Dorothea K. Almond papers 1936-1998 1960-1998

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Dorothea K. Almond papers 1936-1998 1960-1998

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Papers include correspondence, newsletters, memos, reports, articles, minutes, and other materials pertaining to childcare at Stanford, child welfare in general, and other social and civic issues, 1960-1998. Some of the minutes and other records are from the Children's Center of the Stanford Community. The collection also includes letters from Gabriel Almond, 1936 and 1947.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Almond, Gabriel A. (Gabriel Abraham), 1911-2002

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Almond earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1938 and taught at Yale and Princeton before joining Stanford's Dept. of Political Science in 1963. He was president of the American Political Science Association from 1965-1966 and a frequent consultant to the Department of State and other governmental bodies. From the description of Gabriel A. Almond papers, 1946-2001. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 674616599 Biographical/Historical Sket...

Children's Center of the Stanford Community.

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Almond, Dorothea K.

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Biographical/Historical Sketch Dorothea Kaufmann Almond, longtime child and family advocate, grew up in Cologne, Germany, and moved to the United States in 1934 to study at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she earned a master's degree in 1941. She moved to Palo Alto in 1963 with her husband, Stanford professor Gabriel Almond. She served as chair of the Committee on Childcare at Stanford from 1969 to 1977, was co-director of the St...