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Katharine Parker Freeman Memoir (#4988-z) 1975-1983

Title: Katharine Parker Freeman Memoir (#4988-z) 1975-1983

Katharine Parker Freeman, a native of Goldsboro, N.C., received B.A. degrees from Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C., and Simmons College in Boston, Mass.; taught at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S.C., the University of Puerto Rico, and Meredith; married L. E. M. Freeman, pastor and professor of religion at Meredith; raised five sons; was an active member of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church; and worked to improve race relations. The memoir of Katharine Parker Freeman was written mostly in 1975, with some additions in the early 1980s. In it, Freeman recounted memories of her family; education; religious life; teaching career, including planning a home economics department at Meredith College; and daily life, chiefly in Raleigh, N.C., but also in Hillsborough, N.C., Boston, and Puerto Rico. In addition to family life, recurring themes include churches, ministers, Freeman's religious questioning, her study of music, and playing piano and organ for various churches and Sunday schools. She also discussed the interracial group that met at the Freeman's house and joined in other social occasions, ca. 1943-1960, and the Freemans' participation in activities sponsored by the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen. In addition to Freeman's children, people important in the memoir are her father Thomas Bradley Parker, L. E. M. Freeman, Delia Dixon-Carroll, Charles Maddry, McNeill Poteat, and Robert Seymour. Also included are photocopies of pictures of Katharine Parker Freeman and members of her family.

ArchivalResource: About 50 items.

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04988/ View

Charlotte Ruth Nelson Patterson Papers, 1927-1928

Title: Charlotte Ruth Nelson Patterson Papers 1927-1928

The Charlotte Ruth Nelson Patterson papers consist of photographs of Patterson, news clippings regarding her graduation from North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) and Meredith College, and letters written to her father, N.C. State Textile School Dean Thomas Nelson. After petitoning the faculty council in the fall of 1926, Charlotte Ruth Nelson became one of the first female graduates of North Carolina State College (1927). She also earned a degree from the all-female Meredith College the same year. By doing so, she became the first student in North Carolina to earn degrees from two colleges at the same time. She taught school for 35 years. Other female students receiving degrees in 1927 were Jane S. McKimmon and Mary E. Yarbrough.

ArchivalResource: 0.01 Linear feet; 1 folder

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mss00145 View

Stringfield, Oliver Larkin. Life history of Oliver Larkin Stringfield / O. L. Stringfield.

Title: Life history of Oliver Larkin Stringfield / O. L. Stringfield. 1924.

ArchivalResource: 10, 35, 31 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71373567 View

Deane, Charles Bennett, 1898-1969. Charles Bennett Deane Papers, 1919-1978.

Title: Charles Bennett Deane Papers, 1919-1978.

His papers contain his Baptist files, 1938-1958; Congressional papers, 1948-57; Meredith college trustee files, 1947-58; personal papers, 1865, 1918-23 and 1938-70; speech files, 1931-64; and his Wake Forest College/University files 1929-69.

ArchivalResource: 35 linear feet 27 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60690665 View

North Carolina State University. Student Government. North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Student Government records, 1905-2003 [manuscript]

Title: North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Student Government records, 1905-2003 [manuscript]

The North Carolina State University Student Government records contain meeting minutes, correspondence and publications generated as a result of the establishment and actvities of Student Government on NCSU's campus. Of particular interest are documents describing the "Student Rebellion" of 1905 which facilitated the need for student governing on campus as well as records documenting the ratification of the Constitution in 1955 and the creation of the Student Senate in 1969. There are also records concerning campus elections, political rallies and community involvement as well as student "disturbances" on and off campus. In addition, the collection contains publications of student government laws, bound copies of annual records and community service type publications whihc were circulated among the entire student body.

ArchivalResource: 14.25 linear ft. (28 boxes + 1 half box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/503458328 View

Hubbell, Paul Edgar, 1891-. Paul Edgar Hubbell Papers, 1854-1986.

Title: Paul Edgar Hubbell Papers, 1854-1986.

