Harold H. and Virginia Hollis papers, 1898-1945 (bulk 1940-1945).

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Harold H. and Virginia Hollis papers, 1898-1945 (bulk 1940-1945).

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Harold H. and Virginia Hollis Papers consist primarily of letters to each other, written while Harold served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. They also contain bank statements, canceled checks, theater and concert programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, a marriage license, military passes, and an engraved name plate. See also NYSHA Research Library Collection No. 400 - Harold H. Hollis Weather Records, and Fenimore Art Museum Accession # N1. 2007.

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Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, N. Y.)

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Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, N. Y.)

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United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Hollis, Virginia, 1913-1985.

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Hollis, Harold H., 1914-1999.

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Harold H. Hollis was born on July 11, 1914 in Cooperstown, N.Y. A graduate of Albany Business College, he served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as a "weather officer and forecaster." On May 24, 1943 he married Virginia Sparger (b. February 24, 1913, d. July 11, 1985), a graduate of Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., who was a school teacher for the Laurinburg City Schools (North Carolina) during the early 1940s. Harold H. Hollis worked in the newspaper business, becomi...