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Theses from 1962
Growth stocks-fact or fancy, Arthur Grey Staples Jr.
Cabell's rational morality as expressed through the dream-vision technique in Jurgen, Ruth MacDonald Stevenson
Oxamates as intermediates, Linwood Powers Tenney
Construction and validation of a forced-choice scale for rating clinical performance of physical therapy students, Margot Trimble
Low temperature infrared cell and its application in isoprene and nitrogen dioxide reaction studies, Gunars Vilcins
Effects of surface roughness on the intensity distribution of light reflected from aluminum surfaces, Harvey N. Wingfield
Theses from 1961
An academic history of the class of 1958 in a selected Henrico County High School, Carrie Payne Barker
Determination of a molecular weight distribution for intermediate degradation products of bovine plasma albumin, Sherwin M. Beck
Analysis of scintillation pulse shapes for stilbene using neutron and gamma-ray excitation, Roland Lee Bowles
Milton and Socinianism, Joseph Johnson Collins
An analysis of certain problems in using television in the Henrico county schools, Anne Morton Fitzgerald
Factors affecting U.S. marketers' decisions on Latin America, James M. Frye
A study of the status of high school newspapers in the Virginia public schools, Joyce Still Gibson
Realism, heroines, Flaubert, George Gouldin
The American revolutionary soldier, 1775-1781, Robert Edward Hanie
The planning, installation, and results of a performance improvement program for supervisory personnel, Harold G. Hart
An improved system of cost control and budgeting by product, for a specialty paper mill, Linwood Douglas Hogge
A comparative study of the ability and academic achievement of senior high school boys with relation to participation in interscholastic sports, Grant Hudson Jr.
An approach to internal auditing, Mathew Winfree Jewett
Determinants of occurrence and distribution of fungi in marine environments, Paul W. Kirk
Polysubstituted Piperazinethiocarboxamides, Donald W. Kreh
A survey of the novels of Charles Brockden Brown, George C. Longest
Some aspects of financing interscholastic athletic programs in Group II high schools in Virginia, Ellett R. McGeorge
Coordination of 2, 8- Bishydroxymethyl - 2, elements of the first transition series, Charles Edward O'Rear
Blood oxygen capacity of birds, J. R. Powell
A historical approach to a unitary type of United States paper currency, Roger Perry Schad
Louis Kossuth in America, 1851-1852, John Bartholomew St. Leger
The dramas of Byron : an evaluation, Welford Dunaway Taylor
An investigation of the analysis of turpentine by gas chromatography, John R. Wagner
A comparison of the effects of 23 hour food deprivation and 23 hour water deprivation on the weight and intake of the albino rat, Otis Byron Ward
Food Intake as a Function of Duration of Food Deprivation in the Albino Rat, John H. Wright
Theses from 1960
A consolidation analysis of the insured group benefits programs of a medium size manufacturing company : multi-carrier vs. single carrier, John Walter Ainslie
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), Helen Levine Berkowitz
The effects of water deprivation on the body weight, food intake and water intake of the albino rat, Kenneth A. Blick
Oral communications to and by lower level supervision, Joseph Clifton Brown
The effect of manifest anxiety and failure instructions on delinquents' performance on the W.I.S.C. coding test, Herbert J. Cross
The contemporary American short story (a study of The Best American short stories, 1950-1959), Gertrude Carrick Curtler
A chromatographic study of the polyphenols in cured tobacco, Marvin Dennis Edmonds
Actuality and realism in the poetry of George Crabbe, Gerald Meredith Garman
The development of nickel electrodeposits on copper monocrystals as studied with the electron microscope, Lucille Burnett Garmon
A history of Averett College, David Wesley Gray
The portrayal of historical character in Browning's poetry, Claudius Williams Griffin
A study of the validity of secondary school school recommendations for students entering Richmond College in September, 1955, James Garland Hanes
A study of the curcumin method for boron determination, James Edward Hardcastle
The Richmond transit strike of 1903, Thomas Jefferson Headlee JR.
A study of hypnotism in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Helen Lei Hsu
The chelation of Cu(II) with 1, 3-bis(tris(hydroxymethyl)methylamino)-2-propanol and 1, 3-bis (2-hydroxyethylamino)-2-propanol, David Andrew Jackson Jr.
