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• Summary of Fellowship Application from Mary Celestia Parler
  A 1942 application from Mary Celestia Parler, a professor of English at Andrew College, requesting a grant for a study of the phonetic, lexical, morphological, syntactical, and semantic differences in the speech of social and racial groups in a small southern community. Wishes to present a dissertation at Duke University, which will be completed at Brown University under Dr. Hans Kurath.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from John Lambert Molyneaux
  A 1942 application from John Lambert Molyneaux, an assistant professor of Sociology at A. and M. College, requesting a grant for a study, chiefly statistical, of the factors affecting mortality in Texas. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. degree under Mr. W. F. Ogburn at the University of Chicago.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Robert Jenness Milliken
  A 1942 application from Robert Jenness Milliken, a research assistant for the Institute of Research in Social Science, requesting a grant for a delineation of composite rural social subregions, and further work. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina under Margaret Jarman Hagood.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Broward Miller
  A 1942 application from Broward Miller, NYA Field Representative for DyalUpchurch Building, requesting a grant to prepare an analytical study of the achievements of Negro Youth on the Student Work Program in Florida. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at Peabody College under Dr. Joseph R. Roemer for one school year.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Morris Sullivan McKeehan
  A 1942 application from Morris Sullivan McKeehan, an Instructor in Biology and Health Education at West Georgia College, requesting a grant to spend a year in graduate study, which will better prepare me to continue the program of health education now being established at West Georgia College. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. degree under Dr. Clay G. Huff at the University of Chicago.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from John Francis McDermott
  A 1942 application from John Francis McDermott, an assistant Professor of English at Washington University, requesting a grant for one academic year, for a social and intellectual history of French early St. Louis, 1764 to 1820.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from John Clyde Loftis, Jr.
  A 1942 application from John Clyde Loftis, Jr., a graduate student at Princeton University, requesting a grant for a critical study of the work of Mrs. Frances Trollope as a doctoral dissertation at Princeton University. Wishes to work under Mr. G. H. Gerould at Princeton for one year beginning in September.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from William Francis Lockwood
  A 1942 application from William Francis Lockwood, Director of Art Education at Louisiana State University, requesting a oneyear grant beginning in September to organize a comprehensive program in the South to encourage and develop the innate creative abilities of the rural white population and of the Negroes, where these abilities would normally become a part of their everyday life. Wishes to work for Ph. D. degree at George Peabody College under Dr. J. J. Ray.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from John Ralph Lambert, Jr.
  A 1942 application from John Ralph Lambert, Jr., requesting a grant to investigate certain phases of the career of Arthur Pue German, democratic leader in Maryland, 18761906, leader of national democracy, 18841906, and U. S. Senator from Maryland, 1881 to 1899, 1903 to 1906, and to prepare a political biography therefrom. Wishes to complete a doctors dissertation under Professor Clifton R. Hall.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Angus McKenzie Laird
  A 1942 application from Angus McKenzie Laird, an assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Florida, requesting a twelvemonth grant for a study of the merit system for public health personnel in the southeastern states. Wishes to work for a Ph. D. at the University of Chicago under Mr. Leonard White.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Harry Harrison Kroll
  A 1942 application from Harry Harrison Kroll, an Instructor in English at the University of Tennessee Junior College, requesting a grant to live with, work with, and study, pretty much one of them, the sharecroppers in the southern delta, and further work.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Stetson Kennedy
  A 1942 application from Stetson Kennedy, Radio and Press Writer for Defense Council, requesting a grant for one year to compile for publication a booklength documentary study entitled The Four Freedoms Down South, after which he should return to his present position.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Jack Earl Kendrick
  A 1942 application from Jack Earl Kendrick, an assistant professor of History at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, requesting a grant for one year beginning in June, for the study of the significance of The Atlanta Constitution, one of the foremost and influential southern newspapers, from its establishment in 1868 to the present time. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at Harvard University under Paul H. Buck or at the University of North Carolina under Howard K. Beale.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from John Ewing Kane
  A 1942 application from John Ewing Kane, an instructor in Business Administration at the University of Arkansas, requesting a grant for one year, for a cost study of the railroads and the electrical power industry, preceded by a comprehensive examination of accounting and economic principles relating to cost, to determine the validity of existing rates and operating polices. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from May Justus
  A 1942 application from May Justus, requesting a grant to devote a year to research in the field of southern mountain folklore, which will enable me to write a reader of regional material.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from William Worthington Jeffries
  A 1942 application from William Worthington Jeffries, an acting assistant professor of History at the University of Mississippi, requesting a oneyear grant beginning in June or September, for a study of Gideon Welles as Lincolns secretary of the Navy, and other works.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Sanford Wilson Higginbotham
  A 1942 application from Sanford Wilson Higginbotham, graduate assistant, Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, requesting a oneyear grant beginning in June, to make a detailed study of the political history of Louisiana, 1803 to 1830. Wishes to complete a dissertation for a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Philip Gibbon Hammer
  A 1942 application from Philip Gibbon Hammer, chief of the Planning and Analysis Section of the Rural Rehabilitation Division, requesting a tenmonth grant to complete preliminary work in the formulation of simple methods of determining minimum adequate living levels and resource requirements in farming areas in the south, beginning in September.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Morris Haimowitz
  A 1942 application from Morris Haimowitz, a graduate assistant in Sociology at the University of Florida, requesting a grant for one school year for the summary of the outstanding facts in Florida population trends as a basis for public action, and other works. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Reid McGee Grigsby
  A 1942 application from Reid McGee Grigsby, a research assistant for the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, requesting a grant to study mechanization and labor displacement in the sugar cane industry of Louisiana. Wishes to secure Ph. D. from the University of Illinois, working under Dr. H. C. Case.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from John Ansley Griffin
  A 1942 application from John Ansley Griffin, an assistant professor of Economics and Social Science, requesting a grant to continue a diversified program of graduate work in sociology, land economics, rural sociology, and Journalism. Wishes to continue work toward a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin under Dr. T. C. McCormick and a committee of the Graduate School.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from John Martin Fraiser
  A 1942 application from John Martin Fraiser, an assistant professor of science at Mississippi Southern College, requesting a grant to study art at the basic principles of conservation of the restorable resources of the Gulf states, with the idea of developing a course of study for the public schools of these states in general and Mississippi in particular. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. degree under Dr. E. Laurence Palmer at Cornell University.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Dord Edward Fits
  A 1942 application from Dord Edward Fits, an Art Instructor at Eastern States Teachers College, requesting a grant to study art at the University of Iowa and to spend six months touring the south and painting. Wishes to work for a master of Arts degree under Dr. Lester D. Longman, beginning in June.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Abbott Lamoyne Ferriss
  A 1942 application from Abbott Lamoyne Ferriss, state supervisor of the Survey of Mississippi Social Agencies Project, requesting a grant to prepare plans for and to investigate the present practices of selecting and training leaders in a Mississippi agricultural community. Wishes to work for an M.A. degree under Dr. Howard Odum at the University of North Carolina, beginning in September.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from James Sharbrough Ferguson
  A 1942 application from James Sharbrough Ferguson, a graduate assistant and graduate student in History at Louisiana State University, requesting a grant for a history of the causes underlying the failure of the Granger movement in the South. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina under Prof. Flotcher M. Green, for one year beginning June 1.