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[Identification of item], Arthur M. Proctor Papers, University Archives, Duke University.
The Arthur M. Proctor Papers were received by the University Archives as a gift in 1973, 1975, and 1979.
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Completed November 16, 2004
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Arthur Marcus Proctor was born on July 9, 1886, near Huntsville, Alabama. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Trinity College (later Duke University) in 1910. He then attended the Teachers College of Columbia University, where he received a master's degree in 1922 and a doctor of philosophy degree in 1930.
Before joining the faculty of Trinity College in 1923, Proctor served as the principal or superintendent of several different school districts in Georgia and North Carolina. He also served as Headmaster of Castle School on the Hudson in New York to complete his resident graduate work.
When he returned to Trinity College as Professor of Education, Proctor taught courses and assisted in the Summer School program offered by the school. He worked closely with Professor Holland Holton to train future educators for the growing public school system in North Carolina. Proctor briefly served as Director of the Summer School and as Chairman of the Department of Education. Proctor retired in 1952, and died on August 27, 1955.
The Arthur M. Proctor Papers include correspondence, speeches, articles, clippings, handbooks, photographs, and other materials related to Proctor's career as a teacher of teachers. Includes surveys of North Carolina schools, 1920s-1950s, and handbooks for state high schools, course materials for his work at Duke and other schools, and some files on the Duke Department of Education.
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The Arthur M. Proctor Papers are only preliminarily processed. The lists of materials within each box represent major subjects, but they are not folder lists.
Some 8 cities and 17 counties are represented, some more than once. Surveys were done in the the late 1920s, late 1930s, late 1940s, and early 1950s.