RG 30. Personal Papers

Scope and Contents The Richard D. Brown papers concern his teaching career and his efforts to initiate change in college policy. The collection includes term papers by students writing about their own family histories as part of the Anonymous Families History Project. In addition, the Brown papers contain drafts of a proposal for a study of policy making at the college. This particular file also includes correspondence between faculty and Brown’s own reflections on policymaking issues. Through the preparations...

Scope and Contents The Alice Jones Emery Papers primarily consists of materials relating to Emery’s position as Class Agent for the Oberlin College Class of 1891. The correspondence series, which constitutes the bulk of the collection, contains letters received from former classmates in response to Alice Jones Emery’s requests for individual class letters. Spanning a period of over twenty years, these letters handsomely document the warm friendship and spirit retained by Oberlin College graduates...

Scope and Contents The papers of Robert E. Brown document his career as a minister, member of the Oberlin College Board of Trustees, and as a Professor of Practical Theology and Human Relations at the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology. The collection consists of very little biographical material. The collected works include notebooks containing lecture notes for “Preacher’s Philosophy,” as well as “Hymnology,” courses taught by Brown while a professor at the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology from...

Scope and Contents The papers of J. Stanton McLaughlin consist of photographs of the Oberlin Dramatic Association’s productions, 1932-42, and twenty-one cassette tape letters of James McLaughlin. The tapes contain letters to Alice and Chester Shaver, Dorothy Daub, Caroline Fenn, and Andrew and Laurine Bongiorno, 1979-85. McLaughlin’s eyesight failed him in later life, and the tapes provided a means to correspond with others. In addition to the contents of the letters (i.e., Oberlin, German politics, events...

Scope and Contents These papers reflect Andrew G. Hoover’s directorship of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Summer Institutes in English, 1965-1967). The records consist of applications, syllabi, correspondence, reports, and other materials compiled with the director in conjunction with the operation of the Institutes. The papers are organized in a series of folders by date. Each folder contains materials from the annual NDEA Summer Institutes in English, spanning 1965-1967. The...

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The Thomas H. LeDuc Papers are a very incomplete record of his life and work. They are useful primarily for insight into the workings and course content of the History Department in the 1960s and 1970s, and for the history of the establishment of the College Archives.

Scope and Contents This collection, which consists of correspondence, notebooks, legal papers, and printed materials, documents the lives of Lucy Fletcher Kellogg and her family.Kellogg's account of her life is preserved in both manuscript and printed forms, 1879 and 1881. In addition to information on family life and changes of residence, Kellogg describes her youth in New England, where she produced textiles in her parents' home to support herself. Family letters (1836-1851) discuss feelings of...

Scope and Contents Geoffrey T. Blodgett’s career as a professor and scholar of American history at Oberlin College is well documented in these papers, from his appointment at Oberlin in 1960 to his retirement in 2000 and death in 2001. A small amount of material dates from prior to his faculty appointment. There is very little of a personal nature in the papers, but his correspondence with respected and valued colleagues, as well as many former students, reveal warm relationships with many of them and...

Scope and Contents This small collection consists of items relating to the Charles Grandison Finney family. The correspondence series (Series 1) includes eight letters by Elizabeth Atkinson Finney, C.G. Finney’s second wife, and one letter from C.G. Finney to his daughter, Julia R. Finney. The series also holds one letter of introduction for Mrs. Charles G. Finney to Horace Greeley by Henry Ward Beecher. Series 2. Geneaology holds a family chart and a report on the Finney family. Information in...

Scope and Contents The Clarence Ward Collection provides detail on Clarence Ward’s activities as an architectural consultant and on his administration of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Information also exists here on the debate of the system of faculty governance at Oberlin College. Consisting of correspondence, memoranda, and other printed materials, this collection is organized into ten series. The correspondence and diaries series provide the richest insight into Ward’s personal and...