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Collection Inventory
Series I. Youth and Education, 1932-1957
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Scope and Content Notes: Dick Thornburgh grew up in Rosslyn Farms, Pennsylvania, an upper middle-class suburb of Pittsburgh. He attended Rosslyn Farms Elementary School (1937-1945), a four-room schoolhouse for kindergarten through eighth grade and where eight to ten students to a class was the norm. In 1945, Thornburgh graduated from elementary school and subsequently enjoyed only one year at Carnegie High School. Thornburgh's parents recognized that he was not being challenged academically, thus he continued his high school education at Mercersburg Academy ('50).
Thornburgh subsequently attended Yale University ('54), majoring in engineering, although admittedly not suited to the math and science required. However, he did develop a love for writing, politics and law, and went on to earn a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law ('57). Academically Thornburgh lived up to his potential there and was soon second in his class. He earned a place on the law review, and was selected for the moot court team (
Evidence, p. 11).
These earliest files in the Thornburgh archive are remarkable in several respects. Firstly they are surprising. How many of us have saved a diary from age thirteen, "Sportorials" for the school paper, or college term papers and examinations, or class notes from graduate school? These items can be found here. Secondly, the class notes and annotated texts from law school set the stage for what became a brilliant law career, ultimately as the seventy sixth Attorney General of the United States.
The "Youth and Education" files are in four sections: "Youth," "Mercersburg Academy," "Yale University," and "University of Pittsburgh School of Law."
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Subseries 1. Youth, 1932-1946
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Scope and Content Notes: These files are arranged chronologically and include Thornburgh's birth certificate, elementary school test scores and childhood memorabilia.
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Box 1
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Birth Certificate, Baptism, Confirmation and Inoculation Records, Rosslyn Farms, PA 1932-1945
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Metropolitan Achievement Test Results (1939), "Public School Diploma, Allegheny County" (May 29, 1946), graduation 8th grade 1939, 1946
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Carnegie High School 1945-1946
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Personal Diary, aged 13 1946
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Family Prayer Books 1889, 1893, 1944, 1952
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Sports team pin collection and Airplane Packet Cards undated
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Subseries 2. Mercersburg Academy, 1946-1950
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Scope and Content Notes: The files are arranged chronologically. Materials include composition books, memorabilia and "Sportorials." The "Sportorials" were written by Thornburgh for the Academy newspaper and are described by him as his "most fulfilling activity" while at Mercersburg (
Evidence, p. 6).
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Modern Language Course, Graduation Certificate and Memorabilia 1947-1950
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"Sportorials" by Dick Thornburgh and articles about him 1947-1950
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Handwritten "English Composition Book " with essays, including "The Story of my Life" 1948-1949
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Subseries 3. Yale University, 1950-1954
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Scope and Content Notes: Among the items here will be found: Thornburgh's acceptance of admission letter from Yale, class notebooks, research papers, copies of
The Yale Record, sports and theatre programs, memorabilia and diary from Thornburgh's 1953 trip to Europe. Some post-graduation alumni items have also been included here.
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Memorabilia including Yale acceptance letter and transcript of all four years 1950-1954
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Playbills and Programs 1950-1954
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Drama productions 1950-1951
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"Promenades" 1952, 1954
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Football programs 1950-1951, 1953, 1959
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Basketball and swimming programs 1950-1952
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" '54 ": a Yale Banner Publication 1950-1951
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"The Yale Record" September, 1950-October, 1952
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Papers and research: Flood Control, Pittsburgh and History of Pennsylvania Turnpike 1954
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Paper: "Surgoinsville Hydro-Electric Project, Holston River, TN" 1954
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Baccalaureate and Commencement Programs June 6-7, 1954
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Box 2
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Papers and exams: Structural Engineering 1954
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The Robert A. Taft Memorial Lecture Series, Watertown, CT February 24, 1954
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Notebook: Yale Engineering Camp, East Lyme, CT 1952
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Class Notebooks 1952-1954
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Class Notes and Textbook: "History of Art" 1954
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Class Notebook: Civil Engineering "Water Supply" January, 1954-June, 1954
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Quizzes 1953-1954
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"The Yankanuck Song Book" ca. 1954
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Trip to Europe Memorabilia 1953
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Trip to Europe Memorabilia and trip diary 1953
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Post Graduation; 25th Reunion 1979, articles 1979
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Subseries 4. University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1954-1957
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Scope and Content Notes: The papers are arranged chronologically and consist of four sections: 1) notes, reports and memorabilia; 2)
Law Reviews and anniversary publication; 3) handwritten class notebooks; and 4) Thornburgh's annotated textbooks. Publications in the second section consist of
The University of Pittsburgh Law Review (1954-1957) as well as
Pitt Magazine's coverage of the seventy fifth anniversary of the Law School (1970). The Class notebooks section rather remarkably consists of twenty-two handwritten notebooks from each law school class, every semester. Of particular interest, too, are textbooks with his annotations, and one with a fetching pin-up picture inside the cover.
