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Cornell University. Letters, 1927-1981, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1927-1981, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from various members of the administration and faculty of Cornell University.

ArchivalResource: 10 items (11 l.).

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Cornell University. Counsel. Cornell University Counsel records, 1921-2009.

Title: Cornell University Counsel records, 1921-2009.

Files of the University Counsel's Office include records relating to Weill Cornell Medical College, student employment, the Army Training Program, 1943-1946; student housing, 1954-1959; and real estate transactions, funds and scholarships, contracts, wills and estates, and other legal papers. Also, faculty personnel matters referred to legal counsel; contracts between James A. Perkins and Cornell University, 1963-1970; and correspondence of the University President, Board of Trustees and others regarding the 1969 Challenge to Governance. Also, alphabetical office subject files, 1948-1996.

ArchivalResource: 178 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64073775 View

Fischer, John Sylvester, 1910-1978. John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Title: John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Family and general correspondence, subject files, writings, diaries and memorabilia. The general correspondence makes up nearly half the papers, documenting Fischer's professional career. As editor of Harper's Magazine (1935-1967) with time out as an editor of Harper & Brothers (1947-1953) he numbered many prominent writers among his correspondents. Notable are Bruce Catton, Norman Cousins, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm Foster, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Gardner, Brendan Gill, Walter Kerr, Irving Kristol, Henry Luce, Willie Morris, Reinhold Niebuhr, Milo Perkins, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schlesinger, Barbara Tuchman, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Tom Wolfe and C. Vann Woodward. The correspondence also reflects his political activities, including his involvement in the presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson (as speechwriter) and John F. Kennedy. Political figures with whom Fischer corresponded include Maury Maverick, William Blair, Newton Minnow, Willard Wirtz, Dean Acheson, Carl Albert, Chester Bowles, McGeorge Bundy, Frank Church, J. William Fulbright, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javits, Lyndon Johnson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Edmund Muskie, Nelson Rockefeller, Dean Rusk and Harry Truman. Family correspondence also reflects his political interests, and many of these letters discuss such events as Roosevelt's policies, and impressions of Germany and the Saar plebiscite where he was a reporter for the United Press in 1935. In the 1940s he wrote on the Ukraine and India, which he visited as chief representative of the Board of Economic Warfare. Much of the material in his subject files reflects his career in government with the Farm Security Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration as well as his research on political problems while a visting fellow at Yale University. Writings include a portion of his articles, books and speeches. Journals are extant for his school years (1925-1934) and there are also later travel journals (1943-1975) which are largely political. Also in the papers are photographs, clippings, and biographical sketches.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear ft. (60 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153805 View

Challenge to Governance Project records, 1969-1970.

Title: Challenge to Governance Project records, 1969-1970.

Correspondence, transcripts of interviews, minutes, statements, broadsides, photographs, clippings, and other materials pertaining to civil rights activism and the work of various groups at Cornell to alter the institution's governing structure.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA01309.xml View

James A. Perkins papers, 1941-1990.

Title: James A. Perkins papers, 1941-1990.

Papers relating to James Perkins' career before coming to Cornell; speeches and articles; files relating to his inauguration as Cornell's president; files relating to activities at Cornell, including the events of 1969; subject files relating to other activities; a few photographs and personal letters; and certificates and honorary degrees.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA03158.xml View

Dale R. Corson papers, 1963-1977.

Title: Dale R. Corson papers, 1963-1977.

The Dale R. Corson papers consist of office files, correspondence, and other material deriving chiefly from his provostship (1963-1969) and presidency of Cornell University (1963-1977). The papers illustrate the Corson administration reconstituting the University following the trauma of the 1969 student revolt and the negative publicity following the takeover of Willard Straight Hall; dealing with anti-war demonstrations and protests relative to other social and local issues; and surviving the university fiscal crisis of the early and mid 1970s.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA01665.xml View

Cornell University. Office of University Relations. Cornell presidents' speeches, 1961-1979.

Title: Cornell presidents' speeches, 1961-1979.

Transcripts of speeches by Cornell University presidents Frank Rhodes, Dale Corson, and James Perkins.

ArchivalResource: 2.6 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74898405 View

James Perkins papers, 1963-1969.

Title: James Perkins papers, 1963-1969.

