Guide to Collection 195. Cratis Williams Symposium Records, 1975

Guide to Collection 195. Cratis Williams Symposium Records, 1975 - 1976

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Biographical Note

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Appalachian State University

Contact Information:

Special Collections
Carol G. Belk Library and Information Commons
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina
28608 USA
Phone: (828) 262-4041
Fax: (828) 262-2553
Email: spcoll@appstate.edu
URL: http://www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll

Descriptive Summary

Repository:	Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection
Creator:	Cratis Williams (1911-1985)
Title:	Collection 195. Cratis Williams Symposium Records, 1975 - 1976
Language of Material:	Material in English
Location:	For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Appalachian State University.
Abstract:	The Cratis Williams Symposium Records is a collection of materials from and related to an Appalachian symposium honoring Cratis D. Williams of Appalachian State University, held April 7-9, 1976.

Extent:	2.5 linear feet, 6 archival boxes

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

An appointment for research is required. No restrictions to access. No Inter-Library Loan.

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Copyright Notice

Standard federal copyright laws apply.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Collection 195. Cratis Williams Symposium Records, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, NC, USA.

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Acquisitions Information

Provenance is unknown. The accession number is MWS. This collection was opened to the public on 7 May 2003.

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Processing Information

Processed by Kathryn Staley, 7 May 2003

Encoded by Kathryn Staley, 30 June 2005

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Biographical Note

The Cratis Williams Symposium was organized by Jerry Wayne Williamson, editor of Appalachian Journal, in 1986. Scholars presented academic papers and a salute to Williams was given.

Cratis Dearl Williams (April 5, 1911 - May 11, 1985) was the prime organizer of the Appalachian Studies Program at Appalachian State University. Williams worked as public school teacher, high school principal, college professor, college administrator. He was a teacher, folklorist, performer, and the recognized leading authority on Appalachian literature, folkways, and speech. He retired from Appalachian State University in 1976 but continued to work part-time as Special Assistant to the Chancellor writing his memoirs.

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Collection Arrangement

This collection is organized into two series: 195A. Document Series, 195B. Audiocassette Series, original order. Audiocassettes and photographs are housed separately.

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Online Catalog Headings

Appalachian journal

Appalachian Region -- Study and teaching

Appalachian State University

Cratis Williams Symposium (1976 : Boone, N.C.)

Williams, Cratis D

Williamson, J. W. (Jerry Wayne), 1944-

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Container List


Collection 195A. Document Series. (1975-1976)
Document Series contains organizational materials, correspondence and papers related to the Cratis Williams Symposium, original order. Speech transcriptions, papers which were presented, rejected papers, and correspondence with and copyright information for participants.
Box	Folder
1	1	Miscellaneous Early Correspondence, planning, etc.

		Papers Weeded Out.
Box	Folder
1	2	Papers Weeded Out.
	3	Papers Weeded Out.
	4	Papers Weeded Out.

		Final Report.
Box	Folder
1	5	Abstracts.

		Miscellaneous: Remarks for Editor's Panel, Extra Copyright forms, Names and Addresses of Participants.
Box	Folder
1	6	Rooster of Participants.

		Attendance Rooster.

		Budget.

		Symposium Committee.
Box	Folder
1	7	Biographic Sketch.

		Mailing Lists.
Box	Folder
1	8	Mailing Lists.
	9	Paper Review Procedures.

		Miscellaneous.
Box	Folder
1	10	Miscellaneous.

		Programs.

		Requests for Tapes.
Box	Folder
2	1	Abstracts.

		Transcriptions of Salute.

		Herbert Wey, Essie Hayes, Rachel Malcolm, Charles Porterfield, Susan Day, Jean Woodring
Box	Folder
2	2	Transcriptions of Salute.

		Rogers Whitener, W. H. Plemmons, W. Amos Abrams, Cratis Williams

		Cratis Williams' "Dialect of Speech" (2 versions).

		Advertisements.

		Papers.

		"On the Attempt to be a Sensitive Observer in Appalachia."
Box	Folder
2	3	Papers.

		"On the Attempt to be a Sensitive Observer in Appalachia."
Box	Folder
2	4	Papers.

