MC 07
Clarence W. Merritt
Faculty
Box 1-2:
Acquisition: These papers were among a gift of books to Scholes Library from Mr.
Merritt’s family after his death.
Processed: Susan Strong, March 1984
Box 3-8:
Acquisition: McMahon Bldg. Room 318 Processed: Elizabeth Gulacsy, October 1986
Box 9-11:
Acquisition: Mr. Wallace Higgins
Processed: Elizabeth Gulacsy, November 1987
Access: Restricted. Any use of the glaze and body recipes in this collection must carry the proper credit to Mr. Merritt (or his source).
Updated: Laura Habecker, 2020
The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Scholes Library
Clarence William Merritt
(1900-1983)
Born: November 6, 1900, Columbus, Ohio Died: October 9, 1983
Married: (1926) Esther Moore Children: Luella, Evelyn and Wilmer
Parents:
Education:
1926 1950
Ohio State, B.S. in Ceramic Engineering
NYSCC at AU, Professional Ceramic Engineer, 1950 Work/Teaching:
1926-1966 Professor of Ceramic Engineering, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
?-1966 Summer School
1950-1966 Faculty Advisor to St. Pat’s Board Faculty chaperone on senior plant trips
1947 Summer School, Mill’s College in Oakland, CA
? Developed glazes for Russell Wright dinnerware (Iroquois Casual China, Syracuse, NY)
Clay body and glaze expert, glaze consultant Honors/Societies:
1956 Binns Medal
Fellow of the American Ceramic Society
Member of National Institute of Ceramic Engineers
Memeber of American Society of Engineering Education Member of Keramos, the National hyonorary Ceramic Fraternity
Member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity
Member A.E.Crandall Hook & Ladder Co. (Alfred fire department), President 19?
“having forgotten more about glazes than most people knew”
Series Descriptions
Correspondence and class notes from his years at Ohio State and his teaching at the NYSCC. Includes the Charles Binns lectures.
Theses and reports prepared by his students Note: see also Pitney (MC 17).
Collection
Box 1
Notebook of glaze and body recipes, c.1928 [includes some recipes from Helen Brundage and Miss Fosdick]
Notebook of glaze and body recipes, 1928-1934 and lecture notes [including exam questions, class problems, and grades given]
Folder of drafting sheets, 1918-1919 [from student years, Ohio State]
Folder of class notes and exams, 1921-1922 [from student years, Ohio State]
Box 2
Folder of plant trip observations and some notes on glaze calculations, 1921- 1925 [from student years, Ohio State]. Also lecture notes on enamel, 1929-1931.
Lecture Room Notes on the Metallurgy of Fuels. Course 117, Ohio State University by W. A. Mueller [from student years, Ohio State]
The Crucible, 1917 and 1918. Yearbook of East High School, Columbus, Ohio.
Box 3
Folder Description
A1 Correspondence N. B. Dexter. Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin. 1947-1949. Ashland Clay Tests.
A2 Correspondence.
A3 Miscellaneous.
A4 Correspondence with Charles F. Binns (1926).
B1 Summer School 1934. Questions.
B2 Ceramics 105. Notes. (1921).
B3 Ceramic Engineering 108. Notes.
B4 Ceramics 601. Notes. Drying and Burning.
B5 Ceramics 303-304 Laboratory. 1948-1940.
B6 Ceramics 303. Laboratory. 1947-1948.
B7 Ceramics 303. Laboratory. 1949-1950.
B8 Ceramics 2. Notes.
B9 Ceramics 306. Mid Semester Test 1951.
B10 Ceramics 155. Graphs 1937-1938.
B11 Ceramics 155. Graphs 1938-1939.
B12 Ceramics 155. Fire Behavior Curves 1949-1941.
B13 Ceramics 155. Glazes. 1939-1940.
B14 Ceramic 105 Lab 1950 notebook.
B15 Class notes.
Box 4
Folder Description C1 Tables. Kiln Data.
C2 Bodies, Glazes and Colors.
