Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Norman L. Grover Papers
Grover, Norman
Ms.1991.037
5.8 Cubic Feet
5 boxes
1960-1992
This collection contains the papers of Norman L. Grover a former professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department(s) at Virginia Tech from 1957-1991.
The materials in the collection are in English.
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Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], The Norman L. Grover Papers, 1960-1992, Ms1991-037, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Source of Acquisition
This collection was acquired by Special Collections in 2001.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Norman L. Grover Papers was completed in October 2014.
Biographical Note
Norman L. Grover was a faculty member in the department of Philosophy and Religion and later the Department of Religion from 1957 until his retirement in 1994. He also served as head of the department from 1957-1975.
Scope and Contents
This collection encompasses a wide variety of materials including documents from the Department of Philosophy and Religion, the Humanities Program, and the College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Association. The collection also contains academic publications, information concerning campus events through the years, and materials from classes offered by the Departments of Philosophy and Religion from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into series by subject type. Within each series, files are arranged in alphabetical order by folder title.
Series I: University Level Administrative Materials includes papers relating to the Virginia Tech chapter of the AAUP; memos and reports from the College of Arts and Sciences, University Council, and Faculty Senate; faculty handbooks; and state employee materials.
Series II: Department of Philosophy and Religion Materials contains memos; course proposals and curriculum papers; faculty meeting minutes; and administrative documents.
Series III: Philosophy Major/Department Materials consists of administrative papers collected to establish the major, as well as advising records; honors society by-laws; and faculty memos.
Series IV: Religion Major/Department Materials includes degree and major proposals; higher education files on curriculum; correspondence; and informational flyers.
Series V: Academic Publications, Drafts, and Manuscripts contains articles and writings by others collected by Grover.
Series VI: Materials from Various Conferences, Lectures, and Campus Events, consists of programs notes; advertising and informational flyers; and other papers relating to Grover's attendance and involvement with campus, relational, and nation events.
Series VII: Philosophy and Religion Course Materials contains course and club specific papers; syllabi; handouts on Charles Darwin; and honors seminar materials.
Series VIII: Miscellaneous Documents includes individual issues of newsletters kept by Grover; non-academic articles and clippings; materials on campus organization; handouts; and other ephemera.
Separated Materials
This collection includes several books which have been separated from the manuscript portion of the collection. The books include: Hawthore's Little Daffydowndilly and other Stories, Wilsson's First Reader, The Bear Cubbook, A History of Kansas by Anna E. Arnold, The American Red Cross Life Saving and Water Safety, Manual of Parliamentary Practice: Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies by Luther S. Cushing, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Seeing Canada with Lowell Thomas, Infantry Fire; Its Use in Battle by Joseph B. Batchelor, Jr.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
The guide to the The Norman L. Grover Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
Faculty and staff
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University History
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Department of Philosophy and Religion
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Department of Religion and Culture
Series I: University Level Administrative Materials1964-1990, n.d.AAUP VA Conference Newsletters and AAUP VA Tech Chapter Memos1980s11AAUP Virginia Tech Chapter Meeting Minutes1980s - 1990s12AAUP Committee on Changes in Virginia Tech's Grievance Procedures198713AAUP Miscellaneous Materials14Administration-Faculty Retreat197515Blacksburg "107" Fund Financial Records16Campus Demonstrations1970-197117Center for Programs in the Humanities Newsletter198518College of Arts and Sciences-Annual Report to the President1967-196819College of Arts and Sciences-"Campaign for Excellence" Committee1984-1985110College of Arts and Sciences-Dean's Annual Report to the Faculty1965-1966, 1966-1967111College of Arts and Sciences-Department Chairs Meetings1964-1967112College of Arts and Sciences-Department Chairs Meetings1968-1969113College of Arts and Sciences-Faculty Association1966-1969114College of Arts and Sciences-Faculty Association1971-1974115College of Arts and Sciences-Faculty Association1975-1979116College of Arts and Sciences-Faculty Association1980-1984117College