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Charles Marsh's War Board Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries
Charles F. Marsh became the seventh president of Wofford College on September 1, 1958 and served until his retirement in 1968.
A 1925 graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, he earned the Master of Arts from the University of Illinois
in 1926, and the Ph.D. from Illinois in 1928. He was a faculty member at American University, and from 1930 to 1958, a professor
of economics at the College of William and Mary. In his last six years at William and Mary, he was Dean of the Faculty. He
was involved in civic affairs in Williamsburg, serving on several economic planning agencies. An active churchman, he was
a member of several annual conference boards in the Virginia and South Carolina conferences and a member of the Methodist
General Conference. Dr. Marsh also served as a member of the Methodist Commission on Church Union and as a member of the University
Senate of the Methodist Church. Active in the affairs of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, he was a member
of the SACS Executive Council at the time of the integration crisis at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Marsh retired from
the presidency of Wofford in 1968, returning to Williamsburg to teach in the Graduate School at William and Mary. Further
information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id66674
Williamsburg War Board Census Tabulations
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id66675
The Committee for Economic Development
1943
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id66676
Post-War Planning Commission: New Business Opportunities Committee
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 4 id66677
Williamsburg Business Index
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 5 id66678
Post-War Planning Commission: Clippings
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 6 id66679
Post-War Planning Commission: Index of Business Activity, Mimeographed
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 7 id66680
Post-War Planning Commission: Housing Committee
Scope and Contents
Includes breakdown of Williamsburg rental units in 1944, broken down by number of rooms in houses and black and white residences.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 8 id66681
Post-War Planning Commission: Community Markets Committee
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 9 id66682
Returns of James City County Farm Survey, Post-War Planning
1944
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 10 id66683
Post-war Planning Commission: Population Committee
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 11 id66684
Post-War Planning Commission: Progress Report
1944 July 20
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 12 id66685
Post-War Planning Commission, General
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 13 id66686
Dr. Charles F. Marsh, Personal
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 14 id66687
Dr. Charles F. Marsh, Miscellaneous Correspondence
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 15 id66688
Post-War Planning Commission, Personnel of Committees, Mimeographed
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 16 id66689
Post-War Planning Commission, Press Releases
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 17 id66690
Post-War Planning Commission, Recreation Committee
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 18 id66691
Williamsburg War Board, Recreational, etc. Problems, Youth Council
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 19 id66692
Digest of Reports of Working Committees, Post-War Planning Commission, Mimeographed
1944 December 11
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 20 id66693
Post-War Planning Commission, Public Safety Committee
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 21 id66694
Post-War Planning Commission, Transportation Committee
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 22 id66695
Post-War Planning Commission, Veteran's Placement and Training Committee
Scope and Contents
Includes a document "Members of the Armed Forces from Williamsburg and James City County" with the names of the residents,
their next of kin and their addresses.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 23 id66696
Post-War Planning Commission, Community Welfare Services Committee
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 24 id66697
War Board, Volume of Business Activity
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 25 id66698
Annual Report, Williamsburg Post-War Planning Committee
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 26 id66699
Williamsburg Post-War Planning Commission, Correspondence
1945 June
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 27 id66700
Post-War Planning Commission
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 id66701
College Survey Part 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 id66702
College Survey Part 2
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 30 id66703
Post-War Planning Commission, Education and Cultural Development
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 31 id66704
Post-War Planning Commission, Report of Employment Committee, Mimeographed
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 32 id66705
Post-War Planning Commission, Purchasing Power Committee
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 33 id66706
Post-War Planning Commission, Public Health Committee
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 34 id66707
Employment Committee Survey, Post-war Planning Commission, Mr. Woodbury, Chairman
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 35 id66708
Post-War Planning Commission, Farm Income Committee
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 36 id66709
Williamsburg War Board Part 1
1943 January-February
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 37 id66710
Williamsburg War Board Part 2
1943 March
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 38 id66711
Cooperative Williamsburg Study
1942
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 39 id66712
"Chronology" Report on the War Board and "The Issues and Other Pertinent Facts" Report
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 40 id66713
Progress Report on the Williamsburg Post-War Planning Program
1944 July 20
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 41 id66714
A Review of Activities of the Williamsburg War Board
1943 December 4
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 42 id66715
B.W. Norton and Charles F. Marsh, Correspondence
1943-1945
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 43 id66716
Letter Pertaining to War Board Photograph and the Photograph
1943 August 2
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 44 id66717
Weekly War Board Letters, Numbers 23-30
1943 June 19-1943 August 7
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 45 id66718
Weekly War Board Letters, Numbers 35-49
1943 September 18-1943 December 31
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 46 id66719
Weekly War Board Letters, Numbers 50-65
1944 January 8-1944 December 30
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 47 id66720
Unnumbered War Board Letters
1943 April 20 -1945 April 3
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