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Quaker Sociologists papers
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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.
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Kenneth Ives (1916-2002) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Earlham College in 1938 and from Wayne State University in 1957. During that same year, he married Renee R. Wagshal. He worked as a psychiatric social worker and instructor. He was an active member of the Lake Erie Association Quaker community and Quaker Sociologists Meeting. Ives died in Chicago in 2002.
Information largely drawn from Earlham College Archives.
This collection contains materials created by or relating to Kenneth Ives. This includes Quaker Sociologists newsletters, programming, conference and committee agendas, correspondence, bulletins, research, minutes, reports, and mailing lists in the Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania regions.
This collection is arranged by content of materials
Unknown acquisition
Processed by Sakina Gulamhusein; completed April 2023.
Organization
- Friends General Conference (U.S.)
- Lake Erie Association of Friends Meetings
- Quaker Sociologists and Anthropologists
Subject
- Publisher
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- Sakina Gulamhusein
- Finding Aid Date
- April, 2023
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17)
Collection Inventory
This folder contains correspondence from Kenneth Ives and Sam Prellwitz regarding Ohio and West Pennsylvania Friends Meetings, Members of the Committee for Regional Intervistation correspondence, Meeting maps, and lists of members and meeting locations.
This folder includes materials from the Birmingham Meeting in Michigan. Content includes the New Bulletin highlighting meetings and plans, Detroit Friends Meetings queries, a list of member of the wider Quaker Fellowship, rosters for discussion groups, a report about planning committee, and announcements about hosting talks on tensions between people, as well as relationships.
This folder contains planning materials for the Friends General Conference in the Midwest. This includes estimated attendance and data analysis to decide the best location to hold the conference (Traverse City MI, Columbia MO, Wilmington OH, Cape May NJ, Sandusky OH, Angela IN.), done by Kenneth Ives, correspondence, invitations to meetings, a conference newsletter, and scheduling.
This folder contains materials around Kenneth Ives's Plan for a "Correspondence Meeting" for Scattered Friends and Seekers and correspondence
This folder contains materials regarding the Lake Erie Association of Friends, their Bulletins, annual meeting and conference schedules, details about the Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting, Annual Meeting Minutes, meeting reports, correspondence, meeting data, budgets, mailing lists, agendas, programming, and pamphlets.
This collection contains materials related to the Quaker Sociologists Meeting. This includes program committee invitations, summary and plans of discussions, organization collaboration, newsletters, research inquiries and summary, mailing lists and correspondence regarding that, agendas, memorandums, a Friends General Conference Preliminary Survey, a funding proposal for the Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development, correspondence, The Natural History of Member and Meeting Growth, meeting details, planning, and summaries, brochures, lecture series information, and research on Monteverde.
This folder contains peace issues conference materials, correspondence, agendas, newsletters on peace research, meeting and convention information, mailing lists, an annotated bibliography about educational films, information on the natural history of member and meeting growth, a Quaker research funding proposal, financial reports, committee information, and a map of Villa Jones in Mexico City.
This folder contains correspondence, FNRF report card replies, AFSC reports, FNRF newsletters and annual reports, a copy of the Prospectus, news memos, local group reports, copies of the Religious Education Bulletin, a copy of The Tidings, organization invitations, copies of The Friendly Roundrobin, a general conference mailing list, and the News Bulletin for Religious Liberals.
This folder contains LEA annual meeting minutes, a list of attendees, an annual conference report, and LEA bulletins.
This folder contains a Green Pastures Conference of Friends program, directories, correspondence, financial reports, committee reports, Ann Arbor Friends Meeting Monthly Bulletin, planning, and questions regarding Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting.
This folder contains committee reports and agendas, friends discussion group members list, Green Pastures Conference details, Quarterly Meeting agendas and programing, correspondence, financial reports, minutes, Green Pastures Quarterly Meeting plans, and a map of yearly meetings around Lake Erie.
This folder contains FNRF mailing lists, correspondence, notes, local groups information, reports, FNRF newsletters and annual reports, General Conference for Friends Advance Program pamphlet, map of FNRF distribution, membership analysis, a list of committees, and information on Quaker Aid in Vietnam.