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CC-5 Centre College External Affairs/Alumni Office

Collection Outline

Collection Description

This small collection consists of scattered materials concerning individual alumni, alumni in general, and activities of the Centre College Alumni Association. Of interest are lists of distinguished alumni, miscellaneous sketches and early Alumni Association minutes. Researchers should be aware that most of the other important alumni-related materials are located in a number of different record groups or in extensive files at the Chenault Alumni House.

Collection Inventory

CC-5.1 Miscellaneous Alumni Materials

Series A Correspondence

Folder 1 Miscellaneous alumni biographical sketches and materials
Folder 2 Miscellaneous alumni biographical materials, including lists of distinguished Centre graduates; alumni killed in military action; Rhodes scholars

Series C Alumni Association Minutes

Folder 1 Miscellaneous Alumni Association minutes, resolutions, undated, and dated 1944-1968; Alumni Board meeting minutes, annual report, Board of Directors, 1990-91; Board meeting, 1992
Volume 1 Minutes of the Centre College Alumni Association,1851-1922. Also contains the association's constitution, and list of subscribers to the permanent fund of the Association of Alumni of Centre College, June 25, 1863
Volume 2 Minutes of the Centre College Alumni Association,1942-1960

Series D General Materials

Folder 1 General Alumni/Alumni Association materials including information on reunions, ballots, sample questionnaire, brochures on alumni trips, and miscellaneous materials, undated, and dated 1885-1983
Folder 2 Annual report (also titled Gift Report, Financial report); 1962-1973
Folder 3 Alumni Association officials, 1970-date
Folder 4 Alumni College '79
Folder 5 Alumni College '82
Folder 6 Alumni College '83

Folder 7 Breck, Robert L. An Address Before the Alumni Association of Centre College, 1863; Cleland, Thomas H. An Address Before the Alumni Association of Centre College, 1863; Breckinridge, William C.P. Address Before the Alumni Association of Centre College, 1885

Volume 1 Register of guests for Centre's Centennial, June, 1919

Volume 2 Alumni guest register for the following events:

  • Homecoming: 1935, 1939, 1948, 1961, 1962
  • Commencement: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1945-1954, 1960
  • Reunion of Army Corps 20th College Training Detachment, undated
  • Alumni Day: 1962-1963

Volume 3 Alumni - Pledges and gifts, 1956-1962

Volume 4 ABC Book of Graduates - evidently from Kentucky College for Women, Women's Department of Centre, date unknown

CC-5.2 Office of Public Information

Series A News Releases

See also: CC-10.11 Sports Newsletters/News Releases

Folder 1 Miscellaneous news releases, 1986-1992
Volume 1 News releases, 1985-86
Volume 2 News releases, 1986-88

CC-5.3 John W. Frazer Papers

Box 1

  • Address material, 1946-49
  • Alumni Association, 1947
  • Alumni affairs, 1948-1968
  • Alumni - Houston, 1961-68
  • Alumni meetings, 1960
  • Alumni Reunion, 1896-1901; Classes, June 1951
  • Alumni - Washington, 1961-68
  • Annual reports - General Secretary, 1958-1960
  • Athletics - Department of Physical Education and Athletics, 1941-1950
  • Athletics - Faculty, Trustees Committees, 1947-1951
  • Baker, Elvera - Educational Counseling Service, 1950-51
  • Baker, Lisle - Memorandum, 1956
  • National Beta Club, 1954-60
  • Board of Christian Education, U.S., 1958-59
  • Board of Christian Education, U.S., 1960-61
  • Board of Christian Education, U.S.A., 1956-58
  • Board of Christian Education, U.S.A., 1959
  • Board of Christian Education, U.S.A., 1960-61
  • Board of Christian Education Synod School for Leaders, 1956
  • Board of Curators, 1959
  • Board of Trustees, 1957-58
  • Budget, 1958-59
  • Burns Survey, 1956
  • Carnegie Foundation, 1922-1940
  • Carnegie Foundation - Correspondence, 1944-1950
  • Carnegie grant applications (rejected), 1949-1951
  • Carnegie Research Committee - Minutes, etc., 1948-51
  • Carnegie research grant applications, 1949-1953
  • Carnegie research grant reports - Faculty, 1949-1952
  • Carnegie research grant reports - Jack Kellam, 1949
  • Carnegie research grant reports - Earland Ritchie, not dated
  • Carnegie Research grant reports - W.J. Robinson, not dated
  • Centre Singers, 1956-58
  • Chamber of Commerce, 1959
  • Chapman, Virgil - U.S. Senate, 1949-1951
  • Charts - Figures for special reports, not dated
  • Church contacts, 1958-1960
  • College costs, 1956-58
  • College Entrance Boards, 1953-57
  • CEEB, 1956-57
  • CEEB - Correspondence, 1957-59
  • CEEB - Southern regional meeting, 1958

