Overview
Southern Methodist University Archives, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University
Bailey, Layton W.
Layton W. Bailey collection on Southern Methodist University
1916-1968
2 boxes, including 1 oversize box (2.5 linear feet)
Layton W. Bailey worked as a business administrator for SMU for over thirty years. This collection contains programs, pamphlets, news clippings, and full-size newspaper editions detailing various campus events: convocations, building dedications, dinners, athletics, and the inaugurations of Umphrey Lee and Willis Tate. The ephemera in this collection covers roughly a forty-year time period, from the mid-1920s through the late 1960s.
SMU 1991.0030
Material is in English
Biographical Note
Layton W. Bailey served as business manager, treasurer, and Board of Trustees secretary for Southern Methodist University. He began at SMU in 1924, working nearly thirty-five years there until his retirement in 1958.
Bailey was born in Dallas and attended Emerson College and SMU, where he majored in finance and general business.
In addition to his role as a business administrator of SMU, Bailey also worked for the National Hemophilia Foundation as Board of Trustees chairman of the Dallas chapter, and as a board member for the national organization. His many years of service to SMU were recognized by the Trammell Crow family in 1985 when they requested that a room in the new graduate wing of the SMU business school be named after him.
Bailey died in 1987 at the age of 97.
Sources:
"Bailey Heads Trustees." Dallas Morning News, September 16, 1972, pg. 16.
Nogami, Doug. "Crows Give SMU $6 Million—Gift to Help Expand Cox Business School." Dallas Morning News, November 21, 1985, pg. 34A.
"Services Monday for Layton Bailey." Dallas Morning News, April 17, 1987, pg. 32A.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Bailey collection is comprised of printed material from campus events that Mr. Bailey acquired during and after his tenure at SMU. The first series contains programs and pamphlets for building dedications, class reunions, convocations, and dinners. These have been arranged according to the type of event they detail. This series also includes some SMU-related news clippings, as well as two copies of the Dinkey, the spoof campus newspaper issued each year on April 1.
Series 2 is made up of full-size newspaper editions on SMU events. These have been arranged both according to topic and according to newspaper. Major events/headlines related to SMU are arranged by themselves.
Users should note that this collection does not contain any papers related to Mr. Bailey’s work as a SMU business administrator.
Arrangement of the Collection
The collection is organized into 2 series:
- Series 1: SMU event programs and news clippings
- Series 2: Saved newspapers, SMU-related
Access to Collection:
Collection is open for research use.
Publication Rights:
Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Director of the DeGolyer Library.
Copyright Statement:
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain copyright authorization.
Access Terms
This collection is indexed under the following terms in the Southern Methodist University Libraries' online catalog. Researchers desiring related materials may search the catalog using these terms.
Southern Methodist University -- History.
Universities and colleges -- Texas -- Dallas -- History.
Clippings.
Preferred Citation
Layton W. Bailey collection on Southern Methodist University, Southern Methodist University Archives, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.
Acquisition Information
Acquired, 1991.
Finding aid written by
Paul H. Santa Cruz, 2009.
Encoded by
Lara Corazalla, 2009.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1:
SMU event programs and news clippings
11SMU building dedications, 1926-1970
12Campus banquets, 1939-1967
13Campus lectures, 1965-1969
14SMU pamphlets and publications, 1940-1954, 1962
15SMU football, 1928, 1939, 1959
(NOTE: Also see Box 2, Folder 4, "SMU football, Dallas Morning News, 1928-1957.")
16SMU calendar, 1926
17SMU annual reports, 1934-1938, 1936 (covering two different conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South)
18SMU convocations, 1928-1965
19SMU Pigskin Revue, 1961, 1967
110Class reunions—classes of 1933, 1935, 1936, 1939
111News clippings, inauguration of Umphrey Lee, 1939
(NOTE: Also see Box 2, Folder 7, "Inauguration of Umphrey Lee, 1939.")
112Inauguration of Willis Tate, May 5, 1954
(NOTE: Also see Box 2, Folder 8, "Inauguration of Willis Tate, 1954.)
113Miscellaneous SMU events, 1929, 1968
114Dinkey issues, 1920, 1924
(NOTE: Also see Box 2, Folder 3: "Dinkey and Campus Tirade issues, 1916-1937.")
115News clippings, dedication of Perkins School of Theology quadrangle, 1951
116News clippings, miscellaneous SMU events
Series 2:
Saved newspapers, SMU-related
21SMU Campus issues, 1927-1930
22SMU Campus issues, 1931-1947
23Dinkey and Campus Tirade issues, 1916-1937
(NOTE: Also see Box 1, Folder 14, "Dinkey issues, 1920, 1924.")
24SMU football, Dallas Morning News, 1928-1957
(NOTE: Also see Box 1, Folder 5, "SMU football, 1928, 1939, 1959.")
25"SMU Asks Million," Semi-Weekly Campus, April 22, 1936
26"Perkins Hall Opening Slated Today," Semi-Weekly Campus, February 8, 1939
27Inauguration of Umphrey Lee, 1939
(NOTE: Also see Box 1, Folder 11, "News clippings, inauguration of Umphrey Lee, 1939.")
28Inauguration of Willis Tate, 1954
(NOTE: Also see Box 1, Folder 12, "Inauguration of Willis Tate, May 5, 1954.")
29Miscellaneous SMU issues and events, Dallas Morning News, 1939, 1953
210SMU issues, Daily Times Herald (1947), Dallas Journal (1937), Park Journal (1936)