North campus furniture inventory
Large binder, equipment ledger, with 4.5" x 10" card for each item. Gives description of item, value, vendor from whom purchased. Arranged by dorm, then by area (lounge, hostess suite, student rooms, also Cowles dining room).
One bound volume, 14" x 9.5", typescript Articles of Incorporation, Nov. 10, 1913. 5 unnumbered pages. Minutes of the Grinnell college Foundation. Jan2, 1914 - July 21, 1952, pgs. 1-113. Minutes of the first meeting include By-Laws of the Grinnell Foundation, pgs. 1-7. Minutes of the Farm Committee. Feb. 1, 1916-Dec. 3, 1917, pgs. 317-334. Minutes of the Executive Committee. July 20, 1914-June 10, 1940, pgs. 403-530. Loose papers inserted in front of the volume: typed copy of articles of incorporation and by-laws; also correspondence and waiver and notices of assent, 1944.
Lists and register of bond holders.
One bound volume, 16" x 10.5" Grinnell college Foundation Journal Pages, Feb. 1914 - Dec. 1917. Unbound journal sheets came to the Archives in a manila envelop with this label. 9" x 12" sheets, handwritten. Other Foundation jouranls and ledgers are in RG-T, Ser. 1.6, microfilm rolls 28-29.
Heritage Cablevision Association of Dallas
3 volumes of legal papers dealing with Heritage Cablevision Associates of Dallas acquisition of Dallas cable television systems and Grinnell's investment, November 1985
Among the topics addressed are: Dan Blachley estate: 1971, Jan and Aug. 1972 Walnut St. property (Younker endowment) in Des Moines: 1971, 1972 (JC Penney lease termination), Feb. 1973 Intel stock purchases: 1971, July and Aug. 1973 Grant Gale re: sundail, Oct. 1970 Correspondence re: various college-owned real estate (especially farms) scattered through the file, not 1972, 1973 College tax exemptions, scattered through the file Bio Preserve, Jasper County (CERA): April-May 1968, April 1972 (dam construction) TIAA, 1967 Donations to the college scattered through the file Heating plant construction loan, 1967 Auditor's annual letters Roberts' President's Fund gift, April 1967 Correspondence re: Communications Dept. March 1973 Correspondence with Trustees on a variety of topics, often college inverstments and gifts scattered through the file.
Vol. 1: Various funds, arranged by fund then alphabetically by student. 1922-1941 Vol. 2: Johnson Loan fund 1926-1940. Arranged alphabetically by student Vol. 3: Maltese Cross Loans. ca. 1926-1942. Arranged alphabetically by student.
Consists of correspondence between L. V. Phelps, College Trasurer, and the Carnegie Foundation.
Correspondence with vendors on stokers, boilers and other equipment; building construction; law suit with lumber company over nonpayment of bills. correspondence with Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson, Des Moines, architects
Housing report, dorm and music building repairs
Correspondence, 1946-1948. Includes a one-page biographical sketch of Mrs. Loose by a Maquiketa friend, 1946. 3 small blueprints in oversize file (RG-T ser. 4.10). They are not labeled Loose Hall.