The papers of James A. Perkins consist of correspondence, reports, administrative management forms and records, drafts of speeches, correspondence, notes of telephone conversations, memoranda for the record, substantive inter-office notes and memos, commission reports, departmental reports to the President, tape recordings, transcripts, broadsides, a phonodisc, and letters received by the President's Office concerning the events on campus in the Spring of 1969

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA01022.xml View

Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998. James Alfred Perkins papers, 1955-1998.

Title: James Alfred Perkins papers, 1955-1998.

Correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, minutes, reports, and printed matter, relating to education in the United States and other countries, especially developing countries, education in internationalism, and foreign language studies in the United States.

ArchivalResource: 70 ms. boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122384036 View

Jones, Thomas Wade, 1949-. Thomas W. Jones papers, 1980-1994.

Title: Thomas W. Jones papers, 1980-1994.

Photocopy of letter from Tom Jones to James Perkins, July 18, 1980; letter from Neal Stamp to Gould Colman relating to Jones' letter, May 4, 1984; and Colman's response, May 11, 1984. Also, a speech consisting of reflections on the 1969 Straight takeover.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64073794 View

Cornell University. Libraries. Challenge to Governance Project. Challenge to Governance Project records, 1969-1970.

Title: Challenge to Governance Project records, 1969-1970.

Correspondence, transcripts of interviews, minutes, statements, broadsides, photographs, clippings, and other materials pertaining to civil rights activism and the work of various groups at Cornell to alter the institution's governing structure. Also videotape of Barton Hall Assembly meeting, 5/2/1969.

ArchivalResource: 5.1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63934748 View

Cornell University. Presidential inauguration programs, 1867-2003.

Title: Presidential inauguration programs, 1867-2003.

Programs for inauguration ceremonies of Cornell University presidents; includes invitations, congratulatory certificates, and guest lists from the inauguration of Frank H. T. Rhodes, November 10, 1977. Also includes programs for Andrew Dickson White, Charles Kendall Adams, Jacob Gould Schurman, Livingston Farrand, Edmund Ezra Day, Deane W. Malott, Dale R. Corson, James Alfred Perkins, Hunter Ripley Rawlings III, and Jeffrey S. Lehman. Includes an inaugural program for Hunter Rawlings signed by Rawlings, Rhodes, Corson, Perkins, and Malott.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64072811 View

Dorf, Philip. Philip Dorf papers, 1952-1977.

Title: Philip Dorf papers, 1952-1977.

Includes letters to Dorf concerning THE BUILDER from Allan Nevins, James A. Perkins, Eva Thomas, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Frank Rhodes; a letter from Dorf to Edith Fox recalling visits to Frederic Treman Johnson and Liberty Hyde Bailey; "scrapbook" of clippings, reviews, and letters relating to Dorf's biography of Liberty Hyde Bailey, 1956. Also, Columbia recording, 78rpm, "Cornell," sung by Cornell Glee Club, ca. 1925.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64074630 View

John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980

Title: John Sylvester Fischer papers 1907-1980

Family and general correspondence, subject files, writings, diaries and memorabilia. The general correspondence makes up nearly half the papers, documenting Fischer's professional career. As editor of (1935-1967) with time out as an editor of Harper & Brothers (1947-1953) he numbered many prominent writers among his correspondents. Notable are Bruce Catton, Norman Cousins, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm Foster, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Gardner, Brendan Gill, Walter Kerr, Irving Kristol, Henry Luce, Willie Morris, Reinhold Niebuhr, Milo Perkins, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schlesinger, Barbara Tuchman, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Tom Wolfe and C. Vann Woodward. The correspondence also reflects his political activities, including his involvement in the presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson (as speechwriter) and John F. Kennedy. Political figures with whom Fischer corresponded include Maury Maverick, William Blair, Newton Minnow, Willard Wirtz, Dean Acheson, Carl Albert, Chester Bowles, McGeorge Bundy, Frank Church, J. William Fulbright, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javits, Lyndon Johnson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Edmund Muskie, Nelson Rockefeller, Dean Rusk and Harry Truman. Family correspondence also reflects his political interests, and many of these letters discuss such events as Roosevelt's policies, and impressions of Germany and the Saar plebiscite where he was a reporter for the United Press in 1935. Harper's Magazine

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet (60 boxes, 1 folio)

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Corson, Dale R. Dale R. Corson papers, 1963-1977.

