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Full listing > Accession Faculty/Staff Boxes 46-48: Wise, Alma| Accession # | Faculty/Staff Boxes 46-48: Wise, Alma | | Topic | Wise, Alma, | | Keywords | Grandfather's Clock, | | Title | Alma Wise and Oakwood Hall | | Location | Faculty/Staff Boxes 46-48: Wise, Alma | | Citation | Alma Wise and Oakwood Hall, Faculty/Staff Boxes 46-48: Wise, Alma, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana. | | Access | Researchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials. | | Provenance | Collection of the Archives with additional materials donated by Annabel Rupel | | Scope and Content | Program on Women Personalitites on M. C. Campus, 5 February 1997: - Sister to Cora Wise Helman.
- Foster parents, J. Edson and Sylva Ulrey.
- Alma Wise, Matron, Superintendent, House Director of Oakwood Hall.
Alma Wise, obituary. Materials brought to the Archives by Esther Rupel (22 January 2016) with information compiled by Annabel Rupel regarding the life of Alma Wise for presentation at the College Women's Club program. | | Date of Accession | Unknown | | Bio History Note | Annabel Rupel and Esther Rupel are sisters. Alma Wise writes about the grandfather's clock in Oakwood Hall (the clock is now located on the second floor of Funderburg Library). The clock was purchased by Rev. J. Edson Ulery from Onekama, Michigan and presented as a gift to Oakwood Hall in 1927. Alma was working in Oakwood at the time. The new part of Oakwood Hall was built in 1926 and Alma's office was moved from the west end office to the lobby. Alma believes the clock was donated in 1927. Her foster father, Edson, had heard of the clock and wanted to purchase it for the big, high, vacant corner spot in Oakwood. He bought the clock from Mel Haines, a furniture dealer in Middlebury, Indiana for $50. Rev. Ulery was on Manchester College's Board of Trustees (1898-1999) and for fifty years (1919-1949) [blue history book dates different from Rupel's, as does the spelling of his name]. He also served as Field Man and Financial Secretary for seven years (1922-1929). | | Archivist Note | Description prepared by Jeanine M. Wine and updated 15 March 2016 by Jeanine Wine. |
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