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Honorary Degree Recipients Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0295
Abstract
The first honorary degree was awarded in 1888, to Hannah K. Clapp. In the minutes of the Board of Regents, August 15, 1888, is recorded that "Upon Resolution it was ordered that the degree of M.A. be conferred upon Professor Hannah K. Clapp by the Board of Regents." This collection contains files on honorary degree and distinguished Nevada recipients, 1937-1969. The information includes brief biographical sketches of the recipients, correspondence, and photographs.
Dates:
1937-1969
Vail Montgomery Pittman Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC392
Abstract
Vail Montgomery Pittman was a Nevada newspaperman, State Senator (1925-1929), Lieutenant Governor (1943-1945), Governor (1945-1950), and Democratic National Committeeman from Nevada (1955-1961). Married to Ida Brewington, 1919; brother of Nevada U.S. Senator Key Pittman. Papers, primarily correspondence, are to Pittman from personal, business, and political associates. Major correspondents include Alan Bible, Berkeley Bunker, Pat McCarran, Lester Moody, Drew Pearson, Key Pittman, Mimosa...
Dates:
1896-1964; Majority of material found within 1940-1964
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- University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department 1
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- African Americans -- History -- Nevada 1
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- Excerpts 1
- Governors -- Nevada 1
- Governors -- Nevada -- Election 1
- Nevada -- Newspapers 1
- Nevada -- Politics and government 1
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- Names
- Adams, Eva Bertrand, 1908-1991 1
- Badie, Margaret 1
- Badt, Milton B. 1
- Berkner, Lloyd V. (Lloyd Viel), 1905-1967 1
- Berlin, Ellin 1
- Bible, Alan, 1909-1988 1
- Bunker, Berkeley Lloyd, 1906- 1
- Church, James Edward, Jr., 1869-1959 1
- Democratic Party (Nev.) 1
- Dodge, Carl F. 1
- Eather, Edgar 1
- Erskine, Hazel Gaudet 1
- Feemster, Dolores 1
- Fife, James 1
- Fleischmann, Max C. (Max Charles), 1877-1951 1
- Foley, Roger T. 1
- Frandsen, Peter, 1876-1967 1
- Gibson, Samuel 1
- Gloyd, Howard 1
- Grier, Herbert Earl 1
- Guild, Clark J., 1887-1971 1
- Hadley, Morris, 1894- 1
- Hamlet, Julia 1
- Hardy, Roy A., 1886-1974 1
- Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979 1
- Hunt, William 1
- Isbell, C. V. (Clement V.) 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
- Kinnear, John C. 1
- Ledger, John T. 1
- Love, Malcolm A. (Malcolm Andrews), 1904-1990 1
- Mack, Effie Mona 1
- McCarran, Pat, 1876-1954 1
- McCulloch, Frank Walter 1
- McHenry, Dean Eugene 1
- Mildren, Frank T. (Frank Thomas) 1
- Moody, Lester 1
- Mullins, Ernest 1
- Nelson, Esterline 1
- Ogilvie, George 1
- Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969 1
- Pittman, Key, 1872-1940 1
- Pittman, Mimosa Gates, 1872-1952 1
- Questa, Edward J. 1
- Riegelhuth, Katharine, 1876-1973 1
- Rusco, Elmer R. 1
- Salet, Eugene A. 1
- Sanford, William Clark 1
- Smith, Alice L., 1902-1990 1
- Smith, Lloyd P. 1
- Spengler, Kenneth C., 1915-2010 1
- Summerfield, Lester D., 1888-1966 1
- Swobe, Coe 1
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 1
- University of Nevada System. Board of Regents 1
- University of Nevada, Reno. Bureau of Governmental Research 1
- University of Nevada. Board of Regents 1
- Wartman, Franklin S. 1
- Webb, William D. 1
- Whittell, George, 1881-1969 1
- Williams, Joseph 1
- Woodward, Ullyses S. 1
- Wooster, Earl, 1893-1977 1 ∧ less
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