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Files from the Office of the President for faculty, administrators, and staff who left Grinnell (generally retired, resigned, or died) after 1917.  Papers may include correspondence, annual contracts, personnel information forms, curriculum vitae, letters of recommendation.  Other correspondence with some of these individuals may be in the papers of various college presidents.  Fires are arranged alphabetically by name in two series, the first covering 1917-1960, the second, 1960-.

Contains files from the President's Office from 1950-1980 spanning the administrations of Stevens, Bowen, Leggett, and Turner.

This collection consists of papers which came from academic departments to the Office of the President, either because the President was involved or for the President's information. Papers include correspondence, memos, press releases, course changes, course outlines, college catalog copy, building planning information, reports.

These files consist of cards containing information about deceased alumni. Occasionally there were also included: correspondence, clippings about the alumnus, and biographical and genealogical information. For most alumni, the cards are filed alphabetically together in a folder with others. A separate folder was made alumni for whom there is more substantive information; their names are listed below. Provenance: The files were transferred to the Archives in July, 1997. Alumni for whom substantive information is available: Adams, Henry Carter; Aldrich, Charles; Barber, Margaret Kyle; Bartlett Dana W.; Bennet, Lucy Clark; Blessin, Bessie Roberts; Boiler, Chester D.; Brewer, William F. & Mabel Booth; Burling, Edward B.; Clapp, Edward Bull; Clark, Eli P.; Conner, Dora; Crary, Arthur R.; Darby, John Fred; Edson, H.K.; Engelhorn, H.T; Evans, John V.; Fisher, C. Edward; Fleming, Florence; Frisbie, Charles B. & Evelyn Fisher; Frisbie, William A.; Gardner, Archibald K.; Gillin, John L.; Haines, Charles; Haines, Robert M. & Joanna Harris; Herriot, Frank I. & Mary Haines; Hill, James L.; Holsman, Henry K.; Huson, H.S.; Jones, Arthur J.; Jones, Marcus E. & Anna Richardson; Katayama, Sen J.; Kelsey, Carl; Kelsey, Elizabeth S.; Kent, Grace H.; Kille, Jessie; Kimberly, E. Grace; Laughlin, Mary Hollingshead; Leonard, Edward C.; Macy, Jesse; Marsh, Benjamin C.; McLaren, William G. ;Meigs, Julianna Burrell (Church); Meredith, Ernest C.; Nollen, Sara M.; Peck, Paul F. & Grace Parsons; Sanders, N. Edwin ;Shaw, Albert; Sherman, Edward M. & Mary Sherman; Shirk, George W.; Summers, Lee L. ;Thompson, Mr. Burt J.; Von Schrader, Mr. Frank O.; Waterman, Martha Parker (Herbert--DCD.); Willard, William A.; Williams, Miss Martha; Witt, May Foss; Wyckoff, Garret P.

Confidential. Includes staff records, procedure and job descriptions, personnel evaluations.

Provenance is vague: the films came to the Archives from the Development Office when the Fourth Avenue Office Building was vacated, March 1977, but most probably were produced and used by other offices.

Provenance: Sent to the Archives by Development Office Staff, 1996.