Union Theological Seminary, Correspondence of Aziz Suryal Atiya, dated 1956-1957

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Title Union Theological Seminary, Correspondence of Aziz Suryal Atiya, dated 1956-1957
Alternative Title Union Theological Seminary, Correspondence of Aziz Suryal Atiya, Stapled Set number 22
Creator Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988; Olpin, Albert Ray, 1898-1983
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1956; 1957
Temporal Coverage 1956; 1957
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City, Utah; Ann Arbor, Michigan
Subject Atiya, Aziz Suryal, (1898-1988)--Correspondence; Funding; Foreign affairs; Egypt; Middle East; Travel adventures; Education; Teaching; Public relations; Seminars
Description Correspondences dated 1956-1957 between Dr. Aziz Atiya and other university faculty and administrators particularly at the University of Utah. At the time of these correspondences, Dr. Atiya is in a dual capacity as Luce Professor of World Christianity at Union Theological Seminary and Visiting Professor of History at the Near and Middle East Institute of Columbia University. Record contains 13 documents within 13 pages. Content primarily consists of discussion regarding Dr. Atiya's potential opportunity to teach at the University of Utah during summer 1957, along with comments on foreign affairs, personal news, and friendly invitations to meet with colleagues before or after travel
Table of Contents 1. A one-page typed letter from Albert Ray Olpin, President of the University of Utah, to Dr. Aziz S. Atiya at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, dated June 20, 1956. In the letter, Olpin mentions the several favorable comments he has received regarding Dr. Atiya's commencement address at the University of Utah. Dr. Olpin includes some clippings from the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret New and Telegram (newspapers) which mention Dr. Atiya commencement address and his speech to the Salt Lake Rotary Club. The last paragraph of the letter is a query and invitation to Dr. Atiya to provide a series of lectures or courses at the University of Utah, possibly during the summer or fall of 1957. 2. A one-page typed letter from Albert Ray Olpin to Dr. Atiya at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, dated July 14, 1956. In the letter Dr. Olpin acknowledges Dr. Atiya's letter of June 26 [1957] and tells Dr. Atiya that he has conferred with Dr. G. Homer Durham, Harold W. Bentley and
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Genre Correspondence
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Collection Number and Name 0480_005_006 Aziz Suryal Atiya Papers
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