of Arts and Sciences-Faculty Association1985-1990118College of Arts and Sciences-Faculty Constitution and Bylaws119College of Arts and Sciences-Memoranda1968-1979120College of Arts and Sciences-Memoranda1980-1984121College of Arts and Sciences-Memoranda1985-1990122College of Arts and Sciences-Planning Goals and Objectives1988123College of Arts and Sciences-Role and Responsibilities of Department Heads124Committee for Development of the Humanities125Faculty Handbook1977126Faculty Handbook1983127Faculty Senate-Ad Hoc Faculty Survey Committee Reports1970128Faculty Senate-Proposed Constitution and Bylaws1968129Faculty Senate-Report of Committee on Campus Unrest1970130Honor System Informational Materials131Humanities Advisory Committee132Humanities Committee on Non-Western Areas133Humanities Program-Mini Newsletter1986-1987134Humanities Program-Mission and Goals1988135Humanities Newsletter1978-1981136Humanities Program-Faculty Meetings1987137Humanities Program-Memoranda1975-1979138Humanities Program-Memoranda1981-1984139Humanities Program-Memoranda1985140Humanities Program-Memoranda1986141Humanities Program-Memoranda1987142Humanities Program-Memoranda1989143Humanities Program-Memoranda1988144Humanities Program-Memoranda1990-1991145Letter from Leslie F. Malpass concerning the search committee for a new deanDecember 31, 1968146Proposal for Interdisciplinary Humanities Program147Student Government Association1970-1972148University Council 149The University Council and the Faculty Senate Constitutions and Bylaws1969150University Council and Faculty Senate Constitutions and Bylaws1973151The University Council and Faculty Senate Constitutions and Bylaws1982152Virginia Philosophical Association-Committee on Standards for Teaching of Philosophy in Virginia Institutions of Higher Education1965153The Virginia State Employees Combined Charitable Campaign154Virginia State Employees Combined Charitable Campaign-Volunteers Weekly Report1988155Series II: Department of Philosophy and Religion Materials1960-1992, n.d.Annual Report of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, (1973-1974)21Department of Philosophy and Religion Course Proposals, (1985-1987)22Department of Philosophy and Religion-Curriculum Committee, (1960-1968)23Department of Philosophy and Religion Curriculum Committee, (1970-1980)24Department of Philosophy and Religion-Events25Department of Philosophy and Religion Faculty Meetings-Folder 126Department of Philosophy and Religion Faculty Meetings-Folder 227Department of Philosophy and Religion Faculty Meetings-Folder 328Department of Philosophy and Religion Faculty Meetings-Folder 429Department of Philosophy and Religion Faculty-Folder 5210Department of Philosophy and Religion Faculty Meetings-Folder 6211Department of Philosophy and Religion Five Year Department Review, (1982)212Department of Philosophy and Religion Grade Distribution Data, (1974)213Department of Philosophy and Religion Memoranda and Informational Sheets, (1970-1988)214Department of Philosophy and Religion Memoranda, (1989-1990)215Department of Philosophy and Religion-Religion Committee, (1972-1982)216Department of Philosophy and Religion-Religion Faculty Memoranda, (1981-1982)217Department of Philosophy and Religion-Religion Faculty Meetings, (1982-1992)218Department of Philosophy and Religion-Religion Faculty Memoranda, (1983)219Draft of Department of Philosophy and Religion Annual Report, (1974-1975)220Series III: Philosophy Major/Department Materials,1965-1989, n.d.Advising Department-Philosophy Majors-Folder 131Advising Department-Philosophy Majors-Folder 232Advising Department-Philosophy Majors-Folder 333Advising Department-Philosophy Major-Folder 414Phi Sigma Tau-Virginia Beta Chapter-Bylaws and Charter Petition, (1979)35Philosophy Department Faculty Memoranda, (1972-1978)36Philosophy Major Proposal, (1965-1966)- Folder 137Philosophy Major Proposal, (1965-1966)-Folder 238Philosophy Major Proposal-Preliminary Papers-Folder 139Philosophy Major Proposal-Preliminary Papers-Folder 2310Series IV: Religion Major/Department Materials,1967-1991, n.d.B.A. in Religious Studies Curriculum Proposal, (1973-1974)311College of Arts and Sciences Department of Religion Five Year Review, (1990)312Correspondence, (1967)313Department of Religion Bachelor's Degree Proposals, (1974)-Folder 1314Department of Religion Bachelor's Degree Proposals, (1974)-Folder 2315Department of Religion Course Listings, (1989-1990)316Department of Religion-Five Year Review, (1989)317Department of Religion-Five Year Departmental Review, (1990)318Department of Religion-Memoranda, (1985)319Department of Religion-Memoranda, (1986)320Department of Religion-Memoranda, (1987)321Department of Religion-Memoranda, (1988)322Department of Religion Memoranda, (1989)323Department of Religion Memoranda, (1990-1991)324List of Religion Majors, (1989)325Religion Curricula in State Higher Education- Folder 1326Religion Curricula in State Higher Education-Folder 2326Religion Curricula in State Higher Education-Folder 3328Religion Major Informational Flyers329Series V: Academic Publications, Drafts, and Manuscripts,c.1960s-1990sArticles concerning Religious