Guide to the Pi Alpha Xi, Cornell Chapter Records,
1923-2005.

Collection Number: 37-6-3492

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:

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Date completed:

December 2010

EAD encoding:

Ariel Conant, September 2006

© 2006 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Pi Alpha Xi, Cornell Chapter records, 1923-2005.

Collection Number:

37-6-3492

Creator:

Pi Alpha Xi.Cornell Chapter.

Quantity:

4.1 cubic ft.

Forms of Material:

{comma separted list of material formats; end with period.}

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Abstract:

Includes minutes of meetings, by-laws, publications, photographs, plaque, and scrapbooks of the Cornell Chapter.

Language:

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

Ornamental horticulture honorary association.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes minutes of meetings, by-laws, publications, photographs, plaque, and scrapbooks of the Cornell Chapter.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Pi Alpha Xi.

Cornell University--Societies, etc.

Cornell University--Students.

New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences--Societies, etc.

Subjects:

Ornamental horticulture--Societies, etc.

Form and Genre Terms:

Photographs.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Pi Alpha Xi, Cornell Chapter records, #37-6-3492. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Date	Description	Container
1923-1939	Minutes: Alpha Chapter Pi Alpha Xi	Box 1
1923-1940	Ledger: Financial Statements	Box 1
1932-1940	Ledger: Membership Dues	Box 1
1937-2004	Secretary's Book of the Floriculture Club of Cornell	Box 1
1955-1958	Course 115-Physiology and Biochemistry of organ Formation and Growth	Box 1	Folder 1
	Courses-Bibliographies	Box 1	Folder 2
	Course Information-Bibliographies	Box 1	Folder 3
	Floriculture 550-Student papers; Bibliographies	Box 1	Folder 4
1926	"A List of the Nurseries" January, 1926	Box 1	Folder 5
1950	Defoliation-Treatments	Box 1	Folder 6
	"Famous Trees"-Parts I, II(incomplete), III	Box 1	Folder 7
1943-1966	A. M. S. Pridham: Papers and Articles	Box 1	Folder 8
1960's	Pridham: Projects, Surveys, Reports	Box 1	Folder 9
1950's	Pridham: Projects, Surveys, Reports; "A Letter to Young Farmers"	Box 1	Folder 10
1930's-1940's	Pridham: Projects, Surveys, Reports, Soil Map of Orleans County, NY	Box 1	Folder 11
n. d.	Pridham: Projects, Surveys, Reports	Box 1	Folder 12
n. d.	Pridham: Projects, Surveys, Reports; Floriculture 117	Box 1	Folder 13
n. d.	Pridham: Projects, Surveys, Reports; Floriculture 119	Box 1	Folder 14
July 11, 1934	"Proposed Market Agreement for Nursery Stock."	Box 1	Folder 15
1941-1955	"Nursery Notes"	Box 1	Folder 16
1930's	"Nursery Suggestions," Correspondence, Notes	Box 1	Folder 17
1930's	"Nursery Suggestions," Correspondence, Notes	Box 1	Folder 18
1955-1962	NYS Nurserymen's Association-Reports, Surveys	Box 1	Folder 19
January 17, 1947	New York State Nurserymen's Association-Constitution, Bylaws	Box 1	Folder 20
1934-1951	NYS Nurserymen's Association-Miscellaneous Reports, Notes, Correspondence	Box 1	Folder 21
February, 1953	Thesis: "Effects of Some Foliar Sprays	Box 1	Folder 22
January 4, 1955	"This and That"-F. A. Pearson	Box 1	Folder 23
1963-1966	Weed Control Research	Box 1	Folder 24
1923-1937	Banquet Menus-Programs-Certificate #1	Box 2	Folder 1
1941-1942	Committee Reports	Box 2	Folder 2
	Fraternity Lists	Box 2	Folder 3
	Ritual of Pi Alpha Xi, Initiation Ceremony-Constitution, Original Signed Copy, Contains Names of Charter Members	Box 2	Folder 4
	Michigan State University, Delta Chapter	Box 2	Folder 5
1939	National Chapter-Minutes of Convention	Box 2	Folder 6
1923-1924	Notices of Meetings	Box 2	Folder 7
1923-1924	Early Organization Information	Box 2	Folder 8
1966	Proposed Revision of Bylaws	Box 2	Folder 9
1966-1967	Receipts	Box 2	Folder 10
December 6, 1939	Report of Ways and Means Committee on Alumni Finances	Box 2	Folder 11
	Resolutions on Deaths (Members)	Box 2	Folder 12
