The Paul T. Ricks Papers includes correspondence, legal documents, financial files, and tour documents related to the education field trip program at East Carolina Teachers College from 1935 through 1941.
In 1935 the East Carolina Teachers College faculty, at the behest of President Meadows, initiated the Educational Field Trips Committee to coordinate plans for a travel course. The committee obtained the services of Paul T. Ricks, an operator of a local bus route, as tour director. The tours provided three hours of credit in geography, American literature, and history, as well as satisfying requirements for college electives or as renewal credits for teacher certification.
Three separate tours were operated the first summer and the initial tour included more than a hundred students. The follow years the tour schedule was expanded to include trips through the Southwest and Mexico as well as one to Florida, which included a side cruise to Cuba. Ricks Tours became a mainstay of ECTC's summer program until wartime travel restrictions brought them to an end in 1941.
The Paul T. Ricks Papers includes material related to the education field trip program at East Carolina Teachers College from 1935 through 1941. The collection includes legal documents and correspondence related to Ricks Tours including applications by Ricks Tours for certificates of public convenience and necessity and a common carrier application; list of tours and tour iteneraries; administrative paperwork and correspondence arranging tour bookings; and newspaper clippinggs and personal items of Paul Ricks.
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