Ira Chiles Papers

Finding Aid for the Ira Chiles Papers, 1936-1951

MS-1019

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Encoded by: Will Dewey, August 25, 2006

Summary Information

Title: Ira Chiles Papers

Date/Date Range : 1936-1951

Extent: 10.5 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection of papers concentrates on the career of Ira Chiles while he held the office of Area Education Officer with the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1936 to 1948. Papers dealing with Mr. Chiles official duties as Education Officer as well as other aspects of the TVA are included in the collection. A large portion of material covers the Guntersville Dam project in Alabama, on which Mr. Chiles worked.

Call number: MS-1019

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use

Aquisition Information:
Collection is property of Special Collections.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Ira Chiles Papers, MS-1019. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection is divided into four series:

Series I: TVA Papers

Series II: TVA: Guntersville, Water Resources

Series III: TVA Publications

Series IV: UT Education, Personal, Miscellaneous Papers

Biography / History

Prior to his tenure with TVA, Mr. Chiles was Professor of Eudcation from 1918 to 1925 and President of Central Wesleyan College, Warrenton, Missouri, from 1925 to 1935. He was a Central Wesleyan graduate, class of 1916. Upon leaving TVA, he was on the faculty of the College of Education, University of Tennessee until his retirement in 1961. Mr. Chiles was born in Pemberton, Missouri on March 7, 1891. He was active in the Methodist Church, Masonic Order and Omicron Delta Kappa. He died in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 8, 1980.

Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection of papers concentrates on the career of Ira Chiles while he held the office of Area Education Officer with the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1936 to 1948. Papers dealing with Mr. Chiles official duties as Education Officer as well as other aspects of the TVA are included in the collection. A large portion of material covers the Guntersville Dam project in Alabama, on which Mr. Chiles worked.

Subject Terms

Tennessee Valley Authority -- History.