October 15, 1959	Special Meeting	Box 2	Folder 13
1936-1940	Uncollectible Accounts and Transfers to Other Chapters	Box 2	Folder 14
December 20, 1923	The Lotus Leaf-Vol.1 No. 1	Box 2	Folder 15
June 1, 1926	The Lotus Leaf	Box 2	Folder 16
June 1, 1927	The Lotus Leaf	Box 2	Folder 17
June 1, 1928	The Lotus Leaf	Box 2	Folder 18
June 1, 1929	The Lotus Leaf	Box 2	Folder 19
June 1, 1930-February 1, 1940	The Lotus Leaf	Box 2
1941-1975	The Lotus Leaf	Box 2	Folder 20
December 1, 1926	The Lotus Leaf, Gamma Chapter	Box 2	Folder 21
May 1, 1930	The Lotus Leaf, Beta Chapter	Box 2	Folder 22
1958-1959	Propagation: Articles, Notes, Reports	Box 2	Folder 23
1955-1959	Propagation: Articles, Notes, Reports	Box 2	Folder 24
1954-1959	Propagation: Articles, Notes, Reports	Box 2	Folder 25
1980-1981	Scholarships	Box 3	Folder 1
1981-1982	Scholarships-Faculty Approvals	Box 3	Folder 2
1982-1983	Scholarships-Faculty Recommendations	Box 3	Folder 3
1982-1983	Scholarships-Those Available and Financial Aid	Box 3	Folder 4
1982-1983	Scholarships-Letters to Recipients	Box 3	Folder 5
1982-1983	Scholarships-Recipients	Box 3	Folder 6
1983	Scholarships-Letters to Donors	Box 3	Folder 7
1983-1984	Scholarships and Awards	Box 3	Folder 8
1983-1984	Scholarships-Those Available and Financial Aid	Box 3	Folder 9
1983-1984	Scholarships-Faculty Recommendations	Box 3	Folder 10
1983-1984	Scholarships-Recipients	Box 3	Folder 11
1983-1984	Scholarships-Letters to Recipients	Box 3	Folder 12
1984-1985	Scholarships-Faculty Recommendations	Box 3	Folder 13
1984-1985	Department Scholarships and Awards	Box 3	Folder 14
1984-1985	Scholarships-Letters to recipients	Box 3	Folder 15
1984-1985	Scholarships-Letters to Donors	Box 3	Folder 16
1984-1985	Scholarships-Senior Awards	Box 3	Folder 17
1984-1985	Scholarships and Awards	Box 3	Folder 18
1985	Scholarships	Box 3	Folder 19
1985	Approval for Senior Awards	Box 3	Folder 20
1986	Approval for Senior Awards	Box 3	Folder 21
1986-1987	Scholarships and Awards	Box 3	Folder 22
1986-1987	Department Reception for Seniors	Box 3	Folder 23
1987-1988	Scholarships and Awards	Box 3	Folder 24
1988	Senior Awards-Faculty Suggestions	Box 3	Folder 25
1987	Jack Lander Memorial Award	Box 3	Folder 26
1985	New York State Cemetery Association Award	Box 3	Folder 27
May 9, 1958	Outstanding Freshman Award	Box 3	Folder 28
1960-1969	Outstanding Freshman Award	Box 3	Folder 29
1986	Herman R. Schenkel, Sr. Memorial Award	Box 3	Folder 30
1988	Senior Awards	Box 3	Folder 31
1985-1986	Lewis Sperber Memorial Award	Box 3	Folder 32
1987-1988	Sperber Award	Box 3	Folder 33
1987-1988	Sperber Award-Applications	Box 3	Folder 34
1992	Sperber Award-Applications	Box 3	Folder 35
1990	Sperber Award-Environmental Industries, Inc.;Photos	Box 3	Folder 36
1987	Nor-am Chemical Company Scholarship	Box 3	Folder 37
1987	Arthur Thomas Memorial Award	Box 3	Folder 38
1986	Joseph J. Yedowitz, Sr. Memorial Award	Box 3	Folder 39
n. d.	Pridham Materials: Film, Program, Map of Cambridge (UK)	Box 3	Folder 40
1970	Nursery Stock and Supply Locator	Box 3	Folder 41
1918 (?)	"Home Grounds: Their Planning and Planting" Text Prepared by L. H. Bailey	Box 3	Folder 42
1956, 1958	Miscellaneous Programs, Brochures	Box 3	Folder 43
1905 (?)	"What is Horticulture?" By Prof. L. H. Bailey	Box 3	Folder 44
April 29, 1948	"Words Said About A Birthday" Delivered at Cornell University	Box 3	Folder 45
September 8-10, 1952	"My Great Oak Tree and Other Poems" By L. H. Bailey	Box 3	Folder 46
1953	Pre-Cornell and Early Cornell IV; Biology at Cornell University 1868-1928	Box 3	Folder 47
February 8-13, 1923	The Eighth Annual Farmers' Week	Box 3	Folder 48
n. d.	"A Century of Growth" Meadow Brook Nurseries, 1845-1945	Box 3	Folder 49
January, 1941	"The Floriculture Life"	Box 3	Folder 50
n.d.	"The Floriculture Life"	Box 3	Folder 51
1949	"The Floriculture Life" Graduation Issue	Box 3	Folder 52
1960	Pre-Cornell and Early Cornell VIII	Box 3	Folder 53
1960	Pre-Cornell and Early Cornell IX	Box 3	Folder 54
n. d.	"Mechanization Needs of the Nursery Industry"	Box 3	Folder 55
1924-1925	Yearbook of the Horticultural Society	Box 3	Folder 56
