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College of William and Mary, Thomas Pinckney Records, Special Collections Research Center, William and Mary Libraries.
Thomas Pinckney (1903-1993) was the Director of Public Relations at William & Mary from 1938-1942. He and his wife, Charlotte
Kent Pinckney (mentioned in the records), moved to Williamsburg from Richmond, Virginia. Pinckney resigned from his position
in 1942 and joined the United States Navy during World War II. After the war, Pinckney continued to work in public relations
for the Veterans Administration and the Defense General Supply Center.
As Director of Public Relations, Pinckney worked in a two-person office with office assistant Emily Sneed and includes much
about campus experience from 1938-1942. The office did not cover sports publicity, which was handled by the Athletics Department.
Pinckney and Sneed also oversaw the Wren Building Guides, a group of male students who interpreted and gave tours of the Wren
Building. Pinckney's records include correspondence with Deans Grace Landrum, J. Wilfred Lambert, and James W. Miller; the
Colonial Williamsburg Restoration; and professors Althea Hunt and Martha Barksdale. Topics include admissions, alumni, guidebooks,
honorary degrees, public inquiries, final exercises, reinternment of Thomas Roderick Dew, and World War II's impact on William
& Mary's campus.
Press releases are compiled in Box 5, but researchers are encouraged to also look for them in individual subject folders.
A.A.A.S (American Association for Advancement of Science)
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2
Activities (Debating, Band, May Day)
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3
Admissions
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 4
Admissions -- Dean of Men
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 5
Alumni
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
American College Publicity Association, April 1940
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
American College Publicity Association, 1941
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 8
American College Publicity Association Conference -- Arrangements
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 9
American College Publicity Association Conference -- Delegates
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 10
American College Publicity Association Conference -- Program
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 11
Army
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 12
Associated Press
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 13
Association of American Universities
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14
Athletics
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 15
Bursar -- Charles J. Duke
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 16
Carter Glass Presentation
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 17
Ceremonies and Conferences at W&M
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 18
Chambers of Commerce
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19
Cheek, Leslie Jr.
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 20
Civilian Defense
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 21
College and War, Dec. 7, 1941
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 22
Conference on Public Issues
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 2
Box 2
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 1
Correspondence, A-Z
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 2
Correspondence, 1938-1939
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 3
Correspondence, 1940-1944
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 4
Cuts, Engravings
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 5
Daffodil Festival
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 6
Daily Press and Times-Herald
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 7
Danville Bee
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 8
Dean of Faculty -- James W. Miller
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 9
Dean of Men -- J. Wilfred Lambert
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 10
Dean of Women -- Grace W. Landrum
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 11
Defense Committee
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Departmental Clubs
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Dew, Thomas Roderick -- Reinterred
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
Education Department
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Esso Reporter
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Expenses
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
Festival Theatre
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 18
Final Exercises, 1939
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 19
Final Exercises, 1940
Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 20
Final Exercises, 1941
Mixed Materials Box: 3
Box 3
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1
Finals, 1942
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 2
Financial Campaigns
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 3
Fine Arts
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4
Fine Arts -- Press Releases
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5
Fort Eustis
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6
Fort Eustis Lectures
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7
France -- Propaganda
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8
Gift
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 9
Guide Books
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 10
Hampton Institute
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11
Harvard Overseas
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12
Home-Town Students
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13
Honorary Degrees
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 14
Hughes, Robert Morton
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 15
Inquiries -- Academy
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 16
Inquiries -- Commercial
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 17
Inquiries -- Historical
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 18
Inquiries -- Magazines and Publications
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Inquiries -- Miscellaneous
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Institute for National Policy Competition
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
International Relations Club
Mixed Materials Box: 4
Box 4
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
Lancaster, Dabney S.
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
Latin Department
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 3
Law School
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 4
Lectures -- Press Releases
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
Lectures and Concerts
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 6
Library
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 7
Life Magazine
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8
Lynchburg Advance/Lynchburg News
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 9
Marshall-Wythe School
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 10
Meetings, Learned Societies
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 11
Miscellaneous
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 12
News Leader Richmond
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 13
Newspapers, Miscellaneous
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 14
News Service
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 15
Pinckney, Thomas -- re: article "Virginia Colleges and the War Effort" (1 of 2)
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 folder: 16
Pinckney, Thomas -- re: article "Virginia Colleges and the War Effort" (2 of 2)
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 5
Box 5
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 1
Photographs -- Correspondence
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 2
Placement Bureau
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 3
Plays
Mixed Materials Box: 5 folder: 4
Politicos
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 5
President
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 6
President's Christmas Party
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 7
Press Releases, 1939-1940
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 8
Press Releases, 1941
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 9
Prospects
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 10
Public Relations
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 11
Quarter Millenium
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 12
Radio
Mixed Materials Box: 6
Box 6
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 folder: 1
Radio, 1941
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 2
Radio Broadcasts -- Specials
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 3
Red Cross
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 4
Registrar (Kathleen Alsop)
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 5
Registration
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 6
Research
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 7
Scholarships -- Prize Competitions
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 8
Societies and Clubs
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 9
Special Events
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 10
Special Features
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 11
Stettinius, Edward R.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 12
Students
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 13
Summer Sessions
Mixed Materials Box: 7
Box 7
English.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 folder: 1
Theatre Press Releases
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 2
Theater -- Rollins Studio
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3
Thomas, Earl
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
Velz, Lt. Dick
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 5
Virginia Association of Colleges
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 6
Virginia Fisheries Laboratory
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 7
Virginia Fisheries Laboratory -- Press Releases
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 8
Virginia Press Association
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 9
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 10
Virginia Writer's Project
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 11
Visitors
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 12
War Work
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 13
Washington Post
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 14
Williams, L.M.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 15
Winchester Evening Star
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 16
Withers, Colonel Robert E.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 folder: 17
The World in Crisis
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 18
Wren Building Guides -- Administration
Scope and Contents
Wren Building Guides were a group of William & Mary students who answered visitor questions about the Wren Building and other
local/campus history. Their work was supervised by the Public Relations office and funded by the National Youth Administration.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 19
Wren Building Guides -- Examination
Scope and Contents
Wren Building Guides were a group of William & Mary students who answered visitor questions about the Wren Building and other
local/campus history. Their work was supervised by the Public Relations office and funded by the National Youth Administration.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 20
Wren Building Guides -- Interpretation
Scope and Contents
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 21
Wren Building Guides -- National Youth Administration
Scope and Contents
Wren Building Guides were a group of William & Mary students who answered visitor questions about the Wren Building and other
local/campus history. Their work was supervised by the Public Relations office and funded by the National Youth Administration.