Victoria Schuck Papers
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Schuck, Victoria
Biographical History for: Victoria Schuck Papers
Biographical Note Victoria Schuck was born on March 16, 1909 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Anthony B. and Anna Prieb Schuck. She grew up in San Marino, California and received her B.A. (1930), M.A. (1931) and Ph.D. (1937) from Stanford University. She was an assistant professor at Florida State College for Women from 1937-1940, and then became a member of the Mount Holyoke College Political Science Department. During and after World War II she also worked for two federal agencies: the Office of Price Administration, where she was the Principal Program Analyst from 1942-1944 and the Office of Temporary Controls, where she served as a consultant from 1945-1947. She was a visiting lecturer at Smith College (1948-1949), a visiting professor at Stanford University (1952), and a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institute (1967-1968). Schuck was an innovative teacher of courses in American government, urban planning, and the administration of public policy. In 1949, she initiated a Washington Internship Program to provide Mount Holyoke students with an opportunity to work in Washington, D.C. as summer assistants to members of congress, senators, and administrators of federal agencies. This program was the first of its kind and it served as a model for similar internships at other schools. In 1954, she was instrumental in establishing a Political Studies Center to encourage students at Amherst College and Mount Holyoke to become involved in politics through interaction with residents of local communities. She invited many national, state, and local politicians to speak at Mount Holyoke, including United States presidential candidates Barry Goldwater and Hubert H. Humphrey and Massachusetts senators Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy. Schuck served on several Mount Holyoke Committees, including the Lecture Committee (1948-1974), the Honors Committee (1960-1962), and the committee that planned special events held during the College's one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary celebration in 1962. Shuck also served on many local, state, and federal commissions and boards and was an active member of numerous professional organizations. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy appointed her as a member of the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation. She was a member of the Massachusetts Commission on Interstate Cooperation (1957-1960), the Board of Trustees of the University of Massachusetts (1958-1965) and the University's Building Authority (1960-1968), the Town of South Hadley, Massachusetts Planning Board (1961-1967), the Massachusetts Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1962-1974), and the Berkshire Community College New Campus Committee (1964-1973). She was Vice President of the American Political Science Association (1971-1972) and President of the Northeastern Political Science Association (1972-1973). In 1966 and 1971, Schuck received grants to observe elections in South Vietnam and to study the Vietnamese constitution. Her publications include articles about women in politics and a survey of documents and writings about the Watergate Affair. Shuck retired from full-time teaching at Mount Holyoke in May of 1974, but returned to teach Winter Term courses in 1975 and 1976. She then served as President of Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C. from 1977-1980 and received an honorary degree from that school upon her retirement. In 1988, the American Political Science Association established an annual award in her name to be given to the author of a book on women and politics. Schuck died on February 15, 1999 at the age of eighty-nine in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Victoria Schuck Papers primarily document her professional activities as a political scientist and professor of political science at Mount Holyoke College. Materials are arranged into these series: Correspondence, Writings, Course Records; Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Records, Internship Records, Subject Files, Mount Holyoke College Political Science Department Materials, Records of Mount Holyoke College Committee Work, Women in Politics Symposium Records, Memorabilia, Biographical Materials, Audiocassettes, and Photographs. There is also a series for Oversize (Folio) Material described as part of other series. Correspondence (1945-1989, n.d.) contains letters by and to Schuck, primarily concerning her professional activities. Correspondents include Mount Holyoke College students, alumnae, faculty, and administrators as well as colleagues elsewhere and political figures in the United States and other countries. These letters discuss her courses at Mount Holyoke, her speaking engagements, her research, and her work as a member of numerous local, state, and national boards, commissions, and organizations. Writings (1941-1982) consist of published as well as unpublished works written by Schuck. Two reports were written by her as part of her work for the United States Office of Price Administration and Office of Temporary Controls during and soon after World War II. Most of the other works reflect her service as a member of several organizations and commissions, including the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation, the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and the Planning Board of South Hadley, Massachusetts. There are also copies of her books, articles, reports, and notes about women in politics, party politics, and constitutional government and her analysis of Political Science and Instruction in Political Science at Mount Holyoke College. Course Records (1930-1976, n.d.) contain syllabi, readings lists, lecture notes, papers and projects written by students, class lists, and other materials from Schuck's political science classes at Mount Holyoke College. Most of these records are for courses in urban planning, American government, public policy, presidential leadership, and political philosophy and behavior. Records of the Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center (1952-1970) primarily document the work of Mount Holyoke College and Amherst College students who conducted a variety of studies and surveys of political issues and events in local communities. Topics studied by the students include the results of local, state, and national elections in Holyoke, Massachusetts and town planning in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Several studies concern Springfield, Massachusetts, including