DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
School of Hotel
Administration Director's records,
1922-1981.
28-1-1803
Cornell University. School of Hotel
Administration. Director.
10.1 cubic
ft.
Correspondence, files, albums,
records, reports, meeting minutes, plaques.
Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library
Records of the Director's Office and of
Howard B. Meek include registration reports as well as school budgets, minutes
of faculty and staff meetings, and reports.
Collection material in
English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
Directors and deans represented include Howard B. Meek, Robert A.
Beck, and John J. Clark.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Records of the Director's Office include correspondence files;
biographical files; and subject files, including files of the Courtney Memorial
Fund. Records of Howard B. Meek include registration reports, with letters to
Meek; correspondence; items relating to a Hotel School European tour; and
plaques and awards given to Meek. Also, school budgets, 1954-1978; minutes of
faculty and staff meetings, 1935-1981; report of the Education Committee of the
American Hotel Association, 1944; and minutes of Deans' Council meetings,
1968-1970.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Cornell University.
Beck, Robert Alfred,
1920-
Clark, John J.
Meek, Howard B., 1893-
Subjects:
Hotel management--Study and
teaching.
Hotel management schools--New York
(State)--Ithaca.
Places:
Europe--Description and
travel.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cite As:
School of Hotel Administration Director's records, #28-1-1803.
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SERIES LIST
[Series I. History](s1)
Boxes 1-2, 12
[Subseries I. Chronological files](s1ss1)
[Subseries II. Biographical files](s1ss2)
[Subseries III. Subject file](s1ss3)
[Subseries IV. Courtney Memorial Fund](s1ss4)
[Subseries V. Registration Reports](s1ss5)
[Series II. Howard B. Meek files](s2)
Boxes 1, 4-11
[Subseries I. Administrative Records](s2ss1)
[-Registration reports](s2ss1sss1)
[-Correspondence](s2ss1sss2)
[-Miscellaneous](s2ss1sss3)
[Subseries II. European tour](s2ss2)
[Subseries III. Commemorative Items](s2ss3)
[-Plaques and awards](s2ss3sss1)
[-Loose material](s2ss3sss2)
CONTAINER LIST
Series I. History
Subseries I. Chronological files
1
1
Correspondence
1922
1
2
Correspondence
1923
1
3
Correspondence
1924
1
4
Correspondence
1925
1
5
Correspondence
1926
1
6
Correspondence
1927
1
7
Correspondence
1928
1
8
Correspondence
1929
1
9
Correspondence
1930
1
10
Correspondence
1931
1
11
Correspondence
1932
1
12
Correspondence
1933
1
13
Correspondence
1934
1
14
Correspondence
1935
1
15
Correspondence
1936
1
16
Correspondence
1937
1
17
Correspondence
1939
1
18
Correspondence
1940
1
19
Correspondence
1941
1
20
Correspondence
1942
1
21
Correspondence
1943
1
22
Correspondence
1944
1
23
Correspondence
1945
1
24
Correspondence
1946
1
25
Correspondence
1947
1
26
Correspondence
1948
1
27
Correspondence
1949
1
28
Correspondence
1950
1
29
Correspondence
1951
1
30
Correspondence
1952
1
31
Correspondence
1953
1
32
Correspondence
1954
1
33
Correspondence
1955
1
34
Correspondence
1957
1
35
Correspondence
1958
1
36
Correspondence
1959
1
37
Chronological list of important events
1960
1
38
Chef's course
1945
1
39
NCR posting machine
1
40
Tourism
Subseries II. Biographical files (list of folder contents
in front of each file)
1
41
Boomer, Lucius M.
1
42
Callis, Harold B.
1
43
Day, Edmund E.
1
44
Eppley, Eugene C.
1
45
Gibson, A.W. and Student War Service
Committee
1
46
Green, Thomas D.
1
47
Hamilton, W.I.
1
48
Herndon, James B.
1
49
Hoie, John McF.
1913-1958
1
50
Kief, Raymond J.
1
51
McHatton, George
1
52
McKowne, Frank A.
1923-1944
1
53
Meek, Howard B.
1
54
Needham, William R.
