Thomas McGoey papers, 1930s-1970s

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Series I: Office Files

This series represents the bulk of the collection. It includes subject files presumably collected during McGoey's term as Business Manager (1950s-1960s). There are records related to the University's extensive construction projects (East Campus, Engineering Center, the new Law School), non-academic staff benefits and retirement policies. These files are organized alphabetically. There are also committee meeting minutes and some 'Reading Files' which are McGoey's outgoing correspondence or carbon copies, organized by month.



Box 1 Folder 1 Accounting and Budgetary Problems, Study of, 1958-1959

Prof. Dohr


Box 1 Folder 2 Advisory Committee on University Policy, 1956-1958


Box 1 Folder 3 Animal Care Quarters, 1951-1957


Box 1 Folder 4 Amsterdam Plaza, 1954-1962


Associated Hospital Service


Box 1 Folder 5 Advisory Committee, 1960-1961


Box 1 Folder 6 Public Advisory Committee, 1958-1960


Box 1 Folder 7 Automobile Approach to Upper Campus, 1950-1962


Baker Field


Box 1 Folder 8 Baker Field Property, 1951-1959


Box 1 Folder 9 Field House, 1949-1959


Box 1 Folder 10 Field House - West Wing, 1954-1959


Box 1 Folder 11 Plaques, 1951-1954


Bicentennial

Columbia University, 1754-1954


Box 1 Folder 12-13 General, 1953-1954, 2 folders


Box 1 Folder 14 116th Street & South Field, 1953


Box 1 Folder 15 "Bicentennial Bulletin", 1953


Box 1 Folder 16 Men's Faculty Club, 1953-1955


Box 1 Folder 17 Blanchard Committee, 1949-1950

Committee on Retirement and Insurance


Box 1 Folder 18 Black Building and Alumni Auditorium, 1960-1961


Bookstore


Box 1 Folder 19 General, 1951-1957


Box 1 Folder 20 General, 1957-1960


Box 1 Folder 21 General, 1961-1962


Box 1 Folder 22 Accounting, 1951-1957


Box 1 Folder 23 Addition, 1948-1951


Box 1 Folder 24 Advisory Committee, 1953-1961


Box 1 Folder 25 C.U. Press, 1956


Box 1 Folder 26 Self-Service, 1954-1955



Box 2 Folder 1 Buildings & Grounds, 1950-1958


Box 2 Folder 2 Business, School of, 1959-1962


Box 2 Folder 3 Camp Columbia, 1950-1959


Box 2 Folder 4 Capital Amortization Program, 1958-1960


Box 2 Folder 5 Capital Improvements - Sheffield Building, 1951-1957


Box 2 Folder 6 Central Laundry Study, 1957-1958


Box 2 Folder 7 Chapel, 1951-1957


Box 2 Folder 8 Columbia College Council - Buildings & Grounds Committee, 1953-1958


