Andrew G. Hoover Papers
Scope and Contents
These papers reflect Andrew G. Hoover’s directorship of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Summer Institutes in English, 1965-1967). The records consist of applications, syllabi, correspondence, reports, and other materials compiled with the director in conjunction with the operation of the Institutes.
The papers are organized in a series of folders by date. Each folder contains materials from the annual NDEA Summer Institutes in English, spanning 1965-1967.
The documentation of Andrew Hoover’s directorship of the NDEA Summer Institutes in English highlights evolving concepts of higher education in the late 1960s. In offering forty high school teachers the opportunity to increase their professional competence through postgraduate study, the NDEA Summer Institutes in English advocated for greater depth in the humanities that contrasts with the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) focus emphasized in later years.
Dates
- Creation: 1965-1967
- Other: Date acquired: 05/21/1976
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted.
Biographical Sketch
Andrew Graham Hoover was born to Everett Bell Hoover (1860-1928) and Mary Graham Dehmer (1875-1950) on September 3, 1909 in Nicholasville, Kentucky. He had one sister, Margaret (1904-1954), and numerous half-siblings from his father: Elizabeth Campbell (1884-1964), Virginia Lou (1887-1973), Lettie F (1891-1978), Rachel S (1897-1961), and William B (1899-1978). He joined the Oberlin College faculty as an instructor in the English Department (1940-48), taught as Associate Professor (1952-1960), and later was Professor of English until his retirement in 1976. Prior to coming to Oberlin, he received his B.A. degree (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Kentucky in 1932 and the Ph.D. from Yale University in 1939. He taught at Clark University (1936-40) as an English instructor prior to his appointment at Oberlin.
In 1954-55 Andrew Hoover studied at Cambridge University under a Ford Fellowship and returned to England in 1968-69 for further work in contemporary British poetry. In 1962-63 he was a member of the faculty of the John Hay Whitney Summer Institutes at Williams College. He directed two National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Summer Institutes in English at Oberlin College. His publications include a Yale edition of letters by Horace Walpole and articles on James Boswell.
Andrew Hoover married Marjorie Frances Lawson (1910-1999), Professor of German and Russian at Oberlin College (1938-43, 1959-76). In 1976 he and his wife were honored by a symposium at Oberlin College in honor of their retirement. They moved to New York City that year. Andrew Hoover passed away December 19, 2000 after a lengthy illness with Alzheimer’s disease. Marjorie preceded Andrew in death, in April 1999. Two sons, James "Jamie" Jeffrey (1947-2009) and John (OC 1967) Hoover, survived them.
Sources Consulted
Oberlin College Archives
Faculty Files (RG 28/3)
Andrew G. Hoover Papers (RG 30/93)
Note written by Zimmerman, Kira.
Extent
0.20 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Method of Acquisition
The papers were received from Andrew G. Hoover by the Oberlin College Archives on May 21, 1976.
Accruals and Additions
Accession No: 1976/020
- Title
- Andrew G. Hoover Papers Finding Guide
- Author
- Kira Zimmerman
- Date
- 04/12/2017
- Description rules
- Rules for Archival Description
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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