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The collection contains versions of The Ladies' Education Society's constitution and articles of incorporation, membership, minutes, reports, and accounting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The bulk of the materials are from Dennis Haas' tenure as chaplain with a few records from Roger Lee Eldridge's time. The files are generally in alphabetical order and contain chapel bulletins, budgets, and programs/speakers; files of college committees on which Haas served; files of liaison committees between the town and the college; numerous records of the Inner-City work study/seminar project from 1965-71; and historical information about Herrick Chapel and the people who used it.

In addition to attending to the religious needs of the college students, Grinnell College chaplains have been intimately and actively involved with social issues. Included in the collection are materials relating to Black students on the Grinnell campus, conscientious objectors and men seeking to avoid the draft, and an off-campus student coffeehouse. The Inner-City project may be an early example of Grinnell students caring for people less privileged than they and attempting to both learn about them and to assist them, much as students of the 1990s have participated in the I Have a Dream and the Alternative Break programs.

Grinnell College has had an active chapel program since the college began. In more modern times there was a dean of the chapel who functioned as chaplain. Winston L. King, also a professor of philosophy and religion, served from 1949-1962 and Howard Burkle, a professor of religion, was acting dean from 1958-60. In October 1963 Roger Lee Eldridge was installed as the first college chaplain, and he was succeeded in 1966 by Dennis Haas who served in that capacity until 1996. Both Eldridge and Haas were professors of religious studies. Deanna Shorb became chaplain upon Haas' retirement. Currently the Chaplain's Office is within the Office of Student Affairs; earlier in Mr. Haas' tenure it was independent and the chaplain reported to the president

The Center for Religion, Spirituality, and Social Justice is dedicated to fostering and celebrating a diversity of practice and opinion regarding religion, spirituality, culture, ability, disability, and social justice policy. They encourage and support engagement on our campus, in the broader Grinnell community and the global commons, in the form of dialogue, programming, and service.

Eight documents, mainly manuscripts, from late eighteenth to nineteenth century Haiti donated by Hugh Hagius.

Papers and records of various student organizations and projects.

Contains documents and memorabilia from Connie La Lena's first year at Grinnell College, as well as a Class of 1963 50th Reunion Directory. A pennant and beanie are housed in a separate box.

Nathan C. Haines (1912-1974) attended Officer Candidate School at Grinnell College in 1943.

Papers and records of various faculty departments.

From STAR*PAC's website: "STAR✦PAC was founded in 1980 in Des Moines. STAR✦PAC is a dedicated political action committee advocating on behalf of peace issues. Established at the peak of the Cold War, amid a perilous and costly nuclear weapons race; STAR✦PAC continues advocacy against the arms race and exorbitant military spending, and tackles many other foreign and military policy issues. " Read more at: https://www.starpac.org/

Two Grinnell College athletics t-shirts owned by Kim Gilbert '82.

Douglas Klein Papers contain various school publications, mostly from the years 1964-1970. The publications include the NOUS Literary Review, the Alumni S&B, misc. programs and directories, the High and Mighty, the Militant, the Second Battle of Chicago, various political flyers, the Grinnell Reporter, the Montage, and the Ptero. Besides the publications, the Douglas Klein Papers include calendars, student handbooks and the Grinnell Phi Betta Kappa directory, as well as "The Past of Our College" (1895) and the 1892 cyclone. They also contain the seminar notes "Ecology on Economics," as well as the first two draft's of Klein's Calculus textbook.

Laura E. Frith was a member of the class of 1915. She died in 1987.