C3 Classification of Clays.
C4 Engobes.
C5 List of Supplies Ceramic Art Department C6 West Virginia Clay notebook.
C7 Spinks Clays notebook.
C8 Avery Kaolin.
C9 First Fire Behavior 1938-1939.
C10 Fire Behavior 1939-1940.
C11 Fire Behavior 1940-1941.
C12 Fire Behavior 1941.
C13 Fire Behavior 1941-1942.
C14 Fire Behavior 1942-1943.
C15 Titanium Alloys Glaze Bulletins.
C16 Charles F. Binns: A Standard for the Fineness of Ground Materials.
C17 Colemanite Glaze Papers.
C18 National Ref. Co. Big Savage - Research.
C19 Glazes. William Narr, Port-Au Prince, Haiti.
C20 Orton Fellowship. Glazes.
C21 Spinks Clay Company. Report.
C22 N.Y.State College of Ceramics, Ceramic Experiment Station.
Monthly Reports II.1 (No. 7) Jan 1937, II.5 (No.11) May 1937, II.3 (No.16) Oct. 1937, III.6 (No.24) June 1938 - IV.6 (No.36) June 1939, IV.8 (No.38) Aug. 1939 - IV.12 (No.42) Dec.1939, II.3 (No.45) March 1940, VI.2 (No.56) Feb.1941, VI.5 (No.59) May 1941.
C23 N.Y.State College of Ceramics, Brick Manufacturer's Assoc. of New York. Fellowship Monthly Progress Report No. 18 April 1940, No. 27 Jan. 1941.
C24 A practical method for testing the casting properties of clays.
Box 5
Folder Description
C25 Glass Strength Reports.
C26 Triaxial Diagrams.
C27 Ceramic Raw Materials.
C28 A series of raw leadless glazes at low temperature.
C29 Glaze batch blanks.
C30 36 squares. Plain and numbered.
C31 American Ceramic Society, Clay Definitions. June 1, 1938.
C32 Modified Stoneware Bodies and Glazes at Cones 3 & 5 notebook.
D1 Thesis of Charles W. F. Jacobs, MFA 1948. "The development of decorated bent glass, a procedure for vitrious enameled copper, trap rock as a glaze for stone ware."
Thesis of Clarence W. Merritt, "The use of clays, rocks and minerals as glaze materials."
D2 Thesis Report L. J. Lippoff, BFA 1943.
D3 Senior Thesis B. Leng, BFA 1943, "Lowering Firing Temps of Bristol".
D4 Senior Thesis:
Jane Lawrence, BFA 1943, "Experimentation with red glazes."
Norman Ruderman, BFA 1943.
Reta Farnham, BFA 1943, "Baking ware."
Constance A. Koegler, BFA 1943, "Decorative treatments for Kanakadea Creek clay."
Jane W. Brownlow, BFA 1943, "An investigation of orange glazes."
Jane K. Bray, BFA 1943.
Lee Marion Linhof, BFA 1943, "Low fire glazes and bodies."
Norma Stockwell, BFA 1943, "The development of an opaque, textural stoneware glaze maturing in an oxidizing cone eight fire."
Ailsa Johnstone, BFA 1943, "Ferro frits in low temperature glaze combinations."
D5 Senior thesis and thesis problems.
Bill Warr, BFA 1941,"Bristol glazes."
Janet Howell, BFA 1941, "Use of spodumene and potash spar as flux in whiteware bodies."
Gwendolyn Hill, BFA 1941, "Speck grog bodies."
L. Schafhirt, BFA 1941, "Speck bodies." Ed Schleiter, BFA 1941,
"Stoneware bodies."
Bernard Fried, BFA 1941, "Stoneware bodies."
Carl Wdowka and Edgar Johnson, ?, "Development of a white translucent casting body at cone 7".
Claudia Wheeler, BFA 1941, "Red ware body and glazes".
K.W.Wheeler, BFA 1941, "Development of medium priced dinnerware."
