Letters, memos, notes, agenda for a meeting, clippings, checks, list of state capitol centennials between 1979 and 1989, proposal for a school essay contest, proposed operating budget, parade entry form, and schedule of events relating to planning the celebration scheduled for May 6-8, 1988

Letters, notes, memos, agenda for a meeting of the Capitol Centennial Committee, minutes of a meeting of the Ball Subcommittee, budget, information about the outdoor drama Texas produced in Palo Duro Canyon each summer, booklet on the arts in Amarillo, press release about descendants of Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross and Temple Houston being honored during the celebration, press releases about hot air balloons being present during each evening of the celebration and about the prize offered to the grand prize winner of the balloons, an information sheet about the grand prize, clippings, list of special activities planned for the Sul Ross patron donors, and list of accomplishments of the committee as of March 29

General correspondence of Mrs. Clements

Letters, clipping, and memos about the contract between the Committee and the Texas Department of Community Affairs

Copy of the 1988 guide

Letters and other information about the visit to Austin by the Ambassador of Switzerland and his wife, Ambassador and Mrs. Klaus Jacobi

Program summary on CHANCE [Companies Hiring Available women Needing a Chance in Entry-level jobs], note, and brochure about CHANCE

Letters including one cover letter with which Governor Clements sent a statement The Facts about the Governor’s Education Budget to all the superintendent of schools in Texas, a memo report from the Texas Foundation for Higher Education chairman Jess Hay about Texas Education: The Momentum Is Restored, table comparing education appropriations for 1987 with those for 1988-89, talking points for Mrs. Clements at Tarleton State University, speech by Governor Clements titled The Challenge of Higher Education, an op ed piece by Governor Clements on School Financing, table comparing resident and nonresident tuition rates in institutions of higher education, 1986-1996, and reports titled The Education Crisis: Washington Shares the Blame by the Heritage Foundation, Tracking Higher Education by the Texas and Higher Education Finance: A Decade of Growth by the Texas Research League, Excellence in Texas—Higher Education: Report from Texas Women’s Alliance Second Annual Conference, draft of A Review of Governance and Management Practices in Texas Public Higher Education—Executive Summary to the Select Committee on Higher Education by Coopers & Lybrand, tables providing averaged budget faculty salaries in Texas institutions of higher education, and clippings

Press releases from the Office of the Governor, speech by Governor Clements to the Texas Research Seminar in Dallas, commencement address by Peter O’Donnell, Jr. at the University of Texas at Austin, remarks by President Gerald Ford, governor Terry Branstad, and Education Secretary Lauro Cavasos at the University of Virginia, opinion of the Texas Supreme Court in the case of Edgewood v. Kirby, information packet by the University of Texas at Austin regarding benefits for graduate student assistants, copy for a news article on a ruling of District Judge Scott McCown on the constitutionality of the public school financing system, National Governors’ Association newsletters, articles titled Dallas and Its Public Schools: A Critical Juncture by Marvin Edwards and Schoolhouse Equality by Julie Kosterlitz, program for a Texas Women’s Alliance conference titled Texas Public Education Reform: Reality or Illusion?, proposal titled An Internationally Competitive Workforce for Texas by the Year 2000 by Texas Business and Education Coalition, proposal and report on Educational Excellence Programs in Texas by Governor Clements, and clippings

Letters, memo, list of members of Coordinating Board Advisory Committees, table of funds appropriated for higher education in 1985 and 1990-91, a portion of CSSB [Committee Substitute Senate Bill] 222 appropriating money to support higher education, copies of CSHB [Committee Substitute House Bills] 2181, 2182, and 2183 relating funding for higher education, testing reading, writing, and mathematics skills of college and university students prior to admission, and submission of a statement of the content, rationale and objectives of core curricula, copy of portions of the executive summary of A Review of Governance and Management Practices in Texas Public Higher Education as reported to the Select Committee on Higher Education by Coopers & Lybrand in December 1986, the April 15, 1988 issue of Capital Ideas titled Effective Statewide Coordination of Higher Education: What Is It?, and clippings

Letter from and copy of A Texas Plan for a National Energy Policy by Kent R. Hance a commissioner of the Texas Railroad Commission

Letters, three issues of the national newsletter Key Notes, and two issues of the national magazine Concepts

Memo on consolidating Health and Human Services, list of Texas agency heads and board chairs, brief report on and list of members of the Texas Health and Human Services Coordinating Council, operational audit of the Texas Department of Human Services, and a report titled Health and Human Services in Texas: A Reference Guide

Letters, clippings, special report titled Human Capital: The Decline of America’s Work Force from the September 16, 1988 issue of Business Week, and a packet of information including flyers, a welcome banner to Mrs. Clements, and reports about the PAYS [Preparing Area Youth for Success] school program of the San Angelo school district

