RG 02. Office of the President

Scope and Contents

The Robert Works Fuller Presidential Papers are divided into six Subgroups: Administrative Files of the Office of the President, Board of Trustees Records, Administrative Commissions, Councils, and Committees, Academic Departments, Programs, and Administrative Units, Files on External Organizations, and Files of Acting President Ellsworth Carlson.

Scope and Contents The records of President Emil C. Danenberg document the administrative functions of the office of the President, including preparing the annual budget, making recommendations to the Board of Trustees, approving personnel actions, engaging in committee work, communicating with academic departments and administrative offices, fundraising, addressing meetings, and serving as outside representative of the college.  The records here described, concentrated in the period 1973 to 1983, were...

Scope and Contents Included in the 85 boxes of incoming and outgoing correspondence are letters from and about the following individuals and organizations of the day: Arthur Vandenberg, Robert M. Hutchins, Julian Huxley, Cass Gilbert, Clayton, K. Fauver, R.A. Millikan-Robert, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the American Association of University Women, and the American Social Hygiene Association. Among the topics covered are scholarships, alumni questionnaires, Chapel attendance, organiza­tional reports, Black...

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The Mahan papers are an artificial creation compiled from a variety of sources and are mainly photocopies. All original documents were transferred from the Library "Autograph File" (RG16). Additional non-original documentation was gathered and contributed from several sources, including researchers and genealogists.

Scope and Contents The papers of John Henry Barrows and his family were allegedly destroyed by a fire in 1923 in Berkeley, California. Papers relating to Barrows' work for the Columbian Exposition in 1893 were inadvertently destroyed at the University of Chicago. Thus, what remains at Oberlin is all the documentation that exists relating to Barrows.The Barrows Papers consist of seven small series: Correspondence, Donor Lists, Programs and Brochures, Writings by and about John Henry Barrows,...

Scope and Contents This record group, consisting of six subgroups, primarily documents the activities of Oberlin College President, Robert Kenneth Carr, 1960-1970.  The last subgroup, however, documents his pre-presidential and post-presidential years as well.  During his presidency, Carr was responsible for directing the re-organization of the administration to meet the needs of the modern university setting.  The institutional group consisting in large measure of correspondence and committee files report...

Abstract The William Edwards Stevenson Papers, 1928(1943-1959)-1961, document the thirteen-year administration of the eighth president of Oberlin College. The bulk of Stevenson's personal papers are contained in Record Group 30/219; however, this collection does include correspondence of a personal nature (1943-1960) which was designated by a "P" in the original filing system. Filed with this correspondence are several folders of Stevenson's writings and talks as well as diverse biographical...

Scope and Contents Expansive in terms of range, and volume (81.9 l.f.), the presidential papers of S. Frederick Starr mirror the work of a proactive leader who sought to make Oberlin College one of the nation’s most distinctive liberal arts institutions. Within these official records, the researcher will find delineated the decision and policy making actions of the Starr administration with fine detail on building projects, campus unrest, financial planning and development, personnel issues, and his...

Scope and Contents The papers of William Gay Ballantine, consisting primarily of Ballantine family papers (1750-1913), provide no documentation of Ballantine's tenure as President of Oberlin College (1891-1896). Ballantine's personal papers are few but include correspondence (1865-1886), three journals (1881-1896, undated), miscellaneous papers(1836-1933), and writings (1836-1933). The collection also contains several albumen portraits of the Ballantine family (ca. 1846-1899). Materials are divided into two...

Scope and Contents The Nancy S. Dye presidential papers (1948 (1994-2007)–2007) cover the thirteen-year tenure of Oberlin College’s first woman president. Broadly, the official records document administrative actions and decisions made by Dye and her senior staff, with an emphasis on cultivating and developing the college’s relationships locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. In many ways, this voluminous record (125.68 l.f.) of two subgroups, 32 records series, and 81 subseries captures the...