Charles Parkman Rockwood papers, 1939-1945 (inclusive).

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Charles Parkman Rockwood papers, 1939-1945 (inclusive).

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Correspondence, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia document Charles P. Rockwood's service as a teacher for Yale-in-China at Yuanling, Hunan Province as well as life in wartime China, his struggle with poliomyelities in 1940, and his service with the U.S. Office of War Information in rural areas of India, Burma, and China, 1944-1945. A diary for the summer of 1939 describes a tour of the Yale Glee Club in Europe.

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United States. Office of War Information

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Yale University.

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Yale University. Class of 1884

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Yale-China Association

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Plans for a Yale mission in China were first formulated in 1901. In 1902, the Yale Foreign Missionary Society was organized, and Lawrence Thurston travelled to China in order to contact missionary groups and investigate locations for a mission. In 1903, the First Conference of Protestant Missions of Hunan invited a Yale group to settle in Changsha. Brownell Gage, Warren Seabury, and Edward Hume formed the first group. A collegiate school, Yali Middle School, opened in 1906, and in 1914, the Coll...

Poliomyelitis.

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Rockwood, Charles P., 1917-1970

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Charles P. Rockwood: instructor at Yale-in-China, 1940-1941; served with Office of War Information psychological warfare teams in India, Burma, China, 1943-1945; from 1947-1950 worked for American Institute of Pacific Relations; from 1950-1955 staff associate of the Twentieth Century Fund; from 1955-1963 public relations director of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; from 1963- member of executive staff of Haskins and Sells, public accountants. From the descripti...

Yale University. Yale Glee Club.

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