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KSU Official Songbook Committee records
Special Collections and Archives
KSU Official Songbook Committee records
Special Collections and Archives
KSU Official Songbook Committee records
- Repository: Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
- Title: Kent State University Official Songbook Committee records
- Inclusive Date(s): 1922-1951
- Author: Finding aid prepared by Samantha Kapp
- Creation: Finding aid encoded by Samantha Kapp using the OhioLINK EAD Application in 2013
- Origination: Kent State University Official Songbook Committee
- Extent: .50 cubic feet (1 slim document case and 1 document case)
- Physical Location: 11th floor
- Finding Aid Identifier: OhKeUSC0147
- Abstract: This collection contains the records of the Kent State University Official Songbook Committee and consists of materials that focus on the development of school songbooks.
- Language(s): The records are in English
History of the Kent State University Official Songbook Committee
The Kent State University Official Songbook Committee was a student-faculty committee appointed by University President Dr. George A. Bowman in the 1948-1949 school year. The committee included Professor Eric T. Griebling as the chairman, Dr. Ralph Hartzell, the head of the music department, and various student representatives. The committee was developed to revise the 1931 songbook, Official Songs of Kent State College, and to develop a new school songbook. Students were encouraged to submit their own work but due to the lack of student-body interest, the songbook took nearly four years to be released. The committee published the official Kent State University Songbook titled Songs in 1951.
Scope and Content
The Kent State University Official Songbook Committee records span the years 1922-1951 and contains songbooks, sheet music, minutes from meetings, correspondence to and from the committee, and audio recordings in record vinyl format. Sheet music forms the bulk of the collection and includes alumni songs, alma maters, love songs, hall songs, class songs, and fight songs that were submitted to the committee for review.
Statement of Arrangement
This collection has been organized into the following five series:
- Series 1: Correspondence, 1948-1950
- Series 2: Minutes, 1951
- Series 3: Sheet Music, 1923-1951
- Series 4: Songbooks, 1922-1951
- Series 5: Audio Recordings, undated
Technical Requirements
A record player (phonograph) is required to listen to the audio recordings.
Preferred Citation
Kent State University Official Songbook Committee records. Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
Subject Headings
The following subjects are found in this collection:
- Subjects:
- Kent State University Official Songbook Committee -- Archives
- Kent State Normal College -- Archives
- Kent State College -- Archives
- Kent State Normal College -- Songs and music
- Kent State College -- Songs and music
- Kent State University -- Songs and music
- Students' songs -- Ohio -- Kent
- Alma maters (Songs) -- Ohio -- Kent
- Functions:
- Universities and colleges -- Administration
- Composition (Music)
- Students' songs -- Authorship
- Places:
- Kent (Ohio)
- Occupations:
- Composers
- Lyricists
- College administrators
- Student affairs administrators
- Material Types:
- Correspondence
- Minutes
- Sheet music
- Songbooks
- Sound recordings
- Phonograph records
- Long-playing records
- 78 rpm records
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1: Correspondence, 1948-1950
- Box 1 / Folder 1
- Arthur F. Davis to Official Songbook Committee, March 1, 1948
- Box 1 / Folder 2
- Julie Salem to Official Songbook Committee, December 10, 1948
- Box 1 / Folder 3
- Ralph E. Hartzell to Official Songbook Committee, November 11, 1949
- Box 1 / Folder 4
- Ralph E. Hartzell to Eric Griebling, June 6, 1950
- Box 1 / Folder 5
- E. J. Griebling to Dr. Hartzell, July 13, 1950
- Box 1 / Folder 6
- Robert Williams to Official Songbook Committee, undated
Series 2: Minutes, 1951
- Box 1 / Folder 7
- Official Songbook Committee Minutes, February 16, 1951
- Box 1 / Folder 8
- Official Songbook Committee Minutes, undated
- Box 1 / Folder 9
- Official Songbook Committee Minutes, undated
Series 3: Sheet Music, 1923-1951
- Box 1 / Folder 10
- "Alma Mater", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 11
- "The Alumni Song", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 12
- "Blue and Gold", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 13
- "Fair Kent State", 1923
- Box 1 / Folder 14
- "Fight, Kent State", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 15
- "Fight on for K.S.U.", 1946
- Box 1 / Folder 16
- "Hail to thee, Our Alma Mater"/ "Our Alma Mater", 1951
- Box 1 / Folder 17
- "Hail to thee our Blue and Gold", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 18
- "Honor Kent State", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 19
- "Kent State", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 20
- "Kent State"/ "Auld Long Syne", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 21
- "Kent State Hymn of Praise", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 22
- "Kent State Love Song", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 23
- "Kent State" / "Processional" / "Ohio" / "Cheer for Kent", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 24
- "Kent State Song of Battle", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 25
- "Moulton Hall Song", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 26
- "O Class of Nineteen Twenty Eight", 1928
- Box 1 / Folder 27
- "Processional" / "Ohio", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 28
- Proposed Kent State University Alma Mater, undated
- Box 1 / Folder 29
- "Tho' the coming years may take us", undated
- Box 1 / Folder 30
- "To thee, our Alma Mater", undated
Series 4: Songbooks, 1922-1951
- Box 1 / Folder 31
- Kent State Normal College Songs Yells and Summer Quarter Contests, 1922-1923
- Box 1 / Folder 32
- College and Popular Songs, 1928
- Box 1 / Folder 33
- Official Songs of Kent State College, 1931
- Box 1 / Folder 34
- Songs, 1951
- Scope and Content
- Includes Trev Rees Day stamp, 1963
- Box 1 / Folder 35
- Songs, 1951
- Box 1 / Folder 36
- College and Popular Songs, undated
- Box 1 / Folder 37
- College and Popular Songs, undated
Series 5: Audio Recordings, Undated
- Box 2 / Folder 1
- "K.S.U. Alma Mater", undated
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Physical Description: 33 rpm phonograph record
- Box 2 / Folder 2
- Untitled recording, undated
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Physical Description: 78 rpm phonograph record
