Herbert E. Weyrauch Papers

1935-1947
Manuscript Collection #542
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Creator(s)
Weyrauch, Herbert E., 1919-2006
Physical description
3.13 Cubic Feet, 334 items, consisting of memorandums, manuals, publications, grade reports, and newsletters.
Preferred Citation
Herbert E. Weyrauch Papers (#542), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
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ECU Manuscript Collection
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Papers (1935-1947) including memorandums, manuals, publications, grade reports, and newsletters.

Biographical/historical information

Herbert E. Weyrauch (January 10, 1919-September 27, 2006) entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1937 and graduated on February 9, 1941. He served in the USS NORTH CAROLINA during 1942-1943. He returned to the Academy's postgraduate school and received his Masters in Science degree in engineering electronics in 1947. He resigned his Navy commission as a commander in July 1954, to accept management positions in the electronics manufacturing industry and later to become a consultant to business management. Born in Iowa, he spent the majority of his adult life in Minneapolis, MN, where he died.

Scope and arrangement

This collection in mainly concerned in two areas: The U.S. Naval Academy (1937-1941) and the USS NORTH CAROLINA (1942-1943). Academy memorandums detail daily routine schedules, room assignments, academy regulations, dance plans, liberty rules, and grade reports. There is a list of class and club officers as well as graduation exercises instructions for 1942 and for postgraduate school (1947). Weyrauch's involvement in various extracurricular activities is reflected in the materials.

Academy manuals include cruise instructions (1938), budget and pay regulations, and an Academy guide. A Battalion Pass Book details Weyrauch's expenditures at the Academy. Other manuals pertain to regimental flag competition, naval service customs, midshipmen's athletic awards instructions, and other miscellaneous items concerning the Naval Academy.

Memorandums from the Navy Department (1942) concern inadvertent disclosures of naval information and censorship of mail. News dispatches from the "USS NORTH CAROLINA Radio Press News" and the "USS NORTH CAROLINA Morning Press" give information about the war effort in other parts of the world, the ship's daily schedules, crossing the line, encouragement from the officers, and the news of the crew's activities. A roster of officers giving duty assignments reflects Weyrauch's assignments to the USS NORTH CAROLINA (March-May, 1943).

Two oversize maps are included. The first map reflects Weyrauch's 1938 practice cruise in the North Atlantic and Europe while the other is a tourist map of Honolulu (1934). A third map in the collection is a harbor chart detailing small boat sailing limits for the approach to the Naval Academy (ca. 1941).

Administrative information
Custodial History

December 7, 1987, 122 items; Files (1937-1943) of member of USNA Class of 1941, including memorandums, pamphlets, programs, regulations, grade reports, and handbooks of the USNA and the news sheets and memorandums of the USS NORTH CAROLINA. Gift of Herbert E. Weyrauch, Minneapolis, MN.

December 23, 2005, (unprocessed addition 1), 212 items, 1.35 cubic feet; Letters (1937-1941) sent to his family while attending the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, as a member of the Class of 1941, including his parents, Emil Maximilian Weyrauch and Esther Emma Weyrauch, of Oregon, IL; his brothers, Gerald Hugo Weyrauch and John Theodore Weyrauch; and his sister, Madeleine Louise Weyrauch; also a compact disc containing an database compiled by the donor, describing each letter; pertaining to his education, social life, athletic activities, naval training, and midshipman cruises, etc. See preliminary inventory attached. Donor: Herbert E. Weyrauch.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Herbert E. Weyrauch

Processing information

Processed by A. Fouts, February 1989

Encoded by Apex Data Services

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

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Key terms
Personal Names
Weyrauch, Herbert E., 1919-2006
Corporate Names
North Carolina (Battleship : BB-55)
United States Naval Academy
Container list
Box 1 Folder a U. S. Naval Academy File, 1937-1941, 1947
Box 1 Folder b U. S. Naval Academy Manual, 1935-1941
Box 1 Folder c U. S. Naval Academy Miscellany, 1937-1941
Box 1 Folder d Batallion Pass Book, 1937-1941
Box 2 Folder a Database of letters compiled by Herbert Emil Weyrauch, 2006-09-26
Box 2 Folder b Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Emil Maximilian Weyrauch, 1937-07-1938-06
Box 2 Folder c Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Emil Maximilian Weyrauch, 1938-07-1939-06
Box 2 Folder d Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Emil Maximilian Weyrauch, 1939-09-1940-04
Box 2 Folder e Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Emil Maximilian Weyrauch, 1940-07-1941-01
Box 2 Folder f Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Mr. & Mrs Emil Maximilian Weyrauch, 1937-12-1940-12
Box 3 Folder a Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Esther Esther Emma Weyrauch (Mother), 1937-07-1937-12
Box 3 Folder b Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Esther Esther Emma Weyrauch (Mother), 1938-01-1938-06
Box 3 Folder c Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Esther Esther Emma Weyrauch (Mother), 1938-07-1938-12
Box 3 Folder d Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Esther Esther Emma Weyrauch (Mother), 1939-01-03-1939-04-10
Box 3 Folder e Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Esther Esther Emma Weyrauch (Mother), 1939-04-18-1939-06-20
Box 3 Folder f Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Esther Esther Emma Weyrauch (Mother), 1939-07-1939-12
Box 3 Folder g Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Esther Esther Emma Weyrauch (Mother), 1940-01-1940-06
Box 3 Folder h Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Esther Esther Emma Weyrauch (Mother), 1940-07-1941-01
Box 4 Folder a Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Gerald Hugo Weyrauch (Bother), 1937-08-1941-01
Box 4 Folder b Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to John Theodore Weyrauch (Bother), 1937-08-1940-06
Box 4 Folder c Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Madeleine Louise Weyrauch (Sister), 1937-07-1938-06
Box 4 Folder d Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Madeleine Louise Weyrauch (Sister), 1938-07-1939-06
Box 4 Folder e Herbert Emil Weyrauch letters to Madeleine Louise Weyrauch (Sister), 1939-07-1940-10