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CC-5 Centre College External Affairs/Alumni Office

Collection Outline

Collection Description

This small collection consists of scattered materials concerning individual alumni, alumni in general, and activities of the Centre College Alumni Association. Of interest are lists of distinguished alumni, miscellaneous sketches and early Alumni Association minutes. Researchers should be aware that most of the other important alumni-related materials are located in a number of different record groups or in extensive files at the Chenault Alumni House.


Collection Inventory
CC-5.1 Miscellaneous Alumni Materials
Series A Correspondence
Folder 1Miscellaneous correspondence with alumni, 1913-1983
Series B Biographical Information
Folder 1Miscellaneous alumni biographical sketches and materials
Folder 2Miscellaneous alumni biographical materials,including lists of distinguished Centre graduates; alumni killed in military action; Rhodes scholars
Series C Alumni Association Minutes
Folder 1Miscellaneous Alumni Association minutes,resolutions, undated, and dated 1944-1968; Alumni Board meeting minutes, annual report, Board of Directors, 1990-91; Board meeting, 1992
Volume 1Minutes of the Centre College Alumni Association,1851-1922. Also contains the association's constitution, and list of subscribers to the permanent fund of the Association of Alumni of Centre College, June 25, 1863
Volume 2Minutes of the Centre College Alumni Association,1942-1960
Series D General Materials
Folder 1General Alumni/Alumni Association materials including information on reunions, ballots, sample questionnaire, brochures on alumni trips, and miscellaneous materials, undated, and dated 1885-1983
Folder 2Annual report (also titled Gift Report, Financial report); 1962-1973
Folder 3CASE entries
Folder 4Alumni Association officials, 1970-date
Folder 5Alumni College '79
Folder 6Alumni College '82
Folder 7Alumni College '83
Folder 8Breck, Robert L. An Address Before the Alumni Association of Centre College, 1863; Cleland, Thomas H. An Address Before the Alumni Association of Centre College, 1863; Breckinridge, William C.P. Address Before the Alumni Association of Centre College, 1885
Volume 1Register of guests for Centre's Centennial, June, 1919
Volume 2Alumni guest register for the following events:
  • Homecoming: 1935, 1939, 1948, 1961, 1962
  • Commencement: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1945-1954, 1960
  • Reunion of Army Corps 20th College Training Detachment, undated
  • Alumni Day: 1962-1963
Volume 3Alumni - Pledges and gifts, 1956-1962
Volume 4ABC Book of Graduates - evidently from Kentucky College for Women, Women's Department of Centre, date unknown
CC-5.2 Office of Public Information
Series A News Releases
See also: CC-10.11 Sports Newsletters/News Releases
Folder 1Miscellaneous news releases, 1986-1992
Volume 1News releases, 1985-86
Volume 2News releases, 1986-88
CC-5.3 John W. Frazer Papers
Box 1
  • Folder 1 Address material, 1946-49
  • Folder 2 Alumni Association, 1947
  • Folder 3 Alumni affairs, 1948-1968
  • Folder 4 Alumni - Houston, 1961-68
  • Folder 5 Alumni meetings, 1960
  • Folder 6 Alumni Reunion, 1896-1901; Classes, June 1951
  • Folder 7 Alumni - Washington, 1961-68
  • Folder 8 Annual reports - General Secretary, 1958-1960
  • Folder 9 Athletics - Department of Physical Education and Athletics, 1941-1950
  • Folder 10 Athletics - Faculty, Trustees Committees, 1947-1951
  • Folder 11 Baker, Elvera - Educational Counseling Service, 1950-51
  • Folder 12 Baker, Lisle - Memorandum, 1956
  • Folder 13 National Beta Club, 1954-60
  • Folder 14 Board of Christian Education, U.S., 1958-59
