Franklin Kessel Patterson. President's Records, 1965-1974 (bulk 1966-1971)
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President's Records
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Time of Creation of President's Records
Patterson, Franklin Kessel, 1916-1994
Biographical History for: President's Records
Biographical Note Franklin Patterson was born on September 14, 1916. He received his B.A. from Occidental College in 1939, his M.A. from UCLA in 1941, and his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School in 1955. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942-46, attaining the rank of captain. He had a distinguished career as an educator, author and educational administrator, including serving as the Lincoln Filene Professor at Tufts University from 1957-66. Franklin Patterson was appointed first president of Hampshire College by the founding board of trustees (which included Harold F. Johnson, Winthrop S. Dakin, Charles Cole and the presidents of Amherst, Mt. Holyoke and Smith Colleges) in 1965. They entrusted him with the task of designing and implementing a new college based on the New College Plan of 1958. After discussing the plans in a conference held in June 1966 to which nationally known educators were invited, Patterson wrote The Making of a College with the assistance of Charles R. Longsworth, Hampshire's first employee and second president. The draft of the book was presented to the Board of Trustees in the fall of 1966. They approved it in principle, and work began in earnest on building and staffing the college. Patterson selected the Deans and senior administrators, and was intimately involved in the academic planning and faculty hiring for the new college. Hampshire opened in Fall 1970, and Patterson continued as President through the first academic year. Patterson resigned as President in 1971 to become chairman of Hampshire's Board of Trustees, a position which he held until 1974. The Trustees named Academic Building #1 Franklin Patterson Hall in his honor. He was appointed Frank L. Boyden Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston in June 1971. Franklin Patterson died in July 1994.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains correspondence files from the President's office during Patterson's tenure, usually arranged by correspondent. In addition, they contain subject files, reports, and minutes of meetings and conferences. One series concerns Five College consortial relations, especially important since Hampshire College was founded under the auspices of the other colleges in the consortium.
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Series 1: Trustee Correspondence, 1966-1974
This series is composed of President Patterson's correspondence with the Board of Trustees of Hampshire College, principally while he was President of the College from 1966-1971, although there is some material from 1971-1974, when he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees. The first three files in Box #1 contain correspondence with the Board as a whole; this box also contains one file grouped by subject concerning the choosing of the motto "Non satis scire" for the college. The remainder of Box #1, as well as Boxes #2 and #3, contain correspondence with individual members of the Board, arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Box #4 contains correspondence with or concerning individual committees of the Board of Trustees. The correspondence in each file is arranged in reverse chronological order.
Series 2: National Advisory Council Correspondence, 1968-1971
This series is composed of President Patterson's correspondence with members of the National Advisory Council to Hampshire College, a group of distinguished citizens formed to, in some sense, take the place the not yet existing alumni of the new college, and provide support--moral, educational and financial--for its endeavors. Box #1 contains correspondence with or about the NAC as a whole or in general. The rest of the series contains correspondence with individual members of the NAC. Box #2 contains three files arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent, in which less than four letters each are present. The remainder of the series contains correspondence in alphabetical order by correspondent.
Series 3: Fund Raising Correspondence, 1966-1971
This series contains President Patterson's correspondence with individuals and foundations concerning fund raising for Hampshire College. Box #1 contains mass mailings and general files; Boxes #2-#6 contain individual correspondence folders arranged alphabetically by correspondent or foundation, and the latter part of Box #6 contains correspondence with government agencies.
Series 4: Five College Meetings and Correspondence, 1966-1971
This series contains President Patterson's correspondence and records of meetings with the other Presidents of the Five Colleges. Box #1 contains two general files concerning Five College activities; the remainder of Box #1 and the beginning of Box #2 contain notes, minutes and correspondence concerning the Five College Presidents' meetings. The remainder of the series consists of files for each of the other institutions and a file of general Five College correspondence.
Series 5: Staff and Faculty Correspondence, 1966-1974
This series is composed of President Patterson's memoranda and correspondence with the administrators, staff and faculty of Hampshire College. Box #1 contains a general set of staff memoranda and Boxes #1-#4 contain files of correspondence with individual administrators, arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Boxes #5 and #6 contain correspondence with individual members of the faculty, also arranged alphabetically.
Series 6: General Correspondence, 1966-1971
This series contains general files--both subject and correspondence-- arranged alphabetically in 20 boxes. In addition to file folders with specific headings, there is a folder for each letter of the alphabet containing miscellaneous papers. Major subject sets include "Consultants" in Boxes #6 and #7; "Constitution" in Boxes #7 and #8; "Curriculum" in Box #8; "Other Colleges" in Boxes #14 and #15; "Students" in Boxes #18 and #19; and "Working Paper #1" (The Making of a College) in Box #20.
