Arthur DeRosier Inauguration Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: UnivRec-0100

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection documents the planning, organization, and events involved in the inauguration of Arthur H. DeRosier, Jr., as ETSU's fifth president in April 1978 and the celebration of the Appalachian region and Appalachian studies that he wanted to see the university embrace and serve. The collection includes correspondence, congratulatory certificates and letters, newsclippings, memoranda, brochures and other printed ephemera, photographs, newspaper negative sheets, and audio and video recordings of inaugural week events that included the formal inauguration, concerts, public lectures, the on-campus annual meeting of the Council on Appalachian Women, Inc., and an arts, crafts and music festival.

Dates

1978

Creator

DeRosier, Arthur H. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Extent

5.75 linear feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The collection is organized into five series as follows: Series 1, Subject Files, 1978 and undated; Series 2, Scrapbook, 1978; Series 3, Audio-Visual Recordings, 1978; Series 4, Newspaper Negative Sheets, 1978; and Series 5, Photographs, 1978.

Method of Acquisition

The Arthur DeRosier Inauguration Collection was placed in the archives by Inaugural Committee member Mary Manning, Department of English, on December 14, 1982.