D6 Senior Thesis. Jan Norris Brocket, BFA 1943. "The effect of zirconium in glazes."
D7 Thesis. Louise Kenyon, BFA 1942, "Development of a body for ovenware using Tionesta stoneware."
D8 Senior Thesis. Nettie Ann Rapp, August 11, 1942. "The use of ferro frits in cone 04 glazes."
D9 Thesis. Dickman Walker, BFA 1942, "A cone 02 body and glaze for table ware."
D10 Thesis. R. Douglas Manning, BFA 1942, "Action and properties of some basic glaze materials in glassy melts."
D11 Thesis Report. Forrest E. Burnham. BFA 1943, "A cone 7 glaze, engobes, and clay bodies for art pottery".
Box 6
Folder Description
D12 Thesis Report. L. Coulson Hageman, BFA 1942, "Substituting zircon for tin oxide in glaze formulae."
D13 Thesis. Betty Stangl Thomas, BFA 1943, "Application of
transparent and colored glazes on a white body painted with 12 different underglaze colors."
D14 Thesis:
Oliver Williams, ?, "Development of Albany slip glazes for once fire work."
M.R. Krassner, BFA 1943, "Whiteware bodies."
L. B. Raynor, BFA 1942, "Red blay bodies."
Marjorie Russell, BFA 1942, "Using unfired, ground shale in the usual Jordan throwing body."
Eloise Bassett, BFA 1942, "New York plastic clay body."
Janet Austin, BFA 1942, "Buff casting slip."
June Chisholm, BFA 1942 "Matt glazes."
Ruth Dorsey, BFA 1942, "Tuskegee clay."
Kathryn Hardenbrook, BFA 1942, "Stoneware body."
Arthur H. Crapsey, BFA 1942, "Artware body for C/4- C/8."
D15 Senior Thesis and problems suggestions.
E1 Foreign Glass Meeting.
E2 Plant Inspection Trips. (1942-1951).
E3 Eastern Inspection Trip 1922.
E4 Lambda Chi Alpha.
E5 Song of Keramos by S.R. Scholes E6 S.P.E.E.
E7 Ceramic Association of NY, Monthly News Letter No. 16 (Nov.1.1937).
E8 Membership directory of Keramos (Professional Ceramic Engineering Fraternity) July 15, 1935.
Box 7
Folder Description
1 Summer course lectures. Charles F. Binns: Lectures I-XXI; C.M.
Harder: Process of decoration (July 1930); Lewis F. Day:
Decoration; List of Supplies; Identification of Materials; Terra Sigillata.
2 Ceramics 1 lectures.
3 Ceramics 1 lectures. Notes taken by John L. Gallup. (1927-1928).
4 Ceramics 2 lectures. (1928).
5 Ceramics 2 lectures. Notes taken by John L. Gallup.(1928-1929).
6 Ceramics 2 lectures. Dr. Binns. (1931).
7 Ceramics 2 lectures. Notes taken by Raymond Schlehr.
(1929-1930).
8 Ceramic Engineering 207 lectures.
9 Ceramics 303 lectures. Notes taken by W. G. Warr, Jr.
10 Ceramics 303 lectures. (1941-1942).
Box 8
Folder Description
11 Laboratory reports in class in Advanced Ceramic Technology.
(1930-1931). Notes taken by Wesley A. Mills, William E. Ross, Alfred A. Titsworth and Paul Maroney.
12 "Essentials of glass technology, based on American practice."
Samuel R. Scholes, Professor of Glass Technology.
13 Harold S. Nash, Professor of Ceramics, University of Cincinnati, talks: University Series No. 13: The art and science of the potter.
14 Professor Harder: Teaching art in grade schools.
15 Wollastonite. "Low loss electrical bodies from wollastonite" by William M. Jackson, II, Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc. (ACS
convention April 29, 1952).
"Wollastonite: A new venture in nonmetallic minerals" by
A.L.Hall, R.B. Ladoo, R.N. Secord, and C.A. Stokes, Godfrey L.
Cabot, Inc. (AIMME Feb. 21, 1952). Trade papers from Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc.
