VAN/VU/Alum. Vanderbilt Alumni

This collection contains memorabilia, 18 items in 10 file folders, all relating to the 1986 reunion for the Class of 1941.

A series of Vanderbilt football clippings dating from 1899 to 1969 assembled by Joseph P. Herzog.

This collection contains 11 file folders with correspondence, holiday greeting cards, newsletter, newspaper clippings, one photograph, programs, and various memorabilia belonging to Milton L. Goldstein.

The Ward Sykes Allen Family Papers, 1857-1942, contains the correspondence of professor and scholar Ward Sykes Allen, 1922-2017, and the business and financial papers of Dr. James H. Joyner, a relative of Allen.

This collection dating from 1923-1932 documents Mr. William Alford’s association with the Vanderbilt Glee Club and his time as a student of Vanderbilt University.

The Perry H. Biddle, Jr. Collection contains eighteen book and pamphlet publications as well as a copy of a dissertation submitted to Union Theological Seminary in support of his Th.M. degree in 1960. Publication dates for the material range from 1960 to 2002. Topics covered by the publications include funeral management and counseling, health and healing, marriage ceremony management and counseling, hospital visitation manuals, preaching guides and lectionaries, and suicide counseling.

This collection contains one diary of J. S. Davis from 1914, sparsely noted. It includes general information regarding matriculation at Vanderbilt and, relative to monies received and what was paid.

The H. Fort Flowers Collection, 1915-1970, consists of Differential Steel Car Company advertisements and materials marking Vanderbilt's recognition of H. Fort Flowers, 1887-1975.

The Eugene Epperson Barnett Papers contain correspondence, book review, vita, and an autobiographical manuscript of Eugene Epperson Barnett, 1888-1970.

The Margaret and Charles Buchanan Collection include an autograph album, a bound copy of the Vanderbilt Observer, newspaper clippings, reminiscences and various ephemera.

The James L. Clark Papers are composed of 1.25 linear feet of sermon typescripts, manuscripts, and writing tablets.

This small collection (.42 linear feet) contains letters, programs, and newspaper clippings collected by Sara Holroyd, a 1946 graduate of George Peabody College for Teachers. (Peabody merged Vanderbilt University in 1979.). Ms. Holroyd was a student leader and a musician while at Peabody, and many of the programs feature her as a student musician. This collection also chronicles the end of WWII and activities at Peabody College during that time.

The research and subsequent manuscripts in this collection were completed by students enrolled in Vanderbilt University, History 295 (Nashville and the Urban South), in Spring Semester 1977 and Fall Semester 1978. The summary of the course and discussion of the papers, in the context of Nashville history, was written by Professor Don Harrison Doyle. The 26 student papers cover the time period of 1870-1940.