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Butler University

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1923

Places

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

Norman S. Brown diploma, 1949

 File — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-SM 014
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the diploma of Norman S. Brown from Butler University in 1949 with a Master of Science degree.

Dates: 1949

Notebook from Dr. Ray C. Friesner's Plant Physiology class, 1929

 File — Box 2
Identifier: MSS-SM 020
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of roughly 300 pages of notes for a Plant Physiology class taken by an unknown student in the summer of 1929. The contents include class material as well as drawings of plant physiology subject matter.

Dates: 1929

John E. Potzger collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS001
Scope and Contents The collection includes correspondence, papers, publications, photographs, and ephemera that provide insight into John E. Potzger’s pioneering work in pollen studies and postglacial forest succession and his career with Butler’s Botany Department. The collection also contributes to an understanding of Potzger’s career as a teacher in a Lutheran day school, his music studies, his membership in such organizations as the Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, Phi Kappa Phi, the...
Dates: 1886 - 1975

Proclamation of “Butler University Alumni Day”, 1968

 File — Box 10
Identifier: MSS-SM 077
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the original proclamation that outlines some of the contributions made by Butler University alumni to the city of Indianapolis and establishes alumni day on October 24th. It is signed by Mayor Richard Lugar. The collection also contains a separate sheet that outlines the alumni associations awards and the criteria for winning the award.

Dates: 1968

"Queen of My Dreams" musical comedy papers, 1948

 File — Box 4
Identifier: MSS-SM 26
Scope and Contents

Papers from the original production in 1948 of “Butler’s First Musical”, Queen of My Dreams. Files contain a photocopy program, annotated final script, and a photocopy of what is believed to be the initial rough draft of the musical, heavily edited.

Dates: 1948

Sally Moore's notes from Betty Gour's dance courses, 1970 - 1974

 File — Box 8
Identifier: MSS-SM 055
Scope and Contents

Notes taken by Butler University Dance student Sally Meeker Moore in classes by Professor of Dance Betty Gour. They are divided into three sections: Novelty Dances, Ethnic Dances, and Spanish Dances; many of the notes include copies of the music the dances were set to.

Dates: 1970 - 1974

Small Collections

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-SM
Scope and Contents

The Small Collections are a grouping of small archival acquisitions from many different sources. More detailed notes about the scope, contents, and history of each small collection may be found at the file level. The collections are housed and described together for administrative purposes.

Dates: 1861 - present

Teresa Eppley Kofodimos Butler University piano & organ class materials, 1982 - 1984

 File — Box 10
Identifier: MSS-SM 087
Scope and Contents Materials collected by Teresa Eppley Kofodimos, a 1984 Butler graduate of the Radio-TV program, which was then a part of the Jordan College of the Arts. As a part of her program, Teresa took piano lessons from Dorothy Munger and two years of organ lessons from Dr. Mallory Bransford. The items include a notebook with Dorothy Munger’s lesson notes, music scores containing Mrs. Munger’s handwritten notes, and a folder with notes by Mallory Bransford, typewritten documents on organ techniques,...
Dates: 1982 - 1984

“The Truth - The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth,” by Keith Bratton, circa 1990

 File — Box 10
Identifier: MSS-SM 081
Scope and Contents

Three-page account of lies that were told about him when he was an undergraduate. Writing this work roughly 50 years after his graduation, he sets the record straight about the rumors that circulated campus about him. The rumors include kidnapping a band student, vandalizing the Persephone statue, and writing an unsavory headline in the Daily Collegian. Bratton is assumed to have graduated from Butler in the 1940s.

Dates: circa 1990

Thomas Carr Howe Family letter, September 21, 1918

 File — Box 10
Identifier: MSS-SM 074
Scope and Contents

Letter written by former Butler College president Thomas Carr Howe to his newly born second cousin, Wilfred Carr Marshall. In the letter, he welcomes his new cousin to the world and fondly mentions other family members and experiences. Also included are the envelope the letter arrived in and a photograph of Thomas Carr Howe with first cousin Lucille C. Marshall (the baby’s mother) when she was a child. This photograph is referenced in the letter.

Dates: September 21, 1918