Harold O. Grauel Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 1998.030

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings, personal correspondence, programs, notes, faculty and student record books, Southeast Missouri State University publications, miscellaneous personal items, slides, negatives, and 224 b/w photographs.

Dates

Creation: circa 1860 – 1995

Rights Statement

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Biographical / Historical

Dr. Harold Oscar Grauel (b. 1901-d. 1995) grew up in Ohio and moved to Cape Girardeau after college to teach at Southeast Missouri State University (formerly the Teacher’s College). He was an English professor from 1928 until his retirement in 1971.

Grauel wrote anonymous articles for the Capaha Arrow, in a column entitled “Out of the Dome.” He also served as advisor to the Capaha Arrow and the Sagamore yearbook staff, as well as a public speaker for the University radio station and the Cape Girardeau KFVS radio network. In 1992, Dr. John Bierk edited a collection of Grauel’s essays entitled The Inimitable Professor H.O. Grauel: His Essays on This and That.

Dr. Grauel was an avid photographer, documenting a vast amount of University history through his photographs and slides. His career at Southeast Missouri State University spanned some forty years of devotion to the ideals of education. The English and Language building at the University, built in 1975, is named in his honor.

Extent

4.5 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Correspondence, photographs, negatives, slides, clippings, publications, club and student record books, University Centennial material, and ephemera from Grauel, professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University from 1928 to 1971.