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Versions of "The Parsons Story"

(Preceeding folders) “The Parsons Story” reprinted from the Des Moines Sunday Register May 15 and May 22, 1966. Hall, John O.  Parsons College:  the Years of Change, 1965.  Mimeographed.  Folder 1:  The notes, correspondence, and manuscripts for Eugene K. Garber’s article, “The Rise and Fall of Parsons College."  Intended to be published in the Atlantic Monthly.  Also correspondence with G. Michael Curtis, editor at the Atlantic Monthly.  Folder 2:  Garber, cont.  Folder 3: Millard G. Roberts’ speech before the National Conference of State Legislative Leaders, November 11, 1965.

Correspondence

Folder 1: Crossett’s personal correspondence May 10, 1947-May 20, 1965. Folder 2: Crossett’s contract and correspondence regarding employment at Parsons, April/May 1962 Folder 3: Crossett’s correspondence with parsons Administration, September 29. 1962-April 18, 1966 Folder 4: Correspondence to and from “Dissident” group members (including Crossett) to outsiders after the “conditions” statement was released. One letter dated December 7 was not sent. December 7, 1962-June 18, 1968. Folder 5: Crossett’s post-resignation employment search, November 28, 1962 – February 6, 1963. Folder 6: Crossett's letters of recommendation - and some return mail - for resigning Parsons faculty (dissident group), January 22, 1963-March 18, 1963 Folder 7: Personal correspondence from dissidents to Grossett, February 1963 - April 18, 1966. Folder 8: Crossett’s correspondence and circulars to “Dissidents,” October 1963-November 25, 1964. All concerning conditions at Parsons Folder 9: Parsons College Faculty Constitution and By Laws (written after April 24, 1963) and Crossett’s correspondence regarding the new By Laws. Folder 10: Letters to and from Crossett, also from dissidents concerning parsons’ non-payment of TIAA-CREF annuities November 13, 1963 – December 19. 1963. Folder 11: Signe West Affair Correspondence December 1963 – March 1966. Possibly hired to spy on dissidents by Millard G. Roberts. Folder 12: Student protest letter to Newsweek. Undated Folder 13: Crossett’s correspondence with Grinnell Administration, November 22, 1965 – May 26, 1970.

Crossett’s papers, Parsons documentation, Grinnell Classics and Humanities division material

Folder 1: Crossett’s “Some Suggestions for Administering a College Designed to Teach Below Average Students” draft, unfinished. Folder 2: Crossett’s, write up on Associate program at Parsons College Folder 3: Writing on Ovid: typed copy of Giovanni Pansa’s Ovidio…; unsigned, unfinished typescript of a paper entitled “The earliest printed commentary on Ovid’s Amores”; unsigned, unfinished typescript of a paper entitled “The Exile of Ovid”’ typed copy of “a paper read before the Classical Association at Sheffield, January 3, 1913: ‘Ovid the Artist' " a few miscellaneous papers. Folder 3a: Crossett’s and McKibben’s translation of the prefaces to Liber Decem Missarum and Contrapunctus with letter from David Sutherland. Folder 3b: Studies on Greek Drama, script for dramatic presentation of Lysis by Nada Mangialetti (Grinnell ‘72) Folder 4: Miscellaneous undated memos, facetiae, etc. by Crossett Folder 4a: Crossett’s statement for Iowa Republicans, November 1965. Folder 5: Crossett’s advisees (Parsons) Folder 6: Newspaper clippings regarding Parsons 1962-1975 Folder 7: More clippings regarding Parsons. Folder 8: Crossett’s notes about conditions at Parsons. Folder 9: Crossett’s requests for Low Grade percentages and Responses to those requests, Crossett’s grade sheets, two class record book (all from Parsons) Folder 10: Material on colleges designed on the Parsons model. Folder 11: Papers from Humanities Division Education policy Division Grinnell College 1967-1969 Folder 12: Grinnell Classics Majors 1965-1968 Folder 13: Grinnell Classics Majors - comprehensive exam, reading syllabus.

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Faculty reports to Board of Trustees, 1890-1906, 1920.  In addition to topics covered in previous reports, these later faculty reports have annual summaries from the various departments, note curricular and faculty changes, athletic activities, needed building repairs and equipment; letter from women faculty requesting endowed chair.

