Main content

Addition to Dorothy and Douglas Steere papers

Notifications

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
MC.1314
Repository:
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Extent:
0.43 linear ft. (1 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Addition to Dorothy and Douglas Steere papers (HC.MC.1314), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
Date:
1946-2003 (inclusive)
Creator:
Steere, Dorothy M., 1908-2003
Abstract:
This collection contains the research materials, personal photographs, mementos, writings, and journals of Dorothy Steere.

Dorothy Lou MacEachron was born December 22, 1907, in Grand Haven, Michigan, and graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan in 1928. After her marriage to Douglass Steere in 1929, she and Douglas worked together for Quakerism and for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). As a member of the AFSC from 1945 to 1980. Her first contribution to the organization was as a work camp leader in 1945, and in 1949, she served on the American Friends Service Personnel Committee. Steere noted that her special interest in the committee was in "communication with people of all kinds, growth and awareness of ourselves as persons, of others, and their needs." This commitment to all peoples can be seen in her involvement with Civil Rights during the 1950s and 1960s. Between 1956 and 1958, Dorothy Steere corresponded with Martin Luther King Jr. on issues such as the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott and race relations in the South. Dorothy gave many talks and addresses at retreats, conferences, and religious meetings. Several of her essays were featured in Quaker journals and publications such as Inward Light, Friendly Woman, and The Friend. Steere also wrote a pamphlet entitled "The Whole World in His Hands" in 1965. She died in 2003, at the age of 95.

This collection contains the materials, writings, and journals of Dorothy Steere, including research materials for her talks, personal photographs of family and friends, and preserved obituaries and eulogies for her husband, Douglas Steere.

This collection is arranged in five series: Writings, Correspondence, Miscellaneous, Photographs, and Journals.

The addition to Dorothy and Douglas Steere papers was donated to Special Collections, Haverford College in November, 2018 by Anne Nash.

Processed by Alexandra Stern; completed December, 2018.

HC.MC.1174 Dorothy and Douglas Steere Papers

People

Publisher
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
Alexandra Stern
Finding Aid Date
December, 2018
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Collection Inventory

Prayer, 1957-1978.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Collected materials relating to the benefits and merits of prayer, including pamphlets, essays, handwritten notes, and collections of quotations

Listening, 1984.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Collected materials relating to what it means to listen to one another, including pamphlets, essays, handwritten notes, and collections of quotations

Marriage Talks, etc., 1971-1983.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Collected materials relating to marriage, including conferance notes, newspaper clippings, essays, pamphlets, and handwritten notes

Simplicity, 1973.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of "Quaker Simplicity - New Ways of Living" by Sven E. Ryberg (1973)

Ecumenical Institute of Spirituality, 1994.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Itinierary for EIOS Meeting for Business (Jan. 6-9, 1994) at St. Mary's Seminary and the Carmelite Monastary, pages from 2 drafts (incomplete, typed), photocopy of Douglas Steere's Opening Address (Worship: Volume 39 no. 10), Poem "To Dorothy" from Robert J Morneau

Worship and Ministry Forum Introductory Notes, 1997.
Box 1
1979 Pendle Hill Conference "What is Marriage--- Beyond Living Together?", 1979.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Letters to participants in the conference, handwritten notes and research materials

Reflections from Joon Park and Myeongsook Han, 1999.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

"I am a Dreamer" (1999) and "My Life and Korean Women's Movement" (1999)

Quaker Studies Program, 1984.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes, printed handouts from the Quaker Studies Program

Correspondence, 1972-1987.
Box 1
Correspondence with T. Merton, 1962-1968.
Box 1
Holiday Newsletter, 1993.
Box 1

Worship Materials, 1946-1978.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes and pamphlets

Names/Addresses Found with Dorothy Steere's Obituary, 2003.
Box 1
Obituaries, 1946-1996.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Collection of obituaries, eulogies for Douglas Steere (1995), and articles about Dorothy and Douglas.

Misc. Photographs, undated.
Box 1
Photographs from John Nomasen, undated.
Box 1
Photos of Friends, undated.
Box 1
Photos of Children of Friends, undated.
Box 1

Journal , 1963-1979.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Dreams and entries about conversations with friends.

Journal, 1965-1970.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Dreams and personal diary.

Journal, 1972-1997.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Personal diary

Journal, 1979-1991.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Dreams and personal diary

Journal, 1979.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Travels and personal diary

Journal, 1981.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Travels (1891 European trip)

Journal, 1985-1991.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Personal diary

Journal, 1992.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Personal diary

Journal, undated.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Personal diary

Journal, undated.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Personal diary

Journal, undated.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Personal diary

Journal, undated.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Personal diary

Journal, undated.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Personal diary

Print, Suggest