Abstract

Over 100 interviews with students, faculty, staff, and administrators on subjects including the Vietnam War and the peace movement; the rights of women and minorities, especially blacks' rights and the Willard Straight Hall occupation; efforts to change the governing system at Cornell; and related issues. Most of the interviews have been transcribed.

Scope and content Files of John Marcham, editor of the Cornell Alumni News, contain correspondence, background material for articles, clippings, notes, photographs, letters to the editor, and other materials pertaining to Cornell University, campus figures, college pranks, student unrest and the Willard Straight takeover, and many other topics relating to the university. Included are files relating to the reprinting of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, and correspondence and an outline of a biography of...

Abstract

Oral history interview transcripts related to the election of delegates pledged to Eugene McCarthy from the 33rd Congressional District to the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Scope and content

Includes printed material from the 1968 Democratic Convention; a letter from vice president Hubert H. Humphrey, 1968; correspondence, notes and publications pertaining to Ithaca schools, and Ithaca and Tompkins County politics; Alumni News mementos; papers relating to Marcham's service in the army, and financial and Veterans Admininistration records while he was a student at Cornell; correspondence and other materials from the Cornell Daily Sun; and other items.

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Family photographs, photo albums, student scrapbook, correspondence, blueprints, and letters of acknowledgement upon Moore's retirement from Cornell University; papers of the associated Haight family; interview with Dr. Norman Moore by John Marcham. Includes a silver tea set. Also, newspapers and clippings, magazines, photographs from Moore's professional life (hospitals and conference attendees), and programs of events.

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Letters from John Marcham about the group and letters from various members of the group including Alfred Kahn, Sally McConnell-Ginet, and Lynne Abel. Also, a reminiscence of the group by Gould Colman.