Scope and Contents This series contains the records of the Board of Trustees of Clemson University. The records are found in files, volumes, publications and microfilm. Included in this series is information which may be categorized as follows: Athletics, Biographical Files, Board Activities, Board Materials, Board of Visitiors, Commission on Higher Education, Committees, Correspondence, Executive Secretary, and President. The records span the years of 1888-1991.The athletic subseries consists of...

Scope and Contents The collection contains three black and white positive prints: one of Sikes and an unidentified boy; one of Sikes along with V. Dickson Sikes and four children (unidentified); and the other of Sikes with V. Dickson Sikes, Van[n] Sikes and unidentified women and a child. There is a newspaper clipping about E.W. Sikes' death from the Monroe Journal (North Carolina) dated January 10, 1941. The collection also contains a typewritten Sikes family history compiled...

Scope and Contents This series contains materials not maintained in the correspondence files of Sikes. Among the materials are articles and reprints from various sources that Sikes collected for reference purposes and for use in his writing. One collected item of note is a manuscript thought to be a source Sikes was using to write a book on the history of Baptists in South Carolina. Other items, including a poem written by Mrs. Sikes, were removed from Sikes' desk at the time of his death in 1941 and were...

Scope and Contents This series contains the correspondence and related photographs of E. W. Sikes as President and President Emeritus. Frequent correspondents include members of the Board of Trustees: Paul Quattlebaum and James F. Byrnes; J. Rion McKissick, President of the University of South Carolina and Shelton Phelps, President of Winthrop College; and Olin D. Johnston, Governor of South Carolina. Topics of the letters concern tuition costs, interstate trade, a fertilizer audit and...

Scope and Contents This series contains the correspondence files of Enoch Walter Sikes. Also found within the files are minutes of directors meetings, annual reports, departmental reports and budgets, employment agreements, photographs of some employees, and partial lists of cadets. Frequent correspondents include Clemson College Officials: H. W. Barre, director of research; F. H. H.Calhoun, director of teaching; W. W. Long, director of the extension service; H. M. Stackhouse, professor and...

Scope and Contents This series contains the speeches and writings of Enoch Walter Sikes while he was President and after his retirement from office. In the series are found speeches, addresses to cadets at Clemson College and to organizations in the community, short public statements, lectures, Sunday School talks, and articles that appeared in student publications and newspapers. Topics include agriculture and the training of farmers; education; histories of the Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian...

Scope and Contents The papers include articles, audio tapes, correspondence, maps, microfilm, motion picture film, newsletters, photographs, reports, scrapbooks and speeches.The papers date from 1915 – 1986 with the bulk of the collection dating from 1932 – 1969. There are two albums of photographs documenting Aull’s years as a Clemson cadet, 1915-1919 as well as photographs related to his career, 1930-1969. There is one oversize volume documenting the Clemson Land Use Project, 1934-1954....

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This collection consists mainly of Gaston G. Gage's correspondence relating to Clemson College, the School of Textiles, and his various personal interests. It includes several essays presented at the Clemson Forum Club. Gage's correspondence documents his career as a professor and dean at Clemson University, as well as his involvment in community and church affairs. There is some material related to his wife, Ruth Vardell Gage (1899-1981).

Scope and Contents This series contains reports of deans and directors to the President of the University. It covers a time span from 1929 to 1956, with most of the reports occurring in the 1940s and 1950s. The majority of the reports, Annual Reports from the various departments at the college, follow this format: a "General Report" that summarizes the achievements and failures of a particular department; "Resignations and Appointments," which lists the names and positions of both faculty and staff members who...

Scope and Content Note This series consists primarily of the general and subject correspondence of Robert C. Edwards. Also contained in the series are reference materials used in the administration of the office of President. The bulk of files falls into the following categories:1. Administrative staff members files: These records relate to administrative staff members who ended their service to Clemson College during the late 1950s or early 1960s. Depending upon a staff member's length of service,...