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Webpages, social media, emails, photographs, posters, newsletters, personal essays, and digital ephemera related to the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee.

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The collection documents William Everett Derryberry’s term as President of Tennessee Tech University (1940-1974) and his personal and professional life outside of the university. He managed the university through disruption during World War II, growth in enrollment after the war, physical expansion of the campus, integration and student movements during the 1960s and 1970s, and the university’s name change from Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in 1965.

Scope and Contents The Tennessee Tech University Development Council was established as a non-profit corporation in 1976 with Tech President Arliss S. Roaden as Chairman, Dr. William H. Baker as Vice-Chairman and representatives from the Tech Alumni Associate and representatives of the following foundations: The Agriculture Foundation for Tennessee Tech, Inc.; The Athletic Foundation; The College of Business Administration Foundation; The Tennessee Tech Education Foundation; The Tennessee Tech Engineering...

Content Description Calvin Dickinson is professor emeritus at Tennessee Technological University having taught history for there for 30 years until his retirement in 2000. Born in Shreveport, La., and raised in East Texas, he attended Baylor University from which he received Bachelor's and Master's degrees. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and has also studied at the College of William and Mary and East Carolina University. Dickinson was Instructor and Department Chair at Chowan College...

Scope and Contents Many of the records relate to the establishment of the college including publications, minutes, receipts, histories, contracts, catalogs, donations, lawsuits, by laws, committees, and the charter. The college was supposed to have a School of the Bible, which never came to fruition. Lawsuits against Jere Whitson’s estate regarding donations for the proposed bible school building are included in the collection. Petitioners complained that Whitson schemed their money and then sold the proposed...

Content Description State publications and photographs of Ward, Cordell Hull Dam, and numerous political meetings. There are also numerous prominent politician's signatures include in the contents of two scrapbooks, one on an Appalachian Scenic Highway with signatures of David Pack, Joe L. Evins, Harlan Mathews, Henry Ward, Frank Stubblefield, Edward Breathitt, Thurston Morton, Frank Clement, Annette Belle Clement, and a second scrapbook on Economic resources development which has the signatures of Albert...

Content Description The Driver Family Collection consists of various materials gathered by James Gray “Bobo” Driver (1916-1992) and Ruby Nell Haas Driver (1920-2012). The materials in the collection range from 1968 to 2001. Multiple items are ephemeral, and some are handmade. Differing forms of recorded music are also present amongst the materials. The collection’s primary subjects revolve around events and people of Smithville, Tennessee, including the Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree, the Smithville-DeKalb...

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The Dyer Family Business Records date from 1879 to 1929, with the bulk of material dating from 1882 to 1905. The collection is mainly comprised of J. F. Dyer’s appointment books which list the payments made, dates visited, and who was visited. It also contains some of Lex Dyer’s appointment books. The minutes and members of the Board of Putnam County Medical Society is also included, dating from 1903 to 1917.

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Born-digital editions of The Eagle were originally distributed on DVDs. The born-digital editions include the software executable files and the video, image, and text files that make up the yearbooks.

Content Description Records relating to the Tennessee Tech University Division of Enrollment Management and Career Placement. The division includes Admissions, Financial Aid, International Education, Military and Veterans Affairs, Records and Registration, and Student Success Center. Records include challenge coins from New Student and Family Programs (2010s), College Work Programs manuals (1993, 1998), in-state residency guidelines (c. 1975), recruitement promotional publications and information...

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The Ann Evins papers contain materials related to her civic, religious, and business interests, including correspondence, speaches, directories, ephemera related to numerous clubs and organizations, numerous materials relating to her faith, and articles on topics of her interest. The collection also includes personal correspondence from friends and family, including birthday cards from her daughters.

Scope and Contents The Evins papers included 100,000 pieces of correspondence, 2000 photographs, 1000 documents, 100 scrapbooks, speeches, and personal records, 300 artifacts, 400 volumes, and 150 maps and facsimiles. The core of the collection is the Congressional Papers. These papers span the years from l946 when Evins entered the U.S. House of Representatives as its youngest member to l976 when he retired as one of the most powerful men in Congress.The Congressional Papers, Series...