Trustees (General) 1966, 1967
Trustees (General) 1968, 1969
Trustees (General) 1970, 1971 (to 1974)
Helen S. Astin
Ely R. Callaway, Jr.
Meribeth E. Cameron
Charles W. Cole
Motto
Winthrop S. Dakin
Richard G. Gettell
Herman H. Goldstine
Harold F. Johnson, 1966-67, 1968, 1969, 1970
Harry W. Knight
John W. Lederle
Leonard H. Marks
Carmel C. Marr
Thomas C. Mendenhall
Charles Merrill
Elizabeth J. McCormack
Elting E. Morison
Alfred C. Neal
Edward N. Ney
Franklin Patterson
Calvin H. Plimpton
Oswald Tippo
Cicely K. Rosenberry
Mabel M. Smythe
David B. Truman
John William Ward
Trustees - Prospective members
Trustees - Development Committee
Trustees - Executive Committee
Trustees - Committee on Educational Policy
Trustees - Finance Committee
Trustees - Nominating Committee
Trustees - Compensation Committee
Trustees - Committee on Architecture and Campus Planning
Aide-memoire, September 27, 1966
National Advisory Council (General) 1968-1969
National Advisory Council (General) 1970-1971
NAC Massachusetts Committee
NAC Waiting Response
NAC Merrill House Library
NAC Refusals and Resignations
NAC A-I
NAC J-R
NAC S-Z
E. Sherman Adams
Verne S. Atwater
Stephen K. Bailey
Cesar L. Barber
Robert E. Barrett, Jr.
Daniel Bell
Robert S. Benjamin
Mrs. Bruce B. Benson (Lucy Wilson Benson)
Mrs. Peter A. A. Berle
Roy Blair
Curtis L. Blake
Henry W. Bragdon
Edward W. Brooke
Francis Brown
Jerome S. Bruner
Mrs. Barbara Burn
Frederick C. Church
John B. Coburn
Albert L. Cole
Harold W. Comfort
Henry Steele Commager
Silvio O. Conte
Robert L. Conway
Richard W. Couper
Mrs. Louis C. Cowan
John B. Davis, Jr.
Mrs. D.S. Denman
William Dietel
Rene Dubos
Donald Dwight
William Dwight, Jr.
Charles Eames
Martha M. Eliot
Ralph Ellison
Kurt Enoch
Erik H. Erikson
Isaac L. Eskenasy
Edwin D. Etherington
Robert B. Fiske
Clarence Francis
Charles Frankel
William T. French
Mrs. John French
Paul A. Freund
Mrs. Walter W. Garnsey
William Gibson
Bernard L. Gladieux
Harold B. Gores
Stephen W. Grant
George Gribben
Russell L. Haden, Jr.
Henry W. Happel
Raymond C. Harwood
Marion Harper, Jr.
Kevin B. Harrington
George C. Hatch
Samuel P. Haynes
Weston Howland, Jr.
Roy M. Huggins
J. Quincy Hunsicker, III
Elsie M. Jackson
Shirley B. Kalunda
Jeremiah Kaplan
Joseph P. Kazickas
John P. Kendall
Kenneth Keniston
Edward M. Kennedy
James R. Killian
Henry S. Kingman, Jr.
Philip M. Klutznick
Douglas M. Knight
John O. Larson
Dan W. Lufkin
Herbert J. Lyall
Robert A. Magowan
Charles M. Maguire
Richard Mayo-Smith
Sterling M. McMurrin
Donald McNassor
Richard M. Millard
John R. Miller
Newton N. Minow
Thomas W. Moore
Sidney Packard
Arthur Penn
Roland I. Perusse
Mrs. Harvey Picker
Gerard Piel
E. R. Piore
James Powell-Tuck
E. T. Pratt, Jr.
Roger L. Putnam
Esther Rauschenbush
Lachlan Reed
David Riesman
John Richardson, Jr.
William Ruder
Mrs. Oscar M. Ruebhausen
Derald Ruttenberg
Howard D. Samuel
Peter Schrag
David F. Sheldon
Edward Joseph Shoben, Jr.
