Finding Aid to the Homer L. Dodge addition to papers, 1905-1994

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Biographical Note

Physicist (electrical measurements) and educator. Homer Dodge was on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma as head of physics department (1919-1942), dean of graduate school (1926-1944), and organizer and director of Oklahoma Research Institute (1941-1944). Dodge was also a founder, first president, and member of Governing Board of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) from 1933 to 1939, director of the Office of Scientific Personnel, National Research Council (1942-1944), and president of Norwich University (1944-1950).

Scope and Contents of Collection

This addition to the Homer L. Dodge papers is comprised of correspondence, biographical and family records, information regarding Dodge's canoeing experience, and some professional documentation. Items include recollections about Dodge and an obituary written by friends and colleagues; correspondence with family members and friends; travel notes, films and correspondence from Dodge's canoe trips, including a trip at the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway; yearbook from Colgate University; copy of World War I draft and registration forms; article reprint; gravitational wave data readings from various equipment; films and home videos, including travel and canoe documentation; family photographs.

Access to Collection

http://www.aip.org/history/nbl/access.html.

Provenance and Acquisition Information

Received from Alice Dodge Wallace, 1998 to 2011.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Melanie J. Mueller in 2012.

Preferred Citation of Collection

Box [number], Folder [number], Homer L. Dodge addition to papers. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA.

Container List

Series I: Papers
Box 1	Folder 1	Home movies, undated
	Folder 2	Photograph identification and notes, undated
	Folder 3	Invitation list for Homer Dodge wedding, undated
	Folder 4	Commencements - high school and honorary degree from St. Mary’s College (Maryland), 1905-1975
	Folder 5	Correspondence - from parents regarding death of family dog, 1907
	Folder 6	Yearbook, Colgate University, 1910
	Folder 7	World War I draft registration card and registrar’s report, 1917
	Folder 8	Photographs, circa 1920-1970
	Folder 9	Correspondence – from Homer Dodge to Isabelle Donahugh Dodge, 1926-1935, undated
	Folder 10	Correspondence with Edith Dodge Baker (cousin), 1948
	Folder 11	U.S. News and World Report , “Uncensored: the real story of Russia - exclusive eyewitness account by Dr. Homer Dodge and Norton Dodge”, 1955
	Folder 12	Correspondence and travel notes, 1960-1965, undated
	Folder 13	Correspondence – Macon, and Homer Dodge trip at opening of St. Lawrence Seaway, 1959
	Folder 14	Canoeing biographical notes, undated, post-1965
	Folder 15	Correspondence - finances, 1969
	Folder 16	Obituary by Albert Bartlett, 1983
	Folder 17	Correspondence - Eugene Guazzo recollections of Homer Dodge, 1994

Series II: Data
Box 2		Gravitational wave data readings, 1969

Series III: Film
Box 3		Miscellaneous films, undated
Box 4		Films, undated
Box 5		Films, undated