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University Archives: RG2 PRESIDENTS
 S5   William Robert Ross. 1947-1964
President Ross assumed office on December 20, 1947 (BOT Minutes 12/20/47 p. 492)
FILE 1    Biographical Data
FILE 2 Inauguration
  Inauguration program, "The inauguration of William Robert Ross as President of Colorado State College of Education". June 20-23, 1948.
  Inaugural Address, "Better Teacher for a Better World" by William R. Ross, June 23, 1948.
FILE 3 Board of Trustees meeting notes

Six volumes dated 1948-51, 1951-54, 1954-58, 1957-58, 1959-61, and 1962-64. The typewritten Board of Trustee and Executive Board meeting notes contain a few handwritten notations. They contain agenda items for the meetings and recommendations for faculty appointments, promotions, tenure as well as finances and other college business during the Ross administration. For a period of time, the Trustees met as a whole board but also appointed an Executive Committee for each of the education institutions, including CSCE.

FILE 4 Correspondence. 1947-1964

FOLDER LIST

BOX 1:
     A - general correspondence
Adult Education Council
Ae - general correspondence
Alcohol and narcotic education
American Association of School Administrators (Trip, Feb. 8-March 5)
American Association of Teachers Colleges
American Council on Education
American Red Cross
American-Soviet Friendship Council
An - general correspondence
Armentrout, W. Dockery
Arts
Assemblies 1946-47
Associated Students
Association of American Universities
B - general correspondence
Baccalaureate 1946-47
Bar - general correspondence
Be - general correspondence
Bi - general correspondence
Bibliographical Center
Bo - general correspondence
Board of Athletic Control
Boy Scouts of America
Br - general correspondence
Bu - general correspondence
Budget
Budget 1946-47, Salary recommendations
Buildings & Grounds, 1956-1959

Buildings 1951. Cranford pictures for Legislature

Buildings and Grounds (2 folders)
Business Office (2 folders)
C - general correspondence (2 folders)
Calendar
Ce - general correspondence (2 folders)
CEA Leadership Conference, August 20, 21, and 22, 1956
BOX 2:
Chamber of Commerce (2 folders)
Change of name of College
Chemistry teacher awards
Christian Science
Church (Park Congregational)
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Civil Service
1955 Class gift suggestions
Cl - general correspondence (2 folders)
Cleveland Conference
C-Misc
Coal purchases, Data on, yrs. 1925-56 and 1940-41
Cohen, Joseph S., Re: Phillip G. Cohen

Col - general correspondence (2 folders)

College Presidents who are CSCE graduates see RG18 S16: Alumni biographies
CO Education Association (2 folders)
College fees
CO School Directory
CO State Dept. of Ed.
CO State Planning Ass'n, 1937-38
CO State Planning Assoc., 1938-39, 1939-40, 1940-41
CO State Planning Commission
CO State Planning Commission, 1936-37
CO State Planning Commission, 1941-42, 1942-43, 1943-44, 1944-45
CO State Planning Commission, 1945-46
CO State Planning Commission, 1946-47
CO State Planning Commission, 1947-48
Commencement
Commencement
Commencement programs
Communism 1955
Conferences at CSCE (1945-46, 1946-47)
Conference groups on campus
Cor - general correspondence (2 folders)
Correspondence/extension study
Cranford Hall fire
BOX 3:
Curriculum (2 folders)
Curriculum Committee
Custodian/Bus Drivers School
D - general correspondence (3 folders)
De - general correspondence
Denver Club
Dining halls
Dobby's gang reunion
Do - general correspondence
Dormitories
E - general correspondence (2 folders)
Eisenhower correspondence. 1950
Em - general correspondence
Emergency teachers certificates
Enrollment (2 folders)
Enrollment (Adjusted FTE)
F - general correspondence (2 folders)
Faculty absences
Faculty Apartments--old
Faculty Association
Faculty Club
Faculty Hall Administration
Faculty leave of absence
Faculty load
Faculty mail boxes
Faculty meetings--past
Faculty policies
Faculty recommendations
Fl - general correspondence (2 folders)
Flag codes
Foreign students
Foreign students and visitors
Foreign visitors, 1953-54 (reported by Floss Ann Turner)
Fr - general correspondence (1 folder)
Frasier, George Willard see RG2 S4
Frasier Hall move (not found)
Fraternity--Sorority Residence Plan
BOX 4:
Freed, Nettie S.
Fulbright Committee
Future Teachers of America
G - general correspondence (2 folders)
General Education * Denver Post
Gi - general correspondence (2 folders)
Gifts
Go - general correspondence (2 folders)
Gr - general correspondence (2 folders)
Grade distributions, Winter, 1942-Fall, 1947
Grade distributions, Fall, 1926-Fall, 1941
Graduate School, Duties of the Dir.
Graduate work, Revision of
Graduation
Graduate School
Greeley community activities
Green, Roy M.
H - general correspondence (2 folders)
Har - general correspondence (2 folders)
He - general correspondence (2 folders)
Health Division (2 folders)
Health Service (2 folders)
Health Service Reports
Hi - general correspondence (2 folders)
Ho - general correspondence (2 folders)
Homecoming
Hoover Report
House directors
Housing (2 folders)
Hu - general correspondence (2 folders)
Humanities Division (2 folders)
BOX 5:
I - general correspondence (2 folders)
Income tax information
Insignia Day
Instructional Materials Center, Film Library
Insurance
Insurance (Faculty)
Insurance (WDA)
Invitations (WDA)
J - general correspondence (2 folders)

