William Keithan papers, 1925-1990.
Collection Number: 28-1-4102

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
William Keithan papers, 1925-1990.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
28-1-4102
Abstract:
Includes photographs, printing blocks, and glass negatives (1930s) of the hotel school and campus, and files from when Keithan was dean.
Creator:
J. Keithan, William.
Quanitities:
4.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Received his B.S. from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration in 1950 and later served as acting dean of the school.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes photographs, printing blocks, and glass negatives (1930s) of the hotel school and campus, and files from when Keithan was dean.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

William Keithan Papers, #28-1-4102. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University. School of Hotel Administration
Cornell University -- : Alumni and alumnae.
Cornell University. Class of 1950
Subjects:
Hotels.
Hotel management schools -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
SHA (School of Hotel Administration) - Cornell Industry Cooperative Program
1970
Box 1 Folder 2
Statler Hotel Operating Plan
1990
Box 1 Folder 3
SHA Organization
1976
Box 1 Folder 4
Statler Inn Postcard
Box 1 Folder 5
Statler West Trumansburg Road IOOF Home
1979
Box 1 Folder 6
SHA Minutes Faculty/Staff Meetings
1981-1983
Box 1 Folder 7
SHA Practice Credit Grading
Box 1 Folder 8
SHA Building Project Wrap-up Report
1989
Box 1 Folder 9
SHA Student Organization YE Hosts
1976-1986
Box 1 Folder 10
Minutes of Committee on Minimum Residency Requirement
1979
Box 1 Folder 11
SHA Minutes of Management Intern Committee
1980's
Box 1 Folder 12
Minutes of Task Force Subcommittee
1985
Box 1 Folder 13
SHA Guest Lecturers
1981
Box 1 Folder 14
SHA Code of Academic Integrity
1975-1981
Box 1 Folder 15
SHA Off Campus Work Study Program Guide
1977
Box 1 Folder 16
SHA Minutes of the MPS Student Organization Meeting
1976
Box 1 Folder 17
SHA - MPS Student Review
1983
Box 1 Folder 18
Sage Hall Office Layout and Guidebook
1987-1988
Box 1 Folder 19
SHA - TRIAD Committee's Role, Scope and Authority
Box 1 Folder 20
SHA - Work Study Program
Box 1 Folder 21
SHA - Academic Integrity Code
1975-1982
Box 1 Folder 22
SHA - Curriculum Committee Report MPS Program
1969
Box 1 Folder 23
SHA - U.S. Airforce Management Seminars
1951-1963
Box 1 Folder 24
SHA - Capital Campaign
1980's
Box 1 Folder 25
SHA - Statler Club
1989
Box 1 Folder 26
SHA - Statler Brochures
1980's
Box 1 Folder 27
Clippings
1970-1990's
Box 1 Folder 28
SHA - Unit Plan
1981
Box 1 Folder 29
SHA - Minutes of Cornell Society of Hotelmen Committee
1958-1962
Box 1 Folder 30
SHA - Admissions Statistics, Course Information
1979-1985
Box 1 Folder 31
SHA - Student Faculty Committee Constitution, Minutes
1982
Box 1 Folder 32
Seminars Information
1977-1983
Box 1 Folder 33
SHA - Master of Professional Studies Program
1979-1984
Box 1 Folder 34
SHA - Summer Workshops
1974
Box 1 Folder 35
SHA - Minutes of Area Coordinator's Meetings
1982
Box 1 Folder 36
SHA - Minutes of Graduate Faculty Meetings
1972-1982
Box 1 Folder 37
SHA - Minutes of Graduate Faculty Meetings
1982-1984
Box 1 Folder 38
SHA - Slides Ray and Millie Lugos Security Project
1974
Box 1 Folder 39
SHA - Statler Club Information
1986-1988
Box 1 Folder 40
SHA - Statler Club Agreement
1987
Box 1 Folder 41
Clippings
1928-1990
Box 1 Folder 42
Clippings
1929-1950's
Box 1 Folder 43
Statler History
1950
Box 1 Folder 44
E. M. Statler Article
1950
Box 1 Folder 45
Cornell Society of Hotelmen By-Laws
1984-1986
Box 1 Folder 46
SHA - Cornell Tenure Procedures
1957-1976
Box 1 Folder 47
SHA - Tuition Retainage Correspondence
1982
Box 1 Folder 48
SHA - Voting Rights Correspondence
1984-1989
