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Agriculture and Natural Resource Information Service records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-8.1.4
Scope and Contents
Subject files include materials collected by Cooperative Extension editors on various issues and events related to agriculture and extension. Many of the subject files were compiled between 1940s and 1950s. One group of files contain correspondence and publications related to the American Association of Agricultural College Editors (AAACE) (1947-1973). Arranged alphabetically.
News releases for the following university units include College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension...
Dates:
1927 - 1989
Alumni Memorial Chapel records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-5.5.5.1
Scope and Contents
The Alumni Memorial Chapel records contain newspaper clippings and manuscripts on the history of the chapel, bids and information seeking a new organ in the early 1990s, brochures, a proposal to fix the chapel’s stained glass windows, and projects that the United States Armed Forces Alumni Association of Michigan State University undertook to update and repair the chapel. There are lists of the MSU veterans who died during service which appear on the walls of the Alumni Memorial Chapel. Also...
Dates:
1952 - 2008
Arthur Vrettas papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.156
Scope and Contents
The Arthur Vrettas papers include booklets, reports, and communications related to the University College and its administration at Michigan State University. The booklets include course listings and general rules of the college. There are also reports from the University Committee on General Education (1981), and the "Winder Report" (1978) which was Provost C. L. Winder's proposal to dissolve University College. In addition, there are taped interviews and transcripts of interviews by...
Dates:
1969 - 1992
Barry D. Amis papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.500
Content Description
The collection contains flyers, notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings related to the creation of the Black Student Alliance and its early history from 1967 to 1969. Included are newspaper clipping editorials that Amis wrote while a student. Also included are blank forms, hate mail, and a factsheet about the Orangeburg Massacre.
The collection can be viewed online at https://onthebanks.msu.edu/Object/162-565-7729/barry-d-amis-papers-/ and ...
Dates:
1967-1970, undated
Beth J. Shapiro papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.102
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one copy of Beth J. Shapiro's 1982 doctoral dissertation entitled, "Intercollegiate Athletics and Big-Time Sport at Michigan State University: or 'The Difference between Good and Great is a Little Extra Effort.'" The dissertation outlines the role John Hannah played in the growth of the University and its sports, fiscal trends for college athletics, the relationship between athletics and educational achievement, and the experiences of black athletes.
Dates:
1982
Charles Carlisle Hood papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.107
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal papers and photographs belonging to Charles C. Hood. The material includes correspondence, copies of certificates and diploma, membership cards, clippings, Michigan State University publications, MSU music recording, and other miscellaneous items dating from 1916 to 1974.
Dates:
1916 - 1974
Commencement records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-13.1
Scope and Contents
This collection contains speeches, instructions, invitations, exercises, correspondence, minutes, and duplicate programs.
Dates:
1862 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1981
Committee on the Future of the University records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.12.3
Scope and Contents
The collection contains drafts of reports written by the subcommittees. These drafts are found in Files 1 through 51, Box 457 and File 1, Box 458. As none of the drafts are dated, it is not possible to place the contents of any file in evolutionary sequence with any degree of certainty. Consequently, there was no attempt to order the various drafts.Box 458, Files 2-24, contain information which apparently was used in the drafting of the report. Files 25 through 27, Box 458,...
Dates:
1956 - 1961
Department of Geology records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.53
Scope and Contents
The records consist of correspondence, field trip reports, inventories of the department, financial statements, experiment station notes, material relating to the Works Progress Administration, the military college program during World War II, science fraternities, annual report materials. There are also records relating to the Glacial Institute. Graduate Assistants’ files during World War II are marked with an asterisk (*).Graduate Assistant files contain applications, program...
Dates:
1920 - 2010
Emory W. Tappan papers
Collection
Identifier: 00065
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of sketches and (some with negatives and others photocopied with pictures of buildings) and survey notes (with related subdivision plat maps, blueprints, and correspondence) of Emory W. Tappan, a registered surveyor and civil engineer. Tappan's early association was with the firm Postiff and Tappan of Detroit, Michigan. Later, papers refer only to Emory W. Tappan, Civil Engineer and Surveyor, Registered, 413 Abbot Road, East Lansing, Michigan. Most of the...
Dates:
1928 - 1953