4 collections related to Universities and colleges -- Faculty

The Frederick Schenck Barkalow Papers include materials related to Barkalow's career, research, and service in environmental and conservation organizations. The papers include correspondence, materials on environmental issues, organizational materials, teaching materials, photographs, published material, and Barkalow's extensive research into the gray squirrel. Frederick Schenck Barkalow Jr. (1914-1982) served as a professor of zoology at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) from 1947 to 1979. He taught and researched extensively, and among his many publications was an in-depth study of the gray squirrel. Less

This collection documents Jehu Dewitt Paulson's career as an artist and educator and contains drawings, paintings, prints, plates, photographs and illustrations for published and unpublished manuscripts. The Personal files include Paulson's application for a Guggenheim Fellowship (1934), photographs of Paulson and his family, certificates of memberships to various societies and fraternities, a curriculum vitae, and notes from his college years. The North Carolina State College series includes class notes, a partial history of the Department of Architecture, course materials and notes on the appreciation of paintings. The Building Images subseries contains photographs, pencil sketches and plates of various campus buildings, including Memorial Tower, Primrose Hall, and Pullen Hall. Files of picture clippings on varied subjects (architecture, bridge building, interiors, landscaping, murals, paintings and sculpture, etc.) comprise another series. The Writings, Research and Inventions series contains identifications of paintings (by painter and subject), correspondence regarding the identification process, and published writings, including The Exterior Form of the Solitary Atom (1952), and unpublished manuscripts ("Appreciation of Painting," "Escape from Atlantis," and "People Makers, a Fantasy of Evolution"). Among the inventions are plans for an elevated storage tower and for an improved internal combustion rotary motor. Also included in this series are subject files of picture clippings on varied subjects (architecture, bridge building, interiors, landscaping, murals, paintings and sculpture, etc.). The Paintings, Sketches, Drawings, and Designs series comprise a good representation of Paulson's original artwork. This series also contains drawings and related papers on The Forms of the Elementary Atoms and The Periodic Law. The Photographic series contains undated photos of various atoms and elements. The Family Papers series contains a printed book on family history. Jehu Dewitt Paulson (1893-1972), an artist and educator, served on the faculty of the Department of Architecture at North Carolina State College from 1925 to 1961. Less

The Louis Hall Swain papers consist of correspondence concerning Swain's opposition to the first draft of the title, chapter order, and adoption procedure of the Consolidated University of North Carolina's Faculty Manual. Also included is correspondence regarding a candidate for the dean of the School of General Studies, excerpts from the North Carolina General Statutes,School of General Studies' Objectives: A Tentative Statement, (1963 March 6), a list of Swain's advisees (1964 August 4), a list of students that went to Wake Forest University for medical school (1963 August 30), and notes regarding meetings in the School of General Studies. North Carolina State University Emeritus Professor Louis Hall Swain (1906 - 1985) taught in the speech division of the Department of English for 25 years. A Maryland native, Swain earned his bachelor's (1928) and master's (1932) degrees from Duke University. He taught at Furman University and Duke University prior to beginning as an assistant professor at N.C. State in 1946. He was president of the North Carolina Speech Association. He was also a member of the Southern Association of Teachers of Speech, the National Association of Teachers of Speech, and the American Association of University Professors. Less