Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #4700
                  ROGER R. VARIN SCHOOL PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Roger R. Varin was born in Bern, Switzerland, in
           1925.  He received his B.A. in business administration
           from City College, Bern, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry
           from the University of Bern.  He was a research fellow
           at Harvard University.  Varin has chiefly worked with
           fiber chemistry, as a research associate at E. I.
           dePont de Nemours & Company; director of research at
           Riegel Textile Corporation; and founder and CEO of
           Varinit Corporation, Greenville, S.C., manufacturers
           of specialty fiber products, and Varinit SA, Geneva,
           Switzerland, traders in specialty fiber products and
           services.
               Papers relating to Varin's education in Bern,
           Switzerland, 1932-1945, beginning with his studies at
           the Zurlinden-Schmid-Schule at age seven and
           continuing through graduation from Staedtische
           Gymnasium Bern.  Included are annual reports of the
           school administration, report cards, diplomas and
           certificates, and notebooks for various subjects,
           including languages, mathematics and natural sciences,
           history and geography, and business subjects.  All
           materials are in German.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Children--Education--Switzerland--History--20th century.
   Education--Switzerland--Bern.
   Education--Switzerland--History--20th century.
   Schools--Switzerland--History--20th century.
   Varin, Roger R., 1925- .

Size:  About 120 items (1.5 linear feet).

Provenance:    Received from Roger R. Varin of Greenville, S.C.,
               in April 1994 (Acc. 94084).

Access:        No restrictions.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.

                           DESCRIPTION

   The following pages were provided by the donor.  They show
Varin's progression through school and outline the arrangement of
the materials.

   The materials are housed as follows:

Folder  1      Annual reports of the school administration, 1.1-
               1.10.

Folder  2      Report cards, 2.1-2.13.

               Subjects
Folders 3-4        German, 3.1.1.
Folder  5          French, 3.1.2.
Folder  6          English, 3.1.3.
Folder  7          Italian, 3.1.4.

Folder  8          Arithmetic, 3.2.1.
Folder  9          Algebra, 3.2.2.
Folder 10          Geometry, 3.2.3.
Folder 11          Physics, 3.2.4.
Folder 12          Chemistry, 3.2.5.
Folder 13          Biology, 3.2.6

Folder 14          History, 3.3.1.
Folder 15          Geography, 3.3.2.

Folder 16          Accounting, 3.4.1.
Folder 17          Economics, 3.4.2.
                   Commercial arithmetic, 3.4.3.
Folder 18          Shorthand, 3.4.4.
                   Business correspondence, 3.4.5.
                   Law, 3.4.6.

                           Shelf List

   Box 1       1.1 - 1.6.

   Box 2       1.7 - 3.2.6.

   Box 3       3.3.1 - 3.4.6.