Title: Dale R. Corson papers, 1963-1977.

The Dale R. Corson papers consist of office files, correspondence, and other material deriving chiefly from his provostship (1963-1969) and presidency of Cornell University (1963-1977). The papers illustrate the Corson administration reconstituting the University following the trauma of the 1969 student revolt and the negative publicity following the takeover of Willard Straight Hall; dealing with anti-war demonstrations and protests relative to other social and local issues; and surviving the university fiscal crisis of the early and mid 1970s. Subjects include long range financial planning, the endowment fund, relations with trustees, and the improved functioning of the university administration; also, relations with trustee special committees and the many formal and ad hoc university committees, social responsibility and investment policy, the cultivation of alumni support, relations with the University Faculty, relations with the New York State College of Agriculture, the New York State College of Human Ecology, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Cornell University Medical College, the School of Nursing, the Center for International Studies, the Center for Environmental Quality Management, the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, the Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory, the Human Affairs Program, and the Society for the Humanities; the collection also documents the separation of Cornell and the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, and the growth of the Division of Biological Sciences. Other subjects include the controversy surrounding Cornell United Religious Work and the role of Daniel Berrigan, the investigation of the Safety Division, the involvement of university employees in decision making and grievance procedures, the problems of parking and space needs, the issue of minority hiring on university construction projects, the building of the Campus Store, North Campus Dormitories, and several other facilities, the development of the Dept. of Physical Education and Athletics and intercollegiate athletics generally, and the investigation of Cornell by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The papers show the growth of the Personnel Dept. and the reorganization of the central administration, and the relations between Cornell and the Ivy League and other colleges, and with several educational and philanthropic foundations, including the American Council on Education, the Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York, the American Association of University Professors, the Ford Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation. Similar files are concerned with university research and government funded research, and with relations with state and federal governments and corporations such as IBM and Xerox. Topics also include academic freedom and the rights and responsibilities of the University Faculty, representative governance, the University Senate, the Faculty Council of Representatives, and the Office of the Judicial Administrator. Other subjects include the development of the Affirmative Action Program, the Africana Studies and Research Center, Ujamaa Residential College, and the associated difficulties arising from HEW guidelines pertaining to the college, and the needs of non-black minorities and international students. Other topics include the emergence of women's issues and programs, including the Women's Caucus, the Women's Studies Program, and the Committee on the Status of Women; student dissent, protest, and demonstration, and the administration's several means of dealing with them. There is ample documentation of the takeover of Carpenter Hall in 1972, and the vandalism on campus and in Collegetown; the administration's response to the use of drugs and the changing deportment of students, to the new attitudes concerning commencement, and to the demands and interests of several student groups, including Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Another issue is the involvement of students in matters of educational relevance, and the appearance of controversial speakers on campus. Major correspondents include Morton Adams, J. Robert Barlow, Mark Barlow, Max Black, Derek C. Bok, Ernest L. Boyer, Stuart M. Brown, Patricia J. Carry, Lisle C. Carter, Van Alan Clark, W. Donald Cooke, Edmund T. Cranch, H. Justin Davidson, Arthur H. Dean, Mary H. Donlon (Alger), Thomas Gold, Henry Guerlac, William D. Gurowitz, Jackson O. Hall, David B. Hayter, Delridge Hunter, Herbert F. Johnson, Alfred E. Kahn, and Robert J. Kane. Other correspondents include William R. Keast, John G. Kemeny, W. Keith Kennedy, David C. Knapp, Samuel A. Lawrence, Paul J. Leurgans, Harry Levin, Sol M. Linowitz, Franklin A. Long, Thomas W. Mackesey, Deane W. Malott, Paul L. McKeegan, Robert D. Miller, Robert S. Morison, Steven Muller, Floyd R. Newman, Benjamin Nichols, Jansen Noyes, Nicholas H. Noyes, Ewald B. Nyquist, Robert D. O'Brien, John M. Olin, Spencer T. Olin, Charles E. Palm, Kermit C. Parsons, Norman Penney, James A. Perkins, Arthur H. Peterson, Robert A. Plane, Robert W. Purcell, Richard M. Ramin, Gustav J. Requardt, Robert F. Risley, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Thomas R. Rogers, Byron W. Saunders, Andrew S. Schultz, Robert A. Scott, Alain Seznec, Robert L. Sproull, Neal R. Stamp, Thomas L. Tobin, James E. Turner, Henry G. Vaughan, J. Carlton Ward, John H. Whitlock, Philip Will, Diedrich K. Willers, L. Pearce Williams, and Theodore P. Wright. Also included is a photocopy of the typewritten third draft of "Confrontation at Cornell," a contemporary report by Computer Science professor Peter Wegner on the student protests of the spring of 1969 and the issues faced by Cornell and other universities at that time.