  • Folder 15 Board of Christian Education, U.S., 1960-61
  • Folder 16 Board of Christian Education, U.S.A., 1956-58
  • Folder 17 Board of Christian Education, U.S.A., 1959
  • Folder 18 Board of Christian Education, U.S.A., 1960-61
  • Folder 19 Board of Christian Education Synod School for Leaders, 1956
  • Folder 20 Board of Curators, 1959
  • Folder 21 Board of Trustees, 1957-58
  • Folder 22 Budget, 1958-59
  • Folder 23 Burns Survey, 1956
  • Folder 24 Carnegie Foundation, 1922-1940
  • Folder 25 Carnegie Foundation - Correspondence, 1944-1950
  • Folder 26 Carnegie grant applications (rejected), 1949-1951
  • Folder 27 Carnegie Research Committee - Minutes, etc., 1948-51
  • Folder 28 Carnegie research grant applications, 1949-1953
  • Folder 29 Carnegie research grant reports - Faculty, 1949-1952
  • Folder 30 Carnegie research grant reports - Jack Kellam, 1949
  • Folder 31 Carnegie research grant reports - Earland Ritchie, not dated
  • Folder 32 Carnegie Research grant reports - W.J. Robinson, not dated
  • Folder 33 Centre Singers, 1956-58
  • Folder 34 Chamber of Commerce, 1959
  • Folder 35 Chapman, Virgil - U.S. Senate, 1949-1951
  • Folder 36 Charts - Figures for special reports, not dated
  • Folder 37 Church contacts, 1958-1960
  • Folder 38 College costs, 1956-58
  • Folder 39 College Entrance Boards, 1953-57
  • Folder 40 CEEB, 1956-57
  • Folder 41 CEEB - Correspondence, 1957-59
  • Folder 42 CEEB - Southern regional meeting, 1958
Box 2
  • Folder 1 Commencement, June 1946
  • Folder 2 Commencement, June 1947
  • Folder 3 Commencement, November 1948
  • Folder 4 Commencement, June 1948
  • Folder 5 Commencement, October 1949
  • Folder 6 Commencement, June 1949
  • Folder 7 Commencement, Mid-year 1949-50
  • Folder 8 Commencement, June 1950
  • Folder 9 Commencement, June 1951
  • Folder 10 Commencement, June 1952
  • Folder 11 Commencement, June 1953
  • Folder 12 Commencement, June 1954
  • Folder 13 Commencement, June 1955
  • Folder 14 Commencement, 1960
  • Folder 15 Cooperative Study in General Education, Chicago Workshop, 1942
  • Folder 16 Dean's folder, 1952-58
  • Folder 17 Debate team - Centre College, 1954-55
  • Folder 18 Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1959
  • Folder 19 Department of Education (Kentucky), 1956-1960
  • Folder 20 Development, 1958-1965
  • Folder 21 Development, 1966-68
  • Folder 22 Distinguished alumni - Honorary degrees, 1959-60; list of honorary degrees, 1936-37, 1958-59
  • Folder 23 Economics and Business Administration, 1945-47
  • Folder 24 Educational Testing Service, 1955-57
  • Folder 25 Enrollment forecasts, 1958-59
  • Folder 26 Enrollment forecasts, 1959-60
  • Folder 27 Expenditures in Danville, 1960-62
  • Folder 28 Faculty committees, 1958-1960
  • Folder 29 Faculty minutes, 1955-56
  • Folder 30 Faculty minutes, 1957-58
  • Folder 31 Faculty minutes, 1959-60
  • Folder 32 Finance for development, 1963-64
  • Folder 33 Finance and Development Committee, 1958-59
  • Folder 34 Flip chart memo, 1956
  • Folder 35 Ford Foundation, 1957
  • Folder 36 Freshman Class vital statistics, 1958-59
  • Folder 37 Freshman Class statistics, 1959-60
  • Folder 38 General correspondence, 1958
  • Folder 39 General correspondence, Jan.-June 1959
  • Folder 40 General correspondence, July-Dec. 1959
  • Folder 41 General correspondence, Jan.-June 1960
  • Folder 42 General correspondence, July-Dec. 1960
  • Folder 43 General correspondence, 1961
  • Folder 44 General correspondence, 1965-66
  • Folder 45 General correspondence, 1967-68
Box 3
  • Folder 1 Gifts, 1958
  • Folder 2 Gifts, Monthly Report, 1958-59
  • Folder 3 Gifts, 1959
