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Surveys/Statistics; Reports from outside organizations with data about Grinnell College; Grinnell responses to requests for statistics from outside organizations. ca. 1973-88 Includes: College Scholarship Service of the College Board (CSS), 1979-86. ACT class profile service reports 1983-87. Iowa PSAT/NMSQT summary 1979-80. Council for Financial Aid to Education 1973-79. Chronicle of Higher Education surveys of financial aid 1982-84. IPEDS 1987 HEGIS (US Dept of Education) 1982. NCAA survey 1987. Wooster suvey of baccalaureate origins of doctorate recipients in psychology 1920-80.

Essays, sermons, addresses (ca. 55). Some dated in 1930’s, most undated. Manuscript (holograph and typescript) of unidentified work or works. 3 folders, various pagings. Honors and awards presented to Professor Conard. 1906-56.

[Items are from the Science Building, deposited by Ben Graham in November 1995] “Preliminary notes on a probable new species of Taenia from the common fowl,” Theses for A.M. degree, Haverford College, June 1895. (18 leaves). Also a paper on the locomotion of a cestode embryo. (17 leaves). Holograph in a notebook. Plants of Iowa. Corrections for the 1961 edition. Vegetation of Iowa. 1965. Typed manuscript with original photographs and maps. Typescript. Also typescript of a later version.

Scrapbook contents: Land grant from Pres. James Monroe to James C. Smith for a tract in Illinois, 1817 [letter in code/shorthand/?] Commission to Samuel F. Cooper as U.S. Consul from Queen Victoria, 1876 Partial record of a minister’s meeting, 1799 New Hampshire Gazette, Oct. 7, 1756 [facsimile], 1856 Shipping document, 1715 Handwritten pamphlets, 1715? Photograph of original of “America” “One of two sermons preached at his own ordination by Nathaniel Sparhawk, Lyn End, Mass., 1720 “And if the righteous scarcely be saved...” [handwritten pamphlet], 1791 Letters tied together/or diary from Newburg Port, 1772-80? Letter to James Cummings from Benjamin Allen, 1821 A bond, Barrow to Fantleroy, 1731 Letter to Rev. Jesse Appleton (Pres., Bowden College?), 1803 Bill of merchandise, 1724 Letter to Wm. Pepperell, 1729 A commercial letter to Wm. Pepperell, 1746 Warrant for wages, 1778? Letter from Joel Barlow, 1785 Receipt, 1805 [Diary, 1766?] Notebook, 1813-40? Letter or notes in code/shorthand/? [Notes], 1729 Handwritten pamphlet, No. 18, 1724 [Rev. Ebenezer Parkman?] Notes of Joseph Buckminster, 1774-80? Notes of Rev. Chas. G. Finney Lancaster: Francis Bailey, 1777. (owned by Lyman Whiting) N.B. The “Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states...” are cataloged and shelved at: KF4508 1777

7 folders and one envelope

1. First Congregational Church in Grinnell at present location; also school. 2. Later school enlarged. Church with bell added. 3. Sunday church services in Grinnell. 4. J.B. Grinnell home in block across from Central Park (house moved to 720 _ Broad ca. turn of century, demolished in 1980s). 5. High School, Fourth Avenue between Broad and Park. 6. Same. 7. Old Stone Congregational Church, replaced first church at Fourth and Broad. 8. Broad and Fourth, opposite Central Park. 9. West side of Main Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues looking north 10. “Shooting ducks” with Ed Brande, corner Main and Fourth, east side. 11. First McNally’s store, present location of Eckerman’s Jewelry (915 Main St.) 12. Inside McNally’s store about 1907. 13. Southeast corner Fourth and Main, present site of Elks building. 14. Same, looking east on Fourth Avenue. 15. Looking south from Fourth on Main St. 16. From Central Park, northwest corner Commercial Street and Broad, 1907. 17. Central Park, corner Fourth and Broad. 18. Co-op delivery service, south side of Fourth Avenue, between Main and West Street. 19. Same. 20. Fourth Avenue north side. Early movie house to left. 21. Co-op delivery stables, later Ford garage (now gone). 22. Northeast corner Fourth and Main. 23. Northwest corner Fourth and Main. 24. Spanish-American company 1898, Main Street south of Fourth Avenue. 25. Main Street south of Fourth Avenue; buildings demolished; now (1983) a parking lot. 26. Looking east on Fourth Avenue and West intersection. Spaulding car. 27. Central Park looking west. (1930's?) 28. Broad Street from Fourth, looking north. 29. Northwest corner Fourth and Main. 30. Southwest corner Fourth and Broad. 31. Looking west on Fourth between Park and Broad; High School and Congregational Church to right. 32. Broad Street north of Fourth. 33. East side of Broad; Norris livery stables, now Post Office. 34. Stewart Library and north end of Congregational Church. 35. Stewart Library, old high school in rear. 36. Present site of Post Office after Norris livery stables and before Post Office was built, before 1916. 37. Broad Street north of Stewart Library, before Post Office built. 38. Paving Broad Street; library, Congregational Church, and Methodist Church in rear. 39. North side of Commercial Street buildings, now gone. 40. City water work, Main and First Avenue. 41. National Guard Armory, World War I, 1028 Fourth Avenue, south side. 42. Grinnell fire of 1889: started by sparks from a train, burned blocks between Broad and Main south of railroad tracks to FourthAvenue. 43. After the fire of 1889, looking northeast from railroad tracks. [alley between Broad and Main] 44. Central Park: temporary buildings erected for businesses which were destroyed by fire of 1889. 45. Park Hotel. Southwest corner of Commercial and Broad. Livery service buggy to railroad depot and drays for trunks. 46. Same. 47. Park Hotel with chimneys of city heating plant in background. This plant furnished steam heat for downtown and college. 48. First Rock Island depot, looking east. 49. Rock Island depot, looking east, with passenger train crossing north on Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad. 50. Looking east to depot. Chapin House in foreground. Chapin House built in 1876, located east of Broad in small park west of depot. Here James Norman Hall worked for his room and board while attending Grinnell College. 51. Chapin House. 52. Rock Island depot (possibly in the Fall when students were returning to college with their trunks on baggage carts.) 53. Rock Island depot. 54. Steam train, east-bound. 55. Last of the trains on Rock Island. 56. Monroe Hotel, corner Park and Third, across from depot. 57. Monroe Hotel with a gazebo in foreground where Chapin House once stood. 58. Lobby of Monroe Hotel. 59. Monroe Hotel in 1970s before demolition. 60. Spaulding buggy factory. 61. Inside Spaulding plant, showing the auto frames. 62. Arbor Lake about 1915. 63. Laros buggy factory, northeast corner of Fourth and spring. 64. Laros buggy factory across from Spaulding factory (north). 65. South side of Central Park with early bandstand. 66. Fourth and Broad, before Memorial Building. 67. Central Park with bandstand (now gone) on east side. Old Baptist Church in background and Brande apartments. 68. Foster and Bailey Implement Store, south side of Commercial Street before fire of 1889. 69. Fourth Avenue between Broad and Main, looking east, before snow plows. 70. Broad Street between Fourth and Fifth with center parking (1961). 71. Main and Fifth, southwest corner, Colonial Opera House, later a movie theater, demolished in 1970's. 72. Parker Grade School, south side of Sixth and Spring (demolished). 73. Old Baptist Church, Fourth and Park, just before demolition. 74. Grinnell College campus, Men’s Gym (became Women’s Gym ca. 1942) 75. First Friends Church, north on Sixth Avenue (demolished?) 76. North side Commercial Street 77. John Manly home, Fifth and High (demolished) 78. Depression days of the 1930s, a merchant’s promotion with drawings for free merchandise. 79. Oldest veteran’s grave in Hazelwood Cemetery. 80. Early transportation on trek west. Scene may be at corner of Park and Fifth.

