Disque, Robert C.
Person
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Drexel University Museum records
Collection
Identifier: UR-11-001
Overview
This collection contains records that document various activities, developments, exhibits, and programs of the Drexel University Museum and its collections from 1797 until 2000. The bulk of records date from the 1930s to the 1980s. Materials in the collection include correspondence, research notes, catalogues, inventories, reports, clippings, newsletters, bulletins, news releases, photographs, grant applications, budgets, policies, pamphlets, plans, receipts, insurance policies and forms,...
Dates:
1797-2000; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1988
Engineers' council for professional development Recognition Committee [1], 1939-1940
File — Box: 8, Folder: 13
Identifier: Series IV
Scope and contents note
reports, correspondence
Dates:
1939-1940
Faculty Recommended (Disque), 1930-1950
File — Box: 19, Folder: 6
Identifier: Sub-series I
Scope and contents note
list of faculty recommendations by Dean Disque
Dates:
1930-1950
General Correspondence, 1891-1958, bulk: 1920 - 1945
Series
Identifier: Series VIII
Scope and content note
Series 8: General Correspondence, 65 foldersThis series includes folders which were from the Office of the President generally without reference to a specific President and those folders which included the papers of multiple Presidents of Drexel. A large section of this series is those folders which were marked “miscellaneous”. These often included a page or two on a specific topic and this had been combined with a few other unrelated items. This series varies greatly but...
Dates:
1891-1958; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945
Godfrey, Grace , 1944-1945
File — Box: 20, Folder: 3
Identifier: Series VIII
Scope and contents note
correspondence, newspaper articles, memorial, essays
Dates:
1944-1945
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
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
Miscellaneous records, 1932-1955, 1932-1955
File — Box: 20, Folder: 13
Identifier: Series VIII
Scope and contents note
awards, correspondence, lists of correspondents, including Wedding party' (painting) (1945) ; Woodland Avenue police station (1942) ; Works Program Administration (W. P. A.) (1940) ; Anthony J. Drexel memorial ; Randell Hall ; Choral music ; Drexel's place in education ; Dr. Matheson's statement on endowment campaign ; Van Renssalaer lectures ; U. S. Steel ; U. S. Veteran's Administration ; Seelbach, Mrs. Elizabeth ; Shrader, James E. ; Sims, Marjorie ; Sloan, Alfred P. Loan Fund ; Society...
Dates:
1932-1955
Office of the President records
Collection
Identifier: UR-01-005
Overview
This collection consists of subject files created by the Office of the President during the tenures of the first six presidents of the Drexel Institute: James MacAlister (1840-1913, president 1891-1913), Hollis Godfrey (1874-1936, president 1914-1921), Kenneth Matheson (1864-1931, president 1921-1932), Parke R. Kolbe (1881-1942, president 1932-1942), George P. Rea (1894-1978, president 1942-1944), and James Creese (1896-1966, president 1945-1963), as well as during the interim presidency of...
Dates:
1891-1965; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1954
Parke R. Kolbe administration records
Collection
Identifier: UR-01-004
Abstract
Parke Rexford Kolbe, the Drexel Institute's fourth president, served from 1932 to 1942. Before coming to Drexel, Dr. Kolbe was president of the University of Akron from 1913 to 1925 and of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1925 to 1932. As Drexel's president, Dr. Kolbe presided over the decentralization of Drexel's administration and the development of educational programs to support national defense as the threat of U.S. involvement in World War II loomed. The bulk of the...
Dates:
1931-1941
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- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Alumni and alumnae 4
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Students 4
- Correspondence 3
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Administration 3
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Faculty 3
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- History 3
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Sports 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Administration 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Alumni and alumnae 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Faculty 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- History 3
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Public Relations 3
- Education, Cooperative -- United States 3
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Administration 3
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th Century 3
- Women -- Education (Higher) 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 3
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Curricula 2
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Students 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Accreditation 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- African Americans -- Education (Higher) 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Anniversaries, etc. 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Buildings 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Commencements 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Curricula 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Development 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Planning 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Sports 2
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Student Housing 2
- Education, Higher -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Educational fund raising 2
- Home economics -- Study and teaching 2
- Photographs 2
- Universities and Colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Curricula 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Annual reports 1
- Art museum curators 1
- College art museums 1
- College presidents -- Inauguration 1
- College trustees 1
- Degrees, Academic 1
- Draft 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Buildings 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Commencements 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Planning 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Public relations 1
- Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Student housing 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Business and education 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Diamond Jubilee 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Extracurricular Activities 1
- Drexel Institute of Technology -- Inauguration 1
- Education, Higher -- Administration 1
- Labor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Manuscripts (document genre) 1
- Minutes 1
- Museums 1
- Office of the President 1
- Publications 1
- Reports 1
- School budgets 1
- Speeches 1
- Students, Foreign 1
- Subversive activities 1
- Universities and colleges -- Finance 1
- Veterans -- Education -- United States 1
- War and education 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Pennsylvania -- Education and the War 1 ∧ less
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