Letter written by Ruth Kirk to Tennessee Tech University President Everett Derryberry and First Lady Joan Derryberry about her and her husband's experience attending Tech in the 1940s. Louis Kirk served in the United States Navy during World War II and used benefits from the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 to attend Tennessee Polytechnic Institute from about 1945 to 1948. The letter includes Ruth's description of living in the veterans' housing at Cottage Grove on campus, using resources from the Department of Home Economics, and their living allowance and cost of rent. The letter is signed in Ruth's handwriting with both Ruth's and Louis's names. On the back of the letter is a collage of family and professional photographs. After Louis's graduation, the couple moved to the West Coast of the United States to work in national parks. Many of the photographs document the couple's professional careers as naturalists, and beginning in 1967, documentary film makers and broadcast programmers. See the third page of the PDF for a transcript of the letter.
title:
Letter from Ruth Kirk and Louis Kirk to Everett Derryberry and Joan Derryberry
creator:
Kirk, Ruth Eleanor Kratz (1925-2018)
creator:
Kirk, Louis Gladwin (1921-1992)
subject:
Tennessee Technological University
subject:
Derryberry, William Everett, 1906-1991
subject:
Derryberry, Joan (Gertrude Joan Pitt-Rew), 1906-1998
subject:
Kirk, Bruce
subject:
Kirk, Wayne
subject:
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute
subject:
Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae
subject:
College students
subject:
Veterans
subject:
Women college students
subject:
Veterans' families
subject:
Veterans' spouses
subject:
College-student veterans
subject:
World War, 1939-1945--Veterans
subject:
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. Cottage Grove
subject:
Student housing
subject:
Veterans--Education
subject:
Mothers
subject:
Navy spouses
subject:
Meadow, John
subject:
KPEC-TV (Television station : Lakewood Center, Wash.)
subject:
Documentary films--Production and direction
subject:
Naturalists
subject:
Park naturalists
subject:
Women naturalists
description:
Letter written by Ruth Kirk to Tennessee Tech University President Everett Derryberry and First Lady Joan Derryberry about her and her husband's experience attending Tech in the 1940s. Louis Kirk served in the United States Navy during World War II and used benefits from the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 to attend Tennessee Polytechnic Institute from about 1945 to 1948. The letter includes Ruth's description of living in the veterans' housing at Cottage Grove on campus, using resources from the Department of Home Economics, and their living allowance and cost of rent. The letter is signed in Ruth's handwriting with both Ruth's and Louis's names. On the back of the letter is a collage of family and professional photographs. After Louis's graduation, the couple moved to the West Coast of the United States to work in national parks. Many of the photographs document the couple's professional careers as naturalists, and beginning in 1967, documentary film makers and broadcast programmers. See the third page of the PDF for a transcript of the letter.
date:
1968-12-31
type:
Text
type:
Image
format:
pdf
identifier:
RG27_B66F15
publisher:
Tennessee Technological University. Archives and Special Collections
source:
William Everett Derryberry papers
language:
eng
temporal:
1940s
temporal:
1950s
temporal:
1960s
spatial:
Cookeville (Tenn.)
spatial:
Putnam County (Tenn.)
spatial:
Tacoma (Wash.)
rights:
In Copyright
rights Holder:
Ruth Kirk and Louis Kirk
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