Office of the President records, 1942-2005

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Office of the President records, 1942-2005

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Series 1, (1942-1993; 39 linear feet) consists primarily of the administrative records of William E. Henry, Samuel L. Myers, Rufus L. Barfield, and James E. Lyons, Sr., as president of the university and of Marcellina Brooks as acting president. Series 2, (1985-2005, 46 linear feet) consists primarily of the administrative records from the tenure of Nathanael Pollard, Jr., Wendell M. Holloway, and Calvin W. Lowe. They consist of correspondence, meeting materials, administrative records, collaborative projects, faculty and student groups, committee materials, planning, and community relations. The bulk of this material dates from the 1990s.

85 linear ft.

Bowie State University, Thurgood Marshall Library

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Bowie State University, Thurgood Marshall Library

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Bowie State University. Board of Trustees

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Bowie State University. Office of the President

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Founded as Industrial School for Colored Youth in 1865; first baccalaureate degree was awarded in 1912; other names of the institution include Bowie Normal and Industrial School (1912), Maryland State Teachers College (1925), and Bowie State College (1963); officially became Bowie State University on July 1, 1988. From the description of Office of the President records, 1940-1992 (bulk 1950-1980). (Bowie State University). WorldCat record id: 70963035 Founded as Baltimore No...

Bowie State College

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Bowie State University. Board of Visitors

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Maryland State Teachers College (Bowie, Md.)

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Barfield, Rufus L., 1929-

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Maryland. State Board for Higher Education

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Holloway, Wendell M.

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Myers, Samuel L. (Samuel Lloyd), 1919-

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University president, education advisor and economics professor Samuel Myers was born April 18, 1919, in Baltimore, Maryland to David and Edith Myers, Jamaican immigrants. He attended the city's segregated schools, graduating from Frederick Douglass High School in 1936. He enrolled in Morgan State College, but later took a semester off in order to earn money by working on a ship. In order to address the severe poverty that he witnessed on his travels, upon his return to Morgan State, Myers decid...

Lyons, James E., Sr.

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Bowie State University

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Brooks, Marcellina

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Pollard, Nathanael, Jr.

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Henry, William E. (William Edward), 1900-1996

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Lowe, Calvin W.

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Education administrator and physicist Calvin Lowe was born in Roanoke Rapids, Michigan in 1955. After graduating from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University with his B.S. degree in physics, Lowe enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he earned his M.S. degree in plasma physics in 1979. Upon completing his doctoral thesis, "Optical Properties of Graphite Intercalation Compounds," Lowe graduated from MIT with his Ph.D. degree in solid state physics in...