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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item], [box], [folder], Roger L. Griffith Papers, 1952-2008, Ms2022-001, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The Roger L. Griffith Papers were donated to Special Collections and University Archives in December 2019.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Roger L. Griffith Papers commenced and completed in January 2022.

Biographical Note

Roger L. Griffith (1934-2018) received his bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1957. Griffith was an engineer with experience in construction supervision, lisensing, market development, production supervision, process engineering, research and development, and sales. He worked fifteen years for the Tennessee Valley Authority, and later in his carrer, Grifith owned a small engineering firm. Over the course of his career, Griffith also accumulated a considerable amount of overseas work experience, starting in the 1970s when he made multiple trips to the Soviet Union and Romania.

More information about Griffith is available in his autobiography, Journey of a chemical engineer (2021), which can be requested online via the library catalog .

Scope and Content

The Roger L. Griffith Papers, 1952-2008, document the career of Griffith as an engineer. The collection contains blueprints, academic papers, experiment results and data, documents from his work with different engineering firms, governmental reports, and documents relating to his work in foreign countries. Also contained within this collection is a USB drive that conatins Roger Griffith's autobiography [Box 4, Folder 38]. The collection also contains photographs that were taken of Roger Griffith when he was working overseas.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged alpabetically into five series, based on the original order of the creator.

Related Material

VT Special Collections and University Archives has two publications by Roger L. Griffith in the Rare Books Collection, Installation and operation of a packed analytical column (VPI B.S. thesis, 1957), which can be requested online via the library catalog , and Journey of a chemical engineer (2021), which can be requested online via the library catalog .

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Chemical engineering
• Science and Technology
• Students and alumni
• Tennessee Valley Authority

Rights Statements for Archival Description

The guide to the Roger L. Griffith Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).