Title:
Godfrey Dewey portrait.
Title:
Acting president (1949-1951).
Record Type:
teachers
Record Type:
phonetics
Record Type:
ski jumps
Record Type:
photography (discipline)
Record Type:
photographs
Record Type:
black-and-white photographs
Date:
1949
Description:
Photographic portrait of Godfrey Dewey. Dewey wears wire-rim glasses, a three-piece suit, and a serious expression. In the photo, shadows cross Dewey’s face and upper body in horizontal lines, possibly from sun through window blinds. When Emerson president Boylston Green resigned in 1949, Godfrey Dewey (pictured) served as Acting President until February, 1951. Dewey was an educator and spelling reformer, and the founder and first president the Phonetic Spelling Council. He was a skier who designed ski jumps and was largely responsible for the successful bid to hold the 1932 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York. He was the son of Melvil Dewey, the founder of the Dewey decimal system. Info source: Expression Magazine of Emerson College; Godfrey Dewey Papers (Columbia University Archives).
Extent:
10 x 5.96 in.
Subject:
College presidents
Subject:
College administrators
Subject:
Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee
Subject:
Olympic Winter Games (3rd : 1932 : Lake Placid, N.Y.)
Collection:
RG 004.05 Office of Communication & Marketing Prints and Negatives Collection
Location:
Emerson College Archives and Special Collections
Rights Restrictions:
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Access Restrictions:
No known access restrictions
Language:
English
Identifier:
batch5_004a.jpg
