David Hopwood McKinley papers, 1915-1943 (bulk 1927-1929)

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David Hopwood McKinley papers, 1915-1943 (bulk 1927-1929)

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The collection consists of an assortment of McKinley's papers, mostly documenting his life as a graduate student at Penn State. The collection includes twelve letters and cards received, 1923-1931, from friends and professors (Mondel "Monty" Ely Butterfield, Dr. Edmund L. Gros, Nita Huckins, Miss L.V.T. Simmons, Pud Wyand) and William Stearns Davis thanking him for corrections to his book, and one letter from McKinley to his parents, 1929, with news of his activities, opportunity to go to Europe with Dr. Crockett, and teaching prospects at Penn State; his application for admission to Penn State, 1923; class schedule, undated; note from Prof. Robert E. Dengler, 1927, about a grade; two term papers; election notice to membership in the Honorary Society of Scabbard and Blade, 1926; notice establishing the local chapter of Pi Gamma Mu National Society Science Honorary Scholarship Fraternity, 1928, of which Grad. Asst. McKinley was a charter member; two detailed lists of his expenses, income, and expenditures for his father; McKinley's application for a Rhodes Scholarship, 1928; eight ROTC and Reserve orders, 1926-1929, concerning appointments and assignments; seven newspaper clippings, 1926-1939, about his activities, friends at Penn State, football games, and the death of Prof. Irving L. Foster. Also contains three amateur radio operator licences for Daniel L. Irvin of Curwensville, 1915-1917, and three for McKinley, 1921-1923; broadside operating instruction for the "Mignon Undamped Wave System;" a copy of the Bureau of Naval Personnel Training Aids booklet, Lookout manual (1943); eight programs from church and musical performances and recitals, 1924-1940; bookplate of E.B. Everitt (Penn State English instructor), with pencil annotation that his wife is Erma; a typed summary of a merger of refractory companies in 1929; reprint of Francis Joseph Tschan's "Some Aspects of the Economic History of Virginia in the Eighteenth Century" (University of Chicago Abstracts of Thesis, Humanistic Serices, Vol. II), autographed by Tschan (Penn State professor of history); four-page tearsheet of article, "Lockheed's Experimental Research Laboratories" (The Lockheed Aircraftsman, Oct. 1940); two newspaper clippings about McKinley, now a graduate of the School of Law of Western Reserve University, passing the Ohio bar examination, 1932; six clippings and obituaries about friends, 1929-1941, including Gros and Crockett; one clipping about a tennis game, 1927; one clipping about a revival of Tales of Hoffmann in Berlin. Also, six photographs (portrait of McKinley, four of McKinley with other men in caps and gowns at graduation, Western Reserve University(?), and one identified as Lette at 206 So. Atherton [State College, Pa.]); 50th anniversary keepsake, September 24th 1874-1924, with photographs of his parents(?).

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McKinley, David Hopwood, 1906-1986

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David Hopwood McKinley, was born in Uniontown, Fayette County, and graduated high school in Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pa. He earned his B.A. and M.A. from Penn State, graduating in 1929. After receiving his J.D. from Western Reserve University in 1932, he practiced law in Cleveland for ten years and consulted as a research analyst and statistician until 1942. Between 1942 and 1946 he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, and returned to Penn State as a faculty member in 1946 to teach economi...

Gros, Edmund L.

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Foster, Irving Lysander, 1870-

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Dengler, Robert Ewing, 1893-

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Robert Ewing Dengler (1893-1973) was Head of the Classical Language Department, 1929-1955, at The Pennsylvania State College. An experienced traveler and life member of the Touring Club Italiano, he made road trips through Europe in the 1930s and 1950s. He was also known for his translation of Theophrastus: de Causis Plantarum. From the description of Robert E. Dengler map collection, 1847-1947. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 71259320 Robert E...

Scabbard and Blade Fraternity. Company H (Pennsylvania State University)

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Irvin, Daniel L., 1894-

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Crockett, William Day, 1869-1930

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Tschan, Francis Joseph

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Francis Joseph Tschan was born January 1, 1881 in Germany. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1901 and the Master of Arts degree in 1903, both from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. In 1916 he received the doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Chicago. An honorary doctor of laws degree was conferred on him by Loyola University in 1933 and a doctorate of humane letters by St. Vincent's College at Latrobe, PA in 1951. Dr. Tschan taught history at the University of Chicago, Yale...

Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930

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William Stearns Davis was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on April 30, 1877. He earned a B.A. in 1900, an M.A. in 1901 and a Ph.D. in 1905 from Harvard University. He was a lecturer at Radcliffe (1904-1905), an instructor at Beloit College, Wisconsin (1906-1907) and an associate professor of Medieval and Modern European history at Oberlin (1907-1909). In 1909, Dr. Davis joined the staff of the University of Minnesota as professor of history, where he stayed until he resigned in 1927. After his re...

Wyand, Charles Samuel, 1907-1976

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Simmons, Lucretia V. T. (Lucretia Van Tuyl), 1875-1942

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Pi Gamma Mu. Epsilon Chapter (Pennsylvania State University)

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Pi Gamma Mu, Epsilon Chapter, was founded at Penn State in 1928. The fraternity is an international honor society in social sciences which promotes high scholastic attainment and development as well as a responsibility for the appropriate application of scientific methods. The Epsilon Chapter published several monographs written by fraternity members. From the description of Pi Gamma Mu, Epsilon Chapter records, 1925-1973. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id...

Pennsylvania State College

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Butterfield, Mondel Ely

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