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Correspondents include John M. Conly of Atlantic Monthly and With Regard to Armstrong's Article in Midwestern Engineer and the 1951 Washington Award--Radio Stations and Broadcasting Companies--Popular Mechanics Fiftieth Anniversary Hall of Fame--American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Includes Armstrong's Application and Election to Membership--Marion Armstrong to H.J. Round--Federal Communications Commission

Haight implores Fish not to resign as Chairman. His retirement would probably mean that a gentleman would be elected whose administration would be fraught with no good result to the College.

Largely relating to the Second World War and Democratic Party Politics. Includes material relating to the election campaign of Henry A. Wallace. Includes speeches by Robert W. Kennedy, Gloria Stuart, and Helen Graham Douglas. Includes radio scripts for "Salt of the Earth" and a dramatization about absenteeism. Includes dramatizations for political rallies.

[COPY] Fish does not think that the Trustees should concern themselves as to the political preferences of a professor or instructor of the College but when they present themselves as advocates or supporters of principles or doctrines subversive of social order it becomes, Fish thinks, the duty of the College to disclaim sympathy. However the College must not become liable to the charge of taking part in pending elections. He does however think that the relations of De Leon to the College should cease at a very early date, but action should be deferred, Fish thinks that De Leon should be neither damned nor hissed but, as it were, most civilly dismissed.

The approaching election of an English Professor is the most important happening since Barnard's connection with the College. The professional life in Great Britain is too different from American practices for him to hope that a British scholar would work kindly in our harness.

(The presidental correspondence relates to the activities, meetings and plans of the MCILA. Most of the correspondence concerns the arrangemets for membership meetings and finding speakers. The correspondence also relates to membership application and the election of MCILA officers, narrative board writings, library cooperation, library legislation, and the final dissolution of the MCILA)

The IEC meeting cycle was punctuated every two years by an International Council Meeting, which voted on resolutions and elected new members to the IEC. The meeting following an ICM was typically planned as a combination of business and induction (orientation for new members). In non-ICM years the September meeting involved a short meeting and retreat sessions.

Inscribed: Brooklyn Local, Mordecai Rosenfeld; Financing the 1984 Election, Herbert Alexander, The Great American Video Game Presidential Politics, Martin Schram, The NY Times Encyclopedia of TV, Les Brown, The Seasons of New Hampshire. Network TV: 60 Minutes & the News; NBC Library: Documents of American Broadcast; Chilling Effect in TV News; CBS: Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye

Tape 01 - Clips from Abzug speeches, interviews, and PSAs

(Resolution that members of the Senior Class in the School of the Arts May take among their elective studies the General and Constitutional History of Europe in the School of Political Science; date from docket; note on verso that resolution was referred to the Committee on Course and Statutes, initialed by Gerard Beekman; ms.d., 1p.)