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U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association of Greater Lansing records
Collection
Identifier: 00239
Scope and Contents
The U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Association of Greater Lansing collection contains newsletters, activity flyers, financial records and trip materials. There are also newsletters from other U.S.-China Peoples Friendship groups, press releases from the Chinese embassy, material about regional conferences, and magazines about China in English.
Dates:
1976 - 1985
Vice President for Student Affairs Student Protest files
Record Group
Identifier: UA-7.0
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of a number of protest groups and organizations. The records include newspaper articles, reports, flyers, and bulletins which were collected by the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs from 1965 to 1976. M.S.U. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the most prominent protest organization on campus, was active in virtually every area of protest. Newspaper articles concerning their actions and SDS literature are prevalent...
Dates:
1965 - 1976
Waldo family papers and the Waldo Travel Agency records
Collection
Identifier: 00042
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal correspondence, notes, reports, and financial records. The majority of these relate to Mortimer Waldo's activities in Russia and Finland from 1916 to 1918.Letters to family and friends written from 1916 to 1917 describe life in Siberia and comment on the political situation in the United States and the entry of the U.S. into the First World War. Later letters (1918) concentrate on the Finnish Civil War. Those dating from after 1919 primarily...
Dates:
1904 - 1991
Warren O. Goodwin papers
Collection
Identifier: 00157
Scope and Contents
This collection is divided into three main series: Personal, Business, and Publications.The Personal series is arranged into subgroupings: Confidentially U.S.A., The Muckraker, Correspondence, Corruption, Court Cases, and Clippings. These are followed by folders dealing with diverse subjects. The Muckraker and Confidentially U.S.A. were Goodwin's attempt to publish his saga of corruption in the federal government. The clippings were to be included in his monographs. Goodwin's...
Dates:
1893 - 1974
Wesley Fishel papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.95
Series Description
(1) BIOGRAPHICAL FILES. 1940-1948, 1955-1977, undated. 0.2 cubic feet
This series provides a broad overview of Wesley R. Fishel's professional life. Included are resumes, academic appointment papers and award certifications received by the scholar. Materials in the first nine folders reflect the beginnings of Fishel's early academic career, such as his appointment as an instructor of political science at UCLA. This series is arranged chronologically by subject.(2) ...
Dates:
1921 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1977
West Shaw Informant newsletter
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.7.37
Scope and Contents
The collection contains five issues of the West Shaw Informant for 1955-1956. The issues include an introduction to the hall itself, dress rules of the cafeteria, and reminders of quiet hours and phone usage. There is also information and statistics on intramural sports, which vary from football to bowling to ping pong. Also included are updates about General Council meetings, campus events, movie theater listings and activities with the women of their...
Dates:
1955 - 1956
What's Left? publication
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.7.27
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the first issue of What's Left? The issue contains articles on the Miami riots in 1980 and opinions on President Carter's Iran invasion cancellation.
Dates:
1980
William A. Wiltberger papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.283
Scope and Contents
The William A. Wiltberger papers reflect a large section of Wiltberger’s life, from the 1920s to the 1970s. They include material from his work as an educator, a police officer, an Air Force Colonel, and his membership in the International Association for Identification, the International Association of Police Chiefs, and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. The correspondence series spans the dates 1925-1942. This series includes several letters from the FBI personally...
Dates:
1922 - 1978
William B. Drew papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.135
Scope and Contents
The William B. Drew collection consists of materials from Drew’s Cinchona mission in Ecuador, reports about the effects of herbicide in South Vietnam, reports about swidden (slash and burn) to forest in Thailand, and the essay “History of the Botany and Plant Pathology Department from 1945-1973.” In this essay Drew writes about his time as a professor and head of the department and describes events in the department as well as faculty members. The collection also includes MSU...
Dates:
1943 - 2005