Hugh Porter papers, 1915 -- 1978

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Correspondence and alumni relations, 1928 -- 1978

This series is open for research.

1 boxes

This series contains personal correspondence, as well as alumni bulletins, by-laws of the Alumni Association, addresses by faculty, and other materials related to alumni relations.

This series is arranged in original order.



Box 1 Folder 1 Correspondence, circa 1928 -- 1978, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 2 Correspondence, 1944, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 3 Correspondence, 1928 -- 1968, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 4 Alumni Christmas letters, 1950 -- 1961, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 5 Correspondence: closing School of Sacred Music, 1971 -- 1973, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 6 Address: John Bennett, circa 1928 -- 1978, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 7 Address: Robert McCracken, 1960-04-23, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 8 Address: Werner Merten, 1955, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 9 Church bulletins, 1959, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 10 By-laws of the School of Sacred Music Alumni Association, circa 1928 -- 1978, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 11 Alumni bulletins, 1949 -- 1961, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 12 Letters to alumni, circa 1968, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 13 Letters to alumni: Hugh and Ethel Porter, 1953 -- 1963, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 14 Dr. Cyril Richardson, Alumni Day, 1947-05, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 15 Donors, Ladies of the Faculty, alumni address partial, 1955 -- 1962, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 16 Songs and verses, retirement dinner faculty, 1945-05-03, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 17 Letter from Ethel Porter to Donald Shriver, 1978, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 18 Ethel Porter, John Edmonds, and Robert Tangeman: concerns, circa 1964, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 19 David M. Gehrenbeck and Helen Hurt Gehrenbeck with Holiness, Pope Paul photograph, circa 1971, 1 folders


Box 1 Folder 20 General, circa 1938 -- 1963, 1 folders

Hymnody and professional activities, 1915 -- 1973

This series is open for research.

1 boxes

This series contains sheet music from congregations Porter performed in with handwritten score notes, and materials related to professional activities including lectures, workshops, and Pilgrim Hymn correspondence.

This series is arranged in original order.



Box 2 Folder 1 Sheet music, 1958, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 2 Mimeographed articles, 1948 -- 1962, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 3 Hymnody: mimeographed class materials, 1940 -- 1958, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 4 Lectures, circa 1940 -- 1973, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 5 Summer course, first year conference, 1945, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 6 Annual workshops: Music for the Church, 1963 -- 1973, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 7 Talks, 1957, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 8 Programs: UTS historical organ lecture recitals by Clarence Dickinson, 1915 -- 1931, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 9 Directors annual reports, 1957 -- 1959, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 10 Scoresheets, syllabi, and notes, 1948 -- 1954, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 11 Pilgrim Hymn Correspondence, 1959, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 12 Columbus Hymn Festival, 1959, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 13 Hymnody: notes and clippings, circa 1959, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 14 Leland Chou ordination, Toledo, OH, 1960, 1 folders