Contents

• DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
• COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
• Custodial History
• INFORMATION FOR USERS
• SUBJECTS
• CONTAINER LIST

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Cornell University ROTC records, 1890-2002.
Collection Number: 33-2-4134

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

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Custodial History

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INFORMATION FOR USERS

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CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. Administrative Documents and Miscellany
Box 1	Folder 1	Barton Hall	1913-1940
Box 1	Folder 2	President White's Letter - copy	1916
Box 1	Folder 3	Facts About the ROTC Program	1950s-1960
Box 1	Folder 4	Unit History	no date
Box 1	Folder 5	Land Grant Colleges - Circulars	1950s
Box 1	Folder 6	Change to General Military Science Curriculum	1955-1956
Box 1	Folder 7	Change to General Military Science Curriculum	1952-1954
Box 1	Folder 8-9	ROTC Curriculum	1959
Box 1	Folder 10	University Committees on Military Curricula and Requirements for Graduation	1960
Box 1	Folder 11	University Committees on Military Curricula and Requirements for Graduation	1953-1959
Box 1	Folder 12	Arts and Sciences Credit Project	1971-1979
Box 1	Folder 13	University ROTC Relationship Committee	1973-1981
Box 1	Folder 14	University ROTC Relationship Committee	1971-1972
Box 1	Folder 15	University ROTC Relationship Committee	1970-1971
Box 1	Folder 16	University ROTC Relationship Committee	1968-1970
Box 1	Folder 17-19	University ROTC Committee	1970-1972
Box 1	Folder 20	Senate Actions	1970-1971
Box 1	Folder 21	Enrollment Graphs	1961-1988
Box 1	Folder 22	Cross Enrollment	1972-1973
Box 1	Folder 42	Army Specialized Training Program - WWII	1942-1945
Box 1	Folder 43	Cornell Statistics - WWI - War Memorial	no date
Box 1	Folder 44	Establishment of ROTC Flight Training	1956
Box 1	Folder 45	New York State Medical College - ROTC	1937-1938
Box 1	Folder 46	Korea and Vietnam Casualties	no date
Box 1	Folder 47	Brigadier General R. Dean Tice Visit	1973
Box 2	Folder 1	Cadet Rosters	1885-1887
Box 2	Folder 2	Cadet Rosters	1890-1896
Box 2	Folder 3	Cadet Rosters	1917, 1925-1939
Box 2	Folder 4	Cadet Rosters	1940-1949
Box 2	Folder 5-6	Cadet Rosters	1950-1959
Box 2	Folder 7-8	Cadet Rosters	1970-1979
Box 2	Folder 9	Cadet Rosters	1980-1989
Box 2	Folder 10	Cadet Handbook	1976-1977
Box 2	Folder 11	Annual Reports	1916-1929
Box 2	Folder 12	Annual Reports	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 13	Annual Reports	1940-1949
Box 2	Folder 14	Annual Reports	1950-1959
Box 2	Folder 15	Annual Reports	1960-1969
Box 2	Folder 16	Annual Reports	1979-1999
Box 2	Folder 17	Report of Presidential Commission on Military Training	1968
Box 2	Folder 18	Presidential Review	1968-1970
Box 2	Folder 19	ROTC Debate	1968-1970
Box 2	Folder 20	Senate Debate on ROTC	1970-1971
Box 2	Folder 21	Commissioning	1955-1957
Box 2	Folder 22	Commissioning	1969-1970
Box 2	Folder 23	Commissioning	1963-1964, 1968
Box 2	Folder 24	Programs - Commissioning Ceremonies and Awards Ceremonies	1990-2002
Box 2	Folder 25	Presidential Commission	1969
Box 3	Folder 1	Pledging Scabbard and Blade	1949-2000