1
55
Owen, Emerson
1
56
Pinco, Charles N.
1
57
Randolph, Frank H.
1
58
Recknagel, Helen J.
2
1
Rose, Flora
2
2
Shircliff, Arnold
2
3
Statler, Alice and Ellsworth M.
1923-1962
2
4
Toth, Lewis
2
5
Tschirky, Oscar, Leo, and Robert
2
6
Van Rensselaer, Martha
2
7
Vehling, Joseph D.
2
8
Windsor, Andrew L.
Subseries III. Subject file
2
9
Accelerated program
2
10
Army - Reg. QM students
2
11
Budget folder
2
12
CPA
2
13
Cornell Society of Hotelmen
Subseries IV. Courtney Memorial Fund
2
14
Courtney memorial fund
2
15
CICSF
1967
2
16
"Impact of Hotel School Alumni Felt throughout the
World," by Frank Ready
2
17
Cornell Alumni Corporation
2
18
Alumni Trustee nominations
2
19
Bills and vouchers
2
20
Correspondence course
1920-1940's
2
21
Good housekeeping (Lewis course)
2
22
Home Economics miscellany
2
23
Hospital administration course
explorations
1927-1947
2
24
Menu planning course
2
25
Insurance course
2
26
National hotel exposition trips
1924-1941
2
27
Navy program
2
28
Naval ROTC
2
29
ROTC
2
30
Navy and marine possibilities
2
31
Old faculty
2
32
Olympics
2
33
Other hotel schools, philosophy on
2
34
Placement
1927-1951
2
35
Real estate course
2
36
Research
2
37
First explanatory conference on research in fields
related to the operation of hotels
July 9, 1953
2
38
First explanatory conference on research in fields
related to the operation of hotels
July 9, 1953
2
38
Reports and recommendations
November 17, 1953
2
39
Research
Subseries V. Registration Reports
12
1-38
Reports on Student Registration submitted to the Dean
1938-1970
Series II. Howard B. Meek files
Subseries I. Administrative Records
Registration reports
1
1
Letter to H.B. Meek
October 1940
1
2
Letter to H.B. Meek
February 1941
1
3
Letter to H.B. Meek
October 1941
1
4
Letter to H.B. Meek
February 1942
1
5
Letter to H.B. Meek
September 1942
1
6
Letter to H.B. Meek
February 1943
1
7
Letter to H.B. Meek
July 1943
1
8
Letter to H.B. Meek
November 1943
1
9
Letter to H.B. Meek
Spring 1944
1
10
Letter to H.B. Meek
July 1944
1
11
Letter to H.B. Meek
November 1944
1
12
Letter to H.B. Meek
March 1949
1
13
Estimated registration
February 1940
1
14
Expected registration
February 1940
1
15
Expected registration
September 1941
1
16
Registration
September 1940
1
17
Registration
February 1941
1
18
Registration
September 1941
1
19
Registration
February 1942
4
1
Registration Report
1940
4
2
Registration Report
1941
4
3
Registration Report
1941
4
4
Registration Report
1942
4
5
Registration Report
1942
4
6
Registration Report
1943
4
7
Registration Report
1943
4
8
Registration Report
1943
4
9
Registration Report
1944
4
10
Registration Report
1944
4
11
Registration Report
1944
4
12
Registration Report
1949
Correspondence
4
13
A-C
1948-1951
4
14
"To Buildings and Grounds"
1948-1950
4
15
"To Day"
1942-1950
4
16
"To Holabird and Root and Burgee"
1941-1950
4
17
D-O
February 1942
4
18
"To Parke"
February 1942
4
19
P-Z
February 1942
Miscellaneous
4
20
Miscellaneous
February 1942
4
21
Miscellaneous
1947-1949
4
22
Report No. V
1949
4
23
Statler Hotel Sound Equipment
1948
4
24
Sample Hotel School Exam Questions
1937
5
1
Cornerstone ceremonies
5
2
Purchasing department
5
3
Sayles, Charles I.
5
4
Dedication
5
5
Faculty Club
5
6
Bamberth, Hugo
5
7
Meek retirement
5
8
OPA (Office of Price Administration) and Palmer,
Archie M.
