David Bicknell Truman Records, 1906-1978 (bulk 1969-1978)
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David Bicknell Truman Records
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Mount Holyoke College. Office of the President
Biographical History for: David Bicknell Truman Records
Biographical Note David Bicknell Truman, a political scientist and college and university administrator, was born on June 1, 1913, in Evanston, Illinois to Malcolm George Truman and Jane Mackintosh Truman. He graduated from Evanston High School in 1931 and attended Amherst College, graduating with a B.A. degree in 1935. He received his M.A. (1936) and Ph.D. (1939) in political science from the University of Chicago. On February 4, 1939 he married Elinor Jane Griffenhagen. They had a son, Edwin Malcolm Truman. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II and participating in the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of the Pacific Theater in 1945-1946, Truman taught political science at Bennington College (1939-1941), Cornell University (1941-1944), Harvard University (1946-1947), and Williams College (1947-1951). He began teaching at Columbia University in 1951, where he also served as the Dean from 1963-1967 and Vice President and Provost from 1967-1969 (a position he held during the student-led takeover of that institution). In 1969, he resigned from Columbia to become president of Mount Holyoke College. Achievements and events during his administration included Mount Holyoke's recommitment to remaining a college for women; revisions to the curriculum that included the formation of the Black Studies Department and numerous interdepartmental and interdisciplinary programs; changes in regulations concerning male guests in dormitories and alcohol use by students; the strengthening of cooperative relationships among the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst); the creation of a Black Cultural Center; and the construction of the Art Building and Willits-Hallowell Center. Truman retired from Mount Holyoke in 1978 and served as president of the Russell Sage Foundation from 1978-1979. During his career, Truman wrote and published extensively and was an active member of several educational organizations and societies, including the American Political Science Association, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He died on August 28, 2003 in Sarasota, Florida at the age of ninety.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The David Bicknell Truman Records span the years 1906-1979 with most materials dating from his tenure as President of Mount Holyoke College (1969-1978). These records document activities, events, and issues during his administration; there are also some documents from the administrations of his predecessors Richard Glenn Gettell (President, 1957-1968, Roswell Gray Ham (President, 1937-1957), and Mary Emma Woolley (President, 1901-1937). Correspondence (1969-1978) consists of letters written by Truman as well as letters addressed to him from Mount Holyoke students and their parents, faculty and staff, alumnae, trustees, Richard Glenn Gettell, Roswell Gray Ham, and professional colleagues. Topics discussed in these letters include African American students at Mount Holyoke, changes in parietals (rules concerning male visitors in dormitories) and other regulations governing student behavior, and issues relating to the Vietnam War such as the nationwide protest strike in which Mount Holyoke students participated in May, 1970. There are also letters objecting to appearances at the College by Edward Moore. Kennedy and William Doyle Ruckelshaus and to writings by two Mount Holyoke alumnae: Miss Marks and Miss Woolley, by Anna Mary Wells (Class of 1926) and Uncommon Women and Others, by Wendy Wasserstein (Class of 1971). Writings (1969-1978) chiefly consist of copies of speeches that Truman gave to students, alumnae, and other members of the Mount Holyoke College community. These documents include his inaugural, commencement, and convocation addresses as well as his remarks on the occasion of the Vietnam Moratorium, a nationwide demonstration held on October 15, 1969 to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Subject Files (1906-1979) contain minutes, agenda, correspondence, reports, surveys, grant applications, financial records, and publications. Many of the subjects discussed in Truman's Correspondence are also covered by these materials, which principally date from 1969-1978. These records also concern the activities of departments, offices, committees and programs at Mount Holyoke, curricular revisions, the use of computers at the College, the construction of Willits-Hallowell Conference Center and the Art Building, renovations to Williston Memorial Library, energy conservation on campus, and Mount Holyoke's association with Five Colleges, Inc. Inauguration Records (1969-1970) consist of minutes and agenda, correspondence, reports, invitations, programs and other printer materials, guest lists, and financial records concerning Truman's installation as President of Mount Holyoke College. Biographical Material (1969-1978) contains sketches, articles, and press releases relating to Truman's career as an educator and political scientist. Photographs (circa 1969-1978) consist of formal and information photographs of Truman, photographs taken during the inauguration and retirement ceremonies held for him, and a photograph of Marion Miller's portrait of him. These images also include photographs of his wife, Elinor G. Truman. Sound recordings (1969-1978) contain audio cassettes of speeches, remarks, and readings by Truman. These tapes include his comments about the Vietnam War. Video recordings (1969) consist of two tapes showing events during Truman's inauguration as President of Mount Holyoke.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Massachusetts--South Hadley.
