East Tennessee State University
Archives of Appalachia
Box 70295
Johnson City, TN 37614-0138
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Title: |
The June M. Rostan Papers |
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Collection Number: |
Accession No. 436 |
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Physical Description: |
1.5 linear feet (3 Hollinger Boxes) 5 audio cassettes |
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Creator: |
June M. Rostan |
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Repository: |
Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University |
Provenance: The June M. Rostan Papers was donated to the Archives of Appalachia by June M. Rostan on January 26, 1994.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Processing Information: Processing of the collection was completed in April, 1995 by A.Brandenburg.
June M. Rostan was born in Valdese, North Carolina on May 8, 1947. She graduated from Valdese High School in 1965. After graduation she attended Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, where she received a B.A. degree in philosophy in 1969. Rostan then did graduate work at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and earned a M.A. in Special Education in 1970.
After receiving her graduate degree, Rostan taught at schools for the deaf in western North Carolina and East Tennessee. In 1974, Rostan first became involved in grassroots organizing through participation in the Georgia Power Project in Atlanta, Georgia. Subsequently, in 1975, she received education in community organizing at the Midwest Academy in Chicago. She also became involved in adult education as a staff member of the Southern Appalachian Ministry in Higher Education, 1976-77.
In the late 1970s, Rostan served on various committees and led numerous workshops for the advancement of adult education, women's rights, and occupational health and safety. She served as the labor education coordinator at the Highlander Research and Education Center in Knoxville, Tennessee in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At Highlander, Rostan taught General Education Development (G.E.D.) classes to members and family members of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.
Rostan served as health and safety coordinator for the Coal Employment Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee from 1982 to 1987. In February 1987, she assumed a position as an educator at the Southern Empowerment Project (SEP) in Maryville, Tennessee. As of this writing Rostan still works at SEP educating community organizers. She resides in Greenback, Tennessee.
The June M. Rostan Papers contains manuscript and photographic material together with audiotapes. Manuscript material includes both personal and professional correspondence; scrapbook material of workshops and conferences; material concerning Rostan's affiliation with the Coal Employment Project, Tennessee Occupational Health and Safety, Appalachian Alliance, and "Threads," a Knoxville, Tennessee based humanities project. Also contained here are Rostan's union organizing and promotional material and teaching and training materials of Rostan's G.E.D. classes at Highlander Research and Education Center. The photographs depict coal mining strikes, while the audiotapes contain interviews conducted by Rostan of United Furniture Workers in Memphis, Tennessee and Baltimore, Maryland.
Appalachian Alliance
Clark, Mike
Coal Employment Project
Coal mines and mining
Freeman, Emma
Higgins, Mary
Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Horton, Myles, 1905-
Memphis Furniture Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1980
Rostan, June
Southern Empowerment Project
Tennessee Committee on Occupational Safety and Health
United Furniture Workers of America
Women coal miners
*Click on the link to go to that series or subseries in the Box and Folder List.
Series I contains a scrapbook, daily and weekly planners and Rostan's resume. The scrapbook includes correspondence to and from Rostan; newspaper clippings; conference and meeting agendas; minutes and reports; and memorabilia. Materials are arranged alphabetically, with the folder contents arranged chronologically.
Series II contains both manuscript and photographic material. Contained within this series are teaching and training materials and progress reports and daily agendas of supervised employees resulting from Rostan's work at the Highlander Center at New Market, Tennessee. This series also includes general correspondence collected by Rostan. Contained within this series are organizing materials from her affiliation with the Coal Employment Project and promotional materials from her work with trade unions. This series also contains reports, minutes, and agendas of conferences, seminars, and special meetings relating to Rostan's work with labor education and women's employment rights. Lastly, contained in this series are a collection of photographs Rostan took of various mining operations and furniture factory strikes. This series is arranged alphabetically by type of document or subject.
Series III contains a collection of audio tapes recorded by Rostan during her visits to Memphis, Tennessee during a furniture factory strike. Also contained here is an interview conducted by Rostan with Emma Freeman, a Memphis, Tennessee furniture striker and a workshop conducted with furniture workers in Baltimore, Maryland. Arrangement is alphabetical by title of audio cassette.
*Click on the link to go that series or subseries in the Series Description.