Box 3	Folder 2	Newsletters - "Barton Banner" and "The Recoil"	1977-1989
Box 3	Folder 3	Articles	1970s
Box 3	Folder 4	Articles	1980s-2001
Box 3	Folder 5	Papers by Students about ROTC	1980s, 1990s
Box 3	Folder 6	Proposed Bequest - Colonel Wortham	1971-1980
Box 3	Folder 7	War Maps	1918
Box 3	Folder 8	WWI Appreciation Booklet from Simon Long's Sons, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and Postcard to the "Heroes of Desert Storm"
Box 3	Folder 9	Film from The Big Picture series showcasing Cornell CD-2082	1958
		Scope and Contents Also a February 1958 article from the ALumni News about the filming.
Box 3	Folder 10	Postcards and guide of Trier	1919
Box 3	Folder 11	Postcards and guides of France	1919
Box 3	Folder 12	Postcards and guide of Coblenz	1919
Box 3	Folder 13	Guides and Maps of Rhineland	1918-1919
Box 3	Folder 14	USS Leviathan pamphlets
Box 3	Folder 15	Infantry and field service regulations	1911, 1914
Box 3	Folder 16	10 points for cadet battalion success
Box 3	Folder 17	France ally pamphlets	1918
Box 3	Folder 18	WWI newspaper clippings	1917-1918
Box 3	Folder 19	Excelsior Battalion budgets	1993-1994
Box 3	Folder 35	Cornell Annual Horse Show program	May 12, 1923
		Scope and Contents Upper Alumni Field, featuring Field Artillery R.O.T.C, Polo Club, and Cayuga Valley Riding and Hunt Club.
Box 3	Folder 36	Eleventh Annual Cornell R.O.T.C. Horse Show and Gymkana	May 2, 1931
Box 8	Folder 8	Stars and Stripes newspaper	1918
Box 8		ROTC certificate	1988
Box 8		Binder of committee notes	1960s
Box 8	Folder 8	Cornell Veteran and Military Community alumni reunion weekend materials	Undated
Box 9		Army Specialized Training Program - Academic Transcripts - (A-CON) - During student's lifetime individual transcripts restricted to permission of student and ROTC office.	1943-1944
		Access restricted
Mapcase Folder 1		Robert Stack certificate "Ordre National de la Legion D'honneur"	1951-11-01
Mapcase Folder 1		Part of a German military map	Undated
		Series II. Alumni Materials
Box 1	Folder 23	Past Professors of Military Science (PMS)	1868-1988
Box 1	Folder 24	Joseph Whittlesey (1868-1870), George Bell (1892-1895) - PMS	1868-1895
Box 1	Folder 25	Major Arnold (1870-1873), James Burbank (1877-1883) - PMS	1870-1883
Box 1	Folder 26	Ervin Phillips (1908-1911), Henry Bull (1913-1915) - PMS	1908-1915
Box 1	Folder 27	John J. Fulmer (1932-1937), Waldo Potter (1937-1940), G. S. Smith (1951-1954) - PMS	1932-1954
Box 1	Folder 28	Richard Comstock (1954-1957), William Allen (1957-1960) - PMS	1954-1960
Box 1	Folder 29	Charles Blumenfeld (1960-1962), Miller (1962-1965) - PMS	1960-1965
Box 1	Folder 30	Martin Waters (1965-1968), Claude Bailey (1968-1972) - PMS	1965-1972
Box 1	Folder 31	Robert Chamberlain (1972-1975), Gerard Luisi (1975) - PMS	1972-1975
Box 1	Folder 32	Robert D'Entremont, Buchwald (1985-1988) - PMS	1980s
Box 1	Folder 33	Edward Tinkham - Class of 1912	1928-1975
Box 1	Folder 34	Allan Eggers - Class of 1919	1958
Box 1	Folder 35	Robert Stack - Class of 1923	1965-1990
Box 1	Folder 36	Matt Urban - Class of 1941	1980
Box 1	Folder 37	Arthur Conklin - Class of 1894, Howard Wortham - Class of 1914	1934-1954
Box 1	Folder 38	Jess Creech - Class of 1920, John Donaldson - Class of 1921, George Pfann - Class of 1924	no date
Box 1	Folder 39	Bruce Clarke - Class of 1927, Derrill Daniel - Class of 1933, George Hologhwost - Class of 1937	1951-1975