Negro Leadership in that city (1964) and the results of local, states, and national elections in November, 1964. There are also surveys of the political activities of Mount Holyoke students in 1959-1960 and students' responses in the spring of 1964 to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963. Internship Records (1950-1976, circa 1986) contain correspondence, applications, reports, schedules, and financial records concerning students who participated in summer internships available through the Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center or the Washington Internship Program. Most of these documents concern Mount Holyoke students, who provided detailed reports describing their experiences as interns. There is also a summary of the Most Memorable Experiences of Mount Holyoke Interns, probably compiled for a celebration of the history of the Washington Internship Program in 1986. Schuck's Subject Files (1945-1974) consist of correspondence, memoranda, bibliographies, publications, and memorabilia. Most of these materials document her work as a member of the Massachusetts Commission on Interstate Cooperation, the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1961-1974) and President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation (1963-1965); her membership in the American Association of University Women, the American Political Science Association, and the New England Political Science Association; her service on the Berkshire Community College New Campus Committee (1964-1973) and the Board of Trustees and Building Authority of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1958-1971). Other files concern her studies of the constitution revision process in the United States, the constitution of South Vietnam, the early years of the United Nations, and women in politics. There are also documents, buttons, lapel pins, a bar of Goldwater soap, and other materials from her attendance at the Republican National Convention of 1964. Mount Holyoke College Political Science Department Materials (1942-1976) consist of minutes, correspondence, reports, memoranda, course descriptions, schedules, examinations, financial records, publications, and lists. These records, which were primarily created or sent to Schuck (often as Department Chair) concern course offerings and the activities of faculty and students. Some materials also relate to the Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center. Schuck's Records of Mount Holyoke College Committee Work (1948-1963) consist of correspondence, reports, programs, announcements, schedules, articles, financial records, and lists. Most materials document her service on the College's Lecture Committee (1948-1950) and Special Events Committee (1961-1963). Both committees were involved in selecting individuals to participate in programs at Mount Holyoke. These materials include twenty-one letters exchanged by Schuck and Bertrand Russell, who spoke at the College in the fall of 1950, as well as her correspondence with other notable political figures, scientists, authors, and artists. There are also reports, correspondence, and notes from Schuck's years as a member of the College's Honors Committee (1960-1962). These materials consist of reports, correspondence, and lists of students concerning students eligible for honors work. Records for the Women in Politics Symposium held at Mount Holyoke College in 1974 consist of correspondence, memoranda, programs, schedules, press releases, biographical information, and lists. This event (organized by Schuck) featured many women politicians who discussed their experiences in local, state, and national politics. Memorabilia (1953-1986) consists of letters, programs, invitations, certificates, announcements, publications, political cartoons, lists, cards, and a scrapbook. These documents primarily concern events during Schuck's life such as her appointment by John F. Kennedy as a member of the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation in 1963, her tour of the Cape Kennedy Air Force station in 1966, and her inauguration as President of Mount Vernon College in 1978. The scrapbook, compiled on the occasion of Schuck's retirement from full-time teaching at Mount Holyoke in 1974, contains letters and tributes by colleagues and alumnae. There are also original drawings of five political cartoons (1957-1958) by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Dispatch. Biographical Material (1940-1999, n.d.) primarily consists of newspaper articles and press releases about Schuck's professional activities from 1940-1980. These documents concern her work as a member of numerous boards, organizations, and committees, her lectures, and her frequent trips to Washington, D.C. with students in her political science classes. The series also includes an article (circa 1986) about the house that Frank Lloyd Weight designed for her (which was never built), tributes to her work by members of the United States Congress (1978, 1980, 1986), and a copy of Schuck's obituary (1999). Audiocassettes (1988) consist of two copies of a recording of a panel discussion in which Schuck participated at the Women and the Constitution: a Bicentennial History conference held in Atlanta, Georgia in February 1988. The topic of the panel was Abigail Adams and Her Times. Photographs (circa 1940s-1992, n.d.) primarily show Shuck alone or with others. The formal portraits and informal photographs of Schuck date from the 1940s to about the 1970s. Images of Schuck and others include photographs of Mount Holyoke students and interns at the White House (1965, 1968) and elsewhere in Washington, D.C. There are also photographs of Schuck and students with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and other political figures.
Unrestricted except for evaluations of and recommendations for students in Series 3 and Series 5; surveys providing names and descriptions of respondents and student papers that are graded or otherwise evaluated in Series 4; and information about students' grades in Series 7 and Series 8. These records many be used by researchers who sign the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Restricted Records Statistical and Quantitative Research Contract.
Use of the collection is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.)
Processed by Patricia J. Albright, 1987, 2008, with assistance from Ralitsa Donkova and Autumn S. Winslow, 2005-2008.
Constitutions--United States.
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Constitutions--South Vietnam (Provisional Revolutionary Government, 1969-1976).
Internship programs--Washington (D.C.)
Politicians--Massachusetts.
