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Interview With Clinton Hines, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History collection

Clinton Hines was interviewed by Esther Mallard, November 11, 1987. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Betty Bainbridge Pittman, Class Of 1939, 1940, University Libraries, Lane Library

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This collection contains a two and a half page, hand-written autobiography of Betty Bainbridge Pittman’s years at Armstrong Junior College.

Also included are programs for the First Commencement and Honors Day (1937), Sophomore Alumni Luncheon with Betty’s photograph on cover (1940), First Annual Session of the Armstrong College Institute of Citizens, and the 1939 Armstrong Class 50th Reunion (1989). An admission ticket and invitation to the Fourth Commencement (1940) and both of her degree certificates are a part of the collection. Armstrong State College Short Course Bulletin of 1966, an information brochure about Armstrong State College (approximately 1966), and a …

Robert Gordon, Class Of 1940, University Libraries, Lane Library

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Mrs. Gordon (Rosalyn Weiser, Class of 1943) lent a scrapbook highlighting Mr. Gordon's athletic career, giving the archivist permission to make photocopies of its contents before returning it to her. The scrapbook contained a letter from Dean J. Thomas Askew inviting Gordon to take exams for a tuition scholarship because of his excellent high school grades. The archivist also made copies of newspaper clippings (The Savannah Morning News, The Inkwell, 1938 and 1939) related to Gordon's years at Armstrong on the basketball and football teams. The collection contains photocopies of his Athletic Hall of Fame plaque dated 1998, as well …

Lawrence “Larry” Matthew Tapp Scrapbooks, University Libraries, Lane Library

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Mainly newspaper article clippings, but also photographs, game schedules, and game programs documenting Lawrence “Larry” Matthew Tapp’s tenure as coach of Armstrong’s Basketball team from 1959 -1967. Extensive coverage of Armstrong basketball from the Savannah Morning Press and the Savannah Evening News. Article dates inventoried below. Also a few issues/clippings from The Inkwell, Armstrong’s student newspaper and other regional newspapers. Also news clippings chronicle Armstrong’s golf team in 1967. His scrapbooks also contain an article from 1995 about the Armstrong State Athletic Hall of Fame, and a Nomination packet for John M. Toby Browne, a professional golfer to the Armstrong …