Two interesting items in the collection are Sir Roger's account of the attacks on British ships at Alicante and of the events in Valencia when he spent a brief period there during the Spanish Civil War (STVS 1/25) and the correspondence and notes he was compiling on Sir William Strang (STVS 10) with a view to writing his biography shortly before his own death in 1980. However the bulk of the material of this later period relates to his membership of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT), including several judgements delivered by this body. There are in the collection some letters, press cuttings and speeches relating to Sir Roger's Vice-Chancellorship of Leeds University (STVS 11) and also copies of reports by a number of committees to which he belonged after his retirement from the Foreign Office. The collection also includes speeches, notes, book reviews, lectures and articles written by Stevens after his retirement from the Foreign Office on topics including the Middle East, Iran and Persia (STVS 9). This also includes photographs taken throughout Stevens' life of his youth, his diplomatic role as Ambassador to Sweden and Persia, his role as Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University and his later life. These documents are complemented by the many photographs Sir Roger took whilst travelling Persia which depict the people, art, architecture and scenery of the country (STVS 12). From his time as Ambassador to Persia, Sir Roger gained a passionate interest in the people, art and history of that country and the collection contains the notes he used in writing two books on Persia, "The Land of the Great Sophy" and a work on seventeenth century European travellers in Persia originally entitled "Persian Bandwagon" but renamed by Sir Roger after the revolution which overthrew the Shah as "First View of Persia". An interesting example is Sir Roger's diary from 1962 (STVS 8/25 b) which documents his tour of South Africa and includes his observations on colonial policy and administration and newspaper cuttings regarding his view of apartheid. The letters are supplemented by journals and diaries that Sir Roger kept throughout his life.
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These are full of vivid accounts of places visited and events witnessed, reflections on issues of the moment at the time and discerning descriptions of the people he was meeting in Argentina, the United States, Sweden, Paris, Antwerp, Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Persia (now Iran). Throughout his life Stevens sent lively and detailed letters home to his parents from his foreign postings as he did to his first wife, Constance, in the intervals when they were apart.
"The Stevens Angle," he said in a 1957 interview, "is this: whatever I get involved in happens." The unstoppable visionary died February 2, 1998.The principal interest of this collection lies in the day-to-day picture it presents of diplomatic life. Johnson's Special Assistant on the Arts from 1964 to 1968, shepherding legislation that established the Nation's first National Council on the Arts, later renamed the National Endowment for the Arts, which he chaired from 1965 to 1969. As Chairman of the Kennedy Center's Board of Trustees from 1961 to 1988, Stevens not only led the Kennedy Center's fundraising efforts, but also guided its programming, which included the commissioning of many new artistic works. In 1961, Roger Stevens was asked by then President Kennedy to establish the National Cultural Center, which a decade later would be named in honor of the slain 35th President The John F. During the 1950s and 1960s, he become a major theatrical producer, presenting more than 100 plays and musicals, including West Side Story, Bus Stop, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Man for All Seasons and Tea and Sympathy. He was a pioneer in obtaining government support of the Arts and for artists, a theatrical producer of international importance, and the guiding force behind the establishment of a National Cultural Center. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Roger Stevens' many contributions to the field of performing arts management was the influence he brought to bear on people's imaginations. He quickly established himself as a significant power in the theater, both in the United States and in Britain. A highly successful real estate broker who once owned the pire State Building, Stevens backed his first Broadway show in 1949. Stevens (Founding Chairman, National Council on the Arts Founding Chairman, The Kennedy CenteR&Born March 12,1910, Detroit, Michigan died February 2, 1998) For almost half of the twentieth century, Roger Lacey Stevens was a dominant force as a theatrical producer, arts administrator, and real estate entrepreneur.
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