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Clemson University. Office of the President. Enoch Walter Sikes Presidential Records. 1926-1941. Speeches and writings.

Title: Enoch Walter Sikes Presidential Records. 1926-1941. Speeches and writings.

This series contains the speeches and writings of Enoch Walter Sikes while he was President and after his retirement from office. In the series are found speeches, addresses to cadets at Clemson College and to organizations in the community, short public statements, lectures, Sunday School talks, and articles that appeared in student publications and newspapers. Topics include agriculture and the training of farmers; education; histories of the Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian denominations in South Carolina; civics and citizenship; and the Yound Men's Christian Association. Of particular note is Sikes' Autobiography. The original order of the speech file that Sikes maintained has been lost. The present arrangement reconstructs some of the original order: Speeches that were dated have been arranged chronologically, while speeches that bore no date are arranged by topic or subject.

ArchivalResource: .6 cubic ft.

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Clemson University. Office of the President. Robert F. Poole Presidential Records. Committee Files. 1930-1955.

Title: Robert F. Poole Presidential Records. Committee Files. 1930-1955.

This series consists of files that document the activities of Clemson College faculty committees that served from 1930 until 1955. Each of the files contains correspondence or memoranda from President Poole to the chairmen of the committees, and, in turn, reports, minutes, or memoranda from committees to the President or, in some cases, the Board of Trustees. The committee files may be categorized as those that document policy decisions of faculty and administration; departmental and student activities; and the operation of the institution, for example, building and grounds maintenance. The files are arranged alphabetically by title of the committee.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 cubic ft. 1 map, 1 drawing.

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Clemson University. Dept. of Textiles. Dean's Office records, 1927-1963, (bulk 1933-1963).

Title: Dean's Office records, 1927-1963, (bulk 1933-1963).

The files within this series originated in the Dean's Office of the School of Textiles. The series consists of the files of Dean H.H. Willis (1934-1943), Dean Robert K. Eaton (Acting Dean, 1943-1945), Dean Hugh M Brown (1945-1957), and Dean Gaston Gage (1957-1963). Files are arranged chronologically by the academic school year and within years, alphabetically. The bulk of the material consists of general correspondence between the deans, textile businessmen, Clemson faculty and staff, government employees, and students. Of particular interest during Horace H. Willis' time as dean (1927-1943) are files containing information about the construction of a new and larger textile building on the Clemson campus (1936-1937) and the dedication of the building (1951). Also included in Willis' files are reports and contracts about various research projects with the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as textile companies across the country. The files also document the controversy about Willis serving on the South Carolina Industrial Relations Board and His participation in negotiations of a mill strike in 1933-1934. Within the records of each dean are files that note important trends and developments as well as noteworthy projects and programs. Files of interest while Robert K. Eaton (1943-1945) served as acting dean discuss the effect which World War II had on the School of Textile and the Textile Industry. The files of Hugh M. Brown (1945-1957) contain information about the expansion of the Knitting Program as well as the Textile chemistry program. Other files of importance contain yearly reports to the J.E. Sirrine Textile Foundation detailing the accomplishments and growth of the School of Textiles. Within Brown's files is information about the dedication of the Sirrine Textile Building in 1951. Of particular interest in Dean Gaston G. Gage's file (1957-1963) is information about the Pilot Plant at Clemson which, with the aid of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, operated research programs and the establishment of the Textile Research Department.

ArchivalResource: 14.25 cubic ft. 134 photographs.

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Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina. Office of the President. Reports to the president. 1927-1956, 1950-1955.

Title: Reports to the president. 1927-1956, 1950-1955.

