The Margaret Morrison Collection contains 3 copies of newspaper clippings, a letter and a copy of a speech. Two articles from the News and Courier, Charleston, SC, dated July 7, 1903, are reprints of speeches delivered on July 4, 1903--one in Knoxville, TN, on the subject of educational philosophy and one, a reprint from the New York Times, was delivered by Lyman Abbott on the subjects of Afro-American education and civil rights in the United States. The third article was printed in the January, 28, 1909, issue of the Pickens Sentinel-Journal and is a copy of an address delivered by Professor William S. Morrison of Clemson Agricultural College in memory of Colonel R.E. Bowen, a trustee of the College from 1888 to 1909. The collection also includes a typed copy of Professor Morrison's address as well as a copy of a thank you letter to the donor, Margaret Morrison.
Margaret Morrison was the daughter of the first history professor at Clemson College, William Shannon Morrison. She graduated from Winthrop College in 1910. After teaching for seven years in Seneca, South Carolina (1910-1917) and one year in Easley, South Carolina (1917-1918), she returned to Clemson, South Carolina and served as a teacher of history and mathematics and as a teacher-principal at the Calhoun-Clemson School from 1918 until her retirement in 1954. In the 1960s fire destroyed the Calhoun-Clemson Elementary School. The new school was named the Morrison Elementary School in her honor and dedicated in January 1967. Margaret Morrison died September 18, 1973.
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Margaret Morrison donated the papers to Clemson University Libraries in 1966, accession 66-1.
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