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

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

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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.

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Donlon, Mary Honor, 1893-1977

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Mary Donlon was a lawyer and alumna of Cornell University. President Eisenhower appointed Donlon as a U.S. Customs Court Judge....

Ormandy, Eugene

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Mackesey, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1908-1976

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Ashby, Eric, 1904-1992

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Comstock, Richard H.

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Kidera, Robert A., 1918-

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Healy, George R., 1923-

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Marcham, John, 1927-

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The Willcox group was an informal group of Cornell faculty members who met for lunch weekly. From the description of Willcox group correspondence, 1994-2012. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 779276341 Journalist. Cornell University Class of 1950. John Marcham served as editor of the Cornell Alumni News. He is also active in local politics in Ithaca and Tompkins County, New York. From the description of John Marcham papers...

Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998

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Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), III, 1930-2021

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson III (October 10, 1930 – September 6, 2021) was an American lawyer, business executive, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party and the son of former Illinois Governor and two-time presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 1970 to 1981 and was twice a candidate for Governor of Illinois. Born in Chicago, Stevenson attended the Milton Academy in Massachusetts, Harrow School in England, and Harvard College. ...

Malott, Deane W. (Deane Waldo), 1898-

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Michael Harvey Malott was an Abilene, Kansas banker and founder of Bank of Malott and Company, later Citizens Bank, in 1885. Malott served as president of Citizens Bank from 1911 until a few years before his death, when he became chairman of the board. Malott died on February 18, 1952 in Abilene, Kansas. His son, Deane Waldo Malott, was born on July 10, 1898. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1921 and Harvard Business School in 1923. He died on September 11, 1996. From th...

Matousek, Otakar

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Crawford, Alfred R.

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Bishop, Morris, 1893-1973

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Mainwaring, Donald.

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Zwingle, James L.

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Bruska, Walter.

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Noyes, Janson, Jr.

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Dean, Arthur H.

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Husa, Karel, 1921-

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Reichmann, Felix, 1899-1987

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Leet, Ernest D.

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