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Diedrich Kennedy Willers papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 10-1-2017

Scope and content

Files, reports, correspondence including letters to and from President Dale Corson, and other materials of Cornell Director of Personnel Diedrick Willers; topics include student and public order, University planning, New York State Civil Service, the 1967 New York State Constitutional Convention, the 1967 Cornell Residential Club fire, and other subjects. Also, two tapes of the Diedrick K. Willers Memorial Service. Files relating to a Plan of Action for Financing Higher Education in the State of New York, Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities. Files on the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education. Society for the Humanities files relating to faculty fellows, compensation and benefits. Cornell salaries and wages files. Willers Memorial service tape; Cornell Residential Club fire, April 1976 also correspondence from Cornell and other college and university staff relating to the controversial Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America advertising that used the Cornell fire, June 1967; Review of Structure and Personnel in Roberts Hall Post Office and State Fleet Operation, March 1972; Fordham University Rules and Regulations for Maintenance of Public Order, 1969; Willard Straight barber shop, concessions, 1977-1978 Theatre Series schedule, etc., Workers Support Committee, student unions and wages, up to 1974; Posture of University toward Student Conduct and Law Enforcement, Perkins, 1967; Safety Division Annual Report, 1975-86; U.S. Department of Labor, September 1975; National Roster of Minority Professional Consulting Firms, February 1973; Education and the 1967 Constitutional Convention, New York State University, SUNY Albany, 1966; Continued Tax Exemption for Properties Used Exclusively for Religious, Educational, or Charitable Purposes; Cornell in the 1970s, goals, priorities and plans, May 1973; IRS Regulations, dormitory authorities, April 1968; Department of Dining Services Student Employee Organization Organization Manual, 1972; State of New York Act, G.O. 581, Nos. 1636, 3735 Int. 1534; State of New York Department of Civil Service, classification and compensation system, 1954; Business manuals, faculty and staff, through 1950; Higher education management systems, through 1971; 6 University Group correspondence, 1972; Report of Summer usiness Industry Education Project Tompkins County, 1968, Finder Lakes Region Supplementary Education Center; Gorges, value and maintenance.

Dates

  • [ca.1960-1978]

Creator

Restrictions on Access

Access restricted to permission of the Office of the President or Provost with the exceptiopn of a redacted version of the folder relating to the Residential Club fire.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Material relating to the Residential Club Fire is available digitally in a redacted format..

Extent

1 cubic feet. (1 cubic feet.)

2 audiocassettes. (2 audiocassettes.)

Language of Materials

English

Description rules
Appm
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)