Special Collections & University Archiveshttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/8872024-03-28T19:47:58Z2024-03-28T19:47:58ZRissi Palmer Notebooks Metadata from Women and Music Classhttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/176732022-09-07T22:55:30Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZRissi Palmer Notebooks Metadata from Women and Music Class
This spreadsheet contains transcriptions, annotations, and other metadata for the 6 notebooks in the Rissi Palmer Collection (MSS.1026 - https://collections.library.vanderbilt.edu/repositories/2/resources/2063). The notebooks were transcribed by Cynthia Cyrus's Women in Music Class in Spring 2022.
This spreadsheet contains transcriptions, annotations, and other metadata for the 6 notebooks in the Rissi Palmer Collection (MSS.1026 - https://collections.library.vanderbilt.edu/repositories/2/resources/2063). The notebooks were transcribed by Cynthia Cyrus's Women in Music Class in Spring 2022.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZRob Roy Purdy Papers Finding Aidhttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/55522020-04-22T10:41:19ZRob Roy Purdy Papers Finding Aid
Finding aid for a collection. Collection description: Rob Roy Purdy was born in Pensacola, Florida in 1914. He died in Nashville on March 24, 1988 at the age of 74. He graduated from Davidson College, and came to Vanderbilt in 1937. After receiving his master degree he taught at Florence State College in Alabama for a year and served for two years in the Navy during World War II. He then returned to Vanderbilt for his Ph.D. in English. He became a member of the Vanderbilt English Faculty, and rose to the rank of full professor teaching courses in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Chaucer and in Shakespeare and Southern American Literature. In 1959 Professor Purdy became Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University. At his retirement in 1979 he was awarded the titles of Professor of English, Emeritus and Senior Vice-Chancellor Emeritus.
These papers are contained in 22 Hollinger boxes comprising 9.174 linear feet of manuscript material and are made up of these series:
Writings
Academic Career
1956 Fugitive Reunion
Administrative Career
Writings by Others
Publications
Kelly Miller Smith Papers Finding Aidhttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/96372020-04-22T10:41:14Z2010-01-28T00:00:00ZKelly Miller Smith Papers Finding Aid
Finding aid for a collection. Collection description: The bulk of Kelly Miller Smith's papers is comprised of his academic and organization files. This part of the collection includes Smith's writings on the responsibility of the Black Church to both the community and academic life, Smith's theological perceptions and his particular political vision as cleric and academician. In addition to his Vanderbilt office files, the collection also encompasses Smith's ministerial career, including his First Baptist Church activities while Assistant Dean of the Divinity School. The Vanderbilt Divinity School (VDS) records included in this collection are represented primarily by Smith's class materials, VDS-sponsored events, faculty communications and the Office of Black Church Relations. Other major organizations included here are the Afro-American Association, Association of Black Faculty and Administrators, Council on Human Relations, Faculty Senate, American Association of Theological Schools, American Baptist Churches in the USA, Black Community Forum, Interdominational Ministers Fellowship, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Morehouse School of Religion, National Conference of Black Churchmen, Opportunities Industrialization Center, P.M. Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund, Society for the Study of Black Religion, and the World Council of Churches, Commission on Faith and Order. An extensive collection of Smith's personal notes on a wide variety of academic and theological subjects are among these records as is much of his correspodence.
2010-01-28T00:00:00ZThe E. G. Rogers Collection Finding Aidhttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/96362020-04-22T10:41:06Z2010-01-25T00:00:00ZThe E. G. Rogers Collection Finding Aid
Finding aid for a collection. Collection description: Incoming correspondence, poems by Donald Davidson, an autobiographical sketch by Davidson, and a newspaper clipping.
2010-01-25T00:00:00Z