John B. Davis papers, 1945-2000.

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

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In March 1972 President Richard Nixon called for an "intensive study" and requested a plan for developing a "safe, fast, and efficient nationwide blood collection and distribution system." Nixon's request was the result of several independent events and initiatives throughout the late 1960s that focused on the U.S. lack of an efficient system for maintaining a sufficiently ample, risk-free national blood supply. The primary aim of the policy was to eliminate the nation's dependence on an oft-con...

President's Task Force on Education.

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Macalester College

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Children's Theatre Company (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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The Children's Theatre Company (CTC), a professional theatre company for young audiences, began as The Moppet Players in 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a loan of $100, a room donated by an Italian restaurant and a crew of volunteer artists, technicians and administrators. It was the first full-time children's theatre company in Minnesota. The following year the company moved to an abandoned police station and introduced a program of instruction in creative dramatics, dance and theatre prod...

Minneapolis institute of arts

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Minnesota 1900: Art and Life on the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1915 was an exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1994. The exhibit displayed architectural drawings and elements, paintings, furniture, lighting devices, ceramics, metalwork and objects made by local Native Americans documenting life of residents along the upper Mississippi from 1890-1915. From the description of Minnesota 1900 exhibit collection 1994. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 31...

Minneapolis Public Schools. Board of Education

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New England School Development Council

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Minneapolis Public Schools

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The Urban Area Summer Program and Project Head Start in Minneapolis were tuition free programs aimed at helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds improve their chances for progress in school and subsequent employment by providing them with summer-time learning experiences and activities previously unavailable to them. Money obtained through Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 funded the programs. Selection of eligible children was made by teachers, pr...

Sidoti, Ann Joyce.

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Schultz, Terry.

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Davis, J. Bradford

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Educator and community leader John Davis was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1921, the son of John Bradford and Edna (Maxfield) Davis; was educated in the Massachusetts public schools; received a B.A. degree from the University of New Hampshire; and received a doctoral degree from Harvard University. His educational career, beginning in 1944, included high school teaching in the Massachusetts public school system; various positions at Harvard and the University of New Hampshire...