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• Fellowship application from Dale Z. Young
  A 1941 application from Dale Z. Young, a superintendent of schools at Seminary, Mississippi, requesting a grant for a survey and evaluation of recreational facilities for Negroes in Mississippi. Wishes to attend Teachers College, Columbia University, working for an M.A. in Rural Education under Dr. Mabel Carney.
• Fellowship Application from Mrs. Nannie Mae Morris Williams
  A 1941 application from Mrs. Nannie Mae Morris Williams, a registrar at Mary Washington College, to secure additional training in guidance and personnel, in order to be better qualified to make the educational process serve the needs of the individual boy and girl. Wishes to attend Teachers College, Columbia University, working for a Ph.D. under Dr. Harry Kitson.
• Fellowship Application from Richard Malcolm Weaver
  A 1941 application from Richard Malcolm Weaver, an assistant professor of English on leave, requesting a grant beginning in June, to present the persistence of a cultural pattern. This study will trace southern rational consciousness and sense of cultural autonomy from 1865 to 1910 as it appeared in political literature, memoirs, and fiction. Wishes to secure a Ph. D. from Louisiana State University, working under Dr. H. Arlin Turner.
• Fellowship Application from John Sharpe Warren
  A 1941 application from John Sharpe Warren, requesting a grant to finish all points work for the Doctor of Education degree by June, and spend an extra year of study on a project concerned with real estate management in public school systems that can be a real contribution to education. His director, Dr. N. L. Engelhardt, thinks it's most timely.
• 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 Olaf Wakefield
  A 1941 application from Olaf Wakefield, graduate student at the University of Minnesota, requesting a grant for a socio economic comparison of plantation with non plantation tenant families in North Carolina. Wishes to secure a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota.
• Fellowship Application from John Francis Timmons
  A 1941 application from John Francis Timmons, an associate agricultural economist, Division of Land Economics, U.S. Department of Land Economics, requesting a grant to point out possible adjustments in the kinds and divisions of landlord tenant contributions and receipts under southern types of tenancy through an analysis of them in terms of rent theory and their effects upon security of tenure and economic stability of tenants. Wishes to secure a Ph.D. from Harvard University, working under Dr. John D. Black.
• Fellowship Application from Paul Dekker Stewart
  A 1941 application from Paul Dekker Stewart, a graduate student at Duke University, requesting a grant for a study of the office of the solicitor in North Carolina from the viewpoint of law enforcement and politics through the investigation of original records and personal contact. Wishes to secure a Ph.D. from Duke University, working under Dr. Robert S. Rankin.
• Fellowship Application from Helen Knott Staley (Mrs.)
  A 1941 application from Helen Knott Staley Mrs., District supervisor of Home Management Plans, Farm Security Administration, requesting a grant for professional training in advanced Home Economics with special emphasis on dietetics and the family, and the study of the migratory farm family. Wishes to attend the University of Chicago to pursue an M.S.
• Fellowship Application from Thomas Colyer Shields
  A 1941 application from Thomas Colyer Shields, an Instructor at Louisiana State University, requesting a grant for the analysis of propaganda and pressure forces affecting anti lynching legislation and of the causes and development of existing attitudes on the subject. Wishes to attend the University of Minnesota, working for an M.A. in Journalism, beginning in September.
• Fellowship Application from Samuel Schiller
  A 1941 application from Samuel Schiller, an Instructor in Social Studies at University Demonstration School, University of Georgia, requesting a grant to make an analysis of vital contemporary problems in Georgia from available research materials and visitations into specified areas of the state, and to prepare curriculum materials that would enable the schools of Georgia to use effectively this research in their educational programs. Wishes to attend the University of Georgia, working for Ph.D under Dr. Paul Morrow.
• 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 the painting equipment assembled during that period. Wishes to continue work for another year.
