School of Hotel Administration Directors records, 1922-1981.
Collection Number: 28-1-1803

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

School of Hotel Administration Directors records, 1922-1981.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

28-1-1803

Abstract:

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.

Creator:

Cornell University. School of Hotel Administration. Director

Quanitities:

1.1 cubic feet.

Language:

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

Directors and deans represented include Howard B. Meek, Robert A. Beck, and John J. Clark.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

School of Hotel Administration Director's records, #28-1-1803. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Scope and content

Records of the Director's Office include correspondence files, including letters from Joseph Vehling, Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose; 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:

Meek, Howard B., 1893-

Beck, Robert Alfred, 1920-

Clark, John J.

Vehling, Joseph Dommers, 1879-1950.

Van Rensselaer, Martha, 1864-1932.

Rose, Flora, 1874-

Places:

Europe -- Description and travel -- 1945-1970.

Subjects:

Hotel management schools -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.

Hotel management -- Study and teaching.

CONTAINER LIST

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

Contents

School of Hotel Administration Directors records, 1922-1981. Collection Number: 28-1-1803

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

School of Hotel Administration Directors records, 1922-1981.
Collection Number: 28-1-1803

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library