Joseph L. Arbena IPTAY Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0302
This collection contains nine compact discs that document interviews conducted between 1980 and 1983 by Clemson Professor Joseph L. Arbena as part of research for a 1984 book that he helped edit titled IPTAY: The First Fifty Years. Common topics of interest include: recollections of Clemson athletics during the 1920-1940s, IPTAY establishment and growth, and day to day operations of the Clemson Athletics Department. The recordings include interviews with: George U. Bennett, Frank Howard, Jess C. Neely, Joe Davis, Bob Jones, Frank J. Jervey, Bill McClellan, Philip H. Prince, and Robert "Red" Ritchie. One additional recording was made during an IPTAY Board of Directors meeting.
Joseph L. Arbena was born in 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Joseph and Sophia Arbena. He received an A.B. from George Washington University (1961), and a PhD from the University of Virginia (1970). He was a Professor of History at Clemson University between the years 1965-2006. While there, his scholarship focused on Latin America as well as the history of sport. He was twice honored with Fulbright Fellowships. He was editor of the Journal of Sport History (1993-1996) and was responsible for several works including Latin American Sport: An Annotated Bibliography, 1988-1999, and Sport and Society in Latin America, 1988.
0.29 Cubic Feet (9 CDs and 6 cassettes in two boxes. )
English
Clemson Professor Joseph L. Arbena conducted a series of interviews between the years 1980 and 1983 as part of research for a 1984 book that he helped edit titled IPTAY: The First Fifty Years. The interviews focus on the establishment and evolution of the IPTAY organization during the fifty year period 1934-1984.
Received from Joseph L. Arbena on April 30, 2003. Formerly accession number 03-105.
This collection was processed by Carl Redd, Project Archivist in May 2008.
The conversion of this finding aid to Encoded Archival Description format was made possible with a grant from the South Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board in 2009-2010. The finding aid was prepared for encoding by Kristi Roberts.
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