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Prize funds, 1955-58 The American Bankers Assn. Fdn. for Education in Economics, 1942-58 Auction, 1958-60 Benger Fund, 1958-60 Behr Scholarship, 1961 Bleamaster Loan Fund, 1959-65 Baker Scholarship, 1957-61 Blue Cross, 1957-59 Benson and Christopherson, 1952-60 Arthur David Brody Loan Fund, 1959-61 Brody Scholarship, 1955-63 Paul Brother / Angus C. McDonald, 1942-49 Class of 1914 Student loan fund, 1914 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1920-78. Includes correspondence regarding retirement and disability benefits. Includes report from Grinnell College faculty to Trustees regarding alleged overpayments in disability and retiring allowances, ca. 1943. Lousia Sargent Conard Fund for the Advancement of Teaching, 1944-69 Concessions, 1956-57 Danforth Grant, 1959-61

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Mary I. Jarmen Scholarship, 1959 Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Fund, 1968 Knights Templar Educational Foundation (student loan), 1954-58 Lake Acre, 1954-64 Helen Betty Hornor Liljestrand Scholarship Fund, 1969-70 Lilly Endowment, 1959-61 Fred A. Little Scholarship Fund, 1967 Little, Fred A. Scholarship Fund, 1952-59 Macauley Trust, Elise Lennig. American Indian Scholarship, 1956-74 Elizabeth McCormick Fund, 1956 McNulty Scholarship, 1921 Mears, Mary Grinnell - Estate, 1935-36 Maltease Cross Fund, 1925-42 Maytag Loan Fund - now Sch. Fund, 1913-32 Merritt Credit Bureau Foundation, 1959-60 Meyers, Colonel - Scholarship Account, 1937 Molitor Spanish Fund, 1970 Noyes, LaVerne Scholarship, 1942-45 William Sterling Peirce Memorial Scholarship, 1962 Pickett and Hatcher Educational Fund, 1950-53 Pitcher, Arthur, 1956-59 Presser Scholarship, 1948-60 Priest, Dwight L. Scholarship, 1936-43

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Ramsey Insurance, 1955-62 Ray, W.G., Scholarship, 1914-50 Rawson Scholarship, 1922-42 Roberts, Fred M., 1954-60 Roberts, Fred M., 1949-51 Roberts, Fred M., 1951-53 Roberts, Fred M., 1943-48 James Norton Roberts Honorary Professorship, 1959-61 Rosenfield Lectureship, 1957 Salinger, Herman. 1954 German textbook, 1951-56 Science Building Reports, 1950-53 Student Loan (spratlen) L.F. Stenhouse Student Loan Fund, 1956 Strong Brothers Scholarship, Lucia G. Strong Estate, 1942-51 Mose E. Swartz Scholarship, 1968-71 Thompson, W.E., 1958-59 Tuttle Loan Fund, 1941 Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, 1954-60

Confidential

FY1990 -- Parents' Giving Reports, Open Pledges, ARH Donors, Class Reports FY1990 -- Campaign Giving Reports, Jan.-June 1990 FY1990 -- Campaign Giving Reports, July-Dec. 1989

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Abma, Jake, 1945 Abrams, Evelyn L., 1963-65 Agricultural Finance Inc., 1963-64 Alden, Ebenezer, 1883-98 Alford, Esme A., 1967-68 Alley, Mabel B., 1979-81 Allison Farm, 1915-57 Anderson, Thomas & Kathleen, 1952-63 Appleby, Annette, 1970-77 Appleby, Edith M., 1982 Appleby, Velma E., 1979 ARH - Bailey-Marsh Company, 1916 Armstrong Furnace Company, 1947-56 Arnold, Elena Troxel, 1983-86 Arnold, Melcenia E., 1932-34 Arnold, Myrtle, 1959 Atkinson, Ann E., 1893 Austin, Gertrude Bishop Phillips, 1961-63 Austin, Margaret J., 1912-54 Baggs, Joanna B. & George, 1908-23 Bailey, William D., 1953 Ballard Eagles Building, Inc., 1953-58 Ballard, Harriet L., 1984-85 Baltimore, R. Phillip, 1959 Barnes, Stephen G. & Hannah M., 1931-39 Barnet, Wells H., 1967 Baty, Elizabeth, 1960-61 Baylor, F.B., 1969

