RG 30. Personal Papers

Scope and Contents The papers consist mainly of letters Mabel wrote to her family while a student at Oberlin College. She lived in Stewart Hall, Lord Cottage and Talcott Hall, and thus tells of life in a girls dormitory. The subjects she writes about include parties and “spreads,” her friends, a few teachers (Professor of German, Arletta M. Abbott, for example), rules broken (4-8-06), lectures by Dean of College Women, Florence M. Philip (1908), being entertained by two faculty wives (3-4-08), a winning debate...

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The papers of Fredrick D. Shults document his involvement with physical education and athletics at Oberlin College for nearly 35 years. Shults’ many writings and instructional materials included in the collection record his philosophy on teaching, coaching, sports ethics, and many forms of sports strategy.

Scope and Contents Consisting almost exclusively of data and statistics from her phenomenological movement behavior studies, the collection sheds little light on the personal life of Sara Louise Houston. The earliest records consist of two graduate school papers written by Houston in 1964 and 1965 on the relationship between movement and the fine arts. The remainder of the records are comprised of questionnaires, personal profiles, and statistics derived from her movement behavior studies.The...

Scope and Contents The papers consist of 9 letters written by Monroe, August 1881‑February 1882, while he was a member of a surveying crew for the Wisconsin Central Railroad.  Monroe called it the Penokee or Wisconsin Central Survey and wrote from Ashland County in the northern part of the state where the work took place. He described his duties as a surveyor, people he worked with and his reactions to this type of employment. He was a member of the party at the suggestion of his uncle, Frederick N. Finney,...

Scope and Contents The collection contains both personal and professional papers of David L. Anderson. Personal papers include correspondence and items relating to Anderson's ministry, family, Navy service, health and car insurance, investments, and retirement. Professional papers exist for activities directly relating to Oberlin, and for external professional involvement. Included are correspondence, memoranda, notes, class syllabi, students' papers and exams, lecture outlines, drafts and final copies of...

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The papers of Russell Parsons Jameson provide documentation concerning his professional career as a professor and scholar, and his personal life as a resident of Oberlin, Ohio, from 1904 to 1954.

Scope and Contents The papers of Guy Stevens Callender consist of materials that primarily relate to the economic history of the Upper Midwest. Notes exist on “internal Improvements in Ohio”; on the “early History of the Canal”; and on economic developments in the State of Illinois (six folders).  These notes may have been part of the 1915 book purchase. The book purchase itself is documented in the records of the Oberlin College Library and in the personal papers of director Azariah Smith Root. This...

Scope and Contents The papers of China missionaries Alice Moon Williams (1860-1952) and her husband, the Rev. George Louis Williams (1858-1900), document in great detail the couple's life in Shanxi Province (1891-99) prior to the Boxer Uprising of 1900 in which George L. Williams died. Materials gathered by Alice Moon Williams and her daughter, Gladys M. Williams (1893-1981), provide a historical overview of the work of the Shansi Mission from 1883 to 1950.The collection is arranged into seven...

Scope and Contents The papers in this collection were created by Paula Goldsmid during her tenure at Oberlin College as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and as a member of the Women’s Studies Committee starting in 1974. The files cover women’s organizations and issues during the period 1970-1983. The files are a combination of topical files and Oberlin-specific files with relation to abortion rights, Affirmative Action, day care, equalization of retirement benefits, gay literature, minority...

Scope and Contents The papers of Daniel Moe consist of an award, biographical information, diaries and scrapbooks, writings and music compositions, correspondence, various files relating to both his Oberlin and non-Oberlin service, photographs and reel-to-reel tape recordings. These materials document Moe’s choral career in both the academic and religious sectors, though the bulk of the collection relates to his time at Oberlin College.The collection documents Moe’s intense focus on his musical...