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• Summary of Fellowship Application from Kenneth Archibald Ervin
  A 1942 application from Kenneth Archibald Ervin, a graduate student of the Fine Arts Department at Louisiana State University, requesting a grant for one year to be spent touring Louisiana in painting and sketching, recording the types of people, their occupations, activities, conditions under which they live, and the character of the landscape.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Paul Mechlin Eakin
  A 1942 application from Paul Machlin Eakin, state supervisor of WPA Louisiana Records Survey, requesting a grant for a comprehensive examination into the origins and development of Negro culture in Louisiana. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago for one year beginning in September.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin
  A 1942 application from Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin, a field worker, and a joint application with Paul Mechlin Eakin, requesting a grant for a comprehensive examination into the origins and development of Negro culture in Louisiana. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at Northwestern University under Dr. Melville Herskovits for one year beginning in September.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Edward Peter Dreyer
  A 1942 application from Edward Peter Dreyer, an assistant state supervisor of the Louisiana Writers Project, requesting Grant to write a biography of John McDonogh 1779 to 1850, the New Orleans merchant, landowner, slaveholder, and philanthropist.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Alice Davis
  A 1942 application from Alice Davis, visiting Professor of Social Work at William and Mary College, requesting a oneyear grant to write a book on the Technicways in contemporary society, utilizing statistical measurement growth curves of the technicways in contemporary society.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Jack Conroy
  A 1942 application from Jack Conroy, an editorial worker on the Illinois Writers Project, requesting a grant to examine, after several years absence from the South, the effects of new trade unions, governmental agencies such as the WPA, etc., on the people and institutions of the region in September.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Frederic Neill Cleaveland
  A 1942 application from Frederic Neill Cleaveland, the assistant dean of Men at Duke University, requesting a grant for one academic year to continue the study of the service activity of the North Carolina state government, and other works. Wishes to work for a Ph.D at Cornell University under Dr. R. E. Cushman and Dr. J. P. Brets.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Charles Morgan Clark, Jr.
  A 1942 application from Charles Morgan Clark, Jr., Professor of Social Science at Arkansas A. and M. College, requesting a grant to determine the educational needs of teachers in the communitycentered public school, and other works. Wishes to work for the Masters degree in Education at the University of North Carolina beginning in September.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Brainard Cheney
  A 1942 application from Brainard Cheney, a Professional writer at Vanderbilt Campus, requesting a grant beginning May to work on a novel of interracial liberalism in Charleston, South Carolina, embracing the period 1830 to the outbreak of the Civil War. Preparatory research in private libraries in three states and in public and church libraries of Charleston, before beginning to write.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Guy Adems Cardwell, Jr.
  A 1942 application from Guy Adems Cardwell, Jr., an associate professor of the department of English at Tulane University, requesting a grant to show important phases of the interaction of European and American civilizations in the Old South, through a study of books and periodicals written in South Carolina mainly in Charleston before 1860. Will return to the present position.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Mary Blanche Calvert
  A 1942 application from Mary Blanche Calvert, an instructor in Social Cae Work at the department of Sociology, Winthrop College, requesting a four quaters grant for concentrated study in public welfare adminstration, with special work in the department of education, to determine more fully the need, the possibilities, the values and the methods of public welfare services in the southeast, and other works. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago under Dean Edith Abbott.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Jerry Bywaters
  A 1942 application from Jerry Bywaters, an assistant professor of Art at Southern Methodist University, requesting a twelvemonth grant to continue research, collecting, and writing, leading to completion and publication of a work to be titled, Art in Texas.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Charles P. Butler
  A 1942 application from Charles P. Butler, assistant agricultural economist, requesting a oneyear academic grant for advanced studies in Economic theory and its history with special reference to the development of economic thought since 1776 and four other fields. Wishes to work for Ph. Ph.D. at Harvard University under Dr. John D. Black.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Mary Donnave Brennan
  A 1942 application from Mary Donnave Brennan, Art Unit Supervisor at the Visual Education Project, requesting a grant beginning in June to sketch small town and farm people in various sections of Alabama for three months, and other works.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Mary Louise Gramling Braly (Mrs)
  A 1942 application from Mary Louise Gramling Braly Mrs., a Regional Director of the Department of Public Welfare, requesting a grant to return to Tulane University to complete a thesis on Care of Negro Youths in Tennessee. Wishes to work for a master of Social Service degree under Miss Gladys Hall.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Grace Josephine Blank
  A 1942 application from Grace Josephine Blank, an assistant professor of Biology at the College of William and Mary, requesting a grant to continue graduate work in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Wishes to pursue a Ph.D. degree under Dr. John Sundwall.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Louise Meixner Beadle
  A 1942 application from Louise Meixner Beadle, a graduate student at Louisiana State University, requesting a grant to spend twelve months at Louisiana State University to complete coursework towards a PH.D. under the supervision of Dr. Edgar A. Schular in the Sociology department.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Josiah Walker Bancroft
  A 1942 application from Josiah Walker Bancroft, a medical technologist, requesting a oneyear grant for a trilogy based on three dramas already finished. Would like to be associated with Mr. Hudson Strodes writing class at the University of Alabama.
• Summary of Fellowship Application from Conrad Alfred Albrizio
  A 1942 application from Conrad Alfred Albriszio, an assistant professor of drawing and painting at Louisiana State University, requesting a grant for Easel painting in Various mediums, with its subject matter to be aspects of the South contemporary life, landscapes, folklore, and other suitable subjects.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Mary Virginia Watkins
  A 1942 application from Mary Virginia Watkins, whose field is Economics, requesting scholarship aid to continue studying economics in order to acquire a broad and sound basis for analyzing economic problems in order to study southern problems.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Joseph Elmer Rhodes
  A 1942 application from Joseph Elmer Rhodes, whose field is Physics, requesting scholarship aid to finance a year of graduate study in physics. Wishes to attend California Institute of Technology or Johns Hopkins University, from 1942 until 1945 or 1946, to obtain a Ph.D.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Mildred Elaine Parker
  A 1942 application from Mildred Elaine Parker, whose field is Sociology, requesting scholarship aid for graduate training in social work at Tulane University. Wishes to work for an M.A in Social Work.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Bennie Corinne Joyner
  A 1942 application from Bennie Corinne Joyner, whose field is Sociology, requesting scholarship aid to enter the New York School of Social Work to specialize in Child Psychology and to study the causes of Juvenile delinquency in order to better understand the large problems which face cities and communities.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Edward C. Herman
  A 1942 application from Edward C. Herman, whose field is Chemistry, requested scholarship aid for graduate study in organic chemistry. Would like to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work towards a Ph.D. degree.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Forbes Ross Detamble
  A 1942 application from Forbes Ross Detamble, whose field is Sociology, requesting scholarship aid for continuation of inventory study a survey of public health and medical facilities. Seeks M.A. degree from the University of Florida.