Charles E. Silberman
Mrs. Jouette Shouse
Philip A. Singleton
Joseph E. Slater
Donald B. Smiley
E. E. Soubry
Carol F. Stover
Anna Lord Strauss
Ordway Tead
Max Tishler
A. Raymond Tye
Gus Tyler
Ralph W. Tyler
Philip Von Blon
Mrs. George Rodney Wallace
Theodore Waller
Frank G. Wangeman
John H. Watts
John R. Webster
Morton White
John C. Whitehead
Harold M. Williams
William Ziegler, III
Fund Raising, General
Fund Raising - Corporation Mailing March 1970
Fund Raising - Foundation Mailings, Jan., Feb., Apr. 1970
Fund Raising - Springfield
Fund Raising - Holyoke
Fund Raising - Worcester
Fund Raising - Individuals
Paul H. Davis
Edwin Land
Mrs. Fredrick C. Rudge
DeWitt Wallace
Vivian B. Allen
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
George F. Baker Trust
Beinecke Foundation
Braitmayer Foundation
Braitmayer Foundation Project
Bridges of Understanding Foundation
Bush Foundation
Louis Calder Foundation
Carnegie Corporation
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Columbia Broadcasting Company
Crown-Zellerbach Foundation
Council on Library Resources
Cummins Engine Foundation
Charles A. Dana Foundation
Danforth Foundation
Arthur Vining Davis Foundation
Henry L. And Grace Doherty Foundation
William H. Donner Foundation
Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Max C. Fleischman Foundation
Ford Foundation 1970-
Ford Foundation 1965-1969
Ford Foundation (Announcement 3/18/67)
Ford Foundation (Fred W. Friendly)
Hartford National Bank & Trust Company
Haas Community Funds
Charles Hayden Foundation
Hazen Foundation
Huber Foundation
IBM
Kaiser Family Foundation
William R. Kenan Jr., Charitable Trust
Charles F. Kettering Foundation
Kresge Foundation
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Agnes M. Lindsay Trust
Luce Foundation
Markle Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Richard King Mellon Foundation
Merck Company Foundation
Charles E. Merrill Trust
Monsanto Company
Mott Foundation Projects
Edward John Noble Foundation
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
Olin Foundation
Reeves Brothers Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Rockefeller Brothers Fund - Teaching-Learning Projects, June 1972
The JDR 3rd Fund
John D. Rockefeller 3rd, visit of Dec. 6, 1970
Russell Sage Foundation
Sears Roebuck Foundation
Scaife Family Charitable Trusts
Sloan Foundation
Spaulding-Potter Charitable Trusts
Spencer Foundation
Stern Family Fund
W.C. & J.V. Stone Foundation
Teagle Foundation
Charles Irwin Travelli Fund
Western Electric Company
Westinghouse Educational Foundation
Xerox Fund
Zale Foundation
Fund Raising H.E.W.
National Foundation for Higher Education
Fund Raising HEFC
Fund Raising H.U.D.
Five College cooperation
Five Colleges Inc.
Five College Presidents' meetings, 10/19/66 - 2/9/68
Five College Presidents' meeting, Mar. 12, 1968
Five College Presidents' meetings, 1/23/68 - 10/17/70
Five College Presidents' meeting, Mar. 12, 1970
Five College Presidents, May 14, 1970
Five College Presidents, Jan. 14, 1971
Five College Presidents' ad hoc meeting, Mar. 3, 1970
Five College Presidents, 5/26/70 - 10/26/70
Five College Presidents' meeting with Mr. Gould, Mar. 18, 1971
Five College Presidents, Mar. 19, 1971
Five College Presidents, June 15, 1971
Amherst College
Mt. Holyoke College
Smith College
University of Massachusetts
Bureau of Government Research, University of Massachusetts
Five College correspondence, general
Staff memoranda
Robert C. Birney
John R. Boettiger
AAAS Symposium, Dec. 26-27, 1969
Everett M. Hafner
Van R. Halsey
Charles R. Longsworth, 1966-1969
Charles R. Longsworth, 1970-1974
Richard C. Lyon
David E. Matz
Howard Paul
Kenneth Rosenthal
Francis D. Smith
Robert S. Taylor
Elizabeth H. Wheeler
Faculty candidates: Janet Adler, Thomas Baird Campion, Randolph L. Marshall, John Ulmer
Faculty A - H
Faculty I - Marsh
Faculty Mayes - N
Faculty N - Z
Academy for Educational Development
Accreditation
Admissions
AERA-ATPI Joint Committee
AAUP
American College Health Services
American Council on Education
American Society for Engineering Education
AT&T
Amherst, Town of
Architecture, general
Architecture - Sasaki, Dawson & Demay
Architects - Hugh Stubbins Associates
William Arrowsmith