Columbia Student Agencies


Box 2 Folder 9 General, 1932-1939


Box 2 Folder 10 Financial Reports, 1937


Box 2 Folder 11 Annual Reports, 1942


Box 2 Folder 12 General, 1944-1955


Box 2 Folder 13 Student Agencies, Inc., 1948-1954


Box 2 Folder 14 Conjunctional Billing, 1956-1959


Box 2 Folder 15 Conjunctional Billing, 1960-1962


Box 2 Folder 16 Consulting Architects Meetings, 1959-1962


Development


Box 2 Folder 17 Development, Office of, 1950-1955


Box 2 Folder 18 Development Plans, 1956-1959


Box 2 Folder 19 Disability Benefits, 1961


East Campus


Box 2 Folder 20 Development, 1956-1961


Box 2 Folder 21 Superblock, 1955-1956


Box 2 Folder 22 Superblock, 1957-1958


Box 2 Folder 23 Superblock, 1959-1960


Box 2 Folder 24 Zoning, 1958-1960


Box 2 Folder 25 Engineering, 1950-1957


Engineering Center


Box 2 Folder 26 General, 1960


Box 2 Folder 27 General, 1961-1962


Box 2 Folder 28 Engineering Terrace Building, 1960-1961


Equipment


Box 2 Folder 29 Acquisition, 1949-1956


Box 2 Folder 30 Control, 1951-1952


Box 2 Folder 31 Inventory, 1949-1958



Box 3 Folder 1 Fine Arts Center, 1950


Box 3 Folder 2 Fine Arts Center, 1955


Box 3 Folder 3 Fine Arts Center, 1956-1959


Box 3 Folder 4 Food Services, 1953


Box 3 Folder 5 Ford Foundation Proposal, 1956

A Proposal to the Ford Foundation to Help Establish at Columbia University a Pattern for Expansion in Privately Supported Higher Education - seven new construction projects in Morningside Heights: Engineering Center, Arts Center, Law School building, faculty and classroom building, a Citizenship Center, a graduate residence hall and a necessary addition to an existing administration building (University Hall).


Gifts and Grants


Box 3 Folder 6 Gifts and Grants, 1949-1950


Box 3 Folder 7 Gifts - General, 1957-1959


Box 3 Folder 8 Chase Manhattan Bank Gift Furniture, 1961


Box 3 Folder 9 Schenley Gift Furniture, 1962-1963


Box 3 Folder 10 Westinghouse Gift, 1963


Gymnasium


Box 3 Folder 11 Proposed Columbia College Gymnasium, 1957-1959


Box 3 Folder 12 Gymnasium Committee - Subcommittee on Facilities, 1958


Box 3 Folder 13 Hazardous Storage Building, 1957-1961


Box 3 Folder 14 Industrial Reactor Laboratories, 1960-1961


Box 3 Folder 15 Industrial Reactor Laboratories (IRL) Energy Commission Licenses, 1960


Box 3 Folder 16 Krout, John A., 1962

Re: Retirement


Lamont Geological Observatory


Box 3 Folder 17 Lamont Geological Observatory, 1949-1953


Box 3 Folder 18 Lamont Observatory, 1956-1958

New York Thruway and New Jersey Turnpike


Box 3 Folder 19 Lamont Geological Observatory, 1960-1962


Law School


Box 3 Folder 20 Law School - Interior, 1959-1963


Box 3 Folder 21 Law School Building Meeting Minutes, 1958-1961


Box 3 Folder 22 Law School - New Building, 1960


Box 3 Folder 23 Law Building, 1961


Box 3 Folder 24 Library Moving, 1962

Library collections moving out of Low Library


Low Library


Box 3 Folder 25 Low Memorial Library, 1949-1959


Box 3 Folder 26 Low Memorial Library, 1950-1952


Box 3 Folder 27 Low Library Plans, 1953

Access drive in South Court; elevator, restrooms, reception room, etc.