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Vietnam Moratorium, 1969.
Student activities--Massachusetts--South Hadley.
African-American college students.
Women college students--Massachusetts--South Hadley.
Truman, David Bicknell, 1913-
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Truman, Elinor Griffenhagen, 1915-2005.
Gettell, Richard Glenn, 1912-1988.
Ham, Roswell Gray, 1891-1983.
Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947.
Wasserstein, Wendy. Uncommon women and others.
Wells, Anna Mary. Miss Marks and Miss Woolley.
Kennedy, Edward Moore, 1932-
Ruckelshaus, William Doyle, 1932-
Five Colleges, Inc.
Mount Holyoke College. President.
Mount Holyoke College. Trustees.
Mount Holyoke College--Administration.
Mount Holyoke College--Presidents.
Mount Holyoke College--Regulations.
Mount Holyoke College--Faculty.
Mount Holyoke College--Buildings.
Mount Holyoke College--Records and correspondence.
Mount Holyoke College--Students.
Mount Holyoke College--Students--Political activity.
Mount Holyoke College--Alumni and alumnae.
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Correspondence 1969-1978
January-July 1969
August-September 1969
October 1969
November-December 1969
January-February 1970
March-April 1970
May-June 1970
July-August 1970
September 1970
October-November 1970
December 1970
January 1971
February-March 1971
April 1971
May-June 1971
July-August 1971
September-October 1971
November-December 1971
January 1972
February 1972
March 1972
April-May 1972
June 1972
July-August 1972
September 1972
October 1972
November-December 1972
January-February 1973
March 1973
April-May 1973
June-August 1973
September-October 1973
November 1973
December 1973
January-March 1974
April 1974
May 1974
June 1974
July-August 1974
September-October 1974
November 1974
December 1974
January-February 1975
March-April 1975
May 1975
June-August 1975
September 1975
October 1975
November 1975
December 1975
January 1976
February 1976
March 1976
April 1976
May 1976
June 1976
July-August 1976
September 1976
October 1976
November-December 1976
January 1977
February 1977
March-April 1977
May 1977
June-July 1977
August-September 1977
October 1977
November 1977
December 1977
January 1978
February 1978
March-April 1978
May 1978
June-July 1978
August-December 1978
Christmas cards 1969-1978
Writings 1969-1978
Writings 1969
January-June 1970
July-December 1970
Writings 1971
January-August 1972
September-December 1972
Writings 1973
The Congress and America's Future 1973
January-July 1974
August-December 1974
January-May 1975
June-December 1975
Writings 1976
Writings 1977
Writings 1978
Convocation addresses 1969-1978
Subject Files 1906-1979
ABC (A Better Chance of South Hadley) 1964-1969
ABC (A Better Chance of South Hadley) 1970-1972
ABC (A Better Chance of South Hadley) 1973
ABC (A Better Chance of South Hadley 1974-1979
Academic Dean 1970
Accreditation circa 1951-1967
Accreditation 1968-1978
Ad Hoc Committee on the Purpose of a Residential College 1967-1969
Administrative Offices - Reports on Responsibilities etc. 1968-1969
Admissions 1971-1978
Alumnae Association 1968-1978
Alumnae Attitudes Swarthmore Report 1971-1972
Alumnae Clubs 1969-1970
Alumnae Clubs 1971-1972
Alumnae Clubs 1973-1974
Alumnae Clubs 1975-1976
Alumnae Clubs 1977-1978
Alumnae Quarterly 1970-1977
American Association for Higher Education 1970-1972
American Association of University Professors 1959-1975
American Association of University Women 1969-1975
American Council of Learned Societies 1968-1975
American Council on Education 1969-1977
American Council on Education: Commission on Federal Relations 1969-1973
American Council on Education: Commission on Federal Relations 1974-1975
American Studies Program 1971-1977
Amherst College 1973-1974
Art Advisory Committee 1970-1977
Art Department 1971-1978
Art Museum 1966-1978
Arts in Performance Committee 1971-1978
Association of American Colleges 1970-1972
Association of American Colleges 1973-1976
Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts 1966-1975
Astronomy Department 1962-1978
