Academic Year

Containers:
Drawer 1-4, Folder 126
Scope and content:

1. Flyer for the Hampden-Sydney College Library Book Week Tea, November 16, 1944 (two copies). 2. The Hampden-Sydney Handbook, 1944. 3. Booklet emphasizing the value of Hampden-Sydney College and asking for contributions (two copies). 4. Letter from the Hampden-Sydney College church requesting monetary gifts to help make up for the loss of large amounts of students pulled from the college by the Selective Services because of the war, dated February 15, 1945. 5. Two different brochures advertising Hampden-Sydney College (possibly from 1945). 6. Brochure "Our Country…and…Our College." Details the involvement of Hampden-Sydney College students during the wars beginning in 1776 and asking for monetary gifts to help the college (three copies). 7. Article "General McClellan Freed the College Boys" written by C. Hobson Goddin (HSC Class of 1941) from The West Virginia Hillbilly volume 2, number 41, September 16, 1961 page 12. Article mentions Hampden- Sydney College students and their involvement in the Army during the American Civil War. 8. Envelope addressed to Dr. Graves H. Thompson (Professor at HSC College) from Melvin Tennis, Jr. (HSC Class of 1945). Envelope contains various materials authored by or with contributions by Melvin H. Tennis, Jr. Materials include: six copies of the Florida Educational Research Association Newsletter (December 1964, October 1965, March 1966, June 1966, October 1966, January 1967). Articles: "Characteristics of 'Effective' Teachers as Identified by Research", "Mathematics Achievement in Ability Groups and Typical Groups," "The Congressional Hearings on Testing," "A Comparison of an Audio-visual Test with a Written Test," "The NOVA Pre-Employment Planning Conference" (Co- authored with A. B. Wolfe and W. G. Smith), "ABC's of RDE"; copy of United States Naval Institute Proceedings, volume 84, number 3, March 1958 (includes article by Melvin H. Tennis, Jr. "LCT's in a Typhoon" pages 48 – 51).

Language:
English .

Access and use

Location of collection:
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney College Archives & Special Collections
Walter M. Bortz III Library
P.O. Box 7
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (434) 223-6302
Phone: (434) 223-7225
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