Photographs: Florence Kerr, ca. 1940; WPA projects, 1930s; Robert Kerr; Harry Hopkins; Grinnell alumni, 1962.

Robert Kerr correspondence. ca. 1945-57. Correspondents include Art Kemble, Paul Meyers, F.W. Tomasek, Arthur Kemble, Lee Stewart, Fred and Dorothy __?___, and others. Folder 3: letters from Europe to Mrs. Kerr describing post-World War II conditionsOther Items

General syllabi, 1973-1975.

Presidential search 1979 (Ron Kurtz, Chair, Faculty Committee for selection of a new president). Includes memos, correspondence, vitae, rankings and evaluations of candidates. Separate folder for each of the final candidates: Drake, Penney, Breneman, and Sullivan. Dean search 1979-1980 (papers of search committee for dean of the faculty). Includes rankings and evaluations of candidates, candidates' vitae, progress reports on the search, duties of the dean. Budget committee, 1975-1980. Comparative statistics, salary recommendations, memos.

Course syllabi, 1984-1985. Descriptions of courses, syllabi, reading lists for courses in the REES program. REES public events notices, 1983-1985. Soviet Teachers of English visit, June-August, 1987. Correspondence, memos, schedules, clippings. Contemporary Russian Literature Conference, November 1987. Correspondence, memos, schedules. Gorbachev invitation to Grinnell, September-December 1987. Background memo, correspondence, clippings. Soviet visitors to Grinnell, 1988-1989. Alexander and Olga Kjomenko, students. Clippings, lists, etc.

Committee papers, 1987-1992. Correspondence, memos, budgets and expenditures, meeting minutes. The 1991-1992 folder includes Grinnell-Herzen Exchange Proposal, October 1991.

USSR study tours, 1983-1991. Correspondence, memos, reading lists, forms, travel information, photographs.

Folder 5: News releases from Parsons College, December 1, 1962 – February 6, 1963 (some undated). Folder 6: Minutes from Humanities Division, June 20, 1962-Septenber 21, 1962. Folder 7: Minutes of the Meeting of the Faculty Senate, May 21, 1962-october 15, 1962 Folder 8: Minutes of the Council of Deans, June 16, 1962 – January 15, 1963 Folder 9: AAUP minutes, reports, constitution, bylaws, 1962-63 Folder 10: Fairfield news clippings 1966-1967 Folder 11: Better Education for Less Money, transcript of speech given by President Millard Roberts, May 15, 1963 Folder 12: “Institutional Climate at Parsons College,” January 20, 1967. Office of Institutional Research, Parsons College. Folder 13: “Tutorial Assistance in College Core Courses, “, by E. Martin Etters, Director of Institutional Research, Parsons College. Handwritten note states that it is to be published in Journal for Educational Research. Folder 14: “Instructional and Low Grade Comparison,” Occasional Report #2. Office of Institutional Research, Parsons College, August 25, 1965. Folder 15: “Attrition at Parsons College 1950-1965 (Preliminary Data),” Office of Institutional Research, Parsons College, April 12, 1966. Folder 16: “Profile of Parsons Graduates February 1965-February 1966 (Preliminary Data),” Office of Institutional Research, April 11, 1966. Folder 17: “Enrollment Trends During the Trimester period 1960-1965,” Occasional Report #5. Office of Institutional Research, Parsons College, January 5, 1966. Folder 18: “Bivariate tables, Parsons profile Fall 1964-Fall 1965 (June 24, 1966) Folder 19: Office of the President. “The Planning Phase/Reorganization/Results of the Reorganization.” Probably compiled in 1958 or 1958. Folder 20: Parsons College annual report for 1958