Hugh Anderson Moran was a Presbyterian clergyman; secretary of the International Committee of the YMCA in China, 1909-1913; international secretary, Boy and Student Department, YMCA, 1914-1915; voluntary study secretary, Cornell University Christian Association (CUCA), 1919-1921; director of religious education, CUCA, 1921-1927, and of Cornell United Religious Works (CURW), 1927-1937; director of extension service, CURW, 1937-1940; staff member, CURW, 1940-1942; and secretary, Rural Institute for Religious Workers from 1935.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, and other items concerning CURW and its predecessor, CUCA, the Chinese Students' Association of America, Cornell-in-China Program, Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students, Cornell Religious Drama Association, Christian Rural Fellowship, Ithaca Westminster Foundation, Ithaca Presbyterian Church, and YMCA; many of the letters are from student participants in CUCA and CURW and from foreign students and alumni. Also, letters recommending students to Moran's attention and his letters of recommendation; manuscripts of his unpublished book, "Training Young People in Worship," religious plays, worship services, and essays and mimeographed radio scripts; notes and mimeographed material concerning pacifism and conscientious objectors; religious poetry; correspondence, financial records, Board of Directors' minutes, and membership lists (1940-1941) concerning his work as board president and building committee member of the Cooperative Consumers' Society in Ithaca; letters (1933-1940) to his mother; his autobiography to 1919; and miscellaneous printed items.
Photograph album compiled for Hugh Moran by the Cornell University Westminster Student Society, with photographs of student activities, including camps at Happy Valley in Lisle, N.Y., Stewart Park in Ithaca, the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, and Barnes Hall and Sage Hall on the Cornell campus, 1931-1941. Also, typewritten fair copy of Moran's book The Making of Great Americans, intended as a companion volume to his dissertation, Makers of America. The Making of Great Americans was never published. Laid in is a manuscript note from Moran, presenting the book manuscript to Barnes Library, at that time a library of religious works housed in Barnes Hall at Cornell.
Hugh Anderson Moran papers, #39-2-972. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Compiled for Moran for being responsible for the many activities the album depcits. Includes photographs of Society activities including hikes, retreats, and other events including Lisle, Six Mile Creek, Stewart Park, Buttermilk. Photographs include images of camping and hiking in the gorges, the Cornell United Religious Works cabin, Edward Amherst Ott (Dr. Ott), Ithaca Presbyterian Church Oregon Mission Tablet dedication, also an image of the 1921 Silver Bay Student Conference featuring a Cornell banner and Asian students.
Letter includes mention that the YMCA will not allow him to go back to China because of his nervous condition. Dean Kelsey was Moran’s former colleague at the Chinese YMCA in Hankow (Hankou) China.