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The records of the Tennessee Tech University Office of Extended Programs and Regional Development includes websites, newsletters, brochures, and other publications for marketing the Office's programming.

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This collection consists of documents created by the Faculty Senate including: Agendas and Minutes, Committee Policies and Correspondence, Faculty Handbooks, and various Other Handbooks and Manuals. The first three series (accordingly as listed) are arranged chronologically. Other Handbooks and Manuals are arranged according to their source department. The records range from 1982 to 2019 and consist of 14 boxes.

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Founded in 1937 as the Tech Faculty Women’s Club, the Tech Women’s Club assisted integrating new faculty members and their families into the Putnam County and Tech University community. Tech Women's Club reaches female staff, professional faculty and former employees and also hosts scholarships for female Tech students who are attending Tech. Included are a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Abstract Lottie Farr (1907-1994) was an English professor at Tennessee Tech University and worked with the College of Education. She also was involved with the Putnam County Library and was treasurer for the Board of Trustees. Through the Department of English, she edited and copyrighted a collection of poetry by Clara Cox Epperson. The materials primarily date from 1970 to 1986, with the bulk of materials dating from 1970 to 1983. The materials consist of Putnam County Library records, book layouts...

Abstract T.J. Farr (1902-1962) was a history professor at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, and was chairperson of the English and Education Departments. He was also involved with the Tennessee Folklore Society and gathered folklore from across the Upper Cumberland region, along with some East Tennessee Folklore. The materials primarily date from 1926 to 1961, with the bulk of materials dating from 1935. The materials consist of Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletins, correspondences, and membership...

Content Description Ric Finch was a geology faculty member at Tennessee Technological University. He began in 1975. Ric Finch's papers include numerous slides from his thesis, a geology field trip he took with University of Texas, field trips taken with Tennessee Tech, and the Geology Club. This record group also contains records from Ric Finch regarding the building of PSR-451 Corridor J, including records regarding community action against it and records relating to its construction. When Finch...

Content Description Tennessee Tech University Department of Foreign Languages annual report, brochures, correspondence, newsletters, photographs scrapbook, reading files, self-studies, syllabi, website, and foreign language student organization flyers. The reading files were organized by Phillip J. Campana while he was chair of the department and were intended to contain a copy of everything created by his office as chair. The reading files are incomplete.Digital materials can be accessed online at:...

Scope and Contents Papers include candy wrappers, school papers, debates, newspaper clippings, visiting cards, a ring size chart, papers relating to high school basketball, and programs for events at Tennessee Tech, Baxter Seminary, the Strand Theatre, and other Upper Cumberland Schools. Papers also include numerous letters regarding high school gossip and romance. There are classmate photographs. The scrapbook uses paper from a yearbook from Manhattan, Kansas. There is a story regarding mumps and body. Many...

Scope and Contents The General Faculty Meeting usually occurred three to five times a year and was generally presided over by the university president. Reports would be presented from the University Assembly, the Academic Council, the Administrative Council, the Faculty Senate, along with comments from the president. It was customary for new faculty to be welcomed. Faculty earning service pins, or other awards and retiring faculty would be acknowledged. This collection consists of agendas and minutes of these...

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The Alfred H. Gill papers include numerous team photographs of the TPI football team and reunion photographs. There are four yearbooks, of which there is a letter from "Mary" and the others have a few messages from classmates. There is a photograph from his time at Camp Forrest, Tennessee during World War II and three postmaster declarations signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Abstract Charles Golden was an educator for 45 years and worked at Tennessee Tech University for 22 years. Golden joined the Tech administration in 1969 and was an advocate for education. His career started in White County as a supervisor, administrator and principal for nine years in and superintendent for eleven years in Sparta City schools. His love for education lead to his coordination of several education programs. After his many years of devotion to the education system and Tech he retired in...