Diane Brandt Papers, 1974-
Collection Overview
Title: Diane Brandt Papers, 1974-
Record Series: MsC-10
Record Group:
Manuscripts
Creator: Diane Brandt
Date: 1974-
Extent: 10 boxes (4.17 linear feet)
Repository: Special Collections and University Archives, University of Northern Iowa
Language: Materials entirely in English.
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Preferred Citation: [Identification of item] in the Diane Brandt Papers, 1974-, Manuscript Record Series MsC-10, [folder number], University Archives, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa.
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Historical Note
Born August 28, 1938, in Emmet County, Iowa, Diane Brandt graduated from Armstrong High School before earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University in 1961. She served on the Cedar Falls Planning and Zoning Commission, as president of Waterloo-Cedar Falls League of Women Voters, and as president of Waterloo branch of American Association of University Women. Brandt was also a member of the Women's Political Caucus, NAACP, Common Cause, National Municipal League, First Presbyterian Church. She was first elected to the General Assembly in 1974. A Democrat, she served District 35 as State Representative from 1975 to 1982.
Scope and Content
These papers consist primarily of printed material arranged as subject files. The printed material includes newspaper clippings, Iowa House and Senate bills, maps, state and federal reports, Democratic party literature, and legislative memoranda. There also is a limited amount of correspondence interfiled in the appropriate subject folders. In addition, some of the printed material has been annotated by Brandt.
Inventory
Box 1
Folder 1: Legislative Newsletter sent by Brandt to constituents
Folder 2: Bills introduced by Brandt and their status, 1978
Folder 3: Notes on accomplishments of legislature
Folder 4: Transportation - five folders of printed material on highways, mass transit facilities, and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls intercity freeway
Box 2
Folder 1: Department of Social Services budget
Folder 2: Title XX (social services eligibility)
Folder 3: Discrimination in education (including sexual stereotyping)
Folder 4: Education budget bill
Folder 5: Urban policy
Folder 6: Women's issues (including sex discrimination, rape and sexual assault, welfare benefits, and job discrimination)
Folder 7: Open meetings
Folder 8: Property tax
Folder 9: Tax sheltered annuities
Folder 10: Trapping (leg-hold animal traps)
Folder 11: Usury
Folder 12: Water (Jordan aquifer)
Folder 13: Newspaper clippings about Iowa legislature
Folder 14: Reviews and summaries of 1975 session
Folder 15: Reviews and summaries of 1976 session
Folder 16: Democratic legislative campaign issue manual, 1976
Folder 17: Campaign issues (Democratic), 1978
Folder 18: Democratic platform
Boxes 3-10: 1982 legislative session
Box 3
Folder A: Judiciary and Law Enforcement Committee
Folder B: Ways and Means Committee
Folder C: Correspondence, 1982
Box 4
Folder 1; What the 1981 session did
Folder 2: 1982 Issues
Folder 3: Adult Day Care
Folder 4: Block Grants
Folder 5: Budget, State
Folder 6: Burial Expenses
Folder 7: Capitalism Cemetery/Funeral Home
Folder 8: Child Care Incentives
Folder 9: Child Restraints - Auto
Box 5
Folder 1: Chiropractic
Folder 2: Community Action Agency
Folder 3: Constituency Mailings
Folder 4: Continuation of Group Insurance
Folder 5: Corrections
Folder 6: Creation/Evolution
Folder 7: Drunk Driving
Folder 8: Deferred Compensation
Folder 9: Dispensing Medication
Folder 10: D.C. Amendment
Folder 11: Divorce
Folder 12: Education-funding
Folder 13: Higher Education
Folder 14: Education: Area Education Agency
Folder 15: Education: Community Colleges
Folder 16: Education: School Aid
Folder 17: Education: Higher Education (UNI and area schools)
Folder 18: Elderly Abuse
Folder 19: Elderly Issues
Box 6
Folder 1; Election Contest
Folder 2: Energy
Folder 3: Engagements
Folder 4: Gas Tax
Folder 5: Governor
Folder 6: Governor's Economy Committee
Folder 7: Hazardous Waste Disposal
Folder 8: Homemaker
Folder 9: Homestead Exemption
Folder 10: Housing (Finance Authority)
Folder 11: Imitation
Box 7
Folder 1: Income Tax
Folder 2: Interest Rates
Folder 3: IPERS Investment
Folder 4: Intern
Folder 5: Involuntary Hospitalization
Folder 6 Juvenile Justice
Folder 7 Laetrile
Folder 8 Land Use
Folder 9 Life Insurance Replacement
Folder 10: Lobbyist Information
Folder 11: Marijuana
Folder 12: Mental Health
Folder 13: Nursing Home
Folder 14: Nursing Homes/Long Term Care
Folder 15: Nursing Home Rights
Folder 16: Oil Tax
Folder 17: Open Meetings
Folder 18: O. P. P.
Folder 19: Park User Fees
Folder 20: Personnel, Department of
Box 8
Folder 1: Plant Closings
Folder 2: Positions of Organizations
Folder 3: Probate
Folder 4: Professional and Occupational Licensing
Folder 5: Deere Tax Proposal - Property Tax Exemption
Folder 6: Property Tax
Folder 7: Psychologists
Folder 8: Public Employee Bargaining
Folder 9: Railroad
Folder 10: Reapportionment
Box 9
Folder 1: Recycle Paper
Folder 2: Retirement Discrimination (sex)
Folder 3: Retirement Systems
Folder 4: Retirement Systems IPERS
Folder 5: Right to Die
Folder 6: Salaries
Folder 7: School Smoking
Folder 8: Shared Appreciation Mortgages (S.A.M)
Folder 9: Sentencing Guidelines Commission
Folder 10: Sex Education
Folder 11: Singles Property Relief Form
Folder 12: Small Business
Folder 13: Small Business Procurement. Act. of 10
Box 10
Folder 1: Social Services
Folder 2: Department of Social Services Interim - misc.
Folder 3: Sponsor's Copy
Folder 4: Soil Conservation
Folder 5: Substance Abuse Commitment
Folder 6: Title Insurance
Folder 7: Transportation
Folder 8: Trauma Centers
Folder 9: Unemployed Parent
Folder 10: Unified Retirement System
Folder 11: Workfare
Folder 12: Youth Conservation Corps (Herrick Estate)
Processing Information
Collection processed and finding aid created by University Archivist Gerald Peterson. Updated and prepared for the web by Assistant Archivist Dustin Witsman, January 2015; updated, February 3, 2015 (GP); last updated by Library Associate Dave Hoing, October 2017. Linear feet count updated on August 9, 2017.