Atomic Energy Commission Grants 1962-1973
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Program 1972-1974
Bell, William 1971-1976
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 1976-1978
Biochemistry Committee 1974-1978
Biological Sciences Department 1969-1978
Black Students and Alumnae 1968-1977
Black Studies Department 1969-1978
Blind Students 1968-1974
Bookshop Inn 1972-1978
Buckland: Griswold House 1970-1972
Budget 1978-1979
Buildings and Grounds 1970-1978
Capital Campaign 1971
Capital Campaign 1972-1975
Career Services 1971-1978
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 1906-1975
Case for Mount Holyoke 1972
Chamber Singers 1968-1972
Chapel 1970-1978
Chapel Organ 1968-1969
Chemistry Department 1969-1975
Choral Music 1970-1973
Choragos 1975
Civil Rights 1964-1973
Clapp Laboratory 1967-1974
Classics Department 1970-1974
Coeducation 1960-1971
Coeducation 1972-1978
College Courses Grant Proposal (Richard Johnson and Joseph Ellis) 1977-1978
College Entrance Examination Board/College Board Review 1969-1976
College Inn 1971
College Research Center 1965-1969
College Research Center 1971-1974
Columbia Law School Fellowships 1971-1973
Committee on Appeals 1974-1977
Committee on Student Facilities 1969-1972
Committee on the Multi-Racial Community 1968-1978
Committee to Appoint Committees 1974-1978
Common Fund 1971
Community Senate 1976-1977
Complex Organizations Program 1973
Complex Organizations Program 1974-1975
Complex Organizations Program 1976
Complex Organizations Program 1977-1978
Computer Cooperation 1963-1971
Computer Reorganization 1974-1975
Conference on the Undergraduate Education of Women 1969-1971
Conservation (of Holyoke Range, etc.) 1971-1974
Consortium on Financing Higher Education 1974-1975
Consortium on Financing Higher Education 1976-1977
Continuing Education 1970-1978
Data Processing Steering Committee 1970-May 1977
Data Processing Steering Committee June 1977-1978
Dean of Faculty 1970-1978
Dean of Students 1969-1971
Dean of Students 1972-1973
Dean of Students 1974-1975
Dean of Students 1976-1978
Dean of Studies 1970-1971
Dean of Studies 1972-1973
Dean of Studies 1974-1978
Development Office 1969-1972
Development Office 1973-1974
Development Office 1974-May 1976
Development Office June-December 1976
Development Office 1977-1978
Development Office: Barnes and Roche, Inc. 1974-1977
Dickinson House 1961-1971
Dwight Hall 1969-1975
Economics Department 1969-1976
Educational Testing Service 1968-1972
Electronic Resource Center 1971-1972
Eliot House 1972-1973
Endowed Chairs 1971-1978
Energy Conservation 1973-1975
English Department 1970-1975
Faculty Conference Committee 1970-1978
Faculty Grants-in-Aid 1963-1977
Faculty Salaries 1956-1978
Financial Aid 1969-1972
Financial Aid 1973-1978
Five Colleges 1969-1970
Five Colleges 1971-1972
Five Colleges 1973-1976
Five Colleges 1977-1978
Five Colleges Astronomy Department 1958-1972
Five Colleges Black Studies Committee 1969-1971
Five Colleges Black Studies Committee 1972
Five Colleges Black Studies Committee 1973
Five Colleges Black Studies Committee 1974-1978
Five Colleges Canadian Studies Program 1974-1977
Five Colleges Hampshire Inter-Library Center 1960-1973
Five Colleges: Hampshire Inter-Library Center 1974-1977
Five Colleges: Housing 1969-1971
Five Colleges Latin American Studies Program 1971-1977
Five Colleges Long Range Planning Committee 1968-1969
Five Colleges Management Development Program 1978
Five Colleges: Massachusetts Review 1961-1977
Five Colleges Radio 1960-1973
Five Colleges: Transportation 1960-1973
Fraser, J.T.: Study of Time 1966-1970
French Department 1970-1977
Geography and Geology Department 1969-1973
Georgia Institute of Technology: Dual Degree Program 1972
German Department 1971-1975
Gorse Child Study Center 1970-1977
Grading System 1975
Health Service 1957-1977
Henry R. Luce Professorships 1964-1978
Higher Education General Information Survey 1968-1969
Higher Education General Information Survey 1970-1971
Higher Education General Information Survey 1972-1973
Higher Education General Information Survey 1974
Higher Education General Information Survey 1975
