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

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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.

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