Stuart Wells Utley pamphlets and reprints, 1920s-1930s
1 box
This is a collection of pamphlets and reprints, accumulated from different sources, and written by Stuart Wells Utley, a Detroit, Michigan, businessman.
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Student Affairs, 1902-1952
The Student Affairs series consists of correspondence, minutes, and petitions from 1910 to 1924 dealing with student activities and organizations. Subjects include fraternities, sororities, other student social clubs, honor societies, and student dances.
Student Government Council (University of Michigan) records, 1912-1976
11 linear feet — 1 oversize folder — 3 oversize volumes
Records, 1912-1975, of the Student Government Council and predecessor student government agencies at the University of Michigan. Contains minutes, clippings and topical files concerning, in part, black studies and black student organizations. Also papers of Laing Study Committee, a university group concerned with the study and evaluation of student government.
The records encompass a broad range of documents from successive student government agencies including the Student Council, Student Legislature and Student Senate. Included are minutes, petitions, election materials and results, financial records, and correspondence. The most extensive records are those dating from 1960 on. Topical files from that period include reports on university housing, classified research, campus security, minority affairs, and the University Cellar. Included also are the minutes of the Liang Study Committee (1953/1954) and reports from the Office of Student Affairs on housing and student conduct (1966-1969).
Student Language Workbooks, 1930-1944
Textbooks series (2 linear feet, 1930-1944) includes course books, reference books, and dictionaries. Introductions to Japanese writing are included in the collection. Reference materials covering military terms, commands, and tactics, will be of interest to researchers. Textbooks of Japanese personal and surnames are of interest to researchers.
Student Test Data, 1927-1936, 1938-1947
The Student Test Data, 1927-1947 series (1 ft.) consists of bound volumes of test data recorded from Freshman Examinations (1927-1936), later termed Orientation Week Testing (1938-1947). Records are from the Bureau of Educational Research (1927-1930), Office of the Director of Educational Investigations (1930-1945) and the Bureau of Psychological Services (1945-1947). Records in this series are restricted due to the presence of name-identifiable test results. Data and analysis from the tests was published in 1940 in the publication A Statistical Summary of the Records of Students Entering the University of Michigan as Freshmen in the decade 1927-1936 by P.S. Dwyer, Charlotte Horner and C.S. Yoakum (Michigan Administrative Studies Volume 1 Number 4).
Subject files, 1923-1976
The largest series - Subject files (24.3 linear ft.;1923-1976) is an alphabetical arrangement of files containing correspondence, organizational affiliation materials, and other documents relating to her professional career and interests. As expected, the bulk of the Subject files fall within such headings as Aging and Gerontology, Children's Fund of Michigan, Grand Valley State College, the Merrill-Palmer School, and the National Research Council Committee on Maternal and Child Feeding and Food and Nutrition Board.
Subject Files, 1937-1985
Boxes 1-19
The Subject Files, 1937-1985 series contains correspondence, reports, notes, proposals, meeting minutes and agendas, and course materials. The documents concern all aspects of his career, including his work at the Library of Congress; Documentation, Inc.; the National Research Council; General Electric; Indiana University Library School; and as President of Cloyd Dake Gull and Associates. Also included are materials on his professional activities with such organizations as the American Documentation Institute and the International Federation for Documentation, and on the workshops on information science which he taught at various universities. The series is arranged alphabetically by subject.
Summer Session (University of Michigan) records, 1902-1965
10 linear feet
Office administering summer session programs and camps of the University of Michigan. Executive committee and faculty minutes, student registers, correspondence, reports, budgets, and related administrative files; include papers relating to summer camps, notably the Biological Station, Camp Davis, Camp Filibert Roth, the Fresh Air Camp, and others.
The Summer Session records consist of executive committee and faculty minutes, student registers, correspondence, reports, budgets, and related administrative files; include papers relating to summer camps, notably the Biological Station, Camp Davis, Camp Filibert Roth, the Fresh Air Camp, and others.
Sunrise Cooperative Farm Community records, 1933-1937, 2023
2 linear feet — 2 microfilms — 1 oversize volume — 339 MB (online)
Jewish settlement established during the depression in Alicia near Saginaw; include minutes and reports, newsletters, financial records, membership materials, and court papers. Also, materials pertaining to the Sunrise Cooperative Farm Community's history (inclduing an oral history interview).
The Sunrise Cooperative Farm Community records document the organization and operation of the farming community. The record group is divided into the following series: Historical/Informational; Minutes and other organizational records; Newsletters; Financial Records; Membership Materials; Topical Files; and Litigation.
Suomi College Finnish-American collection, 1880-1972
100 microfilms
The Finnish Collection consists of 100 reels of microfilm concerning Finnish-American Churches, Labor Societies, Temperance Organizations, and other materials from the United States and Canada. The collection is the result of a joint project between the Bentley Library, Suomi College (now Finlandia University), and the University of Turku, Finland, coordinated in 1974-75.
The Suomi College Finnish-American Collection is comprised of 100 reels of microfilm containing records from 151 separate organizations (68 of which are located in Michigan). These organizations are comprised of the following kinds of records:
- Church materials: 62 record groups (32 from Michigan)
- Labor societies: 9 record groups (0 from Michigan)
- Temperance materials: 61 record groups (26 from Michigan
Other organizations, including educational, relief, musical, athletic, national, historical societies, publishing companies, and some personal: 19 record groups (10 from Michigan)
Because the materials have been filmed in a random order, an index at the end of the container listing has been prepared to guide the researcher to specific kinds of records: church, temperance, etc.