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North Carolina Student Legislature, Elon University Chapter Collection
This collection includes documents and information about the North Carolina Student Legislature (NCSL) and the Elon Delegation. The NCSL has students participate in the general assembly, and this provides students with a close-up practical education with the political and legislative processes. Also, the NCSL provides students a statewide forum to express their ideas about current issues concerning state and national leaders.
Office of Cultural Events Collection
This collection was created from documents collected by planning committees for annual events. These papers help the university plan large events and coordinate faculty, staff and students.
Office of the University Registrar Collection
Office of University Communications Collection
This collection is comprised of a complete set of proofs and publications produced by the Office of University Communications between 1962 and 2011, with the bulk of publications produced between the 1990s and the early 2000s. The original order of the collection has been maintained. The collection is arranged alphabetically by the names of offices, organizations, or events for whom publications were produced and then chronologically within each office, organization, or event.
O’Kelly Chapel Contents Collection
This collection consists mostly of ledgers for the chapel’s Sunday School classes, ranging from 1891 to 1952. There is a handful of other documents, including a note book with a list of members and their addresses, as well as other documents.
Phi Beta Kappa Collection
This collection includes documents related to the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Elon University. Elon was elected into the Phi Beta Kappa Society in October of 2009 and Elon installed the Phi Beta Kappa chapter during Convocation for Honors on April 13, 2010. Items in this collection include (but not limited to): correspondences, meeting minutes, programs, invitations, applications, and reports. The collection is arranged chronologically and then alphabetically by type of material.
Phi Psi Cli Collection
Phi Psi Cli was founded in 1913 and was created from several literary societies on Elon's campus.
Philip L. Carret Thomas Jefferson Essay Competition Collection
This collection contains materials relating to the endowed Philip L. Carret Thomas Jefferson Essay Competition at Elon University. The essay competition was endowed in 1997 and was designed to have students reflect on the principles and ideals in Thomas Jefferson's life and career. The collection is arranged alphabetically and then chronologically by type of material. Please see the section below titled Detailed Description of the Collection for more information about what is included.
Phoenix Mascot Collection
Photograph Collection
Planning Conference and Planning Week Collection
Presidential Records Collection
This collection is a compilation of papers from each of Elon's presidents, from President Smith to President Lambert. It includes papers that are relevant to the time in which each person held the presidency and the events around the college and the world. Many of them include correspondence from various people connected to the town of Elon or the college itself, and the business they conducted. The collection only includes a rough inventory of the collection.
Press Releases Collection
The collection is comprised of print copies of press releases published by the Elon College/Elon University Public Information Office. These news releases include announcements of cultural events, appointments, gifts and endowments, buildings, faculty and staff news, student news, and stories about diverse aspects of life at the college.
Project Pericles Collection
The Project Pericles Collection is comprised of materials describing activities and events that have taken place within the Project Pericles program at Elon. The collection is arranged chronologically and then alphabetically by type of material.
Ralph Ganis Collection
The collection is arranged into three series: Coble Letters, Albright Letters, and Stigers Letters. The Coble and Albright series includes correspondences between relatives detailing their lives and surroundings in Alamance County, North Carolina and Clay County, Missouri. The Stigers series contains additional background information pertaining to the research that Ralph Ganis conducted for the book he wrote in 2007, Desperate measures: Jesse James and the Klan battles of Reconstruction.
Records And Accounts Of The Christians In The South Prior To The War Between The States
This is a bound manuscript containing the typed transcriptions of records relating to the early history of the James O’Kelly Christian Church. They were compiled by W. E. MacClenny and presented to Elon College in May of 1912 to complete degree requirements.
Reid Maynard Family Collection
This collection consists of photographs and documents related to the family of Reid Maynard (1896-1983), longtime Elon College trustee and benefactor. There are five ferrotype photographs of Maynard’s grandparents and father Walter Andrew Maynard, most likely from the 1860s. There are also three letters, two dated 1892 to Olivia Atwater, Reid Maynard’s mother, as well as a letter dated 1944 addressed to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Maynard, then living in the Town of Elon College.
Residence Life Collection
The collection houses information pertaining to Residence Life at Elon University. This includes information about all of the dormitories that have ever existed on Elon's campus, including the current: Colonnades, Danieley, East, Global, and Historic Neighborhoods. Information about various Living Learning Communities (LLC's) around campus are also included.
Reverend Charles W. Warlick Collection
Reverend James W. Morrison Collection
Reverend Walter C. Hook Collection
This is a collection of sermons of the Reverend Walter C. Hook. Reverend Hook was a minister in the Christian Church and preached to both Christian and Methodist congregations in North Carolina and Virginia. This collection has sermons he delivered between 1920 and 1970.
Reverend William T. Scott Collection
Robert Holyfield Collection
Robert Sigmon Collection
R.P. Johnson World War II Collection
This collection primarily contains photographs, magazines, newspapers, postcards, and other forms of printed material associated with World War II. There are some photographs specifically of R.P. Johnson, but the remaining photographs are of unidentified people and places. Much of the information found in the magazines, newspapers, and postcards discuss news and events that took place both in the United States and abroad during World War II, primarily written for American soldiers.
Saddle Club Collection
The Saddle Club collection houses a number of papers relating to the Alamance Saddle Club that was active throughout the 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's.
Samuel D. Smith Collection
Scholarships Collection
The collection is composed of information about various scholarships awarded to Elon students over the years. The collection is arranged alphabetically by the name of the scholarship.
School of Education Collection
This collection primarily includes institutional reports generated by the Teacher Education Program at Elon in order to receive accreditation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. Additionally, there are reports and self-studies that were submitted to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction for accreditation purposes. The reports in this collection begin in 1965 and continue until 2002. The collection is arranged chronologically.
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