Beverly Waugh Kunkel Letters, 1915-1919.

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Beverly Waugh Kunkel Letters, 1915-1919.

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The collection consists of 95 letters that Kunkel wrote to his parents (Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Kunkel of Harrisburg, PA) during his first four years of teaching at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. In addition to these letters there are two letters written to his father by his wife, Caroline Jennings Kunkel. The letters discuss a number of interesting topics of the day, especially the beginnings of World War I and the United States' eventual involvement in the war. These letters also contain detailed descriptions of college life at Lafayette and provide a good source of information about the campus during the war years.

.21 linear ft. (1 box)

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Lafayette College (Easton, Northampton County, Pa.)

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Kunkel, B. W. (Beverly Waugh), 1881-1969.

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Beverly Waugh Kunkel was a professor of biology at Lafayette College from 1915-1952. He is probably most widely known as being the undergraduate mentor to two Nobel Prize winners in medicine: Philip Hench (1950 prize winner) and H. Keffer Hartline (1967 prize winner). Following his retirement from teaching, Dr. Kunkel became interested in local public health facilities. He aided in establishing a county health department. In 1967, he published a book on the history of public health work in Penns...