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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-.

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.

Asa Turner established the first Congregational Church west of the Mississippi and became its pastor. Turner beckoned the Iowa Band to join him in what is now Grinnell Iowa in 1842.

Generation 0 - Gust C. and Elma Johnson Generation 1 - Henry and Merta Matlack, Allen and Elma Majors Generation 2 - David Matlack, Keith and Mary Davenport, Paul and Maggie Kiesel, Jane Rutherford, Henry and Laura Wieman, Robert and Connie Wieman, Henry Nelson Wieman's children Generation 3 - Jeff Rutherford, Jane Wieman, Henry Matlack Wieman, Derrith Rebecca Wieman, Ana Elizabeth Wieman,and Margaret Lucy Wieman.

Series 1 consists of items from Grinnell College Plat Maps, 1883-32, a display sponsored by Grinnell College as part of the College sesquicentennial celebration and curated by John Kleinschmidt, with assistance from Karla Niehus. It was displayed at the Grinnell Community Art Gallery November 22- December 13, 1996. Items included copies of Sanborn maps of Grinnell College area, photographs and captions, and descriptive material. Items are arranged in the box in the order in which they were displayed around the wall in the Community At Center. Each item is numbered on the verso. Some photographs came from Kleinschmid's personal collection. Other photos are from the College Archives and were filmed by Jack Robertson and printed by Midwest Photo Co. of Omaha. Most in the latter category have an Archive location number for the original indicated on the verso.

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