Reid Hall records, 1919-1997

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Series II: Columbia University Administration of Reid Hall, 1927-1997

Series II documents Columbia University's administration of Reid Hall from 1966 until 1995. It includes meeting minutes and correspondence that show the continued governance and financial considerations of Reid Hall, Inc. after being taken over by Columbia as well as the Sterling Currier Fund which sponsored programs out of Reid Hall. This series also covers the academic coursework and programs at Reid Hall and associated decision-making processes by Columbia administrators.


Subseries II.1: Reid Hall Governance, 1927-1994

Subseries II.1 contains the financial and governance records of Reid Hall through its management of Reid Hall, Inc. These functions are documented through chronologically arranged administrative files and board meeting minutes from 1979-1990. It also includes correspondence and files from Deputy Provosts Michael Mooney and Paul Carter. Other materials relate to the operations of the Reid Hall building, such as contracts, security measures, and renovation plans, as well as to agreements with other universities in Paris.



Box 4 Folder 6 Reid Hall, Inc. Fundraising, 1980-1985


Box 4 Folder 7-14 Michael Mooney, Deputy Provost Correspondence, 1983-1991

Includes a folder of correspondence with Daniel Haase-Dubosc, Reid Hall Director



Box 5 Folder 34 Reid Hall Program Correspondence, 1972-1982



Box 4 Folder 15 Reid Hall Renovation Plan, 1991


Box 4 Folder 16 Reid Hall Renovation Plan Loan Authorization, 1990


Box 4 Folder 17 Reid Hall Guest Book Gift, 1990


Box 4 Folder 18 Reid Hall Security re: Saddam Hussein's Threat, 1991


Box 4 Folder 19 An Old House in Paris: The Story of Reid Hall (publication), circa 1969


Box 4 Folder 20 Reid Hall, Inc. Certificate of Incorporation and Amendments, 1928-1980


Box 4 Folder 21-22 By-laws and Amendments, 1928-1989


Box 4 Folder 23 Contract of Sale Elisabeth Mills Reid (Mrs. Whitelaw), 1920


Box 4 Folder 24 Reid Hall renovation plan /University Women's Realty Corporation, 1927-1990


Box 4 Folder 25 "Je Suis Americaine" - Especially in Paris, Columbia Magazine, 1983


Box 4 Folder 35 Columbia and Paris VII Agreement, 1977-1978


Box 4 Folder 36 Clumbia and Paris X Agreement, 1984-1988


Box 4 Folder 37 Agreement with Sciences Politiques, 1987


Box 4 Folder 38 Reid Hall Memberships, 1975-1991



Box 5 Folder 32 Reid Hall Programs, Columbia Univeristy Bulletins, 1988-1991


Box 5 Folder 33 Study Abroad Program Evaluations, Commission on Higher Education,, 1981 and 1989


Box 5 Folder 35 Reid Hall American Business Program, 1987


Box 5 Folder 36 Reid Hall Academic Affairs Committee Meetings, 1985-1989


Box 5 Folder 37-38 Reid Hall Graduate Research Institute, 1984-1992



Box 6 Folder 12-23 Reid Hall Board Meetings, 1979-1990



Box 7 Folder 1-21 Reid Hall Administrative Files, 1962-1994


Box 7 Folder 22 Reid Hall Advisory Committee, 1975-1993


Box 7 Folder 23 Sterling Currier Fund, 1975-1978

Correspondence and memos between Paul Carter and members of the Sterling Currier Fund Advisory Committee


Box 7 Folder 24 University Women's Realty Corporation Certificate, 1993



Box 9 Folder 1 Etude prealable a des travaux de renovation du Reid Hall/Preliminary study of the renovation,, 1988


Box 9 Folder 2 Architechtural Study with Drawings, 1988


Subseries II.2: Sterling Currier Fund, 1970-1997

Subseries II.2 documents the administration and programs of the Sterling Currier Fund, an endowment set up by Edith Sterling Currier to "further the understanding within the Franco-American community" in 1975. The Fund sponsored conferences and events out of Reid Hall and Maison Française on Columbia's Manhattan campus. The subseries includes proposals, agendas, and materials from these events as well as meeting minutes, financial records, and correspondence related to the fund.



