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David Hutchinson Scull Papers

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
RG5.135
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], David Hutchinson Scull Papers, RG 5/135, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1931-1936 (inclusive)
Creator:
Scull, David Hutchinson, 1914-1983 and Swarthmore College
Abstract:
David Hutchinson Scull (1914-1983) was a Quaker businessman and civil rights activist in Virginia. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1936, joined the Society of Friends while a student, and served on the Swarthmore College Board of Managers from 1974-1977. He was president of Turnpike Press, a family publishing company, and an insurance executive. He also was clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and a founder of Partnership for Productivity, a Quaker sponsored project to promote peace through worldwide economic development. This collection contains correspondence and related materials from his student days at Swarthmore College, 1931-1934.

David Hutchinson Scull (1914-1983) was a Quaker businessman and civil rights activist in Virginia. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1936, joined the Society of Friends while a student, and served on the Swarthmore College Board of Managers from 1974-1977. He was president of Turnpike Press, a family publishing company, and an insurance executive. He also was clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and a founder of Partnership for Productivity, a Quaker sponsored project to promote peace through worldwide economic development.

This collection contains correspondence and related materials of David Hutchinson Scull (1914-1983), Quaker businessman and civil rights activist, from his student days at Swarthmore College, 1931-1934.

This collection is divided into two series:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Memorabilia

Donor: David Hutchinson Scull, 1965

See also:

  1. Fager, Charles (Charles Eugene). A man who made a difference: the life of David H. Scull / edited and with a biographical essay by Charles E. Fager McLean, Virginia: Langley Hill Friends Meeting, 1985.
  2. Partnership for Productivity Records, RG4/102

Subject

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1965
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

With parents while a student at Swarthmore College, 9/1931-12/1934.
Box 1
With parents while a student at Swarthmore College, 1/[1935]-6/1936.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes one high school letter and undated brief discussion on Free Will.

Explanatory notes on letters to parents.
Box 2
Letters to his Aunt Louise (Hutchinson), 1934, 1935.
Box 2
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1931, 1933.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from two professors.

Programs, schedules, post cards, and photo.

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