The alcohol problem in the Richmond metropolitan area and management's role in combating it, Edmund E. Meredith
Supervisor Training A Case Study, Edward M. Miller
A study of the roots on stem cuttings of Pedilanthus tithymaloides Smallii (Millsp.) Dressler, Leonard Morrow
An introduction to the Victorian woman : a comparative study dealing with poetical and historical sources, Lois Iffert Rudge
Preparation of elemental boron and measurement of its emittance at incandescent temperatures, Claude P. Talley
The impact of inflation on selected wage and salary groups in the Richmond area, Carl Edward Tucker
A historical study of the missionary work of Dr. George W. Butler and an analysis of his influence on Brazil, David Gueiros Vieira
The utilization of the multipurpose room in the elementary schools in Virginia, Henry Dillard Ward
Theses from 1959
A survey of the graduating classes of Varina High School (1954-1958) to determine their reactions to certain phases of the school program, Jerome Michael Adams
The development of the Virginia State Board of Medical Examiners, John Conner Atkeson
Area wage differentials : a study of compensation of nonmanagement personnel in Virginia, Francis Brownell Avery
The food habits of Rana catesbeiana Shaw and other ranids from five different pond types, Garnett Ryland Brooks
Background and recent developments in the growth of commercial branch banking in Virginia, Walter Everette Burnette
The internal information program at VEPCO, B. Albert Burton
A history of the Danville Military Institute, Robert Erle Edwards
A survey of the food habits and distribution of the fishes of Tuckahoe Creek, Virginia, with special emphasis on Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, David Andrew Flemer
The short ghost story : a critical and historical survey, Cameron Dunlop Hall
The political life of Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Cline Edwin Hall
A history of the Glen Echo Elementary School, Joseph A. Hall
Substituted triphenyl tetrazolium chlorides, Lawrence Donald Hanback
An investigation of variables differentiating between good and poor athletes, Leonard Dean McNeal
A study of the health and physical education program at Binford Junior High School, Linwood Hugh Metzger
Four dimensional graphs of complex functions, Malcom Lee Murrill
A survey of the employment procedures of sixty-nine manufacturing and non-manufacturing companies in the Richmond area, Charles Richard Sheffield
Observations on the biology of Pelomyxa palustris Greeff, collected under polysaprobic conditions, Daniel Henry Stern
Serious domestic drama as tragedy : a study of the protagonist, Charles Turney
Theses from 1958
A study of political parties in Virginia during the Civil War, David Mason Armbrister
The educational program of the Civilian Conservation Corps, James Ensign Britton
A study of the validity and reliability of the Lowry Reasoning Test Combination in grades five, six, and seven, Elizabeth Lee Burnette
A study of the state teachers' scholarship program in Virginia, Nora Jones Culpeper
An investigation into the preparation for the elementary principalship in the white public schools of Virginia having five or more teachers, Robert Donald Ford
An analysis of instalment credit within commercial banks, Wayne Atwell Freeland
A comparison of the blood oxygen capacity in semi-terrestrial and aquatic frogs, Francis Burke Leftwich
An Evaluative Study of the Student-Activity Program in Group II High Schools in Virginia, Emelyn Mills Markwith
A history of Thomas Jefferson High School, Marion Noonan Moody
A history of the driver education program and evaluation of the results of the program in public high schools of Virginia, Robert William Moore
A history of the Richmond, Virginia, Fire Department, Donald Lee Morecock
A brief history of the Baptists of Louisa County, Virginia to 1865, Roscoe Ashburn Musselwhite
Spectrophotometric study of the Boron-Curcumin system, Frank Xavier Polio
Spectrophotometric study of the Boron- Curcumin system, Frank Xavier Pollio
A history of the Richmond public school system, 1869-1958, Rebekah Roberts Sharp
Density measurements of urea adducts, Pascal Angelo Tarantino
Automation in accounting through electronic data processing, John Edward Traylor
Theses from 1957
Plant capacity costs, Genevieve D. Armstrong
The extent of dropouts in public schools in Richmond and metropolitan area, Donald Barham Beaman
The growth and development of a program for exceptional children in the state of West Virginia, Marcia Walker Blandau
Conversion of disbursing to tabulating operation, Cecil A. Brown
A validity study of the Wonderlic personnel test, William Daniel Buckley
An approach to the development of executive personnel, Donald Gray Burnette
A study of the color and imagery of the poetry of William Morris, Kenneth Hugh Byron
A historical study of four famous Western gunfighters, William F. Cheek