Box 4 Folder 1 Sterling Currier Fund Travel Policy Information, 1981-1990


Box 4 Folder 2 Sterling Currier Fund Proposal Submission Guidelines, 1980


Box 4 Folder 3-5 Sterling Currier Fund Correspondence, 1983-1990


Box 4 Folder 26 Sterling Currier Fund Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes, 1975-1990


Box 4 Folder 27-34 Sterling Currier Fund Advisory Committee Meeting Materials, 1980-1982



Box 6 Folder 1-11 Sterling Currier Fund Advisory Committee Meetings, 1980-1993



Box 8 Folder 10-13 Reid Hall, 1970-1997

From the office of Robert Paxton, Columbia History Department Chair and chair of the Sterling Currier Fund Advisory Committee


Box 8 Folder 14-19 Robert Paxton's Reid Hall Files, 1970-1997



Box 5 Folder 1 Le Temps des Constitutions 1787-1795, 1986


Box 5 Folder 2 Conference on East Asian Studies, 1985-1988


Box 5 Folder 3 Colloque Zola / Colloquium on Emile Zola: History, the Book, the Novel,, 1990-1991


Box 5 Folder 4 L'An 2000 / The Year 2000 (proposed), 1986


Box 5 Folder 5 The French Revolution and the Emancioatiion of the Jews, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man: France and the United States,, 1989


Box 5 Folder 6 Public Policy and Dental Health in France and the United States (proposed),, 1990


Box 5 Folder 7 Conference on De Gaulle and the United States, 1990


Box 5 Folder 8 Citizenship and Military Service in France and the United States,, 1991


Box 5 Folder 9 Revolutionary Etudes: Paris, 1830-1848, 1989


Box 5 Folder 10 Quel environement nous prepare le genie genetique?, 1990


Box 5 Folder 11 Femmes et pouvoirs sous l'ancien regime, 1989


Box 5 Folder 12 Revolutions, 1889-1989, 1989


Box 5 Folder 13 Refugees and the Right of Asylum in France and the United States,, 1985


Box 5 Folder 14 Perceptions of Anti-Americanism in French Political Discourse,, 1985


Box 5 Folder 15 Elliot Carter Musical Presentation, 1984


Box 5 Folder 16 Urban Space and the Public Realm: Contemporary vs. Traditional Models,, 1984


Box 5 Folder 17 Psychoanalysis in France and the U.S. Today, 1984


Box 5 Folder 18 La femme du tiers monde et l'emploi, 1984


Box 5 Folder 19 Visual Anthropology Colloqiuum, 1983


Box 5 Folder 20 State Policy and Business Strategy: Reshaping the Economy in France and the U.S. in the 1980s,, 1983


Box 5 Folder 21 Alain Germain Dance Company, 1983


Box 5 Folder 22 American Film Festival, 1983


Box 5 Folder 23 Histoires de Femmes a partir d'un journal (oral history videos),, 1983



Box 9 Folder 4-8 Videos related to Histoires de Femmes a partir d'un journal Event,, undated, 5 videocassettes (U-matic)



Box 5 Folder 24 American Women Painters in Paris, 1890-1950, 1982


Box 5 Folder 25-27 The Women's Movement in France and the U.S., 1982


Box 5 Folder 28 A Year in Power: Mitterrand's France, 1982


Box 5 Folder 29 Power and Authority in the Seventeenth Century, 1981


Box 5 Folder 30 Continuing Education in the United States and France, 1981


Box 5 Folder 31 Memoires du Present (an audio-visual archive), 1981



Box 8 Folder 1 The French in New York During World War II, Colloquium and Exhibit,, 1992


Box 8 Folder 2-4 The New France and the New Europe of 1993, 1991


Box 8 Folder 5-7 De Gaulle and the United States, 1990


Box 8 Folder 8 A France of Pluralism and Consensus? Changing Balances in State and Society,, 1987


