Hugh P. Baker, ca.1945

Hugh Baker served as President during most of the existence of Massachusetts State College, taking office in 1933, two years after it changed name from Massachusetts Agricultural College, and retiring in 1947, just as the college became the University of Massachusetts. A forester by training, Baker began his career as a professor, and later dean, in the College of Forestry at Syracuse University. In 1920, he left Syracuse to become Executive Secretary of the American Paper and Pulp Association, and for nearly a decade, he worked in the forestry industry. He returned to academia in 1930, when he resumed the deanship at the New York State School of Forestry. During his presidency at Massachusetts State College, Baker oversaw the construction of improved housing and classroom facilities for students, a new library, the expansion of the liberal arts curriculum, and a near doubling of student enrollment. Further, chapel services were reorganized to be voluntary, and a weekly convocation was initiated. Baker also founded popular annual conferences on recreation and country life.

The Baker Papers include correspondence with college, state, and federal officials, college suppliers, and alumni; speeches and articles; reports and other papers on topics at issue during Baker’s college presidency, 1933-1947, particularly the building program. Also included are several biographical sketches and memorial tributes; clippings and other papers, relating to Baker’s career as professor of forestry at several colleges, trade association executive, and college president.

Personal, business, and legal papers of the Howe family of Enfield and Dana, Massachusetts, including correspondence between family members, genealogies, account books and printed materials. Account books record transactions of various family members whose occupations included general storekeeper, minister, printer, postmaster, telephone exchange and gas-station owner, and document the transactions of community businesses and individuals, some of whom were women involved in the beginnings of the local palm leaf hat and mat industry.

Carl Oglesby, 2006
Photo by Jennifer Fels

Reflective, critical, and radical, Carl Oglesby was an eloquent voice of the New Left during the 1960s and 1970s. A native of Ohio, Oglesby was working in the defense industry in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1964 when he became radicalized by what he saw transpiring in Vietnam. Through his contacts with the Students for a Democratic Society, he was drawn into the nascent antiwar movement, and thanks to his formidable skills as a speaker and writer, rose rapidly to prominence. Elected president of the SDS in 1965, he spent several years traveling nationally and internationally advocating for a variety of political and social causes.

In 1972, Oglesby helped co-found the Assassination Information Bureau which ultimately helped prod the U.S. Congress to reopen the investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A prolific writer and editor, his major works include Containment and Change (1967), The New Left Reader (1969), The Yankee and Cowboy War (1976), and The JFK Assassination: The Facts and the Theories (1992). The Oglesby Papers include research files, correspondence, published and unpublished writing, with the weight of the collection falling largely on the period after 1975.

Includes booklets containing parish and community histories, photographs, and local advertisements celebrating Jubilee, other anniversaries, and events in over twenty Massachusetts Polish American parishes; booklets furnishing histories and names associated with Polish American groups (such as the Brotherly Aid Society and Polish American Veterans); an historical paper on the Chicopee Polish Community; a pamphlet including songs and recipes; photographs; a booklet; and two books.

Louise Shattuck

A life-long resident of Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts, and a third-generation Spiritualist, Louise Shattuck was an artist, teacher, and noted breeder of English cocker spaniels.

Shattuck’s work as a teacher, writer, artist, and dog breeder are documented in this collection through decades of correspondence and diaries, artwork, publications, and newspaper clippings. Of particular note are the materials associated with the Spiritualist history of Lake Pleasant, including three turn of the century spirit slates, samples of Louise’s automatic writing, a ouija board and dowsing rods, and an excellent photograph album with associated realia for the Independent Order of Scalpers, a Lake Pleasant.

The St. Kazimier Society was an early mutual aid society formed in the Polish community in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Established in 1904, the Society preceded the founding of Our Lady of Czestochowa Church by five years.

Records of the St. Kazimier Society of Turners Falls include administrative files, financial records, educational materials, and photographs. Account books generally reflect members’ premium payments and benefits, the income and expenses of the society itself, and of the club.

Named for Polish saint Stanislaus Kostka, the St. Stanislaus Society of Turners Falls was most likely a part of a larger fraternal society, possibly the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America. Ethnic parishes and the fraternal societies that often sprang up around them, served as buffers between the customs and language immigrants brought with them and the new traditions and language they were expected to learn upon entering American society. Fraternal socities like St. Stanislaus offered members a place to celebrate their Polish heritage and Roman Catholic faith, while also assisting them with some of the more practical matters of living in a new country, such as securing life insurance and home mortgages.