This series contains reports of deans and directors to the President of the College. It covers a time span from 1929 to 1956, with most of the reports occurring in the 1940s and 1950s. The majority of the reports, Annual Reports from the various departments at the college, follow this format: a "General Report" that summarizes the achievements and failures of a particular department; "Resignations and Appointments," which lists the names and positions of both faculty and staff members who resigned or were appointed for a job that year; "Salary Changes," which lists the names and salaries of those people who received a raise or cut in salary, as was the case during the Depression; "Recommendations and Suggestions," which states the recommendations made by the Dean to improve his particular department or the entire College; "New Positions Needed," a list of positions that needed to be made, usually due to the rapid growth of the student body; "which list salaries of faculty and staff. Other reports cover such topics as cadets' grades and discipline, lists of candidates not eligible for graduation, preliminary bulletins, sanitary conditions of the college, lists of books donated to the library, vocational education teacher training at Clemson College, monthly meetings of deans and directors of the college, "The National Food Situation" and "Expanding and Improving Crop and Livestock Statistics."

ArchivalResource: 8 cubic ft. 24 photographs.

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Clemson University. Office of the President. Robert C. Edwards presidential records. Correspondence. 1927-1966, 1959-1965.

Title: Robert C. Edwards presidential records. Correspondence. 1927-1966, 1959-1965.

The series consists of general and subject correspondence and reference materials used in the administration of the office. The bulk of files concern administrative staff members; Harvey Gantt, the first Black student to be admitted to Clemson; Hartwell lake and dam and the controversy over flooding to Clemson lands; honorary degrees; South Carolina's progress in agriculture, forestry, education, government, and industry. The files also document the achievement of University status in 1964 and the development of the physical plant.

ArchivalResource: 202 photographs, 35 oversize items.

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Lever, Frank. Personal correspondence series 1895-1940 1930-1940.

Title: Personal correspondence series 1895-1940 1930-1940.

The Personal Correspondence series contains letters from Lever's family, close business associates, and correspondence with Clemson and Newberry Colleges. A major portion of the series is devoted to his contracts with Clemson and Newberry Colleges. James Kinard, President of Newberry College, and E.W. Sikes, President of Clemson College, are two notable correspondents.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 cubic ft.

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Lever, Frank. Federal Farm Board Series 1924-1931 1930-1931.

Title: Federal Farm Board Series 1924-1931 1930-1931.

In this series, Lever's affiliation with the Federal Farm Board is documented. Lever served as a Field Representative from 1930-1933. This Federal Agency attempted to halt the slump in prices for agriculture products by lending funds to cooperatives and other organizations to purchase commodities and hold them off the market. Correspondence with members of the Farm Board and educators--such as Edgar Markham and Carl Williams of the Board; D.W. Watkins, William Williams Long, and President E.W. Sikes of Clemson College; and J. Phil Campbell of the University of Georgia--is included in this series.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic ft.

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Beckwith, Junius Calvin. The twenty men of 1891 : Wake Forest College : life sketches of the men and history of Wake Forest, 1887-1891 / R. L. Paschal, editor.

Title: The twenty men of 1891 : Wake Forest College : life sketches of the men and history of Wake Forest, 1887-1891 / R. L. Paschal, editor. 1941.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (various foliations) : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.

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Aull, G. H. (George Hubert), 1899-1988. G. H. Aull papers, 1915-1986, (bulk 1932-1969)

Title: G. H. Aull papers, 1915-1986, (bulk 1932-1969)

