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Michael Cavanagh (1942-2017) was a professor of English at Grinnell College from 1971 to 2005.

Papers have been transferred to acid-free folders and given Mr. Jordan's labels.  Contents have not been sorted or arranged chronologically.  Obvious duplicate copies were discarded, as were faculty meeting minutes, which are available in the Archives, RG-F, series 1. Boxes 1.4 contain office files, arranged alphabetically by subject.  Boxes 5 and 6 contain papers relating to Grinnell or Iowa history.  Other student projects which Mr. Jordan supervised relating to college history are in RG-S, series 2.1.

2 boxes, donated by James Fudge, August 1999. This collection contains the office files of Dr. Fudge from 1966-1988. Included are letters of correspondence with other schools and directors, schedules, a few programs/fliers, and information about the music department and the singing groups. There is also one folder of miscellaneous off-campus programs and events related to James Fudge and his family. Box 1 contains the files from 1966 to 1985. Box 2 contains the remaining files up to 1988 and the miscellaneous folder.

Bill Ferguson is the Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at Grinnell College, where he has taught since 1989. He is the author of The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy (Stanford University Press, 2013). Both books advance the proposition that successful development requires resolving underlying collective-action problems. The earlier book begins with micro-level foundations of political economy and ends with macro-level attention to knowledge, distributions of power, institutions, and growth. The latter book extends these macro themes by focusing on how distributions of power shape configurations of institutions and associated types of collective-action problems that condition prospects for achieving functional political and economic development.

Professor Ferguson is past Secretary-Treasurer of the Midwest Economics Association and prior chair and founder of Grinnell’s Policy Studies Concentration. After graduating from Grinnell College in 1975, with a B.A. in history, he worked as a neighborhood community organizer in Seattle Washington until 1982, when he shifted to studying economics, receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1989. His teaching has ranged from institutional political economy, applied game theory, and policy analysis to labor economics, British economic policy, and climate policy. His early publications focused on the wage-productivity gap in the US economy and modeling implicit bargaining power in employment relationships. After 2008, he shifted to institutional political economy and development. While writing his 2013 book, he visited Indiana University’s Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, where he discussed his 2013 book manuscript with the late Elinor Ostrom. (From College website, 2022.)

Morris Parslow was born on March 24, 1922, in Williamston, Michigan. He attended Muskegon Junior College for one year and Albion College for one year. He transferred to St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. He was a freshman at St. John's when the U.S. entered World War II. He enlisted in the army in the summer of 1942 and was assigned to the Air Corps. Following his discharge in October, 1945, he resumed his studies at St. John's and received his B.A. in 1948. He went to France and studied French Literature for one year at Grenoble Universit' and for one semester at Strasbourg Universit'. Upon his admittance to Graduate School at Princeton University he returned to the U.S., earning his Ph.D. in 1954.

Dr. Parslow taught at the University of Chicago and at the Oyster Bay branch of New York State University before accepting a position at Grinnell College in 1962. There he rose to the rank of Full Professor and served as Chairman of the French Department, Chairman of the Humanities Division and, for two years, as Chair of the Faculty. He was a member of the Modern Languages Association and of the American Association of University Professors. He retired from Grinnell College in 1992.

Erik Sanning's office files, containing programs, pictures, notes and documents related to theater events since 1944

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

1 bound volume.  Prepared under the direction of Department Chair Daniel Kaiser.  The study was part of a departmental evaluation.