{"id":3588,"date":"2024-07-28T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/library-archives-blog\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2024-07-25T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:23:58","slug":"processing-the-cutler-hall-rededication-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/library-archives-blog\/2024\/07\/28\/processing-the-cutler-hall-rededication-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Processing the Cutler Hall Rededication Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

By Chloe Haught, Spring 2024 University Archives Intern<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In spring 2024, for six hours each week, I had the pleasure of interning at the Mahn Center working with Bill Kimok, University Archivist and Records Manager. During this experience I began and completed the processing of two collections\u2014The Cutler Hall Rededication Collection<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Ohio University Pride Center Collection<\/a>\u2014which were of vastly different sizes and content. However, despite these obvious physical differences in the collections, both projects collectively taught me a great deal about archival work. To read about the processing of the Pride Center collection see my first blog post.<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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OU Rededicates Cutler Hall, front page of October 17, 1947 Post<\/a>.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n

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The first collection I processed contained materials detailing\u00a0the planning and executing of the 1947 rededication of Ohio University\u2019s historic Cutler Hall.\u00a0 Originally built between 1816-1819 Cutler Hall was first known as the College Edifice or the Center Building, and it was renamed Cutler Hall in 1914 to honor one of Ohio University\u2019s founders, Manasseh Cutler. As a scientist, reverend, and statesman, Cutler wore many hats, and, more specifically, his political negotiating skills were instrumental in helping the University\u2019s other founders to acquire land and to create official charters for the purpose of the University and for the ground on which the University would be built.<\/p>\r\n

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As the oldest building on OHIO\u2019s campus, Cutler Hall had a long, pragmatically functional past, simultaneously providing classroom space, room for student boarding, and faculty offices during the 120 years before it was rendered virtually uninhabitable and condemned in 1936. However, rather than overseeing the demolition of such an iconic, historic landmark, newly installed Ohio University\u2019s 14th<\/sup> President John Calhoun Baker came to the building\u2019s rescue in 1945 when he decided to have it restored.<\/p>\r\n

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Reminder sent to OHIO alumni regarding the rededication.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n

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As work on the old building progressed, a rededication ceremony was meticulously planned to draw attention to the restoration project; an effort that was led mostly by\u00a0Ohio University Assistant Professor of Dramatic Arts and Speech Vincent Joseph Jukes.\u00a0Many\u00a0of the documents in this collection illustrate the tremendous volume of work that Professor Jukes put into planning the ceremony. He spent most of\u00a01947\u00a0contacting broadcasting companies and newspapers for publicity, planning attention-drawing events, coordinating the acquisition of paintings from museums, procuring souvenirs representing the event, and much more.<\/p>\r\n

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On October 18-19, 1947, Jukes’s\u00a0hard labor\u00a0came to fruition during a weekend of festivities, which included a museum exhibition at Cutler Hall, a student parade, an exhibition football scrimmage at Ohio Stadium, a visit by Ohio Governor Thomas J. Herbert and other University and State of Ohio dignitaries, a student dance, and even the firing of cannons on the College Green. The October 17, 1947 Ohio University Post<\/a> aptly describes the many events planned for the big day, and many of the highlights of these events were originally recorded live in a 16 millimeter film which was converted to digital format in 2009, and can be viewed by everyone here at this link<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Cannons firing on OHIO\u2019s College Green during the rededication program.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n

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