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Norfolk, Virginia 23529-0256
telephone (757) 683-4483
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The ODU Photographic Collection (RG 32)

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1950s

Box 5, 1950s

Folder:

Academic Departments: Art-Art Education Academic Departments: Art-Drawing & Painting Academic Departments: Art-Pottery & Sculpture Academic Departments: Biology Academic Departments: Department of Business-Business Administration Academic Departments: Department of Business-Distributive Education Academic Departments: Department of Business-Business Merchandising Academic Departments: Chemistry Academic Departments: Dental Hygiene Academic Departments: Economics Academic Departments: Education

First four-year graduating class-1956

Box 6, 1950s

Folder:

1. Academic Departments: English
2. Academic Departments: History
3. Academic Departments: Industrial Arts
4. Academic Departments: Medical Technology
5. Academic Departments: Music-Band
6. Academic Departments: Music-Chorus
7. Academic Departments: Music-Madrigal Singers
8. Academic Departments: Music-Student Recitals
9. Academic Departments: Nursing
10.  Academic Departments: Philosophy

Box 7, 1950s

Folder:

1. Academic Departments: Physical Education-Archery
2. Academic Departments: Physical Education-Basketball
3. Academic Departments: Physical Education-Dance
4. Academic Departments: Physical Education-Faculty
5. Academic Departments: Physical Education-Intramural Sports
6. Academic Departments: Physical Education-Swimming
7. Academic Departments: Physical Education-Tennis
8. Academic Departments: Physical Education-Wrestling
9. Academic Departments: Physics
10. Academic Departments: Psychology
11. Academic Departments: Social Studies
12. Academic Departments: Speech
13. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-Automotive School

Box 8, 1950s

Folder:

1. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-Awards
2. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-Class Pictures
3. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-Drawing & Surveying
4. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-Electronics
5. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-Faculty
6. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-Graduates
7. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-Machine Shop
8. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-Misc.
9. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-Radio & TV
10. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-WMTI Radio Station
11. Academic Departments: Technical Institute-Student Council

Box 9, 1950s

Folder:

1. Activities: Careers Program
2. Administration: President Webb
3. Administration (I)
4. Administration (II)
5. Alumni
6. Anniversaries: Silver Anniversary
7. Anniversaries: Silver Anniversary-Queen Candidates

Box 10, 1950s

Folder:

1. Athletics: Archery
2. Athletics: Baseball
3. Athletics: Men’s Basketball (I)
4. Athletics: Men’s Basketball (II)
5. Athletics: Men’s Basketball (III)
6. Athletics: Women’s Basketball

Box 11, 1950s

Folder:

1. Athletics: Cheerleaders
2. Athletics: Field Hockey (I)
3. Athletics: Field Hockey (II)
4. Athletics: Men’s Swimming
5. Athletics: Women’s Swimming
6. Athletics: Tennis

Box 12, 1950s

Folder:

1. Athletics: Track & Field (I)
2. Athletics: Track & Field (II)
3. Athletics: Wrestling
4. Awards & Presentations
5. Buildings & Grounds: Aerial Views (I)
6. Buildings & Grounds: Aerial Views (II)
7. Buildings & Grounds: Aerial Administration Building
8. Buildings & Grounds: Athletic Facilities
9. Buildings & Grounds: Barracks
10. Buildings & Grounds: Campus

Box 13, 1950s

Folder:

1. Buildings & Grounds: Drawings and Models
2. Buildings & Grounds: Fine Arts Building/Old Science Building
3. Buildings & Grounds: Flora & Fauna
4. Buildings & Grounds: Foreman Field
5. Buildings & Grounds: Greenhouse
6. Buildings & Grounds: Original Library
7. Buildings & Grounds: Hughes Library-Exterior
8. Buildings & Grounds: Hughes Library-Interior
9. Buildings & Grounds: Mishaps
10. Buildings & Grounds: New Science Building
11. Buildings & Grounds: Signs

Box 14, 1950s

Folder:

1. Buildings & Grounds:  Technical Institute-Original
2. Buildings & Grounds:  Technical Institute-New
3. Commencement: 1951-1955
4. Commencement: 1956-1957
5. Commencement: 1958
6. Commencement: 1959

Box 15, 1950s

Folder:

1. Conferences: Distributive Education Conference
2. Conferences: Executive Development Conference
3. Conferences: Office Manager’s Conference
4. Conferences: Tax Conference, 1958
5. Conferences: Tidewater Conference on Federal Taxation
6. Construction: Hughes Library
7. Construction: Science Building
8. Convocations & Speeches

