Severinghaus family papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 4240

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Subject files, correspondence, photographs, movie films, audiotapes, ephemera, and other material pertaining to the personal life and professional career of Leslie Severinghaus and his family (particularly his wife Emmavail Luce Severinghaus). Chief topics include the Peking Union Medical College, travel and work in China, education, the Haverford School in Pennsylvania, and Wellesley College.

Additional material includes letters written from China, 1922-1927; photographs and photograph albums; other files; 1980 compilation of TIME magazine articles on the Philippines, 1970-1980; typescript report "Common Sense and the Constitution,"1982, on separation of church and state; reprint about college admissions policies, 1963; article on the Peking Union Medical College, 1982; and "Changing Times and Cornell's Presidency," a report to the Board of Trustees, 1961. Also, photographs taken at Cornell University, 1986; videotape made for the celebration of the donation of the Leslie R. Severinghaus Reading Room; and items from the dedication of the Reading Room, 1992. Also, program for memorial service, and hymns. Also, nine framed items, including posters, watercolor portrait of Severinghaus, prints, and sketches and a scrapbook concerning the Severinghaus Reading Room in Kroch Library.

Dates

1922 - 1994

Creator

Severinghaus family. (Family)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Leslie Richard Severinghaus was born in 1899, the son of Charles E. and Anna Edward Severinghaus. After graduating from Cornell University in 1921, he taught English at the Peking Union Medical College in Peking, China and later served as head of the English Department and Headmaster of the Haverford School. He was a member of the Cornell University Board of Trustees. While in Peking, Leslie Severinghaus met and married Emmavail Luce who had returned to China after her 1922 graduation from Wellesley College to serve as a foreign secretary in the YWCA.

Extent

33 cubic feet. (33 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

SERIES LIST

Series I. Personal

Correspondence Boxes 1-4 Family Correspondence Boxes 1, 5, 6, 9, 11 Journal/diaries/memoirs/planners Boxes 7-15 Additional Personal Boxes 57-59

Series II. China

Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) Box 16 American Bureau of Medical Aid for China (ABMAC) Box 17 American Oral English Program (SLUR) Box 18

Series III. Schools

Haverford School Boxes 19, 29 Palmer Box 20 "Experiment": Green Mountains International Work and Language Camp at Goddard College Boxes 24, 49, 50 Headmasters Associations Box 22

Series IV. Cornell

Box 23 Series V. Travel

Boxes 30-33 Series VI. Subject Files

Religion, State, Schools Boxes 24, 28 Wellesley (Emmavail) Boxes 24, 26, 27 Speeches/addresses Boxes 24, 27 Financial Box 24, 29 Directorships Box 25 Audubon Box 29 Newspaper Clippings Box 28 Hartford Outline Box 28

Series VII. Visual Material and Ephemera

Photograph Albums Boxes 26, 34-39 Photographs Boxes 32, 49-52 Slides Boxes 40-45, 66-68, 71 Negatives Boxes 46-48, 53-56 Ephemera Boxes 62, 65, Map Cases KK20, DD 10

Series VIII. Audio and Audiovisual Materials

Reel tapes Boxes 60, 69 Cassette tapes Box 60 Video cassettes Boxes 69-70 Film Boxes 60-61 69-71

Physical Description

Subject files, correspondence, photographs, movie films, audiotapes, ephemera.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Gregory Fischer
Date completed:: December 1995
EAD encoding:: Mireille Lee, July 2000
Date modified:: Fredrika Loew, October 2018