A product of the vibrant and progressive political culture of western Massachusetts during the early 1970s, the Alternative Energy Coalition played a key role in the growth of antinuclear activism. In 1974, the AEC helped mobilize support for Sam Lovejoy after he sabotaged a weather tower erected by Northeast Utilities in Montague, Mass., in preparation for a proposed nuclear power plant, and they helped organize the drive for a referendum opposing not only the proposed plant in Montague, but existing plants in Rowe, Mass., and Vernon, Vt. Forming extensive connections with other antinuclear organizations, the AEC also became one of the organizations that united in 1976 to form the Clamshell Alliance, which made an art of mass civil disobedience.

The AEC Records provide insight into grassroots activism of the 1970s and 1980s, galvanized by the seemingly unrestrained growth of the nuclear power industry. The records, emanating from the Hampshire County branch, contain both research materials used by the AEC and organizational and promotional materials produced by them, including publications, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and materials used during protests. Of particular interest are a thick suite of organizational and other information pertaining to the occupation of the Seabrook (N.H.) nuclear power plant in 1979 and minutes, notes, and other materials relating to the founding and early days of the Clamshell Alliance. The collection is closely related to the Antinuclear Collection (MS 547).

Tent caterpillar

Arthur P. Mange taught in the Biology Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst for 31 years before retiring in 1995. A co-author of numerous works in human genetics, Mange served on the chair of the Conservation Committee in Amherst, and currently serves on the Burnett Gallery Committee. In 1983, his New England images were featured in Across the Valley (from Cummington to New Salem) held at the Burnett Gallery. This exhibition was followed at the Hitchcock Center in 1984 with Delight in Familiar Forms (celebrating some well-known plants and animals), with Ring Bell to Admit Bird at the Jones Library and Net Prophet at Cooley Dickinson Hospital. Architectural Sights — Big and Small, Mange’s most recent show (2002), appeared at the Burnett Gallery. In addition to exhibitions, Mange has also donated collections for fund-raising auctions at New York University, the Cooley Dickinson Hospital, the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, the Amherst Historical Society, Jones Library, and the Amherst Community Arts Center.

His photographic collection spans more than half a century of subjects reflecting his varied interests in animals, plants, our region, gravestones, what he calls “whimsical signs,” and attention-grabbing shadows.

Julius Fabos, 1966

Born on a farm in Hungary in 1932, the landscape architect Julius Fabos survived the Second World War and the onset of Stalinism before escaping to America during the Revolution of 1956. Able to resume his studies, Fabos received his BS in plant science from Rutgers (1961) and MLA from Harvard (1964), joining the faculty at UMass Amherst shortly thereafter while continuing toward a doctorate in Resource Planning and Conservation at the University of Michigan (1973). A charismatic teacher and prolific writer, Fabos is noted internationally for his work on landscape assessment and planning and greenways. In the early 1970s, he helped establish the METLAND (Metropolitan Landscape Planning) interdisciplinary research group, which pioneered the use of GIS technology in landscape planning. Fabos has received numerous honors in his career, including recognition as a Fellow of American Society of Landscape Architects (1985), as a Medalist for the ASLA (1997), and recipient of an honorary degree from the Hungarian University of Horticulture. Fabos retired in 1997.

The Fabos papers contain a record of a distinguished career in landscape architecture, including Fabos’ numerous publications, grey literature, conference materials, notes, and selected correspondence.

Professor of landscape architecture and Head, Horticulture Department, University of Massachusetts.

Correspondence (1903-1943); draft and printed versions of articles, lectures, papers, and books; reports; 223 etchings (1934-1943) and 108 photos (1905-1942) by Waugh; plans and blueprints; syllabi and reading list; news clippings of articles by Waugh, sometimes with handwritten notes; and bibliographies, book reviews, and biographical material.

In February and March 1890, Smith College Professor J.H. Pillsbury organized several meetings for Northampton citizens interested in the work of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Within a month, prominent local men, including C.H. Lyman, A.L. Williston, George Washington Cable, and F.N. Kneeland, established an Executive Board and committees with representatives from all the Protestant churches to raise funds and secure a building to begin the Northampton YMCA. Incorporation shortly followed, in January 1892.

