Spring 1976 – Models for the Mari Sandoz Center for Study of Man are created by students of the College of Architecture, University of Nebraska at Lincoln.The bill did not move out of appropriations.
Stull introduces legislation LB390 to authorize the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society in conjunction with Chadron State College to research various program and architectural alternative with the purpose of constructing a Mari Sandoz Cultural Center to be located on the Campus of Chadron State College.
The Center will also contain a large open space will exhibit between the museums and the library for the purpose of handling large or small groups a small lobby area conference classrooms, storage, work rooms, a small auditorium, and a photographic reproduction room. The Center facility will be divided into two main sections: a library with supportive primary research materials and a museum.October 1972 – The first formal proposal for the “Mari Sandoz Center for the Study of Man” is prepared by the Mari Sandoz Heritage Fund Committee at Chadron State College.The collection contains approximately 100 letters, 40 photographs, 200 slides, 20 tapes, 160 books, 20 periodicals and miscellaneous personal effects belonging to Mari. Chadron State College provides a room on the ground floor of the college library to house the donations of letters, papers, publications, and other memorabilia connected with Mari Sandoz and her interests.The Fund Committee is comprised of faculty, students, representatives from the communications media, historical agencies, and interested lay persons. The Mari Sandoz Heritage Fund is created as a sub –agency of the Chadron State Foundation.Years later, that hope has become reality. History of the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage CenterĪfter achieving success as an author, Mari Sandoz often expressed a hope that an educational and cultural facility depicting the heritage of the region she considered home would be developed.