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Folders may include programs, press releases, memos to people involved with visiting lecturers, correspondence with speakers, speakers' vitae and biographies, texts of some lectures.  Files are arranged chronologically.

CONFIDENTIAL. Materials may be examined only with permission.

Study by Stuart Yeager conducted under the direction of Professor David Jordan.

Includes interviews with the following alumni: Anderson, Jocelyn Williams, class of 1961 Beyene, Elizabeth Turner, class of 1957 Boone, Lillian Nell, class of 1951 (Hampton Exchange student) Cadwell, Mary H., class of 1952 (Hampton Exchange student) Cannon, Claramarie Colbert, class of 1959 Chavis, Gregory, class of 1978 Farbes, Hubert, class of 1969 Frank, William, class of 1950 (Hampton Exchange student) French, Rebecca, class of 1930 (active in interracial affairs) Gary, Leiana Thomas, class of 1973 Gray, Jon, class of 1973 Green, Deborah, class of 1970 Kaiser, Elayne, Chapman, class of 1954 Kitchen, Gordon, class of 1925 Kpordze, C. S. Kojo, class of 1970 Lamb, Clifton, class of 1931 Lowry, James, class of 1961 Morgan Randall C., Jr., class of 1965 Oskamp, Stuart, class of 1951 (Hampton Exchange student) Piediscalzi, Nicholas, class of 1952 (Hampton Exchange student) Simmons, James, class of 1961 Smith, Edith Renfrow, class of 1937 Smith, Karen P. class of 1969 Steens, Harri Etta, class of 1976 Stewart, Donald, class of 1959 Swansey, Patricia, class of 1974 Taylor, Casey, class of 1973 Taylor, Leslie, class of 1981 Thomas, Frank, class of 1971 Tuck, Constance, class of 1975 Wilson, Marie Brito class of 1949 (Hampton Exchange student) Baker, Lowell, III, class of 1963 Carter, Gwendolyn, class of 1974 Cisco, Narda, class of 1970 Scott, Sybille Y., class of 1975 Smith, Edith Renfrow, class of 1937, (two interviews) Blacks connected with Grinnell: Flagg, Annozean, daughter of Whitefield McKinlay, class of 1882 Renfrow, Alice, sister of Edith Renfrow Smith, class of 1937

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

Dates not inclusive.

Two boxes conatining annual reports from 1921, 1928-1942.

Monthly debits and credits for college funds, arranged by academic year, then by types of funds, then by specific funds within the type. Some of the funds include chair, library, loans, memorials, prizes, scholarships, real estate and buildings, equipment, income from property and investments, gifts. Total of 30 vols. 1887 - 1943 in 11 vols. 16" x 10" 1957 - 1976 in 19 vols, 1 vol. per academic year, 14" x 10"

One bound volume, 16" x 10.5" Grinnell college Foundation Journal Pages, Feb. 1914 - Dec. 1917. Unbound journal sheets came to the Archives in a manila envelop with this label. 9" x 12" sheets, handwritten. Other Foundation jouranls and ledgers are in RG-T, Ser. 1.6, microfilm rolls 28-29.

Presidents Bowen's and Leggett's memos to Trustees, many providing background information for the coming meeting; reports; financial statements; minutes of meetings; Trustee by-laws.  Some topics covered include: Admissions Policy (1957), Darby oil properties (ca. 1959), North Central Association accreditation report (March 1958), Faculty salaries (1960), Reserved income Gift Program (tax aspects, 1960), Future physical education program (1960), fund-raising planning (1961), long-range building plans (1961), Science instruction (march, 1962), Faculty Council on Student Affairs report (May, 1963), Carnegie Corp grant application: developments at Grinnell (Jan. 1963), Archambault report on year-round operation (Sept. 1963), Stauss: housing needs (1964), opening academic year statements to aculty and students (1964), women's dormitories (1964), Ford Foundation: report, statistical summary (July, 1966), Enrollment goals and housing memos, reports, recommendations (March, 1966, Oct. 1967, Feb. 1968), Women's dorm hours, )Feb. 1967), "Manual for alumni representatives of Grinnell College" (Nov. 1967), North Central Association accreditation team report (July 1968), "Black student and Grinnell College" (Arpil 1969), Articles about campus disorders (1969), Student participation in college governance, talk by Leggett (Sept 1969), "Small private college" by Leggett (Sept. 1969), Henry Wilhelm libel charge against College (Aug. 1967, 1969), Role of the chaplain at Grinnell College (June 1970), Statements on closing college in May 1970 (Fall 1970), CBS Black student housing proposal (March 1970?), Voertman report on faculty salaries (Sept. 1970), Kleinschmidt report on closing the College (1970), Opening assembly statements by Beryl Clotfelter, Chair of the Faculty, Shelly Floyd, Pres. of SGA (Aug. 1971), Walker, "Financial state of the College" (Sept. 1971), Verrette interim budget priority planning report (May 1971), Synopsis of data on Black Student performance 1964-1971 (report by Voertman (Sept. 1971), Multi-racial community memos and statements (Aug, 1972, June 1972, April 1973), Report on college physical plant by Hawn (Oct. 1972), Administrative structure, chart (Sept. 1972), Dawson, "Student power at Grinnell" (April 1973), College seal (May 1973), Statements on multi-racial community by Kimbo, Reid-Wallace, Lytle, John Okumu, Laura Okumu (June 1973), "Summary description of program to revitalize teaching of humanities" (Aug. 1973).