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Name Though He Falters, Manuscript by McClellan "Ted" Van der Veer
Dates undated
Extent 0.25 cubic foot
Historical Note McClellan "Ted" Van der Veer (1895-1961) was born in Kentucky but the family relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana, in the early 1910s.  He attended Tulane University and was a member of the school's baseball team.  After working in the newspaper industry in New Orleans, in Lexington, Kentucky, and in Enid, Oklahoma, Van der Veer settled in Birmingham in 1925 when he accepted a position with his family's advertising agency.  In Birmingham, the Van der Veer family were mainstays in the Roebuck Springs neighborhood for four decades.  In 1935 he was named associate editor and chief editorial writer for the Birmingham Age-Herald newspaper.  In 1943 he became chief editorial writer for the Birmingham News and in 1950 Van der Veer was named editor of the Birmingham News.  Van der Veer was a member of the Alabama Press Association, American Society of Newspaper Editors, and the Birmingham Community Chest.  In 1942 he was elected a Niemen Fellow at Harvard University and in 1980 he was posthumously named to the Alabama Newspaper Hall of Fame.  Van der Veer died in New York City on the night of his return from a post-retirement trip to Europe.
Scope and Contents A 461-page typescript of an unpublished novel in fourteen chapters.
Arrangement By chapter
Accession Number M2004-01
Provenance Donated to the UAB Archives in 2004 by Van der Veer's daughter, Dr. Virginia V. Hamilton, professor emerita of UAB.
Copyright The UAB Archives owns the copyright to this unpublished manuscript and maintains its property rights to the material in the collection.
Fnding Aid Printed descriptive guide by Tim L. Pennycuff available in repository.
Access Points Van der Veer, McClellan,  d  1895-1961.
Document Types Typescript
Location Manuscript Stacks
Related Series n/a
Physical Condition Acid free folder, acid free box

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