"Wollastonite, an industrial mineral," Bulletin No. 4 Ceramic Experiment Station.
16 Trade catalogs.
Spinks Ball Clays Data Book, H.C. Spinks Clay Company, Inc.
Ultrox Zirconium Glazes, Metal & Thermit Corporation.
Titanox-TG, Titanium Pigment Corporation.
This is mosaic tile, The Mosaic Tile Company.
Remmey dependable refractories, Richard C. Remmey Son Company.
Metropolitan ceramic glazed structural facing tile, AIA file no.
10-B, Metropolitan Brick, Inc.
17 History of Keramos. 1902-1952.
18 "The evolution of industrial ceramics." General Ceramics Company.
19 Notebook.
20 Miscellaneous.
Box 9
Folder Description
1 Cer 345 1939-1940 (includes work by students).
2 Raw Materials Misc.
3 ?, "Dalton Red Clay." Stanley Ballard, BFA 1940, "The development of terra-sigilatta colors."
Elizabeth A. Curtis, BFA 1940, "Chrome-tin-pinks as underglaze colors."
Eileen Davis & Frances Washburn, BFA 1940, "The development of a semi- vitreous dinnerware body for casting and
jiggering."
4 Alice M. Flannigan, BFA 1940, "Determination of the suitability of spodumene glazes on high fired white ware and Jordan body."
S.B.Gants, BFA 1940, "Low firing vitreous body and suitable glaze."
Bruce C. Gilbert, BFA 1940, "Effects of variations of RO in cone 6 glazes on colors from nickel oxide."
Suzie Kohl, BFA 1940, "Low fire body at cone 8/10."
5 Alice M. Flannigan, BFA 1940, "Determination of the suitability of spodumene glazes on high fired white ware and Jordan body."
S.B.Gants, BFA 1940, "Low firing vitreous body and suitable glaze."
Bruce C. Gilbert, BFA 1940, "Effects of variations of RO in cone 6 glazes on colors from nickel oxide."
Suzie Kohl, BFA 1940, "Low fire body at cone 8/10."
6 Janet Rogers, BFA 1940, "Stains in low fire red clay body with transparent low fire glaze."
Betsey Burr Ryder, BFA 1940, "Determination of low fired stain slips."
Charles Shoemaker and George Johnston, BFA 1940,
"Development of a porcelain body."
V. Smith, BFA 1940, "Develop Albany slip clay glazes to a low fire temperature range that may be used successfully on red ware and Jordan bodies."
Jane L. Walkley, BFA 1940, "Investigation of the possibilities of glazes composed of eighty percent spodumene feldspar mixture."
Box 10
Folder Description
1 Carolyn Howe, BFA 1943, "Develop an art-ware body."
Rhoda L. Large, BFA 1943, "Terra sigillata."
M. Negoro, BFA ?, "A stoneware body suitable for throwing."
2 Olivia L. Bussell, BFA 1944, "Production of copper rods in an oxidizing kiln."
Eleanor Chapin, BFA 1944, "A variation of colored engobes for an ovenware body."
Patricia Moore Devre, BFA 1944, "Develop a good majolica glaze."
Marian Mason Feeney, BFA 1944, "A self glazing body."
Martha Babcock Heasley, BFA 1944, "Formulate a whiteware body."
Jeanne M. McCormick, BFA 1944, "Vitreous china body."
Jeanne Sherman, BFA 1944, "Iron red glazes."
Helen Ruth Sims, BFA 1944, "Glaze applicable to majolica decoration."
3 Gloria Burchall, BFA 1946, "Obtain two glazes at two temperatures."
Marilynn Fitzroy, BFA ?, "Find light tan body containing heavy grog."
Jeanne G. Hauth, BFA ?, "Produce a c/4 body for casting and jiggering."
B. Jackson, BFA 1945, "Soluble salts."
Emma Langseth, BFA ?, "Glaze tests for semi-matt waxy surface."
