Box 2826

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of seven pages of material, mostly photocopied, from a nineteenth-century scrapbook. The most significant item is a pencil sketch of the Rotunda on the campus of The University of Alabama. The signature "Douthitt" is discernable in the bottom corner of the page. Several of the photocopied pages contain articles relating to the death of Major John L. M. Pelham of Calhoun County, Alabama, during the Civil War in March 1863.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a joint statement made by Jack Drake, Ralph Knowles and George Dean, relating to an alleged undercover informant/agent provocateur during student unrest in 1971(?).

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a research paper written by Harold Dunn for an American Studies class (AMS 251 - American Folklore) written in 1991 and titled "The Annual Miss Winterboro High School Beauty Pageant and Its Significance to the Community." Dunn received an "A" for the paper from Professor Bealle.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains an essay about folk dancing at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education, a school founded in 1907 in Fairhope, Alabama. Marietta Johnson was a well-known progressive educator who founded this school in south Alabama that allows children to learn without examinations or grades.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains an essay by Ashley Liles on deer hunting, ghost tales, Tom Haney, dipping, pranks, the hunter, and vocabulary

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine articles as well as tributes to Foster, who died four years after becoming the president of the University of Alabama. There is also a folder of photocopied correspondence, tributes, and newspaper clippings.