Martin P. Chworsky collection, 1948/1967

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library
James Branch Cabell Library
Virginia Commonwealth University
P.O. Box 842003
901 Park Avenue
Richmond, VA 23284-2003
Contact for questions and access:
POC: SCA Staff
Phone: (804) 828-1108
Fax: (804) 828-0151
Restrictions:

No restrictions on access

Terms of access:

No restrictions on use.

Preferred citation:

Box, Martin P. Chworsky, M 10, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Summary

Extent:
18 Linear Feet
Creator:
Chworsky, Martin P. (Martin Philip), 1900-1975
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Box, Martin P. Chworsky, M 10, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Background

Scope and content:

The Martin P. Chworsky collection consists of excerpted articles in the area of human relations by various authors, certain of Dr. Chworsky's writings and lecture notes, and miscellaneous data and correspondence related to his years as director of the Albert M. Greenfield Center for Human Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. All materials are basically from the period 1957-1964 which coincides with his major period of publishing activity, 1955-1966.

Biographical / historical:

Martin Philip Chworsky was born on 28 January 1900, in San Antonio, Texas. In 1922, he matriculated from Harvard, spending the next four years at the Harvard Law School. He received his LLB in 1926 but never practiced law. He began his teaching career in a Connecticut secondary school and remained in the field of education for the rest of his life. He became a lecturer in education at the University of Pittsburgh in 1931. While at the University of Pittsburgh he earned his Master's degree in 1934 and his Ph.D. in 1936.From 1939 to 1946, Dr. Chworsky was an associate professor of psychology and education at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He left this post to work for two years as the associate director of the Commission on Educational Organization of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. At Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Chworsky was coordinator of that college's program in Intergroup Education from 1948 to 1951.The newly founded Albert M. Greenfield Center for Human Relations chose him as its first director and he remained in this post until the dissolution of the Center. Following this, he joined the Sociology Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. He retired from VCU in 1970 and died 29 April 1975.

Acquisition information:
The collection was donated to the Department in February 1974 and January 1976 by Mrs. Martin P. Chworsky.
Arrangement:

Materials are arranged by title or subject and chronological therein. There is one exception. Collection 10- a contains the majority of materials relating to the Albert M. Greenfield Center for Human Relations, and all materials in collection 10 relating to this subject have been moved to 10-a for convenience.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard