Homer L. Dodge Collection
Scope and Contents
The Homer L. Dodge Collection demonstrates Dodge's work to establish an Aviation program at Norwich University with funding from the Godfrey Cabot Fund for Education. Material types include correspondence, public relations materials from the Norwich Program, newsletters, brochures and teaching aids from various states from their respective Education and Aviation Departments for grade levels from elementary through college instruction, as well as resports from the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the National Aviation Education Conference. The nature of these publications range from using aviation themes to teach in elementary schools to guidance in training people how to operate airplanes. There are some commercial materials from aviation companies. There are no photographs, but aviation teaching aids and guides that have illustrations. The document titled "Air Transport Facts and Figures" is particularly useful for early aeronautic statistics.
Dates
- 1941-1953
Creator
- Dodge, Homer L. (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Manuscripts.
Biographical / Historical
Homer L. Dodge was born in upstate New York and graduated from Colgate University in 1910. He received Masters and Doctorate degrees in Physics from the University of Iowa. Dodge was the Dean of the Graduate School and the founder of the Oklahoma Research Institute at the University of Oklahoma. He became the chairman of the Physics Department there in 1919. Dodge was the first president of the American Association of Physics Teachers and helped to create and publish the American Journal of Physics. During World War II Dodge worked in Washington D.C. as the director of the Office of Scientific Personnel at the National Research Council. He then became president of Norwich University from 1945 to 1950, and later as the director of the Cabot Fund for Aviation Education at Norwich until 1960. The physics department of the University of Oklahoma was named in Dodge's honor. He passed away at the age of 95 in 1983.
Extent
0.4 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection consists of printed matter on Aviation Education including newsletters, typed essays or addresses, and publications.
Location
Library Research Annex; contact uvmsc@uvm.edu for access.
- Title
- Guide to the Homer L. Dodge Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2017 October
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Vermont Libraries, Special Collections Repository
Silver Special Collections Library
48 University Place, Room B201
Burlington Vermont 05405 U.S.A. US
(802) 656-2138
(802) 656-4038 (Fax)
uvmsc@uvm.edu