Box 1	Folder 40	Robert Taber - Class of 1938	1972
Box 1	Folder 41	Harold Parker - Class of 1938	1971
Box 2	Folder 26	F.R. Newman	1975-1977
Box 2	Folder 27	F.R. Newman - Photos - Wortham Museum Barton Hall uniform exhibit dedication	1963-1964, 1968
Box 2	Folder 28	F.R. Newman - Shanghai Story	1912-1976
Box 2	Folder 29	"Events and Memorable Experiences by F.R. Newman	1976
Box 3	Folder 20	FR Newman papers	1916-1922
Box 3	Folder 21	Certificates: "Rangers" certificate of appreciation 1984, Selden Allis, William Bradley
Box 3	Folder 22	William Bradley papers	1943
Box 3	Folder 23-24	Torn letters to Lucius Hopwood
Box 3	Folder 25-26	Letters from Lucius Hopwood to wife and daughter	1917-1918
Box 3	Folder 27	Letters to Audentia Hopwood	1921-1935
Box 3	Folder 28-29	Letters to Lucius Hopwood	1914-1918
Box 3	Folder 30	Hopwood miscellany
Box 3	Folder 31	Lucius Hopwood wallet and pocket dictionary
Box 3	Folder 32	Victor Reese, Ralph Hall poem
Box 3	Folder 33	John W. Mack, College of Military Science certificate - rank of Captain in Corps of Cornell Cadets	1872
Box 3	Folder 34	Photo of Joseph Sydney Barr's War Alumnus proclamation	1922
	EStorage - A171-07-001	Materials relating to the Barton Hall World War Two Remembrance Garden Dedication	2017
		Scope and Contents Includes material on Cornellians Frederick Johnson, Matt Urban, Rodney Gould, and Raymond Thorpe.
		Series III. Photographs and slides
Box 4		Photographs	1890-2002
		Scope and Contents Multiple wars, WW1, Newman material, canons, etc..
Box 8	Folder 1	Photo album pages	1970s
Box 8	Folder 2	Ranger challenge	1988
Box 8	Folder 3	Photograph, SVC 9
Box 8	Folder 4	WWI Train photo
Box 8	Folder 5	Miscellaneous
Box 8	Folder 6	Howard Evans badges
Box 8	Folder 7	Vietnam slides	1967-1968, 1998
Box 8		Photo album	1990s
Box 5		Photograph scrapbook album	1950s
Box 6		Photograph scrapbook album
Box 7		Photograph scrapbook album
Box 7		Photographs of FR Newman certificate
Box 7		Photographs of graduating classes, 1917-1918
Box 7		Lehigh valley reserve officers, Military ball	1950-02-26
Box 7		ROTC duty with W.B. Larew	1933-1938
Box 7		Photograph of O.C.C. #17, Camp Hood, Texas	1943-02-11
Mapcase Folder 1		Barton Hall truck show photograph	1920's
Mapcase Folder 1		Group photograph of Cornell Military Department	1919-05-20
Mapcase Folder 1		Photograph of Cornell University annual inspection - Reserve Officers Training Corps	Spring 1917
Mapcase Folder 2		Photograph of 644 A, Fort Lewis Washington
Mapcase Folder 2		Photograph of officers and cadets, with Capt. Pangborn Parsons and commanding officer
Mapcase Folder 3		Photograph of ROTC Madison Barracks	1936
		Series IV. Objects and Memorabilia
Box 10	MU-537	Marksmanship pin awarded to Cornell Cadet Corps	1896
Box 10	MU-758	Cornell Marksman medal	1918-1919
Box 10	MU-4573	Black hat belonging to R. Moody, with CU pin in center and Cornell buttons	1914
MU 4575	MU-4575	Dress saber	1898
		Scope and Contents Dress saber of Mather Sherwood, class of 1899 and Cadet Corps Captain in 1898.
Box 11		Cadet uniform	1896
		Custodial History Belonged to Mather Sherwood.
		Scope and Contents Epaulettes (MU-4675, MU-4676, MU-4677, MU-4678) and belts (MU-4679, MU-4680, MU-4681).
		Cornell Navy ROTC webcrawl
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.