This collection consists largely of letters from Jay B. Hubbell to his brother Paul and his family discussing family matters, Hubbell genealogy, careers, publications, and politics, and current events. Other items include one letter from David S. Hubbell to his son Paul; photographs of Lucinda Hubbell and Jay Hubbell; writings by or about Jay B. Hubbell; a program of the Lamar Memorial Lectures; two volumes of GRANT STREET VERSE; a xeroxed copy of "A Tribute to Professor Kenneth Ballard Murdock, Honored Scholar of Early American Literature" from EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE magazine; poems by Paul E. Hubbbel, including one entitled "In Academici Memoriam" written in memory of his brother in 1979; a 1985 essay by Paul E. Hubbell entitled "The Making of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1778;" and clippings concerning the death of Wilburt C. Davison. Additional papers pertain to the family of Anne Thompson Hubbell, the wife of Paul Hubbell, and include a biographical sketch of her father Dr. Kimbro Thompson, a deed for land in Carroll Co., Va. (later the site of Hillsville Academy) from Calvin Mitchell to Benjamin F. Thompson, brother of Kimbro Thompson, dated 12 March 1854; another deed for 100 acres in Surry Co., N.C., to Jesse Isaaks, singed by Governor Z.B. Vance and dated 23 January 1863 (the surveyor's report is attached); a copy of the will of John J. McMickle of Surry Co., N.C., dated 25 October 1892, which names Dr. Kimbro Thompson, his son-in-law, as executor; three compositions by Kimbro Thompson, who was also an ordained minister in the Baptist Church; four letters, one to Kimbro Thompson's brother dated 21 January 1856, one written by W.O.T. Banner to his cousin while Banner was a prisoner at Johnsons Island, Oh., dated 24 November 1864, one from J.B. Jones to Rev. Thompson dated 20 October 1868 pertaining to missionary work in western Va., and one from Mame Thompson Woodhouse, sister of Anne Thompson Hubbel, dater 26 April 1930; copies of three notes promising to pay varying amounts of money; a certification of the unfitness of Benjamin F. Thompson for military service and his discharge of November 13, 1862; tax receipt of Benjamin F. Thompson for the year 1856; a scrapbook of Lucy McMickle, wife of Dr. Kimbro Thompson, in which clippings of agricultural pointers, stories, poems, etc. have been pasted on pages which apparently were Dr. Thompson's notes on diseases and medications, recipes, poems, and copies of letters have been added; a notebook fo Anne Thompson from Meredith College, Raleigh, N.C.; clippings of pictures of some of her classmates.

ArchivalResource: 148 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43738310 View

Vann, Richard Tillman 1851-1941. Richard Tillman Vann Papers, 1889, 1942

Title: Richard Tillman Vann Papers, 1889, 1942

This collection contains two letters (Aug. 10, 1889 and Nov. 1938), three newspaper obituaries, biographical materials and an engraving of Dr. Vann.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59882967 View

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 View

Bunn, Maude Davis, 1888-1977. Maude Davis Bunn papers, 1900s-1998.

Title: Maude Davis Bunn papers, 1900s-1998.

Items produced and collected by Maude Davis Bunn of Raleigh, N.C. Included are materials relating to her family, community, and political involvements. In addition to letters, there are invitations to and programs from community and family events; writings and speeches; calendars; Bunn, Marion, Davis, Stuart, and Wray family history materials; financial materials; and "Thoughts, Letters, and Collectibles," a collection of letters, poems, quotes, prayers, and articles from which she drew her "Maude Bunn's Scrapbook" columns for the "Raleigh Times." Also included are items relating to Meredith College, the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, the Olla Podrida Book Club, and other organizations with which she was involved; printed items, travel diaries, and other items from the many domestic and foreign trips she took; and photographs of family and friends, both in albums and individual prints. Among the travel materials is an extensive annotated scrapbook from the 1939 automobile trip she made with her children from North Carolina to California and back.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1300 items (3.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54056311 View

Batten, Jean Cooper. Meredith College, Oral History Project, 1988-89.

Title: Meredith College, Oral History Project, 1988-89.