Box 3 Folder 28 Mail, 1951-1953


Box 3 Folder 29 Medical Center, 1958-1962


Box 3 Folder 30 Men's Faculty Club, 1950-1956


Box 3 Folder 31 Mines Building, 1949-1959


Box 3 Folder 32 Morningside Park Athletic Area, 1955-1963

Site of the proposed gymnasium, includes a copy of the agreement with the City


Navy


Box 3 Folder 33 Navy Plans, 1950-1951


Box 3 Folder 34 NROTC, 1949-1958


Box 3 Folder 35 NROTC, 1950-1951


Box 3 Folder 36 NROTC - Lease and Insurance, 1949-1957


Nevis Biological Station



Box 4 Folder 1 Nevis, 1950-1957


Box 4 Folder 2 Nevis, 1950-1957


Box 4 Folder 3 Nevis, 1959-1962


Box 4 Folder 4 Committee, 1949-1958


Box 4 Folder 5 Liquid Hydrogen Building, 1953


Box 4 Folder 6 Parking Lot, 1953-1958


Box 4 Folder 7 Street Easement, 1955


Box 4 Folder 8 New York State College Business Officers Meeting, 1962


Box 4 Folder 9-11 New York State Labor Legislation, 1959-1961, 3 folders


Box 4 Folder 12 Nuclear Engineering Laboratory, 1957-1958


Box 4 Folder 13 Pan Statue, 1959-1962


Box 4 Folder 14 Pegram Laboratory, 1953-1960

Van de Graff Accelerator


Box 4 Folder 15 Pension Plans, 1951-1952


Box 4 Folder 16 Physicians & Surgeons Building, 1950-1959


Box 4 Folder 17 President Kirk's Five Year Report, 1953-1958


Box 4 Folder 18 Printing Office, 1957-1959


Box 4 Folder 19 Pupin Physics Laboratories or Pupin Hall, 1950-1958


Box 4 Folder 20 Purchasing - University, 1960-1961


Retirement


Box 4 Folder 21 General, 1950-1960


Box 4 Folder 22 Employee Retirement Policies, 1950-1960


Box 4 Folder 23 Retirement Plans (Non-Academic) Amendment, 1953


Box 4 Folder 24 Non-Academic Retirement Plan, 1954


Box 4 Folder 25 Non-Academic Retirement Plan Study, 1957-1958


Box 4 Folder 26 Retirement Preparation Program, 1953-1957


Box 4 Folder 27 Social Security, 1950-1959


Box 4 Folder 28 Social Security - Plans of Other Colleges, 1956


Box 4 Folder 29 Study of Present Campus on Morningside Heights Looking Toward Future Development, 1948-1959


Trustee Committees


Box 4 Folder 30-31 Buildings and Grounds Committee, 1957-1958, 2 folders


Box 4 Folder 32 Committee on Finance, 1957-1959



Box 5 Folder 1 Committee on Honors, 1950-1957


Box 5 Folder 2 Uris Hall, 1962


Box 5 Folder 3 Utilities Audit Bureau, 1950-1954


Box 5 Folder 4 Vice-President's Advisory Committee, 1958-1962


Box 5 Folder 5 W, 1949-1950


Box 5 Folder 6 War Labor Board (WLB) Directives and Correspondence, 1943


Box 5 Folder 7 Women's Faculty Club, 1951-1953


Box 5 Folder 8 Women's Faculty Club, 1946-1953


Budget Files


Box 5 Folder 9 Proposed Budgets, 1958-1959


Box 5 Folder 10 Budget - General, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 11 Budget Planning, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 12 Business Manager, Office of, Budget, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 13 Department of Buildings and Grounds, Budget, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 14 Ferris Booth Hall, Budget, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 15 General University Telephone and Mail Services, Budgets, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 16 Government Contracts Division, Purchasing Budget, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 17 Lump Sum Preview Budget, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 18 Off-Campus Rooms Registry Budget, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 19 Proposed Budgets, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 20 Residence Halls and Dining Rooms Budget, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 21 University Personnel, Office of, Budget, 1959-1960


Box 5 Folder 22 University Purchasing Department Budget, 1959-1960


Meeting Minutes


Box 5 Folder 23 Advisory Committee on Non-Academic Personnel Policy, 1950-1959


Box 5 Folder 24-25 Advisory Committee on University Policy, 1956-1957, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 26-27 Business Manager and Departmental Directors, 1950-1959, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 28 Committee on Government-Aided Research, 1952-1958


Reading Files

Carbons or copy carbons of McGoey's outgoing correspondence, organized by month.


