Telegram Between President Palmer and Dr. S. P. Capen

Telegram Between President Palmer and Dr. S. P. Capen

May 31, 1919

President Palmer

Gay-Teague Hotel, located in Montgomery Alabama, is where President Palmer arranged to meet with Samuel P. Capen who was a higher education specialist for the U.S. Bureau of Education (19114-1919) and subsequently the first director of the American Council on Education (1919-1922). This item shows that Dr. Palmer had been in correspondence with Capen and the fact that Capen is a higher education specialist indicates that the school's president was preparing the transition of the school from a technical college to a four year university not only so that it could both provide a more rigorous education, but so that it could attract more qualified educators. This item also allows us to understand why this transition took so many years, as Dr. Palmer had to personally correspond with the leadership of the Bureau of Education, a department within the halls of government inside of Washington, D.C. It is understood by many within the educating field that working through bureaucracy in order to enact any change is a difficult measure.

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University of Montevallo

Jess Gould

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Telegram correspondence

Telegram
Washington, D.C., May 31st, 1919

President Palmer,
Montevallo, Ala.
Can you meet me at Hotel GayTeague June 7th 10 A. M. to discuss higher educational survey?
Capen.


I sent this reply:
May 31st, 1919
Dr. S. P. Capen,
Bureau of Education
Washington, D.C.
Will meet you Hotel Gay-Teague 10 A. M.
June 7.
T.W. Palmer

Telegram