In its first decade, the YMCA established a Boy’s Department under the direction of Robert L. Williston, started a Women’s Auxiliary, and began a building fund that resulted in the purchase of property from A.L. Williston on King Street. Throughout its history, the YMCA responded to local needs during periods of crisis or transition. During World War I and II, it established recreation programs for factory workers and soldiers stationed in the area, and, from 1942-44, was heavily involved in U.S.O work. In the 1950s and 1960s the YMCA began special programs on civil rights and desegregation. Over the years, a number of prominent local figures played a role in Hampshire Regional YMCA’s history including Robert L. Williston, Oliver L. Bradley, and Errol V. Ridgewell, Executive Director from 1943 through 1969.

Records of the Hampshire Regional YMCA document the Association from its first meetings in 1891 through 1978. The collection contains minutes, constitution and by-laws, reports, board correspondence, ledgers, publications, scrapbooks, and youth, recreation, and wartime program files. Also includes material relating to building campaigns and properties. Additionally documents the long career of Errol V. Ridgwell.

The academic departments at UMass Amherst are organized within ten schools and colleges. Among the more than 88 degree programs in 2009, 74 confer masters degrees, and 53 confer doctorates.

Containing the records of individual academic departments, programs, institutes, and centers, Record Group 25 documents the shifting history of disciplinarity and departmental affairs at UMass Amherst. The papers of individual faculty members are contained within the Faculty and Staff (FS) collections and are indexed separately in UMarmot.

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Amherst College, ca.1913

The University Archives contains the official and unofficial records of the University of Massachusetts Amherst throughout its evolution from a small agricultural college into a dynamic and complex university. Within the archives are letters and artifacts, records, photographs, and sound recordings documenting the lives of its founders, the pursuits of its faculty, and the changing attitudes of its students and alumni, revealing what high quality public education means to our Commonwealth and nation.

Among the hundreds of discrete collections and over 13,000 linear feet of records are the official papers of Chancellors, Presidents, Trustees, and other administrators; information about the University’s academic units and student organizations; and the founding documents of our sister campuses at Worcester, Boston, Lowell, and Dartmouth. The papers of faculty members add a wealth of information about the lives and intellectual pursuits of our campus community as well as their chosen academic disciplines.

SCUA recently launched Memory Corps, a project to collect oral histories from UMass Amherst alumni.

Finding things in the archives

A comprehensive alphabetical index of UMass departments, programs, and other units, including acronyms. Each entry includes a reference to the archival Record Group where the records can be found.

YouMass is wiki devoted to the life and history of the campus community.

In May 1971 Otto Paparazzo Associates announced their plans to develop 640 acres of land in East Amherst upon which a proposed 2,200 residential units, a commercial center, and a golf course would be built. Concerned about unnatural growth of the community and about the effect such a development would have on the environment, a group of residents formed the Amherst Growth Study Committee within a few months of the announcement. Despite these concerns, the Zoning Board of Appeals issued a formal permit for construction in December 1971, which the AGSC immediately appealed. Even though the group was unable to overturn the zoning board’s decision, they did achieve their ends, in part, when state and town agencies prevented the project from moving forward due to an overloaded sewage system. More importantly, the group increased public awareness about growth and housing in the town of Amherst.

Records include notes from AGSC meetings, correspondence, and newspaper clippings documenting coverage of the story in local papers.

Kenyon L. Butterfield

President of both the Massachusetts Agricultural College and Michigan Agricultural College, writer, lecturer, editor, and member, organizer, and chairman of many commissions and councils such as the Rural Life Movement.

The Butterfield Papers contain biographical materials, administrative and official papers of both of his presidencies, typescripts of his talks, and copies of his published writings. Includes correspondence and memoranda (with students, officials, legislators, officers of organizations, and private individuals), reports, outlines, minutes, surveys, and internal memoranda.

