Deane Waldo Malott papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 3-9-983

Scope and content

Personal and professional correspondence, diary, journals, speeches, reports, printed material, clippings, and photographs documenting Malott's career as a professor at Harvard Business School, chancellor of the University of Kansas, and papers pertaining to his activities after retiring from the Cornell University presidency. Relates to the various corporations and organizations with which Malott was associated; travel writings; and political writings, including his support for Barry M. Goldwater's presidential candidacy, and other issues. Also, 1990-92 reminiscences by Deane W. Malott, one about Norman Moore, MD; bound typescript "Diary of Edith Grey Johnson," 1965; reports on colleges visited, 1963-1970; and reports of work he did as a consultant to the Association of American colleges. Includes "Tributes to a Gracious Lady from her Staff" (Eleanor Malott); "The Wedding Journal"; a videotape interview by Liza Pohle and Barbara Malott, a collection of autographs from famous people (including Janet Reno), two scrapbooks of ephemera, newspaper clippings, letters, and other personally significant items. Also, a desk and a table donated by Deane Malott.

Scope and content

Also, "Eleanor Sisson Thrum: On Growing Up in Hawaii and her Later Life," by Deane W. Malott, 1988. Additional personal correspondence, circa 1947-1980 (collection #3/9/965), includes signed letters to him from President Richard Nixon and later President Jimmy Carter, Congressman Barber Conable, and others, responding to Malott's letters to them on national political issues. Also, reports written by Malott on various American colleges and universities when he served as an administrative consultant for the Association of American Colleges, together with correspondence surrounding the reports and his visits to their campuses (1968-1969).