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• Fellowship Application from William Nile Elam
  A 1941 application from William Nile Elam, a Federal Agent, requesting a grant improving farmer training for young Negro men and adult farmers, among other related initiatives. Wishes to attend Cornell University, working for a Ph.D. under Dr. B. M. Stewart.
• Fellowship Application from Dallas C. Dickey
  A 1941 application from Dallas C. Dickey, an instructor of Speech at State University, requesting a grant to complete and extend research on the career of S.S. Prentiss preparatory to publication of his biography. Will work under the supervision of Dr. W. H. Stephenson of Louisiana State University.
• Fellowship Application from Abram Wolfe Davidson
  A 1941 application from Abram Wolfe Davidson, an Art Teacher and Sculptor, requesting a grant to preserve in sculpture the vanishing types of Americans in the south.
• Fellowship Application from Jerome A. Conner
  A 1941 application from Jerome A. Conner, WPA Regional Statistician, requesting a grant to evaluate the economic and sociological implications of the WPA program in the South, with particular emphasis on the extent to which it is meeting the need situation in the rural areas. Wishes to attend the University of North Carolina, working for Ph. D under Dr. H. W. Odum.
• Fellowship Application from Clay Lee Cochran (Joint Application with Creekmore West Fath)
  A 1941 application from Clay Lee Cochran, a camp manager, requesting a grant to project the economic and social life of one state on a canvas so that it can be understood by average citizens, and other related works. Wishes to practice law in Austin, Texas.
• Fellowship Application from Thomas Dionysius Clark
  A 1941 application from Thomas Dionysius Clark, an associate professor of History at the University of Kentucky, requesting a grant for a study of the country store and the small town merchant as factors in the southern furnishing trade from 1865 to 1900.
• Fellowship Application from Brainard Cheney
  A 1941 application from Brainard Cheney, a freelance writer, requesting a grant to begin writing on a novel dealing with the Wooden Wealth Era of the Altamaha River Georgia and its terminal port, Darien.
• Fellowship Application from Helen Mauguerite Carleton (Mrs. R. L)
  A 1941 application from Helen Mauguerite Carleton Mrs. R. L, an Instructor of School Administration, at Oklahoma A and M College, requesting a grant to write and publish a book entitled School Buildings as Community Centers in Villages and Rural Areas . Wishes to attend Teachers College, Columbia University, working for a Doctor of Education Degree.
• Fellowship Application from Olen Kenneth Campbell
  A 1941 application from Olen Kenneth Campbell, an Instructor of School Administration, at Oklahoma A and M College, requesting a grant to write and publish a book entitled School Buildings as Community Centers in Villages and Rural Areas . Wishes to attend Teachers College, Columbia University, working for a Doctor of Education Degree.
• Fellowship Application from Thomas Edward Bell 
  A 1941 application from Thomas Edward Bell, assistant project supervisor, Federal Writers project, requesting a grant to write a 500 page novel, tentatively titled Apothecary , about the eroded aristocracy, the poor Whites and  Negroes of a town in the mid South.
• Fellowship Application from John Beecher
  A 1941 application from John Beecher, requesting a grant for research into the past and present of Birmingham, Alabama, and the writing of a social epic poem dramatizing the city through its people.
• Fellowship Application from Charles Livingstone Allen
  A 1941 application from Charles Livingstone Allen, Pastor, First Methodist Church, requesting a grant to take a general course in sociology with the purpose of better understanding possible contributions of the church to rural society, and especially to study the question of church cooperation among churches in rural areas and small towns. Wishes to attend Drew University, working for an M.A. under Dr. Ralph A. Felton.
• Fellowship Application from Gabriel Joseph (Cal) Abraham
  A 1941 application from Gabriel Joseph Cal Abraham, requesting a grant to pursue the study of Spanish language, literature, and journalism of South American Countries, with the intention of returning to the South prepared to teach or do newspaper work in connection with Latin America. Wishes to attend the University of Chile, working for a Master's or equivalent.
• Fellowship Application from Estellene Paxton Walker
  A 1941 application from Estellene Paxton Walker, Head, County Department, Lawson McGhee Library, requesting a grant to explore and appraise the possibilities for the extension of library service areas through existing library agencies and to develop a financial basis for such extension of service. Wishes to attend the University of North Carolina, working for an M.A. in the department of Sociology and Economics.
• Fellowship Application from James Edward Routh III
  A 1941 reappointment application from James Edward Routh III, requesting a grant to continue to paint southern life. To make lithographs from data accumulated during the past year, using painting equipment assembled during that period. Wishes to continue working for another year.
• Fellowship Application from Robert Paul Ramsey
  A 1941 application from Robert Paul Ramsey, a graduate student at Yale University, requesting a grant to make a study of The Nature of Ethical and Social Obligation , surveying the field of historical philosophy and, among contemporary schools, philosophical value theory or axiology, the New INstitutionists or NeoKentians, the Sociologists, and the Wissenssoziologie school.
• Fellowship Application from Dowling Burrus Leatherwood
  A 1941 application from Dowling Burrus Leatherwood, an assistant professor of journalism and Director of Radio Workshop at Emory University, requesting a grant to spend one semester in the University of Wisconsin, one semester in Columbia University, and the following summer in New York City in order to continue work toward the Ph.D. degree and other related works, beginning in September.
• Fellowship Application from John Ansley Griffen
  A 1941 application from John Ansley Griffen, an assistant in Journalism at the University of Wisconsin, requesting a grant for a third year of graduate work at the University of Wisconsin and a quarter at the University of North Carolina on a diversified program aimed directly at preparation for work with social problems of the south through teaching, institutional work, or journalism. Seeks Ph.D.
• Fellowship Application from Rose Maureen Faulkner
  A 1941 application from Rose Maureen Faulkner, a teacher of English at Lanier High School, requesting a grant to make a study of the rural high schools of the state for the purpose of observing and recording their efforts other than scholastic to influence the cultural level of the communities which they serve.
• Fellowship Application from Leila June Bruce
  A 1941 application from Leila June Bruce, an associate territorial supervisor, in the Charch Home Management Department, Farm Security Administration, requesting a grant to study in the fields of sociology, political Science, Economics, the synthesis of which will be community organisation. Wishes to attend the University of Chicago beginning in January.
• Fellowship Application from Jack Happel Boone
  A 1941 application from Jack Happel Boone, a professional writer, requesting a grant for a third book about the West Tennessee region to follow Dossie Bell Is Dead, Stokes, 1939, and After I'm Gone tentative title, a novel on which at present working, and other related work.
• Fellowship Application from Dean William Blackburn
  A 1941 application from Dean William Blackburn, a supervisor of research in Five South Central States, U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, requesting a grant to complete the work toward the Ph.D. in Economics with a major in Land Economics at the University of Wisconsin.
• Fellowship Application from Gould M. Beech
  A 1941 application from Gould M. Beech, an Instructor in Journalism at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, to study programs of social science research being conducted by the University of North Carolina and certain land grant colleges. Wishes to secure a Ph.D. degree, working under Dr. Howard Odum.
• Fellowship Application from Lamar Baker
  A 1941 application from Lamar Baker, an artiste and student, requesting a grant for creative work, especially on subject matter dealing with life in the South and the Negro. Wishes to work for one year.
• Fellowship Application from Gould M. Beech
  A 1941 application from Gould M. Beech, an instructor in Journalism at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, requesting a grant to study programs of social science research being conducted by the University of North Carolina and certain land grant colleges. Wishes to secure a Ph.D. degree, working under Dr. Howard Odum.