Politicians--United States.
Women college teachers--Massachusetts--South Hadley.
Women political scientists--Massachusetts--South Hadley.
Women in politics--United States.
Schuck, Victoria.
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Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998.
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
Kennedy, Edward Moore, 1932-
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963,
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Fitzpatrick, Daniel Robert, 1891-1969.
Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.
American Association of University Women.
American Political Science Association.
New England Political Science Association.
Amherst College--Students.
Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center.
Berkshire Community College (Pittsfield, Mass.)
Massachusetts. Commission on Interstate Co-operation.
United States Commission on Civil Rights. Massachusetts Advisory Committee.
United States. President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation.
University of Massachusetts (Amherst Campus).
Mount Holyoke College-Faculty.
Mount Holyoke College--Students.
Mount Holyoke College. Curricula.
Mount Holyoke College--Student papers--1949-1974.
Republican National Convention (28th 1964: San Francisco).
Mount Holyoke College. Political Science Dept.
Mount Holyoke College. Lecture Committee.
Mount Holyoke College. Honors Committee.
Mount Holyoke College. 125th Anniversary Special Events Committee.
Women and the Constitution (1988: Atlanta, Ga.).
Mount Holyoke College. Washington Internship Program.
Women in Politics (1974: Mount Holyoke College).
Holyoke (Mass.)--Politics and government.
South Hadley (Mass.)--Politics and government.
Springfield (Mass.)--Politics and government.
Southeast Asia--Politics and government.
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Correspondence, 1945-1989, n.d.
Correspondence (1945-1989, n.d.) consists of letters by and to Schuck reflecting her activities as a political scientist and Mount Holyoke College faculty member. Correspondents include Mount Holyoke students, alumnae, faculty and administrators, other colleagues, and politicians in the United States and other countries. Letters from alumnae such as Marilyn Ursu Bauridel (July 1, 1964 and April 1, 1969), Jane E. Cummins (October 31, 1970), and Astrid Merget (August 17, 1969) provide detailed descriptions of the activities of these women. Other alumnae correspondence concerns the many speeches that Schuck presented at meetings of Mount Holyoke alumnae clubs. There are also letters by Mount French professor Ruth Dean, who describes her experiences while at Oxford University between January-May 1968. Schuck's correspondence with other colleagues chiefly concerns her work at Mount Holyoke and her other professional activities. These documents discuss arrangements for courses, the work of students, visiting lecturers, her membership in organizations, and her 1966 candidacy for an appointment to the Board of Trustees of the University of Massachusetts. Letters from 1966-1967 also concern her sabbatical in Southeast Asia. Politicians represented by letters in this collection include Edward P. Boland and Ella Grasso. There is also a letter that Schuck wrote to Indira Gandhi (January 27, 1966) after receiving a Christmas card from her and a letter to Schuck from Massachusetts Attorney General Elliott L. Richardson (May 28, 1968), congratulating her for receiving the Woman of the Year award from the Massachusetts Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Schuck's correspondence after her retirement from Mount Holyoke in 1974 includes a draft of a comment that she wrote in April of 1989 to accompany a Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly article about Member of Congress Nita Melnikoff Lowey (Class of 1959).
Unrestricted.
Writings, 1941-1982
Writings (1941-1982) contain books, articles, reports, pamphlets, speeches, letters to the editor, and book reviews as well as unpublished notes, drafts, and typescripts. Most publications reflect Schuck's work for various organizations and commissions. These works chiefly concern Massachusetts state and local government, party politics, regional planning, racial discrimination, women in politics, and the teaching of politics at the college level. Two reports from 1944 about the administration of a Large War Agency reflect her work as Principal Program Analyst for the Office of Price Administration. Another article concerns The Negro and the O.P.A. (1947). Some writings relate to South Hadley, Massachusetts, including a Comprehensive Planning Program prepared by Schuck and other members of the town's Planning Board (1964). The Report on Registration and Voting Participation from 1963 was prepared by Shuck and other members of a commission created President John F. Kennedy to study that issue. A Report on Racial Imbalance in the Boston Public Schools and Report of Massachusetts Housing Discriminations in the Springfield-Holyoke-Chicopee Metropolitan Area (1966) reflected her membership on the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Articles from 1966-1967 are based on her research about the constitution of South Vietnam. Drafts, notes, questionnaires, surveys, and correspondence from 1968-1971 concern a study conducted by Shuck and other members of the American Political Science Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Political Science Profession. Similar materials from 1969-1971 reflect Schuck's interest in the reorganization of executive branch of United States government at the state and federal level. There is analysis of Political Science and Instruction in Political Science at Mount Holyoke College that Schuck prepared for the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, D.C. Other writings include her article about Sexism and Scholarship (1974), three newspaper articles that she wrote as a delegate to the International Women's Year conference in 1975, and two collections of essays about politics that she co-edited in 1979 and 1981.