Japanese Christian University

Jo - general correspondence (2 folders)
Joint Sub-Comm. on Appropriations, 1954, enrollment data
Journal of Teacher Ed
K - general correspondence
Ke - general correspondence (2 folders)
Kellogg Foundation
Kepner, Harry V. see RG2 S4
Kepner's Dinner, Harry see RG2 S4
Kl - general correspondence (2 folders)
Knife and Fork Club
Kr - general correspondence (2 folders)
Kretschmer & Company
Kudrna, Jack - Doctor's Degree
L - general correspondence (2 folders)
Lab School, Elementary
Lab School, Secondary
Le - general correspondence (2 folders)
Legislative Council
Legislative visit to the campus, January 28, 1955
Legislature 1947
Legislature 1955-56
Legislature 1952-53
Legislature 1953-54
Legislature 1954
Legislature 1955-56

Legislation - Biennium 1949-51 Budget

Legislation - Biennium 1951-53
BOX 6:
Li - general correspondence (2 folders)
Library
Little Theatre of the Rockies
Lily pond pictures
Lo - general correspondence (2 folders)
Loan funds
Loan funds policy
M - general correspondence (2 folders)
Mar - general correspondence (2 folders)
Maxwell Air University (Alabama)
McA - general correspondence (2 folders)
McG - general correspondence (2 folders)
Me - general correspondence (2 folders)
Mi - general correspondence
Mid-Year Conference
Millage
Mines, School of--Painting of campus incident, November 7, 1953
Michelson, Peter P.
Mi - general correspondence
Mo - general correspondence (2 folders)
Music Division (2 folders)
N - general correspondence (2 folders)
National College of Education, Evanston, IL
National Conference of Professors of Educational Administration
National Education Association (2 folders)
Naval Air Reserve Training Cruise, April 18-21, 1955
Newsletters
Ni - general correspondence
North Central Association
North Central Association, Committee on Athletics (1950-1955)
0 - general correspondence
P - general correspondence

Pe - general correspondence

Petteys, Mrs. Alonzo
BOX 7:
Pl - general correspondence
Placement
Policies

Presidents Association--Salary classification and comparison study state-supported institutions of higher education in CO

Presidents Association, Study of enrollment, John Little
Presidents Association, Census and population study, Dr. Rugg, Chair
Presidents Association, John Dale Russell meetings, 1956
President's dinner, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, & 1952
Presidents' meeting, College
Publicity
Q - general correspondence
R - general correspondence
Re - general correspondence
Recruitment
Registration
Residence status of women students, Fall 1954
Ri - general correspondence
Ro - general correspondence
Rocky Mountain Radio Council
Ross, William R.
ROTC (2 folders)
S - general correspondence
Salary study for 1952-53
Salary studies and budget information, 1953-54
Sc - general correspondence
Scho - general correspondence
Scholarship (not found)
Science Division
Se - general correspondence
Si - general correspondence
Sm - general correspondence
Social Studies Division
BOX 8:
Special Education
Special Education 1955-1961
St - general correspondence
Staff
Student teaching
Student personnel
Student personnel records room
Students enrolled at CSCE from Colorado - Fall, 1955
Survey of Christmas employment, 1954-1955
Survey on College administration
Su - general correspondence

T - general correspondence

Teacher education & professional standards, 1950-51
Turner, Glen Corbin

Ti - general correspondence

Travel and expenses, (Ross)
U - general correspondence
V - general correspondence
Veterans Committee report

Vocational education

W - general correspondence
We - general correspondence
Weber, Joseph
Wen - general correspondence
Wi - general correspondence
Wo - general correspondence
Wood, Ben D.
X-Y-Z - general correspondence
FILE 5

Clipping File

FILE 6 Retirement Dinner
Two Programs, "Retirement Dinner, Honoring Dr. William R. Ross," July 17, 1964, Tobey-Kendel Dining Hall, 7:00 P.M.
FILE 7 Miscellaneous Administration Items
  Administration Faculty & Staff List and Salaries 1950-51
  Academic Master Plan 1968-80
FILE 8 Artifacts
Flag: United Nations, presented to President Ross by Colorado Home Demonstration Council
FILE 9 Administrative Council Minutes 1948-64
Three volumes for the Ross period, in which he chaired the Council. This was composed of the Dean of Graduate Division and the Chairmen of the Divisions. It was the top administrative body of the College. Agenda items included current enrollment and projections, course programming, summer school, budgets, faculty, physical plant growth and "growing pains" of the College.
FILE 10

Sound tapes

(Missing 5/17/1989)
FILE 11  Budget Reports
  Joint Sub-committee on Appropriations Fortieth General Assembly February 1955
  An Analysis of the Budgets of Colorado State Supported Institutions of Higher Education 1962-63 requests
FILE 12 Fiftieth Anniversary--Golden Jubilee
  Brochures and programs for various functions, luncheons and dinners held during the jubilee.
  List of honorary Chairmen from every state in the USA and numerous foreign countries.
FILE 13 Annual Report 1954-55 and history of the College 1890-1954.
FILE 14

60 Years of Teacher EducationSee RG3 S1 F2 1950

FILE 15 Four Seasons of William R. Ross. 1980 (autobiographical 60 pp)
  see also RG3 S20 F4 Photographs
FILE 16 CSC Artifacts

 

 

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