1. Appointment Planners, 1977-82.
2. Resume, undated.
3. Scrapbook: correspondence, general, incoming and outgoing, 1975-81.
4. Scrapbook: correspondence, unused and undated.
5. Scrapbook: memorabilia, 1975-82.
6. Scrapbook: memorabilia, undated.
1. Agendas, 1979-88.
2. Appalachian Alliance, June 1984-August 1987.
3. Coal Employment Project: Employee diaries and daily work records, November 1990-January 1991.
4. Coal Employment Project: Employer Job Descriptions, undated.
5. Conferences: Bureau of National Affairs, March 3, 1982.
6. Conferences: various, 1979-92.
7. Correspondence: general, November 1981-November 1990.
8. Correspondence: incoming, May 1978-September 1993 and undated.
9. Correspondence: outgoing, May 1980-June 1991.
10. Financial statement, 1977, 1990 and undated.
11. Interview (transcript): June Rostan with Emma Freeman, September 1981.
12. Legal Documents, October 1977-October 1990.
13. Lists, undated.
14. Minutes: Board and staff meetings (various), 1981-94.
15. Miscellaneous, undated.
16. Newsletters, 1972-82.
17. Organizing, undated.
1. Progress Reports and Leave Records, July 1984-February 1985.
2. Photographs: Potash Mining Operations, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 1980.
3. Photographs: United Furniture Workers of America strikers, Memphis, Tennessee, 1982.
4. Photographs: various mining operations, undated.
5. Press statements, undated.
6. Promotional material, 1977-89 and undated.
7. Reports, 1978-86 and undated.
8. Teaching and Training: English and math exercises, 1978 and undated.
9. Teaching and Training: Grievances and Health and Safety, 1981-82, 1990 and undated
10. Teaching and Training: Journal and magazine articles and clippings, November 1978-January 1980.
11. Teaching and Training: Newspaper articles and clippings, May 1978-December 1986 and undated.
12. Threads: Newsletter, correspondence, teaching, lists, 1978-79.
1. Baltimore Furniture Workers; Workshop (United Furniture Workers), 1980.
2. Interview: Emma Freeman, Memphis, Tennessee, Part 1 of 2, July 8, 1981.
3. Interview: Emma Freeman, Memphis, Tennessee, Part 2 of 2, July 8, 1981.
4. Interview: Memphis Furniture Strike, undated.
5. Interview: Mary Higgins, Memphis, Tennessee, undated.
6. Women's conference, Memphis, Tennessee, 1982.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* The notation following the index item refers to the box and folder location of the item within the the collection.
Access America Bill: 2-9.
AFL-CIO News: 1-5.
Alaska: 1-4.
Alexander Fund: 2-9.
Alliance Unemployment Task Force: 2-9.Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union: 2-16, 3-5, 3-12.
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union-Songbook: 2-15.
American Civil Liberties Union-Foundation: 2-8.
American Civil Liberties Union-Women's: 2-8.
American Trade Union: 3-5.Appalachian Alliance: 2-2, 2-9.
Association for Union Democracy: 2-15.
Baltimore Furniture Strike, 1980: Tape 1.
Bi-National Service: 1-3, 1-5.
Benton Fund: 2-9.Beslin: 1-5.
Black Lung: 2-7, 2-9.
Black Women's Health Project: 2-9.
Brown Lung disease: 2-16, 3-11.
Bureau of National Affairs Conference: 2-5.Carlsbad, New Mexico: 3-2.
Carter, Jimmy: 3-6.
Chrysler Corporation: 3-10.
Clark, Mike: 1-3, 2-7 thru 2-9, 2-14.
Clothing and Textiles: 2-16, 3-11.Coal Employment Project: 2-3, 2-4, 2-7 thru 2-10, 2-12, 2-14, 3-6, 3-7.
Coal Employment Project-Board of Directors: 2-8, 2-9, 2-13, 2-14.
Coal Employment Project-Female Coal Miners study: 3-7.
Coal mines and mining: 2-1 thru 2-9, 2-12, 2-14, 2-15, 3-6, 3-9 thru 3-11.
Coal mines and mining: 2-3, 2-12, 2-17, 3-2, 3-4, 3-9.Collective Bargaining: 2-5.
Conferences: 2-1, 2-2, 2-5, 2-6.
Davis, Carol: 3-6.
Dollars and Sense, January 1980: 3-10.
Dukes, Joyce: 2-14.Farm Labor Organization Committee: 2-9.
Fashion industry: 3-11.
Ferguson, Bob: 1-3.
Flory, Margaret: 1-5, 3-6.
Freeman, Emma: 2-9, 2-11, Tape IV.The Gazette: 1-5.
General Equivalency Degree: 2-7, 2-16, 3-11.
The Great Speckled Bird: 1-5.
Grievance Procedures: 3-9.
Gumpert, Bob: 2-9.Hall, Betty Jean: 2-9, 2-14.
Haitian Refugees: 3-10.
Harkins, Shirley: 2-4.
Health and Safety: 2-9, 2-15, 2-16, 3-6.
Health and Safety Leadership Training Institute: 2-9.Higgins, Mary: 2-9, Tapes II and V.
Highlander Reports: 2-14.
Highlander Research and Education Center: 1-1, 2-6 thru 2-10, 2-12, 3-6, 3-7.
Hickey, Judy: 2-8, 2-9.
Horton, Myles: 1-1, 2-8, 3-6, 3-7.Inflation, 1978: 3-10, 3-11.
Institute for Labor Education and Research: 2-8, 2-9.
Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations: 1-5.
International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers: 2-12.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: 2-7.International Chemical Workers Union: 2-12.
International Childbirth Education Association: 2-9.
Job Occupational Safety and Health: 2-8.
Job Occupational Safety and health Project: 3-9.