Contents List

		Series I: TVA Papers
Box 1	Folder 1	Educational Relations I
Box 1	Folder 2	Educational Relations II
Box 1	Folder 3	Area Education Officer
Box 1	Folder 4	Education Relations Committee Reports
Box 1	Folder 5	Education Relations Plans
Box 1	Folder 6	Norris School Problems
Box 1	Folder 7	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Box 1	Folder 8	TVA and Tennessee Department of Education
Box 1	Folder 9	Meeting with UT Education Commission on Relations with TVA
Box 1	Folder 10	Upper Holston Library
Box 1	Folder 11	TVA and Land Grant Colleges
Box 1	Folder 12	Proposed School Policy
Box 1	Folder 13	Education and Regional Growth in Tennessee Valley
Box 1	Folder 14	Assistance to Coordination of TVA Education Programs
Box 1	Folder 15	Educational Responsibility of TVA
Box 1	Folder 16	General Education Act
Box 1	Folder 17	Resource use and education
Box 1	Folder 18	General Adult Education Progress Report
Box 1	Folder 19	Department Agricultural Relations
Box 1	Folder 20	Agricultural Relations Progress Report
Box 1	Folder 21	National Resources and the Future
Box 1	Folder 22	Chestnee Watershed Development Program
Box 1	Folder 23	Forests and Future of Tennessee Valley
Box 1	Folder 24	TVA Fertilizer Processes
Box 1	Folder 25	Hampshire School Forest
Box 1	Folder 26	Division of Forestry Relations
Box 1	Folder 27	Soil Conservation Service Relationships in Valley
Box 1	Folder 28	TVA summary of accomplishments 1933-1945
Box 1	Folder 29	General Comments from Gree
Box 1	Folder 30	Suggestion for area annual reports for 1946
Box 1	Folder 31	Church in community development program
Box 1	Folder 32	Plans for fiscal year 1943
Box 1	Folder 33	TVA facts vs. fiction
Box 1	Folder 34	Relationships to rural agencies
Box 1	Folder 35	Population readjustment in Tennessee valley
Box 1	Folder 36	Definition of common mooring
Box 1	Folder 37	Principles of public speaking
Box 1	Folder 38	TVA correspondences
Box 1	Folder 39	Baker speeches
Box 1	Folder 40	Boyd speeches
Box 1	Folder 41	Chiles speeches
Box 1	Folder 42	Clapp speeches
Box 1	Folder 43	Emerson speeches
Box 1	Folder 44	Eschmeyer speeches
Box 1	Folder 45	Gant speeches
Box 1	Folder 46	Goulden speeches
Box 1	Folder 47	Hayes speeches
Box 1	Folder 48	Howes speeches
Box 1	Folder 49	Lilienthal speeches
Box 1	Folder 50	Parker speeches
Box 1	Folder 51	Pope speeches
Box 1	Folder 52	Taylor speeches
Box 1	Folder 53	Personal letters
Box 2	Folder 1	Progress Report (5) Guntersville Dam Project
Box 2	Folder 2	Progress Report (6) Guntersville Dam Project
Box 2	Folder 3	Progress Report (7) Guntersville Dam Project
Box 2	Folder 4	Training Division Guntersville Dam Project
Box 2	Folder 5	Regional Library Committee Guntersville Dam Project
Box 2	Folder 6	Education Guntersville Dam Project
Box 2	Folder 7	Employee Rosters Guntersville Dam Project
Box 2	Folder 8	Miscellaneous Papers Guntersville Dam Project
Box 2	Folder 9	Progress Report Watts Bar Dam Project
Box 2	Folder 10	Education Watts Bar Dam Project
Box 2	Folder 11	Miscellaneous Watts Bar Dam Project
Box 2	Folder 12	Training Division - Lenoir City
Box 2	Folder 13	Training Division Morristown
Box 2	Folder 14	Training Division
Box 2	Folder 15	Report on Internship
Box 2	Folder 16	Resouce Appraisal and Use
Box 2	Folder 17	Industrial trends in Tennessee Valley
Box 2	Folder 18	TVA maps
Box 2	Folder 19	TVA pictures
Box 2	Folder 20	TVA official forms
Box 2	Folder 21	Annual Report 1943-1944
Box 2	Folder 22	Portable housing
Box 2	Folder 23	Clifford Sober Papers
Box 2	Folder 24	Conference Between TVA and Salary Employee Panel
Box 2	Folder 25	Committee Report on staff functions and relationships
Box 2	Folder 26	Legislative background of TVA
Box 2	Folder 27	Polk County
Box 2	Folder 28	Service Review Survey
Box 2	Folder 29	TVA Activity Authorization
Box 2	Folder 30	Evaluation of experience in TVA
Box 2	Folder 31	Job which needs to be done
Box 2	Folder 32	TVA and Board of Library trustees
Box 2	Folder 33	Meeting with Dr. H. G. Hullfish
Box 2	Folder 34	Technique of Democratic Planning
Box 2	Folder 35	Fitts memorandum
Box 2	Folder 36	Principles of public speaking
Box 2	Folder 37	Selection code and interdepartmental instructions
Box 2	Folder 38	Meetings with departments
Box 2	Folder 39	Staff functions and relations
Box 2	Folder 40	Taxes paid by TVA
		Series II: TVA: Guntersville, Water Resources
Box 3	Folder 1	Agreement between TVA and UT and UNC
Box 3	Folder 2	TVA answers John T. Flynn
Box 3	Folder 3	TVA office memorandum
Box 3	Folder 4	TVA administrative bulletin
Box 3	Folder 5	Job training classes
Box 3	Folder 6	Health and safety progress report
Box 3	Folder 7	TVA Procedure for control of syphilis
Box 3	Folder 8	TVA cooperative relationships
Box 3	Folder 9	Resources: Basis of understanding
Box 3	Folder 10	Income status of Tennessee valley 1945
Box 3	Folder 11	Fontana Dam
Box 3	Folder 12	Cherokee Dam
Box 3	Folder 13	River transportation
Box 3	Folder 14	TVA power program
Box 3	Folder 15	Multi-purpose reservoir operations
Box 3	Folder 16	Construction of River control system
Box 3	Folder 17	TVA and the War
Box 3	Folder 18	Objectives and end results of TVA
Box 3	Folder 19	Report of Performance of assigned function
Box 3	Folder 20	Area officers
Box 3	Folder 21	Personnel office manual
Box 3	Folder 22	Administrative bulletins
Box 3	Folder 23	Administrative bulletins, codes
Box 3	Folder 24	Office methods bulletins