Course Records, 1930-1976
Course Records (1930-1976) document Schuck's work as a professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College. These records primarily consists of syllabi; reading lists; lecture notes; course diaries, reports and papers written by students; examinations; announcements; class lists; and publications, campaign literature, transparencies, maps and charts used in several courses. Records for Political Science 244, Urban Politics and Planning, also contain the results of students' interviews with Springfield, Massachusetts business leaders and as well as a Community Land Use board game used in the course. Most of the remaining materials are for courses in American national, state, and local government; parties and politics; public policy; presidential leadership; and political behavior, philosophy, and problems. In addition, there are records for Winter Term classes and projects that Schuck taught or supervised in 1973, 1974, and 1976.
Unrestricted except for evaluations of students. These records may be used by researchers who sign the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Restricted Records Statistical and Quantitative Research Contract.
Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center Records, 1952-1970
The Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center was established at Mount Holyoke College in 1954 with grant funding from the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation. The Center (which became the Political Studies Center in 1965 then closed after Schuck's retirement in 1974) provided Mount Holyoke and Amherst College students with literature and source materials for the study of parties and politics and for making political surveys in local communities. The Center also supported an internship program for students who wanted to work in branches of the federal government in Washington, D.C. and a volunteer program for students interested in working in international organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Records (1952-1970) document efforts to gain support for the Center's creation and the subsequent activities of faculty and students associated with it. Most of these materials consist of student papers, questionnaires, and surveys analyzing the results of local, state, and national elections in local communities, particularly Holyoke, South Hadley, and Springfield, Massachusetts, 1954-1967. There are surveys of Mount Holyoke students who voted in the 1960 presidential election, questionnaires recording responses of Mount Holyoke students to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, and a study of Negro Leadership in Springfield in 1963-1964. Other records consist of Schuck's annual reports for the Center, correspondence with representatives of the Falk Foundation, syllabi, schedules, and brochures and articles about the Center's activities.
Unrestricted except for surveys providing the names and descriptions of respondents and for student papers that are graded or otherwise evaluated. These records may be used by researchers who sign the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Restricted Records Statistical and Quantitative Research Contract.
Internship Records, 1950-1976, circa 1986
These records concern students who participated in summer internships available through the Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center or the Washington Internship Program. Correspondence in these materials consists of letters by and to Shuck concerning arrangements for internships and the activities of interns. Some letters are from staff members at Connecticut College, Wheaton College, and other schools who participated in the Washington Internship Program. There are many reports by student interns providing detailed descriptions of their work as assistants to members of congress, senators, and the administrators of federal agencies. Other materials consist of applications from potential interns, lists, schedules, and financial records. The records also include a summary of the Most Memorable Experiences of Mount Holyoke Interns, possibly compiled in 1986 for the celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Washington Internship Program.
Unrestricted except for evaluations of and recommendations for students who served as interns. These records may be used by researchers who sign the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Restricted Records Statistical and Quantitative Research Contract.
Subject Files, 1945-1974
Subject Files document Schuck's research interests, her service on a variety of boards, committees, and commissions, and her active membership in several professional organizations. Research materials include correspondence, memoranda, bibliographies, publications, and memorabilia concerning the Republican National Convention of 1964. Reports and other publications concern the creation and early years of the United Nations (1945-1957). Schuck's interest in women in politics is reflected by numerous publications relating to that subject, including a study of the Role of Women in the 1964 Republican National Convention and Women in the Public Service: A Series of Surveys on Women in Public Office issued in 1955, 1959, and 1963. Correspondence, reports, bibliographies, notes and lists concern her grant-supported research trips in Southeast Asia in 1966 and 1971. One subject file for Vietnam includes photographs sent to Schuck by Newsweek magazine relating to elections in South Vietnam in 1967. Materials reflecting Schuck's public and professional service consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, by-laws, lists of members, notes, bibliographies, statistics, questionnaires, financial records, and publications. These documents primarily concern her work as a member of the Berkshire Community College New Campus Committee (1964-1973), the Massachusetts Commission on Interstate Cooperation (1957-1962), the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation (1963-1965), and the Massachusetts Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1961-1974). Her long association with the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts is documented by minutes and, reports, correspondence, memoranda, notes, lists, and financial record from her service on the University's Board of Trustees (1958-1971) and Building Authority (1960-1968). Other materials concern her work on commissions revising the constitutions of New York State and several other states. Materials documenting Schuck's membership in professional organizations consist of minutes and agenda, correspondences, lists of officers and members, programs, newsletters, announcements, proposals, resolutions, questionnaires, notes, financial records. Most of these files relate to the American Association of University Women (1968-1974), the American Political Science Association (1950-1971), and the New England Political Science Association (1967-1973).