Box 5 Folder 29 1957 January-June


Box 5 Folder 30 1957 July-December


Box 5 Folder 31 1958 January-June


Box 5 Folder 32 1958 July-December



Box 6 Folder 1 1959 January-April


Box 6 Folder 2 1959 May-August


Box 6 Folder 3 1959 September-December


Box 6 Folder 4 1960 January-April


Box 6 Folder 5 1960 May-August


Box 6 Folder 6 1960 September-December


Box 6 Folder 7 1961 January-April


Box 6 Folder 8 1961 May-August


Box 6 Folder 9 1961 September-December


Box 6 Folder 10 1962 January-April


Box 6 Folder 11 1962 May-August


Box 6 Folder 12 1962 September-December


Box 6 Folder 13 1963 January-April


Box 6 Folder 14 1963 May-August


Box 6 Folder 15 1963 September-December



Box 7 Folder 1 1964 January-April


Box 7 Folder 2 1964 May-August


Box 7 Folder 3 1964 September-December


Box 7 Folder 4 1965 January-April


Box 7 Folder 5 1965 May-August


Box 7 Folder 6 1965 September-December


Box 7 Folder 7 1966 January-March


Box 7 Folder 8 1966 April-June

Series II: Personal Files

This series contains records marked as "personal." There are files related to the Columbia student strike in 1968; memorabilia including materials from McGoey's days as a student in the Business School; records related to his involvement with national college and university administrator and business officer professional associations; and materials collected about the various University Presidents he served under.


Box 7 Folder 9 Butler (Nicholas Murray) and Eisenhower (Dwight D.) Letters, 1940-1971

Letters and newspaper clippings


Box 7 Folder 10 Campus Disturbance Panel, 1968

Mostly newspaper clippings


Box 7 Folder 11 The Columbia Calendar for Engagements, 1951

Weekly calendar with photographs, very few appointments filled in


Box 7 Folder 12 Columbia Crisis - Accounts of Events, 1968


Box 7 Folder 13 Columbia Crisis - Media Coverage, 1968

Television transcripts and magazine articles


Box 7 Folder 14 Columbia Memorabilia, 1932-1967

McGoey's MS thesis, resume, Bicentennial stamps, programs, speeches, invitations, etc.


Box 7 Folder 15-16 Columbia Publications, 1939-1970, 2 folders

Alumni magazines, directories, brochures, etc.


Box 7 Folder 17 Educational Career Service, 1971-1972


Box 7 Folder 18-19 Higher Education Administration Referral Service (HEARS), 1971-1973, 2 folders


Box 7 Folder 20 Humor, 1960s-1970s


Box 7 Folder 21 Injunctions, 1968-1970

Re: Columbia Crisis / Student Strike, 1968



Box 8 Folder 1 Institute for Educational Management (IEM), 1967-1977


Box 8 Folder 2 Lion's Den Clippings, 1938-1939


Box 8 Folder 3 Photographs, 1950-1960


Presidents

Clippings, correspondence, invitations, press releases, speeches, etc.


Box 8 Folder 4 Nicholas Murray Butler, 1931-1946


Box 8 Folder 5 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1947-1952


Box 8 Folder 6 Eisenhower Presidential Campaign, 1952


Box 8 Folder 7 Eisenhower "The Man from Abilene", 1952


Box 8 Folder 8 Grayson Kirk, 1952-1968


Box 8 Folder 9 Andrew Cordier, 1969-1970


Box 8 Folder 10-11 William McGill, 1967-1973, 2 folders


Box 8 Folder 12 Publications, 1969-1970


Box 8 Folder 13 Sidorsky, David, 1968-1969


Box 8 Folder 14 Starr, William, Rev., 1968


Box 8 Folder 15 Student Activism, 1968-1970

Articles on student dissent, resistance, radicalism and revolutionaries


Box 8 Folder 16 Student Laundry Service, 1929-1931


Box 8 Folder 17 Student Laundry Service, 1930-1931


Box 8 Folder 18 Truman, David, 1968-1972


Box 8 Folder 19 University Administrators and Business Officers, 1965-1971


Box 8 Folder 20 Vice President for Business Affairs, 1965-1971


Box 8 Folder 21 Unsorted, 1953-1973