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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Southern Fellowships Fund and Council of Southern Universities Records, #3779, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1967

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• College teachers--Scholarships, fellowships, etc.--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Council of Southern Universities, Inc. Southern Fellowships Fund--Records and correspondence.
• Educational fund raising--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Lester, Robert M. (Robert MacDonald), 1889-1969.
• Universities and colleges--Southern States--Finance.

The Council of Southern Universities was organized in 1952 as an association of nine major southern universities. The Southern Fellowships Fund was a subsidiary set up by the Council to administer a General Education board grant "to strengthen the faculty in southern colleges and universities" in fourteen states.

MICROFILM ONLY. Office files of Robert MacDonald Lester, recording secretary of the Council of Southern Universities and executive director of the Southern Fellowships Fund. The records include applications, agendas and minutes of meetings, correspondence, and financial records.