Higher Education General Information Survey 1976
Higher Education General Information Survey 1977-1978
Higher Horizons/College Bound 1965-1977
History Department 1969-1977
Institute for Off-Campus Experience and Cooperative Education 1973-1975
Institute of International Education circa 1927-1972
Interfuture 1971-1972
International Internship Programs 1972-1977
Kennedy, Edward M.: Commencement Speaker 1970
LSAT Scores 1975
Laboratory Theatre 1971-1977
Language Laboratories 1962-1978
Latin American Studies Program 1974-1977
Learning Development Center 1971-1977
Lecture Committee 1970-1977
Legislation, Federal 1972-1977
Legislation, Federal: Equal Rights Amendment 1972-1973
Legislation, Federal: Equal Rights Amendment 1974
Legislation, Federal: Equal Rights Amendment 1975-1977
Legislation, Federal: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act 1974-1976
Legislation, Federal: Financial Aid Programs for Students 1971-1977
Legislation, Federal: Taxation Proposals, Reforms etc. 1969-1976
Legislation, Federal: Tuition Remission 1976-1978
Legislation, Massachusetts 1971-1976
Legislation, Massachusetts: Matching Scholarship Grants Program 1977
Legislation, Massachusetts: Reorganization of Education 1973
Legislation, Massachusetts: Student Meals Tax 1974-1977
Library 1970-1978
Library: Archives 1970-1978
Library: Special Collections 1975-1977
Logotype 1967-1969
Long-Range Planning 1973-1978
Mary Lyon Hall 1970-1973
Mary Woolley Hall 1961-1978
Massachusetts Advisory Council on Education: Study of Higher Education Policies 1972
Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education 1968-1976
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1976-1977
Mathematics Department 1972-1973
Medieval Studies Program 1974-1976
Merrill House 1974-1975
Mortgage Policy 1969-1976
Mount Holyoke Today 1964-1977
Music Department 1968-1972
National Defense Student Loan Fund 1964-1973
National Science Foundation: College Science Improvement Program 1969-1974
National Science Foundation: Comprehensive Assistance to Undergraduate Science Education Program Grant 1976-1977
National Science Foundation: Continuing Education Program Grant 1974
National Science Foundation: Cooperative Economics Program Grant 1970
National Science Foundation: Institutional Grants for Science Program 1969-1978
National Science Foundation: Instructional Science Equipment Grant 1960-1967
National Science Foundation: Instructional Science Equipment Grant 1968-1969
National Science Foundation: Instructional Science Equipment Grant 1970-1978
National Science Foundation: Undergraduate Research Participation 1975-1978
National Science Foundation: WAMSIP Geology Grant 1969-1972
New England Board of Higher Education 1969-1973
New England Colleges Fund 1973-May 1975
New England Colleges Fund June-December 1975
New England Colleges Fund 1976-1978
Office of Naval Research: Grant Proposals, Reports, etc. 1958-1972
Parietals 1966-January 1969
Parietals February-December 1969
Parietals 1970
Parietals 1971-1974
Physical Education Department 1970-1975
Physical Education Department: Rowing 1976-1978
Physics Department 1961-1972
Politics Department 1969-1978
President's Luncheons 1970-1971
Psychobiology Committee 1976
Psychology and Education Department 1966-1978
Public Relations 1969-1978
Racism: Tillman Associates Study and Report 1969-1970
Registrar 1970-1978
Religion Department 1968-1978
Retirement Policies 1944-1977
Rockefeller Foundation 1964-1969
Rockefeller Foundation 1970-1971
Role of Women in Financing Higher Education 1971-1973
Romance Languages and Literatures Program 1973-1975
Ruckelshaus, William D.: Visit 1970
Russian Department 1972-1978
Security 1972-1975
Seven College Conference 1969-1970
Seven College Conference 1971-1973
Seven College Conference 1974-1977
Seven College Conference: National Roster of Women Scholars 1970-1974
Sit-in by Black Students 1970
Skinner Museum 1973-1978
Sloan Foundation Grant: Study of Cost and Financing of Higher Education (Sloan Study) 1971-1974
Sloan Foundation Grant: Support of Science Programs 1972-1975
