Guide to the Nathaniel Cooper Kendrick Papers, 1934-1967
Nathanial Kendrick Cooper Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.
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Nathanial Cooper Kendrick was dean of Bowdoin College from 1947 until his retirement 1966 and Frank Munsey Professor of History Emeritus. Born in Rochester, New York in 1900, he graduated from the University of Rochester in 1921 and completed graduate work at Harvard University, receiving his Ph. D. in 1930. He studied in London and Vienna on a traveling fellowship in 1925-26 and then joined the Bowdoin faculty as an instructor in History. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1928, to associate professor in 1932, and full professor in 1946, when he also became acting dean. He was appointed dean in 1947. In 1959 he was named Frank Munsey Professor of History. Dean Kendrick was elected an honorary member of the Bowdoin College Alumni Association in 1962, and in October 1965 he became the third recipient of the Alumni Award for Faculty and Staff. In 1966 he was conferred an as honorary doctorate of humane letters. He was a member of the American Historical Association and Psi Upsilon Fraternity, which he served for many years at Bowdoin as an advisor. He was chairman of several regional and national committees on education and during World War II was a field representative for the State War Chest drive for the National War Fund campaign, the USO, and other war relief agencies. He married Lucy Higgs in 1927 and together they had one son and one daughter. Dean Kendrick died at his summer home in Gravenhurst, Ontario in 1969.
Includes records and correspondence to and from Kendrick pertaining to students' standings with Bowdoin College and the military. There are also Bowdoin records of Kendrick's time as dean. This includes papers on curriculum, frats, and major requirements.
Arranged alphabetically.
Arranged alphabetically.
Contans records, reports, and correspondence. Includes letters to and from Kendrick, regarding the standing of individual students with Bowdoin and the military.
American Field Service, 1946
Army- admissions to officer's schools, 1942
Army Enlisted Reserve correspondence, 1942-1943
Army Enlisted Reserve, general information, 1942
Army locater forms
Certificate of good standing
Correspondence-general, 1942-1943
Correspondence-Kendrick's 1942-1946
Correspondence-Navy, 1942-1943
Deferments-Selective Service, 1943-1946
Deferments-Selective Service forms and bulletins, 1944
Enlistment record
Enlistment records, 1942
Enlistment records- Army Enlisted Reserve Corps
Maine Maritime Academy, 1944
Memoranda and reports, 1941-1946
Military service, 1940-1942
Navy- Joint enlistment in lelan v-1 and v-7, 1942-1943
Naval research-Radio-anacostic station, by 1942
Navy, technical classification
Office of the Chief Signal Officer-letters, 1942-1943
Pre-medical students, 1943-1944
Pre-Meterological Unit, 1942-1944
Procedure for various branches of the service, 1942
Seabees construction work with Navy
Service-Army-Navy, 1942
Service credits, 1944-1945
U.S. Armed Forces Institute, 1944-1945
U.S.O., 1937-1945
V.A. PL 346, 1946
Veteran's Administration (V.A.) correspondence- Aleck, C.Jr
V.A. correspondence- Babcock, Basil P.Jr
V.A. correspondence- Baker, R.M Jr. C-
V.A. correspondence- Barnes,A.M.C
V.A. correspondence- Bartholomew, Walter L., Jr.C
V.A. correspondence- Begley, J.P.
V.A. correspondence-Blaine, W.M.E.
V.A. correspondence- Burnham, R.M.
V.A. correspondence-Burton, R.S
V.A. correspondence- Callahan, P.E.
V.A. correspondence- Chamberlain, M
V.A. correspondence- Chason, C.G.
V.A. correspondence- Cinq-Mars, R.J.
V.A. correspondence- Clark, D.E.
V.A. correspondence- Clark, R.W. Jr
V.A. correspondence-Clarke, C.B. Jr C
V.A. correspondence- Coombs, M.L.
V.A. correspondence-Concoran, R.L.
V.A correspondence-Cressey,S.B.
V.A. correspondence-Danielson, C.
V.A. correspondence-Dysinger, Robert E.
V.A. correspondence-Fairclough, Wm. W. Jr. C
V.A. correspondence-Fatley, L.A.
V.A. correspondence-Farrington, H.E.
V.A. correspondence-Morton, H.Frank
V.A. correspondence-Fredler, C.W. Jr C
V.A. correspondence-Fitzpatrick, J.R. Jr C
V.A. correspondence- Frazer, R.N.
V.A. correspondence- French, H.S. Jr C
V.A. correspondence-Gadbaw, K.D.
V.A. correspondence-Gillen, E.D.
V.A. correspondence-Goodman, B.N.
V.A. correspondence-Goodspeed, M.P.