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Section: Notes, Reports and Memorabilia
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Memorabilia especially including "Recollections About Ginny" (2004 bio of Thornburgh's first wife, Virginia Hooton Thornburgh) 1954-1957, 2004
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School transcript 1954-1957
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Moot Law Court: notes and research Fall, 1954
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Supreme Court Case: Leopard Oil Co. Inc. vs. Superoil Corp. 1955
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Common Pleas case: Ralph Wilson vs. Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Thornburgh et al attorneys 1956
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Federal Case: DeEugenio vs. Allis Chalmers, pre-trial notes 1956
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Federal Case: DeEugenio vs. Allis Chalmers, Thornburgh et al attorneys 1956
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Non Law Review Award 1957
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Class of 1957 parody photographs 1957
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Secretary, Class of 1957: Alumni Funds 1962
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1967 "Who's Who" Class of 1957 and notes October, 1967
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1972 and 1997 "Who's Who" Class of 1957 October 21, 1972, September 12-14, 1997
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Lawyer's Register, no. 151 first edition July, 1962
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Exams 1954-1957
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Correspondence regarding Board of Law Examiners and 1957 passage of bar exam, 1955-1958
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Selective Service Form and Letter to the Draft Board April 29, 1957, October 4, 1957
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Section: School of Law Publications
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University of Pittsburgh Law Review, v. 16 nos. 1-4 1954-1955
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University of Pittsburgh Law Review, v. 17 nos. 1, 2, and 3 1955-1956
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University of Pittsburgh Law Review, v. 18 nos. 2 and 4 1957
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Pitt Magazine: The School of Law's 75th Anniversary, v. 26, no. 2 Summer, 1970
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Section: Class Notebooks
Box 4
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Torts Fall, 1954
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Property Fall, 1954
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Contracts Fall, 1954
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Legislative Process Fall, 1954
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Criminal Law Spring, 1955
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Constitutional Law Fall, 1955
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Equity Fall, 1955
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Property II Fall, 1955
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Evidence Fall, 1955
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Negotiable Instruments Fall, 1955
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Corporations Fall, 1955
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Suretyship Spring, 1956
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Descendant's Estates Spring, 1956
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Property II Spring, 1956
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Trusts Fall, 1956
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Taxation Fall, 1956
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Future Interests Fall, 1956
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Common Pleas Fall, 1956
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Conflicts Spring, 1957
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Taxation II Spring, 1957
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Labor Spring, 1957
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Sales Spring, 1957
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Section: Thornburgh's Annotated Textbooks
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Fraser's Cases and Readings on Property: Introduction (pinup picture), 1954-1957
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Cases and Materials on Criminal Law and Procedure 1954-1957
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Cases and Materials on Real Property and Conveyancing 1954-1957
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Cases and Materials on the Law of Sales and Sales Financing 1954-1957
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Fraser's Case and Readings on Personal Property 1954-1957
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Cases on Labor Law 1954-1957
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Case Materials on Future Interests 1954-1957
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Cases on Equity 1954-1957
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Cases on Wills and Administration 1954-1957
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Box 6
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A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts 1954-1957
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Cases and Materials on Legislation 1954-1957
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Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes Annotated, Permanent Edition: Title 12A Uniform Commercial Code 1-101 to 3-806 1954-1957
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Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes Annotated, Permanent Edition: Title 12A Uniform Commercial Code 4-101 to End 1954-1957
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Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes 1954-1957
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Cases and Materials on the Law of Corporations 1954-1957
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Cases and Materials on the Law of Credit Transactions 1954-1957
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Cases and Other Materials on the Law of Taxation 1954-1957
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Notes found inside Cases on Agency 1954-1957
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Cases on Agency 1954-1957
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A Preliminary Survey of the Law of Real Property 1954-1957
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Box 7
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Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law 1954-1957
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Cases on Torts 1954-1957
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Inserts and notes found in Cases and Other Materials on Civil Procedure 1954-1957
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Cases and Other Materials on Civil Procedure 1954-1957
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Pennsylvania Common Pleas Practice: Statutes, Rules, Forms and Cases 1954-1957
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Cases and Materials on the Law of Evidence 1954-1957
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Report of the Joint State Government Commission of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Relating to the Following: Descendants' Estates Laws Fiduciaries Act of 1949 Fiduciaries Investment Act of 1949 1954-1957
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Report of the Joint State Government Commission of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Relating to the Following: Descendants' Estates Laws Interstate Act of 1947, Wills Act of 1947, Principal and Income Act of 1947, dated 1951 1954-1957
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Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Trusts 1954-1957
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Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials 1954-1957
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Statutory Supplement to Cases on Labor Law 1954-1957
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