[ A ][ B ][ C ][ D ][ E ][ F ][ G ][ H ][ I, J ][ K ][ L ][ M ][ N ]
[ O ][ P, Q ][ R ][ S ][ T ][ U ][ V ][ W ][ XYZ ]

R

Racial Awareness and Cultural Diversity, Faculty Working Group on (1987- )

RG-40/2/R3

Racial Understanding, Center for

seeHousing Services–Racial Understanding, Center for (Moore House–Southwest, 1973) RG-32

Racism Coalition, Anti-

see Anti-Racism Coalition (1992- ) RG-45/40/A5

Radical Student Union

RG-45/80/R1

Radio Club, Amateur (1948)

RG-45/40/R3

Radio Stations

see WMUA (FM Radio Station) RG-45/30/W6

WOCH (Orchard Hill Radio Station) RG-45/30/W7

WSUR (Southwest Radio Station) RG-45/30/W8

WSYL (Sylvan Radio Station) RG-45/30/W9

Radio, TV (Public Affairs)

RG-5/6

see also WFCR RG-60/8

Radioisotope Use Committee (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/1/2/2

Rake, The

see Class of 1926–The Rake (1927-1966) RG-50/6

Rape and Sexual Violence, Counselor/Advocates Against (Everywoman’s Center)

RG-7/2/2/8

Rare Books, Special Collections

see Special Collections and Rare Books (Library) RG-8/3/6

RAs/ROs

see Research RAs/ROs (Research and Graduate Studies) RG-9/4/3

Ravine (Physical Plant) (1933)

RG-36/50/R3

Razor Blade (Student Publication) (1920-1923)

RG-45/00/R2

Reading, Center for (School of Education)

RG-13/3/21/1

Reading Day, Committee to Study Concept of a (Faculty Senate, 1963-1964)

RG-40/2/A3

Reading Room Association (1890-1900)

RG-45/40/R4

Reading Rooms (Library) (1957-1978)

RG-8/3/12

Readings (Poster Collection)

RG-180/3

Real-Time, Intelligent, Complex Computing Systems, Center for

see Center for Real-Time, Intelligent, Complex Computing Systems (CRICCS) RG-25/C9.1

Realization (Student Publication) (1997- )

RG-45/40/A8

REAP

see RG-30/31 Residential Education Alcohol Program (REAP) (1987- )

Receiving

see Property and Receiving RG-35/13

Recipe Service

see Extension Service, Cooperative–Recipe Service (1927) RG-15/8

Recognized Student Organizations, Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1956-1966)

RG-40/2/A3

Recognized Student Organizations Office (RSO)

RG-30/23

see also Student Body Organizations RG-45

Record Club (1937)

RG-45/40/R4.5

Records

see Registrar, Records RG-30/6

Recreation Department

RG-25/R3

Recreational Sports, Intramural and (Photos)

see Intramural and Recreational Sports Photos (1969-1989) RG-141/1

Recruiting Calendar–UPS (University Placement) (1984-1985)

RG-30/9/5

Recruitment on Campus, Committee on Policies Governing (Faculty Senate, 1973)

RG-40/2/A3

see also Picketing, ad hoc Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1967-1968, 1971) RG-40/2/A3

Picketing and Recruitment, Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1987) RG-40/2/A3

Recruitment, Task Force on Increased

see Increased, Recruitment, Task Force on (1991) RG-40/2/I4

Recycling Committee (Official University Committee) (1989- )

RG-40/2/R3.5

see also Redemption Service, Student RG-45/40/R5

Recycling Program, Residential

see Residential Recycling Program RG-45/40/R6

Redemption Service, Student

RG-45/40/R5

see also Recycling Committee RG-40/2/R3.5

Reference (Library) (1919- )

RG-8/3/5

REFLECT (1995)

RG-45/40/R5.5

Reform Committee (Student Senate) (1966)

RG-45/7/R4

Regents, Board of Massachusetts State

see Board of Regents RG-1/4

Regional Development, Office of Industrial Relations and

see Office of Industrial Relations and Regional Development (1987- ) RG-4/10

Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture and

see Landscape Architecture Department RG-25/L2

Register, The (Student Publication) (1870-1884)

