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Thomas H. Roberts, April 1953 |
Scope and Contents
The Thomas H. Roberts papers include University of Iowa College of Education lecture material, as well as the papers he authored about Australia, where he was born. At Iowa, Roberts worked with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the related self-study report is included.
Biographical Note
Thomas Hewitson Roberts was born March 19, 1906, at Albany in Western Australia. He received his M.A. degree at the University of Western Australia in 1933. He received his B.A. degree in 1937 and M.A. in 1940 at Merton College in Oxford. While studying at Oxford, Roberts became acquainted with Paul Engle, a poet who became lecturer at the State University of Iowa in 1937 and director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1941-1967.
Roberts joined the faculty of the S.U.I. College of Education in September 1940 as assistant professor. He became associate professor in 1948 and full professor in 1953. His areas of teaching were adult education and later, the expansion of high school education in Western Australia. He was interested in the German educational system during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At S.U.I. he was a member of a group which established the Iowa Center for Continuation Study.
During the winter of 1942 Roberts was granted a military leave to serve as Director of Education with the British Information Services in New York. In spring 1943 he enlisted as a private in the United States Army, and then transferred to the Australian forces. In spring 1947 he returned to S.U.I. with his wife, Molly (Wreford) Roberts. They were married in October 1946 and had four sons. Roberts moved his family to Australia in 1957. Thomas H. Roberts died in Australia on September 8, 1979.
[D. Anderson; 08/2008]
Related Materials
Folder, "Roberts, Thomas Hewitson," in Faculty and Staff Vertical Files Collection (RG 01.15.03)
Records of the College of Education (RG 09)
Box Contents List
Box 1
Committee report, "The Teaching of English in Western Australia"
Correspondence, 1948
Self-study, "Education for International Understanding"
Manuscript, "Mr. Hitler Locks a Door," by T.H. Roberts
Lectures at S.U.I., "A History of Twentieth Century Ideas"
Papers
---. "The Timeless Land"
---. "Conquest"
---. "The Mayflower" and "Success"
---. "Know Your Neighbors: Know About Australia"