Gorham Collection

Item set

Title

Gorham Collection

Description

The Gorham collection consists of papers of Florida A&M University professor, Thelma T. Gorham, 1913-1992. The Collection spans over Gorham’s lifetime. It includes papers, correspondence, photographs, greeting and postcards, and memorabilia. The arrangement of the collection is in both series and box identification. The series are: correspondence, educational and professional career, memorabilia, three- dimensional objects, JET Magazine collection, Ebony Magazine Collection, miscellaneous publications, miscellaneous articles collected by Gorham, photographs, audio and video, greeting and post cards, and pamphlets and brochures collected by Gorham, outside of the series are single boxes with box identification.

Physical Location

Thelma T. Gorham Collection, John G. Riley House Archives, Tallahassee State College Library, Tallahassee, Florida.

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Letter from Thelma Gorham to D. C. Collington, March 13, 1967

Letter from Thelma Gorham to D. C. Collington. Gorham congratulating Collington on a successful meeting of the FAMU Interscholastic Press Workshop. Indicates happiness to collaborate on future initiatives. March 13, 1967
News from the Pepsi-Cola Company, February 23, 1967

News one-sheet from the Pepsi-Cola Company. The company indicated a project it had sponsored entitled "Adventures in Negro History." A "comprehensive kit containing the contributions of the Negro in America" which would be presented to New York City schools that year. These kits were likely the ones Thema Gorham referenced in her March 4th, 1967 letter to H. Naylor Fitzhugh. February 2, 1967
Letter from Thelma Gorham to H. Naylor Fitzhugh, March 4, 1967

Letter from Thelma Gorham to H. Naylor Fitzhugh of the Pepsi-Cola Company. Gorham asking about employment opportunities and indicating that she had some idea which could be of benefit to the company. March 4, 1967.
Letter from Thelma Gorham to William J. Holloway, March 3, 1967

Letter from Thelma Gorham to William J. Holloway. Gorham requesting aid in finding scholarship grants for her Phd studies. March 3, 1967
Letter from Thelma Gorham to Ashby U. Gaskins, March 3, 1967

Letter from Thelma Gorham to Ashby U. Gaskins. Gorham requested assistance in finding work in Minnesota in order to complete her coursework toward her PhD. March 3, 1967
Letter from Thelma Gorham to Scholarship Branch, March 1, 1967

Letter from Thelma Gorham to the National Science Foundation, Scholarship Branch. Gorham requesting information about scholarship opportunities to assist her in her PhD progress. March 1, 1967
Letter from Thelma Gorham to Theodore L. Abell, March 1, 1967

Letter from Thelma Gorham to Theodore L. Abell. Gorham requesting information on scholarships and grants for graduate students in the area of mass communications. March 1, 1967
Letter from Thelma Gorham to Frank Sawyer, February 28, 1967

Letter from Thelma Gorham to Frank Sawyer. Gorham asking Sawyer to send her a copy of theDirectory of U.S. Negro Newspapers, Magazines, & Publications.Mentions her shift away from the journalism department, her son, and her PhD progress. February 28, 1967
Letter from Laura Bornholdt to Thelma Gorham, February 15, 1967

Letter from Laura Bornholdt to Thelma Gorham. Bornholdt writes to Gorham indicating that she was disqualified from the 1967-1968 competition of Graduate Fellowships for Women. Offers to help her apply for the Kent fellowship, which she could qualify for. February 15, 1967
Letter from Thelma T. Gorham to Robert H. Smith, March 9, 1967

Letter from Thelma Gorham to Robert Smith. Gorham writing to accept Smith's invitation to join Pi Gamma Mu, National Social Science Honor Society. March 9, 1967