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Record Group: 8 C
Record Sub-Group: 8
Records Title: UMC; College of Education; Laboratory School; Administrative Records and Memorabilia
Dates: 1904-2004
Volume: 7 and 5/6 cubic feet, 9.79 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
This Record Sub-Group contains office correspondence, reports, newsletters, yearbooks, and memorabilia of the University of Missouri-Columbia College of Education's Laboratory School.
Note to Researcher: Please contact the UMC Registrar's Office (Enrollment Services/Registration) for Laboratory School transcripts:
- Web: https://registrar.missouri.edu/
- Phone: (573) 882-7881
- E-mail: UMCADM_REGWebReg@missouri.edu
Historical Note:
This on-campus elementary and high school was established to provide classroom experience for teachers in training and as a venue for educational experimentation. The Laboratory School was organized in 1857 and the Teacher's College High School began in 1904. The high school continued operation through 1973; the elementary school continued through 1978. The school was also known as University High and U-High. For a more detailed history of the Laboratory School see A History of the University of Missouri-Columbia College of Education.
Series Descriptions:
Former Series #1 C:8/7/1
UMC; College of Education; Laboratory School; Reports
This summary description has been enlarged to a full inventory. Please follow this link to reach the inventory. This former Series contains various Laboratory School annual reports (1925-1978) and records of the Lee Laboratory Summer School and Grant Laboratory Summer School (1929-1936). The student publications contained in this former Series include the U.E.S. Monthly and the La Petite Revue.
Former Series #3 C:8/7/3
UMC; College of Education; Laboratory School; Administrative Records
This Series has been enlarged to a full inventory. Please follow this link to reach the inventory. This collection holds administrative files, publications, and memorabilia of the UMC Laboratory School (ca. 1909-1978). Materials include teachers, college, high school, and elementary student records. There is also photographs, scrapbooks, and a microfilm copy of the scrapbooks.
Series 4. - C:8/7/4 (A91-66; A00-175; A09-06)
This Series contains copies of the UMC Laboratory School high school yearbook, the Tiger Claw (1923, 1925, 1927-1957, 1959-1969, 1971-1973). Tiger Claw was first printed in 1923. Some yearbooks are autographed by students and faculty, and yearbooks 1928-1950 contain calendars of school year events. The Laboratory School closed in 1973. Also included in the series is a news clipping concerning how the students made the yearbooks by hand, from The Missourian Magazine, (04/18/1931).
(2 1/3 c.f.: 2 c.f., 047949, 047950; 1/3 c.f., Ellis)
Note to Researcher: Most issues of the Tiger Claw are available online. Please follow this link to access digital versions of the Tiger Claw.
Series 10. - C:8/7/9 (A14-92)
This Series contains memorabilia of the University High School, (1940-1947, 1987), collected by Virginia Sinclair (née Jones). The memorabilia include two scrapbooks, issues of the University High School yearbook Tiger Claw, (1942-1947), issues of the University High School student newsletter "Tiger Tales," (1943, 1946-1947), and front pages of the Columbia Missourian, (1941, 1944, 1945). The scrapbooks contain event programs for University High as well as for other local institutions such as Stephens College, the University of Missouri, Hickman High School, and Kemper Military Academy; newspaper clippings; awards and certificates; dance cards; grade slips; congratulatory and other cards; invitations; receipts; calling cards; photographic prints; ribbons; and a wrapper for Euclid's "Full of Almonds" candy bar.
(2/3 c.f.: OSB, Ellis)
Note to Archivist: The box list for this Series is available online. It can be accessed by following this link.
The material in Series 10 was donated by Virginia Sinclair, a 1947 graduate of the University High School and an alumna of the University of Missouri (Bachelor of Science degree in Education, 1951).
Series 12. - C:8/7/11 (A21-13)
This Series contains memorabilia of the University High School and the University of Missouri collected by Jane-Elizabeth Spencer, (1927-1931). The memorabilia include University High School (UHS) event programs, graduation announcments, issues and cover designs of "The Mainspring", a school manual, and a schedule of courses for 1928-1929. University of Missouri memorabilia in Series 12 includes sports season ticket booklets, sporting event programs, a copy of "Farmers' Manurian", and a 1931 commencement program. Spencer attended UHS for her sophmore and junior year before enrolling for her senior year at Loretto Academy in El Paso, Texas.
(1/6 c.f., UMLD1)
Note to Archivist: The box list for this Series is available online. It can be accessed by following this link.
The memorabilia was donated by Sandra Noll, daughter of Jane Spencer, in 2021.
Restrictions Note: The Archives of the University of Missouri-Columbia is required by law and Board of Curator's policy to restrict access to some files and information. Student records are held as confidential under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and by University policy. Faculty promotion and tenure records and Academic Personnel files are restricted for 75 years, or the lifetime of the individual. All grievance, disciplinary, and medical records are treated as confidential files. Consultations with legal counsel, both in-house and external, are protected by the attorney/client privilege and will not be released.
