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

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Cornell University ROTC records, 1890-2002.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
33-2-4134
Abstract:
Includes reports, meeting minutes, subject files and photographs pertaining to the Cornell ROTC program.
Creator:
Cornell University. ROTC
Quanitities:
3.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes reports, meeting minutes, subject files and photographs pertaining to the Cornell ROTC program and Cornellians who served in the military. Many materials relating to the service of Floyd R. Newman. Letters from soldiers home, many from World War I. Also a 1958 film from The Big Picture series showcasing Cornell.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Cornell University Military Science and ROTC records, #33-2-4134. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Access Restrictions:

Access to individual transcripts in Box 9 restricted to the permission of the student and ROTC office during student's lifetime.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Newman, Floyd R. (Floyd Roy), 1890-1990
United States. Army. Reserve Officers\' Training Corps
Cornell University -- : Students.
United States. Army. Army Specialized Training Program
United States Army
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918.
Aeronautics, Military -- New York (State) -- Ithaca
Military education.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.

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.
Cornell Navy ROTC webcrawl
Digital
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.