Beatrice Argetsinger Betten reminiscences, undated.
Collection Number: 11-1-721
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Beatrice Argetsinger Betten reminiscences, undated.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
11-1-721
Abstract:
Recollections (13 pp. typescript) based on dictation that Cornelius Betten, dean of
the Cornell University faculty (1932-45), gave to Mrs. Argetsinger while she was his
secretary or on statements that he made following their marriage.
Creator:
Betten, Beatrice Argetsinger.
Quanitities:
1 items.
Language:
Collection material in English
Recollections (13 pp. typescript) based on dictation that Cornelius Betten, dean of
the Cornell University faculty (1932-45), gave to Mrs. Argetsinger while she was his
secretary or on statements that he made following their marriage, describing how hotelman
John McFarlane Howie, Howard B. Meeks, Betten, professors of home economics Beulah
Blackmore, Flora Rose, and Martha Van Rensselaer, and others contributed to the establishment
of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell; how financial problems of the Cornell
Cosmopolitan Club and Leonard Elmhirst's friendship with Dorothy Straight led to the
founding of Willard Straight Hall; and how President Edmund Ezra Day was unsuccessful
in an attempt to abolish the hygiene requirement at Cornell. Also, several anecdotes
concerning the entomological research of Betten and Professor James Needham and the
friendship of the two men.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Beatrice Argetsinger Betten reminiscences, #11/1/m.721 Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Betten, Cornelius.
Blackmore, Beulah.
Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951.
Elmhirst, L. K. (Leonard Knight), 1893-1974.
Elmhirst, Dorothy Whitney Straight, 1887-1968.
Howie, John McFarlane.
Meek, Howard B.
Needham, James G. (James George), 1868-1957.
Rose, Flora, 1874-
Van Rensselaer, Martha, 1864-1932.
Cosmopolitan Club (Cornell University)
Cornell University. School of Hotel Administration
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Subjects:
Personal narratives.
Hygiene.
Form and Genre Terms:
Reminiscences.
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