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Box Communal Collections 4

 Container

Contains 14 Collections and/or Records:

Sol Boyk collection

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 02
Identifier: MSA 20
Scope and Contents One folder containing correspondence, letters of recommendation, transcript records, documents regarding Sol Boyk's graduate assistantship at Purdue University while working towards his Ph.D. in the Chemistry Department.

The folder also contains a letter written by M. G. Mellon to Mrs. Eleanor Boyk, which describes his fond memories of Sol Boyk and how he stood out as an exemplary graduate student in the Chemistry Department at Purdue University.
Dates: 1934 - 1976

Chester L. Buchanan papers

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 06
Identifier: MSA 63
Scope and Contents Sea Stories: Autobiography of a Landlubber, by C. L. Buchanan, part I and II, 2004.
Dates: 2004

DeWitt Buchanan collection

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 05
Identifier: MSA 62
Scope and Contents The collection consists of one folder which contains papers relating to Dewitt "Buck" Buchanan.
Dates: 1898 - 1978

John I. Cheney collection

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 07
Identifier: MSA 64
Scope and Contents One folder which contains items from the Class of 1917.
Dates: 1916 - 1940

Ying Chang Cheng papers

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 08
Identifier: MSA 65
Scope and Contents The collection includes the dissertation "Cohesion, Adhesion, Tensile Strength, Tensile Energy, Negative Surface Energy, Interfacial Tension, and Molecular Attraction," submitted to the faculty of the Ogden Graduate School of Science in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, by Ying Chang Cheng. There are two copies.
Dates: 1921

Ernest V. Claypool collection

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 12
Identifier: MSA 69
Scope and Contents United Methodist Pastors of Hoquiam, Washington.
Dates: undated

Abe Bert Cohen papers

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 14
Identifier: MSA 71
Scope and Contents The collections consists of one folder which contains publications by A. Burton Cohen.
Dates: 1914 - 1926

George B. Bosco Jr. collection

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 01
Identifier: MSA 59
Scope and Contents Schedule Card - grades and classes listed for George Bosco Jr.'s senior year at Purdue University, September 12, 1938. Purdue University diploma, the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, June 11, 1939.
Dates: 1938 - 1939

Guy D. Brewer Collection on the Class of 1911

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 04
Identifier: MSA 61
Scope and Contents Various memorabilia from the Class of 1911.
Dates: 1911 - 1978

Earl D. Coatney collection

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 13
Identifier: MSA 70
Scope and Contents Announcement - Commencement Exercises, Purdue University, February Class of 1950.
Dates: 1950

Pearl E. Child collection

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 09
Identifier: MSA 66
Scope and Contents The Pearl Child papers include correspondence, teacher's certificates, Tri-State College certificate, clippings, report cards, tuition receipts, recommendation letters, postcards, photographs, Mansfield Machine Works catalog, issue of The Valley Register, two issues of The Ohio Farmer, cards detailing food traits.
Dates: 1865 - 1979

M. Steele Churchman papers

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 11
Identifier: MSA 68
Scope and Contents Churchman, M. Steele (1981). Poems To Share With You.
Dates: undated

Marcy Boynton papers

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 03
Identifier: MSA 60
Scope and Contents Oral History Honors Project by Marcy Boynton, Fall 2002. Includes interviews with Dr. Victor Cicirelli, Dr. Clifford Swenson, and a third, unnamed senior Purdue psychology professor.
Dates: 2002

Paul Church papers

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 4, Placement: 10
Identifier: MSA 67
Scope and Contents Photographs of Boilermaker Pete, Paul Church's P-47, after frag explosion on takeoff, along with photographs of other pilots. Article about crash, but publication information is not available, 1947.
Dates: undated