1929, 1961, 1966	Various Publications	Box 3	Folder 57
1981	Acceptances	Box 4	Folder 1
1970	Bylaws-Revised and Adopted	Box 4	Folder 2
1986	Class Lists	Box 4	Folder 3
1985	General Meeting Information	Box 4	Folder 4
1991	Graduate Faculty	Box 4	Folder 5
1995	Graduate School Information	Box 4	Folder 6
n. d.	"History of Pi Alpha Xi"-Brochures	Box 4	Folder 7
1981	Honorary Members	Box 4	Folder 8
n. d.	Initiation Ceremony	Box 4	Folder 9
1983	Letters to Candidates	Box 4	Folder 10
1979-1980	Membership Letters	Box 4	Folder 11
n. d.	Membership and Mailing Lists	Box 4	Folder 12
n. d.	Membership Lists	Box 4	Folder 13
1965-1969	Membership List-Jewelry	Box 4	Folder 14
1982	New Members	Box 4	Folder 15
1985	New Members	Box 4	Folder 16
1988	New Members	Box 4	Folder 17
1943-1946	Newspaper Clips-Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 18
n. d.	Obsolete and Outmoded Ritual	Box 4	Folder 19
n. d.	Pi Alpha Xi-Constitution (Original and Superceded)	Box 4	Folder 20
1933-1944	Pi Alpha Xi-Newsletter	Box 4	Folder 21
1933-1944	Pi Alpha Xi-Newsletter	Box 4	Folder 22
1925, 1948	Ritual of Pi Alpha Xi-Chaplain's Copy	Box 4	Folder 23
1975-1989	Sample Letters	Box 4	Folder 24
1925-1926	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 25
1933-1934	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 26
1941-1942	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 27
1948-1949	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 28
1950-1961	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 29
1966-1968	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 30
1968-1969	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 31
1969-1970	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 32
1970-1971	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 33
1971-1972	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 34
1973	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 35
1974	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 36
1975-1976	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 37
Correspondence	1976-1977	Box 4	Folder 38
1977-1978	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 39
1979	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 40
1979-1980	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 41
1981-1982	Correspondence-Pi Alpha Xi National	Box 4	Folder 42
1981	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 43
1982-1984	Correspondence-Invoice Receipts	Box 4	Folder 44
1982-1984	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 45
1983-1984	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 46
1984	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 47
1985	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 48
1985	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 49
1985-2004	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 50
1986	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 51
1987	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 52
1988	Correspondence-Class Lists	Box 4	Folder 53
1989	Correspondence-Class Lists	Box 4	Folder 54
1989	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 55
1990	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 56
1991	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 57
1992	Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 58
1993	Correspondence-Pi Alpha Xi National	Box 4	Folder 59
1994	Correspondence-Catalogs-Newsletters	Box 4	Folder 60
1995	Correspondence-Pi Alpha National Meeting, Montreal	Box 4	Folder 61
1940-1945	Correspondence-Curtis, R. W.	Box 4	Folder 62
1989	WHAM-1180-Correspondence	Box 4	Folder 63
	Pi Alpha Xi Freshman Award Plaque	Box 5
1939-1978	Minutes	Box 6
1939-1990	Membership lists	Box 4

Guide to the Pi Alpha Xi, Cornell Chapter Records,1923-2005.

Collection Number: 37-6-3492

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

© 2006 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Guide to the Pi Alpha Xi, Cornell Chapter Records,
1923-2005.

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library