Robert D. Steele Westminster College President's correspondence, 1939-1973.

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Robert D. Steele Westminster College President's correspondence, 1939-1973.

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This collection contains the incoming and outgoing correspondence of Robert D. Steele, 5th president of Westminster College (Salt Lake City, Utah). The correspondence documents Steele's wide-range of activities as college president . His fundraising and general administrative duties are well documented in these letters including the handling of inquiries about admission applications, loans, and dormitory reservations, reminders to the board of trustees about meetings, notes to the board of trustees informing them of new policies, notification of bequests to Westminster, donation letters, and scholarship notifications. Specific inquiries include a letter from the daughters of Sheldon Jackson asking if the college would like a portrait of their father (and Steele's acceptance). Significant correspondence exists between President Steele and the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church. Steele and his correspondents on the Board discuss new policies, funding issues, investments, the release of the mortgage on the Gunton Memorial Chapel, its ultimate sale, communications with the purchaser, and Steele's decision to resign as president. President Steele played an important role in the search for a new president. The last two letters are to and from Dr. Tom Stine of Carroll College, transmitting Robert Steele's records to Westminster College.

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Westminster College, Giovale Library

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Stine, Tom.

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Gunton Memorial Chapel (Salt Lake City, Utah)

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education

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Board of Christian Education was established in 1923 by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. from a consolidation of: The General Board of Education, The Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work, the Board of Temperance and Moral Welfare, the Permanent Committee on Sabbath Observance, and the Permanent Committee on Men's Work; it was continued by the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. until 1972 when the boards were reorganized. From the description of Records, 1923-1972. ...

Steele, Robert D. (Robert Denham), 1901-1972.

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Robert Denham Steele was born January 26, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, where he received a Bachelor of Science in 1922. He attended Princeton Theological Seminary earning his Bachelor of Theology degree in 1926. He attended the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from 1928-1929. In 1939, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho. From 1922-1923, Steele was a coach and t...

Westminster College (Salt Lake City, Utah : 1902-1983)

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