Box 2

  • Commencement, June 1946
  • Commencement, June 1947
  • Commencement, November 1948
  • Commencement, June 1948
  • Commencement, October 1949
  • Commencement, June 1949
  • Commencement, Mid-year 1949-50
  • Commencement, June 1950
  • Commencement, June 1951
  • Commencement, June 1952
  • Commencement, June 1953
  • Commencement, June 1954
  • Commencement, June 1955
  • Commencement, 1960
  • Cooperative Study in General Education, Chicago Workshop, 1942
  • Dean's folder, 1952-58
  • Debate team - Centre College, 1954-55
  • Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1959
  • Department of Education (Kentucky), 1956-1960
  • Development, 1958-1965
  • Development, 1966-68
  • Distinguished alumni - Honorary degrees, 1959-60; list of honorary degrees, 1936-37, 1958-59
  • Economics and Business Administration, 1945-47
  • Educational Testing Service, 1955-57
  • Enrollment forecasts, 1958-59
  • Enrollment forecasts, 1959-60
  • Expenditures in Danville, 1960-62
  • Faculty committees, 1958-1960
  • Faculty minutes, 1955-56
  • Faculty minutes, 1957-58
  • Faculty minutes, 1959-60
  • Finance for development, 1963-64
  • Finance and Development Committee, 1958-59
  • Flip chart memo, 1956
  • Ford Foundation, 1957
  • Freshman Class vital statistics, 1958-59
  • Freshman Class statistics, 1959-60
  • General correspondence, 1958
  • General correspondence, January-June 1959
  • General correspondence, July-December 1959
  • General correspondence, January-June 1960
  • General correspondence, July-December 1960
  • General correspondence, 1961
  • General correspondence, 1965-66
  • General correspondence, 1967-68

Box 3

  • Gifts, 1958
  • Gifts, Monthly Report, 1958-59
  • Gifts, 1959
  • Groves, Dr. Walter, 1956-57
  • Hornell Hart Seminars, 1958
  • Health certificate, Louis J. Beto, M.D., 1959-60
  • Hewlett, James H. - Papers, 1940-41
  • Higher education - American Council on Education, 1957-58
  • Higher education - American Council on Education, 1959
  • Inaugurations - Centre presidents, Montgomery, Turck, McLeod, McMullen
  • Inauguration - Walter Groves, Nov. 1947
  • Inauguration material
  • Inauguration - Robert L. McLeod, Jr., 1939
  • Inauguration speakers, 1947
  • Inauguration - Thomas A. Spragens, 1959
  • Interfraternity Council, 1956-59
  • Junaluska meeting, 1959
  • Kentucky Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1937-1946
  • Kentucky Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools - Newsletters, 1938-1947
  • Kentucky Department of Education, 1940-47
  • Kentucky Independent College Fund (KICF), 1957-58
  • KICF, 1959-60
  • KICF, 1960-61
  • Walter J. Klein Company, (Motion Picture Division), 961-62
  • Library correspondence (Mrs. Barbour), 1959
  • College library standards, 1967
  • Living Endowment (General) September 1, 1953, and following, 1953-54

Box 4

  • Memo to the Board, 1958-59
  • Miscellaneous memorandum, 1958-59
  • Murphey & Mackey, Architects, 1961-62
  • National Christian College Sunday, 1962
  • Nevin & Morgan - Engineers, 1958-1960
  • Paducah, 1964
  • Personal correspondence, 1957-1960
  • Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, 1958-59
  • Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity, 1958-59
  • Philanthropic Digest, 1958-59
  • President's Commission on Higher Education, (President Harry S. Truman), 1948
  • President's folder (Walter Groves), 1955-56
  • President Thomas A. Spragens, 1959
  • Religious Activities Committee, 1945-58
  • Rooms assignments, 1959-60
  • Rotary district convention, 1957-59
  • Sabbatical leaves, 1938-47
  • Scholarship "Bible", 1959-61
  • Sesquicentennial Campaign, 1961-68
  • Sesquicentennial - New York alumni, 1962-65
  • Sesquicentennial Program - 1st phase, 1960
  • Sesquicentennial - Prospective donors, 1960-61
  • Shuler Memorial Room, 1946-47
  • Slater Food Service, 1959
  • Small college annual, 1963
  • Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1939-49
  • Southern Association Report on Freshmen, 1939-40
  • Spiritual Emphasis Week, Spring, 1950
  • Student promotion proposal, no date
  • Student-Faculty Congress, 1958
  • Student handbook, 1959-60
  • Student organizations, 1959-60
  • Studies made at Centre (partial collection), 1953
  • Summer School, 1950-51
  • Summer School, 1958-60
  • Senior College Achievement Test, 1929-30
  • Teacher education, 1958
  • Teacher training and certification - Kentucky Department of Education, 1937-56
  • Teacher training and certification - Kentucky Department of Education, 1939-41
  • Texas - Dallas, 1961-67
  • Travel schedules and vouchers, 1958-59
  • Ward, Dreshman & Reinhardt, 1956-59
  • World Missions, 1954-55