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-"Roots of Prairie-Style Landscaping by Dr. William Tishler" 9/30/03
-Roots of Renewal Community Speakers Series: "Prairie Redux: Images of Renewal in the Midwest" by Dr. Joni Kinsey 11/3/03
-Roots of Renewal Community Speakers Series: "Global Forces, Immigration, and Living the American Dream in Iowa" by Dr. Anne Woodrick 11/10/03
-Roots of Renewal Community Speakers Series: "nostalgia vs. Realism: What Can We Learn from Images of Iowa in Popular Films?" 11/13/03
-The 9th Annual Local Foods Conference: Guest Speakers Robert Wolf and Tom Lacina 2/7/04
-What We Eat: Today's Industrial Food System: Problems and Solutions, "Power in the Food System: Who Has It?" by Mary Hendrickson 3/30/04
-What We Eat: Today's Industrial Food System: Problems and Solutions, "The Industrialization of Agriculture: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" by Fred Kirschenmann 3/30/2004
-What We Eat: Today's Industrial Food System: Problems and Solutions, "A Grounded Life: The Culture and Practice of Agrarianism" by Eric Freyfogel 3/31/04 -What We Eat: Today's Industrial Food System: Problems and Solutions, "Fighting for a New Food Future" by Andrew Kimbrell 3/31/04
-What We Eat: Today's Industrial Food System: Problems and Solutions, Scholars Convocation: "Globalization for Whom?" by Francis Moore-Lappee 4/1/2004
-What We Eat: Today's Industrial Food System: Problems and Solutions, "Rescuing Heirloom Farm Crops" by Kent Whealy 4/1/2004
-Center for Prairie Studies Open House, Moffett, Kessler, & Grinnell College Athletic Complex, 8/1/04
-Tour of Farms: Bryan and Donna Davis, Brent Schlenker 8/28/04
-Tour of Farms: The Cherry Creek Vineyard - Paul and Jean Groben 9/11/2004 -Prairie Walking Tour 4/19/2005

-TV-8 Interview with Grant Gale - 6 min.
-Grant's Talk for 1938 class reunion - 21 min.
-Grant Gale Museum Talk "From Masers to Lasers", 1976 (?), black and white, recovered from 3/4" tape - some video lost
-Grinnell College Department of Physics Museum I, 10/10/1986
-Touchstone 504 Robert Noyce, Thanksgiving 1986
-Physics Museum II
-Physics Museum III
-Sundial Completion, 8/15/90 Dedication Ceremony, 6/1/91
-Grinnell College Robert Noyce Commemoration
-Convocation 2/9/05 (Orig)
-Convocation 2/23/06 Dr. Nell Irvin Painter
-Between Here and There Spring Dance Concert 4/15/05, 4/16/05, 4/17/05
-Panel Discussion on Diversity, Spring 2005

-New Faces in Iowa. The Challenges and Prospects Created by Recent Immigration. Panel Discussion: "Iowa as Seen Through the Eyes of Newcomers" 11/7/01
-New Faces in Iowa: The Challenges and Prospects Created by Recent Immigration. Scholar's Convocation. 11/18/01
-New Faces in Iowa: The Challenges and Prospects Created by Recent Immigration. Lecture: Professor Mark Grey: The New Iowans: The Historic and Economic Context for Recent Immigration. 11/8/01
-New Faces in Iowa: The Challenges and Prospects Created by Recent Immigration. Panel: Challenges and Prospects. 11/8/01
-"The Changing Structure of Agriculture in Iowa" by Michael Duffy. Cosponsored by League of Women Voters. 2/25/02
-Wildflower Walk at CERA with Larissa Mottl 4/23/02
-"Mis"Perceiving our Native Ecosystem throught the Lens of English by Gerald Wilhelm, Vice President Conservation Design Forum. Elmhurst, IL 9/19/02
-A Walking Tour of the New Athletic Complex and Prairie Plants, Mike Burt and Larissa Mottl 10/4/02
-"The Present Status and Future Possibilities of Passenger Rail Travel in Iowa" by Henry Wulff, President, Railroad Passengers Association of Iowa 10/10/02
-American Dreamer: The Legacy of Henry A. Wallace in Agriculture & Progressive Politics. "A World of Abundance: The Vision of Henry A. Wallace." John Culver, Former US Senator. 11/13/02
-American Dreamer: The Legacy of Henry A. Wallace in Agriculture & Progressive Politics. Panel Discussion: "Wallace's Legacy for Agriculture." Panelists: William Ambrose, Arnold Lee, Frank Holdmeyer, & Eugene Lang 11/14/02
-American Dreamer: The Legacy of Henry A. Wallace in Agriculture & Progressive Politics. Panel Discussion: Wallace's Legacy for Progressive Politics. Panelists: Ed Fallon & Kent Newman. 11/14/02
-Center for Prairie Studies. "Habitat Restoration and Protection on Private Land." March 25, 2003.
-[label mostly gone] Community Speaker Series.
-Center for Prairie Studies. Prairie Plantings: Peter and Kathy Jacobson home and the Grinnell College Athletic Facility Complex. September 23, 2003.
-Center for Prairie Studies Program: Fall Prairie Walk at CERA. September 29, 2003.
-Center for Prairie Studies Program: Contemporary Prairie-Style Landscaping by Wayne Peterson. September 30, 2003.

Records for this farm are preserved in toto because they provide a description of various aspects of the farm economy in the 1930s. Correspondence of Lonnie and Hoarace Trees, brothers who farmed the land, L. V. Phelps, banks (much with Bankers Life), vendors, real estate agents contain considerable detail including: Livestock diseases, sales, prices, inventories of holdings Crops: first trials of hybrid corn (1937), sowing, harvesting, storage, marketing, disease control Building and equipment purchases and repairs Personal tragedies: death of Trees' son from typhoid August-Sept. 1937, auto accident April 1937 Finances: Trees' loans, prices for buying and selling livestock, seed and crops, expenditures. College's loans, mortage with Bankers Life, taxes, etc.

Grinnell College has had an active chapel program since the college began. In more modern times there was a dean of the chapel who functioned as chaplain. Winston L. King, also a professor of philosophy and religion, served from 1949-1962 and Howard Burkle, a professor of religion, was acting dean from 1958-60. In October 1963 Roger Lee Eldridge was installed as the first college chaplain, and he was succeeded in 1966 by Dennis Haas who served in that capacity until 1996. Both Eldridge and Haas were professors of religious studies. Deanna Shorb became chaplain upon Haas' retirement. Currently the Chaplain's Office is within the Office of Student Affairs; earlier in Mr. Haas' tenure it was independent and the chaplain reported to the president

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Box includes index cards containing student names and information.

Donation from James Norman Hall's granddaughter Cindy Overhardt, including correspondence of various family members, photos, negatives, VHS tapes, and various other items.