Mount Holyoke College Political Science Department Materials, 1942-1976
Consist of minutes of Department meetings, correspondence, reports, memoranda, course descriptions, schedules, general examinations, financial records, publications, and lists. These documents reflect the overall activities of Department members. Some correspondence, financial records, and equipment manuals relate to the Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center. There are also copies of Schuck's reports concerning the Urban Studies Interdisciplinary Major Program for 1972/1973 and 1973/1974.
Unrestricted except for records for records containing information about the grades of individual students. These records may be used by researchers who sign the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Restricted Records Statistical and Quantitative Research Contract.
Records of Mount Holyoke College Committee Work, 1948-1963
Consist of correspondence, reports, schedules, financial records, lists, and other material reflecting Schuck's service on the Mount Holyoke College Lecture Committee, Honors Committee, and Special Events Committee. The Lecture Committee material (1948-1950, 1959) consists of lists and correspondence about lectures given at Mount Holyoke by a wide range of speakers. These documents include twenty-one letters exchanged by Schuck and Bertrand Russell, who gave a series of lectures at the College in the fall of 1950. There are also letters to Schuck from W.H. Auden, Hugo Black, Ralph Bunche, Bernard DeVoto, Thomas Dewey, William O. Douglas, John Foster Dulles, T.S. Eliot, Felix Frankfurter, Herbert Hoover, Harold Ickes, Thomas Mann, Robert Oppenheimer, Frances Perkins, Drew Pearson, Sumner Welles, Rebecca West, and Thornton Wilder discussing invitations to speak at Mount Holyoke in 1948-1950. Other Lecture Committee materials concern a conference on city planning held at the College in 1959. Honors Committee materials (1960-1962) consist of lists of students as well as reports, correspondence, and notes. The Special Events Committee planned events held during Mount Holyoke's one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary celebration in 1962. These materials date from 1961-1963 and consist of programs, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and lists. The letters are by and to participants in programs about Art and Artists in Today's Society, Words and Music, The New in Science at Mid-Century, and Women in Politics Around the World. Records for the Special Events Committee include correspondence with Edward Albee, W.H. Auden, Aaron Copeland, E.E. Cummings, Indira Gandhi, Ella Grasso, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Margaret Chase Smith.
Unrestricted except for Honors Work Committee material containing information about the grades of individual students. These records may be used by researchers who sign the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Restricted Records Statistical and Quantitative Research Contract.
Women in Politics Symposium Records, 1974
Contains correspondence, memoranda, press releases, programs, schedules, biographical information about participants, and lists relating to a symposium organized by Schuck and held at Mount Holyoke College on April 26-27, 1974. The program featured women elected to national, state and local offices who spoke about their experiences in politics. Speakers included Bella Abzug, Margaret M. Heckler, Madeleine Kunin, and Linda J. Melconian.
Memorabilia, 1953-1986
Consists of programs, invitations, certificates, announcements, letters, publications, political cartoons, lists, cards, and a scrapbook. Some of these materials concern Schuck's attendance at the inaugural ceremonies for various politicians, including United States Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953) and Lyndon Baines Johnson (1965), as well as her own inauguration at President of Mount Vernon College in 1978. Announcements are for Senator John F. Kennedy's lecture on American Foreign Policy Problems for 1956 at Mount Holyoke College (November 2, 1955) and for Schuck's campaign for election to the South Hadley, Massachusetts, Planning Board in 1961. Certificates include her appointments to the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission (1962) and the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation (1963). The menu is for a lunch at the White House on April 28, 1965. Materials from Schuck's tour of the Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in 1966 consist of letters, publications, and the certificate granting her an honorary Doctor of Aerospaceology degree. The scrapbook compiled on the occasion of Schuck's retirement from Mount Holyoke College in May of 1974 contains letters and tributes by colleagues and alumnae and a resolution from the Board of Trustees commending her thirty-four years of service. The five political cartoons (1957-1958) dealing with Cold War topics are original drawings by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Dispatch. Each cartoon panel measures 13.5 x 18 inches and is inscribed To Mount Holyoke College.
Biographical Material, 1940-1999, n.d.
Consists of biographical forms completed by Schuck as well as copies of newspaper and journal articles, press releases, announcements, programs and newsletters in which she is mentioned. These materials primarily document her professional activities from 1940 until her retirement in 1980. They describe her appointments to committees, commissions, and boards; her work for professional organizations; her attendance at conferences; lectures and other talks by her; research and publications; her frequent trips to Washington, D.C. with students in her classes; her students' surveys of the results of elections; Political Science Department and Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center events; and the work of Mount Holyoke students in the Washington Internship Program. Included are copies of tributes to her and her work from members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in issues of the Congressional Record for November 9, 1978, June 18, 1980, and April 16, 1986. These materials also contain an article about the house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for her which was never built (circa 1986), and an obituary of Schuck (1999).
