{"id":772,"date":"2012-06-13T09:42:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T14:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/?p=772"},"modified":"2016-11-11T13:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:49:41","slug":"alumni-weekend-donation-ww-ii-correspondence-of-williams-fraternity-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/2012\/06\/13\/alumni-weekend-donation-ww-ii-correspondence-of-williams-fraternity-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Weekend Donation: WW II Correspondence of Williams Fraternity Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams alumni weekend brings many wonderful guests to the Archives. Nancy Clapp (class of 1987) was no exception,\u00a0 donating a wonderful collection of correspondence and photographs pertaining to her father, Charles Clapp II (class of 1945) and his Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers. Using a mail service in order to share their writings with their &#8220;delegation,&#8221; the correspondence encapsulates both the culture of war and memories of their beloved Williams College. In a September 2, 1945 letter, Clapp wrote about completion of his coursework while stationed in the Pacific: &#8220;Williams came through with my degree the other day.&#8221; (See letter below)<br \/>\nArchives and Special Collections hope to make this collection, along with other war-time materials digitally accessible later this year. -JGD<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-772 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2012\/06\/Clapp_Clapp_Image6.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2012\/06\/Clapp_Clapp_Image6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Charles Clapp II\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-775\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-775'>\n\t\t\t\tCharles Clapp II, circa 1945\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2012\/06\/Clapp_Text1A.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2012\/06\/Clapp_Text1A-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-776\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-776'>\n\t\t\t\tCharles Clapp II to fraternity delegation page 1, Sep 2 1945\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2012\/06\/Clapp_Text1B.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2012\/06\/Clapp_Text1B-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-777\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-777'>\n\t\t\t\tCharles Clapp II to fraternity delegation page 2, Sep 2 1945\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2012\/06\/Clapp_Text1C.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2012\/06\/Clapp_Text1C-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-778\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-778'>\n\t\t\t\tCharles Clapp II to fraternity delegation page 3, Sep 2 1945\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams alumni weekend brings many wonderful guests to the Archives. Nancy Clapp (class of 1987) was no exception,\u00a0 donating a wonderful collection of correspondence and photographs pertaining to her father, Charles Clapp II (class of 1945) and his Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers. Using a mail service in order to share their writings with their &#8220;delegation,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}