V.A. correspondence-Grant, D.H.
V.A. correspondence-Gray, W.V.E
V.A. correspondence- Greene, R.B.
V.A. correspondence-Hanna, Paul C. Jr.
V.A. correspondence-Hawks, E.A. Jr C
V.A. correspondence-Hendrickson, Harold
V.A. correspondence-Hepburn, N.T.
V.A. correspondence-Herman, P.H.
V.A. correspondence-Heyssler, J.M.
V.A. correspondence-Holmes, J.W.
V.A. correspondence- Huen, C.W.
V.A. correspondence-Iribe, Paul
V.A. correspondence-affe, W.
V.A. correspondence-Keenan, Kevin C.
V.A. correspondence-Kingsbury, Kieth
V.A. correspondence-Koallick, Fred
V.A. correspondence-Kunhardt P.B.
V.A. correspondence-Lancaster, R.W.
V.A. correspondence-LaRochelle, J.G.
V.A. correspondence-Leblac, R.C.
V.A. correspondence-Lewis, N.
V.A. correspondence-Longley, J.B.
V.A. correspondence-McFarland, E.J.
V.A. correspondence-MacGregor Allan B.
V.A. correspondence-Macomber, P.B.
V.A. correspondence-Moore, E.J.
V.A. correspondence-Morgan, W.S.
V.A. correspondence-Morrison, G.E.
V.A. correspondence- Morrisey, W.E. Jr
V.A. correspondence-Muller, G.W.
V.A. correspondence-Nerrit, B.W.
V.A. correspondence-Nichols, R.B.
V.A. correspondence-O'Brien, R.
V.A. correspondence- Oliphant, N.
V.A. correspondence-Palmer, H. Jr
V.A. correspondence-Patrick, R.L.
V.A. correspondence-Phyllise,W.K.
V.A. correspondence-Plisken, I.R.
V.A. correspondence-Pollard, S.M.
V.A. correspondence-Poulin, A.A. Jr
V.A. correspondence-Prior, C.
V.A. correspondence-Ramsety, E.G.
V.A. correspondence-Raynes, W.E.
V.A. correspondence-Richenburg, P.A. Jr
V.A. correspondence-Ricker, E.W.
V.A. correspondence-Ring, Milton Jr
V.A. correspondence-Rogers, W.R.
V.A. correspondence-Sands, D.P. Jr
V.A. correspondence-Shwarz, R.D.
V.A. correspondence-Scruggs, R.D.
V.A. correspondence-Shaw, G.P.
V.A. correspondence-Silsby, H.T. II
V.A. correspondence-Smart, S.H.
V.A. correspondence-Sotak,V.
V.A. correspondence-Staples, J.H.
V.A. correspondence-Sweeney, Leroy E. Jr
V.A. correspondence- Towers, N.L.
V.A. correspondence-Vamah, H.P. Jr
V.A. correspondence-Vinail, G.A.
V.A. correspondence-Vincent, H.G. Jr
V.A. correspondence-Walker, H.A. Jr
V.A. correspondence-Walsh, R.J. Jr
V.A. correspondence-Welch, D.E.
V.A. correspondence-Whitman, R.C.
V.A. correspondence-Williams, R.N.
V.A. correspondence-Wilson, C.E. Jr
V.A. correspondence-Wright, J.J.
V.A. correspondence-Yates, C.L.
V.A. correspondence-young,J.D. Jr
Veteran's Application Forms 1944-1945
Veteran's correspondence-Misc 1944-1946
Veteran's correspondence PL346 1945-1946
Veteran's correspondence PL16 1945-1946
Veteran's Directives, Bulletins etc.1945-1946
Veteran's Directive, Bulletins etc. 1944
V-7 general information
V-1, certificate for 1943
War service opportunities-Military 1942-1944
Arranged alphabetically.
Contains records from Kendrick's time as Dean of the college. Includes documents on fraternaties, fraternities' activities, tuition plans, cirriculum, major requirements, and registration.
Acknowledgement of letter 1944
Barlett, B.W., reunion chm., 25th reunion class of 1977
Bowdoin Plan 1961-1962
College Bowl 1962-1965
Commencement lists 1944
Curriculum and educational policy 1958-1966
Danforth Foundation 1959-1960
Faculty children's tuition plans 1951-1955
Fraternity matters 1940-1965
Fraternity matters: Hazing 1954-1956
Fraternity pledges and advisors 1956-1967
From Dean Kendrick 1934-1944
Major Requirements 1931-1946
Newcomen Society 1944
Registration 1942-1957
Registration 1955-1962
Rotary Club 1946
William J. Reardon Award 1958-1959