Audiocassettes, 1988
Contains two copies of a tape of a panel discussion of Abigail Adams and Her Times, presented as Panel XX at the Women and the Constitution: a Bicentennial History conference in Atlanta, Georgia, in February, 1988. Members of the panel, convened by Diane Fowlkes, were Schuck, Edith B. Gelles, and Mary Beth Norton. The conference was presented by the Carter Center at Emory University in conjunction with Georgia State University and the Jimmy Carter Library.
Photographs, circa 1940-1992
Primarily consist of formal and informal photographs of Shuck and photographs of her with others. Included are photographs (1948-1966) of Schuck, students, and visiting politicians in her Political Science 241 (Parties and Politics) and 346 (Public Policy) and at Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center classes and events. There are photographs of Mount Holyoke students serving as Washington Interns (circa 1957-circa 1971) and of Shuck and interns meeting with Lady Bird Johnson the White House in 1965 and 1968. Other photographs show Shuck and others with Robert Frost, Barry Goldwater, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Edward M. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Elliot Richardson (1955-1976). The photograph of Frost dates from October, 1962 when he gave a lecture at Mount Holyoke, while the photographs of political figures date from their appearances at the College or from students' trips to Washington, D.C. as Washington Interns or members of Schuck's classes. Photographs from 1952 and 1957 show Mount Holyoke students and others with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Autographed photographs sent to Schuck by Representative Silvio O. Conte, and other politicians are part of this series, as are two groups of photographs that were probably taken at the celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Washington Internships Program in 1986. There are also three photographs dating from 1982 of Frank Lloyd Wright's 1955 drawings for a house that he designed for Schuck in South Hadley, Mass. which was never built.
Oversize (Folio) Material, 1957-1986
Contains oversize items described as part of other series in the collection. The container list descriptions of these items include an indication that they are shelved in Folio. Among the materials shelved in this series are original political cartoons by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick (1957-1958) and a scrapbook compiled for Schuck's retirement from Mount Holyoke College in 1974.
January-February 1964
April-May 1964
June-December 1964
January-June 1966
August-December 1966
January-April 1968
May-June 1968
July-September 1968
October-December 1968: circa 1968
January-March 1969
April-May 1969
June-September 1969
October-December 1969: circa 1969
January-February 1970
March-May 1970
August-December 1970
Women in Political Science Study 1968
Women in Political Science Study 1969
Women in Political Science Study 1970
Women in Political Science Study 1971
Reorganization of Executive Branch 1969-1970
Reorganization of Executive Branch 1970-1971
Course Records, 1930-1976, n.d.
Interdepartmental 330 1958-1959
Political Science 101 n.d.
Political Science 102 1969
Political Science 131 1953-1963, n.d.
Political Science 235 1961-1962
Political Science 241 1930-1949
Political Science 241 1950-1954
Political Science 241 December 1954
Political Science 241 1954
Political Science 241 1955
Political Science 241 1956
Political Science 241 1957-1959
Political Science 241 1960
Political Science 241 circa 1961
Political Science 241 1961
Political Science 241 1962
Political Science 241 1963
Political Science 241 1964
Political Science 241 1965
Political Science 241 1966
Political Science 241 1967
Political Science 241 1968
Political Science 241 1969
Political Science 241 1970
Political Science 241 1972
Political Science 241 circa 1972
Political Science 244 1952-1956
Political Science 244 1957-1959
Political Science 244 1957
Political Science 244 1958
Political Science 244 1959-1965
Political Science 244 1960-1965
Political Science 244 1966
Political Science 244 1967-1968
Political Science 244 1968
Political Science 244 1970-1972
Political Science 244 1973
Political Science 244 1974
Political Science 244: CLUG, the Community Land Use Game) shelved in FOLIO) n.d.
Political Science 245 1950-1956
Political Science 245 1957-1959
Political Science 245 1960-1963
Political Science 245 1961-1964
Political Science 245 1964-1965
Political Science 245 1965
Political Science 245 1966
Political Science 245 1967
Political Science 245 1968-1969
Political Science 245 1970-1972
Political Science 245 1972
Political Science 245 1973
Political Science 295 1972
Political Science 303 1972
Political Science 303 1973-1974
Political Science 333 1948-1949
Political Science 333 1953-1954
Political Science 343 1962
Political Science 346 1949
Political Science 346 1950-1952
Political Science 346 1950
Political Science 346 1953
Political Science 346 1954
Political Science 346 1955
Political Science 346 1956
Political Science 346 1957
Political Science 346 1958
Political Science 346 1959
Political Science 346 1960
Political Science 346 1961
Political Science 346 1962
Political Science 346 1963
Political Science 346 1964
Political Science 346 1965
Political Science 346 1966
Political Science 346 1967
Political Science 346 1968
Political Science 346 1969
Political Science 346 1971
Political Science 346 1971-1972
Political Science 346 1973
Political Science 346 1974
Political Science 348 1953
Political Science 348 1957
Political Science 348 1961
Political Science 348 1962
Political Science 348 1966-1969
Political Science 348 n.d.