Settled in 1660 and incorporated in 1718, the town of Brookfield (Worcester County) straddles the Boston Post Road, one of the major arteries during the colonial period connecting Boston with the towns of the Connecticut River Valley and New York.

This assemblage of documents from the town of Brookfield consists primarily of warrants for town meetings, many with agendas, issued through the local constable. Concentrated in the 1770s, these warrants provide relatively detailed information on matters of local importance, including town finances, tax assessments, contributions to the poor house, roadways, and property disputes. During the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary years, however, issues of interest to the town were often wrapped up in regional or national political issues. Town freeholders, for example, were called to consider requests to “come into any Vote or Resolve Respecting the East India Company Tea,” the encouragement of manufacture of firearms, smallpox inoculation, and pay for the town’s Minute Men.

Group comprised of students from the University of Massachusetts and community members who sought to develop and promote cultural, literary, charitable, educational and public affairs television programming. Records include by-laws, articles of organization, organizational histories, annual reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, program schedules, subject files, brochures, handbills, news clippings, and materials relating to a proposed merger with University of Massachusetts Cable Vision. In 1989, CCATV was renamed Amherst Community Television (ACT).

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[ O ][ P, Q ][ R ][ S ][ T ][ U ][ V ][ W ][ XYZ ]

B

Baccalaureate Day

see Press Information (Commencement) RG-1/7/1

Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC)

RG-11/4

Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration Newsletter (1973- )

RG-11/4

Baha’i Club (Religious Club) (1972-1997)

RG-45/70/B3

Bands (Music and Dance Department)

RG-25/M9.2

Banqueteer, Aggie

see Aggie Banqueteer RG-45/00/A2

Baseball (Men’s)

see Sports-Men’s Baseball (1868- ) RG-18/2

Basketball (Men’s)

see Sports-Men’s Basketball (1898- ) RG-18/2

Basketball (Women’s)

see Sports-Women’s Basketball (1978- ) RG-18/2

Bathrooms, Coed (Physical Plant) (1981)

RG-36/50/B3

see also Office of Residential Resource Management RG-30/21/1

Baton Twirling

see Sports-Women’s Baton Twirling (1973) RG-18/2

Bay State Ruralist (1912-1917)

RG-45/00/B2

BCC

see Boston Church of Christ (1990- ) (Religious Group) RG-45/70/B6

BCP

see Bilingual Collegiate Program (BCP) (1974- ) RG-6/4/6.5

BDIC

see Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC) (College of Arts and Sciences) RG-11/4

BDIC Newsletter (1973-1987)

RG-11/4

Beacon (1970- )

RG-13/00

Beautification Committee, Campus

see Campus Beautification Committee RG-40/2/C.6

Beef and Sheep Highlights (Extension Service, Cooperative) (1958, 1967-1975)

RG-15/8

see also Sheep Shearing (1947, 1954-1955) RG-15/8

Behavior Program, Neuroscience and

see Neuroscience and Behavior Program RG-25/N5

Behavioral Biology, Department of

see Psychology–Behavioral Biology, Dept. of RG-25/P8

Behavioral Sciences Faculty

see Social and Behavioral Sciences Faculty RG-11/30

Berkshire County Cooperative Extension (1915-1989)

RG-15/8/.81

Beta Alpha Psi (Honor Society)

see Accounting Department–Beta Alpha Psi RG-25/A2

Beta Gamma Sigma

RG-45/60/B2.5

Beta Kappa Phi (1985-1996)

RG-45/90/B4

Beta Theta of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

see Sigma Gamma Epsilon (1949- ) RG-45/90/S5.35

Bibliofile, The (1987, 1994)

RG-45/00/B4

Bibliography, Faculty/Staff

see Faculty/Staff Bibliography (collective) RG-40/4

Bibliography Library Collections

see Collection Development (Library) RG-8/2

Bibliography, Organization Charts (University as a Whole) (1949- )

RG-1/00/1

Bicentennial Committee

see Inter-Campus Committee RG-3/100

Bi-Cultural Education

see Bi-Lingual, Bi-Cultural Education, Center for RG-13/3/21/6

Biff, The Weekly

see Weekly Biff, The (1910) RG-45/00/W4

Bilingual Collegiate Program (BCP) (1974- )

RG-6/4/6.5

Bilingual Collegiate Program–Springfield/UMass Minority Achievement Program (SUMMA)

RG-6/4/6.5

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1991)

RG-25/B5

Biodiversity Conservation Program (1990)