		"Dulcimer Making in Western North Carolina", "Assisting Appalachian Families", "Industrialization and Violence in Appalachia in the 1890's", "Friday at Parhams': Contemporary Appalachian Music in Context."
Box	Folder
2	5	Papers.

		"Bringing in the Sheaves", "The Southern Mountain Vocabulary in the Low Country of South Carolina and Georgia"
Box	Folder
2	6	Papers.

		"The Gap in Oral Tradition-Children are the Losers", "The Observance of Old Christmas in Southern Appalachia", "Self-Made Man and the American Adam in Henry James, Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner", "The Appalachia Personalities."
Box	Folder
2	7	Papers.

		"Wallace Stevens' Cock Fight", "Mountain Society in Context", "Personality of an Appalachian Migrant", "Independence and Egalitarianism in the Southern Appalachians", "The Principal Parts of Verbs in Appalachian Dialect", "Mountain Mother."
Box	Folder
2	8	Papers.

		"Saints Bound for Heaven", "Harp Singing", "Moonlighting on Moonshine", "Humanizing the Language Arts in Appalachian Schools", "The Appalachian Woman a Portrayed by James Still", "The Eating Habits and Food Customs of Appalachian People."
Box	Folder
2	9	Papers.

		"Harry Monroe Caudill", "The Copper Rig: Guineas as Moonshining", "A Religious Perspective of the State of Franklin", "Ashley Weaver: Microcosm of Appalachia", "Ecological Segregation and the Textbook Controversy."
Box	Folder
2	10	Papers.

		"Abingdon Branch: Recollections of the Early Days of a Railroad Era", "Jesse B. Aikin's Seven Character Shaped Note Music Notation", "The Blue Ridge Parkway", "Scotch-Irish Influences on the Rural Southern Appalachian Personality", "The Spirit is Strong in the Root."
Box	Folder
2	11	Papers.

		"Ye Old Miller's Tale", "Occupational Adjustment of Appalachians in Cleveland", "An Overview of the Process of Social Rural Appalachian Transition", "An Archeological Perspective on Southern Appalachian Culture", "The Dynamics of Conservatism in Indian and Euro-American Cultures of Appalachia", "Indians and Europeans in the Southern Appalachian Environment", "The Traditional Aspects of Conversion in Appalachia."
Box	Folder
3	1	Papers.

		"The Literary Unity of Ray Hick's â€˜Jack Tales' ", "Language Assessment in Appalachia: A Sociolinguistic Perspective."

		Book Exhibit.
Box	Folder
3	2	Publishers and Copyright Agreements.
	3	Publishers and Copyright Agreements.
	4	Publishers and Copyright Agreements.

		Biographies on Program Participants.
Box	Folder
3	5	Abstracts and Paper Proposals- Early Correspondence.
	6	Abstracts and Paper Proposals- Early Correspondence.
	7	Abstracts and Paper Proposals- Early Correspondence.
	8	Abstracts and Paper Proposals- Early Correspondence.
	9	Speeches.

		Synopsis of Articles.

		Correspondence.

		Abrams, Amos

		Aldridge, Joanne

		Allen, John

		Alvey, Gerald

		Anderson, Don

		Anderson, Laurel
Box	Folder
3	10	Correspondence.

		Arlett, Robert

		Aseltine, H.E.

		Baird, Lorrayne

		Barron, Hal

		Beatty, Roger

		Beaver, Patricia

		Birkhead, John

		Black, Ann
Box	Folder
3	11	Correspondence.

		Boggs, Andrew

		Bohache, Alan

		Boyer, Karen

		Brandes, Paul

		Brown, Alice

		Brown, Harry

		Bulger, Peggy

		Burton, Thomas

		Card, Edith B.

		Carlstrom, Gordon

		Cash, Shirley

		Cate, Herma R.

		Catholic Committee of Appalachia

		Chaffin, Lillie
Box	Folder
4	1	Correspondence.

		Clark, Joseph

		Cloer, Thomas

		Coles, Robert

		Conner, Andrea

		Conti, Gene

		Conway, Robert O.

