Office of the Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel records, 1906-1981.

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Office of the Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel records, 1906-1981.

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The Dean of the Chapel records document the activities of the Office from 1928 to 1981. Materials include files for the tenure of Dean Robert Russell Wicks (1928-1947), Assistant Deans of the Chapel Laurence Fenninger (1930-1946), Burton MacLean (1946-1948), H. Keith Beebe (1949-1954), Wiley Crites (1954-1959), material for Richard Stillwell's history, "The Chapel of Princeton University" (Princeton University Press, 1971), minutes of the Chapel Congregation and Chapel Council (1938-1951), files relating to the Chapel organ reconstruction (1975-1992), historical subject files, and marriage, birth, baptism, and death registers beginning in 1952.

25.78 linear ft. ( 22 record center boxes, 9 archival boxes)

Princeton University Library

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Princeton University. Office of the Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel.

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The religious interests of members of the University are served through the offices of the Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel. In the college's early history, the President supervised religious programs at the University; by the 1890s the Philadelphian Society, a student organization, took over some of this responsibility. In 1928 the University completed its new chapel and centered all responsibility for campus religious life in the new position of Dean of the Chapel. Six people have served ...

Morrow, Sue Anne Steffey, 1949-

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Beebe, H. Keith, 1921-

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Princeton University

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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...

Borsch, Frederick Houk

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Fenninger, W. N. (William Norman), 1889-

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Princeton University Office of Dean of the Chapel.

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Gordon, Ernest B.

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Author, temperance and prohibition activist. From the description of Ernest B. Gordon papers, 1940s-1950s. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 235952486 ...

Breidenthal, Thomas E., 1951-

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Princeton University. Chapel

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Stillwell, Richard, 1899-1982

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