Walter J. Pauk papers, 1949-1999.

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Walter J. Pauk papers, 1949-1999.

Correspondence, diplomas, transcripts, newsletters, and other papers of a professor in the School of Education; includes samples of the Army Basic Comprehension Test, and letters from Eleanor Roosevelt and Bernard Baruch. Includes a transcript of a 1994 interview with Pauk relating his experiences at the end of World War II participating in the succor of inmates at Dachau Concentration Camp.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7906925

Cornell University Library

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