Records, 1950-1977.

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Records, 1950-1977.

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Each series in the collection contains material pertaining to the proceedings of individual search committees. Series I contains material from the 1951 search resulting in the election of Lawrence Kimpton. Series II contains material from the search conducted from 1960 to 1961, resulting in the election of George Beadle. Series III contains material from the 1975 search resulting in the election of John Wilson. Series IV contains material from the 1977 search resulting in the election of Hanna Gray. The material in the collection includes minutes and agenda from committee meetings, organizational correspondence and letters of recommendation, biographical material and publications of nominees, University and committee publications, University press releases, financial and organizational material, notes, and ephemera.

3.25 linear ft.

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Wilson, John T. (John Todd), 1914-1990

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Ninth president (1975-1978) of the University of Chicago. Born 1914. A.B. from George Washington University (1941), M.A. from State University of Iowa (1942), and Ph. D. from Stanford University (1948). Expert on relations between universities and government. Died 1990. From the description of Papers, 1930-1983 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 43062362 John Todd Wilson (1914-1990) received his A.B. degree with distinction from Ge...

Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989

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Chemist, University president. From the description of Reminiscences of George Wells Beadle : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608221 George Wells Beadle, professor, university administrator. From the guide to the Beadle, George Wells. Papers, 1908-1981, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.) Chancellor, University of...

Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977

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University president; interviewee d.1977. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Maynard Hutchins : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740103 American author and University administrator. From the description of Typed letters signed (2) : Chicago, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1941 Feb. 4 and Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868116 From the CSDI Collection (Mss 18) descriptio...

University of Chicago. Board of Trustees

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Secretaries of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees included Thomas W. Goodspeed (1891-1912), J. Spencer Dickerson (1913-1926), John F. Moulds (1927-1944), Wilbur C. Munnecke (1945-1948), Lyndon H. Lesch, (acting, 1948), R. W. Harrison (acting, 1949), and Howard H. Moore (1950-1962). From the description of University of Chicago Board of Trustees Correspondence of the Secretary records 1890-1960 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 608326494 ...

Levi, Edward H. (Edward Hirsch), 1911-2000

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Educator, administrator, lawyer and U.S. Attorney General. Born 1911. PhB, University of Chicago, 1932, JD, University of Chicago Law School, 1935, JSD, Yale University, 1938. Professor, University of Chicago, 1936-1984. Dean, University of Chicago Law School, 1949-1962. Provost, University of Chicago, 1962-1968; President, 1968-1974. U.S. Attorney General, 1974-1977. President, American Academy of Arts and Science, 1986-1988. Died 2000. From the description of Papers, 1894-1998 (inc...

Gray, Hanna Holborn

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Kimpton, Lawrence Alpheus, 1910-

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Lawrence A. Kimpton (1910-1977) was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, attended college at Stanford, and completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Cornell University in 1935. He worked in California and Nevada throughout the late 1930s, teaching at the experimental Deep Springs College and working as a cattle rancher. He came to Chicago in 1943 to work as Chief Administrative Officer of the Metallurgical Laboratory, associated with the Manhattan Project. University Chancellor Rob...