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Faculty and Staff Records (Unofficial)
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.00
Abstract
Unofficial, non-academic records maintained for reference purposes on a number of current and past staff members, faculty, and trustees. Included in this collection are files on many of the first faculty and staff members of the College.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-
Louis C. Karpinski Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.29
Abstract
Louis Charles Karpinski (1878 –1956) was an American mathematician born in Rochester, New York. Karpinski received a Teacher’s Diploma from Oswego State Normal School in 1897. In 1898, he went to Kentucky to teach at the normal department of Berea College. He would leave Berea in 1899 to enter Cornell University and would go on to receive his Dr. Phil. Nat. from the American College of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Universitat zu Strassburg in 1903. He also studied (1909–1910) at Columbia, where...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1906-1940
Wilma Dykeman Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.16
Abstract
Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006) lived all her life near the French Broad River in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Born in Asheville, Dykeman traced her interest in writing to the stories her parents read aloud to her when she was a child. By the time she was in elementary school, she was making up her own stories, plays, and poems. After graduating from high school and Biltmore Junior College in Asheville, Dykeman attended Northwestern University and received a bachelor’s degree in...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998