Collection Overview
Title: John A. Bolt Collection, 1925-1992
ID: COLL/376
Creator: Bolt, John A.
Extent: 0.5 Cubic Feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Calvin College student in the late 1920s. Notes taken in courses given by William Harry Jellema, philosophy; John Van Haitsma, biology; Henry Van Zyl, education; and papers prepared for the Plato Club and Jellema's philosophy course.
Biographical Note
John A. Bolt was born 4 May 1905 in Prinsburg, MN. He was a Calvin College graduate in 1929. He was married to Edna J. Vermeulen on 19 October 1958; their children were Robert and Betty. He was a chemist and he also worked as the Director of Research for the American Oil Company. He died on 18 May 1992.
Box and Folder Listing
- Series 1: Miscellaneous --- 1925-1992
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Autobiography and biography
- Folder 2: Personal: clippings, miscellaneous --- 1979-1992
- Folder 3: Family history
- Folder 4: Personal: Education --- 1925-1930
- Folder 5: Personal: Standard Oil Company --- 1930-1967
- Folder 6: Class notes: History of the Teaching of Arithmetic - J. Broene --- 1928-1929
- Folder 7: Class notes: History of Education - Henry Van Zyl
- Folder 8: Class notes: Biology - John Van Haitsma
- Folder 9: Class notes: Introduction to the Bible - Emo Van Halsema --- 1925-1926
- Folder 10: Class notes: History of Philosophy - W. H. Jellema
- Folder 11: Plato Club paper: Relation of the Good, Justice, and Happiness --- 1928-1929
- Folder 12: Plato's Doctrine of Reality and difficulties of the doctrine
- Folder 13: Commencement programs - Theological School and Calvin College --- 1928, 1929, 1930
- Folder 14: Patents - US Patent Office