ArchivalResource: 135.3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63948875 View

Cornell University. Center for International Studies. Ford Foundation proposal, 1966.

Title: Ford Foundation proposal, 1966.

Entitled "A Request for Long-Range Support for International Studies," a grant proposal to the Ford Foundation from the Center for International Studies, with a cover letter from Cornell University President James A. Perkins, dated October 12, 1966.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64072776 View

James A. Perkins papers, 1941-1990.

Title: James A. Perkins papers, 1941-1990.

Papers relating to James Perkins' career before coming to Cornell; speeches and articles; files relating to his inauguration as Cornell's president; files relating to activities at Cornell, including the events of 1969; subject files relating to other activities; a few photographs and personal letters; and certificates and honorary degrees.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA03158.xml View

Goldsmith, L. Michael. L. Michael Goldsmith papers, 1969.

Title: L. Michael Goldsmith papers, 1969.

Correspondence, collected subject files, newspaper clippings, posters and ephemera collected by a Cornell student in 1969 pertaining to the Willard Straight Takeover. Includes correspondence from James Perkins, Cornell University President at the time.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64750248 View

McKeegan, Paul L.,. File on James A. Perkins, 1963-1971.

Title: File on James A. Perkins, 1963-1971.

Correspondence and other papers accumulated by Paul L. McKeegan, Director of the Budget at Cornell University, regarding the employment and resignation of Cornell President James A. Perkins.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64073418 View

Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998. Reminiscences of James Alfred Perkins : oral history, 1968.

Title: Reminiscences of James Alfred Perkins : oral history, 1968.

Differences between Carnegie Corporation and Rockefeller Foundation; the civil-military program; the Foundation Library Center; impressions of Charles Dollard, John Gardner, Russell Leffingwell.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 64 leaves.Tape: 2 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122527217 View

Cornell University. Office of the Registrar. Cornell University Office of the Registrar miscellany, 1913-1968, 1962-1968 (bulk).

Title: Cornell University Office of the Registrar miscellany, 1913-1968, 1962-1968 (bulk).

Collection includes a summary of both undergraduate and graduate annual degree awards from the first commencement in 1869 to 1966 and annual fall enrollment statistics (1868-1968) compiled by Registrar Herbert H. Williams; correspondence (1963-64) between Williams, Cornell President James A. Perkins, and Elwood Hunter of Josten's-E.A. Wright Company of Philadelphia, diploma suppliers, concerning planning and preparation of the new form of diploma, 1963-64, Williams' report (1963) to the Ad Hoc Diploma Revision Committee, and twelve sample diplomas; a letter and postcard from David F. Hoy, 1919; and annual reports of the registrar (1962-68).

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64075148 View

Corson, Dale R. Dale R. Corson oral histories, 1981-1994.

Title: Dale R. Corson oral histories, 1981-1994.

Reflections on his career and tenure at Cornell University include assessments of the contributions of individuals and organizations to education, industry, and public life. Subjects include athletics, administration, the budget, black students, faculty, trustees, students, and the Presidents' Papers Project. Major individuals mentioned include James A. Perkins, Robert Kane, Robert Plane, W. Keith Kennedy, Solomon C. Hollister, Robert Purcell, and Arthur H. Dean. Interviews by Gould P. Colman.

ArchivalResource: 29 tape recordings, 1 transcript (94 p.), 7 v. of transcript (1133 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63936038 View

Palm, Charles Edmund, 1911-1996. Charles E. Palm papers, 1956-1986.

Title: Charles E. Palm papers, 1956-1986.

