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Bizzell, William Bennett Manuscript Collection

Coverage: 
1910–1945
Source: 
Papers, 11.25 feet

Description
University president. Personal and business correspondence (1910–1945), including correspondence from Bizzell’s tenure as president of Texas A&M College, his association with Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, and letters of condolence to his family upon his death; official correspondence, memorabilia, and a scrapbook (1925–1941) from Bizzell’s tenure as president of the University of Oklahoma including his academic cap and gown and a manuscript draft of a song titled, “O Soonerland!”; University of Oklahoma sociology department lecture notes and class materials (1941–1943); correspondence, circulars, and reports (1941–1944) from Bizzell’s tenure as a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka, Kansas; reprints (n.d.); manuscripts of articles and speeches (n.d.) by Bizzell; correspondence (1940–1944) concerning Bizzell’s publications; a genealogy of the Bizzell family and miscellaneous family papers; and class notes (circa 1920) taken by Bizzell while attending Baylor and Columbia universities.