The records consists of a cover sheet describing 24 interviewees and th subjects covered; 25 interviews on casettes; and a VHS videocassette containing several monologues by the interviewees; the 1988 Meredith College Alumni Association meeting with attendees sharing their lives; a reproduction of a slide show with narration showing the doll collection representing Meredith College classes, and transcriptions of 23 interviews (1996).

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60690744 View

Bell, Richard C., 1928-. Richard C. Bell drawings and other materials, 1961-2003 [manuscript].

Title: Richard C. Bell drawings and other materials, 1961-2003 [manuscript].

The Richard C. Bell Drawings and Other Materials, 1961-2003, document the professional activities of landscape architect Richard C. Bell and his architectural firms. The collection consists of landscape plans and planting details, prospective elevations, and technical drawings, as well as associated architecture plans created by partnering architectural firms. A small number of project files, which document both residential and public spaces, are also found in the collection. Bell's projects included private residences, subdivision developments, municipal and civic structures, various businesses, and some two dozen college and universities.

ArchivalResource: 203.6 linear ft. (893 tubes + 32 flat folders + 2 document cases)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/756650205 View

Henry Leveke Kamphoefner Papers, 1924 - 1990

Title: Henry Leveke Kamphoefner Papers 1924 - 1990

The Henry Leveke Kamphoefner Papers dates from 1924 to 1990 and include correspondence, magazine articles, news clippings, speeches, photographs, architectural drawings, and artifacts. The collection documents Kamphoefner's professional life as an architect and as a professor and dean at North Carolina State University and other academic institutions. It also includes information about Kamphoefner's personal life. Henry Leveke Kamphoefner was dean of the North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) School of Design, 1948-1973, and continued to teach architecture at North Carolina State Universtiy until 1979. Kamphoefner practiced architecture in Sioux City, Iowa, 1932-1936; was associate architect for the Rural Resettlement Administration in Washington, D.C., 1936-1937; and taught architecture at the University of Oklahoma, 1937-1948.

ArchivalResource: 35.0 Linear feet

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mc00198 View

Meredith College (Raleigh, N.C.). [Announcements, bulletins, programs, etc.]

Title: [Announcements, bulletins, programs, etc.]

ArchivalResource: items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37175863 View

North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Student Government Records, 1905-2003

Title: North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Student Government Records 1905-2003

The Student Government records contain meeting minutes, correspondence and publications generated as a result of the establishment and activities of Student Government on NCSU's campus. Of particular interest are documents describing the "Student Rebellion" of 1905 which facilitated the need for student governing on campus as well as records documenting the ratification of the Constitution in 1955 and the creation of the Student Senate in 1969. There are also records concerning campus elections, political rallies and community involvement as well as student "disturbances" on and off campus. In addition, the collection contains publications of student government laws, bound copies of annual records and community service type publications which were circulated among the entire student body. Student Government at North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) began in 1921. At that time, the group was made up of both students and faculty and was called Campus Government. Following the establishment of the Faculty Senate in 1954, a new Student Government Constitution was ratified in 1955, reestablishing a separate Student Government which included a student body president and governing committees. The Student Senate came into being in 1969 with the ratification of the Student Body Constitution. In 1972, Student Government moved to the Talley Student Center, where it remained until moving to the Witherspoon Student Center.

ArchivalResource: 14.25 Linear feet

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/ua021_502 View

Farmer, Foy Johnson, 1887-1971. Foy Johnson Willingham Farmer Papers, 1902-1921.

Title: Foy Johnson Willingham Farmer Papers, 1902-1921.

Her papers consists of biographical files; correspondence; diaries; educational files of her first husband Calder Truehart Willingham; financial documents; literary productions; literary productions of others; as well as Japanese publications; prayer notebooks; Sunday School lessons; pictorial materials; professional files; and Japanese artifacts.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet 3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60690840 View

Weems, John E. (John Edgar), 1932-. Remarks to the trustees, Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina / by John Edgar Weems.

Title: Remarks to the trustees, Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina / by John Edgar Weems. [1971]

ArchivalResource: [7] leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428429644 View