Letters displayed here were written by Merrill H. Whitney to the Bryant College Service Club. Mr. Whitney graduated Cum Laude from Bryant College in 1939 with a Executive Secretarial Course leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Secretarial Science. During his time at Bryant, he was Secretary of the Beta Sigma Chi fraternity, and Class President of the Executive Secretarial Department.

Shortly after graduation records indicate he worked for the Sun Oil Company, and then was an Executive Assistant at the American Psychoanalytic Association.