Box 1 Folder 49
SHA - Center for Continuing Education
1963
Box 1 Folder 50
SHA - AH-MA Research Activities
1964
Box 1 Folder 51
SHA - Coffman Gift Document
1972
Box 1 Folder 52
SHA - Management Intern Manual
1987
Box 1 Folder 53
Council on Hotel, Restaurant - Institutional Education
1966
Box 1 Folder 54
SHA - Historical Information - Clippings, Correspondence
1921-1987
Box 2 Folder 1
SHA - Edna Osborne Notes
1968-1978
Box 2 Folder 2
SHA - Dean Robert Beck Correspondence
1971-1977
Box 2 Folder 3
Activities - Events - Programs
1969-1989
Box 2 Folder 4
Howard Meek - Clippings
1956-1961
Box 2 Folder 5
Howard Meek - Necrology
1893-1969
Box 2 Folder 6
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1930
Box 2 Folder 7
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1932
Box 2 Folder 8
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1934
Box 2 Folder 9
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1938
Box 2 Folder 10
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1939
Box 2 Folder 11
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1940
Box 2 Folder 12
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1942
Box 2 Folder 13
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1945
Box 2 Folder 14
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1947
Box 2 Folder 15
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1948
Box 2 Folder 16
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1950
Box 2 Folder 17
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1951
Box 2 Folder 18
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1953
Box 2 Folder 19
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1954
Box 2 Folder 20
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1955
Box 2 Folder 21
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1956
Box 2 Folder 22
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1957
Box 2 Folder 23
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1958
Box 2 Folder 24
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1959
Box 2 Folder 25
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1960
Box 2 Folder 26
Howard Meek - Correspondence
1961
Box 2 Folder 27
SHA - HA 119 Course Material
1967
Box 2 Folder 28
SHA - HA 313 Course Material
1972
Box 2 Folder 29
SHA - HA 314 Course Material
1972
Box 2 Folder 30
SHA - HA 462-463 Course Material
1969
Box 2 Folder 31
SHA - Jack Clark Correspondence
1973-1989
Box 2 Folder 32
SHA - Dean Robert Beck Correspondence with University Provosts
1971-1980
Box 2 Folder 33
SHA - Dean Robert Beck Correspondence with University Presidents
1969-1980
Box 2 Folder 34
SHA - James Eyster Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Memos
1982
Box 2 Folder 35
SHA - David Dunn Correspondence
1985
Box 2 Folder 36
SHA - Richard Penner Course Material HA 751 Project Development - Construction
1981-1985
Box 2 Folder 37
SHA - Paul Gaurnier Course Examinations
1978-1982
Box 2 Folder 38
SHA - Registrar Information Book
1965-1975
Box 2 Folder 39
SHA - Registrar Information Book A
1970-1974
Box 2 Folder 40
SHA - Registrar Information Book B
1970-1978
Box 2 Folder 41
SHA - Registrar Information, Curriculum
1968-1974
Box 2 Folder 42
SHA - Faculty Staff Meeting Minutes
1971-1973
Box 2 Folder 43
SHA - Faculty and Staff Meeting Minutes
1974-1976
Box 2 Folder 44
SHA - Faculty and Staff Meeting Minutes
1977-1979
Box 2 Folder 45
SHA - Faculty Research Committee Meeting Minutes
1979
Box 2 Folder 46
SHA - Conference on Research in Fields Related to the Operation of Hotels
1953
Box 2 Folder 47
SHA - Robert Woods Correspondence
1989
Box 2 Folder 48
SHA - Western International Hotels, Richard Compton Correspondence
1967-1968
Box 2 Folder 49
SHA - Sayles Research Report on New Food Techniques
1966
Box 2 Folder 50
SHA - Richard Uhrbrock Article
1930
Box 3 Folder 1