Studies in Higher Education330"The Black Man in the cave in Chapultepec: An Aztec Variant on the Gatekeeper Motif" by Franke J. Neumann in Religious Encounters with Death331Book Reviews332"Building a Department of Religious Studies in the 80s" 333"Concience-less Society and Beyond Perspectives from Erich From and Paul Tillich" by Guy B. Hammond in Neue Zeitschrift Fur Systemastiche Theologie und Religionsphilosophie334"Development of a Lamp in Palestine" by Charles A. Kennedy335Draft: "The Myth of the Neutral Man" by Janice Moulton336"The Dragon and the Dog: Two Symbols of Time in Nahuatl Religion" by Franke J. Neumann in Numen337"An Examination of Tillich's Method of Correlation" by Guyton B. Hammond in the Journal of Bible and Religion338"The Flayed God and His Rattlestick: A Shamanic Element in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican Religion" by Franke J. Neumann in History of Religion339"Hempel Versus Sellars on Explanation" by Joseph C. Pitt in Dialectica340"Immediacy and Distance in Religion" by Edward Leroy Lon, Jr. in The New Drew Gateway41"Knowledge, Justification, and Reliability" by Frederick F. Schmitt42"Metaphilosophical Classification" by Palmer C. Talbutt, Jr. in Teaching Philosophy43"Modal Elaborations of Propositional Logics" by Nicolas Rescher and Ruth Manor in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic44"Objects of Dianoia in Plato's Divided Line" by Nicholas D. Smith in Apeiron45"Paper: A Sacred Material in Aztec Ritual" by Franke J. Neumann in History of Religion46"Paul Tillich's Critique of Humanism" by Guy B. Hammond in Religious Humanism47"The Recovery of Distance" by Guy B. Hammond in the Journal of Religion48"Relativism and Nihilism" by Tom Carson49"Religious Studies in Higher Education"410"Science, Ethics, and the States of Cetaceans" by Harlan B. Miller411"The Scholarly Study of Religion in College and University" by Robert Michaelson 412"A Simple Cure for Grade Inflation" by Irving John Good in the Journal of Educational Data Processing413"Socrates' Proposed Penalty in Plato's Apology" by Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith in Archiv Fur Geschichte der Philosophie414"Structuralism, Hermeneutics, and Contextual Meaning" by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon i Journal o American Academy of Religion415"The Study of Religion on the Campus of Today" ed. by Karl D. Hartzell416Techniques and Applications of Symbolic Logic by Charles E. Cardwell417"Theology and the Gentile Tradition" by Palmer C. Talbutt, Jr. 418Transfiguration Manuscript by Frank Burch Brown419"The Untrodden Road: Rationality and Galileo's Theory of the Tides" buy Joseph C. Pitt in Nature and System420"The Varieties of Truth" bu Perry C. Holt in Journal of the Tn Academy of Science421"Voter Education in Raleigh" by Robert W. Catlett422Series VI: Materials from Various Conferences, Lectures, and Campus Events,1960-1986, n.d.American Academy of Religion-Southeastern Region Meeting Papers and Correspondence, (March 13-15, 1980)423Conference on Religious Emphasis, (1963)424Ethics in Higher Education ("Education for Ethical Conduct" A Conference Brochure and "Renewed Interest in Ethics in Higher Education by Dr. Edward Leroy Long, Jr.) 425Dr. Harlow Shapely's Visit to VPI, (1962)426Lecture: Dan Garber "Mind, Body, and the Laws of Nature in Descartes and Leibniz," (April 14, 1983)427Informational Materials from VPI Campus Events, (1960s-1980s)428The Morality of Communications: Education Lecture-Discussion429Nuclear Winter: Strategic and Diplomatic Implications, (March 6, 1986)430Program for 1984 Annual Meeting of the VPA431Dr. Tipton R. Snavely's Visit as Part of the Visiting Scholar Program, (1964)432VPI and SU Administrative Conferences433Series VII: Philosophy and Religion Course Materials,1971-1972, n.d.Charles Darwin Handouts434Freshman Honors Seminar (1971) VPI Philosophy and Religion Department435Freshmen Honors Seminar (1972) VPI Philosophy and Religion Department436Humanities: The Modern World Materials437Phenomenology of Religion Course Syllabus438The Philosophy Club439Miscellaneous Philosophy Course Materials440Religion and the Modern World 441Series VIII: Miscellaneous Documents,1967-1979, n.d.Arete Newsletters (Center for Programs in the Humanities)442Blacksburg Free Press Paper, (November 25, 1968)443Crisis Center Informational Handout51"Ethics in America" Viewer's Guide52"The Humanist Speaks" Radio Series, (1972)53"Initial Draft of a Proposed Brief Statement of Reformed Faith for Response by the Church"54It's Academic Newsletter, (October 1989)55"Laments of a Teacher" -Poem by Paul Derring56Letter to Robert Stephenson from Alfred C. Payne with Bibiliography of Religious Periodicals in VPI's Library, (1972)57Techgram, (April 1966)58Article About UFO Research and "A Consumer's Guide to Pseudoscience"59Virginia Tech Spectrum, (January 18, 1979)510The Virginia Wreck, (May 26, 1967)511"Marks of Maturity" from Oral Roberts University512Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles513Outline of Gay Student Alliance Organization514The Passion According to St. John Performance515Teaching and Learning Newsletters 516