Box 8 Folder 9 A Year in Power: Conference on Mitterand's France, 1982



Box 9 Folder 3 Events at Reid Hall, Paris, Sponsored by the Sterling Currier Fund (scrapbook),, 1976-1984


Box 9 Folder 9-12 Books in French


Subseries II.3: School of General Studies, 1961-1993

Subseries II.3 focuses on the administration of Reid Hall's academic programs and their association with broader university systems in the 1980s and 1990s. Until 2009, Reid Hall was operated under the School of General Studies, though its place within the school structure changed over time as it reorganized. Frank Wolf, originally Associate Dean of the School of General Studies and later head of the Division of Special Programs, which covered Reid Hall beginning in 1995, led this aspect of Reid Hall's work. These functions are documented through meeting minutes, correspondence, and other papers from the Academic Advisory Committee as well as memos on faculty, coursework, and salaries. There are also records from two programs that ran out of Reid Hall, both beginning in the mid-1980s: the Art History Institute and the Graduate Student Research Institute.



Box 10 Folder 1 Reid Hall, 1989-1993

Frank Wolf's administrative records including those pertaining to the Academic Affairs Committee


Box 10 Folder 2 Academic Affairs Committee, 1987-1989


Box 10 Folder 3 Reid Hall I, 1982-1992

Additional records from Frank Wolf including correspondence, budgets, salaries, memos, and bulletins.



Box 11 Folder 1 Reid Hall II, 1982-1983

Additional records from Frank Wolf including correspondence, budgets, salaries, memos, and bulletins.


Box 11 Folder 2-3 Academic Advisory Committee Correspondence, 1964-1975


Box 11 Folder 4 Academic Advisory Committee, 1982-1987


Box 11 Folder 5 Academic Affairs Committee Agendas & Minutes, 1984-1985


Box 11 Folder 6 Art History Institute Proposal, 1985


Box 11 Folder 7 Art History Poster, 1985


Box 11 Folder 8-14 Art History Program, 1986-1992


Box 11 Folder 15 Reid Hall Columbia/Barnard Agreement, 1970-1973


Box 11 Folder 16 Barnard/Reid Hall Equivalency Chart, 1980-1982


Box 11 Folder 17 Buiding Renovation Plan, 1988


Box 11 Folder 18 Magazines and Brochures, 1970-1996


Box 11 Folder 19 Prospective Buyers, 1974


Box 11 Folder 20 Reid Hall Centennial, 1993


Box 11 Folder 21 Committees on Instruciton Submissions and Responses, 1984


Box 11 Folder 22 College Requirements, 1984


Box 11 Folder 23 Courses and Course Development, 1984


Box 11 Folder 24 Course Syllabi and Instructor Vitae, 1982-1983


Box 11 Folder 25 Course Descriptions, 1983-1984


Box 11 Folder 26 Enrollments - Other Schools, 1980-1981


Box 11 Folder 27-28 Student Evaluations, 1988


Box 11 Folder 29 Faculty - Tax status, 1983


Box 11 Folder 30 Graduate Research Institute, 1985-1987


Box 11 Folder 31 Ruth Levenson, Deputy Provost for Special Projects, 1983-1984


Box 11 Folder 32 Reid Hall General Policies, 1982-1985


Box 11 Folder 33 French Uni System - Courses Available, 1984


Box 11 Folder 34 Historical: Bylaws and Amendments, 1961-1973


Box 11 Folder 35-36 Interuniversity Language Consortium, 1984


Box 11 Folder 37 Study Abroad Policies - Other Schools, 1984


Box 11 Folder 38 Staff Vitae/Employee Info, 1980s


Box 11 Folder 39 Sterling Currier Fund: Guidelines, 1985


Box 11 Folder 40 Surveys, 1982


Box 11 Folder 41 Reid Hall Revision of Transcript Proposal, 1983-1985


Box 11 Folder 42 University of Pennsylvania Student Evaluations, 1983