There are two albums of photographs documenting Aull's years as a Clemson cadet, 1915-1919 as well as photographs related to his career, 1930-1969. There is one oversize volume documenting the Clemson Land Use Project, 1934-1954. G.H. Aull arranged most of his papers prior to their donation to the Libraries. There is correspondence to and from Aull that he partially organized by subject. He organized compilations of correspondence, letters to the editor and articles concerning issues that he expressed a public opinion about. The two scrapbooks cover the period when Aull attended Clemson as a cadet as well as his teaching at what became Georgia Southern University. The papers document Aull's career at Clemson College as a Clemson cadet and then member of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and researcher for the South Carolina Experiment Station. Aull spent much of his career examining issues of taxation, land use, land tenure, and economic development. He participated in many government and academic committees and boards including the South Carolina Tax Study Commission. There are reports co-authored by Aull, research studies and articles. Upon retirement from Clemson in 1963, he worked as a consultant for the South Carolina National Bank and edited a newsletter, "The Carolina Economist," for the bank. There is an incomplete run of the newsletter as well as correspondence related to it. Aull received and kept a wide variety of correspondence including many Clemson administrators and faculty, South Carolina political and business leaders including T. S. Buie, Robert C. Edwards, Milton Dyer Farrer, Wil Lou Gray, Robert F. Poole, Enoch M. Sikes, J. C. Littlejohn, Preston B. Holtzendorff, Joe Sherman, Burnett Maybank, J. Strom Thurmond, Edgar Brown, Earle Morris, Ernest Hollings, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, and Wilbur W. McEachern. The speeches are arranged according to general topic and thereafter by date and concern ethics public finance, religion, rural life, taxation, tariffs and trade. There are three maps documenting land acquisitions for the Clemson Forest; school tax delinquency in Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens County, 1932; and a proposed resettlement community. There are two recordings of two oral interviews with G. H. Aull; one with Susan Duffy in 1986 and another Bryan McKown in 1985 with a tape abstract of the Duffy interview and a transcript of the McKown interview. The photographs document Aull's career as well as the Clemson Land Use Project. An oversize scrapbook of primarily newspaper clippings documents the Clemson Land Use Project, 1934-1954.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes 7.2 cubic ft. + (150 photographs, 2 scrapbooks, 2 audiotapes, 6 audiocassettes, 2 compact discs, 2 microfilm reels, 1 oversize folder with 3 maps and 58 reports, and 11 film reels)

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Clemson University. Office of the President. Enoch Walter Sikes Presidential Records. 1925-1931. Correspondence.

Title: Enoch Walter Sikes Presidential Records. 1925-1931. Correspondence.

The series contains correspondence files, minutes of directors' meetings, annual reports, departmental reports, and budgets, employment agreements, photographs, and cadet rosters. Frequent correspondents are F.H.H. Calhoun, W.W. Long, H.M. Stackhouse, W.A. Barnett, R.M. Cooper, John Edward Wannamaker, and Senator Alan Johnstone. Topics of letters include faculty housing, budgets, buildings, the ceramic engineering department, hazing of cadets, adult education, fertilizer quality, and South Carolina forests.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic ft.

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Clemson University. Office of Student Affairs. Vice President Walter Thompson Cox records, 1929-1986.

Title: Vice President Walter Thompson Cox records, 1929-1986.

These records are from the office of Walter Thompson Cox, Vice President for Student Affairs at Clemson University 1955-1985. They contain a variety of records which have been arranged according to the following subjects: athletics, buildings / land use at Clemson University, correspondence, daybooks, legal, nominations, remarks, reports, student affairs, ticket office returns, and photographs. It must be noted that many of these files were transferred from the offices of Enoch Walter Sikes and Robert Franklin Poole, respectively. Several files, specifically legal, continue into Cox's time as President of Clemson University. The records span the time period 1929-1986. The athletics related records include minutes and financial statements from the Athletics Council: bowl game miscellanea, including ticket stubs; contract information regarding football coaches Josh Cody and Danny Ford; correspondence to Enoch Walter Sikes, Robert Franklin Poole, Robert Cook Edwards, and R. W. (Bobby) Robinson which reflect fan and alumni thoughts and concerns about the athletics program; general correspondence files include items related to television and broadcasting agreements as well as the annual Clemson versus South Carolina football game which was held at the Fairgrounds in Columbia, S.C.; material related to the NCAA investigation of the football program in the early 1980s; and records concerning the Southern Conference circa 1930-1953. Of note in the buildings / land use subject files are reports regarding finance of general construction projects at Clemson circa 1935-1955, as well as additions to Memorial Stadium from the 1950s through the early 1980s. Correspondence and daybooks covering the years 1954-1986 follow day-to-day events during Walter Thompson Cox's time as Dean of Students while at Clemson University. A file labeled nominations has been set aside in order to provide insight into the process that administrators take part in while being recommended for higher office, in this case when Walter Thompson Cox was nominated for the Presidency of Clemson University in 1978 and 1985. There is a file containing remarks and speeches reflecting Walter Thompson Cox's public speaking style. The reports files include annual reports to the president from the Office of Public Relations and Alumni Affairs at Clemson, as well as a report from the State Board of Health of South Carolina which provides insight regarding facilities ratings and operations at Clemson College circa 1930. Walter Thompson Cox was for a time a member of a visiting committee with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Several reports from this group have been filed within this collection. They reflect everyday operations of several area institutes in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A set of files dedicated to student affairs at Clemson offers insight into various issues regarding student life at the institution from the 1930s through the early 1980s including fraternities, student parking, and protest actions. Files from the ticket office at Clemson reflect distribution of tickets to South Carolina political figures, 1962-1975; financial statements from the concert series at Clemson, 1940-1955; and football game returns 1957-1982. The photographs from this collection have been moved to Series 100 -- Clemson University Photographs.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes 3.55 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226315829 View