  • Folder 4 Groves, Dr. Walter, 1956-57
  • Folder 5 Hornell Hart Seminars, 1958
  • Folder 6 Health certificate, Louis J. Beto, M.D., 1959-60
  • Folder 7 Hewlett, James H. - Papers, 1940-41
  • Folder 8 Higher education - American Council on Education, 1957-58
  • Folder 9 Higher education - American Council on Education, 1959
  • Folder 10 Inaugurations - Centre presidents, Montgomery, Turck, McLeod, McMullen
  • Folder 11 Inauguration - Walter Groves, Nov. 1947
  • Folder 12 Inauguration material
  • Folder 13 Inauguration - Robert L. McLeod, Jr., 1939
  • Folder 14 Inauguration speakers, 1947
  • Folder 15 Inauguration - Thomas A. Spragens, 1959
  • Folder 16 Interfraternity Council, 1956-59
  • Folder 17 Junaluska meeting, 1959
  • Folder 18 Kentucky Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1937-1946
  • Folder 19 Kentucky Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools - Newsletters, 1938-1947
  • Folder 20 Kentucky Department of Education, 1940-47
  • Folder 21 Kentucky Independent College Fund (KICF), 1957-58
  • Folder 22 KICF, 1959-60
  • Folder 23 KICF, 1960-61
  • Folder 24 Walter J. Klein Company, (Motion Picture Division), 961-62
  • Folder 25 Library correspondence (Mrs. Barbour), 1959
  • Folder 26 College library standards, 1967
  • Folder 27 Living Endowment (General) September 1, 1953, and following, 1953-54
Box 4
  • Folder 1 Memo to the Board, 1958-59
  • Folder 2 Miscellaneous memorandum, 1958-59
  • Folder 3 Murphey & Mackey, Architects, 1961-62
  • Folder 4 National Christian College Sunday, 1962
  • Folder 5 Nevin & Morgan - Engineers, 1958-1960
  • Folder 6 Paducah, 1964
  • Folder 7 Personal correspondence, 1957-1960
  • Folder 8 Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, 1958-59
  • Folder 9 Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity, 1958-59
  • Folder 10 Philanthropic Digest, 1958-59
  • Folder 11 President's Commission on Higher Education, (President Harry S. Truman), 1948
  • Folder 12 President's folder (Walter Groves), 1955-56
  • Folder 13 President Spragens, 1959
  • Folder 14 Religious Activities Committee, 1945-58
  • Folder 15 Rooms assignments, 1959-60
  • Folder 16 Rotary district convention, 1957-59
  • Folder 17 Sabbatical leaves, 1938-47
  • Folder 18 Scholarship "Bible", 1959-61
  • Folder 19 Sesquicentennial Campaign, 1961-68
  • Folder 20 Sesquecentennial - New York alumni, 1962-65
  • Folder 21 Sesquetennial Program - 1st phase, 1960
  • Folder 22 Sesquicentennial - Prospective donors, 1960-61
  • Folder 23 Shuler Memorial Room, 1946-47
  • Folder 24 Slater Food Service, 1959
  • Folder 25 Small college annual, 1963
  • Folder 26 Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1939-49
  • Folder 27 Southern Association Report on Freshmen, 1939-40
  • Folder 28 Spiritual Emphasis Week, Spring, 1950
  • Folder 29 Student promotion proposal, no date
  • Folder 30 Student-Faculty Congress, 1958
  • Folder 31 Student handbook, 1959-60
  • Folder 32 Student organizations, 1959-60
  • Folder 33 Studies made at Centre (partial collection), 1953
  • Folder 34 Summer School, 1950-51
  • Folder 35 Summer School, 1958-60
  • Folder 36 Senior College Achievement Test, 1929-30
  • Folder 37 Teacher education, 1958
  • Folder 38 Teacher training and certification - Kentucky Department of Education, 1937-56
  • Folder 39 Teacher training and certification - Kentucky Department of Education, 1939-41
  • Folder 40 Texas - Dallas, 1961-67
  • Folder 41 Travel schedules and vouchers, 1958-59
  • Folder 42 Ward, Dreshman & Reinhardt, 1956-59
  • Folder 43 World Missions, 1954-55

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Last updated July 30, 2002