		Cook, Verdola

		Corbitt, Tom

		Corey, John F.

		Cottle, Tom

		Council of Southern Mountains

		Counts, Belva

		Crain, Alan
Box	Folder
4	2	Correspondence.

		Dennis, Warren

		Dickerson, Lynn

		Dorgan, Howard

		Drake, Richard

		Duke, Dan

		Dumas, Bethany

		Dykeman, Wilma

		Edwards, Larry
Box	Folder
4	3	Correspondence.

		Fink, Paul M.

		Fisher, Stephen

		Foley, John

		Friedenberg, Robert

		Gaskins, Avery

		Gilkerson, Sue

		Hall, Robert

		Wayland Harrill

		Harris, Braxton

		Hathaway, Jim
Box	Folder
4	4	Correspondence.

		Hayes, Essie

		Herndon, James F.

		Higgs, Robert

		Horn, Hazel

		Hovenden, William E.

		Hulme, F.P.

		Humphrey, Rich
Box	Folder
4	5	Correspondence.

		Hyatt, Aaron

		Inge, M. Thomas

		Jackson, Jameson

		Jackson, Sarah E.

		Jolley, Harley

		Jones, Loyal

		Jones, Robert

		Joyner, Charles W.

		Joyner, Nancy

		Kane, Stephen

		Kaufman, Jack

		Kell, Carl

		Kendrick, Elise
Box	Folder
4	6	Correspondence.

		Knott, Sarah G.

		La Barre, Weston

		Liles, Granville

		Looff, David

		McCaskey, Lee

		Mace, Borden

		McKinney, Gordon

		Maggard, Sally

		Malcolm, Rachel
Box	Folder
4	7	Correspondence.

		Mellinger, Marie B.

		Miller, Jim Wayne

		Montell, Lynwood

		Morgan, Mary Sue

		Morgan, Pat

		Morris Harvey College

		Moser, Artus

		Moser, Joan

		O'Cain, Raymond

		Opie, John

		Parrott, Richard

		Peake, Richard

		Pearsall, Marion

		Pennington, Lee
Box	Folder
4	8	Correspondence.

		Photiadis, John D.

		Pittman, Debbie

		Plemmons, William

		Popenoe, Willis P.
Box	Folder
4	9	Correspondence.

		Posey, Walter

		Powell, William

		Powers, Evelyn

		Powers, Tom

		Prisk, Dennis

		Purrington, Burton

		Richardson, Bill

		Richman, Larry

		Ritchie, Jean

		Rogers, Barry

		Rosenberg, Bruce
Box	Folder
4	10	Correspondence.

		Ross, Carl

		Scarborough, George A.

		Seltzer, Curtis

		Sessions, Robert

		Shamblin, William

		Shapiro, Henry D.

		Silveri, Lou

		Singh, Ram N.

		Sloane, Joseph

		Smith, Betty
Box	Folder
4	11	Correspondence.

		Sprague, Stuart S.

		Stephens, George

		Stewart, Al

		Still, James

		Stuart, Jane

		Stuart, Jesse

		Sturgill, Virgil

		Thompson, Edgar

		Trewhitt, Katharine

		Turner, Ruth O.

		Walls, David
Box	Folder
4	12	Correspondence.

		Walser, Richard

		Ward, W.H.

		Waterman, Judy

		Weber, Brom

		Wey, Herbert

		Whitener, Rogers

		Wiley, Bell

		Wilhelm, Gene
Box	Folder
5	1	Correspondence.

		Williams, Cratis
Box	Folder
5	2	Correspondence.

		Williams, Cratis

		Williamson, Jerry

		Wolfram, Walt
Box	Folder
5	3	Correspondence.

		Woodring, Jean

		Wykoff, William

		Young, Chester

		Yount, Sarah

		Untitled.


Collection 195B. Audiocassette Series. (1976)
Audiocassette Series contains nine audiocassettes of speeches from the Cratis Williams Symposium. Audiocassettes consist of Jean Ritchey, Betty Smith, Synergistic Arena, Joan Moser, and Singing from the Salute.
Box
6		5 audio-cassettes.