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Papers of David B. Stevens, which document his military, professional, and personal life, include correspondence, photographs, reports, clippings, speech files and other printed materials. Correspondence contains letters Stevens sent to his wife, Willa Stevens, during his World War II service abroad. Postwar correspondence documents Stevens's career at ECU and as a commercial pilot, civic interests and service, and contact with family and friends, including those he served with during the war. A small portion of the correspondence includes discussions with various political figures, including Water Jones, Robert Morgan, Jesse Helms, and Tom Taft, about state and national legislation. The bulk of the photographs relate to Stevens's involvement at local Kiwanis Club functions, but also include several of Stevens and his wife while on vacation, as well as an autographed photograph of Stevens with Helms and his staff. Printed materials consist of reports, minutes, agendas, newsletter, and clippings, the bulk of which concern Stevens' s professional life at ECU as well as his work in professional organizations. Also includes documentation of a plan by the Aviation Museum Association to construct a museum at the Greenville Airport. |
| Biographical note | David Boyette Stevens (1923- ), native of Augusta, Ga., was a commercial pilot and university attorney at East Carolina University. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, he married Willa King Horner in 1942. Stevens served as lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force Transport Command, and later as colonel. After his retirement from the military in 1970, Stevens joined East Carolina University as assistant professor of business law. Before retiring from ECU, Stevens served as associate professor of criminal law and social welfare legislation, attorney advisor and director of equal opportunity programs, and university attorney. |