Correspondence, typescripts, reports, drafts, handwritten notes of telephone conversations, and publications pertaining to his deanship of the New York State College of Agriculture from 1959 to 1972 and to his work as Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Agricultural Sciences beginning in 1972. The papers mainly document the administration and growth of the New York State College of Agriculture, its departments, committees, and related activities, including the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, the New York State Cooperative Extension Service, and the Water Resources Center; the relation of the New York State College of Agriculture with Cornell University, state and federal governments, and other organizations, including the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the United States Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Foundation for American Agriculture, the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Agway, the New York State Horticultural Society, the New York State Grange, and the State University of New York. Subjects include the Office of International Agricultural Development's Chapingo and Los Baños Projects in Mexico and the Philippines, and the New York State Cooperative Extension Service (including 4-H). Also, the College of Agriculture Advisory Council, the Cornell University Division of Biological Sciences, the College of Agriculture Television Project, student dissent and protest, McDonald Farms, Uihlein Farms, and the Miner Institute, agricultural research and economics, international agriculture and the world food supply, the expanded use of pesticides and the sociological implications of their application, environmentalism, the Adirondack Study Commission, Alpha Zeta, agricultural labor, migrant labor, and the Cohn Farm controversy, the Agricultural Policy Accountability Project, the vegetable, fruit and wine industries, the food processing and marketing industries, and the New York State sugar beet industry. Major correspondents include Morton Adams, Donald W. Barton, Charles Dana Bennett, Maurice C. Bond, Damon Boynton, Earl L. Butz, Orvilee L. Freeman, Deane W. Malott, Leland Spencer, Nyle C. Brady, Dale R. Corson, Edmund H. Fallon, W. Keith Kennedy, Joseph P. King, Thomas E. LaMont, Deane W. Malott, T. Norman Hurd, William I. Myers, James A. Perkins, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Edward H. Smith, Kenneth L. Turk, and D.L. Umali.

ArchivalResource: 83 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64068261 View

Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998. James Perkins papers, 1963-1969.

Title: James Perkins papers, 1963-1969.

The James A. Perkins papers consist of the administrative papers of his presidency from 1963-1969; subjects include the issues of academic freedom and freedom of speech, the educational needs and sociological problems of black students in the university, and the establishment and maintenance of programs to facilitate black students' success; there is also extensive correspondence concerning trustee and alumni affairs, particularly regarding fund raising and university endowments; other topics include the funding of the Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large and other professorships and chairs, the construction and funding of new campus buildings, planning for and celebration of the Cornell Centennial of 1965, the College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Council, university research and government funded research, university relations with Ithaca New York and Tompkins County; also, Cornell Latin American Year, Cornell United Religious Work, Cornell Clubs; relations with the State University of New York (SUNY), the development of the Division of Biological Sciences, the Society for the Humanties, and the Cornell University Library rare book collections; also, relations between the Administration and the University Faculty, the Residential Club fire of 1967 and the six year Ph.D. Program; the funding and development of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, and the separation of Cornell University and the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory of Buffalo. Topics also include anti-war protest relating to ROTC, the suppression of the distribution of "The Trojan Horse" and the resulting conflict between students and the administration; housing for students both on and off campus, the difficulties and emergency situations arising from student conduct, dissent, protest, and demonstrations, and the question of university governance particularly in the Spring of 1969. Organizations and corporations discussed include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Council on Education, the National Science Foundation, the Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, the Cornell University Medical College and New York Hospital, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and United States Selective Service. Correspondents include Morton Adams, Eric Ashby, Max Black, James E. Allen, Kingman Brewster, McGeorge Bundy, Van Alan Clark, Dale R. Corson, Arthur H. Dean, Mary H. Donlon, Jean-Jacques Demorest, Mario Einaudi, Orville L. Freeman, Henry Guerlac, John W. Gardner, Jacob K. Javits, Herbert F. Johnson, George McT. Kahin, Alfred E. Kahn, Burnham Kelly, W. Keith Kennedy, Milton R. Konvitz, Sol M. Linowitz, Franklin A. Long, Deane W. Malott, Arthur M. Mizener, Chandler Morse, Steven Muller, Floyd R. Newman, and Jansen Noyes. Other correspondents include John M. Olin, Spencer T. Olin, Charles E. Palm, Robert W. Purcell, Edgar M. Queeny, Laurance S. Rockefeller, Clinton Rossiter, Allan P. Sindler, Robert L. Sproull, James E. Turner, Maxwell M. Upson, and Harold D. Uris. Also, reports of the President's Commission to Study the New York State College of Agriculture, the Commission of April 1968, the Commission of Undergraduate Education, and the Committee of Student Involvement in Decision Making.

