Creese, James
Person
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
3/4 Century Fund - San Francisco Photographs, 4/6/1963
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and content note
From the Collection:
The Three Quarter Century Fund photographs collection consist of photographs taken during the Three Quarter Century Fund drive. The drive raised money from alumni in an attempt to expand Drexel's campus. The photographs were taken during California fund raising dinners in 1963 and 1964.
Dates:
4/6/1963
Academic Council records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UR-03-001
Overview
The Academic Council was established by President James Creese in 1960 to coordinate university-wide academic policies. This collection consists of the meeting minutes of the council from its founding in 1960 through 1967, as well as supplemental items such as agendas, correspondence, notes, and aggregate statistics about the student body. The material is arranged chronologically.
Dates:
1960 - 1967
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Academic Council records
Correspondence, 1960-1963
File
Scope and content note
From the Collection:
This collection is divided into four series. The first series covers all fundraising sponsored by the Board of Trustees Finance Committee from 1953-1982. The series includes records from the Three Quarter Century Fund as well as the Peaks of Progress Campaign. The second series contains Finance Committee and other administrative organizations reports which were created for internal review purposes. The third series covers a development and fundraising study...
Dates:
1960-1963
Creese Memorial Service, 1966
File — Box: 52, Folder: 2
Identifier: Sub-series F
Scope and contents note
Program, correspondence, schedule.
Dates:
1966
Drexel Institute of Technology anniversaries collection
Collection
Identifier: UR-06-017
Overview
Materials in the Drexel Institute of Technology Anniversaries Collection provide a unique perspective in the planning efforts of 4 anniversary celebrations at Drexel, also known as Founder's Day. The materials span 1951-1966, and anniversary celebrations were held once every 5 years: 1951, 1956, 1961, and 1966. Materials are all in paper format and include correspondence, memoranda, notes, programs, program outlines, agendas, speech transcripts, brochures, committee files, invoice and...
Dates:
1951-1966
Edward H. Monefeldt collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-00-058
Scope and content note
The Edward H. Monefeldt collection gives a concise, yet interesting glimpse of the alumnus and professor’s adult life from 1925 until 2005. However, most of the collection’s items date from approximately 1925 until the late 1930s. Most comprehensively represented are his years as a student at the former Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, as well as his time in the 103rd Engineer Regiment of the American National Guard. The collection is largely composed of black and white...
Dates:
1925-2005; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1940
Helen Tavenner records on Faculty Advisory Committee and Drexel Women's Club
Collection
Identifier: UR-06-025
Scope and content note
This collection consists of the records of registrar Helen Tavenner in relation to her membership of the Faculty Advisory Committee and her presidency of the Drexel Women's Club from 1948-1949. This collection is divided into two series.The first series, Drexel Women's Club 1947-1958, contains records on meetings, events, announcements and correspondence of the Women's Club members. There are also several files of Women's Club newsletters from 1948 to 1958. There is also a brief...
Dates:
1946-1958
James Creese administration records
Collection — Box: OV13, oversize: unknown container
Identifier: UR-01-007
Overview
James Creese served as the president of the Drexel Institute from 1945 to 1963. His tenure began with a tremendous influx of students in the post-WWII years and continued to oversee tremendous growth of the Institute, both in the physical expansion of its campus and in the development of its academic programs, especially in engineering and cooperative education. Such extensive development required major capital investments, for which two major fundraising campaigns were undertaken during...
Dates:
1941-1967
letter from James Creese to Edgar B. Wesley, May 19, 1963
Item
Identifier: Sub-series E
Scope and contents note
From the File:
Correspondence, articles and biographical information re: Lucina Ball, first Secretary of the Institute. Includes information from the memoirs of Frank C. Ball (Ball Brothers Co., Muncie, Indiana).
Dates:
May 19, 1963
letter from James Creese to Mina M. Johnson, December 4, 1952
Item
Identifier: Sub-series A
Scope and contents note
From the File:
Correspondence with Mina M. Johnson, national organizer of Pi Omega Pi
Dates:
December 4, 1952
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- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Administration 4
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Alumni and alumnae 4
- Drexel University -- History 3
- College presidents -- Inauguration 2
- Correspondence 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Alumni and alumnae 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Faculty 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- History 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Planning 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Students 2
- Drexel University -- Alumni and alumnae 2
- Education, Cooperative -- United States 2
- Education, Higher -- Administration 2
- Education, Higher -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Fund raising -- Three Quarter Century Fund 2
- Home economics -- Study and teaching 2
- Speeches 2
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Administration 2
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Curricula 2
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th Century 2
- Women -- Education (Higher) 2
- Anniversaries 1
- College buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- College trustees 1
- Deans (Education) 1
- Degrees, Academic 1
- Draft 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Administration 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curricula 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Faculty 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- History 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Planning 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Sports 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Students 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Accreditation 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Buildings 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Business and education 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Commencements 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Curricula 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Development 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Diamond Jubilee 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Extracurricular Activities 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Inauguration 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Public Relations 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Sports 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Student Housing 1
- Drexel University -- Administration 1
- Drexel University -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 1
- Drexel University -- Buildings 1
- Drexel University -- Cooperative Education 1
- Drexel University -- Development 1
- Drexel University -- Faculty 1
- Drexel University -- Students 1
- Educational fund raising 1
- Labor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Manuscripts (document genre) 1
- Mechanical engineers 1
- Photographs 1
- Reports 1
- School budgets 1
- Students, Foreign 1
- Subversive activities 1
- Universities and colleges -- Finance 1
- Veterans -- Education -- United States 1
- War and education 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
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