Robert Crawford McClelland Papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
Old Dominion University
3023 Patricia W. and J. Douglas Perry Library
Old Dominion University
4427 Hampton Blvd
Norfolk, VA 23529
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Jessica Ritchie
Phone: (757) 683-4483
Fax: (757) 683-5954
Restrictions:

Open to researchers without restrictions.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from Special Collections and University Archives, and the holder of the copyright, if not Old Dominion University Libraries.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Box [insert number], Folder [insert number and title], Dr. Robert C. McClelland Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
0.80 Linear Feet and 2 Hollinger document cases boxes
Creator:
McClelland, Robert Crawford
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Box [insert number], Folder [insert number and title], Dr. Robert C. McClelland Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of material written by or about Dr. Robert C. McClelland. Materials include a publication on the William T. Hodges scandal at the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary in 1941, Masontown Pennsylvania, poetry, newspaper clippings, and the NATO Symposium directed by Dr. McClelland from 1955 to 1956.

Biographical / historical:

Dr. Robert Crawford McClelland was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania in 1901. In 1914 he graduated from the Masontown public schools and went off to German Township High School where he graduated in 1918. Afterwards he worked at the local coal mines for some time until he departed for college at the West Virginia University. He graduated there in 1930 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. McClelland taught at College of William and Mary in Williamsburg from 1930 to 1937. While teaching there he also earned his Master's degree. In 1937 he became a teaching fellow at the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary. He taught Latin, Greek and history. In the summers from 1945 to 1950, he returned to WVU as a teaching fellow and earned his Ph.D. in history. In 1948, Dr. McClelland became the Director of the Evening College at the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary. He worked at the college until 1962.

Dr. McClelland was known for his involvement in preserving the history of Masontown in Pennsylvania. He had compiled several histories of the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary including the Annals of The College of William and Mary in Norfolk (Norfolk: The College, 1930-60). He also wrote and published a number of papers and poems.

Dr. McClelland died in Masontown, Pennsylvania in 1962.

Note written by Corey Fenelon

Acquisition information:
Unknown
Processing information:

The collection was processed and finding aid developed by Corey Fenelon in 2009.

Arrangement:

The collection is organized into six series: Series I: General Publications; Series II: In the Case of Bryan Vs. Hodges; Series III: Masontown History; Series IV: Poetry; Series V: Other Writings; and Series VI: NATO Symposia.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard