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Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"parent_access_terms_tesm":["Portions of this collection may be restricted for privacy reasons. Consult a staff member for assistance. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. 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Portions of Acc. 2008.147 are restricted. Material protected by privacy laws is also restricted. Consult a staff member for assistance. All other portions of the collection are available to researchers.","Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Future accruals expected.","The collection is arranged into 20 series: Series 1: Librarians' General Correspondence; Series 2: Library Administration; Series 3: Library Accounting; Series 4: Acquisitions Department; Series 5: Bibliographic Services; Series 6: Circulation Department; Series 7: Development; Series 8: Reference Department; Series 9: Special Collections; Series 10: Library Construction; Series 11: Exhibits and Special Events; Series 12: Library Materials; Series 13: Self-Study Records; Series 14: Classified Staff Association; Series 15: Library Faculty Association; Series 16: Library Committees and Projects; Series 17: Serials; Series 18: Publications; Series 19: Science Libraries; and Series 20: Accession 2023.111 Memoriam to Carol S. Linton.","Earl Gregg Swem Library is located on Landrum Drive (formerly Old Campus Drive), across new campus from Andrews Hall. The library is named for Earl Gregg Swem, College Librarian from 1920-1944."," Detailed discussions of plans for the library were held in 1963 and the groundbreaking ceremonies were held later that year on October 11, 1963 at Phi Beta Kappa Hall. The actual groundbreaking occurred a few weeks after the ceremonies. The cornerstone of the library was laid on October 22, 1964 and the building was scheduled for completion around December 1965. The building officially opened on January 4, 1966 although it was not fully complete. The official dedication ceremony for the library was held on Charter Day, February 12, 1966. The Tucker-Coleman Room of the library was dedicated on November 11, 1966."," At the time of its completion, the ground floor of Swem Library contained the Botetourt Gallery, an auditorium, the Institute of Early American History and Culture offices, a rare book room, an honors room, a museum, an audio/visual department, a film preview room, and a faculty lounge. The first floor contained a reserve room, an after-hours reading room, a reference department, and typing and meeting rooms. The second floor contained administration rooms, conference rooms, and stacks."," There was a fire in the Botetourt Theater in 1972 that destroyed a projection booth. A Micro Computer Lab opened in the library on February 13, 1984."," Construction officially began on an addition to the front of the library on March 3, 1986 to provide extra stack space, reading areas, administrative offices, and a 24-hour study room and snack area. The addition was dedicated on February 5, 1988. A seven-year renovation was officially completed on February 5, 2005, with rededication ceremonies occuring during Charter Day weekend.","Acc. 1999.20 Library Personnel Files destroyed 9/2007; two cubic feet of non-permanent correspondence was destroyed on 3/12/2008; T1990.11 was destroyed on 2/12/2008; Acc. 1990.3, Acc. 1989.130, and Acc. 1992.25 Library Personnel files are scheduled for destruction on 4/8/2009; Acc. 1988.114, 1988.88, and Acc. 1980.132 are scheduled for destruction on 4/8/2009. Acc. 1984.014 was deaccessioned on 7/11/2012 and is set for destruction on 8/8/2012 according to GS 111 101080.","A portion of this collection is stored offsite. Consult a staff member for details.","Acc. 2008.147 was accessioned from the backlog on 12/11/2008 by Amy C. Schindler, University Archivist. All 2009 accessions were described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specliast,. Acc. 2010.519 was accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specliast, in 9/2010. Acc. 2010.695 was accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, on 11/11/2010. Acc. 2010.708 was accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, on 11/17/2010. Acc. 2011.069 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, on 2/14/2011. Acc. 2011.598 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, on 9/22/2011. Acc. 2012.152 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, on 4/23/2012. Acc. 2012.423 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, on 12/20/2012.","[Item was listed under series 16, however it did not incude and accession number. Check physical boxes]","[According to the location listing in Archon, there is a total of 39 Boxes in this series. Could not find on stacks survey listing, so will need to verify number and breakdown of content for each box]","Unprocessed","Facilities Planning, Design and Construction Records (UA 29); University Archives Artifact Collection (UA 13); University Archives Audiovisual Collection (UA 58); University Archives Photograph Collection (UA 8)."," Architectural plans and drawings that were once part of Acc. 2007.008 were separated from this collection and added to the Facilities Management Records (UA 29) in 2011.","This collection includes both processed series and unprocessed accessions of records created by the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary including those from component offices and individual staff members. A majority of the collection contains correspondence from the dean of the libraries and library administration. Inventories for some series and accessions are available in the Special Collections Research Center and links to PDFs of those inventories can be provided when available.","This series contains the correspondence of the Librarians and Deans of the Library.","This subseries contains the correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem while Librarian at William \u0026 Mary.","This subseries contains the correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem in his capacity as caretaker of the fine arts collection; includes information about donors, artists, specific works of art, and lists of paintings owned by the college.","This subseries contains correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem with Charles M. Robinson, architect, Art Metal Construction Company, Bozarth Lumber Company, Library Bureau, and Virginia Craftsmen, Inc. concerning the old library, including blueprints and specifications.","This subseries contains the Librarian's chronological files up through 1984.","This subseries contains the Librarian's correspondence up through 1987.","This subseries contains subject files from the Librarian's office.","This subseries contains the correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem, College Librarian, related to the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter at William and Mary.","This series contains many different formats and subject areas, that have been arranged for now in the order in which they were received (+ by accession no.) (Acc. Acc. 1983.071, Acc. 1984.053, Acc. 1985.069, Acc. 1988.086, Acc. 1988.114, Acc. 1988.116, Acc. 1989.130, Acc. 1990.003, 1992.025, Acc. 1993. 58, Acc. 1998.048, 1999.041, Acc. 1999.076, Acc. 2009.086, 2009.220, Acc. 2009.404, Acc. 2010.001, Acc. 2010.280, Acc. 2010.312, Acc. 2010.336, Acc. 2010.708, Acc. 2011.xxx, Acc. 2014.209)","Bulk dates: 1977-1982","Bulk dates 1966-1976","Bulk dates: 1984-1986","Budget initiatives and proposals, Faculty Assembly Draft Proposal (1987), OPAC Backup System Task Force files, prospective for an exhibit and catalog on \"The Age of William III and Mary II, SCHEV study group on library privacy policies (1989), Virginia Newspaper Project (1991-1995).","Contains Electronic Theses and Dissertation planning records, 1995 to 1997; Automation history of departments in Swem Library from 1986 to 1993; correspondence from \"Scholarly Humanities Communications in the Electronic Age\" seminar at Swem Library in 1993; fliers about \"Sweming into the 21st Century.\"","Concerning Homecoming 1998, Staff Recognition ceremonies from 1998-2003, and a Reception for Alumni and Friends in 2008.","Among the files included are Friends of the Library material, information about the construction and renovation of Swem from 1999-2005, various Swem committee meetings, Keio University Program, and Faculty Assembly Meeting Minutes from 1991-1992 (2 cu.ft )","The bulk of this accession contains files from various committees in Swem Library from 1992 to 2009. Some of the committees documented include the electronic resources committee, library policy committee, director's council, and training and development committee. There is also material related to the Librarians Assembly and Swem's involvement with different Christopher Wren Association programs","Contains correspondence, reports, newsletters, and other material from the Dean of University Libraries' subject files from 1963 to 2008, with the bulk of the material dating from 1990 to 2005. Included in the records are correspondence from the Friends of the Library, Swem Library committee files, Faculty Assembly material, and orientation packets for new faculty about using Swem Library's resources.","Contains subject files kept by the Dean of University Libraries from 1992 to 2009. Included in the files are budget information, Friends of the Library publications, various Swem Library committee files, and information about departments within Swem Library, including the Media Center and Special Collections.","Contains subject files from the Dean of University Libraries' office from 1998 to 2010. The bulk of the files relate to the Friends of the Library Board, but there are also records related to Swem committees and correspondence from the Dean.","Contains invitations to various events on the College of William and Mary campus that were collected by Connie McCarthy, Dean of University Libraries, from 1998 to 2008. Invitations to Charter Day celebrations, Swem Library talks and activities, Board of Visitors Dinners, and events sponsored by the Alumni Association are documented in this accession.","Included are handwritten and printed forms of brief poetic passages written by Swem and material related to the naming of Swem Library.","Acc. 1983.030: Ledger books covering departmental and periodical expenditures, special fund expenditures, and other library expenditures, 1928-1988.","Special Funds Records (Acc. 1981.014); Donor Records (Acc. 1983.072); Library Accession Records; Book Donation Records (Acc. 2015.127)","Contains invoices, correspondence, annual reports, War Memorial Book Shelf requests, and correspondence about the William \u0026 Mary. Quarterly.","Library donor cards listing names, types of donations, titles, and accession numbers.","18 reels of microfilm.","2 ledgers, dated 1981-1988 and 1988-2001, of books given to Swem Library.","Acc. 1985.084: Classified staff applications and evaluations, 1975-1983. Confidential. Acc. 1986.035: Meeting Minutes of the cataloging staff and a report on alternatives to the card catalog, 1973-1980. Acc. 1991.049: Class syllabi collected by the library to see if it owned the books being assigned, 1985-1986.","RESTRICTED - DO NOT SERVE. Classified staff applications and evaluations, 1975-1983.","Meeting Minutes of the cataloging staff and a report on alternatives to the card catalog","Class syllabi collected by the library to see if it owned the books being assigned","Acc. 1989.124: Circulation statistics, 1945-1974. Acc. 1999.012: Minutes of the Circulation Automation Committee, 1985-1989.","Acc. 2010.335: Contains one binder of all the gift plates created to be placed into books in Swem Library's collection. Included in the binder is an index of all the current gift plates through June 2010. As of July 1, 2010, the gift plates will no longer be added to Swem Books but will continue to have a note in the catalog.","Memos to faculty members and copies of syllabi sent to the Reference Department","Acc. 1980.011: Rare Books and Manuscripts Department correspondence, undated; Acc. 2009.085: Two drawings of the exterior and first floor interior of the \"Warren E. Burger Special Collections Library.\" The drawings are 21\"x16 3/4\" and are in good condition; Acc. 2011.598: Contains office files collected by Margaret Cook while she was Curator of Manuscripts at the College of William \u0026 Mary.. Included in the files are monthly reports of the department, correspondence of Margaret Cook regarding the department's holdings, Friends of the Library newsletters, and news articles about various manuscript collections.","Rare Books and Manuscripts Department correspondence, undated;","Two drawings of the exterior and first floor interior of the \"Warren E. Burger Special Collections Library.\" The drawings are 21\"x16 3/4\" and are in good condition","Contains office files collected by Margaret Cook while she was Curator of Manuscripts. Included are monthly reports of the department, correspondence of Margaret Cook regarding the department's holdings, Friends of the Library newsletters, and news articles about various manuscript collections.","Acc. 1980.133: Records about equipment, furniture, measurements, cornerstone laying, donors, dedications, and specifications regarding the Earl Gregg Swem Library. The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject, 1960s. Acc. 1984.061: Architects' proposals for an addition to Swem Library made by firms not chosen for the project, 1984. Acc. 1984.062: Proposal for an addition to Swem Library made by Perry, Dean, Rogers and Partners, the firm chosen for the project, 1984. This accession also contains materials from the Preplanning Study prepared by Hardwiske, Ekstrom, and Associates in 1983. Acc. 2008.104: Drawings and records for construction and renovation project (1998-2006) including samples of material used for furnishings and such as carpet, tile, etc. Acc. 2012.152: Contains reports, research, and feedback regarding renovations of Swem Library from 1991-1998. Included are design plans from different design companies, research on other library construction projects throughout the U.S., and feedback from the William \u0026 Mary. community as to the kind of library they would like to have. [There is not descriptions yet for Acc. 2007.08(a)]","Records about equipment, furniture, measurements, cornerstone laying, donors, dedications, and specifications regarding the Earl Gregg Swem Library. The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject, 1960s.","Architects' proposals for an addition to Swem Library made by firms not chosen for the project.","Proposal for an addition to Swem Library made by Perry, Dean, Rogers and Partners, the firm chosen for the project, 1984. This accession also contains materials from the Preplanning Study prepared by Hardwiske, Ekstrom, and Associates in 1983.","Number, type and dates of drawings need to be determined and entered.","4 items?","8 items or 8 cu.ft.?","Drawings and records for construction and renovation project including samples of material used for furnishings and such as carpet, tile, etc.","Contains reports, research, and feedback regarding renovations of Swem Library from Included are design plans from different design companies, research on other library construction projects throughout the U.S., and feedback from the William \u0026 Mary. community as to the kind of library they would like to have.","Acc. 1982.064: \"Treasures of Swem Library,\" 1980. Contains color slides and the text of a lecture given by John D. Haskell. Acc. 1984.055: Materials from an exhibit of gifts to and from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, 1957. Acc. 1986.044: Materials from an exhibit entitled \"Statue of Liberty, 1886-1896,\" which was held at the Zollinger Museum. Contains a set of 26 poster-size photographs produced by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. Acc. 1988.006: Library Re-dedication records. Includes correspondence, speech transcripts, invitation lists, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to the re-dedication of Swem Library on February 5, 1988 and the Charter Day ceremony on February 6, 1988. Acc. 1998.002: John Cotton Dana Award presented to Swem Library in 1994. It honors outstanding public relations among college and university libraries, and specifically recognizes the programs Swem Library organized during the College's tercentenary. Acc. 1998.055 Library scrapbook containing photographs, postcards, brochures, and other papers concerning tercentenary events. Acc. 2008.216: Galley proofs for the book, \"Treasures of the College of William \u0026 Mary. Library\" about \"An Exhibition Commemorating the Rededication of the Earl Gregg Swem Library.\" Compiled by John D. Haskell, Jr. and Margaret C. Cook and published in 1988 by The College of William \u0026 Mary.. Includes copy of book. Also included are photographs of images used in the book. Acc. 2009.082: Cartoon featuring the opening of the MEWS Café in Swem Library. Features Swem Reference Desk staff and a Starbucks Coffee employee with customers of each saying \"I'm looking for something from Kenya that's not too bitter in its underlying political themes.\" Created and signed by Bentley Boyd in August 1998. Oversized miscellaneous posters used in the Library 1946-1988.","Acc. 1982.064: \"Treasures of Swem Library,\" 1980. Contains color slides and the text of a lecture given by John D. Haskell.","Materials from an exhibit of gifts to and from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, 1957.","Materials from an exhibit entitled \"Statue of Liberty, 1886-1986,\" which was held at the Zollinger Museum. Contains a set of 26 poster-size photographs produced by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.","Includes correspondence, speech transcripts, invitation lists, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to the re-dedication of Swem Library on February 5, 1988 and the Charter Day ceremony on February 6, 1988.","John Cotton Dana Award presented to Swem Library in 1994. It honors outstanding public relations among college and university libraries, and specifically recognizes the programs Swem Library organized during the College's tercentenary.","Library scrapbook containing photographs, postcards, brochures, and other papers concerning tercentenary events.","Galley proofs for the book, \"Treasures of the College of William \u0026 Mary. Library\" about \"An Exhibition Commemorating the Rededication of the Earl Gregg Swem Library.\" Compiled by John D. Haskell, Jr. and Margaret C. Cook and published in 1988 by The College of William \u0026 Mary.. Includes copy of book. Also included are photographs of images used in the book.","Cartoon featuring the opening of the MEWS Café in Swem Library. Features Swem Reference Desk staff and a Starbucks Coffee employee with customers of each saying \"I'm looking for something from Kenya that's not too bitter in its underlying political themes.\" Created and signed by Bentley Boyd in August 1998. Oversized miscellaneous posters used in the Library 1946-1988.","Acc. 1984.016: Visitors' Registers, 1966-1984. Two green bound volumes. Acc. 1987.106: Library Bookplates. Two notebooks containing photocopies of different bookplates used by the college library and loose copies of many of the bookplates. Also includes the first sketch of the Phi Beta Kappa bookplate. Items transferred from College Papers: Book donations: Barton Catalog. Endowments and gifts of books. ca 1900's Accessions and Charging Records 1875-1928.","Bound volume (green)","Bound volume (green)","Two notebooks containing photocopies of different bookplates used by the college library and loose copies of many of the bookplates. Also includes the first sketch of the Phi Beta Kappa bookplate.","Items transferred from College Papers: Book donations: Barton Catalog. Endowments and gifts of books, circa 1900's.","Items transferred from College Papers: Accessions and Charging Records 1875-1928.","Desk memo books of EG Swem, librarian 1930-1932 Notebook containing names and addresses of persons visiting the library 1925-1926.","\"The William \u0026 Mary College Library, how to use it,\" by Edwin E. Willoughby (Williamsburg, 1936), 14 pp., 23 cm, 2 copies. \"The William and Mary College Library, Information for Students, 1927. \"The College Library,\" address delivered in July 1928 by David A. Robertson. Reprint from the Educational Record, 10, No. 1 (Jan. 1929). Extract from the alumni oration of Dudley Redwood Cowles, 1940, where he mentions the condition of the College library. Correspondence concerning a bill to authorize the designation of depositories for public documents, 1928 and 1931. \"Statistics on the college libraries of Virginia,\", 1951. Acknowledgment of books sent to other colleges, 1894. Clippings about rare volumes at the College. Invoices, 1894-1903. Circulars to the faculty, 1930-1941. Regarding fines and reserves. List of periodicals in the College library, 1928, 1933, and 1940. [1928 list printed in the Flat Hat, 3 Feb. 1928.]","Acc. 1982.035: Reports, evaluations, correspondence and minutes of library departments, divisions, and committees involved in the library's 1972 self-study. Acc. 1982.029 (no description yet)","Reports, evaluations, correspondence and minutes of library departments, divisions, and committees involved in the library's 1972 self-study.","Acc. 1982.029 (no description yet)","Acc. 1979.087: Memos, correspondence, and material about interviews from 1978. Minutes and agendas of the Association covering 1990-1992 and 1994-1996. Acc. 2010.519: Contains minutes, agendas, correspondence, photographs and other material related to the Classified Staff Association at the Earl Gregg Swem Library of the College of William \u0026 Mary.. Acc. 2010.695 contains photographs, fliers, and handouts for special events coordinated by the Classified Staff Association of Swem Library at the College of William \u0026 Mary.. Some of the events documented in the photographs include the 20th Anniversary celebration of the Classified Staff Association in 1998; various craft fairs; and a New Years party inside what would be the new Special Collections Research Center in 2002. Accession 2017.028 includes treasury information regarding the association.","Memos, correspondence, and material about interviews from 1978. Minutes and agendas of the Association covering 1990-1992 and 1994-1996.","Contains minutes, agendas, correspondence, photographs and other material related to the Classified Staff Association at Swem Library","Contains photographs, fliers, and handouts for special events coordinated Swem Library's Classified Staff Association. Some of the events documented in the photographs include the 20th Anniversary celebration of the Classified Staff Association in 1998; various craft fairs; and a New Years party inside what would be the new Special Collections Research Center in 2002.","Includes treasury information regarding the association.","Acc. 1987.039: Correspondence and press clippings from 1975-1976. Acc. 1998.051: Bylaws, memos, minutes, and clippings related to the Association, 1975-1976.","Correspondence and press clippings from 1975-1976.","Bylaws, memos, minutes, and clippings related to the Association, 1975-1976.","Acc. 1979.005: Arts and Sciences Faculty Library Committee files, 1965-1969. Includes correspondence, financial statements, and book budgets. Acc. 1980.010: Agendas, meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports of the Public Services Assembly, 1973-1978. Acc. 1981.096: Library Orientation Committee correspondence, 1974-1981. Includes memos and letters to and from the committee. Some correspondence introduces new staff members while others cover the production and distribution of the Swem Staff Information Booklet. The script of the library's orientation film is also included. Acc. 1984.063: Arts and Sciences Faculty Library Committee files, 1965-1980. Includes statistical data, acquisition lists, documents about the 1974 self-study, and correspondence. Acc. 1989.028: Library Staff Development Committee files, 1985-1987. Includes drafts and final copies of the staff survey and committee report, a computer printout of the results, memos, and minutes. Acc. 1989.126: Library Stacks Reorganization files, 1988. Contains bid proposals and evaluations, memos and correspondence about the 1988 move, and memos about William B. Meyer, Inc., charging more than the contracted price. Acc. 1999.038: Public Access Committee files, 1988-1990. Includes minutes, search hints, screen designs, a LION user survey, funding files, First Search files, and a history of the committee. Acc. 2008.147: Friends of the Library. This material accession included some material which is restricted such as donor files. Also included are FOTL board meeting minutes and newsletters, circa 1980s-1990s. Acc. 2009.083: Contains reports and documents from various Swem committees from 1990-2007, including the Policy and Planning Group; Exhibits; Administrative Council; Manger's Council; and Electronic Theses and Dissertations Task Force. This accession also includes records from campus-wide committees, such as the Campaign for William \u0026 Mary. from 2002-2007, and the 1998 Strategic Planning Committee; and a scrapbook of clippings about the Library and photos of Library Staff. Library Advisory Policy Committee (2013)","A\u0026S Faculty Library Committee : Correspondence, financial statements, and book budgets.","Includes memos and letters to and from the committee. Some correspondence introduces new staff members while others cover the production and distribution of the Swem Staff Information Booklet. The script of the library's orientation film is also included.","Includes statistical data, acquisition lists, documents about the 1974 self-study, and correspondence.","Includes drafts and final copies of the staff survey and committee report, a computer printout of the results, memos, and minutes.","Contains bid proposals and evaluations, memos and correspondence about the 1988 move, and memos about William B. Meyer, Inc., charging more than the contracted price.","Acc. 1999.038: Public Access Committee files, 1988-1990. Includes minutes, search hints, screen designs, a LION user survey, funding files, First Search files, and a history of the committee.","Acc. 2008.147: Friends of the Library. This material accession included some material which is restricted such as donor files. Also included are FOTL board meeting minutes and newsletters, circa 1980s-1990s.","Contains reports and documents from various Swem committees from 1990-2007, including the Policy and Planning Group; Exhibits; Administrative Council; Manger's Council; and Electronic Theses and Dissertations Task Force. This accession also includes records from campus-wide committees, such as the Campaign for William \u0026 Mary. from 2002-2007, and the 1998 Strategic Planning Committee; and a scrapbook of clippings about the Library and photos of Library Staff.","Library Advisory Policy Committee (2013)","Acc. 2011.210 contains subject files from 1976-1997 related to the United States Newspaper Project to index, preserve, and provide access to various newspapers from around the Commonwealth of Virginia. A small file related to the Math Library is also included.","Acc. 2011.210: Contains subject files related to the United States Newspaper Project to index, preserve, and provide access to various newspapers from around the Commonwealth of Virginia. A small file related to the Math Library is also included.","This material was previously part of the University Archives Publications Collection and has temporarily been added as one series Eventually, most of the records included here, will need to be added to other series as the collection is being reprocessed. For a detailed listing see the box description.","The listing on materials for this range of boxes has not be broken down by individual container yet:Additions to book collections 1939-1974. Administrative Council other names for this group:   Policy and Planning Group, PPG Announcements, Book lists, Associates of Swem Library or Friends of the Library, Automation and Bibliographic Control 1991-1997, Bibliographic Services, Bookmark, Bookplates, Book Signing, Building additions, The Gift of Kings and Gentlemen-a prospectus for a new library(1959), Prospectus for a new library(1958,1960), Floor plans, Naming of Swem Library, Campaign 1996, For the Fourth Century, Campaign for William and Mary, Card catalog guide, Cartoons: Final exams, 2012 Ceremonies, dedications, re-dedications, Christmas cards, Christmas Keepsake cards, 2011 Classified Staff Association minutes, agendas, cookbook, Collection development news, Committees:   Academic services and automation programs committee,   Automation publicity committee   Building communication committee,   Circulation Automation committee,   Collections management and growth task force,   Database and electronic resource committee,   Disaster preparedness committee,   Food and drink task force,   Goals and priorities task force,   Hospitality committee,   Liaison committee,   Library automation training committee,   Library Instruction course committee,   Library newsletter committee,   Moving committee,   Non-circulating books committee,   Peer Salary Review task force,   Professional status of librarians in the college,   Public services committee,   Safety and Emergency Preparedness,   Sign Committee,   Stacks Reorganization Committee (1988),   Stacks Utilization Committee,   Staff Development and Continuing Education,   Staff Orientation Committee,   Staff Training and Development committee,   Student Employment committee,   Student Outreach committee,   Swem Management Council,   Task Force on Public Relations,   User Aids Committee, Dean's Office, Department Heads Meeting, Departmental Representative, Departments:   Acquisitions,   Bibliographic Services (cataloging),     Retrospective Conversion Project, summer 1980   Circulation,   Documents,   Interlibrary Loans (ILL),   Periodicals,   Reader Services,     Reader Services Guide to Research,   Reference,   Serials,   Special Collections, Development Office, Director's Council, Disaster Procedures Manual, Swem Faculty Recognition Award, Events:   Opening of renovated third floor (2003),   Christmas in May (2002),   Tartan Day, Exhibits:   Announcements. Glass exhibit cases throughout the library       (1980),   Historical materials (1953),   Historical relationship of the college to the legal profession              (1953),   Marshall-Wythe-Blackstone Commemoration (1954),   Classics at W \u0026 M (1955),   Garden Books and Prints from Harrison Collection(1955),   Alumni Governors (1957),   Hark Upon the Gale (1957),   Historical Materials relating to the college (1961),   Civil War and its effect on W \u0026 M and community (1962),   Collector's Choice manuscripts from Coblentz autographs (1963)   Thomas Jefferson and W \u0026 M (1963),   Magna Carta (1965),   Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Scene (1966),   Shakespeareana (1966),   In the Beginning was the Word-rare books from the Walton       collection (1967),   The College and the Crown (1968),   The Law and Chief Justice John Marshall (1969),   Paintings and Sculpture from Sydney Lewis collection (1970),   English brass rubbings from Cairns collection (1972),   Bookbindings by Clement Samford (1973),   Manuscripts from Walton collection (1973),   Books, Manuscripts ,Artifacts associated with William Morris     (1975),   An Exhibition of Old Master Prints (1975),   Oscar DeMejo, Paintings depicting events in America's       War for Independence (1975),   Fifty-six statesmen:Letters and documents of the signers of the     Declaration of Independence from Fields collection (1976),   George Washington Manuscripts,artifacts,and association items     from the Fields collection (1976),   Pugs, People and the Chapin Collection of books on dogs (1976),   New Capricci by Philipp Fehl (1977),   Rubens in Prints (1977),   Southern Books Competition (1977),   Arthur Strauss and the German Expressionists (1978),   Owl Feathers-silkscreens by William Crutchfield (1978),   Expressionist Theater (1979),   Samurai Swords (1979),   The 200th anniversary of the founding of the Chair of Law       and Police at W \u0026 M (1979),   Watercolors of a Persian Bowl by Robert Keyser (1980),   Saturday Night Live: Literary Societies at W \u0026 M 1829-1962     (1982),   Treasures and Autographs from Manuscript collection (1982),   The Genre of the Little Magazine (1983),   Zetlin Book Works (1982),   Colonial and Revolutionary War Paper Money from Brainard     Charlton collection (1984),   A more Agreeable and Friendly Society: Williamsburg in the     19th century (1985),   Tending the Groves of Academe:History of the W \u0026 M faculty     (1985),   Japan under the occupation 1945-1952 (1986),   The World of Captain John Smith (1986),   Early Virginia private libraries - 1700-1830 (1987),   Five generations: The Tucker-Coleman Women and their times     (1987),   Treasures of the College of W \u0026 M Library (1988),   Puttin' on the Dog (1992),   300 years of distinction: The College of W \u0026 M 1693-1993 (1993),   A Century of Publications (1994),   From Rare to Well-done: America's cookbooks 1739-1993 (1995)   'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1995) (2000),   Frankenstein (2005),   Society for the History of Discoveries (2005),   A Visit from St. Nicholas (2005), Ex Libris Society and newsletter, Expenditures by Type, Film Inventory, Friends of the Library, Fundraising, Goals and Objectives, Guide to the Earl Gregg Swem Library, Guide to the Libraries, Handbooks, Guidelines and Policies for Administrative and Professional   Library Faculty (2001), Information Commons, LION (Libraries Online), Librarian's Assembly, Library Contributions:   Earl Gregg Swem: A Bibliography,   Introduction to the Swem Library,   Guide to the Swem Library   Statue of Lord Botetourt Library Faculty Association, Library Resource Package for Faculty, Library Schedules, Lit Group, Lord Botetourt Forum, Management Council, Manuscripts of John Marshall, Media Center, Medial Center Newsletter \"groundfloor\" (or ground floor) Media Studio, A Memento, National Library Week, Newsletters, Organizational Chart, Orientation for Incoming Students, Parks-Franklin Day, Partnerships - Williamsburg Research Libraries Partnerships, Professional Librarian Meetings, Prospectus for a new library ca 1958 Public Outreach, Public Services Meeting, Reports, Annual, Month-Department, Self-study - The College Library-An Evaluation (1953), Some Places of Interest in Williamsburg, Speaker Series, Special Collections,   Exhibits: Student Life at W \u0026 M, 2001,   Visitors Register, Guest Register, Staff Information Booklet, Staff Meetings(prior years also know as Need to Know, General Staff, Open Forum) Staff Lists, Student Assistants guidelines, Student Handbook 1968, Suggestion Box, Surveys, Swem Library and Williamsburg Regional Library, Task Force on Automated Library Systems II, Task Force on Public Services Statistics (1989), The Throne, Travel, Virginia Council of Higher Education Report, Wendy and Emery Reves International Studies Collection","Contains correspondence, photographs, blueprints, and other material related to the science libraries. Included are blueprints and drawings of the Geology Library in Tercentenary Hall, later McGlothlin-Street Hall; photographs of the stacks; and reports related to the holdings of the science libraries.","Contains correspondence, photographs, blueprints, and other material related to the science libraries. Included are blueprints and drawings of the Geology Library in Tercentenary Hall, later McGlothlin-Street Hall; photographs of the stacks; and reports related to the holdings of the science libraries.","Contains correspondence, photographs, blueprints, and other material related to the science libraries. Included are blueprints and drawings of the Geology Library in Tercentenary Hall, later McGlothlin-Street Hall; photographs of the stacks; and reports related to the holdings of the science libraries.","A dedicated acknowledgement from editors of the \"Black Atlantic Writers of the 18th century \" Adam Potkay and Sandra Burr to Carol S. Linton (April 1971-February 1995)","Correspondence, William \u0026 Mary event publications, printed materials and ephemera documenting the activities of William \u0026 Mary Dean of Libraries, Carrie Cooper.","Scrapbook of Swem Library Expansion project. Likely created by Jo Ann Hainley, administrative assistant to Connie McCarthy. Includes newsclippings and photographs of the library, construction, and staff.","Acc. 2008.216 was accessioned as part of the backlog in manuscripts and was added to this collection on 6/8/2010."," Acc. 2009.081 was separated from Acc. 1988.114 on 3/17/2009; Acc. 2009.110 was separated from Acc. 1980.132 on 3/23/2009."," The audiovisual material included with Acc. 2010.312 was pulled from this collection and was added to the University Archives Audiovisual Collection on 5/21/2010."," The audiovisual material included with Acc. 2010.336 was pulled from this collection and was added to the University Archives Audiovisual Collection on 6/16/2010."," Correspondence between Earl Gregg Swem and Howard Chapin were separated from Acc. 1980.115 and were added to the SCRC donor files in July 2010."," The photographs included with Acc. 2010.519 were pulled from this collection and were added to the University Archives Photograph Collection on 9/27/2010."," Acc. 2011.069 was previously part of the College Papers Collection and was integrated into this collection in February 2011."," Two compact discs of images from the Preston Hall fire book recovery and water damage in Swem Library were pulled from Acc. 2011.210 and were added to the University Archives Audiovisual Collection (UA 58) in April 2011."," Architectural plans and drawings that were once part of Acc. 2007.008 were separated from this collection and added to the Facilities Management Records (UA 29) in 2011.","Portions of this collection may be restricted for privacy reasons. Consult a staff member for assistance. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Special Collections Research Center","Swem Library","American Library Association","College of William and Mary. 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The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 1980.010 Public Services Assembly Records, acquired 02/04/1980; Acc. 1980.133 Library Records on Planning, Construction, and Dedication of Swem Library, acquired 12/08/1980; Acc. 1981.015 Librarian's General Correspondence, acquired 02/12/1981; Acc. 1982.035 Swem Library Self-Study, acquired 06/10/1982; Acc. 1983.071 Library Administration Records,  acquired 11/01/1983; Acc. 1987.039 Library Faculty Association Records, acquired 04/23/1987; Acc. 1988.006 Swem Library Re-dedication Records, acquired 02/08/1988; Acc. 1989.126 Library Stacks Reorganization Records, acquired 09/05/1989; Acc. 1998.055 transferred during 1995; Acc. 2007.006 Audiovisuals, acquired 2007; Acc. 2007.008, construction records, transferred 5/25/07 from Kay Domine; Acc. 2007.042, 2004 scrapbook transferred 6/13/2007 from Cynthia Sadler; Acc. 2007.92 transferred 12/21/2007 from Carol McAllister; Acc. 2008.14 transferred 2/5/2008 from Kay Domine; Acc. 2008.147 accessioned from the backlog on 12/11/2008; Acc. 2008.216 accessioned from the backlog on 5/26/2010; Acc. 2009.081 was received on 11/8/1988; Acc. 2009.082-.083, Acc. 2009.085-.087 were received prior to 2007; Acc. 2009.110 was received on 10/16/1987; Acc. 2009.220 was received on 6/1/2009 via Connie McCarthy. 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A Micro Computer Lab opened in the library on February 13, 1984."," Construction officially began on an addition to the front of the library on March 3, 1986 to provide extra stack space, reading areas, administrative offices, and a 24-hour study room and snack area. The addition was dedicated on February 5, 1988. A seven-year renovation was officially completed on February 5, 2005, with rededication ceremonies occuring during Charter Day weekend."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1999.20 Library Personnel Files destroyed 9/2007; two cubic feet of non-permanent correspondence was destroyed on 3/12/2008; T1990.11 was destroyed on 2/12/2008; Acc. 1990.3, Acc. 1989.130, and Acc. 1992.25 Library Personnel files are scheduled for destruction on 4/8/2009; Acc. 1988.114, 1988.88, and Acc. 1980.132 are scheduled for destruction on 4/8/2009. 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A majority of the collection contains correspondence from the dean of the libraries and library administration. Inventories for some series and accessions are available in the Special Collections Research Center and links to PDFs of those inventories can be provided when available.","This series contains the correspondence of the Librarians and Deans of the Library.","This subseries contains the correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem while Librarian at William \u0026 Mary.","This subseries contains the correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem in his capacity as caretaker of the fine arts collection; includes information about donors, artists, specific works of art, and lists of paintings owned by the college.","This subseries contains correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem with Charles M. Robinson, architect, Art Metal Construction Company, Bozarth Lumber Company, Library Bureau, and Virginia Craftsmen, Inc. concerning the old library, including blueprints and specifications.","This subseries contains the Librarian's chronological files up through 1984.","This subseries contains the Librarian's correspondence up through 1987.","This subseries contains subject files from the Librarian's office.","This subseries contains the correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem, College Librarian, related to the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter at William and Mary.","This series contains many different formats and subject areas, that have been arranged for now in the order in which they were received (+ by accession no.) (Acc. Acc. 1983.071, Acc. 1984.053, Acc. 1985.069, Acc. 1988.086, Acc. 1988.114, Acc. 1988.116, Acc. 1989.130, Acc. 1990.003, 1992.025, Acc. 1993. 58, Acc. 1998.048, 1999.041, Acc. 1999.076, Acc. 2009.086, 2009.220, Acc. 2009.404, Acc. 2010.001, Acc. 2010.280, Acc. 2010.312, Acc. 2010.336, Acc. 2010.708, Acc. 2011.xxx, Acc. 2014.209)","Bulk dates: 1977-1982","Bulk dates 1966-1976","Bulk dates: 1984-1986","Budget initiatives and proposals, Faculty Assembly Draft Proposal (1987), OPAC Backup System Task Force files, prospective for an exhibit and catalog on \"The Age of William III and Mary II, SCHEV study group on library privacy policies (1989), Virginia Newspaper Project (1991-1995).","Contains Electronic Theses and Dissertation planning records, 1995 to 1997; Automation history of departments in Swem Library from 1986 to 1993; correspondence from \"Scholarly Humanities Communications in the Electronic Age\" seminar at Swem Library in 1993; fliers about \"Sweming into the 21st Century.\"","Concerning Homecoming 1998, Staff Recognition ceremonies from 1998-2003, and a Reception for Alumni and Friends in 2008.","Among the files included are Friends of the Library material, information about the construction and renovation of Swem from 1999-2005, various Swem committee meetings, Keio University Program, and Faculty Assembly Meeting Minutes from 1991-1992 (2 cu.ft )","The bulk of this accession contains files from various committees in Swem Library from 1992 to 2009. Some of the committees documented include the electronic resources committee, library policy committee, director's council, and training and development committee. There is also material related to the Librarians Assembly and Swem's involvement with different Christopher Wren Association programs","Contains correspondence, reports, newsletters, and other material from the Dean of University Libraries' subject files from 1963 to 2008, with the bulk of the material dating from 1990 to 2005. Included in the records are correspondence from the Friends of the Library, Swem Library committee files, Faculty Assembly material, and orientation packets for new faculty about using Swem Library's resources.","Contains subject files kept by the Dean of University Libraries from 1992 to 2009. Included in the files are budget information, Friends of the Library publications, various Swem Library committee files, and information about departments within Swem Library, including the Media Center and Special Collections.","Contains subject files from the Dean of University Libraries' office from 1998 to 2010. The bulk of the files relate to the Friends of the Library Board, but there are also records related to Swem committees and correspondence from the Dean.","Contains invitations to various events on the College of William and Mary campus that were collected by Connie McCarthy, Dean of University Libraries, from 1998 to 2008. Invitations to Charter Day celebrations, Swem Library talks and activities, Board of Visitors Dinners, and events sponsored by the Alumni Association are documented in this accession.","Included are handwritten and printed forms of brief poetic passages written by Swem and material related to the naming of Swem Library.","Acc. 1983.030: Ledger books covering departmental and periodical expenditures, special fund expenditures, and other library expenditures, 1928-1988.","Special Funds Records (Acc. 1981.014); Donor Records (Acc. 1983.072); Library Accession Records; Book Donation Records (Acc. 2015.127)","Contains invoices, correspondence, annual reports, War Memorial Book Shelf requests, and correspondence about the William \u0026 Mary. Quarterly.","Library donor cards listing names, types of donations, titles, and accession numbers.","18 reels of microfilm.","2 ledgers, dated 1981-1988 and 1988-2001, of books given to Swem Library.","Acc. 1985.084: Classified staff applications and evaluations, 1975-1983. Confidential. Acc. 1986.035: Meeting Minutes of the cataloging staff and a report on alternatives to the card catalog, 1973-1980. Acc. 1991.049: Class syllabi collected by the library to see if it owned the books being assigned, 1985-1986.","RESTRICTED - DO NOT SERVE. Classified staff applications and evaluations, 1975-1983.","Meeting Minutes of the cataloging staff and a report on alternatives to the card catalog","Class syllabi collected by the library to see if it owned the books being assigned","Acc. 1989.124: Circulation statistics, 1945-1974. Acc. 1999.012: Minutes of the Circulation Automation Committee, 1985-1989.","Acc. 2010.335: Contains one binder of all the gift plates created to be placed into books in Swem Library's collection. Included in the binder is an index of all the current gift plates through June 2010. As of July 1, 2010, the gift plates will no longer be added to Swem Books but will continue to have a note in the catalog.","Memos to faculty members and copies of syllabi sent to the Reference Department","Acc. 1980.011: Rare Books and Manuscripts Department correspondence, undated; Acc. 2009.085: Two drawings of the exterior and first floor interior of the \"Warren E. Burger Special Collections Library.\" The drawings are 21\"x16 3/4\" and are in good condition; Acc. 2011.598: Contains office files collected by Margaret Cook while she was Curator of Manuscripts at the College of William \u0026 Mary.. Included in the files are monthly reports of the department, correspondence of Margaret Cook regarding the department's holdings, Friends of the Library newsletters, and news articles about various manuscript collections.","Rare Books and Manuscripts Department correspondence, undated;","Two drawings of the exterior and first floor interior of the \"Warren E. Burger Special Collections Library.\" The drawings are 21\"x16 3/4\" and are in good condition","Contains office files collected by Margaret Cook while she was Curator of Manuscripts. Included are monthly reports of the department, correspondence of Margaret Cook regarding the department's holdings, Friends of the Library newsletters, and news articles about various manuscript collections.","Acc. 1980.133: Records about equipment, furniture, measurements, cornerstone laying, donors, dedications, and specifications regarding the Earl Gregg Swem Library. The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject, 1960s. Acc. 1984.061: Architects' proposals for an addition to Swem Library made by firms not chosen for the project, 1984. Acc. 1984.062: Proposal for an addition to Swem Library made by Perry, Dean, Rogers and Partners, the firm chosen for the project, 1984. This accession also contains materials from the Preplanning Study prepared by Hardwiske, Ekstrom, and Associates in 1983. Acc. 2008.104: Drawings and records for construction and renovation project (1998-2006) including samples of material used for furnishings and such as carpet, tile, etc. Acc. 2012.152: Contains reports, research, and feedback regarding renovations of Swem Library from 1991-1998. Included are design plans from different design companies, research on other library construction projects throughout the U.S., and feedback from the William \u0026 Mary. community as to the kind of library they would like to have. [There is not descriptions yet for Acc. 2007.08(a)]","Records about equipment, furniture, measurements, cornerstone laying, donors, dedications, and specifications regarding the Earl Gregg Swem Library. The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject, 1960s.","Architects' proposals for an addition to Swem Library made by firms not chosen for the project.","Proposal for an addition to Swem Library made by Perry, Dean, Rogers and Partners, the firm chosen for the project, 1984. This accession also contains materials from the Preplanning Study prepared by Hardwiske, Ekstrom, and Associates in 1983.","Number, type and dates of drawings need to be determined and entered.","4 items?","8 items or 8 cu.ft.?","Drawings and records for construction and renovation project including samples of material used for furnishings and such as carpet, tile, etc.","Contains reports, research, and feedback regarding renovations of Swem Library from Included are design plans from different design companies, research on other library construction projects throughout the U.S., and feedback from the William \u0026 Mary. community as to the kind of library they would like to have.","Acc. 1982.064: \"Treasures of Swem Library,\" 1980. Contains color slides and the text of a lecture given by John D. Haskell. Acc. 1984.055: Materials from an exhibit of gifts to and from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, 1957. Acc. 1986.044: Materials from an exhibit entitled \"Statue of Liberty, 1886-1896,\" which was held at the Zollinger Museum. Contains a set of 26 poster-size photographs produced by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. Acc. 1988.006: Library Re-dedication records. Includes correspondence, speech transcripts, invitation lists, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to the re-dedication of Swem Library on February 5, 1988 and the Charter Day ceremony on February 6, 1988. Acc. 1998.002: John Cotton Dana Award presented to Swem Library in 1994. It honors outstanding public relations among college and university libraries, and specifically recognizes the programs Swem Library organized during the College's tercentenary. Acc. 1998.055 Library scrapbook containing photographs, postcards, brochures, and other papers concerning tercentenary events. Acc. 2008.216: Galley proofs for the book, \"Treasures of the College of William \u0026 Mary. Library\" about \"An Exhibition Commemorating the Rededication of the Earl Gregg Swem Library.\" Compiled by John D. Haskell, Jr. and Margaret C. Cook and published in 1988 by The College of William \u0026 Mary.. Includes copy of book. Also included are photographs of images used in the book. Acc. 2009.082: Cartoon featuring the opening of the MEWS Café in Swem Library. Features Swem Reference Desk staff and a Starbucks Coffee employee with customers of each saying \"I'm looking for something from Kenya that's not too bitter in its underlying political themes.\" Created and signed by Bentley Boyd in August 1998. Oversized miscellaneous posters used in the Library 1946-1988.","Acc. 1982.064: \"Treasures of Swem Library,\" 1980. Contains color slides and the text of a lecture given by John D. Haskell.","Materials from an exhibit of gifts to and from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, 1957.","Materials from an exhibit entitled \"Statue of Liberty, 1886-1986,\" which was held at the Zollinger Museum. Contains a set of 26 poster-size photographs produced by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.","Includes correspondence, speech transcripts, invitation lists, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to the re-dedication of Swem Library on February 5, 1988 and the Charter Day ceremony on February 6, 1988.","John Cotton Dana Award presented to Swem Library in 1994. It honors outstanding public relations among college and university libraries, and specifically recognizes the programs Swem Library organized during the College's tercentenary.","Library scrapbook containing photographs, postcards, brochures, and other papers concerning tercentenary events.","Galley proofs for the book, \"Treasures of the College of William \u0026 Mary. Library\" about \"An Exhibition Commemorating the Rededication of the Earl Gregg Swem Library.\" Compiled by John D. Haskell, Jr. and Margaret C. Cook and published in 1988 by The College of William \u0026 Mary.. Includes copy of book. Also included are photographs of images used in the book.","Cartoon featuring the opening of the MEWS Café in Swem Library. Features Swem Reference Desk staff and a Starbucks Coffee employee with customers of each saying \"I'm looking for something from Kenya that's not too bitter in its underlying political themes.\" Created and signed by Bentley Boyd in August 1998. Oversized miscellaneous posters used in the Library 1946-1988.","Acc. 1984.016: Visitors' Registers, 1966-1984. Two green bound volumes. Acc. 1987.106: Library Bookplates. Two notebooks containing photocopies of different bookplates used by the college library and loose copies of many of the bookplates. Also includes the first sketch of the Phi Beta Kappa bookplate. Items transferred from College Papers: Book donations: Barton Catalog. Endowments and gifts of books. ca 1900's Accessions and Charging Records 1875-1928.","Bound volume (green)","Bound volume (green)","Two notebooks containing photocopies of different bookplates used by the college library and loose copies of many of the bookplates. Also includes the first sketch of the Phi Beta Kappa bookplate.","Items transferred from College Papers: Book donations: Barton Catalog. Endowments and gifts of books, circa 1900's.","Items transferred from College Papers: Accessions and Charging Records 1875-1928.","Desk memo books of EG Swem, librarian 1930-1932 Notebook containing names and addresses of persons visiting the library 1925-1926.","\"The William \u0026 Mary College Library, how to use it,\" by Edwin E. Willoughby (Williamsburg, 1936), 14 pp., 23 cm, 2 copies. \"The William and Mary College Library, Information for Students, 1927. \"The College Library,\" address delivered in July 1928 by David A. Robertson. Reprint from the Educational Record, 10, No. 1 (Jan. 1929). Extract from the alumni oration of Dudley Redwood Cowles, 1940, where he mentions the condition of the College library. Correspondence concerning a bill to authorize the designation of depositories for public documents, 1928 and 1931. \"Statistics on the college libraries of Virginia,\", 1951. Acknowledgment of books sent to other colleges, 1894. Clippings about rare volumes at the College. Invoices, 1894-1903. Circulars to the faculty, 1930-1941. Regarding fines and reserves. List of periodicals in the College library, 1928, 1933, and 1940. [1928 list printed in the Flat Hat, 3 Feb. 1928.]","Acc. 1982.035: Reports, evaluations, correspondence and minutes of library departments, divisions, and committees involved in the library's 1972 self-study. Acc. 1982.029 (no description yet)","Reports, evaluations, correspondence and minutes of library departments, divisions, and committees involved in the library's 1972 self-study.","Acc. 1982.029 (no description yet)","Acc. 1979.087: Memos, correspondence, and material about interviews from 1978. Minutes and agendas of the Association covering 1990-1992 and 1994-1996. Acc. 2010.519: Contains minutes, agendas, correspondence, photographs and other material related to the Classified Staff Association at the Earl Gregg Swem Library of the College of William \u0026 Mary.. Acc. 2010.695 contains photographs, fliers, and handouts for special events coordinated by the Classified Staff Association of Swem Library at the College of William \u0026 Mary.. Some of the events documented in the photographs include the 20th Anniversary celebration of the Classified Staff Association in 1998; various craft fairs; and a New Years party inside what would be the new Special Collections Research Center in 2002. Accession 2017.028 includes treasury information regarding the association.","Memos, correspondence, and material about interviews from 1978. Minutes and agendas of the Association covering 1990-1992 and 1994-1996.","Contains minutes, agendas, correspondence, photographs and other material related to the Classified Staff Association at Swem Library","Contains photographs, fliers, and handouts for special events coordinated Swem Library's Classified Staff Association. Some of the events documented in the photographs include the 20th Anniversary celebration of the Classified Staff Association in 1998; various craft fairs; and a New Years party inside what would be the new Special Collections Research Center in 2002.","Includes treasury information regarding the association.","Acc. 1987.039: Correspondence and press clippings from 1975-1976. Acc. 1998.051: Bylaws, memos, minutes, and clippings related to the Association, 1975-1976.","Correspondence and press clippings from 1975-1976.","Bylaws, memos, minutes, and clippings related to the Association, 1975-1976.","Acc. 1979.005: Arts and Sciences Faculty Library Committee files, 1965-1969. Includes correspondence, financial statements, and book budgets. Acc. 1980.010: Agendas, meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports of the Public Services Assembly, 1973-1978. Acc. 1981.096: Library Orientation Committee correspondence, 1974-1981. Includes memos and letters to and from the committee. Some correspondence introduces new staff members while others cover the production and distribution of the Swem Staff Information Booklet. The script of the library's orientation film is also included. Acc. 1984.063: Arts and Sciences Faculty Library Committee files, 1965-1980. Includes statistical data, acquisition lists, documents about the 1974 self-study, and correspondence. Acc. 1989.028: Library Staff Development Committee files, 1985-1987. Includes drafts and final copies of the staff survey and committee report, a computer printout of the results, memos, and minutes. Acc. 1989.126: Library Stacks Reorganization files, 1988. Contains bid proposals and evaluations, memos and correspondence about the 1988 move, and memos about William B. Meyer, Inc., charging more than the contracted price. Acc. 1999.038: Public Access Committee files, 1988-1990. Includes minutes, search hints, screen designs, a LION user survey, funding files, First Search files, and a history of the committee. Acc. 2008.147: Friends of the Library. This material accession included some material which is restricted such as donor files. Also included are FOTL board meeting minutes and newsletters, circa 1980s-1990s. Acc. 2009.083: Contains reports and documents from various Swem committees from 1990-2007, including the Policy and Planning Group; Exhibits; Administrative Council; Manger's Council; and Electronic Theses and Dissertations Task Force. This accession also includes records from campus-wide committees, such as the Campaign for William \u0026 Mary. from 2002-2007, and the 1998 Strategic Planning Committee; and a scrapbook of clippings about the Library and photos of Library Staff. Library Advisory Policy Committee (2013)","A\u0026S Faculty Library Committee : Correspondence, financial statements, and book budgets.","Includes memos and letters to and from the committee. Some correspondence introduces new staff members while others cover the production and distribution of the Swem Staff Information Booklet. The script of the library's orientation film is also included.","Includes statistical data, acquisition lists, documents about the 1974 self-study, and correspondence.","Includes drafts and final copies of the staff survey and committee report, a computer printout of the results, memos, and minutes.","Contains bid proposals and evaluations, memos and correspondence about the 1988 move, and memos about William B. Meyer, Inc., charging more than the contracted price.","Acc. 1999.038: Public Access Committee files, 1988-1990. Includes minutes, search hints, screen designs, a LION user survey, funding files, First Search files, and a history of the committee.","Acc. 2008.147: Friends of the Library. This material accession included some material which is restricted such as donor files. Also included are FOTL board meeting minutes and newsletters, circa 1980s-1990s.","Contains reports and documents from various Swem committees from 1990-2007, including the Policy and Planning Group; Exhibits; Administrative Council; Manger's Council; and Electronic Theses and Dissertations Task Force. This accession also includes records from campus-wide committees, such as the Campaign for William \u0026 Mary. from 2002-2007, and the 1998 Strategic Planning Committee; and a scrapbook of clippings about the Library and photos of Library Staff.","Library Advisory Policy Committee (2013)","Acc. 2011.210 contains subject files from 1976-1997 related to the United States Newspaper Project to index, preserve, and provide access to various newspapers from around the Commonwealth of Virginia. A small file related to the Math Library is also included.","Acc. 2011.210: Contains subject files related to the United States Newspaper Project to index, preserve, and provide access to various newspapers from around the Commonwealth of Virginia. A small file related to the Math Library is also included.","This material was previously part of the University Archives Publications Collection and has temporarily been added as one series Eventually, most of the records included here, will need to be added to other series as the collection is being reprocessed. For a detailed listing see the box description.","The listing on materials for this range of boxes has not be broken down by individual container yet:Additions to book collections 1939-1974. Administrative Council other names for this group:   Policy and Planning Group, PPG Announcements, Book lists, Associates of Swem Library or Friends of the Library, Automation and Bibliographic Control 1991-1997, Bibliographic Services, Bookmark, Bookplates, Book Signing, Building additions, The Gift of Kings and Gentlemen-a prospectus for a new library(1959), Prospectus for a new library(1958,1960), Floor plans, Naming of Swem Library, Campaign 1996, For the Fourth Century, Campaign for William and Mary, Card catalog guide, Cartoons: Final exams, 2012 Ceremonies, dedications, re-dedications, Christmas cards, Christmas Keepsake cards, 2011 Classified Staff Association minutes, agendas, cookbook, Collection development news, Committees:   Academic services and automation programs committee,   Automation publicity committee   Building communication committee,   Circulation Automation committee,   Collections management and growth task force,   Database and electronic resource committee,   Disaster preparedness committee,   Food and drink task force,   Goals and priorities task force,   Hospitality committee,   Liaison committee,   Library automation training committee,   Library Instruction course committee,   Library newsletter committee,   Moving committee,   Non-circulating books committee,   Peer Salary Review task force,   Professional status of librarians in the college,   Public services committee,   Safety and Emergency Preparedness,   Sign Committee,   Stacks Reorganization Committee (1988),   Stacks Utilization Committee,   Staff Development and Continuing Education,   Staff Orientation Committee,   Staff Training and Development committee,   Student Employment committee,   Student Outreach committee,   Swem Management Council,   Task Force on Public Relations,   User Aids Committee, Dean's Office, Department Heads Meeting, Departmental Representative, Departments:   Acquisitions,   Bibliographic Services (cataloging),     Retrospective Conversion Project, summer 1980   Circulation,   Documents,   Interlibrary Loans (ILL),   Periodicals,   Reader Services,     Reader Services Guide to Research,   Reference,   Serials,   Special Collections, Development Office, Director's Council, Disaster Procedures Manual, Swem Faculty Recognition Award, Events:   Opening of renovated third floor (2003),   Christmas in May (2002),   Tartan Day, Exhibits:   Announcements. Glass exhibit cases throughout the library       (1980),   Historical materials (1953),   Historical relationship of the college to the legal profession              (1953),   Marshall-Wythe-Blackstone Commemoration (1954),   Classics at W \u0026 M (1955),   Garden Books and Prints from Harrison Collection(1955),   Alumni Governors (1957),   Hark Upon the Gale (1957),   Historical Materials relating to the college (1961),   Civil War and its effect on W \u0026 M and community (1962),   Collector's Choice manuscripts from Coblentz autographs (1963)   Thomas Jefferson and W \u0026 M (1963),   Magna Carta (1965),   Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Scene (1966),   Shakespeareana (1966),   In the Beginning was the Word-rare books from the Walton       collection (1967),   The College and the Crown (1968),   The Law and Chief Justice John Marshall (1969),   Paintings and Sculpture from Sydney Lewis collection (1970),   English brass rubbings from Cairns collection (1972),   Bookbindings by Clement Samford (1973),   Manuscripts from Walton collection (1973),   Books, Manuscripts ,Artifacts associated with William Morris     (1975),   An Exhibition of Old Master Prints (1975),   Oscar DeMejo, Paintings depicting events in America's       War for Independence (1975),   Fifty-six statesmen:Letters and documents of the signers of the     Declaration of Independence from Fields collection (1976),   George Washington Manuscripts,artifacts,and association items     from the Fields collection (1976),   Pugs, People and the Chapin Collection of books on dogs (1976),   New Capricci by Philipp Fehl (1977),   Rubens in Prints (1977),   Southern Books Competition (1977),   Arthur Strauss and the German Expressionists (1978),   Owl Feathers-silkscreens by William Crutchfield (1978),   Expressionist Theater (1979),   Samurai Swords (1979),   The 200th anniversary of the founding of the Chair of Law       and Police at W \u0026 M (1979),   Watercolors of a Persian Bowl by Robert Keyser (1980),   Saturday Night Live: Literary Societies at W \u0026 M 1829-1962     (1982),   Treasures and Autographs from Manuscript collection (1982),   The Genre of the Little Magazine (1983),   Zetlin Book Works (1982),   Colonial and Revolutionary War Paper Money from Brainard     Charlton collection (1984),   A more Agreeable and Friendly Society: Williamsburg in the     19th century (1985),   Tending the Groves of Academe:History of the W \u0026 M faculty     (1985),   Japan under the occupation 1945-1952 (1986),   The World of Captain John Smith (1986),   Early Virginia private libraries - 1700-1830 (1987),   Five generations: The Tucker-Coleman Women and their times     (1987),   Treasures of the College of W \u0026 M Library (1988),   Puttin' on the Dog (1992),   300 years of distinction: The College of W \u0026 M 1693-1993 (1993),   A Century of Publications (1994),   From Rare to Well-done: America's cookbooks 1739-1993 (1995)   'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1995) (2000),   Frankenstein (2005),   Society for the History of Discoveries (2005),   A Visit from St. Nicholas (2005), Ex Libris Society and newsletter, Expenditures by Type, Film Inventory, Friends of the Library, Fundraising, Goals and Objectives, Guide to the Earl Gregg Swem Library, Guide to the Libraries, Handbooks, Guidelines and Policies for Administrative and Professional   Library Faculty (2001), Information Commons, LION (Libraries Online), Librarian's Assembly, Library Contributions:   Earl Gregg Swem: A Bibliography,   Introduction to the Swem Library,   Guide to the Swem Library   Statue of Lord Botetourt Library Faculty Association, Library Resource Package for Faculty, Library Schedules, Lit Group, Lord Botetourt Forum, Management Council, Manuscripts of John Marshall, Media Center, Medial Center Newsletter \"groundfloor\" (or ground floor) Media Studio, A Memento, National Library Week, Newsletters, Organizational Chart, Orientation for Incoming Students, Parks-Franklin Day, Partnerships - Williamsburg Research Libraries Partnerships, Professional Librarian Meetings, Prospectus for a new library ca 1958 Public Outreach, Public Services Meeting, Reports, Annual, Month-Department, Self-study - The College Library-An Evaluation (1953), Some Places of Interest in Williamsburg, Speaker Series, Special Collections,   Exhibits: Student Life at W \u0026 M, 2001,   Visitors Register, Guest Register, Staff Information Booklet, Staff Meetings(prior years also know as Need to Know, General Staff, Open Forum) Staff Lists, Student Assistants guidelines, Student Handbook 1968, Suggestion Box, Surveys, Swem Library and Williamsburg Regional Library, Task Force on Automated Library Systems II, Task Force on Public Services Statistics (1989), The Throne, Travel, Virginia Council of Higher Education Report, Wendy and Emery Reves International Studies Collection","Contains correspondence, photographs, blueprints, and other material related to the science libraries. Included are blueprints and drawings of the Geology Library in Tercentenary Hall, later McGlothlin-Street Hall; photographs of the stacks; and reports related to the holdings of the science libraries.","Contains correspondence, photographs, blueprints, and other material related to the science libraries. Included are blueprints and drawings of the Geology Library in Tercentenary Hall, later McGlothlin-Street Hall; photographs of the stacks; and reports related to the holdings of the science libraries.","Contains correspondence, photographs, blueprints, and other material related to the science libraries. Included are blueprints and drawings of the Geology Library in Tercentenary Hall, later McGlothlin-Street Hall; photographs of the stacks; and reports related to the holdings of the science libraries.","A dedicated acknowledgement from editors of the \"Black Atlantic Writers of the 18th century \" Adam Potkay and Sandra Burr to Carol S. Linton (April 1971-February 1995)","Correspondence, William \u0026 Mary event publications, printed materials and ephemera documenting the activities of William \u0026 Mary Dean of Libraries, Carrie Cooper.","Scrapbook of Swem Library Expansion project. Likely created by Jo Ann Hainley, administrative assistant to Connie McCarthy. Includes newsclippings and photographs of the library, construction, and staff."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAcc. 2008.216 was accessioned as part of the backlog in manuscripts and was added to this collection on 6/8/2010.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Acc. 2009.081 was separated from Acc. 1988.114 on 3/17/2009; Acc. 2009.110 was separated from Acc. 1980.132 on 3/23/2009.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The audiovisual material included with Acc. 2010.312 was pulled from this collection and was added to the University Archives Audiovisual Collection on 5/21/2010.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The audiovisual material included with Acc. 2010.336 was pulled from this collection and was added to the University Archives Audiovisual Collection on 6/16/2010.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Correspondence between Earl Gregg Swem and Howard Chapin were separated from Acc. 1980.115 and were added to the SCRC donor files in July 2010.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The photographs included with Acc. 2010.519 were pulled from this collection and were added to the University Archives Photograph Collection on 9/27/2010.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Acc. 2011.069 was previously part of the College Papers Collection and was integrated into this collection in February 2011.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Two compact discs of images from the Preston Hall fire book recovery and water damage in Swem Library were pulled from Acc. 2011.210 and were added to the University Archives Audiovisual Collection (UA 58) in April 2011.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Architectural plans and drawings that were once part of Acc. 2007.008 were separated from this collection and added to the Facilities Management Records (UA 29) in 2011.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials:"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Acc. 2008.216 was accessioned as part of the backlog in manuscripts and was added to this collection on 6/8/2010."," Acc. 2009.081 was separated from Acc. 1988.114 on 3/17/2009; Acc. 2009.110 was separated from Acc. 1980.132 on 3/23/2009."," The audiovisual material included with Acc. 2010.312 was pulled from this collection and was added to the University Archives Audiovisual Collection on 5/21/2010."," The audiovisual material included with Acc. 2010.336 was pulled from this collection and was added to the University Archives Audiovisual Collection on 6/16/2010."," Correspondence between Earl Gregg Swem and Howard Chapin were separated from Acc. 1980.115 and were added to the SCRC donor files in July 2010."," The photographs included with Acc. 2010.519 were pulled from this collection and were added to the University Archives Photograph Collection on 9/27/2010."," Acc. 2011.069 was previously part of the College Papers Collection and was integrated into this collection in February 2011."," Two compact discs of images from the Preston Hall fire book recovery and water damage in Swem Library were pulled from Acc. 2011.210 and were added to the University Archives Audiovisual Collection (UA 58) in April 2011."," Architectural plans and drawings that were once part of Acc. 2007.008 were separated from this collection and added to the Facilities Management Records (UA 29) in 2011."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePortions of this collection may be restricted for privacy reasons. Consult a staff member for assistance. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Portions of this collection may be restricted for privacy reasons. Consult a staff member for assistance. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"names_coll_ssim":["American Library Association","College of William and Mary. 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Swem Library","Self Study","Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"famname_ssim":["Cook, Margaret C."],"persname_ssim":["Currie, Clifford W.","Haskell, John D."],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":358,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-06T07:06:41.792Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes both processed series and unprocessed accessions of records created by the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary including those from component offices and individual staff members. A majority of the collection contains correspondence from the dean of the libraries and library administration. Inventories for some series and accessions are available in the Special Collections Research Center and links to PDFs of those inventories can be provided when available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains the correspondence of the Librarians and Deans of the Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains the correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem while Librarian at William \u0026amp; Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains the correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem in his capacity as caretaker of the fine arts collection; includes information about donors, artists, specific works of art, and lists of paintings owned by the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem with Charles M. Robinson, architect, Art Metal Construction Company, Bozarth Lumber Company, Library Bureau, and Virginia Craftsmen, Inc. concerning the old library, including blueprints and specifications.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains the Librarian's chronological files up through 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains the Librarian's correspondence up through 1987.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains subject files from the Librarian's office.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries contains the correspondence of Earl Gregg Swem, College Librarian, related to the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter at William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains many different formats and subject areas, that have been arranged for now in the order in which they were received (+ by accession no.) (Acc. Acc. 1983.071, Acc. 1984.053, Acc. 1985.069, Acc. 1988.086, Acc. 1988.114, Acc. 1988.116, Acc. 1989.130, Acc. 1990.003, 1992.025, Acc. 1993. 58, Acc. 1998.048, 1999.041, Acc. 1999.076, Acc. 2009.086, 2009.220, Acc. 2009.404, Acc. 2010.001, Acc. 2010.280, Acc. 2010.312, Acc. 2010.336, Acc. 2010.708, Acc. 2011.xxx, Acc. 2014.209)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBulk dates: 1977-1982\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBulk dates 1966-1976\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBulk dates: 1984-1986\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBudget initiatives and proposals, Faculty Assembly Draft Proposal (1987), OPAC Backup System Task Force files, prospective for an exhibit and catalog on \"The Age of William III and Mary II, SCHEV study group on library privacy policies (1989), Virginia Newspaper Project (1991-1995).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains Electronic Theses and Dissertation planning records, 1995 to 1997; Automation history of departments in Swem Library from 1986 to 1993; correspondence from \"Scholarly Humanities Communications in the Electronic Age\" seminar at Swem Library in 1993; fliers about \"Sweming into the 21st Century.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning Homecoming 1998, Staff Recognition ceremonies from 1998-2003, and a Reception for Alumni and Friends in 2008.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the files included are Friends of the Library material, information about the construction and renovation of Swem from 1999-2005, various Swem committee meetings, Keio University Program, and Faculty Assembly Meeting Minutes from 1991-1992 (2 cu.ft )\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of this accession contains files from various committees in Swem Library from 1992 to 2009. Some of the committees documented include the electronic resources committee, library policy committee, director's council, and training and development committee. There is also material related to the Librarians Assembly and Swem's involvement with different Christopher Wren Association programs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains correspondence, reports, newsletters, and other material from the Dean of University Libraries' subject files from 1963 to 2008, with the bulk of the material dating from 1990 to 2005. Included in the records are correspondence from the Friends of the Library, Swem Library committee files, Faculty Assembly material, and orientation packets for new faculty about using Swem Library's resources.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains subject files kept by the Dean of University Libraries from 1992 to 2009. Included in the files are budget information, Friends of the Library publications, various Swem Library committee files, and information about departments within Swem Library, including the Media Center and Special Collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains subject files from the Dean of University Libraries' office from 1998 to 2010. The bulk of the files relate to the Friends of the Library Board, but there are also records related to Swem committees and correspondence from the Dean.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains invitations to various events on the College of William and Mary campus that were collected by Connie McCarthy, Dean of University Libraries, from 1998 to 2008. Invitations to Charter Day celebrations, Swem Library talks and activities, Board of Visitors Dinners, and events sponsored by the Alumni Association are documented in this accession.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are handwritten and printed forms of brief poetic passages written by Swem and material related to the naming of Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1983.030: Ledger books covering departmental and periodical expenditures, special fund expenditures, and other library expenditures, 1928-1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Funds Records (Acc. 1981.014); Donor Records (Acc. 1983.072); Library Accession Records; Book Donation Records (Acc. 2015.127)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains invoices, correspondence, annual reports, War Memorial Book Shelf requests, and correspondence about the William \u0026amp; Mary. Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLibrary donor cards listing names, types of donations, titles, and accession numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 reels of microfilm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 ledgers, dated 1981-1988 and 1988-2001, of books given to Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1985.084: Classified staff applications and evaluations, 1975-1983. Confidential. Acc. 1986.035: Meeting Minutes of the cataloging staff and a report on alternatives to the card catalog, 1973-1980. Acc. 1991.049: Class syllabi collected by the library to see if it owned the books being assigned, 1985-1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRESTRICTED - DO NOT SERVE. Classified staff applications and evaluations, 1975-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeeting Minutes of the cataloging staff and a report on alternatives to the card catalog\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass syllabi collected by the library to see if it owned the books being assigned\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1989.124: Circulation statistics, 1945-1974. Acc. 1999.012: Minutes of the Circulation Automation Committee, 1985-1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 2010.335: Contains one binder of all the gift plates created to be placed into books in Swem Library's collection. Included in the binder is an index of all the current gift plates through June 2010. As of July 1, 2010, the gift plates will no longer be added to Swem Books but will continue to have a note in the catalog.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemos to faculty members and copies of syllabi sent to the Reference Department\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1980.011: Rare Books and Manuscripts Department correspondence, undated; Acc. 2009.085: Two drawings of the exterior and first floor interior of the \"Warren E. Burger Special Collections Library.\" The drawings are 21\"x16 3/4\" and are in good condition; Acc. 2011.598: Contains office files collected by Margaret Cook while she was Curator of Manuscripts at the College of William \u0026amp; Mary.. Included in the files are monthly reports of the department, correspondence of Margaret Cook regarding the department's holdings, Friends of the Library newsletters, and news articles about various manuscript collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRare Books and Manuscripts Department correspondence, undated;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo drawings of the exterior and first floor interior of the \"Warren E. Burger Special Collections Library.\" The drawings are 21\"x16 3/4\" and are in good condition\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains office files collected by Margaret Cook while she was Curator of Manuscripts. Included are monthly reports of the department, correspondence of Margaret Cook regarding the department's holdings, Friends of the Library newsletters, and news articles about various manuscript collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1980.133: Records about equipment, furniture, measurements, cornerstone laying, donors, dedications, and specifications regarding the Earl Gregg Swem Library. The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject, 1960s. Acc. 1984.061: Architects' proposals for an addition to Swem Library made by firms not chosen for the project, 1984. Acc. 1984.062: Proposal for an addition to Swem Library made by Perry, Dean, Rogers and Partners, the firm chosen for the project, 1984. This accession also contains materials from the Preplanning Study prepared by Hardwiske, Ekstrom, and Associates in 1983. Acc. 2008.104: Drawings and records for construction and renovation project (1998-2006) including samples of material used for furnishings and such as carpet, tile, etc. Acc. 2012.152: Contains reports, research, and feedback regarding renovations of Swem Library from 1991-1998. Included are design plans from different design companies, research on other library construction projects throughout the U.S., and feedback from the William \u0026amp; Mary. community as to the kind of library they would like to have. [There is not descriptions yet for Acc. 2007.08(a)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords about equipment, furniture, measurements, cornerstone laying, donors, dedications, and specifications regarding the Earl Gregg Swem Library. The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject, 1960s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArchitects' proposals for an addition to Swem Library made by firms not chosen for the project.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProposal for an addition to Swem Library made by Perry, Dean, Rogers and Partners, the firm chosen for the project, 1984. This accession also contains materials from the Preplanning Study prepared by Hardwiske, Ekstrom, and Associates in 1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNumber, type and dates of drawings need to be determined and entered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items or 8 cu.ft.?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrawings and records for construction and renovation project including samples of material used for furnishings and such as carpet, tile, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains reports, research, and feedback regarding renovations of Swem Library from Included are design plans from different design companies, research on other library construction projects throughout the U.S., and feedback from the William \u0026amp; Mary. community as to the kind of library they would like to have.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1982.064: \"Treasures of Swem Library,\" 1980. Contains color slides and the text of a lecture given by John D. Haskell. Acc. 1984.055: Materials from an exhibit of gifts to and from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, 1957. Acc. 1986.044: Materials from an exhibit entitled \"Statue of Liberty, 1886-1896,\" which was held at the Zollinger Museum. Contains a set of 26 poster-size photographs produced by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. Acc. 1988.006: Library Re-dedication records. Includes correspondence, speech transcripts, invitation lists, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to the re-dedication of Swem Library on February 5, 1988 and the Charter Day ceremony on February 6, 1988. Acc. 1998.002: John Cotton Dana Award presented to Swem Library in 1994. It honors outstanding public relations among college and university libraries, and specifically recognizes the programs Swem Library organized during the College's tercentenary. Acc. 1998.055 Library scrapbook containing photographs, postcards, brochures, and other papers concerning tercentenary events. Acc. 2008.216: Galley proofs for the book, \"Treasures of the College of William \u0026amp; Mary. Library\" about \"An Exhibition Commemorating the Rededication of the Earl Gregg Swem Library.\" Compiled by John D. Haskell, Jr. and Margaret C. Cook and published in 1988 by The College of William \u0026amp; Mary.. Includes copy of book. Also included are photographs of images used in the book. Acc. 2009.082: Cartoon featuring the opening of the MEWS Café in Swem Library. Features Swem Reference Desk staff and a Starbucks Coffee employee with customers of each saying \"I'm looking for something from Kenya that's not too bitter in its underlying political themes.\" Created and signed by Bentley Boyd in August 1998. Oversized miscellaneous posters used in the Library 1946-1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1982.064: \"Treasures of Swem Library,\" 1980. Contains color slides and the text of a lecture given by John D. Haskell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials from an exhibit of gifts to and from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, 1957.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials from an exhibit entitled \"Statue of Liberty, 1886-1986,\" which was held at the Zollinger Museum. Contains a set of 26 poster-size photographs produced by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence, speech transcripts, invitation lists, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to the re-dedication of Swem Library on February 5, 1988 and the Charter Day ceremony on February 6, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Cotton Dana Award presented to Swem Library in 1994. It honors outstanding public relations among college and university libraries, and specifically recognizes the programs Swem Library organized during the College's tercentenary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLibrary scrapbook containing photographs, postcards, brochures, and other papers concerning tercentenary events.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGalley proofs for the book, \"Treasures of the College of William \u0026amp; Mary. Library\" about \"An Exhibition Commemorating the Rededication of the Earl Gregg Swem Library.\" Compiled by John D. Haskell, Jr. and Margaret C. Cook and published in 1988 by The College of William \u0026amp; Mary.. Includes copy of book. Also included are photographs of images used in the book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCartoon featuring the opening of the MEWS Café in Swem Library. Features Swem Reference Desk staff and a Starbucks Coffee employee with customers of each saying \"I'm looking for something from Kenya that's not too bitter in its underlying political themes.\" Created and signed by Bentley Boyd in August 1998. Oversized miscellaneous posters used in the Library 1946-1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1984.016: Visitors' Registers, 1966-1984. Two green bound volumes. Acc. 1987.106: Library Bookplates. Two notebooks containing photocopies of different bookplates used by the college library and loose copies of many of the bookplates. Also includes the first sketch of the Phi Beta Kappa bookplate. Items transferred from College Papers: Book donations: Barton Catalog. Endowments and gifts of books. ca 1900's Accessions and Charging Records 1875-1928.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound volume (green)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound volume (green)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo notebooks containing photocopies of different bookplates used by the college library and loose copies of many of the bookplates. Also includes the first sketch of the Phi Beta Kappa bookplate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems transferred from College Papers: Book donations: Barton Catalog. Endowments and gifts of books, circa 1900's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems transferred from College Papers: Accessions and Charging Records 1875-1928.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDesk memo books of EG Swem, librarian 1930-1932 Notebook containing names and addresses of persons visiting the library 1925-1926.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The William \u0026amp; Mary College Library, how to use it,\" by Edwin E. Willoughby (Williamsburg, 1936), 14 pp., 23 cm, 2 copies. \"The William and Mary College Library, Information for Students, 1927. \"The College Library,\" address delivered in July 1928 by David A. Robertson. Reprint from the Educational Record, 10, No. 1 (Jan. 1929). Extract from the alumni oration of Dudley Redwood Cowles, 1940, where he mentions the condition of the College library. Correspondence concerning a bill to authorize the designation of depositories for public documents, 1928 and 1931. \"Statistics on the college libraries of Virginia,\", 1951. Acknowledgment of books sent to other colleges, 1894. Clippings about rare volumes at the College. Invoices, 1894-1903. Circulars to the faculty, 1930-1941. Regarding fines and reserves. List of periodicals in the College library, 1928, 1933, and 1940. [1928 list printed in the Flat Hat, 3 Feb. 1928.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1982.035: Reports, evaluations, correspondence and minutes of library departments, divisions, and committees involved in the library's 1972 self-study. Acc. 1982.029 (no description yet)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports, evaluations, correspondence and minutes of library departments, divisions, and committees involved in the library's 1972 self-study.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1982.029 (no description yet)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1979.087: Memos, correspondence, and material about interviews from 1978. Minutes and agendas of the Association covering 1990-1992 and 1994-1996. Acc. 2010.519: Contains minutes, agendas, correspondence, photographs and other material related to the Classified Staff Association at the Earl Gregg Swem Library of the College of William \u0026amp; Mary.. Acc. 2010.695 contains photographs, fliers, and handouts for special events coordinated by the Classified Staff Association of Swem Library at the College of William \u0026amp; Mary.. Some of the events documented in the photographs include the 20th Anniversary celebration of the Classified Staff Association in 1998; various craft fairs; and a New Years party inside what would be the new Special Collections Research Center in 2002. Accession 2017.028 includes treasury information regarding the association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemos, correspondence, and material about interviews from 1978. Minutes and agendas of the Association covering 1990-1992 and 1994-1996.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains minutes, agendas, correspondence, photographs and other material related to the Classified Staff Association at Swem Library\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains photographs, fliers, and handouts for special events coordinated Swem Library's Classified Staff Association. Some of the events documented in the photographs include the 20th Anniversary celebration of the Classified Staff Association in 1998; various craft fairs; and a New Years party inside what would be the new Special Collections Research Center in 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes treasury information regarding the association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1987.039: Correspondence and press clippings from 1975-1976. Acc. 1998.051: Bylaws, memos, minutes, and clippings related to the Association, 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and press clippings from 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBylaws, memos, minutes, and clippings related to the Association, 1975-1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1979.005: Arts and Sciences Faculty Library Committee files, 1965-1969. Includes correspondence, financial statements, and book budgets. Acc. 1980.010: Agendas, meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports of the Public Services Assembly, 1973-1978. Acc. 1981.096: Library Orientation Committee correspondence, 1974-1981. Includes memos and letters to and from the committee. Some correspondence introduces new staff members while others cover the production and distribution of the Swem Staff Information Booklet. The script of the library's orientation film is also included. Acc. 1984.063: Arts and Sciences Faculty Library Committee files, 1965-1980. Includes statistical data, acquisition lists, documents about the 1974 self-study, and correspondence. Acc. 1989.028: Library Staff Development Committee files, 1985-1987. Includes drafts and final copies of the staff survey and committee report, a computer printout of the results, memos, and minutes. Acc. 1989.126: Library Stacks Reorganization files, 1988. Contains bid proposals and evaluations, memos and correspondence about the 1988 move, and memos about William B. Meyer, Inc., charging more than the contracted price. Acc. 1999.038: Public Access Committee files, 1988-1990. Includes minutes, search hints, screen designs, a LION user survey, funding files, First Search files, and a history of the committee. Acc. 2008.147: Friends of the Library. This material accession included some material which is restricted such as donor files. Also included are FOTL board meeting minutes and newsletters, circa 1980s-1990s. Acc. 2009.083: Contains reports and documents from various Swem committees from 1990-2007, including the Policy and Planning Group; Exhibits; Administrative Council; Manger's Council; and Electronic Theses and Dissertations Task Force. This accession also includes records from campus-wide committees, such as the Campaign for William \u0026amp; Mary. from 2002-2007, and the 1998 Strategic Planning Committee; and a scrapbook of clippings about the Library and photos of Library Staff. Library Advisory Policy Committee (2013)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA\u0026amp;S Faculty Library Committee : Correspondence, financial statements, and book budgets.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes memos and letters to and from the committee. Some correspondence introduces new staff members while others cover the production and distribution of the Swem Staff Information Booklet. The script of the library's orientation film is also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes statistical data, acquisition lists, documents about the 1974 self-study, and correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes drafts and final copies of the staff survey and committee report, a computer printout of the results, memos, and minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains bid proposals and evaluations, memos and correspondence about the 1988 move, and memos about William B. Meyer, Inc., charging more than the contracted price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 1999.038: Public Access Committee files, 1988-1990. Includes minutes, search hints, screen designs, a LION user survey, funding files, First Search files, and a history of the committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 2008.147: Friends of the Library. This material accession included some material which is restricted such as donor files. Also included are FOTL board meeting minutes and newsletters, circa 1980s-1990s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains reports and documents from various Swem committees from 1990-2007, including the Policy and Planning Group; Exhibits; Administrative Council; Manger's Council; and Electronic Theses and Dissertations Task Force. This accession also includes records from campus-wide committees, such as the Campaign for William \u0026amp; Mary. from 2002-2007, and the 1998 Strategic Planning Committee; and a scrapbook of clippings about the Library and photos of Library Staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLibrary Advisory Policy Committee (2013)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 2011.210 contains subject files from 1976-1997 related to the United States Newspaper Project to index, preserve, and provide access to various newspapers from around the Commonwealth of Virginia. A small file related to the Math Library is also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcc. 2011.210: Contains subject files related to the United States Newspaper Project to index, preserve, and provide access to various newspapers from around the Commonwealth of Virginia. A small file related to the Math Library is also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was previously part of the University Archives Publications Collection and has temporarily been added as one series Eventually, most of the records included here, will need to be added to other series as the collection is being reprocessed. For a detailed listing see the box description.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe listing on materials for this range of boxes has not be broken down by individual container yet:Additions to book collections 1939-1974. Administrative Council other names for this group:   Policy and Planning Group, PPG Announcements, Book lists, Associates of Swem Library or Friends of the Library, Automation and Bibliographic Control 1991-1997, Bibliographic Services, Bookmark, Bookplates, Book Signing, Building additions, The Gift of Kings and Gentlemen-a prospectus for a new library(1959), Prospectus for a new library(1958,1960), Floor plans, Naming of Swem Library, Campaign 1996, For the Fourth Century, Campaign for William and Mary, Card catalog guide, Cartoons: Final exams, 2012 Ceremonies, dedications, re-dedications, Christmas cards, Christmas Keepsake cards, 2011 Classified Staff Association minutes, agendas, cookbook, Collection development news, Committees:   Academic services and automation programs committee,   Automation publicity committee   Building communication committee,   Circulation Automation committee,   Collections management and growth task force,   Database and electronic resource committee,   Disaster preparedness committee,   Food and drink task force,   Goals and priorities task force,   Hospitality committee,   Liaison committee,   Library automation training committee,   Library Instruction course committee,   Library newsletter committee,   Moving committee,   Non-circulating books committee,   Peer Salary Review task force,   Professional status of librarians in the college,   Public services committee,   Safety and Emergency Preparedness,   Sign Committee,   Stacks Reorganization Committee (1988),   Stacks Utilization Committee,   Staff Development and Continuing Education,   Staff Orientation Committee,   Staff Training and Development committee,   Student Employment committee,   Student Outreach committee,   Swem Management Council,   Task Force on Public Relations,   User Aids Committee, Dean's Office, Department Heads Meeting, Departmental Representative, Departments:   Acquisitions,   Bibliographic Services (cataloging),     Retrospective Conversion Project, summer 1980   Circulation,   Documents,   Interlibrary Loans (ILL),   Periodicals,   Reader Services,     Reader Services Guide to Research,   Reference,   Serials,   Special Collections, Development Office, Director's Council, Disaster Procedures Manual, Swem Faculty Recognition Award, Events:   Opening of renovated third floor (2003),   Christmas in May (2002),   Tartan Day, Exhibits:   Announcements. Glass exhibit cases throughout the library       (1980),   Historical materials (1953),   Historical relationship of the college to the legal profession              (1953),   Marshall-Wythe-Blackstone Commemoration (1954),   Classics at W \u0026amp; M (1955),   Garden Books and Prints from Harrison Collection(1955),   Alumni Governors (1957),   Hark Upon the Gale (1957),   Historical Materials relating to the college (1961),   Civil War and its effect on W \u0026amp; M and community (1962),   Collector's Choice manuscripts from Coblentz autographs (1963)   Thomas Jefferson and W \u0026amp; M (1963),   Magna Carta (1965),   Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Scene (1966),   Shakespeareana (1966),   In the Beginning was the Word-rare books from the Walton       collection (1967),   The College and the Crown (1968),   The Law and Chief Justice John Marshall (1969),   Paintings and Sculpture from Sydney Lewis collection (1970),   English brass rubbings from Cairns collection (1972),   Bookbindings by Clement Samford (1973),   Manuscripts from Walton collection (1973),   Books, Manuscripts ,Artifacts associated with William Morris     (1975),   An Exhibition of Old Master Prints (1975),   Oscar DeMejo, Paintings depicting events in America's       War for Independence (1975),   Fifty-six statesmen:Letters and documents of the signers of the     Declaration of Independence from Fields collection (1976),   George Washington Manuscripts,artifacts,and association items     from the Fields collection (1976),   Pugs, People and the Chapin Collection of books on dogs (1976),   New Capricci by Philipp Fehl (1977),   Rubens in Prints (1977),   Southern Books Competition (1977),   Arthur Strauss and the German Expressionists (1978),   Owl Feathers-silkscreens by William Crutchfield (1978),   Expressionist Theater (1979),   Samurai Swords (1979),   The 200th anniversary of the founding of the Chair of Law       and Police at W \u0026amp; 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Some documents with confidential or private information were returned to the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club.","The Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records are arranged into series and subseries by subject, based primarily on the descriptions by the RATC. Original order of files provided by the RATC is maintained where possible. Folder titles are original, except text within brackets [].","Series I: RATC Management, [ca. 1840s?], [ca. 1880s]-2024 (bulk 1932-2016)","This series contains materials created, collected, and maintained by the RATC for its operations. It is divided into eight sub-series based on material type or subject, based on original order provided by the RATC. ","\nSubseries A: RATC Meeting Minutes, 1940-1959, 1968-2004, 2022\n \nSubseries B: RATC By-Laws and Rosters, 1955, 1960, 1972-1993\n \nSubseries C: RATC Newsletters and Hike Schedules, 1939-1942, 1954-2010\n \nSubseries D: Monitoring the Appalachian Trail: Land Tract Files, [ca. 1840s?], [ca. 1880s]-2010 (bulk 1980s-2010) - Please note, many of these documents are photocopies, and the dates are based on the originals.\n \nSubseries E: Acquisitions and Relocations, 1949, 1955, [ca. 1960s]-1997, 2024\n \nSubseries F: Management Plans and Conservation Issues, 1964-1982, 1991-2003, 2010, 2016, 2024\n \nSubseries G: General Files, 1952, 1958, 1971-2014\n \nSubseries H: RATC Historical Materials, 1932-1962, 1977-2000, 2020-[ca. 2024]\n","Series II: RATC Officers and Members, 1939-2025","This series contains files created, collected, or maintained by people affiliated with the RATC, both officers and individual members. It is divided into eight sub-series by person and in chronological order. Each subseries is organized based on topic, and original order is maintained where possible.","\nSubseries A: Thomas Campbell, 1939-2024 (bulk 1950s-1970s)\n \nSubseries B: Otey Family, 1949-1953, 2024-2025, undated\n \nSubseries C: Dick Clark, 1953-2006 (bulk 1980s-2000s)\n \nSubseries D: Bill Cochran, 1966-2018\n \nSubseries E: Zetta Campbell, 1972-1976, 1993, 2024\n \nSubseries F: Charles Parry, 1972-2024 (bulk 1970s-1990s)\n \nSubseries G: Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter, 1972-1996, 2019, 2024\n \nSubseries H: Andy Layne, 1977-1990, undated\n \nSubseries I: Roger Holnback, 1980-2012 (bulk 1990s-2000s)\n \nSubseries J: Linda Akers, [ca. 1983]-1992, 2000-2015, 2022\n","The Appalachian Trail (AT), a hiking trail along the Appalachian Mountains in the United States, was first proposed by Bernard MacKaye in 1921, and two years later, the first section opened in New York State. In 1925, the Appalachian Trail Conference (ATC) formed to help manage the maintenance and conservation of the AT, and in 2005, the ATC was renamed Appalachian Trail Conservancy. As of 2025, the AT spans almost 2,200 miles in 14 states from Maine to Georgia, with 25% of the trail traversing Virginia and 30 local AT clubs affiliated with the ATC.","Local hiking clubs began organizing to build and maintain the AT and joining the ATC in the 1920s and 1930s. In October 1932, Donald S. Gates, a professor at Roanoke College, gathered several hikers and local groups to discuss forming an AT club in the Roanoke area. At a second meeting in October, Myron H. Avery, the chairman of the ATC, and members from the Potomac and Natural Bridge AT Clubs joined them to explain various aspects of their work. ","On November 13, 1932, the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club (RATC) was officially established with 17 charter members, including the first officers: president Gates, secretary E. B. Coxwell, treasurer Larry Pownall, and trail supervisor David Dick. Grace Pownall was appointed vice president about two (2) weeks later. The ATC initially assigned the RATC 55 miles of the trail to manage, but by the club's first anniversary, the section had expanded to 68.29 miles.","As of 2025, the RATC covers over 120 miles, including McAfee Knob, Dragon's Tooth, and Tinker Cliffs. The organization continues its original mission to maintain and protect the Appalachian Trail; develops and maintains trails, campsites, open shelters, and permanent camps on the AT; collects data about the history, scenery, geology, flora, and fauna of the Appalachian Mountains; prepares maps and guides for hiking, camping, and forest fire prevention; and participates in and advocates for the development of laws and regulations related to the AT and the Appalachian Mountains.","Biographical notes for several RATC members are included in the inventory under Series II.","External Sources: ","Box 13, Folder 48, \"RATC Histories Written in 1980s,\" of this collection","Box 13, Folder 52, \"RATC Histories Written in 1950s,\" of this collection","Box 13, Folder 53, \"RATC History, 1932-1945,\" of this collection","Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club,  https://www.ratc.org/ , accessed May 1, 2024.","By-Laws of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, Inc., Rev. March 12, 2016,  https://www.ratc.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/bylaws.pdf , accessed May 1, 2024.","Diana Christopulos, \"How Three Hiking Clubs Became the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club,\" RATC.org,  https://www.ratc.org/how-three-hiking-clubs-became-the-roanoke-appalachian-trail-club/ , accessed September 25, 2025.","Appalachian Trail Conservancy,  https://appalachiantrail.org/ , accessed October 3, 2025.","Thomas Healy \"Tom\" Campbell (1899-1986) attended the College of William and Mary from 1915 to 1916 and Richmond College (now University of Richmond) from 1917 to 1919. He married Charlene Lunsford (1902-1986) in 1922, and they had a daughter. In 1965, they both left their employers. Tom retired as Chief Investigator in the Auditor's office of the Norfolk and Western Railway, while Charlene left her employer of 20 years, Roanoke-based retail chain Heironimus.","Tom joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1947, and Charlene followed suit several years later. Each served in several offices for RATC, including Tom as President from 1950-1951. He also served on the Appalachian Trail Conference's Board of Managers from 1950-1975, including fourteen (14) years as Vice Chairman (1961-1975). Tom was also a charter member of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail Advisory Committee.","Sources:","Box 12, Folder 3, \"[Biographical information about Thomas and Charlene Campbell],\" of this collection","\"Thomas Healy Campbell,\" Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84378864/thomas-healy-campbell , accessed September 18, 2025.","\"Charlene Lunsford Campbell,\" Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84378830/charlene-campbell , accessed September 18, 2025.","The Spider  (Richmond College yearbook), Vols. 16-17, 1918-1919, available online from the University of Richmond,  https://scholarship.richmond.edu/the-spider/ , accessed September 19, 2025. ","Biographical note by Diana Christopulos, Feb. 18, 2025: \"Marie and John Otey were RATC volunteers in the early 1950s, and they worked on the relocations led by Jimmy Denton near the Blue Ridge Parkway and around Roanoke. They joined in late 1949 and were active 1950-55. John was Assistant Trail Supervisor in 1952, 1953, 1955. He was also active on the Publicity Committee and took numerous photos on the Trail.\"","John Otway Otey, Jr. (1906-1980) married Goldie Marie Dean Peters (1906-1989) in 1950. John worked as a clerk for Norfolk and Western Railway, while Marie worked as a stenographer or secretary.","Sources:","Box 13, Folder 54, \"[Notes and correspondence about the Otey Family Papers],\" of this collection","U.S. Federal Census, 1940-1950, accessed online from Ancestry.com on September 19, 2025.","\"John Otway Otey Jr.,\" Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185149412/john-otway-otey , accessed September 19, 2025.","\"Goldie Marie Dean Otey,\" Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207412197/goldie_marie-otey , accessed September 19, 2025.","\"John Otway Otey\" in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/collections/9279/records/11741905 , accessed September 19, 2025.","Dick Clark has served in numerous positions in the RATC from the 1980s to 2010s, including hikemaster (1984-1994), vice president (1998-2000), president (2000-2003), and counselor (2003-2015).","Clark was appointed by the Roanoke City Council to serve on the Mill Mountain Advisory Committee from 1999 to 2014, and he served as vice chair during his tenure.","Sources:","Box 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection","Box 3,  Trail Blazer  newsletters, of this collection","Trail Blazer  newsletters, Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club,  https://www.ratc.org/newsletter/ , accessed Oct. 2, 2025.","Matt Chittum, \"Mountain advisers up for an upgrade,\"  The Roanoke Times,  p. B1, April 6, 2014, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","Matt Chittum, \"Fancier Franklin bridge suggested,\"  The Roanoke Times,  p. B1, June 3, 2014, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","William Neal \"Bill\" Cochran (1937-2024) was a journalist who focused on the outdoors, writing for  The Roanoke Times  from 1962 until 2018–two (2) decades after retiring as the newspaper's outdoors editor in 1998. His coverage included many trail hikes with the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, conservation issues in Virginia, and outdoor sporting and the Appalachian Trail. Cochran received 10 awards from the Virginia Press Association, was honored by the Virginia General Assembly with the House Joint Resolution 520 \"Commending Bill Cochran\" in 1999, and was the 2009 media inductee in the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.","Cochran graduated from Lynchburg College (now University of Lynchburg) with a bachelor's degree in English in 1960, and he served in the Virginia National Guard. He married Katherine Gravett in 1965, and they had a son. They operated the Cross Trails Bed and Breakfast near the Appalachian Trail in Catawba from 1995 to 2003 as well as a Christmas tree farm in West Virginia. ","Sources:","Mark Taylor, \"Legendary Roanoke outdoors writer Bill Cochran dies,\"  Cardinal News,  July 1, 2024,  https://cardinalnews.org/2024/07/01/legendary-roanoke-outdoors-writer-bill-cochran-dies/ , accessed September 19, 2025.","Obituary for William N. \"Bill\" Cochran,  The Roanoke Times,  July 7, 2024, available online from Legacy.com,  https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/william-cochran-obituary?id=55481593 , accessed September 19, 2025.","Mark Berman, \"Bill Cochran | 1937-2024: Outdoors editor was 'an institution',\"  The Roanoke Times,  July 2, 2024, p. A1 and A6, accessed online from NewsBank on September 19, 2025.","\"Bill Cochran,\" Virginia Sports Hall of Fame,  https://vasportshof.com/inductee/bill-cochran/ , accessed September 19, 2025.","\"Virginia HJ520 Commending Bill Cochran,\" Policy Engage,  https://trackbill.com/bill/virginia-house-joint-resolution-520-commending-bill-cochran/512861/ , accessed September 19, 2025.","\"William Neal Cochran\" in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/collections/9279/records/12779996 , accessed September 19, 2025.","Zetta Marie Campbell (1930-2024) joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1959. She also served as secretary (1964-1965, 1968-1969, 1983-1984) and editor of the  Trail Blazer  newsletter (1970-1977). Campbell also illustrated the hike schedules in the 1970s and led hikes until at least 2019. She received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002.","Sources: ","Box 13, Folder 66, \"1970s - Zetta Campbell Drawings/Hike Scheds,\" of this collection","Box 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection","Box 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection","Obituary for Zetta Campbell,  The Roanoke Times,  July 5, 2024, p. A6, available online from Legacy.com,  https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/zetta-campbell-obituary?id=55488335 , accessed September 22, 2025.","\"Zetta Marie Campbell\", Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272121036/zetta_marie-campbell , accessed September 22, 2025.","Charles Parry (1942-2010) joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1972, serving as the Trail Supervisor from 1979 until his death. He received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002 and was inducted into the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame in 2017, the first RATC member to receive this honor.","Parry graduated from the State University of New York College at Oswego (now State University of New York at Oswego) and earned a master's and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Michigan State University around 1969 or 1970. He was a professor of mathematics at Virginia Tech from 1971 until his retirement in 2010, establishing a research program in number theory, helping to design mathematics courses for computer science students, and serving as Math Club adviser. ","Sources: ","Box 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection","Box 13, Folder 67, \"Charles Parry AT Hall of Fame,\" of this collection","Box 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection","\"Charles Parry honored with emeritus status,\" Virginia Tech News, October 19, 2010,  https://news.vt.edu/content/news_vt_edu/en/articles/2010/10/101910-science-parry.html , accessed September 18, 2025.","\"In memoriam: Charles Parry, emeritus professor of mathematics,\" Virginia Tech News, January 10, 2011,  https://news.vt.edu/articles/2011/01/011011-science-parry.html , accessed September 18, 2025.","Obituary for Charles John Parry,  The Roanoke Times,  December 28, 2010, p. A12, accessed online from NewsBank on September 18, 2025.","Mark Taylor, \"Math teacher devoted himself to AT,\"  The Roanoke Times,  December 28, 2010, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","\"Charles J. Parry,\" Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/232281708/charles-j-parry , accessed September 18, 2025.","Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame, \"2017 Class,\" Appalachian Trail Museum,  https://www.atmuseum.org/2017-class.html , accessed September 18, 2025.","Siegfried and Ursula Kolmstetter joined the RATC in 1971. Siegfried served as vice president (1974) and counselor (1972-1973), while both volunteered as hike leaders for decades. The couple maintained the McAfee Knob section of the AT for over 25 years, until the couple moved out of the area in 1996. Siegfried received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002.","At the end of World War II in May 1945, 17-year-old Ursula Edith Walter (1927-2023) was captured by the Russian Army and imprisoned at the Theresienstadt prison camp. Eight (8) months after her imprisonment, she escaped and moved to West Germany, where she met Siegfried J. Kolmstetter (1921-2019). They married in 1952 and had several children. The Kolmstetters immigrated to the U.S. in 1957, settling in Roanoke in 1970. Siegfried was a physician for the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salem from 1970 to 1998. He received the hospital's Hands and Heart Award in 1992.","Sources:","Box 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection","Box 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection","Obituary for Ursula Edith Kolmstetter,  The Roanoke Times,  January 3, 2024, available online from Legacy.com,  https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/ursula-kolmstetter-obituary?id=53995534 , accessed September 19, 2025.","Dan Casey, \"Physician was caretaker for people, trails,\"  The Roanoke Times,  March 28, 2019, p. 1-2, accessed online from NewsBank on September 22, 2025.","Andy Layne (1912-1991) joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1978. He led numerous hikes and helped with hike scheduling; attended workhikes and backpacking trips; and oversaw a section of the trail. Layne also served in several positions on the RATC Board, including shelter supervisor (1980), vice president (1981), and counselor (1985-1986). On the 10th anniversary of his death, the Andy Layne Trail in the Tinker Cliffs area was dedicated in his memory.","Source:","Box 19, Folder 46, \"[Andy Layne biographical information],\" of this collection","Roger Holnback joined the RATC in 1996 and served in numerous positions, including as president (2006-2009, 2015-2016), vice president (2003-2006, 2016-2017), land management supervisor (2009-2013), and conservation supervisor (2013-2015). He also was an ATC Land Trust coordinator and Roanoke Valley Greenways liaison in the 2000s and 2010s. His wife Lauren Taylor Holnback was also an RATC member.","Holnback served as executive director of the Western Virginia Land Trust (2001-2012), which worked with the City of Roanoke and other groups to place over 11,000 acres of Carvins Cove Natural Reserve under a conservation easement in 2008 and 2009. He was given the Roanoke Valley Cool Cities Coalition's Cool Citizens award in 2012. Later, he was chairman of the Blue Ridge Soil and Water Conservation District and president of the Pathfinders for Greenways. ","Sources:","Box 3,  Trail Blazer  newsletters, of this collection","Trail Blazer  newsletters, Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club,  https://www.ratc.org/newsletter/ , accessed Oct. 2, 2025.","Mason Adams, \"From land and air, teams work to preserve Carvins Cove's aura,\"  The Roanoke Times , January 6, 2011, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","\"Western Virginia Land Trust director steps down,\"  The Roanoke Times , February 10, 2012, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","Danielle Dunaway, \"Cool Citizens awards laud energy-efficient efforts,\"  The Roanoke Times , March 16, 2012, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","Sam Wall, \"Hinchee Park opens in Roanoke County - Hinchee Park opens in Roanoke County,\"  The Roanoke Times , September 29, 2019, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","\"Board and Staff,\" Blue Ridge Soil and Water Conservation District website,  https://www.brswcd.org/team-2 , accessed October 2, 2025.","Linda Akers joined the RATC in 1969 or 1970. She served in numerous positions on the board, including secretary (1981-1982), editor of the  Trail Blazer  (1982-1985), and social chair (1987-1999, 2013-2017). She received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002.","Sources:","Box 17, Folder 41, \"[Linda Akers Interview notes by Diana Christopulos],\" of this collection","Box 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection","The guide to the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","Minutes for May 17, 2001, June 21, 2001, July 26, 2001, February 13, 2003, August 2, 2004, and September 13, 2004, have been restricted and moved to Box 22, Folder 1.","Restricted minutes were separated from Box 1, Folder 34.","Additional membership rosters may be found in the club newsletters.","The agenda from January 12, 2004 have been restricted and moved to Box 22, Folder 25.","Restricted minutes were separated from Box 16, Folders 3-5.","Restricted item has been removed to Box 22, Folder 25.","Restricted item moved from Box 19, Folder 14.","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records was completed in October 2025. Box 16 was completed in March 2026.","Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives also has the  M. Rupert Cutler Papers,  which covers many of the same and related environmental issues of the Appalachian Mountains, Roanoke, and Southwest Virginia.","The Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club (RATC) Records document the management of the club from its founding in 1932. The collection includes the club newsletters, board minutes, former officers' and members' records, National Park Service and RATC acquisition information, conservation issues, management plans, histories of the club, scrapbooks, and photographs. ","The collection is divided into two series, I: RATC Management and II: RATC Officers and Members. The first series contains materials created, collected, and maintained by the RATC for its operations. It contains the meeting minutes, primarily about the activities of the Executive Board from 1940 to 1959 and 1968 to 2004. Some of the meeting minutes also record the activities of committees, affiliate organizations, and the annual all-member banquet during those years. There are also by-laws from the 1980s and 1990s and rosters from the 1950s to 1980s. The club newsletters start with the  RATC Bulletin  from 1939 to 1942 and continue with the  Trail Blazer  from 1954 to 2010. These document the club's recent activities, including work with the Appalachian Trail Conference (later Appalachian Trail Conservancy), local non-profits, and government entitities, hike schedules and detailed accounts of club hikes on the Appalachian Trail (AT), and reminiscences of and memorials to past and current members.","The Land Tract Files contain legal records of lands acquired by NPS after 1978 Congressional funding. Most of these materials are photocopies of legal records documenting land acquisitions, including legal judgments, land ownership histories, foreclosure documents, leases and contracts with gas and electric companies, deeds and trusts, wills and genealogies regarding inheritance rights, land surveys and inspection records, appraisals and environmental assessments, financial documents and insurance certificates, photographs, maps, and correspondence with land owners, attorneys, court clerks, and others. Other documents about acquisitions and relocations also illuminate the RATC's work with the Appalachian Trail Conference (also Conservancy), U.S. National Park Service, and U.S. Forest Service to acquire and monitor property and to build and relocate trails.","The first series also contains management and conservation plans, general files, and RATC historical materials. The histories discuss the founding and development of the club as well as large trail relocations and the work of past members and officers. There are also several photo albums from the 1930s-1950s.","The second series contains files created, collected, or maintained by people affiliated with the RATC, both officers and individual members, about the history and operation of the RATC. These people include club president Thomas Campbell, the Otey family, president Dick Clark, local journalist Bill Cochran, newsletter editor Zetta Campbell, longtime trail supervisor Charles Parry, hike leaders Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter, hike leader Andy Layne, president Roger Holnback, and longtime social chair Linda Akers. Documents include correspondence, handwritten notes, additional meeting minutes and newsletters, photographs, newspaper clippings, and more. They also cover land acquisitions, building trails and shelters, group events and conferences, management and land use, and of course hikes on the AT.","\nThe following are common abbreviations or acronyms found in the collection inventory:\n \nAEP - Appalachian Electric Power Company\n \nAPCO - Appalachian Power Company, a subsidiary of AEP\n \nAT - Appalachian Trail\n \nATC - Appalachian Trail Conference or Appalachian Trail Conservancy\n \nRATC - Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club\n \nNPS - United States National Park Service\n \nUSFS or FS - United States Forest Service\n","This series contains materials created, collected, and maintained by the RATC for its operations. It is divided into eight sub-series based on material type or subject, based on original order provided by the RATC.","These minutes are mostly for the RATC Executive Board meetings, but also include some minutes for the annual all-member banquet and various RATC committees.","The January 16, 1953 annual meeting minutes are labeled \"January 16, 1952\". Also includes 1940 membership roster. [Removed from Binder]","Also contains 1957 membership roster, treasurer's reports or audits for 1954-1957, several hike schedules and Trail Blazers for 1957-1959, and attendees' information for the 1958 14th Meeting of the ATC. [Removed from binder.]","Also contains newspaper clippings, drafts of minutes, correspondence, reports, and other materials. [Removed from binder.]","Only includes April 1970 minutes, \"Copy of Minutes for Charles Headland\".","A list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for January, July, and August 1974. Some of the minutes are handwritten. Also includes typed transcription by Diana Christopulos on October 31, 2022, of the May 1974 minutes.","A list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for January, June, July, and August 1975. Some of the minutes are handwritten.","A list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for January, April, May, and August 1976.","Includes minutes for February, March, August, November 1977.","Includes only February and March 1978 minutes, which are handwritten. Also includes typed transcription by Diana Christopulos on October 31, 2022, of the February 1978 minutes with note from Christopulos: \"This is the first meeting after landowners have closed the AT between Va. 311 and Tinker Cliffs.\"","Folder just includes notes that minutes were missing for 1979, and one note was removed from a notebook with minutes for 1974-1983.","Folder just includes a note that minutes were missing for 1974-1979. Looks like the note may have been removed from a notebook with minutes for 1974-1983.","Note from RATC: \"Incredible transition to orderly files with Linda Akers as Secretary and Mary Stewart as President\".","Includes 1980 roster and \"order continues under same leadership\", according to notes from RATC.","A list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for July, August, and September 1982.","A list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for May, July, or December 1983 minutes.","Note from RATC: \"Land Management and special meeting\".","There are no minutes after September 1989.","Note from RATC: \"Annual meeting moved to March\".","February and July 1994 minutes are missing.","December 1995 minutes are missing.","Includes \"First annual meeting at Lutheran Church (Linda Akers)\".","Also includes organizational documents, notes, and correspondence. [Removed from Binder.]","Also includes 1990 RATC Ann's Cabin Committee meeting minutes.","Original folder was titled \"1976 RATC Membership Roster N=68\".","This is a draft of the Constitution and By-Laws of the RATC.","Includes proposed and final by-laws for March 6, 1993.","Starting with the Spring 1983 issue, the hike schedules are printed as part of the  Trail Blazer  newsletters. Prior to that time, the hike schedule was inconsistently included with the newsletters. Some newsletters also include membership rosters.","[Removed from binder.]","Some issues also include membership rosters.","Also includes photos from April 1959 and a membership application from May-June 1959.","Also includes backpacking catalogs.","Also includes the Shenandoah-Rockfish Appalachian Trail Club Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 18, 1962.","Also includes hike schedules for June 26-December 18, 1966.","The first 2 issues are No. 1, January 1966 and No. 2, February 1966. Then the publication cycle changes to quarterly publications, and the issue numbering restarts with No. 1, Spring 1966 through No. 4, Winter 1966-67. Also includes Hike Schedules for Summer 1966-Winter 1966-1967.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1967-Winter 1967-68.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1968-Winter 1968-69.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1969-Winter 1969-70.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Summer 1970 and Winter 1970-71.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1971-Winter 1970-71.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1972-Winter 1972-73.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1973-Winter 1973-74.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1974-Summer 1974.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1975-Winter 1975-76.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1975 and Fall 1976.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1977-Winter 1977-78.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1978-Winter 1978-79.","Spring 1979 is numbered Vol. 39, No. 1; Summer 1979 is Vol. 40, No. 1; Autumn 1979 is Vol. 40, No. 3; and Winter 1979 is Vol. 40, No. 4. Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1979-Winter 1979.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1980-Winter 1980. [Please note: Vol. 40 seems to have been skipped in the numbering system for the Trail Blazer.]","Also includes Hike Schedules for Fall 1981 and Summer [1981?]. The Winter Hike Schedule is included in the Winter 1981 Trail Blazer.","Hike schedules are included with the Trail Blazer issues for Spring 1982, Fall 1982, and Winter 1982.","Also includes minutes of the executive board meeting on July 18, 1986.","Also includes minutes of the executive board meeting on August 26, 1988, and RATC By-laws revised on November 5, 1988.","The December 1990 issue is the Winter 1990-1991 issue.","Starting with Winter 1995, the winter issues switch to the start of the year instead of the end.","The Land Tract Files are also called RATC Green Books and contain legal records of lands acquired by NPS after 1978 Congressional funding. These are bound by tract number. Most of these materials are photocopies of legal records documenting land acquisitions, including legal judgments, land ownership histories, foreclosure documents, leases and contracts with gas and electric companies, deeds and trusts, wills and genealogies regarding inheritance rights, land surveys and inspection records, appraisals and environmental assessments, financial documents and insurance certificates, photographs, maps, and correspondence with land owners, attorneys, court clerks, and others. ","As most of the documents are photocopies, the dates are based on the originals, not on when the photocopies may have been created. Some of the photocopies are also of poor quality and illegible. Some of the legal documents contain social security numbers, and these bound files are restricted.","This series document the RATC's work with the Appalachian Trail Conference (also Conservancy), U.S. National Park Service, and U.S. Forest Service to acquire and monitor property and to build and relocate trails.","Written by Diana Christopulos, RATC Archivist","Also spelled Anne's Cabin.","This is a photocopy.","This is a photocopy.","Includes newspaper clippings and a history of the AT with focus on Virginia and a copy of H 160 approved by the General Assembly of Virginia on March 4, 1971, to allow Virginia to acquire lands and enter into agreements pertaining to the AT.","Mostly relates to the Buhrman Tract.","Contains a handdrawn map by Thomas Campbell from about the 1960s and a transcription and description of the map with history note by Diana Christopulos in 2024.","Also includes the Hiking Schedule for the Southwestern Virginia Relocation.","Includes RATC brochures, 1966 hiking brochure, local management plan maps, a photocopy of the 1997 Memorandum of Understanding for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail between the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club and the Appalachian Trail Conference, and the RATC 1991 Management Plan for the Appalachian Trail with notes by Diana Christopulos on March 3, 2024.","Includes Spring 1991 Trail Blazer and a phone tree.","The 1996 and 2008 items were printed off the internet in 2022.","Includes letters about donations and gifts.","Probably created by T. J. Kent. Includes list of items in album created in 2023.","Includes list of items in album created in 2023.","Includes list of items in album created in 2023.","[Removed from photograph album.]","Includes press release about the Appalachian Trail Museum's Hall of Fame's class of 2022, including Jim and Molly Denton of Front Royal, Virginia, and interview notes from Diana Christopulos with two of the Denton's three children.","Includes photocopies of documents from 1930s and issues of the Appalachian Trailway News.","Although the histories are from around the 1980s, there are some notes from around the 2020s.","Although the histories are from around the 1980s, there are some notes from around the 2020s.","Includes a transcription of a January 24, 1951 history by L. H. Powell, transcribed by Diana Christopulos on March 20, 2020, but not the original 1951 history by Powell.","Includes notes about T. J. Kent's history notes by Diana Christopulos, RATC Archivist, November 11, 2022, and transcription and annotations of 1933 report of RATC by Christopulos, March 20, 2020.","The second series contains files created, collected, or maintained by people affiliated with the RATC, both officers and individual members, about the history and operation of the RATC. It is divided into eight sub-series by person and in chronological order. Each subseries is organized based on topic, and original order is maintained where possible.","Also contains a list of files for box.","Includes a letter from Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., about legislation.","Includes organizational charts for the ATC.","Majority is correspondence about trail maintenance and relocation projects or suggestions and related maps.","Contains documents regarding Virginia being \"the first state to execute an agreement for the protection and management of the Appalachian Trail.\"","Some documents pertain to property owners and AT relocations.","Documents discuss purchasing the Buhrman tract of land near Fullhardt Knob and relocation of the AT between Tinker Mountain and Fullhardt Knob, potentially through the Buhrman tract.","Includes admittance of the Virginia Tech Outing Club to the ATC and assignment of a portion of AT for the club to maintain.","Includes William L. Gordge, RATC president's correspondence. Includes admittance of the Virginia Tech Outing Club to the ATC and assignment of a portion of AT for the club to maintain.","Includes organizational charts for the ATC.","Includes documents granting land use for relocating AT on Peters Mountain via land owned by Celanese Corporation, Pocahontas Land Corporation, the National Gypsum Company, and individuals.","Majority of documents regard planning in 1957-1958 for the 14th Meeting of the ATC at Mountain Lake Hotel in Mountain Lake (Giles County), Virginia, in 1958.","Both issues contain articles about AT relocations by RATC.","[Removed from binder.]","Includes shelter log.","Includes agendas, minutes, financial documents, and other supporting documents, including documents from committees, ATC, and NPS.","Also includes ATC's The Register newsletter, Vol. 24, No. 6, Spring 2001.","This is a user survey study carried out by the NPS in partnership with the University of Vermont and Penn State University. [Removed from binder.]","Also includes brochures about NPS and the AT.","Also includes tax-related documents and newsletters for other organizations.","Relates to the Greenbrier Pipeline Project that would cross the AT.","This contains the Memorandum of Agreement for the Management of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail between the NPS and U. S. Forest Service.","Appalachian Trailway News article about Jim and Molly Tabor Denton and Tom and Charlene Campbell","Prepared for NPS by Federal Highway Administration's Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division","Includes some non-biking AT printed materials.","Items discuss naming the Sinking Creek shelter as the Sarver Hollow Shelter and its dedication. There are also some documents related to the Sarver Cabin or Sarver Home Site.","Includes a copy of the RATC's \"Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation\".","Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the ATC.","Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the ATC.","Also contains a report about invasive species on the AT.","Includes undated photographs.","The trail diary includes a letter to Katherine Cochran.","Includes article, \"National Trail Bill Sent to Congress\" by Bill Cochran.","Includes clippings about Audie Murphy's 1972 plane crash and hiking the AT, several relating to Ed Garvey.","Includes 1982 letter to Bill Cochran, a write up on Damascus Trail Days by Bill Cochran, and clippings about trail towns and the RATC celebrating its 50th anniversary.","Includes a letter to Bill Cochran, ca. 1996.","Includes clippings about the McAfee Knob closure from 1978 to 1987, McAfee Knob in general, history of the AT, and AT land acquisition.","Includes clippings about the murders of Susan Ramsey and Robert Mountford in 1981, Molly LaRue and Geoffrey L. Hood in 1990, and the murders of Julianne Williams and Lollie Winans in 1996.","Includes 1970s hike schedules illustrated by Campbell, 1993 article about hike led by Campbell, and a note about Campbell in the RATC from Diana Christopulos, February 16, 2024.","Includes biographical information.","Includes letter and thank you note from 1991.","The Trail Blazer issue contains an article about the Campbell Shelter. The cover is missing, but it is probably the Fall 1989 issue.","Includes Campbell Shelter, Catawba Shelter, New Wilson Creek Shelter, Wapitu Shelter, and Big Pond Shelter Move. The photos in this folder remain in their original groupings.","Includes 1987 ATC Conference at Lynchburg College and Natural Bridge. Please note: there are remnants of a rubberband attached to some photos.","These photos were grouped together but have no identifying information.","The photos in this folder are without identifying information and remain in their original groupings.","The photos in this folder are without identifying information and remain in their original groupings.","Some materials are the papers of Lauren Taylor Holnback and of Eric Nasar from the Trust for AT Lands.","[Removed from binder.]","Also includes management brochures. [Removed from binder.]","[Removed from binder.]","[Removed from binder.]","Topics include the Trail and Land Management Committee and Carvins Cove easement. [Removed from binder.]","Includes memoranda about land tracts.","Includes Tract 476-32.","Includes Tract 477-22, Parcels A and B.","Includes Tracts 478-34, 478-35, 478-36, and 478-37.","Includes monument sets.","Documents concern the Chesapeake Bay Program and Agreement related to the Chesapeake Bay watershed.","Documents relate to the acquisition of the Shell Tract along the Elk River in Tennessee.","Documents relate to the Turner Tract on North Mountain in Virginia.","Documents relate to the Roy and Tillie Wood's home the Woodshole, where AT hikers were invited to stay.","Documents are about attempting to make Blackwater Canyon a national park.","Documents are about the USFS Forest Legacy Program and Virginia's Forest Legacy program.","Includes reports from Griggs and Mullinix of the ATC Land Trust.","Most materials specifically relate to the Western Virginia Land Trust.","Includes information on Andy Layne Trail.","Includes information on Roanoke Greenways and on laws.","[Removed from binder.]","[Removed from binder.]","This collection contains several issues of the  Trail Blazer , the newsletter of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club. If there were more than two (2) copies of an issue, the extra copy was separated to the Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives' Rare Book Collection.","The following publications were separated to the Rare Book Collection:","Appalachian Trail Guide to Central Virginia,  First Edition, 1994 (Jack Albright, Field Editor).","Parsons, Shireen, and Wilderness Society.  Virginia's Mountain Treasures : The Unprotected Wildlands of the Jefferson National Forest.  The Wilderness Society, 1999.","Trail Lands: The Newsletter of the ATC Land Trust,  Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2001.","Audubon Naturalist,  Vol. 20, No. 7, \"What Does Disney's America Mean to Our Region?\", 1994-09.","Daniel D. Chazin, ed.,  Appalachian Trail Data Book 2000,  22nd ed., Harpers Ferry, WV: The Appalachian Trail Conference, 1999.","Karen Deans, ed.,  Conservation Options: A Landowner's Guide,  Washington, D. C.: Land Trust Alliance, 1999.","Benton MacKaye,  The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning,  Harpers Ferry, WV: The Appalachian Trail Conference and Urbana-Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1990.","Murray Bookchin,  Our Synthetic Environment,  Rev. Ed., New York City: Harper \u0026 Row, 1974.","Leonard M. Adkins (a member of the RATC),  50 Hikes in Northern Virginia: Walks, Hikes, and Backpacks from the Allegheny Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay,  Woodstock, VT: Backcountry Publications, 1994 (1995 printing).","Steve Nash,  Blue Ridge 2020: An Owner's Manual,  Chapel Hill, N. C., and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.","William Birchard, Jr., and Robert Proudman,  Appalacian Trail: Design, Construction, and Maintenance,  2nd ed., Harpers Ferry, WV: The Appalachian Trail Conference, 2000.","Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. ","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction .","Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club (RATC) Records document the management of the club from its founding in 1932. The collection includes the club newsletters, board minutes, former officers' and members' records, NPS and RATC acquisition information, conservation issues, management plans, histories of the club, scrapbooks, and photographs. The RATC continues its original mission to maintain and protect the Appalachian Trail (AT), and the club covers over 120 miles of the AT, including McAfee Knob, Dragon's Tooth, and Tinker Cliffs.","Please note:  This collection is in off-site storage and requires 2-3 days notice for retrieval. 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Some documents with confidential or private information were returned to the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club.\u003c/p\u003e"],"appraisal_heading_ssm":["Appraisal"],"appraisal_tesim":["Duplicates, blank notepads, empty envelopes, and binders were removed from collection. Some documents with confidential or private information were returned to the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records are arranged into series and subseries by subject, based primarily on the descriptions by the RATC. Original order of files provided by the RATC is maintained where possible. Folder titles are original, except text within brackets [].\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: RATC Management, [ca. 1840s?], [ca. 1880s]-2024 (bulk 1932-2016)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains materials created, collected, and maintained by the RATC for its operations. It is divided into eight sub-series based on material type or subject, based on original order provided by the RATC. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003clist\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries A: RATC Meeting Minutes, 1940-1959, 1968-2004, 2022\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries B: RATC By-Laws and Rosters, 1955, 1960, 1972-1993\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries C: RATC Newsletters and Hike Schedules, 1939-1942, 1954-2010\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries D: Monitoring the Appalachian Trail: Land Tract Files, [ca. 1840s?], [ca. 1880s]-2010 (bulk 1980s-2010) - Please note, many of these documents are photocopies, and the dates are based on the originals.\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries E: Acquisitions and Relocations, 1949, 1955, [ca. 1960s]-1997, 2024\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries F: Management Plans and Conservation Issues, 1964-1982, 1991-2003, 2010, 2016, 2024\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries G: General Files, 1952, 1958, 1971-2014\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries H: RATC Historical Materials, 1932-1962, 1977-2000, 2020-[ca. 2024]\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: RATC Officers and Members, 1939-2025\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains files created, collected, or maintained by people affiliated with the RATC, both officers and individual members. It is divided into eight sub-series by person and in chronological order. Each subseries is organized based on topic, and original order is maintained where possible.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003clist\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries A: Thomas Campbell, 1939-2024 (bulk 1950s-1970s)\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries B: Otey Family, 1949-1953, 2024-2025, undated\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries C: Dick Clark, 1953-2006 (bulk 1980s-2000s)\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries D: Bill Cochran, 1966-2018\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries E: Zetta Campbell, 1972-1976, 1993, 2024\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries F: Charles Parry, 1972-2024 (bulk 1970s-1990s)\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries G: Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter, 1972-1996, 2019, 2024\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries H: Andy Layne, 1977-1990, undated\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries I: Roger Holnback, 1980-2012 (bulk 1990s-2000s)\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries J: Linda Akers, [ca. 1983]-1992, 2000-2015, 2022\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records are arranged into series and subseries by subject, based primarily on the descriptions by the RATC. Original order of files provided by the RATC is maintained where possible. Folder titles are original, except text within brackets [].","Series I: RATC Management, [ca. 1840s?], [ca. 1880s]-2024 (bulk 1932-2016)","This series contains materials created, collected, and maintained by the RATC for its operations. It is divided into eight sub-series based on material type or subject, based on original order provided by the RATC. ","\nSubseries A: RATC Meeting Minutes, 1940-1959, 1968-2004, 2022\n \nSubseries B: RATC By-Laws and Rosters, 1955, 1960, 1972-1993\n \nSubseries C: RATC Newsletters and Hike Schedules, 1939-1942, 1954-2010\n \nSubseries D: Monitoring the Appalachian Trail: Land Tract Files, [ca. 1840s?], [ca. 1880s]-2010 (bulk 1980s-2010) - Please note, many of these documents are photocopies, and the dates are based on the originals.\n \nSubseries E: Acquisitions and Relocations, 1949, 1955, [ca. 1960s]-1997, 2024\n \nSubseries F: Management Plans and Conservation Issues, 1964-1982, 1991-2003, 2010, 2016, 2024\n \nSubseries G: General Files, 1952, 1958, 1971-2014\n \nSubseries H: RATC Historical Materials, 1932-1962, 1977-2000, 2020-[ca. 2024]\n","Series II: RATC Officers and Members, 1939-2025","This series contains files created, collected, or maintained by people affiliated with the RATC, both officers and individual members. It is divided into eight sub-series by person and in chronological order. Each subseries is organized based on topic, and original order is maintained where possible.","\nSubseries A: Thomas Campbell, 1939-2024 (bulk 1950s-1970s)\n \nSubseries B: Otey Family, 1949-1953, 2024-2025, undated\n \nSubseries C: Dick Clark, 1953-2006 (bulk 1980s-2000s)\n \nSubseries D: Bill Cochran, 1966-2018\n \nSubseries E: Zetta Campbell, 1972-1976, 1993, 2024\n \nSubseries F: Charles Parry, 1972-2024 (bulk 1970s-1990s)\n \nSubseries G: Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter, 1972-1996, 2019, 2024\n \nSubseries H: Andy Layne, 1977-1990, undated\n \nSubseries I: Roger Holnback, 1980-2012 (bulk 1990s-2000s)\n \nSubseries J: Linda Akers, [ca. 1983]-1992, 2000-2015, 2022\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Appalachian Trail (AT), a hiking trail along the Appalachian Mountains in the United States, was first proposed by Bernard MacKaye in 1921, and two years later, the first section opened in New York State. In 1925, the Appalachian Trail Conference (ATC) formed to help manage the maintenance and conservation of the AT, and in 2005, the ATC was renamed Appalachian Trail Conservancy. As of 2025, the AT spans almost 2,200 miles in 14 states from Maine to Georgia, with 25% of the trail traversing Virginia and 30 local AT clubs affiliated with the ATC.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLocal hiking clubs began organizing to build and maintain the AT and joining the ATC in the 1920s and 1930s. In October 1932, Donald S. Gates, a professor at Roanoke College, gathered several hikers and local groups to discuss forming an AT club in the Roanoke area. At a second meeting in October, Myron H. Avery, the chairman of the ATC, and members from the Potomac and Natural Bridge AT Clubs joined them to explain various aspects of their work. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOn November 13, 1932, the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club (RATC) was officially established with 17 charter members, including the first officers: president Gates, secretary E. B. Coxwell, treasurer Larry Pownall, and trail supervisor David Dick. Grace Pownall was appointed vice president about two (2) weeks later. The ATC initially assigned the RATC 55 miles of the trail to manage, but by the club's first anniversary, the section had expanded to 68.29 miles.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAs of 2025, the RATC covers over 120 miles, including McAfee Knob, Dragon's Tooth, and Tinker Cliffs. The organization continues its original mission to maintain and protect the Appalachian Trail; develops and maintains trails, campsites, open shelters, and permanent camps on the AT; collects data about the history, scenery, geology, flora, and fauna of the Appalachian Mountains; prepares maps and guides for hiking, camping, and forest fire prevention; and participates in and advocates for the development of laws and regulations related to the AT and the Appalachian Mountains.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBiographical notes for several RATC members are included in the inventory under Series II.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eExternal Sources: \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13, Folder 48, \"RATC Histories Written in 1980s,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13, Folder 52, \"RATC Histories Written in 1950s,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13, Folder 53, \"RATC History, 1932-1945,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRoanoke Appalachian Trail Club, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.ratc.org/\"\u003ehttps://www.ratc.org/\u003c/a\u003e, accessed May 1, 2024.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBy-Laws of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, Inc., Rev. March 12, 2016, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.ratc.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/bylaws.pdf\"\u003ehttps://www.ratc.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/bylaws.pdf\u003c/a\u003e, accessed May 1, 2024.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDiana Christopulos, \"How Three Hiking Clubs Became the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club,\" RATC.org, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.ratc.org/how-three-hiking-clubs-became-the-roanoke-appalachian-trail-club/\"\u003ehttps://www.ratc.org/how-three-hiking-clubs-became-the-roanoke-appalachian-trail-club/\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 25, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAppalachian Trail Conservancy, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://appalachiantrail.org/\"\u003ehttps://appalachiantrail.org/\u003c/a\u003e, accessed October 3, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Healy \"Tom\" Campbell (1899-1986) attended the College of William and Mary from 1915 to 1916 and Richmond College (now University of Richmond) from 1917 to 1919. He married Charlene Lunsford (1902-1986) in 1922, and they had a daughter. In 1965, they both left their employers. Tom retired as Chief Investigator in the Auditor's office of the Norfolk and Western Railway, while Charlene left her employer of 20 years, Roanoke-based retail chain Heironimus.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTom joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1947, and Charlene followed suit several years later. Each served in several offices for RATC, including Tom as President from 1950-1951. He also served on the Appalachian Trail Conference's Board of Managers from 1950-1975, including fourteen (14) years as Vice Chairman (1961-1975). Tom was also a charter member of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail Advisory Committee.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 12, Folder 3, \"[Biographical information about Thomas and Charlene Campbell],\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Thomas Healy Campbell,\" Findagrave.com, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84378864/thomas-healy-campbell\"\u003ehttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84378864/thomas-healy-campbell\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 18, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Charlene Lunsford Campbell,\" Findagrave.com, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84378830/charlene-campbell\"\u003ehttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84378830/charlene-campbell\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 18, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Spider\u003c/title\u003e (Richmond College yearbook), Vols. 16-17, 1918-1919, available online from the University of Richmond, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://scholarship.richmond.edu/the-spider/\"\u003ehttps://scholarship.richmond.edu/the-spider/\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 19, 2025. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical note by Diana Christopulos, Feb. 18, 2025: \"Marie and John Otey were RATC volunteers in the early 1950s, and they worked on the relocations led by Jimmy Denton near the Blue Ridge Parkway and around Roanoke. They joined in late 1949 and were active 1950-55. John was Assistant Trail Supervisor in 1952, 1953, 1955. He was also active on the Publicity Committee and took numerous photos on the Trail.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJohn Otway Otey, Jr. (1906-1980) married Goldie Marie Dean Peters (1906-1989) in 1950. John worked as a clerk for Norfolk and Western Railway, while Marie worked as a stenographer or secretary.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13, Folder 54, \"[Notes and correspondence about the Otey Family Papers],\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eU.S. Federal Census, 1940-1950, accessed online from Ancestry.com on September 19, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"John Otway Otey Jr.,\" Findagrave.com, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185149412/john-otway-otey\"\u003ehttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185149412/john-otway-otey\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 19, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Goldie Marie Dean Otey,\" Findagrave.com, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207412197/goldie_marie-otey\"\u003ehttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207412197/goldie_marie-otey\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 19, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"John Otway Otey\" in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, Ancestry.com, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/collections/9279/records/11741905\"\u003ehttps://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/collections/9279/records/11741905\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 19, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDick Clark has served in numerous positions in the RATC from the 1980s to 2010s, including hikemaster (1984-1994), vice president (1998-2000), president (2000-2003), and counselor (2003-2015).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eClark was appointed by the Roanoke City Council to serve on the Mill Mountain Advisory Committee from 1999 to 2014, and he served as vice chair during his tenure.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 3, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTrail Blazer\u003c/title\u003e newsletters, of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTrail Blazer\u003c/title\u003e newsletters, Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.ratc.org/newsletter/\"\u003ehttps://www.ratc.org/newsletter/\u003c/a\u003e, accessed Oct. 2, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMatt Chittum, \"Mountain advisers up for an upgrade,\" \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times,\u003c/title\u003e p. B1, April 6, 2014, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMatt Chittum, \"Fancier Franklin bridge suggested,\" \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times,\u003c/title\u003e p. B1, June 3, 2014, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Neal \"Bill\" Cochran (1937-2024) was a journalist who focused on the outdoors, writing for \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e from 1962 until 2018–two (2) decades after retiring as the newspaper's outdoors editor in 1998. His coverage included many trail hikes with the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, conservation issues in Virginia, and outdoor sporting and the Appalachian Trail. Cochran received 10 awards from the Virginia Press Association, was honored by the Virginia General Assembly with the House Joint Resolution 520 \"Commending Bill Cochran\" in 1999, and was the 2009 media inductee in the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCochran graduated from Lynchburg College (now University of Lynchburg) with a bachelor's degree in English in 1960, and he served in the Virginia National Guard. He married Katherine Gravett in 1965, and they had a son. They operated the Cross Trails Bed and Breakfast near the Appalachian Trail in Catawba from 1995 to 2003 as well as a Christmas tree farm in West Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMark Taylor, \"Legendary Roanoke outdoors writer Bill Cochran dies,\" \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCardinal News,\u003c/title\u003e July 1, 2024, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://cardinalnews.org/2024/07/01/legendary-roanoke-outdoors-writer-bill-cochran-dies/\"\u003ehttps://cardinalnews.org/2024/07/01/legendary-roanoke-outdoors-writer-bill-cochran-dies/\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 19, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eObituary for William N. \"Bill\" Cochran, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times,\u003c/title\u003e July 7, 2024, available online from Legacy.com, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/william-cochran-obituary?id=55481593\"\u003ehttps://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/william-cochran-obituary?id=55481593\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 19, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMark Berman, \"Bill Cochran | 1937-2024: Outdoors editor was 'an institution',\" \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times,\u003c/title\u003e July 2, 2024, p. A1 and A6, accessed online from NewsBank on September 19, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Bill Cochran,\" Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://vasportshof.com/inductee/bill-cochran/\"\u003ehttps://vasportshof.com/inductee/bill-cochran/\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 19, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Virginia HJ520 Commending Bill Cochran,\" Policy Engage, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://trackbill.com/bill/virginia-house-joint-resolution-520-commending-bill-cochran/512861/\"\u003ehttps://trackbill.com/bill/virginia-house-joint-resolution-520-commending-bill-cochran/512861/\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 19, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"William Neal Cochran\" in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, Ancestry.com, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/collections/9279/records/12779996\"\u003ehttps://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/collections/9279/records/12779996\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 19, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eZetta Marie Campbell (1930-2024) joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1959. She also served as secretary (1964-1965, 1968-1969, 1983-1984) and editor of the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTrail Blazer\u003c/title\u003e newsletter (1970-1977). Campbell also illustrated the hike schedules in the 1970s and led hikes until at least 2019. She received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources: \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13, Folder 66, \"1970s - Zetta Campbell Drawings/Hike Scheds,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eObituary for Zetta Campbell, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times,\u003c/title\u003e July 5, 2024, p. A6, available online from Legacy.com, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/zetta-campbell-obituary?id=55488335\"\u003ehttps://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/zetta-campbell-obituary?id=55488335\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 22, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Zetta Marie Campbell\", Findagrave.com, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272121036/zetta_marie-campbell\"\u003ehttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272121036/zetta_marie-campbell\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 22, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Parry (1942-2010) joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1972, serving as the Trail Supervisor from 1979 until his death. He received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002 and was inducted into the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame in 2017, the first RATC member to receive this honor.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eParry graduated from the State University of New York College at Oswego (now State University of New York at Oswego) and earned a master's and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Michigan State University around 1969 or 1970. He was a professor of mathematics at Virginia Tech from 1971 until his retirement in 2010, establishing a research program in number theory, helping to design mathematics courses for computer science students, and serving as Math Club adviser. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources: \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13, Folder 67, \"Charles Parry AT Hall of Fame,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Charles Parry honored with emeritus status,\" Virginia Tech News, October 19, 2010, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://news.vt.edu/content/news_vt_edu/en/articles/2010/10/101910-science-parry.html\"\u003ehttps://news.vt.edu/content/news_vt_edu/en/articles/2010/10/101910-science-parry.html\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 18, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"In memoriam: Charles Parry, emeritus professor of mathematics,\" Virginia Tech News, January 10, 2011, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://news.vt.edu/articles/2011/01/011011-science-parry.html\"\u003ehttps://news.vt.edu/articles/2011/01/011011-science-parry.html\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 18, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eObituary for Charles John Parry, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times,\u003c/title\u003e December 28, 2010, p. A12, accessed online from NewsBank on September 18, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMark Taylor, \"Math teacher devoted himself to AT,\" \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times,\u003c/title\u003e December 28, 2010, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Charles J. Parry,\" Findagrave.com, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/232281708/charles-j-parry\"\u003ehttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/232281708/charles-j-parry\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 18, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAppalachian Trail Hall of Fame, \"2017 Class,\" Appalachian Trail Museum, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.atmuseum.org/2017-class.html\"\u003ehttps://www.atmuseum.org/2017-class.html\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 18, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSiegfried and Ursula Kolmstetter joined the RATC in 1971. Siegfried served as vice president (1974) and counselor (1972-1973), while both volunteered as hike leaders for decades. The couple maintained the McAfee Knob section of the AT for over 25 years, until the couple moved out of the area in 1996. Siegfried received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAt the end of World War II in May 1945, 17-year-old Ursula Edith Walter (1927-2023) was captured by the Russian Army and imprisoned at the Theresienstadt prison camp. Eight (8) months after her imprisonment, she escaped and moved to West Germany, where she met Siegfried J. Kolmstetter (1921-2019). They married in 1952 and had several children. The Kolmstetters immigrated to the U.S. in 1957, settling in Roanoke in 1970. Siegfried was a physician for the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salem from 1970 to 1998. He received the hospital's Hands and Heart Award in 1992.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eObituary for Ursula Edith Kolmstetter, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times,\u003c/title\u003e January 3, 2024, available online from Legacy.com, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/ursula-kolmstetter-obituary?id=53995534\"\u003ehttps://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/ursula-kolmstetter-obituary?id=53995534\u003c/a\u003e, accessed September 19, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDan Casey, \"Physician was caretaker for people, trails,\" \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times,\u003c/title\u003e March 28, 2019, p. 1-2, accessed online from NewsBank on September 22, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAndy Layne (1912-1991) joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1978. He led numerous hikes and helped with hike scheduling; attended workhikes and backpacking trips; and oversaw a section of the trail. Layne also served in several positions on the RATC Board, including shelter supervisor (1980), vice president (1981), and counselor (1985-1986). On the 10th anniversary of his death, the Andy Layne Trail in the Tinker Cliffs area was dedicated in his memory.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSource:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 19, Folder 46, \"[Andy Layne biographical information],\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoger Holnback joined the RATC in 1996 and served in numerous positions, including as president (2006-2009, 2015-2016), vice president (2003-2006, 2016-2017), land management supervisor (2009-2013), and conservation supervisor (2013-2015). He also was an ATC Land Trust coordinator and Roanoke Valley Greenways liaison in the 2000s and 2010s. His wife Lauren Taylor Holnback was also an RATC member.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHolnback served as executive director of the Western Virginia Land Trust (2001-2012), which worked with the City of Roanoke and other groups to place over 11,000 acres of Carvins Cove Natural Reserve under a conservation easement in 2008 and 2009. He was given the Roanoke Valley Cool Cities Coalition's Cool Citizens award in 2012. Later, he was chairman of the Blue Ridge Soil and Water Conservation District and president of the Pathfinders for Greenways. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 3, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTrail Blazer\u003c/title\u003e newsletters, of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTrail Blazer\u003c/title\u003e newsletters, Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.ratc.org/newsletter/\"\u003ehttps://www.ratc.org/newsletter/\u003c/a\u003e, accessed Oct. 2, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMason Adams, \"From land and air, teams work to preserve Carvins Cove's aura,\" \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, January 6, 2011, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Western Virginia Land Trust director steps down,\" \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, February 10, 2012, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDanielle Dunaway, \"Cool Citizens awards laud energy-efficient efforts,\" \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, March 16, 2012, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSam Wall, \"Hinchee Park opens in Roanoke County - Hinchee Park opens in Roanoke County,\" \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Roanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, September 29, 2019, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"Board and Staff,\" Blue Ridge Soil and Water Conservation District website, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.brswcd.org/team-2\"\u003ehttps://www.brswcd.org/team-2\u003c/a\u003e, accessed October 2, 2025.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLinda Akers joined the RATC in 1969 or 1970. She served in numerous positions on the board, including secretary (1981-1982), editor of the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTrail Blazer\u003c/title\u003e (1982-1985), and social chair (1987-1999, 2013-2017). She received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 17, Folder 41, \"[Linda Akers Interview notes by Diana Christopulos],\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBox 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Administrative History","Biographical Note","Biographical Note","Biographical Note","Biographical Note","Biographical Note","Biographical Note","Biographical Note","Biographical Note","Biographical Note","Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Appalachian Trail (AT), a hiking trail along the Appalachian Mountains in the United States, was first proposed by Bernard MacKaye in 1921, and two years later, the first section opened in New York State. In 1925, the Appalachian Trail Conference (ATC) formed to help manage the maintenance and conservation of the AT, and in 2005, the ATC was renamed Appalachian Trail Conservancy. As of 2025, the AT spans almost 2,200 miles in 14 states from Maine to Georgia, with 25% of the trail traversing Virginia and 30 local AT clubs affiliated with the ATC.","Local hiking clubs began organizing to build and maintain the AT and joining the ATC in the 1920s and 1930s. In October 1932, Donald S. Gates, a professor at Roanoke College, gathered several hikers and local groups to discuss forming an AT club in the Roanoke area. At a second meeting in October, Myron H. Avery, the chairman of the ATC, and members from the Potomac and Natural Bridge AT Clubs joined them to explain various aspects of their work. ","On November 13, 1932, the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club (RATC) was officially established with 17 charter members, including the first officers: president Gates, secretary E. B. Coxwell, treasurer Larry Pownall, and trail supervisor David Dick. Grace Pownall was appointed vice president about two (2) weeks later. The ATC initially assigned the RATC 55 miles of the trail to manage, but by the club's first anniversary, the section had expanded to 68.29 miles.","As of 2025, the RATC covers over 120 miles, including McAfee Knob, Dragon's Tooth, and Tinker Cliffs. The organization continues its original mission to maintain and protect the Appalachian Trail; develops and maintains trails, campsites, open shelters, and permanent camps on the AT; collects data about the history, scenery, geology, flora, and fauna of the Appalachian Mountains; prepares maps and guides for hiking, camping, and forest fire prevention; and participates in and advocates for the development of laws and regulations related to the AT and the Appalachian Mountains.","Biographical notes for several RATC members are included in the inventory under Series II.","External Sources: ","Box 13, Folder 48, \"RATC Histories Written in 1980s,\" of this collection","Box 13, Folder 52, \"RATC Histories Written in 1950s,\" of this collection","Box 13, Folder 53, \"RATC History, 1932-1945,\" of this collection","Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club,  https://www.ratc.org/ , accessed May 1, 2024.","By-Laws of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, Inc., Rev. March 12, 2016,  https://www.ratc.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/bylaws.pdf , accessed May 1, 2024.","Diana Christopulos, \"How Three Hiking Clubs Became the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club,\" RATC.org,  https://www.ratc.org/how-three-hiking-clubs-became-the-roanoke-appalachian-trail-club/ , accessed September 25, 2025.","Appalachian Trail Conservancy,  https://appalachiantrail.org/ , accessed October 3, 2025.","Thomas Healy \"Tom\" Campbell (1899-1986) attended the College of William and Mary from 1915 to 1916 and Richmond College (now University of Richmond) from 1917 to 1919. He married Charlene Lunsford (1902-1986) in 1922, and they had a daughter. In 1965, they both left their employers. Tom retired as Chief Investigator in the Auditor's office of the Norfolk and Western Railway, while Charlene left her employer of 20 years, Roanoke-based retail chain Heironimus.","Tom joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1947, and Charlene followed suit several years later. Each served in several offices for RATC, including Tom as President from 1950-1951. He also served on the Appalachian Trail Conference's Board of Managers from 1950-1975, including fourteen (14) years as Vice Chairman (1961-1975). Tom was also a charter member of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail Advisory Committee.","Sources:","Box 12, Folder 3, \"[Biographical information about Thomas and Charlene Campbell],\" of this collection","\"Thomas Healy Campbell,\" Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84378864/thomas-healy-campbell , accessed September 18, 2025.","\"Charlene Lunsford Campbell,\" Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84378830/charlene-campbell , accessed September 18, 2025.","The Spider  (Richmond College yearbook), Vols. 16-17, 1918-1919, available online from the University of Richmond,  https://scholarship.richmond.edu/the-spider/ , accessed September 19, 2025. ","Biographical note by Diana Christopulos, Feb. 18, 2025: \"Marie and John Otey were RATC volunteers in the early 1950s, and they worked on the relocations led by Jimmy Denton near the Blue Ridge Parkway and around Roanoke. They joined in late 1949 and were active 1950-55. John was Assistant Trail Supervisor in 1952, 1953, 1955. He was also active on the Publicity Committee and took numerous photos on the Trail.\"","John Otway Otey, Jr. (1906-1980) married Goldie Marie Dean Peters (1906-1989) in 1950. John worked as a clerk for Norfolk and Western Railway, while Marie worked as a stenographer or secretary.","Sources:","Box 13, Folder 54, \"[Notes and correspondence about the Otey Family Papers],\" of this collection","U.S. Federal Census, 1940-1950, accessed online from Ancestry.com on September 19, 2025.","\"John Otway Otey Jr.,\" Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185149412/john-otway-otey , accessed September 19, 2025.","\"Goldie Marie Dean Otey,\" Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207412197/goldie_marie-otey , accessed September 19, 2025.","\"John Otway Otey\" in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/collections/9279/records/11741905 , accessed September 19, 2025.","Dick Clark has served in numerous positions in the RATC from the 1980s to 2010s, including hikemaster (1984-1994), vice president (1998-2000), president (2000-2003), and counselor (2003-2015).","Clark was appointed by the Roanoke City Council to serve on the Mill Mountain Advisory Committee from 1999 to 2014, and he served as vice chair during his tenure.","Sources:","Box 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection","Box 3,  Trail Blazer  newsletters, of this collection","Trail Blazer  newsletters, Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club,  https://www.ratc.org/newsletter/ , accessed Oct. 2, 2025.","Matt Chittum, \"Mountain advisers up for an upgrade,\"  The Roanoke Times,  p. B1, April 6, 2014, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","Matt Chittum, \"Fancier Franklin bridge suggested,\"  The Roanoke Times,  p. B1, June 3, 2014, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","William Neal \"Bill\" Cochran (1937-2024) was a journalist who focused on the outdoors, writing for  The Roanoke Times  from 1962 until 2018–two (2) decades after retiring as the newspaper's outdoors editor in 1998. His coverage included many trail hikes with the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, conservation issues in Virginia, and outdoor sporting and the Appalachian Trail. Cochran received 10 awards from the Virginia Press Association, was honored by the Virginia General Assembly with the House Joint Resolution 520 \"Commending Bill Cochran\" in 1999, and was the 2009 media inductee in the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.","Cochran graduated from Lynchburg College (now University of Lynchburg) with a bachelor's degree in English in 1960, and he served in the Virginia National Guard. He married Katherine Gravett in 1965, and they had a son. They operated the Cross Trails Bed and Breakfast near the Appalachian Trail in Catawba from 1995 to 2003 as well as a Christmas tree farm in West Virginia. ","Sources:","Mark Taylor, \"Legendary Roanoke outdoors writer Bill Cochran dies,\"  Cardinal News,  July 1, 2024,  https://cardinalnews.org/2024/07/01/legendary-roanoke-outdoors-writer-bill-cochran-dies/ , accessed September 19, 2025.","Obituary for William N. \"Bill\" Cochran,  The Roanoke Times,  July 7, 2024, available online from Legacy.com,  https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/william-cochran-obituary?id=55481593 , accessed September 19, 2025.","Mark Berman, \"Bill Cochran | 1937-2024: Outdoors editor was 'an institution',\"  The Roanoke Times,  July 2, 2024, p. A1 and A6, accessed online from NewsBank on September 19, 2025.","\"Bill Cochran,\" Virginia Sports Hall of Fame,  https://vasportshof.com/inductee/bill-cochran/ , accessed September 19, 2025.","\"Virginia HJ520 Commending Bill Cochran,\" Policy Engage,  https://trackbill.com/bill/virginia-house-joint-resolution-520-commending-bill-cochran/512861/ , accessed September 19, 2025.","\"William Neal Cochran\" in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/collections/9279/records/12779996 , accessed September 19, 2025.","Zetta Marie Campbell (1930-2024) joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1959. She also served as secretary (1964-1965, 1968-1969, 1983-1984) and editor of the  Trail Blazer  newsletter (1970-1977). Campbell also illustrated the hike schedules in the 1970s and led hikes until at least 2019. She received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002.","Sources: ","Box 13, Folder 66, \"1970s - Zetta Campbell Drawings/Hike Scheds,\" of this collection","Box 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection","Box 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection","Obituary for Zetta Campbell,  The Roanoke Times,  July 5, 2024, p. A6, available online from Legacy.com,  https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/zetta-campbell-obituary?id=55488335 , accessed September 22, 2025.","\"Zetta Marie Campbell\", Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/272121036/zetta_marie-campbell , accessed September 22, 2025.","Charles Parry (1942-2010) joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1972, serving as the Trail Supervisor from 1979 until his death. He received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002 and was inducted into the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame in 2017, the first RATC member to receive this honor.","Parry graduated from the State University of New York College at Oswego (now State University of New York at Oswego) and earned a master's and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Michigan State University around 1969 or 1970. He was a professor of mathematics at Virginia Tech from 1971 until his retirement in 2010, establishing a research program in number theory, helping to design mathematics courses for computer science students, and serving as Math Club adviser. ","Sources: ","Box 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection","Box 13, Folder 67, \"Charles Parry AT Hall of Fame,\" of this collection","Box 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection","\"Charles Parry honored with emeritus status,\" Virginia Tech News, October 19, 2010,  https://news.vt.edu/content/news_vt_edu/en/articles/2010/10/101910-science-parry.html , accessed September 18, 2025.","\"In memoriam: Charles Parry, emeritus professor of mathematics,\" Virginia Tech News, January 10, 2011,  https://news.vt.edu/articles/2011/01/011011-science-parry.html , accessed September 18, 2025.","Obituary for Charles John Parry,  The Roanoke Times,  December 28, 2010, p. A12, accessed online from NewsBank on September 18, 2025.","Mark Taylor, \"Math teacher devoted himself to AT,\"  The Roanoke Times,  December 28, 2010, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","\"Charles J. Parry,\" Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/232281708/charles-j-parry , accessed September 18, 2025.","Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame, \"2017 Class,\" Appalachian Trail Museum,  https://www.atmuseum.org/2017-class.html , accessed September 18, 2025.","Siegfried and Ursula Kolmstetter joined the RATC in 1971. Siegfried served as vice president (1974) and counselor (1972-1973), while both volunteered as hike leaders for decades. The couple maintained the McAfee Knob section of the AT for over 25 years, until the couple moved out of the area in 1996. Siegfried received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002.","At the end of World War II in May 1945, 17-year-old Ursula Edith Walter (1927-2023) was captured by the Russian Army and imprisoned at the Theresienstadt prison camp. Eight (8) months after her imprisonment, she escaped and moved to West Germany, where she met Siegfried J. Kolmstetter (1921-2019). They married in 1952 and had several children. The Kolmstetters immigrated to the U.S. in 1957, settling in Roanoke in 1970. Siegfried was a physician for the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salem from 1970 to 1998. He received the hospital's Hands and Heart Award in 1992.","Sources:","Box 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection","Box 13, Folder 44, \"RATC Board Members and Ancillaries, 1932-99 compiled by Diana Christopulos and Pam Wolsey, 2023-24,\" of this collection","Obituary for Ursula Edith Kolmstetter,  The Roanoke Times,  January 3, 2024, available online from Legacy.com,  https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/roanoke/name/ursula-kolmstetter-obituary?id=53995534 , accessed September 19, 2025.","Dan Casey, \"Physician was caretaker for people, trails,\"  The Roanoke Times,  March 28, 2019, p. 1-2, accessed online from NewsBank on September 22, 2025.","Andy Layne (1912-1991) joined the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club in 1978. He led numerous hikes and helped with hike scheduling; attended workhikes and backpacking trips; and oversaw a section of the trail. Layne also served in several positions on the RATC Board, including shelter supervisor (1980), vice president (1981), and counselor (1985-1986). On the 10th anniversary of his death, the Andy Layne Trail in the Tinker Cliffs area was dedicated in his memory.","Source:","Box 19, Folder 46, \"[Andy Layne biographical information],\" of this collection","Roger Holnback joined the RATC in 1996 and served in numerous positions, including as president (2006-2009, 2015-2016), vice president (2003-2006, 2016-2017), land management supervisor (2009-2013), and conservation supervisor (2013-2015). He also was an ATC Land Trust coordinator and Roanoke Valley Greenways liaison in the 2000s and 2010s. His wife Lauren Taylor Holnback was also an RATC member.","Holnback served as executive director of the Western Virginia Land Trust (2001-2012), which worked with the City of Roanoke and other groups to place over 11,000 acres of Carvins Cove Natural Reserve under a conservation easement in 2008 and 2009. He was given the Roanoke Valley Cool Cities Coalition's Cool Citizens award in 2012. Later, he was chairman of the Blue Ridge Soil and Water Conservation District and president of the Pathfinders for Greenways. ","Sources:","Box 3,  Trail Blazer  newsletters, of this collection","Trail Blazer  newsletters, Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club,  https://www.ratc.org/newsletter/ , accessed Oct. 2, 2025.","Mason Adams, \"From land and air, teams work to preserve Carvins Cove's aura,\"  The Roanoke Times , January 6, 2011, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","\"Western Virginia Land Trust director steps down,\"  The Roanoke Times , February 10, 2012, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","Danielle Dunaway, \"Cool Citizens awards laud energy-efficient efforts,\"  The Roanoke Times , March 16, 2012, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","Sam Wall, \"Hinchee Park opens in Roanoke County - Hinchee Park opens in Roanoke County,\"  The Roanoke Times , September 29, 2019, accessed online from NewsBank on October 2, 2025.","\"Board and Staff,\" Blue Ridge Soil and Water Conservation District website,  https://www.brswcd.org/team-2 , accessed October 2, 2025.","Linda Akers joined the RATC in 1969 or 1970. She served in numerous positions on the board, including secretary (1981-1982), editor of the  Trail Blazer  (1982-1985), and social chair (1987-1999, 2013-2017). She received the Appalachian Trail Park Office's Silver Service Award in 2002.","Sources:","Box 17, Folder 41, \"[Linda Akers Interview notes by Diana Christopulos],\" of this collection","Box 19, Folder 33, \"Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter Obituaries,\" of this collection"],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003cextref href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/extref\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes for May 17, 2001, June 21, 2001, July 26, 2001, February 13, 2003, August 2, 2004, and September 13, 2004, have been restricted and moved to Box 22, Folder 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted minutes were separated from Box 1, Folder 34.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional membership rosters may be found in the club newsletters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe agenda from January 12, 2004 have been restricted and moved to Box 22, Folder 25.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted minutes were separated from Box 16, Folders 3-5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted item has been removed to Box 22, Folder 25.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted item moved from Box 19, Folder 14.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","General","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials","Separated Materials"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","Minutes for May 17, 2001, June 21, 2001, July 26, 2001, February 13, 2003, August 2, 2004, and September 13, 2004, have been restricted and moved to Box 22, Folder 1.","Restricted minutes were separated from Box 1, Folder 34.","Additional membership rosters may be found in the club newsletters.","The agenda from January 12, 2004 have been restricted and moved to Box 22, Folder 25.","Restricted minutes were separated from Box 16, Folders 3-5.","Restricted item has been removed to Box 22, Folder 25.","Restricted item moved from Box 19, Folder 14."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records, Ms2024-054, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records, Ms2024-054, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records was completed in October 2025. Box 16 was completed in March 2026.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club Records was completed in October 2025. Box 16 was completed in March 2026."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives also has the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_3522.xml\"\u003eM. Rupert Cutler Papers,\u003c/a\u003e which covers many of the same and related environmental issues of the Appalachian Mountains, Roanoke, and Southwest Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Archival Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives also has the  M. Rupert Cutler Papers,  which covers many of the same and related environmental issues of the Appalachian Mountains, Roanoke, and Southwest Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club (RATC) Records document the management of the club from its founding in 1932. The collection includes the club newsletters, board minutes, former officers' and members' records, National Park Service and RATC acquisition information, conservation issues, management plans, histories of the club, scrapbooks, and photographs. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection is divided into two series, I: RATC Management and II: RATC Officers and Members. The first series contains materials created, collected, and maintained by the RATC for its operations. It contains the meeting minutes, primarily about the activities of the Executive Board from 1940 to 1959 and 1968 to 2004. Some of the meeting minutes also record the activities of committees, affiliate organizations, and the annual all-member banquet during those years. There are also by-laws from the 1980s and 1990s and rosters from the 1950s to 1980s. The club newsletters start with the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRATC Bulletin\u003c/title\u003e from 1939 to 1942 and continue with the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTrail Blazer\u003c/title\u003e from 1954 to 2010. These document the club's recent activities, including work with the Appalachian Trail Conference (later Appalachian Trail Conservancy), local non-profits, and government entitities, hike schedules and detailed accounts of club hikes on the Appalachian Trail (AT), and reminiscences of and memorials to past and current members.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Land Tract Files contain legal records of lands acquired by NPS after 1978 Congressional funding. Most of these materials are photocopies of legal records documenting land acquisitions, including legal judgments, land ownership histories, foreclosure documents, leases and contracts with gas and electric companies, deeds and trusts, wills and genealogies regarding inheritance rights, land surveys and inspection records, appraisals and environmental assessments, financial documents and insurance certificates, photographs, maps, and correspondence with land owners, attorneys, court clerks, and others. Other documents about acquisitions and relocations also illuminate the RATC's work with the Appalachian Trail Conference (also Conservancy), U.S. National Park Service, and U.S. Forest Service to acquire and monitor property and to build and relocate trails.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe first series also contains management and conservation plans, general files, and RATC historical materials. The histories discuss the founding and development of the club as well as large trail relocations and the work of past members and officers. There are also several photo albums from the 1930s-1950s.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe second series contains files created, collected, or maintained by people affiliated with the RATC, both officers and individual members, about the history and operation of the RATC. These people include club president Thomas Campbell, the Otey family, president Dick Clark, local journalist Bill Cochran, newsletter editor Zetta Campbell, longtime trail supervisor Charles Parry, hike leaders Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter, hike leader Andy Layne, president Roger Holnback, and longtime social chair Linda Akers. Documents include correspondence, handwritten notes, additional meeting minutes and newsletters, photographs, newspaper clippings, and more. They also cover land acquisitions, building trails and shelters, group events and conferences, management and land use, and of course hikes on the AT.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe following are common abbreviations or acronyms found in the collection inventory:\n\u003clist\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\nAEP - Appalachian Electric Power Company\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nAPCO - Appalachian Power Company, a subsidiary of AEP\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nAT - Appalachian Trail\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nATC - Appalachian Trail Conference or Appalachian Trail Conservancy\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nRATC - Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nNPS - United States National Park Service\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nUSFS or FS - United States Forest Service\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains materials created, collected, and maintained by the RATC for its operations. It is divided into eight sub-series based on material type or subject, based on original order provided by the RATC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese minutes are mostly for the RATC Executive Board meetings, but also include some minutes for the annual all-member banquet and various RATC committees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe January 16, 1953 annual meeting minutes are labeled \"January 16, 1952\". Also includes 1940 membership roster. [Removed from Binder]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso contains 1957 membership roster, treasurer's reports or audits for 1954-1957, several hike schedules and Trail Blazers for 1957-1959, and attendees' information for the 1958 14th Meeting of the ATC. [Removed from binder.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso contains newspaper clippings, drafts of minutes, correspondence, reports, and other materials. [Removed from binder.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOnly includes April 1970 minutes, \"Copy of Minutes for Charles Headland\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for January, July, and August 1974. Some of the minutes are handwritten. Also includes typed transcription by Diana Christopulos on October 31, 2022, of the May 1974 minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for January, June, July, and August 1975. Some of the minutes are handwritten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for January, April, May, and August 1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes minutes for February, March, August, November 1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes only February and March 1978 minutes, which are handwritten. Also includes typed transcription by Diana Christopulos on October 31, 2022, of the February 1978 minutes with note from Christopulos: \"This is the first meeting after landowners have closed the AT between Va. 311 and Tinker Cliffs.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder just includes notes that minutes were missing for 1979, and one note was removed from a notebook with minutes for 1974-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder just includes a note that minutes were missing for 1974-1979. Looks like the note may have been removed from a notebook with minutes for 1974-1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote from RATC: \"Incredible transition to orderly files with Linda Akers as Secretary and Mary Stewart as President\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1980 roster and \"order continues under same leadership\", according to notes from RATC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for July, August, and September 1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for May, July, or December 1983 minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote from RATC: \"Land Management and special meeting\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no minutes after September 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote from RATC: \"Annual meeting moved to March\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFebruary and July 1994 minutes are missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDecember 1995 minutes are missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"First annual meeting at Lutheran Church (Linda Akers)\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes organizational documents, notes, and correspondence. [Removed from Binder.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes 1990 RATC Ann's Cabin Committee meeting minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal folder was titled \"1976 RATC Membership Roster N=68\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a draft of the Constitution and By-Laws of the RATC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes proposed and final by-laws for March 6, 1993.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStarting with the Spring 1983 issue, the hike schedules are printed as part of the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTrail Blazer\u003c/title\u003e newsletters. Prior to that time, the hike schedule was inconsistently included with the newsletters. Some newsletters also include membership rosters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Removed from binder.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome issues also include membership rosters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes photos from April 1959 and a membership application from May-June 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes backpacking catalogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes the Shenandoah-Rockfish Appalachian Trail Club Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 18, 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes hike schedules for June 26-December 18, 1966.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first 2 issues are No. 1, January 1966 and No. 2, February 1966. Then the publication cycle changes to quarterly publications, and the issue numbering restarts with No. 1, Spring 1966 through No. 4, Winter 1966-67. Also includes Hike Schedules for Summer 1966-Winter 1966-1967.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1967-Winter 1967-68.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1968-Winter 1968-69.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1969-Winter 1969-70.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Summer 1970 and Winter 1970-71.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1971-Winter 1970-71.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1972-Winter 1972-73.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1973-Winter 1973-74.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1974-Summer 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1975-Winter 1975-76.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1975 and Fall 1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1977-Winter 1977-78.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1978-Winter 1978-79.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpring 1979 is numbered Vol. 39, No. 1; Summer 1979 is Vol. 40, No. 1; Autumn 1979 is Vol. 40, No. 3; and Winter 1979 is Vol. 40, No. 4. Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1979-Winter 1979.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1980-Winter 1980. [Please note: Vol. 40 seems to have been skipped in the numbering system for the Trail Blazer.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes Hike Schedules for Fall 1981 and Summer [1981?]. The Winter Hike Schedule is included in the Winter 1981 Trail Blazer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHike schedules are included with the Trail Blazer issues for Spring 1982, Fall 1982, and Winter 1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes minutes of the executive board meeting on July 18, 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes minutes of the executive board meeting on August 26, 1988, and RATC By-laws revised on November 5, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe December 1990 issue is the Winter 1990-1991 issue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStarting with Winter 1995, the winter issues switch to the start of the year instead of the end.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Land Tract Files are also called RATC Green Books and contain legal records of lands acquired by NPS after 1978 Congressional funding. These are bound by tract number. Most of these materials are photocopies of legal records documenting land acquisitions, including legal judgments, land ownership histories, foreclosure documents, leases and contracts with gas and electric companies, deeds and trusts, wills and genealogies regarding inheritance rights, land surveys and inspection records, appraisals and environmental assessments, financial documents and insurance certificates, photographs, maps, and correspondence with land owners, attorneys, court clerks, and others. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAs most of the documents are photocopies, the dates are based on the originals, not on when the photocopies may have been created. Some of the photocopies are also of poor quality and illegible. Some of the legal documents contain social security numbers, and these bound files are restricted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series document the RATC's work with the Appalachian Trail Conference (also Conservancy), U.S. National Park Service, and U.S. Forest Service to acquire and monitor property and to build and relocate trails.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten by Diana Christopulos, RATC Archivist\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso spelled Anne's Cabin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a photocopy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a photocopy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes newspaper clippings and a history of the AT with focus on Virginia and a copy of H 160 approved by the General Assembly of Virginia on March 4, 1971, to allow Virginia to acquire lands and enter into agreements pertaining to the AT.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMostly relates to the Buhrman Tract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains a handdrawn map by Thomas Campbell from about the 1960s and a transcription and description of the map with history note by Diana Christopulos in 2024.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes the Hiking Schedule for the Southwestern Virginia Relocation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes RATC brochures, 1966 hiking brochure, local management plan maps, a photocopy of the 1997 Memorandum of Understanding for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail between the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club and the Appalachian Trail Conference, and the RATC 1991 Management Plan for the Appalachian Trail with notes by Diana Christopulos on March 3, 2024.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Spring 1991 Trail Blazer and a phone tree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1996 and 2008 items were printed off the internet in 2022.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letters about donations and gifts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProbably created by T. J. Kent. Includes list of items in album created in 2023.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes list of items in album created in 2023.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes list of items in album created in 2023.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Removed from photograph album.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes press release about the Appalachian Trail Museum's Hall of Fame's class of 2022, including Jim and Molly Denton of Front Royal, Virginia, and interview notes from Diana Christopulos with two of the Denton's three children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photocopies of documents from 1930s and issues of the Appalachian Trailway News.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlthough the histories are from around the 1980s, there are some notes from around the 2020s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlthough the histories are from around the 1980s, there are some notes from around the 2020s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a transcription of a January 24, 1951 history by L. H. Powell, transcribed by Diana Christopulos on March 20, 2020, but not the original 1951 history by Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes notes about T. J. Kent's history notes by Diana Christopulos, RATC Archivist, November 11, 2022, and transcription and annotations of 1933 report of RATC by Christopulos, March 20, 2020.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second series contains files created, collected, or maintained by people affiliated with the RATC, both officers and individual members, about the history and operation of the RATC. It is divided into eight sub-series by person and in chronological order. Each subseries is organized based on topic, and original order is maintained where possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso contains a list of files for box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a letter from Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., about legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes organizational charts for the ATC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMajority is correspondence about trail maintenance and relocation projects or suggestions and related maps.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains documents regarding Virginia being \"the first state to execute an agreement for the protection and management of the Appalachian Trail.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome documents pertain to property owners and AT relocations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments discuss purchasing the Buhrman tract of land near Fullhardt Knob and relocation of the AT between Tinker Mountain and Fullhardt Knob, potentially through the Buhrman tract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes admittance of the Virginia Tech Outing Club to the ATC and assignment of a portion of AT for the club to maintain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes William L. Gordge, RATC president's correspondence. Includes admittance of the Virginia Tech Outing Club to the ATC and assignment of a portion of AT for the club to maintain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes organizational charts for the ATC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes documents granting land use for relocating AT on Peters Mountain via land owned by Celanese Corporation, Pocahontas Land Corporation, the National Gypsum Company, and individuals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMajority of documents regard planning in 1957-1958 for the 14th Meeting of the ATC at Mountain Lake Hotel in Mountain Lake (Giles County), Virginia, in 1958.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoth issues contain articles about AT relocations by RATC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Removed from binder.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes shelter log.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes agendas, minutes, financial documents, and other supporting documents, including documents from committees, ATC, and NPS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes ATC's The Register newsletter, Vol. 24, No. 6, Spring 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a user survey study carried out by the NPS in partnership with the University of Vermont and Penn State University. [Removed from binder.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes brochures about NPS and the AT.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes tax-related documents and newsletters for other organizations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates to the Greenbrier Pipeline Project that would cross the AT.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis contains the Memorandum of Agreement for the Management of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail between the NPS and U. S. Forest Service.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppalachian Trailway News article about Jim and Molly Tabor Denton and Tom and Charlene Campbell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrepared for NPS by Federal Highway Administration's Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes some non-biking AT printed materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItems discuss naming the Sinking Creek shelter as the Sarver Hollow Shelter and its dedication. There are also some documents related to the Sarver Cabin or Sarver Home Site.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a copy of the RATC's \"Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCelebrates the 75th anniversary of the ATC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCelebrates the 75th anniversary of the ATC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso contains a report about invasive species on the AT.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes undated photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe trail diary includes a letter to Katherine Cochran.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes article, \"National Trail Bill Sent to Congress\" by Bill Cochran.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes clippings about Audie Murphy's 1972 plane crash and hiking the AT, several relating to Ed Garvey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1982 letter to Bill Cochran, a write up on Damascus Trail Days by Bill Cochran, and clippings about trail towns and the RATC celebrating its 50th anniversary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a letter to Bill Cochran, ca. 1996.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes clippings about the McAfee Knob closure from 1978 to 1987, McAfee Knob in general, history of the AT, and AT land acquisition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes clippings about the murders of Susan Ramsey and Robert Mountford in 1981, Molly LaRue and Geoffrey L. Hood in 1990, and the murders of Julianne Williams and Lollie Winans in 1996.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1970s hike schedules illustrated by Campbell, 1993 article about hike led by Campbell, and a note about Campbell in the RATC from Diana Christopulos, February 16, 2024.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biographical information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letter and thank you note from 1991.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Trail Blazer issue contains an article about the Campbell Shelter. The cover is missing, but it is probably the Fall 1989 issue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Campbell Shelter, Catawba Shelter, New Wilson Creek Shelter, Wapitu Shelter, and Big Pond Shelter Move. The photos in this folder remain in their original groupings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1987 ATC Conference at Lynchburg College and Natural Bridge. Please note: there are remnants of a rubberband attached to some photos.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese photos were grouped together but have no identifying information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe photos in this folder are without identifying information and remain in their original groupings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe photos in this folder are without identifying information and remain in their original groupings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome materials are the papers of Lauren Taylor Holnback and of Eric Nasar from the Trust for AT Lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Removed from binder.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes management brochures. [Removed from binder.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Removed from binder.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Removed from binder.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include the Trail and Land Management Committee and Carvins Cove easement. 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The collection includes the club newsletters, board minutes, former officers' and members' records, National Park Service and RATC acquisition information, conservation issues, management plans, histories of the club, scrapbooks, and photographs. ","The collection is divided into two series, I: RATC Management and II: RATC Officers and Members. The first series contains materials created, collected, and maintained by the RATC for its operations. It contains the meeting minutes, primarily about the activities of the Executive Board from 1940 to 1959 and 1968 to 2004. Some of the meeting minutes also record the activities of committees, affiliate organizations, and the annual all-member banquet during those years. There are also by-laws from the 1980s and 1990s and rosters from the 1950s to 1980s. The club newsletters start with the  RATC Bulletin  from 1939 to 1942 and continue with the  Trail Blazer  from 1954 to 2010. These document the club's recent activities, including work with the Appalachian Trail Conference (later Appalachian Trail Conservancy), local non-profits, and government entitities, hike schedules and detailed accounts of club hikes on the Appalachian Trail (AT), and reminiscences of and memorials to past and current members.","The Land Tract Files contain legal records of lands acquired by NPS after 1978 Congressional funding. Most of these materials are photocopies of legal records documenting land acquisitions, including legal judgments, land ownership histories, foreclosure documents, leases and contracts with gas and electric companies, deeds and trusts, wills and genealogies regarding inheritance rights, land surveys and inspection records, appraisals and environmental assessments, financial documents and insurance certificates, photographs, maps, and correspondence with land owners, attorneys, court clerks, and others. Other documents about acquisitions and relocations also illuminate the RATC's work with the Appalachian Trail Conference (also Conservancy), U.S. National Park Service, and U.S. Forest Service to acquire and monitor property and to build and relocate trails.","The first series also contains management and conservation plans, general files, and RATC historical materials. The histories discuss the founding and development of the club as well as large trail relocations and the work of past members and officers. There are also several photo albums from the 1930s-1950s.","The second series contains files created, collected, or maintained by people affiliated with the RATC, both officers and individual members, about the history and operation of the RATC. These people include club president Thomas Campbell, the Otey family, president Dick Clark, local journalist Bill Cochran, newsletter editor Zetta Campbell, longtime trail supervisor Charles Parry, hike leaders Sigfried and Ursula Kolmstetter, hike leader Andy Layne, president Roger Holnback, and longtime social chair Linda Akers. Documents include correspondence, handwritten notes, additional meeting minutes and newsletters, photographs, newspaper clippings, and more. They also cover land acquisitions, building trails and shelters, group events and conferences, management and land use, and of course hikes on the AT.","\nThe following are common abbreviations or acronyms found in the collection inventory:\n \nAEP - Appalachian Electric Power Company\n \nAPCO - Appalachian Power Company, a subsidiary of AEP\n \nAT - Appalachian Trail\n \nATC - Appalachian Trail Conference or Appalachian Trail Conservancy\n \nRATC - Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club\n \nNPS - United States National Park Service\n \nUSFS or FS - United States Forest Service\n","This series contains materials created, collected, and maintained by the RATC for its operations. It is divided into eight sub-series based on material type or subject, based on original order provided by the RATC.","These minutes are mostly for the RATC Executive Board meetings, but also include some minutes for the annual all-member banquet and various RATC committees.","The January 16, 1953 annual meeting minutes are labeled \"January 16, 1952\". Also includes 1940 membership roster. [Removed from Binder]","Also contains 1957 membership roster, treasurer's reports or audits for 1954-1957, several hike schedules and Trail Blazers for 1957-1959, and attendees' information for the 1958 14th Meeting of the ATC. [Removed from binder.]","Also contains newspaper clippings, drafts of minutes, correspondence, reports, and other materials. [Removed from binder.]","Only includes April 1970 minutes, \"Copy of Minutes for Charles Headland\".","A list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for January, July, and August 1974. Some of the minutes are handwritten. Also includes typed transcription by Diana Christopulos on October 31, 2022, of the May 1974 minutes.","A list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for January, June, July, and August 1975. Some of the minutes are handwritten.","A list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for January, April, May, and August 1976.","Includes minutes for February, March, August, November 1977.","Includes only February and March 1978 minutes, which are handwritten. Also includes typed transcription by Diana Christopulos on October 31, 2022, of the February 1978 minutes with note from Christopulos: \"This is the first meeting after landowners have closed the AT between Va. 311 and Tinker Cliffs.\"","Folder just includes notes that minutes were missing for 1979, and one note was removed from a notebook with minutes for 1974-1983.","Folder just includes a note that minutes were missing for 1974-1979. Looks like the note may have been removed from a notebook with minutes for 1974-1983.","Note from RATC: \"Incredible transition to orderly files with Linda Akers as Secretary and Mary Stewart as President\".","Includes 1980 roster and \"order continues under same leadership\", according to notes from RATC.","A list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for July, August, and September 1982.","A list at the front of the folder says minutes are missing for May, July, or December 1983 minutes.","Note from RATC: \"Land Management and special meeting\".","There are no minutes after September 1989.","Note from RATC: \"Annual meeting moved to March\".","February and July 1994 minutes are missing.","December 1995 minutes are missing.","Includes \"First annual meeting at Lutheran Church (Linda Akers)\".","Also includes organizational documents, notes, and correspondence. [Removed from Binder.]","Also includes 1990 RATC Ann's Cabin Committee meeting minutes.","Original folder was titled \"1976 RATC Membership Roster N=68\".","This is a draft of the Constitution and By-Laws of the RATC.","Includes proposed and final by-laws for March 6, 1993.","Starting with the Spring 1983 issue, the hike schedules are printed as part of the  Trail Blazer  newsletters. Prior to that time, the hike schedule was inconsistently included with the newsletters. Some newsletters also include membership rosters.","[Removed from binder.]","Some issues also include membership rosters.","Also includes photos from April 1959 and a membership application from May-June 1959.","Also includes backpacking catalogs.","Also includes the Shenandoah-Rockfish Appalachian Trail Club Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 18, 1962.","Also includes hike schedules for June 26-December 18, 1966.","The first 2 issues are No. 1, January 1966 and No. 2, February 1966. Then the publication cycle changes to quarterly publications, and the issue numbering restarts with No. 1, Spring 1966 through No. 4, Winter 1966-67. Also includes Hike Schedules for Summer 1966-Winter 1966-1967.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1967-Winter 1967-68.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1968-Winter 1968-69.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1969-Winter 1969-70.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Summer 1970 and Winter 1970-71.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1971-Winter 1970-71.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1972-Winter 1972-73.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1973-Winter 1973-74.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1974-Summer 1974.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1975-Winter 1975-76.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1975 and Fall 1976.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1977-Winter 1977-78.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1978-Winter 1978-79.","Spring 1979 is numbered Vol. 39, No. 1; Summer 1979 is Vol. 40, No. 1; Autumn 1979 is Vol. 40, No. 3; and Winter 1979 is Vol. 40, No. 4. Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1979-Winter 1979.","Also includes Hike Schedules for Spring 1980-Winter 1980. [Please note: Vol. 40 seems to have been skipped in the numbering system for the Trail Blazer.]","Also includes Hike Schedules for Fall 1981 and Summer [1981?]. The Winter Hike Schedule is included in the Winter 1981 Trail Blazer.","Hike schedules are included with the Trail Blazer issues for Spring 1982, Fall 1982, and Winter 1982.","Also includes minutes of the executive board meeting on July 18, 1986.","Also includes minutes of the executive board meeting on August 26, 1988, and RATC By-laws revised on November 5, 1988.","The December 1990 issue is the Winter 1990-1991 issue.","Starting with Winter 1995, the winter issues switch to the start of the year instead of the end.","The Land Tract Files are also called RATC Green Books and contain legal records of lands acquired by NPS after 1978 Congressional funding. These are bound by tract number. Most of these materials are photocopies of legal records documenting land acquisitions, including legal judgments, land ownership histories, foreclosure documents, leases and contracts with gas and electric companies, deeds and trusts, wills and genealogies regarding inheritance rights, land surveys and inspection records, appraisals and environmental assessments, financial documents and insurance certificates, photographs, maps, and correspondence with land owners, attorneys, court clerks, and others. ","As most of the documents are photocopies, the dates are based on the originals, not on when the photocopies may have been created. Some of the photocopies are also of poor quality and illegible. Some of the legal documents contain social security numbers, and these bound files are restricted.","This series document the RATC's work with the Appalachian Trail Conference (also Conservancy), U.S. National Park Service, and U.S. Forest Service to acquire and monitor property and to build and relocate trails.","Written by Diana Christopulos, RATC Archivist","Also spelled Anne's Cabin.","This is a photocopy.","This is a photocopy.","Includes newspaper clippings and a history of the AT with focus on Virginia and a copy of H 160 approved by the General Assembly of Virginia on March 4, 1971, to allow Virginia to acquire lands and enter into agreements pertaining to the AT.","Mostly relates to the Buhrman Tract.","Contains a handdrawn map by Thomas Campbell from about the 1960s and a transcription and description of the map with history note by Diana Christopulos in 2024.","Also includes the Hiking Schedule for the Southwestern Virginia Relocation.","Includes RATC brochures, 1966 hiking brochure, local management plan maps, a photocopy of the 1997 Memorandum of Understanding for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail between the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club and the Appalachian Trail Conference, and the RATC 1991 Management Plan for the Appalachian Trail with notes by Diana Christopulos on March 3, 2024.","Includes Spring 1991 Trail Blazer and a phone tree.","The 1996 and 2008 items were printed off the internet in 2022.","Includes letters about donations and gifts.","Probably created by T. J. Kent. Includes list of items in album created in 2023.","Includes list of items in album created in 2023.","Includes list of items in album created in 2023.","[Removed from photograph album.]","Includes press release about the Appalachian Trail Museum's Hall of Fame's class of 2022, including Jim and Molly Denton of Front Royal, Virginia, and interview notes from Diana Christopulos with two of the Denton's three children.","Includes photocopies of documents from 1930s and issues of the Appalachian Trailway News.","Although the histories are from around the 1980s, there are some notes from around the 2020s.","Although the histories are from around the 1980s, there are some notes from around the 2020s.","Includes a transcription of a January 24, 1951 history by L. H. Powell, transcribed by Diana Christopulos on March 20, 2020, but not the original 1951 history by Powell.","Includes notes about T. J. Kent's history notes by Diana Christopulos, RATC Archivist, November 11, 2022, and transcription and annotations of 1933 report of RATC by Christopulos, March 20, 2020.","The second series contains files created, collected, or maintained by people affiliated with the RATC, both officers and individual members, about the history and operation of the RATC. It is divided into eight sub-series by person and in chronological order. Each subseries is organized based on topic, and original order is maintained where possible.","Also contains a list of files for box.","Includes a letter from Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., about legislation.","Includes organizational charts for the ATC.","Majority is correspondence about trail maintenance and relocation projects or suggestions and related maps.","Contains documents regarding Virginia being \"the first state to execute an agreement for the protection and management of the Appalachian Trail.