Mary hays weik biography of albert

One of the great pleasures of spending this summer in the archives as a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow has been stumbling into and out of people’s lives, or the echoes of them left behind in correspondence, records, doodles, drafts, and other materials.

There are a lot of recognizable names in the Special Collections Library stacks, but for every person I’ve read or heard about there are so many more who are new to me.

The Joseph A. Labadie Collection’s Mary Hays Weik Papers () roughly outline the trajectory of Weik’s work as a journalist, writer, leading proponent of world government, and anti-nuclear activist.

They follow her from the Chicago area to Cincinnati, where by the late s she was becoming increasingly involved in (and would eventually lead) the American Federation of World Citizens (AFWC), and finally to New York, where she was as an accredited United Nations (UN) observer; the papers record the extensive int