Drexel University. Office of the President
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Hollis Godfrey administration records
Collection
Identifier: UR-01-002
Overview
Hollis Godfrey (1987-1936) served as president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1913 to 1921. He was educated as an engineer at Tufts, Harvard, and MIT, where he also taught. While living in Boston he was an administrator at the School of Practical Arts in Boston. He came to Drexel in 1913 and was the President until 1921. This collection contains correspondence, speeches, and research done on Godfrey in 1959. There is also a functionalization chart on the...
Dates:
1913-1961; Majority of material found within 1914 - 1922
Kenneth G. Matheson administration records
Collection
Identifier: UR-01-003
Overview
This collection contains the files of Kenneth G. Matheson, president of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry from 1922 to 1931. As he took office, Matheson and the Institute faced many challenges, including financial difficulties, decreasing enrollments, outdated facilities, and a generally dissatisfied university community. The files contain correspondence with faculty, parents and students which documents the numerous, positive changes Matheson helped to initiate during his...
Dates:
1921-1932
William S. Gaither administration records
Collection — Box: 2
Identifier: UR-01-009
Overview
This collection consists chiefly of a set of subject files on organizations, university offices and departments, special projects, and administrative topics compiled by Drexel's ninth president, William S. Gaither. The collection also contains a record of Dr. Gaither's outgoing correspondence from June 1984 to December 1986 and a box of certificates presented to him at his inauguration held in 1985. The collection contains correspondence, memorandum, speeches, reports, memos, drafts,...
Dates:
1981-1987
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- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Alumni and alumnae 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curricula 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Faculty 2
- Education, Cooperative -- United States 2
- Reports 2
- Annual reports 1
- College buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- College presidents -- Inauguration 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- History 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Sports 1
- Drexel University -- Administration 1
- Drexel University -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 1
- Drexel University -- Alumni and alumnae 1
- Drexel University -- Buildings 1
- Drexel University -- Cooperative Education 1
- Drexel University -- Development 1
- Drexel University -- Faculty 1
- Drexel University -- History 1
- Drexel University -- Students 1
- Education, Higher -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Manuscripts (document genre) 1
- Minutes 1
- Press releases 1
- School budgets 1
- Speeches 1
- Women -- Education (Higher) 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 1 ∧ less
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