Box 3	Folder 25	Reservoir clearance program
Box 3	Folder 26	Summary of progress
Box 3	Folder 27	Index of TVA news
Box 3	Folder 28	Mineral Resources of Little Tennessee and Hiawassee River basins
Box 3	Folder 29	Man's Dependence on Natural Resources
Box 3	Folder 30	Mineral Fertilizers and National Security
Box 3	Folder 31	Fisheries Picture on TVA impoundments
Box 3	Folder 32	Utilization of Forest Resources on Reservoir Properties
Box 3	Folder 33	Land and Water Conservation
Box 3	Folder 34	Foundations on International Food Pantry
Box 3	Folder 35	TVA and Farmer Co-ops
Box 3	Folder 36	Commerical Fishing- TVA impoundments
Box 3	Folder 37	Natural cycle
Box 3	Folder 38	Progress Report Guntersville Dam Project
Box 3	Folder 39	Progress Report
Box 3	Folder 40	Progress Report
Box 3	Folder 41	Progress Report
		Series III: TVA Publications
Box 4		TVA Today 67-68 TVA - Its Work and Accomplishments
Box 4		TVA - Step Toward Decentralization
Box 4		Training Program at the Pickwick Landing Project
Box 4		Purchase boundary suggestions for Watts Bar
Box 4		Facts About TVA
Box 4		TVA: An Experiment in Grass Roots Administration
Box 4		TVA and Tennessee Valley Trades and Labor Council
Box 4		Employee Relationship Policy
Box 4		Handbook for New TVA Employees
Box 4		Information and Principal features of Fontana Dam
Box 4		TVA Act
Box 4		Community Readjustment Studies of Blount County
Box 4		Rural Families of Guntersville Reservoir Are
Box 4		Minerals and Structural Materials of Watts Bar and Ft. Loudon
Box 5		Analysis of TVA Resouce Development Programs
Box 5		Widening of Economic Opportunity Through TVA
Box 5		School at Fontana Dam
Box 5		Food at the Grass Roots
Box 5		School Readjustment Caused by Watts Bar Dam
Box 5		Conference on the Common Mooring
Box 5		Annual Report 1946
Box 5		Cheaper Transportation via Tennessee River
Box 5		Farm & Home Survey Watts Bar Area
Box 5		Induction Training Material
Box 5		Conference on Evaluation of Educational Programs
Box 5		TVA Travel Regulation
Box 5		Forests and Human Welfare
Box 5		Community Readjustment Study Meigs County
Box 5		Community Readjustment Study Loudon County
Box 5		Communities for Living
Box 5		Annual Report Reservoir Properties Department
Box 5		TVA - Now
Box 5		A Study of TVA
Box 5		Forest Conservations Teaching Aids
Box 5		Bench Marks in Tennessee Valley
Box 6		Annual Report 1947
Box 6		Phone Book - Knoxville and Norris Dam
Box 6		Duelstown - A Postwar Challenge
Box 6		Unified Development of Tennessee River system
Box 6		Kilby Training School
Box 6		Reports on Section 13 of TVA Act
Box 6		Public Service Agencies in Western Kentucky
Box 6		Forests, Fish, Wildlife
Box 6		Library in TVA Adult Educational Program
Box 6		Cherokee Dam
Box 6		Lumber for Industry
Box 6		Minerals and Structural Materials of Western North Carolina and Northern Georgia
Box 6		Retirement System of TVA
Box 6		TVA Program Applications of the Common Mooring
Box 6		Chattanooga Sunday Times
Box 6		New Wealth from Soils
Box 6		The Douglas Basin
Box 6		Office Memorandum and New Letters
Box 6		Minerals and Structural Materials of Hales Bar and Chickawau
		Series IV: UT Education, Personal, Miscellaneous Papers
Box 7	Folder 1	UT Department of Education I
Box 7	Folder 2	UT Department of Education II
Box 7	Folder 3	Missouri
Box 7	Folder 4	Resource Use Education
Box 7	Folder 5	Evaluating Public Schools
Box 7	Folder 6	Conservation Education
Box 7	Folder 7	Education activities and development
Box 7	Folder 8	Valley Development and Administration in Missour Basin
Box 7	Folder 9	History of Butler, Tennessee
Box 7	Folder 10	Hope of the South
Box 7	Folder 11	You and Your Town
Box 7	Folder 12	Catholic Lawyer
Box 7	Folder 13	The Nation
Box 7	Folder 14	Personnel Review
Box 7	Folder 15	Reeves
Box 7	Folder 16	North Carolina State Museum
Box 7	Folder 17	Chiles List
Box 7	Folder 18	I Remain a Methodist
Box 7	Folder 19	Legends of Swifts Silvermine
Box 7	Folder 20	ASU Dedication Program
Box 7	Folder 21	True
Box 7	Folder 22	Fathers Ideals
Box 7	Folder 23	Preservation News
Box 7	Folder 24	The Palm
Box 7	Folder 25	Democracy, Communism, Fascism
Box 7	Folder 26	Fact
Box 7	Folder 27	Paul Launches New Testament
Box 7	Folder 28	Christian Century
Box 7	Folder 29	Church St. Methodist Church
Box 7	Folder 30	How Montefiore School Prevents Crime
Box 7	Folder 31	Tennessee Valley - A Recreation Domain
Box 7	Folder 32	Alsace - Lorraine
Box 7	Folder 33	Confederate Currency Price List
Box 7	Folder 34	Dale H. Liese
Box 7	Folder 35	old letters
Box 7	Folder 36	Studies of Southern Resources
Box 7	Folder 37	Rivers in the Desert
Box 7	Folder 38	Lost Mine and Buried Treasure
Box 7	Folder 39	Bulletin of Elementary Education
Box 7	Folder 40	Commonweal
Box 7	Folder 41	Cas Walker's Watchdog
Box 7	Folder 42	United Business Service
Box 7	Folder 43	Conservation of National Phosphate Resources
Box 7	Folder 44	Man and Nature in Modern World
Box 7	Folder 45	Conservation of Wildlife
Box 7	Folder 46	The Morning After
Box 7	Folder 47	Prayers for Use of Family
Box 7	Folder 48	Elements of Life
Box 7	Folder 49	Schools and Community Resources
Box 7	Folder 50	World on Wheels
Box 7	Folder 51	Knoxville News Sentinel and Journal
Box 7	Folder 52	Chattanooga Times
Box 7	Folder 53	St. Louis Post Dispatch
Box 7	Folder 54	TVA Paper
Box 7	Folder 55	Miscellaneous
Box 7	Folder 56	Man and the Natural World