memorandums

Scope and Contents Records of the Administrative and Professional Staff Assembly date from 1970 to 2017. They document the establishment, organization, and operations of the Assembly and provide particularly good coverage of A&PS concerns over benefits, classification and salary schedules, and grievance procedures. A&PS records are divided into two sub-groups—the Council (including the Steering Committee established in 1974 to form the Assembly) and the Assembly itself. Records of the...

Scope and Contents The papers of Charles Royce Comings primarily document his military service with Company G, 22nd United States Infantry during the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. The Charles Royce Comings Personal Papers are organized into four series: Series 1. Diaries and Memo Book, Series 2. Documents Related to Military Service, Series 3. Printed Matter, and Series 4. Photographs. An itemized list of materials in Series 3 is available in the case...

Scope and Contents This is a small collection of materials gathered by Charlotte Briggs during her time as a student at Oberlin College. The materials document student involvement in campus opposition to the Solomon Amendment. At least three students, including Briggs, left the college publicly to protest the amendment. Briggs also co-chaired committees that insisted the College provide financial assistance to students affected by the Solomon Amendment. In response to this and other pressures, the College...

Scope and Contents The materials of Douglas T. Ross comprise of correspondence, diagrams, programs, clippings, and several scrapbooks. The bulk of the material is made up of scrapbook pages and clippings. The most significant materials are the clippings in Series 3. Dating from 1940s to the 1960s, the clippings document Ross’ significant contribution to the engineering world, through his creation of the Automatically Programmed Tool (APT) during his time working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

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This small collection of papers reflects aspects of Jack Glazier’s service to the college as a teacher and as an active member of the Graduate Studies Committee. There is very little personal material and only one of his writings. The collection is divided as follows:

Scope and Contents This collection consists of only two documents from John S. and Caroline E. Service (1970, 1978). The first document is a memorandum entitled “A Partial Examination of One Aspect of the Many Gross Errors Contained in The Amerasia Papers,” written by John S. Service and dated September 18, 1970. Service critically examined the U.S. government’s foreign policy with China and, in particular, the Communists in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He...

Scope and Contents This collection represents the research Leland Brandt conducted for his thesis, “The Evolution of Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics at Oberlin College,” in 1992. The materials originated in the Oberlin College Department of Physical Education predominantly during the 1970s and 1980s. The collection does not contain any information on Leland Brandt’s life or experience at Oberlin. Instead, the documents illustrate how the Department of Physical Education evolved in response to the Title...

Scope and Contents This small collection includes materials from the Tenney and the Snedeker families. Both families were early settlers in the Lorain County region of Ohio, and are connected by the marriage of Mary’s parents, Bernard Tenney and Sadie Snedeker, in 1895. The Tenney family has a long history with Oberlin College spanning multiple generations. Series I pertains to Mary Francis Tenney and her family. Her photo album, dating from the mid- to late 19th century,...

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This record group, consisting of five series, documents the activities of the Peace Corps Training Program that existed at Oberlin College from 1963-1966. Because the program trained volunteers for the French-speaking Ivory Coast, some of the documents are written in French.

Scope and Contents The records of the Oberlin Group cover several years of collaborative effort between numerous liberal arts college libraries across the country from 1986 to 2013. These records provide documentation of the history, administration and management of the Oberlin Group, from the group’s initial meeting at the Oberlin College Library in 1986 through 2013.  Several important technological advances and important collegiate changes such as the introduction and development of the Internet,...