Rah For The Engineers! research material
Photograph of Old Main with snow covered Catalina Mountains in the background, circa 1903.
Collection area: University of Arizona
Collection dates: 1921-1987
The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, interviews, and reminiscences, with faculty, alumni, and students of the College of Engineering. The papers relate the personalities, projects, and growth of the College during its first century of existence. The majority of these materials were collected by McCormick between 1984 and 1986, and were used in his book
James P. McCormick was born in 1911 and attended Northwestern University (PhD 1937). He was an English professor at Wayne State Univertsity, and, later, an administrator for Detroit Edison Company. He retired to Tucson in 1974 and accepted a position as adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Arizona.
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