Wesleyan University Development Office subject files

The Development Office subject files pertain to Wesleyan University Press and its sale to Xerox, Wesleyan President Edwin D. Etherington and his resignation, as well as the military recruitment protests and the student-driven creation of Malcom X Day that occurred under his tenure, the creation and funding of various Wesleyan projects, such as the planning and results of the Audio-Visual Conference held at Wesleyan, the planning and opening of Wesleyan’s Science Center, the creation of a American Indian Program, the development of the Center for Advanced Studies after its creation in 1959, requests for equipment and funds made by the Biology Department at Wesleyan, and various projects and changes in the Arts Department at Wesleyan. The files consist of clippings, correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports (financial and otherwise), press releases, minutes, schedules, event programs, pamphlets, lists of books under contract, a list of delegates and guests at the dedication of the Hall-Atwater Laboratories, a list of foundations interested in Cancer Research, rosters of the Center for Advanced Studies’ fellows, professors’ resumes from Biology and Music Departments, Weekly Reader Children’s Book Club order forms, transcripts of formal speeches informal remarks by Wesleyan President Edwin D. Etherington, a transcript of President Nixon’s Vietnam peace initiatives address, statements by Edwin D. Etherington and student groups, the Spring 1968 edition of Alkahest: American College Poetry, proposals and budgets, preliminary drafts of proposals and budgets, blank applications for the 1969-70 Support of Doctoral Training Program provided by the National Defense Education Act Graduate Fellowship Program, blank National Science Foundation Research Grant Budget Summary form, Parents’ Confidentiality Statement forms for the College Scholarship Service, questionnaires, informational booklets and proceedings from the audiovisual conference of 1969, Science Center blueprints and floor plans, the December 1968 edition of The Wesleyan University Alumnus, poems by winners of The Academy of American Poets’ University and College Poetry Prizes, various Wesleyan science publications, multiple copies of the ONAS Newsletter, and a few pictures.