Smith College 1973-1977
Sociology and Anthropology Department 1971-1978
South Hadley: Town/Gown Relationships 1968-1977
South Hadley: Tuition Grants 1961-1975
Space Studies 1969-1971
Space Studies 1972
Space Studies 1973-1974
Spanish and Italian Department 1974-1978
Spelman College 1974
Strike 1970
Strike 1972
Summer Management Institute for Women 1972-1973
Summer Program for Disadvantaged Students 1969-1970
Summer Theatre 1970-1978
Sweet Briar Junior Year in France Program 1969
Theatre Arts Department 1971-1978
Tidball, M. Elizabeth, and Vera Kistiakowsky: Baccalaureate Origins of American Scientists and Scholars 1975-1978
Tufts University: Associated OffCampus Planning Program Grant 1972-1973
Tutorial Projects 1964-1971
Tuttle, Mary E. 1959-1979
Twelve-College Exchange 1970-1979
Unions 1968-1971
Urban Studies 1967-1976
Vietnam Moratorium 1969
WMHC 1968-1976
Washington Internship Program 1965-1978
Wasserstein, Wendy: Uncommon Women and Others 1978
Wellesley College 1970-1975
Wells, Anna Mary: Miss Marks and Miss Woolley 1974-1975
Wells, Anna Mary: Miss Marks and Miss Woolley 1976
Wells, Anna Mary: Miss Marks and Miss Woolley 1977-1978
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professorship 1970-1976
Willits-Hallowell Center 1967-August 1972
Willits-Hallowell Center September-December 1972
Willits-Hallowell Center 1973-1974
Willits-Hallowell Center 1975-1978
Winter Term 1970-1978
Women Faculty Members: Statistics 1970-1973
Women in Politics Symposium 1974
Women's College Board of Chicago 1957-1972
Women's College Coalition 1975
Women's Studies Newsletter 1973
Woodrow Wilson Fellowships 1963-1973
Inauguration Records 1969-1970
Summary of materials in files, [folders 2-15, following], prepared by Edith S. Schleicher, Executive Secretary for the Committee on the Inauguration 1970
Book I 1969-1970
Book I (continued) 1969-1970
Book II 1969-1970
Book II (continued) 1969-1970
Book III 1969-1970
Book IV 1969-1970
Book IV (continued) 1969-1970
Book V 1969-1970
Book V (continued) 1969-1970
Book VI 1969-1970
Book VI (continued) 1969-1970
Book VII 1969-1970
Correspondence March-May 1969
Correspondence June-August 1969
Correspondence September 1969
Correspondence October 1969
Correspondence November 1969-July 1970
Greetings from Classes September-October 1969
Certificates of Congratulation: Agnes Scott College-Norwich University 1969
Certificates of Congratulation: University of Oklahoma-Wilson College 1969
Biographical Material 1969-1978
Biographical sketches, notes, clippings, and articles 1969
Biographical sketches, notes, clippings, and articles 1970-1971
Biographical sketches, notes, clippings, and articles 1972-1973
Biographical sketches, notes, clippings, and articles 1974-1976
Biographical sketches, notes, clippings, and articles 1977
Biographical sketches, notes, clippings, and articles 1978
Photographs circa 1969-1978
Inauguration photographs 1969
Formal photographs circa 1969-1978
Informal photographs circa 1969-1978
Photographs at retirement 1978
Photographs of Truman portrait by Marion Miller 1978
Photographs of David and Elinor Truman circa 1969-1978
Photographs of Elinor Truman circa 1969-1978
Slides (35 mm) circa 1969-1978
Sound Recordings 1969-1978
Truman on Vietnam (audio cassette) October 1969
S. Hadley luncheon (audio cassette) circa 1970
Speech to freshmen and address to class agents (audio cassette) January 27, 1970, circa 1970
Convocation speech (audio cassette) 1973
AICUM Radio Series. Massachusetts' Unique resource. Pluralism and diversity in American Higher Education; WGHC interview, Education Now, with Peggy French; speech to Alumnae Council (audio cassette) circa 1974, October 8, 1974, September 19, 1975
Address to student meeting re representation on Board of Trustees; speech to Alumnae Council (audio cassette) October 1974, October 19, 1974
Convocation speech (audio cassette) 1976
Convocation speeches (audio cassette) spring 1977, fall 1977
Reading from James Thurber, Stimson Room tea, Winter Term circa 1978
Video Recordings 1969
Video recording of inauguration ceremony (two tapes) 1969