[Photo Album]: Adrian College

Adrian, Michigan: Book Shelf Scrap Book, 1927-1936.

Price: $900.00

Hardcover. Quarto. Measuring 9.5" x 12". Green cloth. A collection of ephemera and snapshots from the high school and college career of Dr. Robert H. Cairns while attending Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. Album is very good with bowing and a cocked spine with near fine or better photographs. The scrapbook kept by Robert Cairns from 1927 until 1936 details his academic career from junior high through college in Michigan. Cairns was active in numerous extracurricular activities including student government, band, choir, football, and the national forensic league, all shown here. The album contains pages from various yearbooks juxtaposed with newspaper clippings, report cards, and snapshots. Beginning in 1931 he started college at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan with a page displaying photos from each level of school including his freshman hazing. He was voted class president all four years of college and also participated in as many activities as he could including track (winning 1st place in the 1933 conference meet in pole vault), dramatic society, and was on the football team as "the lightest letter man on the squad and also the fastest." His involvement led the college newspaper to dub him, "The Busiest Man." One section of the scrapbook is dedicated to his college sweetheart, and eventual wife, Miriam Custis, who was the president of the Adrian chapter of Delta Delta Delta, with pictures of her with the delta symbol painted on the hem of her skirt as well as group photos of her "sisters." Cairns, himself, was involved with the Michigan Alpha Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon which he resigned from due to "objection to drunkenness at parties," the full resignation letter can be seen here. Cairns brother, Paul, also graduated from Adrian and was featured in a *Newsweek* article due to the fact he was blind and his seeing-eye dog was commemorated at the ceremony. Robert Cairns went on to get his masters in education from Pittsburgh University before going through Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained in Pittsburgh in 1938. Photos from Cairns' Adrian College days show him addressing a congregation at the campus church. According to his obituary he "wrote the first peace message broadcasted into space via satellite," and was a U.S. delegate in the World Counsel of Methodism, once in Norway in 1961 and another in Hawaii in 1981. There is also a captioned picture of Babe Ruth from a golf tournament in Michigan. An extensive archive depicting the life of a Midwestern young man from the late 1920s and into the 1930s.

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Item #396484 [Photo Album]: Adrian College. Robert CAIRNS.
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College
[Photo Album]: Adrian College