RG-25/F6/3

Biographies (Alumni)

see Obituaries, Biographies (Alumni) RG-50/00/2

Biography, Lists, Directories, Faculty/Staff

see Faculty/Staff Biography, Lists, Directories (collective) RG-40/10

see also Individual Members of Faculty and Staff RG-40/11

Biological Hazards Committee (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/1/2/4

Biological Sciences Library (1962- )

RG-8/3/9

Biology

RG-25/B6

see also Zoology Department RG-25/Z5

Botany Department RG-25/B8

Biology, Plant

see Plant Biology RG-25/P4.5

Biomedical Research Support Grants

see Faculty Research Grant, Biomedical Research Support Grant (F RG/BS RG) (Research and Graduate Studies) RG-9/2/3

Biopharmaceutical Research Unit

see Public Health, Division of–Biopharmaceutical Research Unit RG-17/1

BIOrhythms (1997- )

RG-25/B6/00

Biosci Journal (1995- )

RG-25/B6/00

Note: A journal of undergraduate research at UMass/Amherst.

Biostatistics Technical Reports (1977)

see Public Health, Division of–Biostatistics Technical Reports

RG-17/1

Biotechnology Program

RG-25/B7

Biotechnology Program Committee (1985- )

RG-40/2/B5

Bisexual Concerns

see Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns, The Chancellors Task Force on (1993- ) RG-40/2/G2

Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns, Support Group for RG-40/2/G3

Programs for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns RG-30/2/6

Bits and Bytes (1965-1989)

RG-29/00/1

Black and other Minority Students, Committee for the Collegiate Education of

see Committee for the Collegiate Education of Black and other Minority Students (CCEBMS) (1967- ) RG-6/4/12

Black Culture Center (New Africa House)

RG-30/26

Black Mass Communications Project (BMCP) (1968- )

RG-45/30/B4

Black Repertory Theatre

RG-25/T3.6

Black Student Union

RG-45/19

Black Students at UMass and in Western Massachusetts

RG-45/15

see also Protests and Demonstrations RG-45/101

Student Life RG-1/204

New Africa House RG-36/100

Lecturers from outside the University RG-1/12

Black Studies, Contributions to

see Contributions to Black Studies RG-60/5/00

Black Studies Program

see Afro-American Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois Dept. of RG-25/A4

see also Five College Cooperation RG-60/5

Five College Black Studies RG-60/5/3

Blue Prints (Cartographic Materials)

RG-181/1

Blues Band (1985- )

RG-45/40/B4

BMCP

see Black Mass Communications Project (BMCP) (1968- ) RG-45/30/B4

Board of Control Annual Report (Experiment Station) (1888, 1893, 1894)

see Experiment Station (State Station, 1882-1895)–Board of Control Annual Report (1888, 1893, 1894) RG-15/2.1

Board of Control Meetings (Experiment Station) (1882-1895)

see Experiment Station (State Station, 1882-1895)–Board of Control Meetings (1882-1895) RG-15/2.1

Board of Governors

RG-37/11

Board of Higher Education (1996- )

see Higher Education Coordinating Council (1991-1996) RG-1/5

Board of Higher Education, Massachusetts

see Massachusetts Board of Higher Education RG-1/3

Board of Regents (1980-1991)

RG-1/4

see also Massachusetts Board of Higher Education RG-1/3

Higher Education Coordinating Council RG-1/5

Board of Trustees

see Trustees RG-2

Board of Trustees, Faculty Delegate to the

see Faculty to the Board of Trustees (Faculty Senate, 1971-1972) RG-40/2/A3

Boarding Club, MAC (1884)

RG-45/40/B6.2

Bologna, UMass Program at

see French and Italian Department–Bologna, UMASS Program at RG-25/F9/3

Boltwood Project (Social Action Group) (1983- )

RG-45/80/B6

see also Belchertown State School Friends Association (BSSFA) MS302

Bond Center for Equal Education

see Horace Mann Bond Center for Equal Education RG-13/4/10

see also Status Report–Reports to Chancellor (1982) RG-4/00

Book Club, MAC (1908-1925)

RG-45/40/B6.4

Book for Little Loving Children Needing Guidance (1+1=/=3) (1973)

RG-45/00/B6

Books for College Libraries (Library) (1967-1974)

RG-8/4/2

Boston Church of Christ (BCC) (Religious Group) (1990-1993)

RG-45/70/B6

Boston Library Consortium (1975- )

RG-8/10

Boston, UMass

see UMass Boston (1964- ) RG-55/3

Boston University Combined Degree, Granting with UMass and Simmons College

RG-60/4

Botanic Garden (Physical Plant)

RG-36/104/B6

Botany

RG-25/B8

Botany News (1981-1988)

