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Box 5

 Container

Contains 11 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

Purdue University textbooks, 1920 - 1953

 Sub-Group — Box: 5
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2
Scope and Contents There are eight textbooks from Cernan's Purdue coursework, including a 1920 Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables reference book, with "Gene Cernan…Cary Hall," written on the inside cover.
Dates: 1920 - 1953

Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables, by Earle Raymond Hedick, 1920

 Item — Box: 5, Item: 1
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, Item 1
Scope and Contents Reference book found among textbooks, dated 1920, "Gene Cernan…Cary Hall" inscribed on inside cover.
Dates: 1920

Electronic Circuits and Tubes, by the electronics training staff of the Cruft Laboratory (Harvard University), 1947

 Item — Box: 5, Item: 2
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, Item 2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: There are eight textbooks from Cernan's Purdue coursework, including a 1920 Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables reference book, with "Gene Cernan…Cary Hall," written on the inside cover.
Dates: 1947

Introduction to Electrical Engineering, by George V. Mueller, 1948

 Item — Box: 5, Item: 3
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, Item 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: There are eight textbooks from Cernan's Purdue coursework, including a 1920 Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables reference book, with "Gene Cernan…Cary Hall," written on the inside cover.
Dates: 1948

Basic Thermodynamics, by Charles Leonard Brown, 1951

 Item — Box: 5, Item: 4
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, Item 4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: There are eight textbooks from Cernan's Purdue coursework, including a 1920 Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables reference book, with "Gene Cernan…Cary Hall," written on the inside cover.
Dates: 1951

Alternating Current Machines, by George V. Mueller, 1952

 Item — Box: 5, Item: 5
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, Item 5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: There are eight textbooks from Cernan's Purdue coursework, including a 1920 Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables reference book, with "Gene Cernan…Cary Hall," written on the inside cover.
Dates: 1952

Analytic Mechanics, third edition, by Virgil Moring Faires and Sherman Daniel Chambers, 1952

 Item — Box: 5, Item: 6
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, Item 6
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: There are eight textbooks from Cernan's Purdue coursework, including a 1920 Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables reference book, with "Gene Cernan…Cary Hall," written on the inside cover.
Dates: 1952

Engineering Electronics, by George E. Happell and Wilfred M. Hesselberth, 1953

 Item — Box: 5, Item: 7
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, Item 7
Scope and Contents From the McGraw Hill Electrical and Electronic Engineering Series.
Dates: 1953

Servomechanism Analysis, by George J. Thaler and Robert G. Brown, 1953

 Item — Box: 5, Item: 8
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, Item 8
Scope and Contents From the McGraw Hill Electrical and Electronic Engineering Series.
Dates: 1953

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