Photos: Events, Classes - Historical
Box 3 Folder 2
Photos: Graduating classes - one includes MVR
Box 3 Folder 3
Photos: Cooking Classes, Hotel Registration Desk
1920's
Box 3 Folder 4
Photos: Historical
Box 3 Folder 5
Photos: Building Statler Hall
1950's
Box 3 Folder 6
Photos: Classes
1970's
Box 3 Folder 7
Photos: Statler Hall
1970's
Box 3 Folder 8
Photos: Events
1970-1980's
Box 3 Folder 9
Alumni Questionnaire
1925-1927
Box 3 Folder 10
Alumni Questionnaire
1928
Box 3 Folder 11
Alumni Questionnaire
1929-1931
Box 3 Folder 12
Alumni Questionnaire
1932-1933
Box 3 Folder 13
SHA - Art Taft Interview and Class Notes
1988
Box 3 Folder 14
SHA - Paul Gaurnier Interview
1988
Box 3 Folder 15
SHA - Bill Eaton Interview
1988
Box 3 Folder 16
SHA - Dorothy Johnson Interview
1988
Box 3 Folder 17
SHA - Tom Pedulla and Skip Sack Interview
1988
Box 3 Folder 18
SHA - Michael Chin Inerview
1988
Box 3 Folder 19
SHA - Peter Lee Interview
1988
Box 3 Folder 20
SHA - James Barker Smith Interview
1988
Box 3 Folder 21
SHA - Hilda Gifford Interview
1988
Box 3 Folder 22
SHA - Interviews with Mullane, Canas, Holtzman, Brown
1989
Box 3 Folder 23
SHA - American Hotel and Motel Association History
1920's
Box 3 Folder 24
SHA - Historical Facts, Chronological Order
1921-1988
Box 3 Folder 25
SHA - History by Helen Recknagel
1983-1984
Box 3 Folder 26
SHA - Sources Used for History Done in 1990's
Box 3 Folder 27
SHA - History of the School of Hotel Administration
Box 3 Folder 28
SHA - Historical Files
1935-1950
Box 3 Folder 29
SHA - Statler Hall Dedication Menu
1969
Box 3 Folder 30
SHA - Invitation to 50th Anniversary of Hotel School
1972
Box 3 Folder 31
SHA - Dedication of the Binenkorb Video and Computer Center Program
1984
Box 3 Folder 32
SHA - Syracuse China-Statler Connection Letter
1989
Box 3 Folder 33
SHA - "Letters to Ed" - by Charles Sayles
1935-1952
Box 3 Folder 34
SHA - Foods Department Communications
1982-1983
Box 3 Folder 35
Graduate Student Newsletter
SHA - 1989
Box 3 Folder 36
SHA - Publication "Restaurants in Review"
1990
Box 4
Index cards listing of its graduates who served during WWII
1941-1945
Box 4
Samples of Statler Inn soap
Box 5
Glass Negatives:
1930's
Scope and Contents
Scenes of campus, hotel school events, classes and graduates. Some of the images were by Troy and some were taken by Howard Meek, Dean of the Hotel School, on a round the world hotel visit tour
Box 6
Glass Negatives:
1930's
Scope and Contents
Scenes of campus, hotel school events, classes and graduates. Some of the images were by Troy and some were taken by Howard Meek, Dean of the Hotel School, on a round the world hotel visit tour
Box 7
Glass Negatives:
1930's
Scope and Contents
Scenes of campus, hotel school events, classes and graduates. Some of the images were by Troy and some were taken by Howard Meek, Dean of the Hotel School, on a round the world hotel visit tour
Box 8
Glass Negatives:
1930's
Scope and Contents
Scenes of campus, hotel school events, classes and graduates. Some of the images were by Troy and some were taken by Howard Meek, Dean of the Hotel School, on a round the world hotel visit tour
Box 9
Glass Negatives:
1930's
Scope and Contents
Scenes of campus, hotel school events, classes and graduates. Some of the images were by Troy and some were taken by Howard Meek, Dean of the Hotel School, on a round the world hotel visit tour
Printing Blocks
Box 4
Frank McKowne, secretary, vice-president of the Statler Co. – arriving at Willard Straight Hall for "Hotel Ezra Cornell"
Box 4
E. M. Stater
Box 4
Hotel School Classes
Box 4
Ezra Cornell Campus Statue
Box 4
Dean Howard Meek
Box 4
Hotel Graduating Class
Box 4
Hotel School Foods Lab
Box 4
Dean Meek and Lucius Boomer at Baker Dorms
Box 4
Napkin Flag - 14th Hotel Ezra Cornell
Box 4
J.J. Sullivan, Jr., Steward; F.J. Perry, Chef; H.V. Moon, Headwaiter of Hotel Ezra Cornell
1930