Sikes, Enoch Walter, 1868-1941. Enoch W. Sikes papers, 1941-1983.

Title: Enoch W. Sikes papers, 1941-1983.

The collection contains three black and white positive prints: one of Sikes and an unidentified boy; one of Sikes along with V. Dickson Sikes and four children (unidentified); and the other of Sikes with V. Dickson Sikes, Van[n] Sikes and unidentified women and a child. There is a newspaper clipping about E.W. Sikes' death from the "Monroe (N.C.) Journal" dated January 10, 1941. The collection also contains a typewritten Sikes family history compiled by Robert A. Ragan dated June 24, 1983.

ArchivalResource: .1 cubic ft. (1 folder)

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Sikes, Enoch Walter, 1868-1941. Enoch Walter Sikes Presidential records. 1869-1940.

Title: Enoch Walter Sikes Presidential records. 1869-1940.

This series contains materials not maintained in the correspondence files of Sikes. Among the materials are articles and reprints from various sources that Sikes collected for reference purposes and for use in his writing. One collected item of note is a manuscript thought to be a source Sikes was using to write a book on the history of Baptists in South Carolina. Other items, including a poem written by Mrs. Sikes, were removed from Sikes' desk at the time of his death in 1941 and were later donated to the library.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft.

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Clemson University. Office of the President. Enoch Walter Sikes presidential records. 1932-1941. 1932-1941. Correspondence.

Title: Enoch Walter Sikes presidential records. 1932-1941. 1932-1941. Correspondence.

The series contains correspondence and photographs. Frequent correspondents include Trustees Paul Quattlebaum and James F. Brynes; J. Rion McKissick, University of South Carolina; Shelton Phelps, Winthrop College; and Olin D. Johnston, Governor of South Carolina. Topics of the letters concern tuition costs, interstate trade, a fertilizer audit and investigation, cotton spinning research, cotton marketing, rural electrification, and forestry. The series also contains folders of information about the recipients of honorary degrees awarded by Clemson College.

ArchivalResource: .6 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22851492 View

Gage, Gaston G., 1898-1983. Gaston G. Gage papers. 1932-1981, 1935-1970.

Title: Gaston G. Gage papers. 1932-1981, 1935-1970.

Speeches and essays by Gage; Correspondence includes some from Robert Franklin Poole, Enoch W. Sikes, Frank Howard, J.C. Littlejohn, and Hugh M. Brown. It documents his career as a professor and Dean of Textiles as well as his involvement in community and church affairs; Documents on IPTAY, the athletic council, alumni corporation, the forum, and the fellowship club; Bird watching and statistics on types and migration during the 1960's & 1970's; Materials related to the establishment of the Clemson Area retirement community, known as Clemson Downs; one speech to the forum club gives history of the first Clemson presidents; personal papers include disability, retirement, financial, estate and property records.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20274243 View