Political Science 348 1963-1966
Political Science 395 1959
Political Science 395 1963
Political Science 395 1966
Political Science 395 1969
Political Science 395 1972
Political Science 395 n.d.
Political Science 399 1972
Political Science 399 1973
Political Science 431 1950
Political Science B1 1953-1962
Political Science B1 1958-1961
Political Science B2 1949-1963
Political Science B2 1959-1963
Political Science G1 1963-1969
Political Science S2 1963-1966
Political Science S2 1964-1966
Winter Term 1973
Winter Term 1974
Winter Term 1975
Winter Term 1976
1952-August 1954
Election Analysis Report by Amherst and Mount Holyoke Students Fall 1954
January-May 1955
June-August 1955
September-December 1955
Material relating to post-election survey, Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts January-August 1956
Material relating to post-election survey, Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts September 1956-April 1957
Material relating to post-election survey, Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts May-Fall 1957
Material relating to post-election survey, Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts Fall 1957
Material relating to post-election survey, Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts Spring 1958
Summer 1958
Post-election survey materials, South Hadley, Massachusetts Fall 1958
circa 1958
Spring 1959
Summer 1959
Survey of political activities of Mount Holyoke students 1959
Survey of political activities of Mount Holyoke students 1960
Holyoke, Massachusetts community study material and survey of Springfield, Massachusetts mayoralty election 1961
Survey for planning and a profile of South Hadley, Massachusetts residents 1962
Report on post-election survey of Holyoke, Massachusetts and material about Holyoke community study January-Summer 1963
Springfield, Massachusetts leadership study material Fall 1963
Study of Negro Leadership in Springfield, Massachusetts March-May 1964
Questionnaires recording responses of Mount Holyoke students to the assassination of President Kennedy Spring 1964
Material relating to Post-Election Survey, Springfield, Massachusetts November 1964
Leadership in Springfield Survey March-April 1965
Material relating to Municipal Survey, Springfield, Massachusetts November 1965
April 1966
Spring 1966-Spring 1967
Reports 1965
Reports 1966
Reports 1967
Reports 1968
Reports 1969
Reports 1970
Reports 1971
Reports 1972
Reports 1973
1976, circa 1986
American Association of Political Consultants 1969-1971
American Association of University Professors 1968-1970
American Association of University Women 1946-1948
American Association of University Women 1949-1950
American Association of University Women 1965
American Association of University Women 1965-1966
American Association of University Women 1966
American Association of University Women 1967
American Association of University Women 1968
American Association of University Women 1969
American Association of University Women 1969-1974
American Political Science Association 1950-1954
American Political Science Association 1958-1960
American Political Science Association 1964-1965
American Political Science Association 1968-1969
American Political Science Association 1970
American Political Science Association 1971
Amherst-Mount Holyoke Colloquium 1968
Barnard College Women's Center Conference 1974
Berkshire Community College New Campus Committee 1964
Berkshire Community College New Campus Committee 1965
Berkshire Community College New Campus Committee 1966
Berkshire Community College New Campus Committee 1967-1973
Carnegie Symposium 1973
Commission on Interstate Cooperation 1957
Commission on Interstate Cooperation 1958
Commission on Interstate Cooperation 1959
Commission on Interstate Cooperation 1960-1962
Committee on New College 1958-1960
Committee on New College 1962-1963
Committee on Non-Western Studies 1961-1967
Constitution Revision: New York 1957-1961
Constitution Revision 1955
Constitution Revision 1958
Constitution Revision 1958-1959
Constitution Revision 1960
Constitution Revision 1961
Constitution Revision 1965
Constitution Revision 1967
Constitution Revision (shelved in FOLIO) 1967
Constitution Revision 1969
Constitution Revision 1973-1974
Continuing Education 1970-1971
Dupont Educators' Conference 1957-1963
Eagleton Center for the American Woman 1970-1073
Eagleton Institute of Politics 1972
Massachusetts General Court 1963
Mount Holyoke Club of Westchester, New York 1973-1974
National Center for Education in Politics 1962-1965
New England Political Science Association 1967-1968
New England Political Science Association 1969-1970
New England Political Science Association 1970-1971
New England Political Science Association 1971
Northeastern Political Science Association 1971-1973
Northeastern Political Science Association 1973
Phi Beta Kappa 1954
Phi Beta Kappa 1955
Phi Beta Kappa 1958, 1961
Phi Beta Kappa 1963-1974
President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation 1963
President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation 1964
President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation 1965
Republican National Committee 1958-1979
Republican National Convention 1963-1964
Republican National Convention memorabilia: campaign buttons, lapel pin, match books, bar of Goldwater soap 1963-1964
Ryan Book Fund 1972-1973
Seven College Conference 1965
Seven College Conference 1965-1966
Simmons College Committee on Independent Study 1966-1969
Social Science Quarterly 1973-1974
