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President's Office records

 Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-017

Scope and Contents

This collection includes records from the President's Office, including Alumni Relations materials (1917-1955) Cabinet materials (1982-1994) and Annual reports from 1941-1970.

The following presidential administrations are represented in the collection: James Doughtery (1875-1876), William Slocum (1888-1917), Clyde A. Duniway (1917-1923), Charles Mierow (1923-1934), Charles Brown Hershey (1933-1934 and 1943-1945), Thurston Davies (1934-1948), William Gill (1949-1955), Louis T. Benezet (1955-1963), Lloyd E. Worner (1963-1981), Gresham Riley (1981-1992), Kathryn Mohrman's office (1993-2002), and Richard Celeste (2002-2011).

Dates

  • Event: 1917-2002

Extent

27.4 Linear Feet (59 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Physical Location

Special Collections and Archives at Tutt Library.

Custodial History

Data transferred from the Colorado College Archives Subject List. Text of original entry: "Admin - President -

Alumni Relations 0727 1917-1955 Correspondence, reports, announcements relating to Presidents Duniway, Mierow, Davies and Gill and alumni relations;

Admin - President - Alumni Relations 0728 1955-1980 Correspondence, memos, announcements relating to Presidents Benezet and Worner and alumni affairs;

Admin - President - Benezet 0718 1955-1963 Correspondence, memos, notes relating to Pres. Benezet's administration;

Admin - President - Benezet 0747 1955 - 1963 Correspondence, notes, memos relating to President Benezet's administration.

Admin - President - Benezet, Louis T. 0392 1956-1962 addresses; correspondence; bio; resignation; publications; speaking engagements 1956-59; entertainments 1956-62 ; Trips 1956-58; Kinnikinnik 1960-62; misc.

Admin - President - Benezet, Louis T. 0391 1952-1969 inauguration 1956; correspondence

Admin - President - Benezet, Louis T. - Bio - Publications 0620 1999 Galley proofs of "People Versus Pyramids: New Goals for the Elite College", Colorado College Studies, no. 31;

Admin - President - Benezet, Worner 0748 1955 - 1980 Correspondence, notes, memos from Benezet and Worner administrations

Admin - President - Cabinet 0438 1982-1994 President's Cabinet / Senior Staff materials (Riley, Cronin, Grace, Mohrman presidencies)

Admin - President - Celeste, Richard 0049 2002-2011 Hiring process, strategic vision, Van Skilling, senior staff, enrollment issues, endowment, general notes, final year, notes for successor

Admin - President - Celeste, Richard - Inauguration 0876 2002 Papers relating to President Celeste's inauguration, October 2002

Admin - President - Celeste, Richard - Search 0875 2002 Papers relating to the 2002 Presidential search

Admin - President - Davies and Hershey 0383 1919-1948 Davies and Hershey (acting president) correspondence

Admin - President - Davies, Hershey, Gill. 0746 1934 - 1955 Correspondence, notes, memos relating to Presidents Davies, Hershey, and Gill administration.

Admin - President - Davies, Thurston 0378 1917-1957 addresses, annual reports, correspondence, Louise Kampf Coburn Library, registrar's report, files in multiple boxes

Admin - President - Dougherty 0010 1875-1879 Attendance records and gradebook; misc.

Admin - President - Duniway, Clyde 0390 1917-1923 Correspondence (including Parsons Case); bio; professional activities

Admin - President - Duniway, Mierow, Davies 0715 1917-1948 Correspondence, memos, notes of CC Presidents relating to administration of the college;

Admin - President - Duniway, Mierow, Davies. 0745 1917 - 1948 Correspondence, notes, memos relating to Presidents Duniway, Mierow, and Davies administration.

Admin - President - Gill, Benezet 0717 1947-1963 Correspondence, notes, memos of CC Presidents relating to administration of the college;

Admin - President - Gill, William H. 0393 1947-1956 Gill, William H. 1947 & 56 ; Inauguration of President Gill 1949 ; President Gill 1947-49; 75th Anniversary and committee 1948-49; Gill's entertainments 1952-55.

Admin - President - Gill; Admin - Acting President - Hershey 0716 1933-1955 Correspondence, memos, notes of CC Presidents relating to administration of the college;

Admin - President - Mierow, Charles 0384 1928-1938 inauguration, bio, files in multiple boxes

Admin - President - Mohrman, Kathryn 0439 1993-2002 Reports, profiles, proposals, policies, studies, block plan eval, diversity, restated by-laws and articles of inc (charters), strategic planning, assessment, reaccreditation, finances, more

Admin - President - Riley 0016 1981-1992 bio, publications, correspondence, misc.

Admin - President - Riley 0783 1986-1990 Correspondence, reports, memos relating to CC lobbying activities on HB1115, 1182, 1132

Admin - President - Riley 0397 1981-1992 writings, press releases, clippings

Admin - President - Riley - ECS/Campus Compact 0584 1985-1992 ECS correspondence 1985-87; Campus Compact 1988-1992

Admin - President - Riley, Gresham 0582 1980-1981 Inauguration; publications; Pre-inauguration Correspondence; Campus Visits 1980 and 1981; Presidential Search and Selection Committee

Admin - President - Riley, Gresham - Assoc. of American Colleges 0572 1982-1984 AAC Oversight Committee Meeting 10/84 Background material; AAC Oversight Committee Meeting 10/84 Washington DC; Oversight Com. for Project on Baccalaureate Degrees; Oversight Com. Misc.;

Admin - President - Riley, Gresham - Inauguration 0626 1981 Riley- Inauguration.

Admin - President - Slocum, William 0395 1904-1916 Slocum correspondence A-B, 1904-1910; bio/general; Parsons Case

Admin - President - Slocum, William 0394 1899-1914 Slocum correspondence: faculty searches, credit, endowment, taxes, coal, mineralogist, brick vs. stone, professional activities, wife Mary Slocum, portrait fund, misc.

Admin - President - Slocum, William 0396 1919-1934 Slocum, W.F., President Emeritus 1921-30 ; President Slocum 1919-34

Admin - President - Worner 0719 1964-1980 Correspondence, memos, notes (several boxes)

Admin - President - Worner 0008 1954-1981 clippings, addresses, correspondence, bio, etc. for Worner as Dean of the College 1954-1962 and President 1962-1981

Admin - President - Worner 0003 1947-1952 Correspondence from Robert Donner to President Gill re. subversive activities at CC, Communist activity, Unamerican Activities Committee

Admin - President - Worner, Lloyd 0911 1936-1981 Diplomas, awards, photographs, etc. (OVERSIZE)

Admin - President - Worner, Lloyd - Inauguration 0462 1963-1980 OVERSIZE scrapbook; commemorative stamps, 1976; "From a convocation address" (Press at CC, 1980)

Admin - President - Worner - Addresses 0559 1963-1980 Worner speeches: "More Relevant Than Ever" 4-11-69; "Some aspects of the Role of the Academic Dean: Stillwater" 8-3-64; Miscellaneous (undated) speeches Admin - President's Annual Report 0563 1941-1970 Notes, etc. on president's annual report, 1941-1970."

Processing Information

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Title
Records of the President's Office, 1917-2002
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Colorado College Archives Repository