ArchivalResource: 44 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63948584 View

Cornell University. Centennial Celebration. Cornell University Centennial Celebration records, 1957-1967, 1960-1965 (bulk).

Title: Cornell University Centennial Celebration records, 1957-1967, 1960-1965 (bulk).

Records concerning the year-long Cornell University Centennial observance (1964-65) and the related development program, including correspondence and preliminary plans and statements; mimeographed minutes, memoranda, studies, reports, and agenda of the Planning Committee, established in 1960; statements of long-range plans and goals submitted to the Committee by the Deans of each of the Colleges and Schools in Ithaca; reports prepared by various university departments and divisions for meetings with the Sub-Committees on the Humanities, the Natural Sciences, and the Social Sciences and reports of these sub-committees; papers written by staff and faculty members on university-wide problems; drafts and final copies of Centennial brochures; correspondence, scripts, and memoranda mainly of the Centennial Celebration Committee pertaining to Convocation (October 1964), Cornell Week at Lincoln Center (March 1965), Charter Week (April-May 1965), the presentation at Cornell of Berlioz's TE DEUM by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Alumni Reunion Week culminating in the son et lumière program, written and produced by Donald Mainwaring, and other Centennial events; also programs, texts of addresses and symposia and other printed matter, committee minutes, schedules, invitations, photographs, press releases, and tape recordings; congratulatory letters and approximately 120 scrolls and similar documents from colleges, universities, and learned societies here and abroad. The chief correspondents are Robert Kidera and John Marcham; other persons represented in the records include Sir Eric Ashby, Morris Bishop, Walter Bruska, Richard H. Comstock, Alfred R. Crawford, Arthur H. Dean, Mary H. Donlon, George Healy, Karel Husa, Ernest Leet, Thomas Mackesey, Deane W. Malott, Otakar Matousek, Janson Noyes, Jr., Eugene Ormandy, James A. Perkins, Felix Reichmann, Adlai Stevenson, and James L. Zwingle.

ArchivalResource: 12.6 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64074375 View

Cornell University Office of the Registrar miscellany, 1913-1968, 1962-1968 (bulk)

Title: Cornell University Office of the Registrar miscellany, 1913-1968, 1962-1968 (bulk)

Collection includes a summary of both undergraduate and graduate annual degree awards from the first commencement in 1869 to 1966 and annual fall enrollment statistics (1868-1968) compiled by Registrar Herbert H. Williams; correspondence (1963-64) between Williams, Cornell President James A. Perkins, and Elwood Hunter of Josten's-E.A. Wright Company of Philadelphia, diploma suppliers, concerning planning and preparation of the new form of diploma, 1963-64, Williams' report (1963) to the Ad Hoc Diploma Revision Committee, and twelve sample diplomas; a letter and postcard from David F. Hoy, 1919; and annual reports of the registrar (1962-68).

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA00876.xml View

Muller, Steven. Steven Muller interview by Keith R. Johnson, 1994.

Title: Steven Muller interview by Keith R. Johnson, 1994.

Transcript and audiocassette of an interview with Muller conducted by Keith R. Johnson concerning activities at Cornell University, particularly events surrounding the occupation of Willard Straight Hall, Spring 1969. Includes discussion of the role of then President James A. Perkins.

ArchivalResource: 28 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64687144 View

Cornell University. Board of Trustees. Presidential Search Committee. Presidential Search Committee records, 1962-1977.

Title: Presidential Search Committee records, 1962-1977.

Files relating to the Cornell presidential search in 1976-1977, chaired by Austin H. Kiplinger. Also included is some material from the 1962 and 1969 searches.

ArchivalResource: .1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64075123 View

Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998. James Alfred Perkins interview, 1977.

Title: James Alfred Perkins interview, 1977.

Tape recorded interview with former Cornell University President James A. Perkins, November 10, 1977, conducted by David A. Kaplan and Stuart Berman.

ArchivalResource: 1 tape recording.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77010743 View

Miller, R. D. (Robert Demorest), 1919-. Robert D. Miller papers, [ca. 1933-1998].

Title: Robert D. Miller papers, [ca. 1933-1998].

