Collections

Adam Herbert served as the seventeenth president of Indiana University from 2003-2007. The collection consists of records, correspondence, and administrative files from Herbert's tenure as Indiana University president.

Consists of speeches given by Elvis J. Stahr during his term as President of Indiana University.

In 1954, the Indiana University School of Education partnered with the Prasan Mitr College of Education in Bangkok and the Thai Ministry of Education to develop programs in teacher education in Thailand. IU's involvement in this area of the world expanded even further the following year when IU was contracted by the U.S. Foreign Operations Administration to assist in the development of an Institute of Public Administration at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. This collection consists of records created and collected by Willis Porter, Chief of the Party and later campus coordinator for the Thailand Project, and consists of correspondence, administrative files, reports, publications, and scrapbooks.

The Educated Woman bulletin was first published by the Faculty Committee on Women's Education in order to get young women to enroll in Indiana University. The bulletins were produced seven times between 1945 and 1959. The bulletins describe the four features that make an "educated" and well-rounded woman, answer frequently asked questions, and show sample four-year course plans for each major. Additionally, the booklet explains what skill set a student in the major will develop and the types of jobs they will be qualified for after graduating.

Newell Long was a member of the School of Music faculty at Indiana University from 1935 until 1975, while his wife Eleanor taught English from 1939 until 1962. Over the course of their marriage they collaboratively composed a number of pageant scores, musical plays, and skits for university and local celebrations. This collection consists of music scores, programs, scripts and audio visual material.

William Hammond Mathers attended Bloomington (Ind.) High School in the early 1930s before attending Indiana University where he graduated in 1938 with his BA in Chemistry with High Honors. Mathers fell ill during his last few years at I.U. and passed away on September 5, 1938 after a long battle against cancer. This collection consists of William Mathers education related papers, notebooks, textbooks, and various coursework completed both at Bloomington High School and at Indiana University. Also included are a few travel journals kept by Mathers from 1936-1937.

James H. Rudy was an Indiana University alumnus who was granted an AB in English in 1932. In his will Rudy left the bulk of his estate to Indiana University, which was used to begin and fund the Rudy Professorships to attract and retain outstanding faculty. Collection consists of papers brought together after Rudy's death by the Owensboro, Kentucky law firm Wilson and Wilson, who represented Rudy's friends and lawyer when his sister, Sarah Gray Rudy McNulty, contested his will. Collection includes notes, correspondence, journals and ledgers, depositions, and legal papers. The depositions include Rudy's family and friends in addition to Indiana University Vice President and Treasurer Joseph A. Franklin. Prominent correspondents include Rudy's mother-in-law Grace Blair, his mother Katherine F. Rudy, his sister Sarah McNulty, and family friends Linda and Charles Boswell.

This collection consists of a mostly-complete run of the Indiana University News-Letter from 1913 to 1945. The newsletter, originally titled Alumni News-Letter of Indiana University, was a monthly publication primarily used to communicate Indiana University news with alumni.

The Married Students' Club was a social club for married students and faculty members of Indiana University. The ledger includes the Constitution of the club, amendments, meeting minutes, and financial statements.

Kathleen McKee Butts attended IU Bloomington from 1918-1921, though she did not complete her degree. The bulk of materials included are her writings, which consist of radio scripts, stories, and editorials published in the Plainfield Messenger circa 1934. Personal materials consist mainly of items retained by Butt's father, Dr. Joseph Fennell McKee, and are comprised of correspondence, legal documents, newspaper clippings, and pocket-sized notebooks. Much of the information in these records pertains to Dr. McKee, his wife Irene Sullivan McKee and her father John E. Sullivan, and the subsequent legal proceedings and personal issues involving their divorce and custody of their child Kathleen.

Effa Funk Muhse was Indiana University's first woman to earn a Ph.D. at Indiana University, bestowed upon her in 1908 (Zoology). Prominent scientists Carl Eigenmann and Charles Zeleny advised Muhse's doctoral dissertation, "The Cutaneous Glands of the Common Toad," which was published in the American Journal of Anatomy in 1909. After obtaining her Ph.D., Muhse entered the lecture circuit speaking on topics from the Mendelian laws of heredity to rural sanitation to eugenics, before settling in Washington, D.C. Muhse's laboratory notes and drawings are included in this collection, as well as copies of the papers she published and laboratory slides.

In April of 1890, a bogus publication created by members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity was distributed to the public. The publication criticized several IU faculty members and students using exceedingly foul language. As the authors were originally unknown, University administration opened an investigation which resulted in the expulsion of several of the perpetrators. This collection consists of correspondence from various parties involved with the event, investigative documents, and a copy of the bogus publication itself. The bulk of the collection dates from 1890, but there is some correspondence with Herman B Wells regarding research into these documents dating as late as 1945.

Throughout most of the nineteenth century, students at Indiana University were required to attend chapel services every morning before class. Though attendance was no longer mandatory after the 1889-1890 school year, the university chapel continued to host lectures, song services, and religious services. This collection consists of the chapel roll book, which documented attendance of students between 1883 and 1891.

Charlotte A. Lowe, born September 7, 1867, in Indianapolis, Indiana, was the wife of William Lowe Bryan. The collection consists of personal papers, correspondence, and writings of Charlotte Lowe Bryan in four series: American Association of University Women, 1932-1933, consisting of loan fund reports for the Bloomington chapter; Addresses and presentations, 1929-1937, containing copies of speeches given both by and for Bryan; Correspondence, 1873-1937, containing correspondence both to and from Bryan; and Publications, 1933-1937, consisting of typescripts and galley sheets of articles written by Bryan.

Literary societies cropped up early on American college and university campuses, and were one of the few social outlets available to students. This collection consists entirely of a ledger signed by students vowing to follow the rules and regulations of the Indiana University Trustees and their respective literary societies.

Sarah Parke Morrison became the first woman admitted to Indiana University in 1867. Collection consists of personal papers of Sarah Parke Morrison in three series: Correspondence, 1897-1913, consisting primarily of outgoing correspondence. Frequent correspondents include former Indiana University President William Lowe Bryan and Registrar John W. Cravens. The correspondence all dates from the years after she left IU and much of it discusses her desire that women become members of the various University boards. Schedules, 1855-1856, consists of a single schedule of a typical day for Morrison at the Western Female College; and Writings, 1911-1912, includes a handwritten account of Morrison's entrance and experience as the first female student at IU and a small pamphlet of Morrison's poetry published in 1912.

John Robert Cravens was a graduate of Indiana University. This collection includes correspondence and lecture notes from John Robert Cravens' senior year at Indiana University, 1839-1840. He later became a lawyer and one of Indiana's leading statesmen.

General meetings of the Indiana University faculty began in 1835, to discuss the industriousness of its students, calling student rolls, and hearing reports on the work and standing of each of the students. Disciplinary measures, dismissals, and exams for students were also discussed during many of the meetings throughout the nineteenth century. By the 1920s, the faculty had grown to such a point that it was necessary to create a representative body of the faculty, but the faculty as a whole continued to meet with some regularity. Today the faculty body rarely meet, but may be convened by the IU president, the Secretary of the University Faculty Council, or on petition signed by voting faculty members numbering no less than 5% of all voting faculty members.