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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
First Day Covers and Stamp collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-28.30
Scope and Content
The collection consists of First Day Covers (stamps) and other commemorative ephemera.
Dates:
1948-1955, 1962, 1975, 2005
Herbert A. Berg papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.93
Scope and Content
This collections contains publications about the history of Michigan Agricultural College, the impact the U.S. Civil War had on agricultural extension in Michigan, the Morrill Land Grant College Act and life of Bela Hubbard, an Michigan pioneer. Also included in the Berg collection are the articles of incorporation and by-laws and some correspondence of the Michigan State University chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi, the national honorary extension fraternity. There is a newspaper plate from the...
Dates:
1930 - 1969
James T. Bonnen papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.164
Scope and Contents
The James Bonnen papers include reports and other information that Bonnen collected while serving on the Michigan State University (MSU) President's Select Advisory Committee for University Planning and Priorities Committee. The papers also contain a folder of materials collected by Bonnen on the dispute between the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) and Provost David Scott over control of the Cooperative Extension Service in the early 1990s.Also included is...
Dates:
1949 - 2003
Justus Gage papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-1.1.9
Scope and Contents
The papers of Justus Gage contain two volumes of indexed correspondence concerning his position on the State Board of Agriculture. The letters relate to the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University), including discussion of faculty appointments, discipline at the College, construction projects and progress at the farms. There are summaries of the periodic State Board of Agriculture meetings as well. There is also a folder containing loose newspaper clippings and...
Dates:
1863 - 1874
Land-grant research collection
Collection
Identifier: LG-44
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of publications, pamphlets, and monographs relating to the land-grant college movement, Justin Morrill, and the modern land-grant university. There is also a photocopy of the Morrill Act.
Dates:
1910, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1968, undated
Leo A. Haak papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.97
Scope and Content
This collection contains the responses to a questionnaire sent to retired faculty from Michigan State University. The questionnaire was administered by professor Leo A. Haak. The results were the basis for a book about retirement that Haak published in 1971.
Dates:
1971
Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections research notes
Collection
Identifier: LG-43
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of research notes on the land-grant college movement compiled by William Combs and student assistants at the Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections during the late 1960s.
Dates:
circa 1960s
Ruth Simms Hamilton papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.269
Scope and Contents
The Ruth Simms Hamilton papers consist of subject files and research materials on African American issues, including civil rights and affirmative action at MSU and other universities. The collection includes case studies of MSU conflicts and protests, newspaper clippings, files about other countries, files about university programs, and papers written by Hamilton and others.Also included are files about MSU student organizations which include Akers Black Caucus, Associated Black...
Dates:
1968 - 1982