5
9-10
OPA
5
11
Minimum Wage Board, New York State Department of
Labor
5
12
Kittamat Hotel survey
5
13
Thayer Hotel
5
14
Statler Foundation
6
12
Buying retirement on the loss of state
status
6
13
Sales course
6
14
Scholarships
6
15
Secretarial science
6
16
National Executive Housekeepers Association (Summer
School)
6
17
Teacher Training for Chefs
6
18
Veterans Administration
1946-1951
6
19
Wines course
7
Binder with plates from the Edgewater Beach Salad Book by Arnold Shircliffe, presented to the Meeks
Subseries II. European tour
5
15
Hotel tour participants
1955
5
16
Participants and prospects, correspondence re European
hotel and restaurant executives tour
1953
5
17
Pictures and questionnaires
1955
5
18
Miscellany
1955
5
19
Prospects
5
20
Meek correspondence concerning tours
1954-1956
5
21
Flyers, maps, etc.
6
1
"Old"
6
2
Itineraries, etc.
6
3
Promotion
6
4
Promotion - early
6
5
Vouchers
1958
6
6
Europe memoirs
1953
Subseries III. Commemorative Items
Plaques and awards
6
7
Hotel Ezra Cornell - appreciation
plaque
11
Scroll signed by members of the New York Branch of the Cornell Society of Hotel Men, in appreciation of Meek's 10th Anniversary of
starting the Hotel Course
April 1932
11
Certificate signed by the Governor of Nebraska, appointing him Admiral in the Navy of Nebraska
1954
7
Pacific Air Force plaque for Outstanding Service Open Mess Training Course at the Imperial Hotel - Tokyo, Japan
1959
6
8
Hotel Association of Washington, D.C. - plaque for
outstanding service
April 3, 1961
7
"The Southern Exposition for Hotels, Motels and Restaurants" - Appreciation plaque
April 4, 1961
6
9
Texas Hotel and Motel Association, Distinguished
Service Award
May 5, 1964
6
10
New York State Hotel Association, honorary life
membership card
6
11
Honorary citizen of Texas
May 25, 1961
6
20
"The Growth of an Idea," scrapbook documenting the
first 25 years of the Hotel School
6
21
"Testimonial Dinner in Honor of Dean Howard Bagnall
Meek," scrapbook
January 9, 1961
6
22
"Meekbake," The New England Chapter of the Cornell
Society of Hotelmen, scrapbook
March 10, 1961
6
23
"Testimonial Dinner in Honor of Dean Howard B.
Meek," scrapbook
March 16, 1961
11
"Professor Howard Bagnall Meek," testimonial dinner,
Mayflower Hotel (album)
April 3, 1961
11
Certificate of appreciation from Cornell Society of Hotelmen
1969
7
"A Pictorial Commemorative of the visit of Professor
H.B. Meek and the Graduating Class of the Hotel Administration of Cornell
University to the Greenbriar..." (photograph album)
June 13-15, 1937
Loose material
7
1
Loose material from testimonial dinner
album, including photographs
1961
7
2
H.B. Meek miscellany
7
3
Trip to South America
1950-1951
7
4-5
Miscellaneous Cornell University
material
7
6
Hotel management clippings, Bureau of Good
Ideas
7
7
Menus, etc., not used
7
8-9
European trip miscellany
7
10
Hotel accounting, slide preparation
7
11
"Federal Reserve Policy" paper by Meek
1929
7
12
Certificate in Spanish given to Meek (1951); Signed photo (1932); Slide of Mr. and Mrs. Meek
8
School Budgets
1954-1978
8
Dean's Council Minutes
1970
8
Future Projects-Beck
8
Faculty Minutes
1978
8
Faculty Minutes
1969-1972
8
Budget for Hotel School
1922-1933
9
Dean's Council
1968-1970
9
Education Committee Report
1944
9
Staff Meetings
1976-1978
9
Faculty Meetings
1972-1976
9
Petit. Meetings
1975-1981
9
Faculty Minutes
1935-1959
9
Cornell Faculty Salaries Analysis
10
Dean's Conferences
1963-1967