Box 16, 1950s

Folder:

1. Events: Alumni/Senior Picnic
2. Events: Aqua Fantasia Water Show
3. Events: Blood Drive
4. Events: Book Drive
5. Events: C&P Telephone Films
6. Events: Camellia Show
7. Events: Chamber Music Concerts, 1956 & 1958
8. Events: Christmas Tree
9. Events: 1954 Concert Series/Variety Show
10. Events: Dedication of Cornelia Grahn Hancock Memorial Room with Blanche Theborn, 1953
11. Events: Dedication: Hughes Library
12. Events: Dedication: New Science Building

Box 17, 1950s

Folder:

1. Events: Eddie Cantor Appearance
2. Events: English Major Day
3. Events: Federal Career Day
4. Events: Future Business Leaders of America
5. Events: Future Teachers of America
6. Events: Leonardo Advance Exhibit
7. Events: Mathematics Lecture
8. Events: New Telephone System
9. Events: Pilot Relays
10. Events: PTA Leadership Training Institute
11. Events: Religious Emphasis Week
12. Events: Stopgap Schooling, 1958
13. Faculty Activities: Christmas Parties
14. Faculty Activities: Miscellaneous
15. Faculty Activities: Square Dance
16. Faculty: Art
17. Faculty: Business
18. Faculty: Counselors

Box 18, 1950s

Folder:

1. Faculty: Education
2. Faculty: Engineering
3. Faculty: English and Speech
4. Faculty: Foreign Language
5. Faculty: Group Photos
6. Faculty: Library
7. Faculty: Mathematics
8. Faculty: Music
9. Faculty: Physical Education
10. Faculty: Sciences
11. Faculty: Social Studies

Box 19, 1950s

Folder:

1. Greek/Social Organizations: Activities
2. Greek/Social Organizations: Alpha Kappa Phi
3. Greek/Social Organizations: Alpha Omega Phi
4. Greek/Social Organizations: Cotillion
5. Greek/Social Organizations: Delta Omega Phi
6. Greek/Social Organizations: Delta Phi Omega
7. Greek/Social Organizations: Delta Sigma Lambda
8. Greek/Social Organizations: Di Gamma
9. Greek/Social Organizations: Imps
10. Greek/Social Organizations: Interclub Meetings
11. Greek/Social Organizations: Kappa Kappa Kappa
12. Greek/Social Organizations: Kappa Sigma Kappa
13. Greek/Social Organizations: Phi Beta Kappa

Box 20, 1950s

Folder:

1. Greek/Social Organizations:  Pi Phi Sigma
2. Greek/Social Organizations: Sigma Alpha Iota
3. Greek/Social Organizations: Sigma Beta Tau
4. Greek/Social Organizations: Sigma Delta Phi
5. Greek/Social Organizations: Sigma Epsilon Pi
6. Greek/Social Organizations: Social Fraternal Council
7. Greek/Social Organizations: Theta Mu Chi
8. Greek/Social Organizations: Tiga
9. Greek/Social Organizations: Virginia Epsilon
10. Groundbreaking Ceremonies
11. Homecoming
12. Honor Council
13. Inaugurations
14. Meetings: Concert Series, 1957

Box 21, 1950s

Folder:

1. Meetings: Civil Service Placement
2. Meetings: Organizational Meeting of the College Credit Union
3. Meetings: Tidewater Music School Supervisors Meeting
4. Military
5. Miscellaneous
6. Registration
7. Reunions: 1930 Class Reunion
8. Schools: School of Special Work
9. Seminars: NATO Seminars
10. Seminars: Science and Politics Seminar
11. Staff: Advisory and Secretarial
12. Staff: Food Service

Box 22, 1950s

Folder:

1. Staff: Maintenance
2. Staff: Unknown
3. Student Government: 1950-55
4. Student Government: 1956-59
5. Student Government: Elections
6. Student Life: Annual Carnival
7. Student Life: Azalea Festival
8. Student Life: Bookstore
9. Student Life: Bud’s
10. Student Life: Campus Capers

Box 23, 1950s

Folder:

1. Student Life: Collages
2. Student Life: Dances: Miscellaneous
3. Student Life: Dances: Sadie Hawkins Dance
4. Student Life: Dean’s List
5. Student Life: Diplomas and Rings
6. Student Life: Freshmen
7. Student Life: Group Pictures (I)
8. Student Life: Group Pictures (II)
9. Student Life:” Hall of Fame”
10. Student Life: Inoculation
11. Student Life: Living off Campus
12. Student Life: Miscellaneous

