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This collections contains the papers of Professor of Religion Richard "Doc" Heaton.

Series I contains papers related to his work at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, including course materials, study abroad, departmental communication, and campus events.

Series II contains papers related to social and religious organizations, including FIGHT, the General Ordination Examinations of the Episcopal Church, and assorted local groups.

Abstract Dr. Robert E. Doran was a trustee and graduate of Hobart College in the class of 1922. This collection contains a variety of documents ranging from his time spent in the Navy to his long position on the Board of Trustees of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Navy records include Navy Regulations and Customs Assignments and others on medicine and hygiene completed by Doran in 1942 and 1943. There are also Navy Reserve records and a file on World War I Liberty Loans. The documents dealing...

Scope and Contents The Robert Huff papers contain numerous newspaper articles, letters, magazine articles, and note cards that span the years 1900 to 1920.The largest part of the collection is made up of newspaper and magazine articles. These articles were pulled from The Geneva Daily Times, The New York Times, The Delineator, and The Woman's Journal. These articles all pertain to Elizabeth Smith Miller, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, the Political Equality Club, and the Women's Suffrage Movement,...

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The collection is primarily made up of drafts and manuscript versions of Robert S. Jones' novels Force of Gravity (Viking, 1991) and Walking on Air (Houghton Mifflin, 1995). Also included are notebooks and date books, correspondence, newspapers and magazines, scrapbooks, loose photographs, and other miscellaneous items.

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This collection contains the papers of Romana Lashewycz-Rubycz, most of which relate to her time as a professor of inorganic chemistry at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The collection includes research grant proposals, student presentations and papers, publications, course notes, and handouts.

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A collection of papers from 1910-1975 belonging to or regarding Rosalind A. Daniels WS '18, in one box. Contains 42 items in three folders, including event programs, miscellaneous papers, and photographs. Also included in the collection are three textbooks and three handwritten composition notebooks, all belonging to Daniels. There are 48 items in total.

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The SAGA Corporation Records collection contains correspondence, employee handbooks, SAGA collectibles, SAGA publications, newspaper articles, health care documents, job descriptions, management materials, photographs, films, audio cassettes, and slides from the SAGA Corporation, a food service organization in operation from 1948 to 1986. SAGA was founded at Hobart and William Smith Colleges by three students in 1948.

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This collection contains scapbooks by individual students and scrapbooks by or for college presidents and their families. Also included are scrapbooks of news clippings, of college history, of college records, of college organizations, of class reunions and news clippings from World War I.

Scope and Contents The materials in this collection are from two related organizations: the Seneca Lake Waterways Associations (SLWA) and the Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association (SLPWA). Documents include correspondence, newspaper articles, newsletters, advertisements for equipmenent, meeting agendas and minutes, budgets, membership and leadership name lists, stationary, handwritten notes, organization charters and even a seal for legal documents. Most of the collection is of the Seneca Lake Waterways...

Scope and Contents This record group consists of the papers of Shari Best, Vice President of Institutional Development at HWS from 1975-2000. The records relate primarily to fund raising efforts at the Colleges. There is information on the Annual Fund, Capital Campaigns, college budgets, and financial planning. A number of files contain materials from Board of Trustees meetings attended by Shari Best.There are six folders labeled "Willard C. Best" that contain information on...

Abstract A collection of photographs and papers relating to the Delta Chapter of Sigma Phi fraternity at Hobart College. The papers give a record of financial matters, and date from 1926 to 1934. Given to the Geneva Historical Society in 1993 by Theodore S. Smith, Jr., Hobart College class of 1956, the papers originally belonged to Perry Shepard, who passed them on to Smith's father T. Schuyler Smith class of 1912. The photographs were not part of this collection, but were combined with the papers at...

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This collection contains memorabilia and scrapbooks on the history of Sill House from 1939-1993. Included are photographs, stories, and letters that have been compiled into two scrapbooks, the first created in 1955 and an updated version from 1993. There are also drafts of the scrapbooks and information on the Sill House Reunion in 1993.

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This Record Group contains Hobart and William Smith Colleges student publications. Many of these publications were short-lived, only producing a handful of issues. A few publications, however, had longer runs. Some issues have been bound and are shelved in the Geneva Collection. The call number for these bound copies has been noted.

Scope and Contents RG 03.03.07 is a collection of syllabi created by Hobart and William Smith Colleges faculty for courses taught at the Colleges between 1946 and 1987. The majority of the syllabi are from courses in the Western Civilization program, a curriculum program that ran from 1945 through 1972. The program was also referred to as the Coordinate Courses in its early years. History and Literature A, B, and C and Political Economy A and B are the earliest courses in the Western Civilization program. ...

Scope and Contents The materials in this collection include theater programs from productions staged theaters from 1902 to 1982. The majority of the programs are from theaters in New York City from the 1920s to the late 1950s. Also included are programs from productions staged in theaters at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the Smith Opera House (also known as the Schine Theater), Eastman and other theaters in the Rochester area, California, New England, New Jersey, Spain, France, Germany, and England....

Scope and Contents This small collection contains letters written to Theodore Baird, class of 1921, from classmate George M. Rutter '20 and Professor Herbert Hilarion Yeames. The correspondence to Baird was written over a period from 1938 to 1966. The collection contains only Rutter's and Yeames' correspondence to Baird and not Baird's letters to them.Both Rutter and Yeames conversed extensively with Baird about literature, languages, philosophy, and religion. They also discussed current...

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This collection contains items relating primarily to the career of Theodore Tellefsen Odell and to some extent his wife, Elizabeth Herendeen Odell. Items include: correspondence, publications, photographs, newspaper articles, biographical materials, awards, honorary degrees, event programs, and academic memorabilia.

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This collection largely consists of papers and speeches written by Thomas McBlain Steele and others related to political issues prominent in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

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This collection contains the personal files and work of Toni Flores. Flores was a professor of Anthropology, Women's Studies, and American Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The majority of the documents in the collection, excluding the personal files, fall under one of the above topics. Most of the papers included in this collection were completed during the time she was at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Scope and Contents This is a collection of Valerie Saiving's scholarly and professional work. It includes her work as a scholar as well as material that reflects her time as a student at the University of Chicago and as a Professor at HWS.The HWS Course Notes series includes 57 folders reflecting 30 different courses in Religious and Women's Studies. The University of Chicago series includes 7 term papers written from 1945-1959, 22 folders of class notes reflecting 19 different courses,...

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This small collection primarily contains items from Virginia C. Trimble's time at William Smith College in the early 1920s. Materials include William Smith College viewbooks, Pine yearbooks, postcards and greeting cards, and an examination book from 1923.

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This collection contains the papers of Warren Hunting Smith, Hobart & William Smith trustee, editor of the Horace Walpole letters, and grand-nephew of William Smith, founder. The materials include voluminous personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, programs, and assorted materials related to genealogical research. There is a large amount of collected articles and pamphlets on various topics, most notably Geneva history.

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Collection includes pamphlets, scrapbook pages, correspondence, programs, schedule guides, playlists, posters, calendars, scripts, promotions, news releases, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous items.

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Collection includes lacrosse balls, a paperweight, mugs, wooden carvings, a coin, a stamp, a small statue, posters, photographs, plaques, correspondence, newspaper clippings, awards, certificates, and material related to the William F. Scandling Memorial.