• Fellowship Application from Richard Marion Robb
  A 1941 application from Richard Marion Robb, a research worker and supervisor of the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, requesting a grant to develop a method for producing, from cottonseed oil, a drying oil that can replace tung oil paints and varnishes. Wishes to secure a Ph.D. Institution not yet decided upon.
• Fellowship Application from George Arkell Riggan
  A 1941 application from George Arkell Riggan, a Minister at Essex Congregational Church, requesting a grant for one full year of advanced study in my chosen and related fields, followed by another year of detailed research and the writing of a dissertation advancing or modifying knowledge of some particular subject in theology. Wishes to attend Yale University.
• Fellowship Application from Edward Walker Reeves
  A 1941 application from Edward Walker Reeves, an assistant Agricultural Economist, requesting a grant for a study of the environmental, experience, and training backgrounds of individuals comprising a population unit to determine aptitudes, skills, and occupations of the various population groups. Wishes to attend Univerisity of Tennessee.
• Fellowship Application from Williard E. A. Range
  A 1941 application from Williard E. A. Range, an instructor in Social Science, requesting a grant for a dissertation on The Development of Agriculture in Georgia Since 1860 , emphasising economic and social factors. Wishes to attend the University of North Carolina, working for Ph. D.
• 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 Woodrow Wilson Pate
  A 1941 application from Woodrow Wilson Pate, Head of the Social Science department at A and M College, requesting a grant for a study of the coverage of southern labor under Social Security legislation. Wishes to attend the University of North Carolina, working for Ph. D. under Dr. Harry D. Wolf.
• Fellowship Application from Herbert Roof Northrup
  A 1941 application from Herbert Roof Northrup, a graduate student and assistant, department of Economics at Harvard Univerisity, requesting a grant for a field investigation by interviewing and collecting unpublished data of the policies of Labor unions in the South in regard to the treatment of Negro workers and the economic consequences thereof with special reference to unions in the building trades, longshore, iron and steel, coal mining, and tobacco industries. Wishes to secure a Ph.D. at Harvard, working under Sumner H. Slichter.
• Fellowship Application from Otto Richard Nielsen
  A 1941 application from Otto Richard Nielsen, an instructor at Texas Christian University, Forth Worth on leave, requesting a grant for a year of graduate study and research at the University of Texas continuing study of present year in the field of personnel administration, in further presentation for service as a personnel director in a southern college. Seeks Ph.D. degree, working under Dr. H. T. Manuel, beginning June or September.
• Fellowship Application from Bernard C. Murdock
  A 1941 application from Bernard C. Murdock, a graduate student at Duke University, requesting a grant for a study to reveal the future paths over which progress in education in the South can and should be made. Wishes to secure Ph.D, working under Dr. Douglas E. Scates of the Department of Education at Duke University.
• Fellowship Application from Jessie J. Mise
  A 1941 application from Jessie J. Mise, District Jome Management Supervisor, requesting a grant to study the dietary habits of low income rural families to discover deficiencies, and to make practical suggestions for improvement, also to do advanced study in the field of nutrition at Columbia University. Wishes to secure M.S.
• Fellowship Application from William Alexander Mitchell
  A 1941 application from William Alexander Mitchell, graduate student, assistantship in Political Science at Duke University, requesting a grant beginning in July, for the history of administration developments in the conservation of natural resources in the South. Seeks Ph. D. from Duke University. Also, there is a prospect of a professorship in political science at Southern State University.
• Fellowship Application from Joyce Michell
  A 1941 application from Joyce Michell, assistant professor of musicology, head of department at Louisiana State University, requesting a grant to finish my work at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Morrison C. Boyd. Seeks Ph.D.
• Fellowship Application from James O'Donald Mays
  A 1941 application from James O'Donald Mays, a graduate student at the University of Georgia, requesting a grant for two months' study of the cooperative movement in Nova Scotia and in Aroostock County, Maine, largely through the guidance of officials of the extension department in St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Wishes to become a better journalist.