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Powell
Papers-Training School Crisis |
8 |
Richard Holmes
Powell, Charles Snelling, Hughes Spalding (Chairman, Board of Regents), Erle
Cocke (sec'y/treasurer, BOR] |
Correspondence
deals with "hot issue" of closing the GSWC training school . Letters of note
include: 2/6/33--Powell writes Snelling against closing training school;
thinks it would "destroy the College." He proposes compromises;
3/31/33-Powell writes Spalding regarding the "hysteria" in town in response
to the training school closing--people think the College will close. Also,
J.F. Wood thinks closing the training school is a personal effort to get rid
of him--he holds the Regents' decision against Powell; and 3/31/33-Powell
writes Cocke about the subversive activities of J.F. Wood and E. Camm
Campbell, who are spreading rumors about the college closing. Several
additional letters are to Regents regarding Campbell's activities. More
correspondence on the "Training School Crisis." Powell writes Snelling
5/4/1933 about Campbell's activities (snooping around, starting a petition).
Also of note is a letter dated 5/15/1933, in which Powell congratulates
Philip Weltner, who was appointed chancellor, and acknowledges that Jere
Pound will be taking over as president of GSWC. Other correspondence deals
with the sale and disbursement of training school equipment. |
Richard Holmes
Powell, Charles Snelling, Hughes Spalding, Erle Cocke, J.F. Wood, E. Camm
Campbell, Board of Regents |
VSU History,
Newspaper Clippings File, J.F. Wood, Bulletins, Faculty Minutes, Pine
Branch, Campus Glimpses, Pine Cone and Pound Collection |
Feb. 6-Apr. 25,
1933 |