Edna Levy, BFA 1946, "Semi-opaque dull, sugary glaze for use on Kanakadea clay body."
Jane Patton, BFA 1945, "Whiteware body and glaze."
Joanna Folts Stetson, BFA 1946, "Low fire glaze."
4 Eunice M. Adams, BFA 1946, "Find glaze right for thrown ware."
Joseph Albert, BFA ?, "A transparent cone 4 glaze."
Carolyn E. Banks, BFA 1946, "Glazes at cone 5."
Marie Basciani, BFA 1946, "Colored grogs."
Francis E. Bovee, BFA 1946, "Experiment with cone 04 glazes."
Isobel Dobson, BFA 1945, "Colored glazes for use on stoneware bodies."
Bill Dunbar, BFA ?, "Develop a throwable clay body."
Alice Van Gaasbeek, BFA 1946, "Build a small test kiln."
V. Harley, BFA 1946, "Can brilliant colors be obtained at c/10."
Anne Hooker, BFA 1946, "Develop glaze with feldspars with alkaline frits."
Chas. Lakofsky, BFA 1946, "c/8 stoneware glaze."
Elaine J. Locke, BFA 1946, "Possibilities of a tinted transparent glass over underglaze decoration."
Sylvia March, BFA 1946, "Develop glazes at cone 4."
Martha Miner, BFA 1946, "Alkaline glazes at cone 2."
Dorathea Anne Schloh, BFA 1946, "Develop a baking ware."
Richard D. Stillman, BFA 1946, "Compare a lead and leadless commercial frit at c/2."
5 Morton Abler, BFA 1947, "Buttery glaze maturing at cone 4."
Ruth Adams, BFA 1947, "Ovenware."
Winslow Anderson, BFA 1947, "Development of a c/4 slate gray semi-matte glaze."
?, BFA 1947, "Patent pertaining to ceramic technology."
Constance Brennan, BFA 1947, "Find glaze that will not run at 8/9 in an oxidation fire."
Douglass A. Case, BFA 1947, "Develop a clay body at c1 and a glaze to fuse to it at c8."
Hannah Saunders Crump, BFA 1947, "Colored stoneware bodies at c9."
Barbara Guillaume, BFA 1948, "Change three glossy glazes to matte texture."
Mary Lowden, BFA 1948, "Produce casting and/or throwing bodies."
M. Pachl, MFA 1947, "Develop a colored body."
Beverly Pangborn, BFA 1947, "Changes in color using different glazes."
William D. Parry, BFA 1947, "Find suitable clay bodies suitable for schools and studios."
William J. Soluchif, BFA ?, "Develop a body to suit personal sculpture requirements."
Stone, BFA ?, "Throwing stoneware body for c8 of pleasing color."
Robert C. Turner, (MFA, 1949), "Single firing cone 4 body and glaze for ovenware."
Box 11
Folder Description
6 Millicent D. Albert, BFA 1949, "Develop a body and a glaze to fit."
Margaret Baker, BFA 1948, "Good plastic slip for casting and glazes to fit."
Helena M. Bayko, BFA ?, "Use of the Ferro body."
Jeanne Barlow, BFA 1948, "Decorative single-fire low temperature ware."
Stanley Fistrick, BFA 1948, "Simple c/04 casting body with a high percentage of Dalton."
Joan Gaffney, BFA 1948, "Body and frit used at (cone/05-03)."
Olive Malm, BFA 1948, "Develop of red burning c/04 suitable for throwing." Lois Meyer, BFA ?, "A New York surface shale."
Theodore Randall, MFA 1949?, "Study relationship of body to glaze."
Donald A. Rowland, BFA 1948, "Making of a jar mill."
Rosemarie Springer, BFA 1948, "Use of the Ferro Commercial Body."
Helen Squires, BFA 1948, "Obtain casting body using Nepheline Syenite body."
Bacia Righter Stepner, BFA 1948, "Plastic body for throwing and jiggering that matures at c/04."
Ken Uyemura, BFA 1948, "Small-scale art pottery production."
