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[Identification of item], William Edward Whitford Papers, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The William Edward Whitford Papers were received by the University Archives as a transfer in 1983.
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Encoded by Sherrie Bowser, November 2006
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William Edward Whitford was an undergraduate at Trinity College in Durham, NC, where he served as a laboratory assistant in physics and organized the school's first student laundry system. After graduating in 1927, he became an employee of Duke University, and in 1930, he became the first resident of West Campus. During his 45 years working for Duke, he served as building inspector, facilities coordinator, Director of Operations and Maintenance, assistant business manager for the University and senior consultant in engineering affairs and planted many of the oak trees on Duke's West Campus. He died in 1984.
Contains 12 of Whitford's date books from the years 1955 to 1966. Date books include entries for personal, social and cultural events, many of which took place at Duke.
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