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Carleton, Charlotte C., 1919-20 Carlson, Randolph E., 1981 Chamberlain, Eliza A., 1902-03 Chamberlain, Mary, 1911-19 Chester township scholarship fund, 1908-17 Choska Alfalfa Mills, 1961-62 Christoph, Emily May, 1958 Christoph, Mildred B., 1982-84 Clapp, Charles, 1882 Clark, John C., 1905-44 Clark, Louise H., 1973-75 Clark, Theodore F., 1919-21 Clevenger, Edna Warren, 1954-72 Clifton, Cyril C., 1979 Cole, Gracia A., 1930-32 Cole, Phoebe A., 1945-46 Collins, Henry & Florence, 1915-39 Conard, Louisa S., 1976-84 Condit, Eliza B., 1921-30 Cooper, Samuel F., 1902-05 Crabb, David Ernest, 1953-57 Crabb, George M., 1957 Crandall, F.E., 1958 Crone, R. B. Emmet Farm, 1917-41 Crosby, James O., 1916-19 Crow, J.M., 1890-98 Cummings, Margaret D., 1957 Cunningham, Ethel, 1976-77 Curtis, Catharine, C., 1951 Cushman, Job, 1865 Dack, John W. & Nellie P., 1962-77

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Dimit, William C.. 1928-1952 Dodge, Joshua E., 1903 Dodson, J.C., 1950 Dorgan, Joseph M., 1976-79 Douglas, Eleanor Louise, 1955-74 Douglas, M.H., 1945-46 Drake, Frances Lee, 1986 Drasdo, Albert P., 1983 Edson, Lizzie S., 1925-26 1887 Alice Forry Fund, 1887-1910 1879 Library Fund Eller, Helen, 1986-1988 Ellis, Francis C., 1986 Ellis, Kate G., 1927 English, Esther K., 1964 English, John W., 1965 Ennis, C.W., 1919-52 Equitable Life Insurance Company, 1927-61 (2 folders) Erwin, Cornelius B., 1931-72 Fairground Property, 1945-61

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Henry, John M., 1966-78 Henshaw, Helen H., 1908-60 Herrick, S.H. and Harriet E., 1910-34 Herrick Chapel Fund, 1930-39 Hewitt, Edwin, 1966-75 Hill, Gershom H., 1920-27 Hill, Grace, 1961 Hill, James L., 1919-36 Hill, Julia F., 1971-73 Hinds, O.H., 1917-53 Holloway, Georgiana M., 1960-61 Holmes, Eugene D., 1945-48 Houghton, Frederick W., 1942-45 Hoyt, Agatha B., 1960 Howe, E.F., 1947-53 Hubbard, Pearl Kellogg, 1977 Huff Farm, 1926-45 Hull, Vira E., 1971 Hulshof, Agnes, 1985-86 Humphrey, Carleton, 1986-87 Hunt, Wilson P., 1925-48 Hurlbut, W.H., 1920-26 Hurr, A.A., 1929 Hurtz, Leonard E., 1952-61 International Nickel, 1948-52 (David Loose) Ingraham, Louise P., 1983-84 Iowa Foundation of Women's Club, 1912 Iowa Theatre Building

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James, Mary B., 1857-1935 (James Hall) Janes, Jennie W., 1939 Jarman, Mary I., 1924-64 Jeffrey, CeCelia, 1977 Jenkins, M.E., 1962-65 Jenness, Joe N., 1954 Jentzen, Henry H., 1908-37 Jones, Donald P., 1954-64 Jones, Mary G., 1982 Jones, Richard D., 1913-44 Jones, Ruth, 1949 Kaye, Vashti B., 1966 Kearney, Marjorie E., 1979 Kelsey, Elizabeth, 1967-73 Kersley, Alfred, 1916-44 Kiersted, Wynkoop, 1976 Kilgore, Cecil, 1985 Kimball, D.W., 1910 Kirk, Warren W., 1968-85 Kite, Nettie E. Ware, 1948 Kleinschmidt, Mrs. John R., 1969 Knesel, Howard, 1968-77 Knight, Eleanor S., 1977-78 Knight, Millie B., 1968-70 Knowlton, James A., 1975 Knox, John J., 1929 Kruidenier, Florence Cowles, 1985-86

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