Kelloge Youth Development: 2-8.Labor Education: 2-8, 2-16, 3-7.
Labor Law Reform Bill: 3-11.
Labor-management relationships: 2-8.
Labor Unity: 1-5.
Leadership/Empowerment: 3-7Lists: 3-12.
Love Canal, Niagara Falls, New York: 3-10.
Malone, Mary: 2-9.
March of Dimes: 2-9.
Martin-Marietta: Tape III.Maryville College Focus: 1-5.
Maternity-Paternity Leave: 2-9.
Memphis Furniture Strike: 2-11, 3-3, 3-6, Tapes II, IV, and V.
Memphis Women's Conference, 1980: Tape VI.
Moyer, John: 2-9.Moyes, Susan: 2-9.
Multi-national Cooperations: 3-10.
Music-Rock: 3-10.
National Conference on New Strategies to Counter The Ku Klux Klan: 1-5.
National Conference on Rural America: 2-6.National Convention of Women Miners: 2-6.
National Job Training and Counseling Program: 2-12.
National Labor Relations Board: 2-12.
New World Foundation: 2-9.
Occupational hazards: 2-9.Occupational Safety and Health: 3-6.
Occupational Safety and Health Improvements Act of 1980: 3-11.
Organizing union: 2-16, 2-17, 3-11.
Parental leave campaign: 2-7 thru 2-9, 3-6, 3-7, 3-9.
Pascal, Robert (Dr.): 1-5.Performance Achievement Monitor: 3-10.
Poems-family: 3-12.
Poems-women: 3-12.
Poems-work: 3-12.
Potash Company of America: 2-12, 3-2.Pregnancy Research Project: 2-7 thru 2-9, 3-6 thru 3-9.
Privacy Act Amendment: 2-9.
Progressive Magazine: 2-14.
Rae, Norma: 3-6.
Reagan, Ronald: 3-6.Reece, Florence: 2-9.
Reece, Samuel Houston: 2-15.
REAP, Research Education and Action for Power: 2-16.
Retaliation legislation: 2-9.
Right to Know: 2-9.Rockefeller Foundation, The: 2-9.
Rome: 1-1, 1-4.
Rostan, June: 1-1, 1-2, 1-4 thru 1-6, 2-7 thru 2-10, 2-14, 2-16, 3-1, 3-6, 3-12.
Rural Coalition: 2-9.
SALT and Rain Project: 2-9.Seeger, Pete: 3-6.
Sexual Harassment, discrimination: 2-9, 3-6.
Social Justice: 1-5.
Solidarity Day: 3-5.
Southern Company, The: 1-5.Southern Conference on Occupational Rights: 1-5.
Southern Empowerment Project: 2-7 thru 2-10, 2-12, 2-13.
Southern Union Women: 2-9.
Stevens, J. P. and Company: 2-16, 3-10, 3-12.
Strike, Air Controllers: 3-6.Strike, Steel, England: 3-11.
Strike, Warsaw, Poland: 3-11.
Strikes, Newspaper: 3-10.
Teaching, English: 3-8, 3-10, 3-11.
Teaching, Math: 3-8, 3-10, 3-11.Tennessee Committee on Occupational Safety and Health: 2-7 thru 2-9, 2-14.
Texas Lignite: 2-9.
Textile Workers of America: 2-15.
Threads: 1-1, 1-5, 3-6, 3-12.
35-hour work week: 3-11.Totten, Cosby: 2-9, 3-11.
Toxic Waste Project: 2-7.
Training, board: 3-9.
Training, CEP staff: 3-9.
Training, Stewart: 3-9.Trumka, Richard (UMWA President): 3-6.
Unemployment: 3-6, 3-8 thru 3-11.
Uni Bullet Plant: 2-8, 3-3.
Union, deunionizing: 2-16, 2-17.
Union-GM (General Motors): 3-10.Union, newspaper: 2-16, 2-17, 3-6.
Union, organizing: 2-9, 2-15 thru 2-17, 3-6, 3-7, 3-10, 3-11.
Unions, women in: 2-9, 2-14 thru 2-17, 3-6, 3-7, 3-10.
United Furniture Workers of America: 2-1, 2-11, 2-12, 2-16, 3-3, 3-10, Tapes I, II, IV, and V.
United Mine Workers of America: 2-6, 2-8, 3-10, 3-11.United Way: 3-5.
Urban Appalachian Council: 1-6.
Valdese, North Carolina: 1-1.
Vinson Sexual Harassment: 2-9.
Wages: 3-10, 3-11.Welsh Miners: 2-16.
Western Piedmont Community College: 1-5.
Wilkenson, Carroll: 2-9.
Women Coal Miners: 1-1, 1-3 thru 1-6, 2-7 thru 2-9, 2-12, 2-14 thru 2-17, 3-2, 3-4, 3-6, 3-7, 3-9 thru 3-12.
WSCF Energy Project: 2-15.Young, Bingham: 2-9.
Youngstown, Ohio: 3-10.
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