CC-58 Diplomas and certificates

Collection Outline

• Collection Description
• CC-58.1 Centre College
  • A. Diplomas
  • B. Certificates - General
  • C. Certificates - Literary Societies
• CC-58.2 Other Institutions
  • A. Diplomas
  • B. Certificates

Collection Description

This collection contains rolled diplomas and certificates awarded by Centre College and various other institutions. The diplomas and certificates do not include all of the years in which the College graduated students, but is a representational collection primarily of gifts. Series 58.1 contains only diplomas and certificates directly awarded by Centre College or issued by a College group or organization. Series 58.2 has materials which were awarded to Centre alumni from other institutions.

Collection Inventory

CC-58.1 Centre College
Series A Diplomas

Armstrong, Philip Norris             	BA             	1922
Arnold, Bernice				BA		1929
Bagby, Charles Chauncey           	BS             	1894
Bagby, Charles Chauncey           	BL (Law)   	1896
Barbour, James                          BA             	1837
Boyd, Leslie Randolph               	BA             	1936
Bruce, James Henry                                     	1857
Cheek, Samuel R.                      	BA             	1920
Chinn, Col. Philip Thompson      	Certificate   	1894
Craft, Addison                                          1855
Davis, Joseph LeCompte            	AB             	1884
Douglas, Francis Breckinridge     	Certificate
Douglas, Francis Breckinridge     	AB             	1893
Dunlap, Jacob Bailey                                    1875
Ellis, Charles Henry                    BA             	1915
Fackler, Calvin M.                     	Certificate    	1892
Faulconer, Elija Potter                 BA             	1910
Garrard, Toulmin J.                                     1857
Goben, Thomas Dewey               	BA             	1928
Hendrick, James P.                     	BA             	1849
Irvine, Walter*                                         1854
Irvine, Harry Beverly                  	BS             	1892
Johnson, William Woolfolk         	BS             	1892
Lapsley, James T., Jr.			BA		1899
Lawrence, Eugene Caldwell        	BS             	1919
McDowell, Caleb W.                 	BA             	1831
Moss, Ruby L.                 	  	BA             	1929
O'Neil, Paul Cornelius       	  	BA             	1929
Parkhill, John H.                                       1840
Reid, Raymond                          	BA             	1927
Robenstein, Elmer William          	BA             	1926
Savage, Jane Warren                 	BA             	1952
Scull, Henry W.                         BA             	1858
Snowday, Terry Hall                  	BA             	1923
Thomas, James H.                                        1855
VanWinkle, Edwin Lafayette     		Certificate    	1892
Wesley, Ned Grandison             	BA             	1922
Williams, Samuel                                        1839

Blank diplomas from Centre, undated, but signed by President John C. Young, Ormand Beatty, Thomas C. Nichols, and William Dod (ca. 1836-1846)

Blank diploma from Centre, undated, but signed by President William C. Young and several professors (ca. 1891-1894)

Voided diploma - to have been awarded to Patrick Pope Nichols, 1889. The old diploma is signed by Ormand Beatty

Blank certificate, dating ca. 1891-1894

Series B Certificates - General

Boyd, Leslie R.               	25th Reunion               	1961
Boyd, Leslie R.               	Omicron Delta Kappa  		1935
Chinn, Philip Thompson   	65th Anniversary  		1959
                              	Class of 1894
Coleman, W. Hunter           	Class of 1919
                              	(45th? 50th Anniversary)

Series C Certificates - Literary Societies

Barbour, James              	Chamberlain               	1837
Barbour, James Foster       	Chamberlain               	1864
Bruce, James Henry          	Athaenian                 	1857*
Craft, Addison              	Deinologian               	1855*
Dunlap, James Bailey        	Chamberlain               	1875
Garrard, Toulmin J.         	Athaenian                 	1857
Hendrick, James P.          	Chamberlain               	1849*
Scull, Henry W.             	Chamberlain               	1858(?)
Thomas, James Howard        	Chamberlain               	1855*

Blank certificate from the Chamberlain Literary Society, undated; and a document with the signed draft of the certificate. William R. Thompson, Professor of Latin and Greek Languages at Centre (1824-1831) designed the diplomas

Blank certificate from the Deinologian Literary Society, 1846

*Signatures, probably other members of the Society, appear on back of document

CC-58.2 Other Institutions
Series A Diplomas

Arnold, Bernice				Certificate - KCW		1925
Bedinger, Everette Wade    		BA (Central Univ. - Richmond) 	1879
Blanton, Katherine Randolph  		Certificate - Physiology      	1895
                             		Central Univ. - Richmond
Blanton, Katherine Randolph 		Certificate - Zoology/Botany  	1895
                            		Central Univ. - Richmond
Boyd, Leslie R.             		Brown College Prep  	      	1932
Cheek, Samuel R.            		BL (Virginia)                 	1924
Griffith, Graves           		BA (Central Univ. - Richmond) 	1891
Grimes, Carolyn Hardin     		BA (Beaumont College) 		1916
Grimes, Haldon             		Harrodsburg High School  	1919
Hewlett, James Howell      		BA (Birmingham College)     	1912
Hewlett, James Howell      		MA (Vanderbilt Univ.)       	1913
Joplin, T. Vaughan         		Louisville Boy's High School    1917
Lee, Frank W.              		Certificate - Danville        	1876
                           		Classical and Military Academy
Lucas, Fanny H.            		Caldwell Institute            	1868
Newlin, Berta S.           		Caldwell Female College       	1885
Tomlinson, Elizabeth R.    		BS (Caldwell College          	1893
Tomlinson, Mary Ellen      		Caldwell College              	1897

Series B Certificates