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Established in 2023 with the first classes offered in the fall of 2024.

Provenance:  1 box, which arrived in 1999 from the chair of the department, Jan Czechowski. Contents: Grinnell theater history, 1994 Acknowledgment letters, 1994 Contributors' list Photographs Smith, Hollister.  Okoboki Summer Theater. Production data sheets - complete staff lists (for plays produced ca. 1968-1990) Newspaper clipping - The Apple of Her Eye, December 4-6, 1948 Program - Moor Boorn, March 23-24, 1945 Program - Pilkington, 1945-1950 Program - Ladies in Retirement, December 1-2 Program - Sister Beatrice, April 1-2, 1944 Program - The Emperor's New Clothes, 1944-1945 Both Your Houses, October 30-November 1, 1952 The Old Maid and the Thief, February 5-6, 1953 Agamemnon, October 23-25, 1952 The Desert Song, April 10, 1953 Rope, April 14-17, 1953 The Hunted, December 2-3, 1954 Ester, 1955 The Medium, January 20-21, 1955 Two One-Act Operas, Mary 11-12, 1956 The Fantasticks, May 6-8 and June 4-5, 1971 The Bacchae, April 21-24, 1971 The Clouds, Fall 1978 Twelfth Night, Fall 1979

Materials are confidential until 2030. Materials housed at off-site storage.

Materials housed at offsite storage.

Morris Parslow was born on March 24, 1922, in Williamston, Michigan. He attended Muskegon Junior College for one year and Albion College for one year. He transferred to St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. He was a freshman at St. John's when the U.S. entered World War II. He enlisted in the army in the summer of 1942 and was assigned to the Air Corps. Following his discharge in October, 1945, he resumed his studies at St. John's and received his B.A. in 1948. He went to France and studied French Literature for one year at Grenoble Universit' and for one semester at Strasbourg Universit'. Upon his admittance to Graduate School at Princeton University he returned to the U.S., earning his Ph.D. in 1954.

Dr. Parslow taught at the University of Chicago and at the Oyster Bay branch of New York State University before accepting a position at Grinnell College in 1962. There he rose to the rank of Full Professor and served as Chairman of the French Department, Chairman of the Humanities Division and, for two years, as Chair of the Faculty. He was a member of the Modern Languages Association and of the American Association of University Professors. He retired from Grinnell College in 1992.