Description: Illinois Association of English Teachers Archives (IATE,1953-1997) contains officers' correspondence, correspondence with affiliate organizations, including National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and Illinois Alliance for Arts Education (IAAE); IATE bi-annual newsletter, conference announcements, executive council meeting minutes and reports, constitutions and by-laws, membership lists, budgets and financial records, directories, lifetime membership award lists; typescript history of IATE (1980-1981) by J.N. Hook describing general historical and educational background to the 1907 founding and development of IATE, programs and publications of IATE, leaders in the organization, activities and meetings.