See also Spencer R. Quick Files.

Size: Less than one linear foot (about 400 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: No donation of copyright was received with this collection. Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Elizabeth Carrington (2005) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

1922 (July 4)		Born, Chicago, Illinois
1940		Entered University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
1942-1945		Served in the U.S. Army Air Forces
1948		Graduated from University of Illinois with B.A. in Journalism and Advertising
1948-1949		Sales Promotion Staff Member, Sears Roebuck and Co.
1949-1950		Assistant Sales Promotion Manager, Borden Company
1950-1951		Assistant Advertising Manager, Orange Crush Company
1952-1953		Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President, Dr. John R. Steelman; Program Coordinator under Charles W. Jackson, Advertising Council Liaison, The White House
1953		Entered Virginia Theological Seminary
1956		Graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary with Bachelor of Divinity Degree, ordained as an Episcopal priest
1957-1961		Rector of Grace Church, Goochland, Virginia
1961-1966		Rector, St. Petere's Church, Smyrna, Delaware
1966		Became Vicar, St. Alban's Church, Hagerstown, Maryland
1971-1986		Worked with the Bishop of Kentucky

The Papers of Spencer R. Quick document his work in the White House as Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President, Dr. John R. Steelman. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, employment applications, notifications of personnel changes, pay stubs, personal records, service contracts, photographs, printed material, acknowledgements of reference letters, and travel vouchers. The collection is comprised of one series, a Subject File, arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder chronologically.

Quick's chief role was as a liaison between the government and the Advertising Council, a non-profit group comprised of representatives from the American advertising industry. The Advertising Council's mission was to provide federal agencies, as well as private groups, with free facilities and assistance in developing advertising for "non-controversial" causes and public service announcements. Quick helped agencies develop public information campaigns in conjunction with the Advertising Council. He inherited these duties from his predecessor on the White House staff, John T. Gibson. Quick’s immediate superior was Charles W. Jackson, who worked directly under John R. Steelman.

The bulk of the collection consists of letters, memoranda, and reports written by Quick and others from January 1952 to March 1953, relating to Advertising Council campaigns in behalf of armed forces recruiting, civil defense, the Ground Observer Corps, forest fire prevention, savings bonds, and other causes deemed important to the national welfare.

Related collections in the Truman Library include the files of Spencer R. Quick, Charles W. Jackson, and John T. Gibson. Their files are part of the Staff Member and Office Files of the Harry S. Truman Papers.

Container Nos.		Series
1		SUBJECT FILE, 1949-1968
		Correspondence, employment applications, pay stubs, travel vouchers, printed material, and other items pertaining to Spencer R. Quick’s work as Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President, John R. Steelman. Arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder chronologically.

SUBJECT FILE, 1949-1968

Box 1

• Employment Applications
• Notifications of Personnel Action
• Pay Stubs
• Personal Records
• Personal Service Contracts
• Photographs
• Printed Material
• Reference Letters, Acknowledgements of
• Travel Vouchers
• White House Correspondence – Part I
• White House Correspondence – Part II
• White House Correspondence – Part III

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