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Collection
Identifier: 015.ASWH
Abstract
The Adonijah S. Welch Hall collection includes building specifications, illustrations, documents, news clippings, fact sheets, building reports, and building rehabilitation documents. Welch hall was built in 1896 with renovations completed in 1900, 1909, 1974, and 1988. Documents in the collection from 1895 to 2010, with the bulk of materials dating from 1985-1989 during the last building rehabilitation.
Dates:
1895 - 2010
Collection
Identifier: 07.SE
Abstract
The Department of Special Education was founded at Michigan State Normal College in 1914, and today is the oldest and one of the largest special education programs in the United States. The department is now administered by the College of Education, and has expanded its curriculum to include Occupational, Hearing, Sight, and Speech Therapies. Records range from 1914-2014 and include course instruction materials, teaching and assessment kits, department history, pamphlets, brochures, and...
Dates:
1919 - 2014
Collection
Identifier: 010.GW
Abstract
Genevieve M. Walton served as Library Director at Michigan State Normal College from 1892 to 1932, during which time she expanded the size of the collection, the staff, and oversaw the move to a separate library building. She was also influential in the field of library science and co-founded the Michigan Library Association, and served as its first woman president. The collection is dated approximately 1889 to 1999.
Dates:
1892 - 1932
Collection
Identifier: 07.LCS
Abstract
The Lincoln Consolidated School collection documents the development of Michigan's first large consolidated school district. In the 1920s ten small school districts, mostly one room school houses, were combined to form one large school district. The collection is arranged alphabetically and divided into five separate series. The Administration series includes budget, Eastern Michigan University Relations, fundraising, reports and...
Dates:
1920 - 2006
Collection
Identifier: 02.MCSCP
Abstract
In 1947, Alexander G. Ruthven, president of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, contacted other Michigan state college presidents inviting them to meet, consider common problems, and confer about matters of statewide concern in public higher education. In 1952, the Council was formally organized; the Chairmanship was to be rotated annually among the presidents, with the first being John A. Hannah of Michigan State College. Eugene B. Elliott of Michigan State Normal College was the...
Dates:
1952 - 1985
Collection
Identifier: 07.OEC
Abstract
The records in the Outdoor Education Committee records were collected by Roosevelt School Principle Leonard Menzi during the process of offering outdoor education esperiences for Education Majors at the Michigan State Normal College. Materials in the collection include student applications, correspondence, publicity, planning documents, collected literature, materials specific to Mill Lake Camp in Chelsea Michigan, and slides from the Mill Lake Camp site taken...
Dates:
1952 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1955 - 1956