RG-45/00/R3

Registrar

RG-30/6

see also Schedule Office RG-6/16

Registrar’s Office (Microfilm) RG-190/1

Registrar’s Office (Microfilm) (1905-1979)

RG-190/1

Registration

see Scheduling and Registration Committee (Faculty Senate, 1963, 1966) RG-40/2/A3

Registration Procedures, ad hoc Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1969-1970)

RG-40/2/A3

Regulations (Student Affairs)

RG-30/2/2

see also Handbooks (Student) RG-30/00/2

Parking and Transportation RG-30/20

Housing (Student) RG-30/21

Regulations, Housing

see Housing Office RG-30/21

Regulations, Parking

see Parking Coordinator, Transportation RG-30/20

see also Regulations RG-30/2/2

Regulations, Transportation

see Parking Coordinator, Transportation RG-30/20

Regulations (Student Affairs) RG-30/2/2

Relationship of Graduate Council to the Faculty Senate (Faculty Senate, 1973-1974)

RG-40/2/A3

Relay Races

see Sports-Men’s Relay (1915-1919) RG-18/2

Religion

see Chaplains, Religion RG-30/11

Religious Groups (Student)

RG-45/70

Religious Project, Inter-

see Inter-Religious Project (1997) RG-45/70/I5

Remote Sensing Center

RG-25/R4S4

see also Research and Graduate Studies, RG-9

Renaissance Studies, Massachusetts Center for

see Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies RG-25/M4.3

Rents and Fees Committee (Student Senate) (1986-1990)

RG-45/7/R5

Reorganization of Public Higher Education, ad hoc Committee (Faculty Senate, 1976-1982)

RG-40/2/A3

REPORT Newsletter (College of Food and Natural Resources)

see College of Food and Natural Resources REPORT Newsletter RG-15/00

Republican Club, University of Massachusetts (1983- )

RG-45/80/R4

Republicans, Young

see Young Republicans RG-45/80/Y6.8

Research (Official University Committee) (1951-1957)

RG-40/2/R4

Research Affairs, Director (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/2/1

Research Affairs, Office of (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/2

Research and Education in Women’s Health, Center for

see Center for Research and Education in Women’s Health (CREWH) (1997) RG-17/1/2

Research and Graduate Studies

RG-9

Research and Graduate Studies–Administrative Staff

RG-9/1/2

Research and Graduate Studies–Publications

RG-9/00

Research, Associate Dean for

see Coordinator of Research, Associate Dean for Research RG-10/3

Research Bulletin, Experiment Station

see Experiment Station (1888- )–Research Bulletin RG-15/2.2

Research, Center for (School of Education)

RG-13/3/23/3

Research, Coordinator of (Graduate School)

see Coordinator of Research, Associate Dean for Research (Graduate School) RG-10/3

see also Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research RG-9/1/1

Research Council (Faculty Senate, 1960- )

RG-40/2/A3

see also Coordinator of Research (1962-1976) RG-10/3

Research Education, Center for

see Educational Research, Center for RG-13/3/17/1

Research Grants

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

Research in Review

see Experiment Station (Experiment Station, 1880- )Research in Review (1952-1956) RG-15/2.2

Research Institute (College of Engineering)

RG-14/4

Research Institute–Technical Report (School of Engineering/College of Engineering)

RG-14/1

Research News (Graduate School) (1976-1988)

RG-10/3/00

Research RAs/ROs (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/4/3

Research Reports (News Bureau–News Releases, 1974- )

see Office of Public Information RG-5/3

Research Services, Office of (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/3

Research Support Information Newsletter (1971-1975)

RG-10/3

Reserve (Library)

see Circulation and Reserve Services (Library) RG-8/3/2

Residence Halls

see Housing Services RG-32

Residence Life, Director of (until 9-1976)

RG-32/1

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

Residence Life, Office of (1994- )

RG-32/16

Residency Appeals Committee (Faculty Senate, 1983-1989)

RG-40/2/A3

Resident Assistant Role Review Committee (1993)

RG-40/2/R4.5

Resident Assistant Union (2002- )

RG-45/45/R4

Residential Academic Programs

RG-32/14

Residential Buildings

RG-36/102

Residential Colleges (School of Education)