Southeast Asia 1966-1967
Southeast Asia 1969-1970
Southeast Asia 1971
Speakers 1972-1973
State Constitution 1972-1973
Truman and Syllabus 1970-1971
Twelve College Exchange 1970-1971
United Nations 1945
United Nations 1954-1957
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1961
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1962
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1963
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1964
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1965
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1966
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1967
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1968
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1969
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1969-1970
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1970
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1971-1974
University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees 1958-1959
University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees 1960-1962
University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees 1963
University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees 1964
University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees 1965-1971
University of Massachusetts Building Authority 1960
University of Massachusetts Building Authority 1961
University of Massachusetts Building Authority 1962
University of Massachusetts Building Authority 1963
University of Massachusetts Building Authority 1964
University of Massachusetts Building Authority 1965
University of Massachusetts Building Authority 1965-1966
University of Massachusetts Building Authority 1966
University of Massachusetts Building Authority 1967
University of Massachusetts Building Authority 1968
University of Massachusetts Phi Beta Kappa 1957-1964
Urban Studies Curriculum Conference 1972
Urban Studies Program 1969-1970
Vietnam 1963-1972
Vietnam (includes photographs from Newsweek magazine of elections in South Vietnam in 1967) 1967, 1972
Vietnam 1973
Vietnam 1973-1974
Walters, Martha and Robert 1973
Western Mass Public Interest Group 1973
Wheaton College 1967-1968
Women 1964-1973
Women 1973
Women: Democratic Party 1966
Women in Politics 1955-1960
Women in the Public Service 1955
Women in the Public Service 1959
Women in the Public Service 1961-1963
Yale University Symposium 1968
Lecture Committee: lists, report, readings 1948-1950
Lecture Committee: correspondence 1948
Lecture Committee: correspondence 1949
Lecture Committee: correspondence 1950
Lecture Committee: conference on city planning 1959
Honors Committee: lists, reports, notes, and correspondence 1960-1962
Special Events Committee: list of members, notes 1961
Special Events Committee: programs, announcements, lists 1962
Special Events Committee: programs, notes, lists 1963
Special Events Committee: correspondence 1961-1962
Special Events Committee: correspondence 1963
Programs, correspondence, memoranda, press releases, schedules, lists, and biographical information 1974
Programs, invitations, announcements, lists, cards 1953-1969
Original drawings for five political cartoons by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick (originals shelved in FOLIO) 1957-1958
Certificates (shelved in FOLIO) 1962, 1963, 1986
Correspondence and booklet from Schuck's tour of the Cape Kennedy Air Force station 1966
Scrapbook compiled for Schuck's retirement from Mount Holyoke College (shelved in FOLIO) 1974
Invitations, programs, booklet, and certificate for Schuck's inauguration at President of Mount Vernon College and the honorary degree the College gave to her upon her retirement 1978-1980
Biographical Material, 1940-1999
Audiocassette (2 copies) of Victoria Schuck and other participants in a discussion of Abigail Adams and Her Times, Panel XX at the Women and the Constitution: a Bicentennial Perspective conference, Atlanta, Georgia February 10-12, 1988
Photographs, ca. 1940s-1992, n.d.
Of Schuck circa 1940s-circa 1970s
Schuck with others 1954-1992
Schuck with others circa 1940s-1990s
Schuck and others in Political Science 346, Public Policy 1948-1965, n.d.
Schuck and others in Political Science 241, Parties and Politics 1956-1957
Schuck and others, Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center classes and events 1956-1966
Washington Interns circa 1957-1971
Schuck and others with John F. Kennedy 1955-1963
Schuck and others with Hubert H. Humphrey circa 1960, 1964, circa 1968
Schuck and others with Robert Frost, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Elliot Richardson 1962, 1963, 1976
Schuck and others with Barry Goldwater 1964
Schuck and others with Robert F. Kennedy 1964-1965
Schuck and others with Edward M. Kennedy 1965, 1970
Schuck and others at the White House 1965, 1968
Schuck and others at the White House (shelved in FOLIO) 1968
Schuck and others, possibly at the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Washington Internship Program 1986
Autographed photographs of politicians 1965, n.d.
Dwight D. Eisenhower with students and others 1952, 1967
Street scenes with political posters, probably in South Vietnam circa 1972
Color photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright's plans for Schuck's house in South Hadley, Mass. 1982
Oversize (Folio) Material 1957-1986
Subject File: Constitution Revision; original drawings of political cartoons by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick; certificates; scrapbook; photograph 1957-1986