Historical booklet on the first decade of the research agency of the University of Texas at Austin

Press release about the appointment of new members of the board of directors

Letter and reports of the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality titled Home Visiting: Opening Doors for America’s Pregnant Women and Children and Death Before Life: The Tragedy of Infant Mortality

Letters, notes, press release, flyer about the Texas Department of Community Affairs, proposal from the Metrocrest Service Center for supplementary funding for its referral program for employment titled Community Assistance and Referral for Employment [C.A.R.E.], proposals from the University of Texas School of Social Work for funding to provide training and job development programs for displaced homemakers and others, and agenda packet for the May 27, 1987 meeting of the State Job Training Coordinating Council including bylaws and procedures of the council and a list of members of the council

Letter from its president thanking Mrs. Clements for allowing them to have a reception in the Governor’s Mansion

Correspondence, speeches by the organization’s president Ebby Halliday Acers and Mrs. Clements at the 1987 awards presentations in winning cities, press release, and clippings

Letter and managements response to a recent audit report by the Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation

Final report of the Keep Texas Beautiful Litter Law Enforcement, Bexar County Pilot Project

Letters and notes about the Texas Festival at the Kennedy Center and an article from the August 20, 1990 issue of Business Week titled Talk About Having a Full Plate about Jim Wolfensohn as chairman of the Kennedy Center

Texas, Letter, schedule for a visit there by Governor and Mrs. Clements, newsletter about the new visitor center, press release about a planned museum on the history of manned space flight, drawings and floor plans for the museum, and a booklet

Letters, brochures about literacy organizations, booklets regarding IBM programs to assist people to learn to read, directory of individuals involved in literacy programs throughout Texas, information about PLUS [Project Literacy US] including a directory of contact persons and a list of national organizations supporting PLUS, information about selected major national literacy organizations, a national guide to facilities and services available to assist with literacy issues, copy of Laubach Literacy Action Directory, newsletter of BCEL [Business Council for Effective Literacy], copy of House Committee Substitute for H. B. 1900 relating to increasing the number of literate and employable persons in Texas, copy of Senate Committee Substitute for SCR 48 regarding establishing the Texas Literacy Council, and a proposal by Houston Community College System regarding Literacy Instruction in the Workplace and Workplace Literacy Partnerships Projects

Report by Don F. Seaman and Joe Michael McCallister titled An Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Instructional Systems Used to Deliver Literacy Services for J.T.P.A. Participants at Houston Community College, letter and report titled State Literacy Strategies: A Policy Primer about activities in Mississippi, and information packets about literacy programs in Virginia and Kentucky

Heritage Foundation report titled Mexico’s Many Facts by Paul R. Wisgerhof

Materials related to the February 22-24, 1987, meeting in Washington, DC, including registration form, program, background paper titled Making America Work: Productive People, Productive Policies, an invitation to dinner at the White House, directory of Governors of the American States, Commonwealths, and Territories, welcome letter to spouses of governors, program for spouses, two issues of Governors’ Weekly Bulletin and a report from the center for Policy Research on children living in homes with a divorced parent. Also includes two packets of briefing material for meeting with the Congressional Committee on Energy and Environment and for meetings with cabinet members, the two Senators from Texas Phil Gramm and Lloyd Bentsen and House Speaker Jim Wright

Letters to Mrs. Wallace (Wilhelmina Cole) Holladay concerning establishing a national museum of women artists, list of women artists whose works are included in the Holladay collection, other letters, memos, notes, brochure, bylaws and articles of incorporation of the Texas Committee of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, record of contributions to fund certain rooms or fixtures of such a museum, list of members of the Texas Board of Directors of the State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, list of corporate and foundation supporters of the museum, timetable for assembling and installing an exhibit of Texas artists in the museum, Internal Revenue Service certification of the tax exempt status of the museum, invitation from Governor and Mrs. Clements to an exhibit of Texas women artists at the Laguna Gloria Art Museum in 1989, and articles titled Women’s Art to Get a Home in the Washington Post of November 4, 1982 and Great and Overlooked Art by Women in an uncertain issue of Junior League Review

Letters, memos, notes, agendas, minutes of meetings, lists of members of the board of directors of the State Committee of the NMWA, financial reports, invitations, brochure, and clipping relating to the activities and operations of the museum and the Texas State Committee

Memo from Karl Rove regarding polls and background paper by Fred Steeper of Market Opinion Research titled Ideological Segmentation

Press release about the completion of a second maximum-security prison, what seems to be a prepared statement at a press conference, and Governor Clements Prison Financing and Construction Plan