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[Identification of item], School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Subject Collection., University Archives, Duke University.
The School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Subject Collection was received by the University Archives as a transfer between 1974-1995.
Processed by Jessica Wood, October 2006
Encoded by Sherrie Bowser, November 2006
Accessions A76-117, A78-81, A95-23, A74-160 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.
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Instruction in Forestry was offered to Trinity College students as early as 1932. In 1938, the School of Forestry was founded as the first graduate school of forestry in the South. In the 1970s, the school expanded its program to include a broad range of resource and environmental studies. In 1974/75, it became the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. In 1991, the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Duke University Marine Lab came together to become the School of Environment. In 1995, following a $20 million gift from Peter M. and Ginny Nicholas of Boston, the name changed to the Nicholas School of the Environment. In 1997, the Department of Geology joined the School, bringing with it new resources and a new name in December 2000, the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.
Collection contains alumni newsletters, publications, technical papers, department brochures, conference programs, memoranda, annual reports, as well as documents relating to the proposed phasing out of the Forestry School in 1975 and resultant student protests. Also includes papers from the 1965 Tropical Forestry Symposium sponsored by the School of Forestry, black and white photographs of the arboretum, and color photos and slides of School’s field days in 1977 and 1979. Removed photographs from albums and interleaved in folders for preservation.
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