Papers of Harold M. Somers, dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Buffalo from 1947-1961, consist of background information, business correspondence, and some manuscript drafts pertaining to numerous government committee memberships, budgetary and economic surveys in Erie County (NY) and New York State, and activities in professional organizations. He was associated with the Greater University of Buffalo Development Program, the Buffalo and Erie County Planning Association, postwar economic planning commissions, budgetary advisory committees, as well as with several University committees. The records, all dating 1943-1961, are divided into the following series: Program Chairman, 1949 Meeting, Econometric Society; Deferment Policies and Procedures, 1950-1957; Faculty Program Steering Committee for the Niagara Frontier Convocation, 1951; Buffalo Development Program, 1952; Conference, "Problems in a Defense Economy," 1952; United Nations member nations' economic analyses, 1951-1952; Survey: Public Opinion on Department Stores in Downtown Buffalo, 1943; Highway Law (New York State Temporary Legislative Commission study), 1954-1958; Temporary State Commission on the Constitutional Convention reports, 1957-1958; Tonawanda Survey: Addressing economic feasibility of a merger between the governments of North Tonawanda, NY, and the Town of Tonawanda, NY, 1957; Buffalo Activities -- including Somer's interests and civic committees such as the Postwar Planning Commission, the Lay Advisory Committee of the School Board, the Chamber of Commerce, Junior Achievement, etc., 1946-1960; New York State activities, 1943-1960; Buffalo and Erie County Planning Association, Inc., 1957-1960.