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Athenian School
James A. Banks
G. Derwood Baker
Bay Path Junior College
Biological Field Stations
Max Birnbaum
Eugene R. Black
Bro-Dart Industries
Buildings - Station Road House
Buildings - various
California - University Center for Research and Development in Higher Education
Carnegie Study of Higher Education
CATV
Ceremonies - 1970
Ceremonies - 1971
Mae Churchill
College Entrance Examination Board
Committees - A
Committees - C - M
Committees - M - S
Common School
James B. Conant
Conference on Education of Women
Conference on Hampshire College, June 1966
Consultants - Barbara Currier
Consultants - Natural Science
Consultants - Language
Consultants - John M. Duggan
Consultants - David Mallery
Consultants - Michael Sawyer
Consultants - Library
Consultants - Humanities and Arts
Consultants - Social Science
Consultants - Music
Consultants - Students
Consultants - Theatre
Consultants - Various
Constitution - Executive Committee
Constitution - Academic Council
Constitution - College Council
Constitution - Community Council
Council on Urban Development
Courses - Seminar in Undergraduate Education
Courses - Ward Four
Norman Cousins
Curriculum - Fall Colloquy 1971
Curriculum - Field & Foreign Studies
Curriculum - Summer Programs
Curriculum - January Term
Curriculum - Human Development
Curriculum - Study of Law
Cushman Academy
Dakin House Master
Donors
Paul Dressell
Duke Endowment
T.N. Dupuy
Educational Television
Educational Testing Service
EDUCOM
EduWorld, Inc.
Equipment
Experiential Learning - Draft
Expense vouchers
Oriole and Peter Farb
Russell Farnen
Edith Fenton - Naomi Fleischman
Finances
Financial aid
Ray Friedman
George Gerber
Emily Goldblatt
Governance
Alonzo Grace
Hampshire College 1762
Bernard Harleston
Mark Harris
William C. Havard
Arthur House
Torsten Husen
International Education Act 1966
J, K
Ulysses Kay
Land acquisition
Larry Lemuel
Martin A. Linsky
Mailings - various
Mailings - 1st version WP #1
Mailings - MIT version WP #1
Mailings - London Times reprint
Map - Hampshire College
Massachusetts, State of
Mass. Advisory Committee on Educational Goals
Mass. State Board of Education
Mass. Educational Facilities Authority
Pierre Morette
Mount Hermon School
H.G. Macintosh
Archibald MacLeish
National Education Association
National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities
National Science Foundation
Old Sturbridge Village
Outward Bound
Other Colleges - American International College
Other Colleges - California
Other Colleges - Eastern
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, May 16, 1968
Other Colleges - Foreign
Other Colleges - Holy Cross
Other Colleges - Midwestern
Other Colleges - New College, Sarasota
Other Colleges - New England
Other Colleges - Old Westbury
Other Colleges - Southern
Other Colleges - Western
Other Colleges - Wheaton
Parents
Patterson directives (to Ruth Hammen, secretary)
Raymond Perry
Publishers
Publishers - Christian Science Monitor
Publishers - College Management
Publishers - MIT Press
Publishers - L.W. Singer
Q, R
Recruitment - Dean of College
Recruitment - Dean of Natural Science
Frederick L. Redefer
Reorganization
Lawrence Resnick
Priscilla Robertson
Scholarship drive - Hampshire County
Secondary schools
Barbara Shipley
John R. Silber
Simmons College
Simon's Rock
Simon's Rock Identification Committee
Arthur C. Singer, Jr.
Society of Ethical Culture
David B. Stone
Students - Puerto Rican Federation
Students - Inquiries from prospective
Students - Nicholas Bedworth
Students - Nellie Green
Students - Marty Messerli
Students - Breck Seiniger
Students - Examinations
Students - Early Identification
Students - Fellows 1970-71
Students - Fellows 1971-72
Summaries of correspondence
Tenure
Thirty Bedford Court
Naomi F. Towvin
Frank A. Tredinnick, Jr.
Tufts University
Union of Experimenting Colleges and Universities
Unitary Data System
U.S. Government - miscellaneous
U.S. Student Press Association
U.S. National Student Association
University Microfilms
Urban Council - Hampshire College
John A. Volpe
Nils Y. Wessell
Working Paper #1 - Comments
Working Paper #1 - Reviews
Working Paper #1 - Permissions
XYZ
Jerrold Zacharias