Finding aid created by: Katie Swingly
Date: 2014
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| July 2015 | Additional inventory added (AES) |
| June 2022 | Style updates (MAM) |
Summary |
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| Creator: | Sykes, W. Clyde, 1887-1969. |
| Title: | W. Clyde Sykes Papers |
| Dates: | 1905-1968 |
| Size: | 8.75 linear feet |
| Abstract: | Materials related to Sykes' experience as a student and trustee at Syracuse University as well as the logging and railroad industries and his involvement with various Methodist Church organizations |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
W. Clyde Sykes (1887-1969) was an alumnus and trustee of Syracuse University. He was born on October 1, 1887 in Benzinger, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Masten Park High School in Buffalo, New York in 1905. Sykes graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Syracuse University in 1909. He was a lifetime member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Syracuse University from 1942 to 1969. He ran several family businesses, serving as president of the Emporium Lumber Company and treasurer of the Grasse River Railroad company in the Adirondack town of Conifer, New York. He was also president of the Empire State Forest Products Association. In 1917, his father, William L. Sykes, purchased a private forest preserve in the Adirondack Mountains, which W. Clyde Sykes would inherit and sell to the Boy Scouts in 1951. This property became Massawepie Boy Scout Camps.
Sykes was very active in the Methodist Church, and served as a delegate to the National Conference of Methodist Men. He married Marian Chappell, who also attended Syracuse University.
The W. Clyde Sykes Papers contain class notebooks, correspondence, memorabilia, and reports from his time as a student and member of the Board of Trustees at Syracuse University, as well as materials from his professional life in the railroad and logging industries. The papers also feature publications and educational materials related to Sykes' involvement in the Methodist Church and several group portraits, including a photograph taken at the fiftieth anniversary of the Syracuse University chapter of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from the Syracuse University Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
A 1910 Syracuse University Bulletin and a 1911 Syracuse University Pictorial Bulletin were placed in the Archives' Reference Collections.
The University Archives holds a clipping file related to W. Clyde Sykes.
Names
Sykes, W. Clyde, 1887-1969.
Methodist Church (U.S.).
American Short Line Railroad Association.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.
Subjects
Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
College trustees.
Higher education.
Types of Material
Memorabilia.
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
The W. Clyde Sykes Papers
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Virginia Sykes Dreby in 1971 and Rebecca Thompson in 2015.
Processing Information
The items were placed in acid-free folders and boxes.
The items are arranged in alphabetical order.
Papers
| Papers | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Education publications- New York state and national 1962-1963, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gloves, opera length undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Grasse River Railroad 1905-1950 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Keychain- Disabled American Veterans undated | ||||||||||
| Methodist Church | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Daily Christian advocate 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Discipline of the Methodist church 1940 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Laymen's Association- northern New York conference 1930-1963 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Lucknow Publishing House centenary 1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Methodist church conferences 1910-1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Methodist Committee on Overseas Relief 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Methodist publications 1937-1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Methodist publications undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Religion in American life kit 1955 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Religious freedom 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Stewardship education samples, National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States 1961 | ||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Candid undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Female group portraits, unidentified 1906-1907, undated | ||||||||||
| FC 2-1 | Group portraits 1905-1907, undated oversize | ||||||||||
| MC 0-3 | Group portrait, Kappa Alpha Theta sorority 1907 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Male group portraits, unidentified undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Railroad 1920-1932 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Pittsburgh orchestra program 1906 | ||||||||||
| Syracuse University | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Assignments 1905-1909 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Board of trustees 1905-1909 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Class of 1909 reunion buttons 1959, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Delegate medal- seventh Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference 1964 | ||||||||||
| MC 0-3 | Diploma 1909 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Golden anniversary certificates 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebooks 1907 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebooks 1908 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebooks 1909 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebooks undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Phi Kappa Psi fraternity 1905-1965 | ||||||||||
| Package 2 | Phi Kappa Psi fraternity plaque undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Publications 1934-1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Publications undated | ||||||||||
| MC 0-3 | Student broadsides between 1905 and 1909 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Student handbooks 1905-1907 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Student memorabilia 1905-1909, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Summary budget comparisons 1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "The Syracuse plan" 1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Varsity Club news 1962-1963 | ||||||||||