Box 24, 1950s

Folder:

1. Student Life: Orientation
2. Student Life: Parties/Social Gatherings
3. Student Life: Presidential Elections, 1952 & 1956
4. Student Life: Student Portraits
5. Student Life: Student Teachers
6. Student Life: Studying/Classes
7. Student Life: Various Activities/Events
8. Student Life: Winter Pictures

Box 25, 1950s

Folder:

1. Student Life: Yearbook Photos I
2. Student Life: Yearbook Photos II
3. Student Life: Yearbook Photos III
4. Student Life: Yearbook Photos IV

Box 26, 1950s

Folder:

1. Student Life: Yearbook Photos V
2. Student Life: Yearbook Photos VI
3. Student Life: Yearbook Photos VII
4. Student Life: Yearbook Photos VIII

Box 27, 1950s

Folder:

1. Student Life: Yearbook Photos IX
2. Student Life: Yearbook Photos X
3. Student Life: Yearbook Photos XI
4. Student Life: Yearbook Photos XII
5. Student Life: Yearbook Photos XIII

Box 28, 1950s

Folder:

1. Student Life: Yearbook Photos XIV
2. Student Organizations: American Society of Civil Engineers
3. Student Organizations: Baptist Student Union
4. Student Organizations: Beaux Arts Club
5. Student Organizations: Business and Economics Club
6. Student Organizations: Canterbury Association
7. Student Organizations: Circle K Club
8. Student Organizations: English Club
9. Student Organizations: Evening College Club
10. Student Organizations: Evening College Drama Club
11. Student Organizations: Gavel Club
12. Student Organizations: German Club

Box 29, 1950s

Folder:

1. Student Organizations: History Club
2. Student Organizations: Interclub Council
3. Student Organizations: International Club
4. Student Organizations: International Students
5. Student Organizations: Inter-Varsity
6. Student Organizations: Methodist Student Movement
7. Student Organizations: Modern Dance Club
8. Student Organizations: Monogram Club
9. Student Organizations: Music Club
10. Student Organizations: Newman Club
11. Student Organizations: Phalanx Club

Box 30, 1950s

Folder:

1. Student Organizations: Political Club
2. Student Organizations: Professional Businessmen’s Club
3. Student Organizations: Student Wives Club
4. Student Organizations: Synchronized Swimming Club
5. Student Organizations: Underwriters Association
6. Student Organizations: United Nations Collegiate Chapter
7. Student Organizations: Veteran’s Club
8. Student Organizations: Wesley Foundation
9. Student Publications: Chieftain/Pow Wow/Voyager Yearbooks
10. Student Publications: High Hat
11. Theater Productions:” Down in the Valley” 1952
12. Theater Productions:” Geraldine and the White Robe” 1954
13. Theater Productions:” Gianni Schicci” 1953
14. Theater Productions: “H.M.S. Pinafore” 1950
15. Theater Productions: “La Serva Padrona” 1952
16. Theater Productions:” The Mikado” 1950
17. Theater Productions:” Once Around the Block” 1959

Box 31, 1950s

Folder:

1. Theater Productions:” Pirates of Penzance” 1951
2. Theater Productions: Showboat Minstrel, 1956
3. Theater Productions:” The Devil and Daniel Webster” 1953:54
4. Theater Productions:” The Matchmakers” 1959
5. Theater Productions:” The Second Shepherd’s Play” 1957
6. Theater Productions:” Tiger at the Gates” 1959
7. Theater Productions:” Trial by Jury” 1952
8. Theater Productions:” Women in Council” 1958
9. Theater Productions: Unknown Plays
10. Workshops: Opera Workshop: “Amahl and the Night Visitors” 1953
11. Workshops: Opera Workshop: “Carmen” 1958
12. Workshops: Opera Workshop: “The Chocolate Soldier” 1954
13. Workshops: Opera Workshop: “Hansel and Gretel” 1956
14. Workshops: Opera Workshop: “La Boheme” 1957
15. Workshops: Opera Workshop: “The Marriage of Figaro” April 30, 1955
16. Workshops: Opera Workshop: “The Medium” 1956
17. Workshops: Opera Workshop: “Oklahoma” 1958
18. Workshops: Opera Workshop: “The Well” 1955
19. Workshops: Opera Workshop: Unknown Operas