RG-13/4/2/2

see also Residential Colleges, ad hoc Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1971-1972) RG-40/2/A3

Residential Colleges, ad hoc Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1971-1972)

RG-40/2/A3

see also Residential Colleges RG-13/4/2/2

Residential Education Alcohol Program (REAP) (1987- )

RG-30/31

Residential Education East (Housing Services)

RG-32/7

see also Residence Life, Office of (1994- ) RG-32/16

Residential Education West (Housing Services)

RG-32/8

see also Residence Life, Office of (1994- ) RG-32/16

Residential Life Board (RLB)

RG-32/2

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

Residential Recycling Program (1986-1993)

RG-45/40/R6

Residential Resource Management, Office of

RG-30/21/1

see also Residential Life Board (RLB), RG-32/2

Housing Administration RG-35/12.

Resolutions & Proclamations (Printed Materials, Oversize)

RG-184/7

Resource Economics

see Food and Resource Economics, Department of RG-25/F4.5

Resource Network

see Student Development and Career Planning Center RG-30/9

see also Office of Human Relations RG-4/6

Resources and Environment: Management Choices

see Extension Service, Cooperative–Resources and Environment: Management Choices (1983-1993) RG-15/8

Resources and Referral (Everywoman’s Center)

RG-7/2/2/3

Retardation

see Mental Retardation Project RG-7/4

Retention Committee (Official University Committee) (1985- )

RG-40/2/R5

see also Undergraduate Retention Committee (1992) RG-40/2/U4

Retention Committee, Undergraduate

see Undergraduate Retention Committee (1992) RG-40/2/U4

Retired Faculty

RG-40/1/8

Retired Faculty Association (1987 ) RG-40/5/R3

Retired Staff Association (1993- )

RG-40/5/R4

Reunion Newsletter (1985-1986)

RG-50/00/3

Revelers (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/R4

Review Committee (Faculty Senate, 1964-1966, 1974-1975)

RG-40/2/A3

Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade (1987)

RG-45/80/R6

Rhetoric Board (Faculty Senate, 1980-1981)

RG-40/2/A3

Rhetoric Program (Special Programs) (1972-1982)

RG-6/4/6

see also Writing Program (1968-1983) RG-25/E3/1

Rhododendron Garden (Physical Plant)

RG-36/104/R5

Rifle Range (Physical Plant) (1942)

RG-36/50/R4

Rifle Team

see Sports, Men’s Rifle Team (1929) RG-18/2

RLB

see Residential Life Board (RLB) RG-32/2

Robinson Initiative, Jackie

see Jackie Robinson Initiative (Political Science Dept.) (1994-1997) RG-25/P6.7

Roister Doisters (Fine Arts/Program Group) (1910-1952)

RG-45/50/R6

see also Theatre (Photographs) RG-140/1

Romance Language Departments

see French and Italian Department, Romance Language Department RG-25/F4

Hispanic Department, Romance Language Department RG-25/H4

Room Rents and Fees, President’s Committee on (1970)

RG-40/2/R6

Room To Move (Drug Drop-In Center)

RG-30/10

ROs/RAs, Research

see Research RAs/ROs (Research and Graduate Studies) RG-9/4/4

ROTC

see Military and Air Science Department RG-25/M8

see also Social Action, Center for RG-45/80/S6

ROTC, Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1962-1963)

RG-40/2/A3

RSO

see Recognized Student Organizations Office (RSO) RG-30/23

Student Body Organizations RG-45

RSO Sub-Committee of Student Affairs Committee RG-30/23/3

Rugby Team

see Sports, Men’s Rugby Team (1988) RG-18/2

Rules Committee (Faculty Senate, 1965- )

RG-40/2/A3

Rumor

see Perspective (Housing Services) RG-32/00

Rural Development Resource Center, Small Farm

see Small Farm/ Rural Development Resource Center RG-15/8.7

Rural Massachusetts, Center for

see Center for Rural Massachusetts (College of Food and Natural Resources) RG-15/16

Ruralist, Bay State

see Bay State Ruralist (Student Publication) RG-45/00/B2