Grace Berg Schaible Papers, 1921-2006, 2017.
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Grace Berg Schaible Papers, 1921-2006, 2017.
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43.65 cu. ft.
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The Grace Berg Schaible Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, and personal and financial papers. One portion of the collection consists of correspondence from Dr. Charles Bunnell concerning administrative matters at the University of Alaska (1949-1956). The remainder documents Grace Berg Schaible's career in private law practice and in public service to the State of Alaska, the University of Alaska, and the community of Fairbanks, Alaska, as well as her interests in philanthropy, travel, and Inuit art. The collection includes a number of gallery catalogs featuring Inuit art. There are also materials from Schaible's Celebration of Life held in Fairbanks, Alaska on 28 August 2017.
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Grace Berg Schaible has long served the State of Alaska, the University of Alaska, and her home community of Fairbanks, Alaska. Born Grace Berg in Tacoma, Washington, in 1925, she was raised in Juneau, Alaska, and graduated from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (now the University of Alaska Fairbanks) in 1949. Upon earning a degree from Yale Law School in 1959, she went into private law practice in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her many positions in public service have included University of Alaska regent (1985-1987), attorney general for the State of Alaska (1987-1989), chair of the Board of Trustees for the Alaska Permanent Fund (1995-1997), and president of the University of Alaska Foundation (1998-2003). She died in 2017.