Scrapbook - Taylor Key, 1958-1959

The Frank Neely papers include scrapbooks, printed material, blueprints, and other items primarily documenting awards received by Neely and the Rae and Frank Neely Room at Georgia Tech.

Considerable printed material concerning medals appears to have actually been collected by former Georgia Tech library director Dorothy M. Crosland and added to the collection. These include auction catalogs and promotional materials, as well as a small amount of correspondence. An inventory of the Neely Medal Collection and subjects these medals document is also included. Loose items intended for the scrapbooks are included as well.

The two scrapbooks contain memorabilia for awards he was given. The first commemorates his receipt of the Henry Laurence Gantt Gold Medal in 1952. The Gantt Gold Medal, awarded by a board drawn from the American Management Association and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), is given for "distinguished achievement in industrial management as a service to the community." The memorabilia contained in this scrapbook includes the award itself, congratulatory letters and telegrams, programs, photographs, and newsclippings. Of particular note are a letter of regret from Herbert Hoover, who was invited to attend the ceremonies by ASME and telegrams from Ralph McGill and James Cox.

Other items in the scrapbook pre- and post-date his receipt of the award and include a newsclipping from 1949, when Eleanor Roosevelt and her son Elliott visited Georgia, materials from the dedication of the Rich Electronic Computer Center at Georgia Tech on December 2, 1955, and a letter from Georgia Tech's Reactor Advisory Board thanking Neely for his help. The items in this scrapbook were glued down and are therefore discolored where the glue was applied.

The second scrapbook was compiled to commemorate Neely's receipt in 1958 of the Frederick W. Taylor Key, awarded by the Society for Advancement of Management. Materials contained in this scrapbook include correspondence, newsclippings, telegrams, explanation of the award, and copies of Neely's remarks at the award dinner on October 30, 1958. Also included are materials for a reception given by the Georgia Chapter of SAM in honor of Neely on February 6, 1959, and clippings regarding the Nuclear Reactor at Georgia Tech. Materials in both these scrapbooks suggest that they were actually kept by Mrs. Neely.

The oversized box includes an Award of Appreciation given to Neely by Georgia Tech on October 20, 1960 in recognition of his many contributions to the institution, an article on medallist Elizabeth Bradley Jones, appointment of Neely to Georgia Nuclear Advisory Commission on March 12, 1957 by Governor Marvin Griffin, and a reprint of "The Store That Married a City" from a 1949 Saturday Evening Post. Most of the materials in this box, however, pertain to the decoration of the Rae and Frank Neely Room in the Price Gilbert Memorial Library; these include carpet and wallpaper samples, artist's renderings, and blueprints.