Box 4
Container
Contains 3 Collections and/or Records:
Education, 1920 - 1964
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2
Scope and Contents
This series contains records pertaining to Eugene Cernan's activities and associations while attending both Purdue University and the United States Naval Postgraduate School. Holdings describe Cernan's memberships in the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the National Society of Scabbard and Blade, the academic Tau Beta Pi Association, the honorary Skull and Crescent Society, material from his role as junior editor of the Purdue Debris yearbook, and the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC)....
Dates:
1920 - 1964
As You Were! - NROTC yearbook, 1956
File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 6
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by Cernan to his parents, "To Mom and Dad, Something your son did in college! Love Gene" There is a photograph of Cernan inside the yearbook for having served as president of the Quarterdeck Society.
Dates:
1956
Purdue University, 1920 - 1960
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
This sub-series in comprosed of material used by Cernan, while a student at Purdue University, such as various textbooks, course work, and his Engineering drafting tools. There is also memorabilia from his various activities as a Purdue student. Holdings describe Cernan's memberships in the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the National Society of Scabbard and Blade, the academic Tau Beta Pi Association, the honorary Skull and Crescent society, as a junior editor for Debris, and the Naval Reserve...
Dates:
1920 - 1960; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1956