RG-25/B8/00

Bowl Team, College

see College Bowl Team RG-45/40/C5

Boys’ and Girls’ Series (Extension Service, Cooperative)

see

Extension Service, Cooperative–Boys’ and Girls’ Series RG-15/8

Brain Theory Newsletter (1978)

RG-25/C9/00

Broadcast Board, Student Publications and

see Publications and Broadcast Board, Student RG-45/30/P8

Brochures (Public Affairs)

RG-5/00/4

BRSG

see Faculty Research Grant–Biomedical Research Support Grant (F RG-BRSG) RG-9/2/3

Budget

see Budget Documents RG-4/2

Office of Budget and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) RG-4/3/3

Capital Outlay Budgets and Priorities Lists RG-6/15/4

Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance RG-35/19

Budget and Finance

RG-32/6

Budget and Finance, Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1980-1981)

RG-40/2/A3

Budget Committee (Faculty Senate, 1969-1973)

RG-40/2/A3

see also Program and Budget Committee (1975- ) RG-40/2/A3

Budget Committee (Student Senate) (1981-1993)

RG-45/7/B8

Budget Documents (1908- )

RG-4/2

Budget Office (Administrative Services)

RG-35/20

see also Budget Documents–Newsclippings RG-4/2

see also Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) RG-4/3/3

Budgeting and Institutional Research

see Office of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Budgeting and Institutional Studies, Office of

see Office of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Budgeting, Institutional Research and Planning

seeOffice of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Budgets, Capital Outlay

see Planning Office RG-6/15/4

Building Association

RG-36/22

Building Authority

RG-36/21

see also Financial Reports RG-3/4/3

Building Materials Technology and Management Program

RG-25/B9

Building Ventilation Working Group, Campus

see Campus Building Ventilation Working Group RG-30/15/1

Buildings and Grounds

RG-36

see also Buildings and Grounds (Photographs) RG-150

Panoramic Photos RG-170

Buildings and Grounds (Photographs)

RG-150

see also Panoramic Photos RG-170

Buildings and Grounds, Campus (Films and Videotapes)

see Campus Buildings and Grounds (Films and Videotapes) RG-186/4

Buildings and Grounds Committee (Faculty Senate, 1968-1969, 1980)

RG-40/2/A3

Buildings or parts of campus, specific

see Specific buildings or parts of campus RG-101 thru 104

Buildings Proposed But Not Built

RG-36/103

Buildings, Residential

see Residential Buildings RG-36/102

Buildings Specific (except residential)

RG-36/101

see also Residential Buildings RG-36/102

Buildings proposed but not built RG-36/103

Bulletin Series

see Catalogs (Bulletin Series) (1901- ) RG-1/00/4

Bulletin, University (Catalog Series)

see RG-1/00/4 Catalogs (Bulletin Series ) (1901- ), General Information Bulletins (1898-1978)

Bulletins

see Weekly, University, Executive Bulletins RG-5/00/3

Bulletins, Alumni

see Alumni Bulletins RG-50/00/3

Bulletins, Experiment Stations

seeExperiment Station (1882-95)–Bulletin (#’s 1-57) (1883-1895) RG-15/2.1

and

Experiment Station (1888- )– Bulletin (#1- ) RG-15/2.2

Bulletins, General Information

see Catalogs (Bulletin Series), General Information Bulletins RG-1/00/4

Bureau of Government Research

RG-25/P6.5

Bureau of Government Research Bulletin (1959-1969)

RG-25/P6.5/00

Bureau of Public Administration

RG-25/P6.4

Bursar

RG-35/16

Bursars Office (Microfilm)

RG-190/17

Bus Service, Student Senate

see Student Senate Bus Service RG-45/7/T7

Business Administration, School of

see School of Management RG-12

Business Affairs

see Vice President for Management and Business Affairs RG-3/11

Business Affairs–Office of (Business Manager and Staff) (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/4/1

Business Affairs, Office of (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/4

Business and Economic Report, Massachusetts

see Massachusetts Business and Economic Report RG-12/3/B8

Business and Economic Research, Center for

RG-12/3

see also Massachusetts Business and Economic Report RG-12/3/B8

Business Club

RG-12/4

Business Development Center

see Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (MSBDC) RG-12/10

Business Leadership Education, Affirmative

see Project ABLE RG-12/2

Business Office, Director of Personnel and Financial Services

RG-35/3

Business Procedures and Project Planning, Director of

RG-3/4/5

Businesses Student

see Co-ops and Businesses, Student Run RG-45/40/C6.5

ButterMeter News (1985)

RG-45/00/B8