Collection includes personal and family materials including an "auto log" travel diary kept by Miller's mother Flora Grace Ernst Miller from the family's 1933-1934 trip to Germany; materials relating to Miller's World War II experiences and the preparation of his book about them; correspondence as Dean of the Faculty and later (to 1975); Cornell '69 materials; scientific correspondence, 1975-2010; materials relating to trips to Russia, 1973 and 1982; letters from James Perkins; slides and photograph albums from scientific trips; and publications and conference papers.

ArchivalResource: 8.5 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779775846 View

Fischer, John Sylvester, 1910-1978. John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Title: John Sylvester Fischer papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive).

Family and general correspondence, subject files, writings, diaries and memorabilia. The general correspondence makes up nearly half the papers, documenting Fischer's professional career. As editor of Harper's Magazine (1935-1967) with time out as an editor of Harper & Brothers (1947-1953) he numbered many prominent writers among his correspondents. Notable are Bruce Catton, Norman Cousins, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm Foster, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Gardner, Brendan Gill, Walter Kerr, Irving Kristol, Henry Luce, Willie Morris, Reinhold Niebuhr, Milo Perkins, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schlesinger, Barbara Tuchman, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Tom Wolfe and C. Vann Woodward. The correspondence also reflects his political activities, including his involvement in the presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson (as speechwriter) and John F. Kennedy. Political figures with whom Fischer corresponded include Maury Maverick, William Blair, Newton Minnow, Willard Wirtz, Dean Acheson, Carl Albert, Chester Bowles, McGeorge Bundy, Frank Church, J. William Fulbright, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javits, Lyndon Johnson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Edmund Muskie, Nelson Rockefeller, Dean Rusk and Harry Truman. Family correspondence also reflects his political interests, and many of these letters discuss such events as Roosevelt's policies, and impressions of Germany and the Saar plebiscite where he was a reporter for the United Press in 1935. In the 1940s he wrote on the Ukraine and India, which he visited as chief representative of the Board of Economic Warfare. Much of the material in his subject files reflects his career in government with the Farm Security Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration as well as his research on political problems while a visting fellow at Yale University. Writings include a portion of his articles, books and speeches. Journals are extant for his school years (1925-1934) and there are also later travel journals (1943-1975) which are largely political. Also in the papers are photographs, clippings, and biographical sketches.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear ft. (60 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370012 View

Charles E. Palm papers, 1956-1986.

Title: Charles E. Palm papers, 1956-1986.

Correspondence, typescripts, reports, drafts, handwritten notes of telephone conversations, and publications pertaining to his deanship of the New York State College of Agriculture from 1959 to 1972 and to his work as Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Agricultural Sciences beginning in 1972. The papers mainly document the administration and growth of the New York State College of Agriculture, its departments, committees, and related activities, including the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, the New York State Cooperative Extension Service, and the Water Resources Center; the relation of the New York State College of Agriculture with Cornell University, state and federal governments, and other organizations, including the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the United States Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Foundation for American Agriculture, the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Agway, the New York State Horticultural Society, the New York State Grange, and the State University of New York. Subjects include the Office of International Agricultural Development's Chapingo and Los Baños Projects in Mexico and the Philippines, and the New York State Cooperative Extension Service (including 4-H).

ArchivalResource:

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Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998. James A. Perkins papers, 1941-1990.

Title: James A. Perkins papers, 1941-1990.

Papers relating to James Perkins' career before coming to Cornell; speeches and articles; files relating to his inauguration as Cornell's president; files relating to activities at Cornell, including the events of 1969; subject files relating to other activities; a few photographs and personal letters; and certificates and honorary degrees.

ArchivalResource: 8.5 cubic ft.

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Cornell University, Centennial Celebration Records, 1957-1967, 1960-1965 (bulk)

Title: Cornell University, Centennial Celebration Records , 1957-1967 1960-1965 (bulk)

This collection contains materials relating to Cornell University's Centennial Celebration which took place in 1965. Planning material, correspondence, speeches and photographs all detail the events which took place in celebration of Cornell University's 100th year.

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James Alfred Perkins papers, 1955-1998.

Title: James Alfred Perkins papers 1955-1998.

Correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, minutes, reports, and printed matter, relating to education in the United States and other countries, especially developing countries, education in internationalism, and foreign language studies in the United States.

ArchivalResource: 70 manuscript boxes; (28 linear feet)

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