Avalon Cheese, 1964

The Meredith J. Cox collection is composed of seven boxes of material relating to Professor Cox's forty-one years of teaching college chemistry at Eastern Kentucky University (1924-1965). The material covers the large variety of Professor Cox's interests, including both his work on and off campus. There are lecture notes and tests concerning the subjects he taught, such as Chemistry 111, 112, 310, and 312. Professor Cox also taught general science and Sociology classes, but chemistry was his specialty. Also included in the collection is Cox's correspondence with various companies and organizations concerning science as well as possible careers (primarily in medicine) for some of Eastern's students. Two interesting folders in the collection are The Challenge of Science--which concerns the struggle (or race) between Russia and the United States over science in education, and Writings, which is made up of several of Cox's own writings, professional papers, and publications.