7 Susan Harnly, BFA ?, "Develop a clay body and glazes for classroom use on the secondary level."
George T. James, BFA 1949, "Develop whiteware body for casting and use in the c/4 range."
Gretchen Le Suer, BFA 1949, "Dalton body for throwing."
Mary Jane Lewis, BFA 1949, "Develop a plastic body desirable for wheel-thrown ware."
John Murrett, BFA 1949, "Artware bodies for throwing and casting."
E. Pendleton, BFA 1949, "Develop a good c/04 throwing body using Dalton clay as much as possible."
J. D. Secrest, BFA 1949, "Develop a stoneware body warm gray in color having good throwing and casting properties maturing at c5."
Marie L. Sica, BFA 1949, "Develop a body that will work in the temperature range of cone 3-5."
Peter Slusarski, BFA 1949, "Derive a whiteware body which will mature at c8."
Renee Suchora, BFA 1949, "c/04 throwing body and a c/04 glaze."
Carolyn Thomas, BFA ?, "Develop a dark brown stoneware body maturing at c4."
Richard Tracy , BFA 1949, "Develop Cone 3 to 5 pottery bodies and glaze."
R. M. Macaulay, BFA 1949, "Clays used as terra sigillata."
N. Wiegand, BFA 1949, "Fenno casting and Pasco commercial bodies."
Richard E. Zegler, BFA 1949, "Illustrate trends of the average consumer in purchasing decorative ceramics for the home."
8 James T. Achuff, MFA 1950?, "Develop a Stoneware body suitable for casting and throwing."
Jayne Van Alstyne, BFA 1950, "Develop a high fire clay body and glazes for a small production line for plant containers."
Earle B. Barlow, BFA 1950, "Research and development of local clay for adult ed. classes."
John R. Bradley & William F. Maloney, BFA 1950, "Glaze developments on common clay flowerpots."
Justin M. Brady, MFA 1950, "Develop a plastic clay body, a slip casting body, and glazes to fit them."
Joseph P. Bowden, BFA 1950, "Development of semi-vitreous, talc containing, whiteware body for use as a deflocculated slip."
Roberta Farnham, BFA 1950, "Develop a throwing body maturing at c1."
Knowlton Farr, BFA 1950, "Body and glaze development."
John Gilkes, BFA 1950, "Whiteware problem."
Mary E. Grannis BFA 1950, "Development for an intermediate temperature range glaze."
Philip Johnson, BFA ?, "A stoneware body, slips, and glaze."
Irene A. Johnston, BFA 1950, "Develop a stoneware glaze, for casting and modeling."
Nancy Kelly, BFA 1950, "Determine a type of art ware to be produced on a small mass production basis."
Patricia Kennedy, BFA 1950, "Develop a dark firing clay body for throwing and casting which will mature at c8."
Earl C. Lowe, BFA 1950, "Lithium compounds as mill additions to glazes."
Richard B. McNamara & Bruce L. Tarquino, BFA 1950, "Trap rock as a glaze material."
Margaret Pausewang & Donald Saltman, BFA 1950, "Study of leadless glazes maturing at c4."
L. Reed, BFA 1950, "Formulate a clay body and glaze that will once fire at cone 9, casting qualities and throwing qualities."
William Pitney, BFA ?, "Body and glaze development."
9 Ilse Rothmer, BFA 1950, "Develop of a low fire body with a cone range of 06-02."
J. D. Secrest, MFA 1950, "Development of stoneware bodies."
Philip J. Secrest, BFA 1950, "Develop stoneware casting slip and plastic body, engobe, and glaze."
Peter A. Slusarski, MFA 1950, "Gray engobe."
William Sutton, Norman Arsenult, Sylvie Weinstein, Arthur Flory, Charles Masgo, Richard Seliskar, ?, "Develop stoneware bodies for throwing on the pottery wheel."
Barbara Theurer, BFA 1950, "Practical analysis of unknown clay."
Robert C. Turner, BFA ?, "Development of low fire ware."
