Alice M. Ditson Fund Records, 1940-2009

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Series III: Subject Files, 1940-2007

Subject files include index cards summarizing multi-year applicants; two folders of various writings by board president Jack Beeson; biographies of prospective committee members; documents related to the 2008 Ditson Festival of American Music; copies of historical and founding documents; and a file on a 2003 court case over property involving Martha Graham (The Martha Graham School and Dance Foundation, Inc. and Ronald A. Protas v. Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.).



Box 32 Applicant summary cards, 2003-2007



Box 33 Beeson, Jack (writings), 1970-2005, 2 folders


Box 33 Committee member biographies, 2006-2007


Box 33 Ditson Festival of American Music, September 19-21, 2008


Box 33 Historical documents, 1940-2007


Box 33 Martha Graham ownership dispute, 2003 (The Martha Graham School and Dance Foundation, Inc. and Ronald A. Protas v. Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.), 2003


Box 33 Pender, Terry, 2007