Abstract

Correspondence, transcripts of interviews, minutes, statements, broadsides, photographs, clippings, and other materials pertaining to civil rights activism and the work of various groups at Cornell to alter the institution's governing structure.

Scope and content

Letters and replies to a questionnaire conducted by John Marcham for the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, published October 1974.

Scope and content Correspondence of R. Selden Brewer, Richard T. Cliggot, John A. Krieger, Emmet J. Murphy, and other alumni secretaries and alumni field secretries with the classes of 1895 and 1900-1958 concerning reunion attendance, activities, and expenses; class business, maintenance of class records, class group subscriptions to the ALUMNI NEWS, and contributions to the Alumni Fund; and correspondence with various organizations and individuals concerning the ordering of buttons and costumes, dinner...

Scope and content

Minutes, reports, financial records, fund raising records, reunion records, and other records of the Cornell Alumni Corporation, Associate Alumni, Cornell Alumni News, Alumni Trustees, Committee on Cornell Alumni Trustee Nominations (1968-1990), Alumni Holidays, Inc., Cornell University Alumni Association, and the Office of Alumni Affairs. Includes videotapes of fund raising projects, movie films, slides, photographs of alumni affairs, and other material.

Scope and content

Letters written home to his family by John Hunter Detmold as a Cornell undergraduate and as assistant editor of the Cornell Alumni News. Also, class notes for Bibliography 2, "The Book," taught in spring 1942 by Otto Kinkeldey; a review of Scott Elledge's biography of E. B. White, originally published in the Cornell Alumni News, 1984; "A Cornellian's Lexicon of Indigenous Diction," 1943; "A Lexicon for Cornellians," revised edition, 1944; and souvenir edition, 1993.

Scope and content

Includes student and alumni memorabilia from the Class of 1907; files relating to a "faculty rebellion" in 1910; correspondence with John L. Senior relating to Sailor's position as manager of the Cornell Alumni News; correspondence with Romeyn (Rym) Berry; The Bulletin of the Cornell Association of Chicago, 1913-1916; materials relating to the Cayuga Press; and a postcard album, with views of Cornell, the Pan-American Exposition, Niagara Falls, New York City, and a world tour.

Abstract

Papers and correspondence of Ruth McDonald and her family.