Appalachian State University -- Alumni and alumnae

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This collection consists of items related to Appalachian State University's African American Alumni Association (African American Alumni Network). Documents include a history of the organization, remarks from former AAAA president Dr. Renee' Evans, lists of events, ephemera, two newsletters, meeting documentation, and a form. The collection ranges in date from 2007, 2011-2016.

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The collection includes three black and white photographs. One photograph is of the 1941-1942 Girls' Basketball Team and includes both Agnes and coach Thursa Sneed. The other two photographs are candids of students on-campus after a snow.

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Alma Cline Moretz's diploma from the Appalachian Training School dated July 19, 1912.

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Original certificate issued by the Appalachian Training School to Belva Annie Calloway to make the completion of a course of study, including orthography, penmanship, arthimetic, grammar, geography, United States history, economics, elocution, rhetoric, physiology, civil government, algebra, English, American literature, physics, general history, plane geometry, plane trigonometry, preparatory Latin, and English history. Issued in 1907.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of five items. One item is a typescript letter written to Baker on August 6, 1965 by F. P. Bodenheimer. Bodenheimer served on the Board of Trustees and as an officer of the Alumni Association at Appalachian and wrote to Baker about the upcoming Alumni College event. One item is a handwritten letter to Baker by John Corey of the Alumni Association, dated 1965, about the upcoming alumni event, possibly the same referred to in Bodenheimer's letter. There are also three...

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Original Appalachian Training School diploma of Dorothy Maye Hayes of Blowing Rock, NC. She graduated in 1923.

Scope and Content This collection contains scrapbooks and memorabilia documenting the experiences of Ella Williams Thompson and her husband Dr. Lloyd LeRoy Hobbs, while they were students at Appalachian State Teachers College from 1933-1937. Materials within the collection include newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, postcards, telegrams, alumni membership cards, annuals, certificates, and plaques. Topics covered in this collection include academics, wrestling and football, student activities, and...

Scope and Contents This collection includes three pieces of correspondence: a letter to Toms from the Bureau of Education regarding his inquiry in obtaining a teaching position in the Philippines, a letter from the managing editor of the Georgian American regarding a mat of David Odom (included), and a letter of reference written about Toms by Appalachian State Teachers College physics professor A. Antonakos. There is also an ephemeral item likely removed from a scrapbook and six...

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This is a collection of mostly black & white photos of Graydon Eggers and Daisy Williams Eggers. The photographs include portraits and events at Appalachian. Of particular note are photographs of Daisy Williams Eggers as May Day Queen in 1938 and of her in a campus play the same year.

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J. Paul Winkler was a graduate of Appalachian State Teacher's College. He was instrumental in organizing the Burke County chapter of alumni. The J. Paul Winkler Scrapbooks, created by Winkler himself, are predominately related to the Appalachian State Teachers College football team, but also includes information realted other ASTC athletic teams and to the college.

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Excerpts of letters written by James Franklin Haynes to his daughter Mary Haynes Dalton detailing his memories of Appalachian State Normal School in 1912, 1923, and 1926. Mary Haynes Dalton compiled the excerpts into this document, copyrighted 1992.

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This collection contains the diploma of Jessie Louise Eury, who graduated from Appalachian State Normal School in 1929. She was the sister of former Appalachian head librarian, W. L. Eury.

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John Dinkins, a 1967 graduate of Appalachian State University, worked as a university photographer in the 1970s. This collection contains newspapers, promotional pamphlets, four photographs, postcards, and reports related to programs, services, and events at Appalachian State University. Materials date mostly from the 1970s and early 1980s.

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This collection contains a diploma for Leona Lookabill received from the Appalachian State Normal School High School Department, dated May 6, 1926.

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This collection contains two items. The first is an original certificate issued by the Appalachian Training School to Martha Blanche Horton on May 2, 1923 for satisfactorily completing studies "not marked." There is a list of courses along both the left and right margins. Those crossed out were not completed by Horton. These others were. The second item is an original diploma issued to Horton by the Appalachian State Normal School, dated August 22, 1925

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The Mary Elizabeth Hackney collection contains includes papers,photographs, ephemera, and other items related to Appalachian State Teachers College (ASTC) from 1930-1934 and 1941. Items include ASTC stickers, Homecoming programs, a basketball game program, ASTC yells and songs, Hackney's diploma, and songbooks. Of particular note are the photographs, which mainly feature ASTC women students, some of whom are photographed wearing physical education uniforms.

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The collection includes reunion photos from 1987, including the 1937 football team and an invitation to Kidd Brewer's 80th birthday party in 1988.

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The collection includes Ruth Barringer's Appalachian State Teachers College diploma and grade sheets (1932-1933) and her NC Dept. of Public Instruction Grammar Grade Teacher's Certificate (1933).