\"","Some documents pertain to property owners and AT relocations.","Documents discuss purchasing the Buhrman tract of land near Fullhardt Knob and relocation of the AT between Tinker Mountain and Fullhardt Knob, potentially through the Buhrman tract.","Includes admittance of the Virginia Tech Outing Club to the ATC and assignment of a portion of AT for the club to maintain.","Includes William L. Gordge, RATC president's correspondence. Includes admittance of the Virginia Tech Outing Club to the ATC and assignment of a portion of AT for the club to maintain.","Includes organizational charts for the ATC.","Includes documents granting land use for relocating AT on Peters Mountain via land owned by Celanese Corporation, Pocahontas Land Corporation, the National Gypsum Company, and individuals.","Majority of documents regard planning in 1957-1958 for the 14th Meeting of the ATC at Mountain Lake Hotel in Mountain Lake (Giles County), Virginia, in 1958.","Both issues contain articles about AT relocations by RATC.","[Removed from binder.]","Includes shelter log.","Includes agendas, minutes, financial documents, and other supporting documents, including documents from committees, ATC, and NPS.","Also includes ATC's The Register newsletter, Vol. 24, No. 6, Spring 2001.","This is a user survey study carried out by the NPS in partnership with the University of Vermont and Penn State University. [Removed from binder.]","Also includes brochures about NPS and the AT.","Also includes tax-related documents and newsletters for other organizations.","Relates to the Greenbrier Pipeline Project that would cross the AT.","This contains the Memorandum of Agreement for the Management of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail between the NPS and U. S. Forest Service.","Appalachian Trailway News article about Jim and Molly Tabor Denton and Tom and Charlene Campbell","Prepared for NPS by Federal Highway Administration's Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division","Includes some non-biking AT printed materials.","Items discuss naming the Sinking Creek shelter as the Sarver Hollow Shelter and its dedication. There are also some documents related to the Sarver Cabin or Sarver Home Site.","Includes a copy of the RATC's \"Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation\".","Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the ATC.","Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the ATC.","Also contains a report about invasive species on the AT.","Includes undated photographs.","The trail diary includes a letter to Katherine Cochran.","Includes article, \"National Trail Bill Sent to Congress\" by Bill Cochran.","Includes clippings about Audie Murphy's 1972 plane crash and hiking the AT, several relating to Ed Garvey.","Includes 1982 letter to Bill Cochran, a write up on Damascus Trail Days by Bill Cochran, and clippings about trail towns and the RATC celebrating its 50th anniversary.","Includes a letter to Bill Cochran, ca. 1996.","Includes clippings about the McAfee Knob closure from 1978 to 1987, McAfee Knob in general, history of the AT, and AT land acquisition.","Includes clippings about the murders of Susan Ramsey and Robert Mountford in 1981, Molly LaRue and Geoffrey L. Hood in 1990, and the murders of Julianne Williams and Lollie Winans in 1996.","Includes 1970s hike schedules illustrated by Campbell, 1993 article about hike led by Campbell, and a note about Campbell in the RATC from Diana Christopulos, February 16, 2024.","Includes biographical information.","Includes letter and thank you note from 1991.","The Trail Blazer issue contains an article about the Campbell Shelter. The cover is missing, but it is probably the Fall 1989 issue.","Includes Campbell Shelter, Catawba Shelter, New Wilson Creek Shelter, Wapitu Shelter, and Big Pond Shelter Move. The photos in this folder remain in their original groupings.","Includes 1987 ATC Conference at Lynchburg College and Natural Bridge. Please note: there are remnants of a rubberband attached to some photos.","These photos were grouped together but have no identifying information.","The photos in this folder are without identifying information and remain in their original groupings.","The photos in this folder are without identifying information and remain in their original groupings.","Some materials are the papers of Lauren Taylor Holnback and of Eric Nasar from the Trust for AT Lands.","[Removed from binder.]","Also includes management brochures. [Removed from binder.]","[Removed from binder.]","[Removed from binder.]","Topics include the Trail and Land Management Committee and Carvins Cove easement. [Removed from binder.]","Includes memoranda about land tracts.","Includes Tract 476-32.","Includes Tract 477-22, Parcels A and B.","Includes Tracts 478-34, 478-35, 478-36, and 478-37.","Includes monument sets.","Documents concern the Chesapeake Bay Program and Agreement related to the Chesapeake Bay watershed.","Documents relate to the acquisition of the Shell Tract along the Elk River in Tennessee.","Documents relate to the Turner Tract on North Mountain in Virginia.","Documents relate to the Roy and Tillie Wood's home the Woodshole, where AT hikers were invited to stay.","Documents are about attempting to make Blackwater Canyon a national park.","Documents are about the USFS Forest Legacy Program and Virginia's Forest Legacy program.","Includes reports from Griggs and Mullinix of the ATC Land Trust.","Most materials specifically relate to the Western Virginia Land Trust.","Includes information on Andy Layne Trail.","Includes information on Roanoke Greenways and on laws.","[Removed from binder.]","[Removed from binder.]"],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains several issues of the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTrail Blazer\u003c/title\u003e, the newsletter of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club. If there were more than two (2) copies of an issue, the extra copy was separated to the Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives' Rare Book Collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe following publications were separated to the Rare Book Collection:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Trail Guide to Central Virginia,\u003c/title\u003e First Edition, 1994 (Jack Albright, Field Editor).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eParsons, Shireen, and Wilderness Society. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginia's Mountain Treasures : The Unprotected Wildlands of the Jefferson National Forest.\u003c/title\u003e The Wilderness Society, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTrail Lands: The Newsletter of the ATC Land Trust,\u003c/title\u003e Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2001.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAudubon Naturalist,\u003c/title\u003e Vol. 20, No. 7, \"What Does Disney's America Mean to Our Region?\", 1994-09.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDaniel D. Chazin, ed., \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Trail Data Book 2000,\u003c/title\u003e 22nd ed., Harpers Ferry, WV: The Appalachian Trail Conference, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eKaren Deans, ed., \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eConservation Options: A Landowner's Guide,\u003c/title\u003e Washington, D. C.: Land Trust Alliance, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBenton MacKaye, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning,\u003c/title\u003e Harpers Ferry, WV: The Appalachian Trail Conference and Urbana-Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1990.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMurray Bookchin, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eOur Synthetic Environment,\u003c/title\u003e Rev. Ed., New York City: Harper \u0026amp; Row, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLeonard M. Adkins (a member of the RATC), \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003e50 Hikes in Northern Virginia: Walks, Hikes, and Backpacks from the Allegheny Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay,\u003c/title\u003e Woodstock, VT: Backcountry Publications, 1994 (1995 printing).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSteve Nash, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eBlue Ridge 2020: An Owner's Manual,\u003c/title\u003e Chapel Hill, N. C., and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Birchard, Jr., and Robert Proudman, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalacian Trail: Design, Construction, and Maintenance,\u003c/title\u003e 2nd ed., Harpers Ferry, WV: The Appalachian Trail Conference, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["This collection contains several issues of the  Trail Blazer , the newsletter of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club. If there were more than two (2) copies of an issue, the extra copy was separated to the Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives' Rare Book Collection.","The following publications were separated to the Rare Book Collection:","Appalachian Trail Guide to Central Virginia,  First Edition, 1994 (Jack Albright, Field Editor).","Parsons, Shireen, and Wilderness Society.  Virginia's Mountain Treasures : The Unprotected Wildlands of the Jefferson National Forest.  The Wilderness Society, 1999.","Trail Lands: The Newsletter of the ATC Land Trust,  Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2001.","Audubon Naturalist,  Vol. 20, No. 7, \"What Does Disney's America Mean to Our Region?\", 1994-09.","Daniel D. Chazin, ed.,  Appalachian Trail Data Book 2000,  22nd ed., Harpers Ferry, WV: The Appalachian Trail Conference, 1999.","Karen Deans, ed.,  Conservation Options: A Landowner's Guide,  Washington, D. 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The collection includes the club newsletters, board minutes, former officers' and members' records, NPS and RATC acquisition information, conservation issues, management plans, histories of the club, scrapbooks, and photographs. The RATC continues its original mission to maintain and protect the Appalachian Trail (AT), and the club covers over 120 miles of the AT, including McAfee Knob, Dragon's Tooth, and Tinker Cliffs.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club (RATC) Records document the management of the club from its founding in 1932. The collection includes the club newsletters, board minutes, former officers' and members' records, NPS and RATC acquisition information, conservation issues, management plans, histories of the club, scrapbooks, and photographs. 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The following additional restrictions apply to any materials that contain the names of the interviewees of the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union and/or 1991 ad hoc mission to the Soviet Union by the World Psychiatric Association:","1. To obtain access to these records, interested researchers must sign a form to agree not to use, document, or disclose names of the patients or their families, or other identifying information about these persons and to abide by all the provisions specified in the present document. The form is available on site from the responsible official of the UVA Law Library. ","2. These materials may not be copied, photographed, or otherwise reproduced digitally. ","3. Before accessing the requested materials, interested researchers must agree to abide by reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, as approved by the UVA Law Library, to prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of the information. These procedures shall be followed by all persons associated with the applicant's research project.  ","4. Records in this category are also subject to the following safeguards: (i) Any information that would permit the identification of an individual (names, biographical data, etc.) may not be used, documented, or made public by the researcher, nor will any attempt to contact them be made. However, this does not preclude the researcher from contacting a person in advance of gaining access, for the purpose of obtaining access.  (ii) If a researcher obtains written authorization for access from an interviewee or from his/her legal guardian, the records may be made available to that researcher. (iii) Interviewees themselves may have free access to their own health information if contained in this collection. ","5. If the University of Virginia Law Library discovers that a researcher has violated the confidentiality of information or the conditions of access, the Law Library shall take steps to revoke the research privileges of the researcher and shall consult with University of Virginia legal counsel to prevent further disclosure of the health information.","Finally, different access restrictions may apply to some of the items in  this collection. Whenever possible, archivists have made a note of these restrictions in other parts of the finding aid.","There are access restrictions on some of the materials in this series. When a file or item is restricted, an additional note explaining the conditions of access is attached to the file or item description.","The items in these folders contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed in the U.S.S.R. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed in the U.S.S.R. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed in the U.S.S.R. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed in the U.S.S.R. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","The interviews with the former Soviet patients and the original 1989 recording are restricted and special permissions apply.","Dr. Joseph D. Bloom did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Kyrill Borissow did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Dr. William Carpenter did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Robert William Farrand did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Dr. Robert Hirschfeld did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","William Hopkins did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Mr. I. did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022). However, due to the sensitive nature of the topics covered in the interview, the University of Virginia restricts access according to the guidelines for more sensitive materials outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","Dr. Samuel Keith did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Dr. Felix Kleyman did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Andrey Kovalev did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Ellen Mercer did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Dr. John T. Monahan did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Peter Reddaway did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Dr. Darrel Regier did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","In addition to the restrictions on access that applies to all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022),  Dr. Loren Roth requested that The University of Virginia only make his interview available to researchers on-site at the repository preserving the interview.","Mr. S. did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022). However, due to the sensitive nature of the topics covered in the interview, the University of Virginia restricts access to both recordings according to the guidelines for more sensitive materials outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","Carolyn Smith did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","In addition to the restrictions on access that applies to all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022),  Dr. Leon Stern requested that The University of Virginia only make his interview available to researchers on-site at the repository preserving the interview.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of persons from the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of persons from the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","The files in this series are arranged by subject into 14 sub-series.","The files in this sub-series are arranged in chronological order.","The files in this sub-series are arranged in chronological order.","While it is understood that the misuse of psychiatry for non-medical reasons allegedly started in the U.S.S.R. after the October Revolution of 1917, its widespread and systematic use as a tool to silence political dissent became well-documented during Khrushchev's era. In a 1959 speech attributed to Khrushchev, he allegedly attempted to justify putting dissidents in psychiatric hospitals by saying that only a mentally ill person may be opposed to Communism (1). While there also were \"political\" parts of the R.S.F.S.R. Criminal Code that criminalized anti-Soviet agitation and slander of the Soviet state, psychiatry was often used to isolate dissidents, punish them with psychiatric drugs, discredit their ideas, and avoid criminal law procedures.","The \"Sluggish schizophrenia\" concept developed by academician Snezhnevsky had overly broad diagnostic criteria that allowed the diagnosis of schizophrenia in patients who showed no symptoms, on the assumption that these symptoms would appear later (2). In almost every case, dissidents were examined at the Serbsky Central Research Institute for Forensic Psychiatry.\nInformation about Soviet repressive psychiatry became well-known in the West after 1971 dissident Vladimir Bukovsky smuggled over 150 pages documenting the political abuse of psychiatric institutions in the Soviet Union into the West. The papers were studied by independent psychiatrists in several countries and released to the press (3). \"Bukovsky's papers\" galvanized human rights activists worldwide and those within the Soviet Union.","While the attempt to bring the matter to the official agenda of the World Psychiatric Association (W.P.A.) at their 1971 World Congress in Mexico was unsuccessful, it kept gaining more and more outcry worldwide. So, in 1977, the W.P.A. adopted the Hawaii Declaration – a milestone defining principles of good and ethical medical practice. The All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Narcologists, the official Soviet professional organization, was bound to withdraw from the W.P.A. at its next Congress in 1983—the allegations of the political abuse of psychiatry inflicted irretrievable damage on the prestige of Soviet medicine.","In 1975, the Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries signed the Helsinki Accords - the key document of the Conference of Security and Cooperation in Europe (C.S.C.E.). The Accords signaled a détente between the East and the West and built the foundation for the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Soviet disarmament talks, and the \"third basket\" on human rights and freedoms in the Soviet Union.","Mikhail Gorbachev, who became the head of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, prioritized the improvement of U.S.-Soviet relations. Also, Gorbachev launched the domestic \"perestroika\" (restructuring) and \"glasnost\" (openness) initiatives. These combined foreign and domestic policy developments fostered interest, internally and externally, in the plight of Soviet political prisoners. The Soviet Union released many political prisoners from labor camps, and in April 1987, Secretary Schultz and Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Shevardnadze agreed on a human rights dialog (4). As part of this broader dialog, in September 1987, the Soviet representatives began to try to assure their American counterparts that the abuse of psychiatry had ended (5).","Notes:","1. Khrushchev had said this in a speech published in the state newspaper Pravda on 24 May 1959: A crime is a deviation from generally recognized standards of behaviour frequently caused by mental disorder. Can there be diseases, nervous disorders among certain people in a Communist society? Evidently yes. If that is so, then there will also be offences, which are characteristic of people with abnormal minds. Of those who might start calling for opposition to Communism on this basis, we can say that clearly their mental state is not normal.\nKnapp, Martin, et al. Mental Health Policy and Practice Across Europe: The Future Direction of Mental Health Care, McGraw-Hill Education, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uva/detail.action?docID=316293.","2. Sfera, Adonis. Can psychiatry be misused again?. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 9 September 2013;(4):101. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00101. PMID 24058348.","3. For more information, see Reddaway, Peter (12 March 1971). \"Plea to West on Soviet 'mad-house' jails\". The Times. p. 8.; Bloch, Sidney; Reddaway, Peter (1984). Soviet Psychiatric Abuse. The Shadow Over World Psychiatry. London: Gollancz.","4. Schifter-Adamishin book, timeline, page xix","5. Id, pages xix and xx","During the late 1980s, U.S.-Soviet discussions about the abuse of psychiatry led to the formation of a special U.S. delegation to the Soviet Union. In February 1989, the U.S.S.R. allowed the delegation to independently assess 27 Soviet citizens believed to have been psychiatrically committed for non-medical reasons. The U.S.S.R. also allowed the delegation to inspect ordinary psychiatric hospitals and other hospitals known as \"psychoprisons.\" The U.S. delegation's psychiatric leader was Dr. Loren Roth of the University of Pittsburgh. The U.S. State Department organized the trip, closely cooperating with the American Psychiatric Association and the National Institute of Mental Health. Their Soviet counterparts were the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Soviet Ministry of Health and the conservative leadership of Soviet psychiatry, both believed to have been deeply involved in abuse, internally opposed the visit. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs overcame this opposition, and their support was critical to the U.S. delegation's success.","The U.S. delegation consisted of leading experts in psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychology, law, and Sovietology. Also, it included a representative of the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.), and émigré Soviet psychiatrists living in the United States.","From April 1988 onward, Dr. Loren Roth engaged in extensive negotiations with his Soviet counterparts on the details of the visit. They discussed the list of people (\"patients\") to be assessed by the delegation and the processes for obtaining their consent. There were difficult negotiations over the presence of Soviet psychiatrists during the examinations, and the need to protect the interviewees from potential intimidation and retaliation.","The U.S. delegation advocated for and adopted critical precautions to ensure the transparency of the mission and its findings. They used scientifically developed structural psychiatric interview schedules, brought U.S. interpreters to assist the delegation, avoided sharing the cost of the trip with the Soviet side, collected urine samples to rule out overmedication, videotaped the interviews, and spoke with friends/relatives of those interviewed.","Although there was a significant risk that the Soviet Union would cancel the delegation's visit, it occurred between February and March, 1989. The American team evaluated 27 Soviet citizens and inspected special psychiatric hospitals in Kazan and Chernyakhovsk as well as ordinary psychiatric hospitals in Vilnius and Kaunas.","Among those interviewed by the U.S. team were people still hospitalized, and those who had been previously discharged. The American team was greatly assisted by Mr. Aleksandr \"Sasha\" Podrabinek, the Soviet and, subsequently, Russian dissident. He was an expert on the issue of abuse of psychiatry and author of the 1979 book \"Punitive Medicine\" (see references). Mr. Podrabinek facilitated access to those who had been previously released and claimed to be unavailable by Soviet counterparts.","The U.S. team detailed their conclusions in their final report, \"Assessment of Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry\" (available in this collection), which researchers are encouraged to read. The Soviet Union responded officially with its own report.","The 1989 visit laid a foundation for subsequent collaboration between the two countries in the area of mental health. The U.S.-Russia Health Committee met from 1994 to 2000 as a part of a larger Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission. It focused, in particular, on mental health care during disasters and the primary care physician's role in caring for patients with depression.","Shortly after the American mission was over, the W.P.A. congress in Athens decided to provisionally readmit the Soviet All-Union Society after receiving an official, although somewhat vague, admission of the past wrongdoings (covered in detail in On Dissidents and Madness by Robert van Voren). In 1991, the W.P.A. undertook an ad hoc psychiatric inspection of the Soviet Union that Dr. Jim Birley headed. Dr. Loren Roth and other experts who served on the 1989 U.S. State Department mission joined this inspection.","In 1990, a delegation of Soviet psychiatrists and politicians visited the United States for an educational trip to American psychiatric services and scholarly dialogues.","\nResearchers are encouraged to read the resources listed below to gain a better understanding of the historical events surrounding the 1989 delegation:","- the Schizophrenia Bulletin (supplement to Vol 15, # 4, 1989), which contains the brief overview of the reasons, methodology, and findings of the American team in the U.S., the final report of the U.S. delegation both in English and Russian, as well as the Soviet response in both languages (Hyperlink1)\n- The New York Times article \"Accord Is Sought by U.S. And Soviet on Mental Wards\" of May 22, 1988\n- The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Volume 49, Number 4, 2021 \"Jonas Rappeport: A Direct, Accomplished AAPL Leader\" by Dr. Loren Roth\n- Report by the World Psychiatric Association Team on the Visit to the Soviet Union, 9-29 June 1991, headed by Dr. Jim Burley\n- Human Rights, Perestroika, and the End of the Cold War co-authored by Anatoly Adamishin and Richard Schifter in 2009","In 2021, three decades after the 1989 trip to assess the conditions of Soviet citizens confined in psychiatric hospitals for political reasons, an oral history project was initiated to document it. Loren H. Roth, Ellen Mercer, and Richard Bonnie, three members of the delegation, had always wanted to evaluate if the mission had had any lasting impact on the lives of the people interviewed and on the quality and ethical integrity of psychiatric care in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The oral history project began in conjunction with the donation of Loren Roth's papers to the University of Virginia School of Law Library. Olena Protsenko, a Ukrainian human rights lawyer, organized Roth's papers and began researching related collections. Richard Bonnie's papers and Saleem Shah's files on the abuse of psychiatry, also part of the University of Virginia Law Library manuscript collections, were essential to the project's development.","Dr. Joseph D. Bloom was one of the few forensic psychiatrists on the 1989 U.S. Department of State Delegation to the Soviet Union to investigate the abuse of psychiatry. Bloom is Dean Emeritus of the Oregon Health and Science University and Clinical Professor at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Arizona Fenix College of Medicine.","Mr. Borissow is an American of a Russian descend. He was a contract interpreter for the U.S. State Department for many years. During the 1989 trip, he was on the sub-team # 3 under the leadership of Dr. Hirschfeld, interpreting in Leningrad.","Dr. William Carpenter was leader of team #2 of the 1989 American investigative scientific mission to the Soviet Union. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and former Director of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center.","Robert William Farrand retired in 1998 after 34 years in the U.S. Foreign Service. He served as Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu from 1990 until 1993. ","In 1988-89 he led the U.S. delegation of medical and forensic professionals to investigate the Soviet Union's political weaponizing of psychiatry, for which he received a Superior Honor Award.","Farrand was concurrently Supervisor of the Bosnian city of Brčko and Deputy High Representative for the northern sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997 to 2000).  ","Dr. Robert Hirschfeld is Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He was the team leader of team # 3 during the 1989 psychiatric delegation to the U.S.S.R.","Mr. William Hopkins is a retired U.S. State Department staff interpreter. During the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission to the USSR, he interpreted for team # 2 under the leadership of Dr. William Carpenter.","Mr. I. is a Soviet/Ukrainian dissident who was repeatedly involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital for political reasons. He was one of the people interviewed by the U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. in 1989.","Dr. Keith is the Emeritus Milton Rosenbaum Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He was a Deputy Director and Associate Director for Schizophrenia Programs at the NIMH as of 1989. He was the team leader of team # 1 during the 1989 psychiatric delegation to the U.S.S.R.","Dr. Felix Kleyman is a psychiatrist practicing in New York City. At the time of the 1989 U.S. State Department mission to the Soviet Union to investigate abuse of psychiatry, Dr. Kleyman was an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College. Dr. Kleyman was one of the few Russian-speaking, U.S.S.R. and U.S.-trained psychiatrists on the American team. Dr. Kleyman was also a member of the 1991 W.P.A.  mission to the Soviet Union once the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Narcologists was provisionally readmitted to the W.P.A.","As of 1989, Mr. Kovalev was a Senior Advisor of the Department for International Humanitarian and Cultural Relations at the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was charged with bringing Soviet legislation and practice in line with the international obligations of the U.S.S.R. Mr. Kovalev was responsible for the development and implementation of the psychiatric reform, including the organization of the visit of the American psychiatric delegation in 1989.","At the time of the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. Ms. Mercer was the Director of the A.P.A. Office of International Affairs. She is believed to be one of the initiators of the visit and was deeply involved in its planning and preparation as the representative of the American Psychiatric Association (A.P.A.). During the visit itself, she was a member of the team inspecting psychiatric hospitals on the ground.","John T. Monahan is the John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, Hunton Andrews Kurth Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He was the only forensic psychologist on the 1989 U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the Soviet Union.","Mr. Reddaway is a renowned expert on Russian and Soviet politics, author of many books and publications. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.","Dr. Darrel Regier was the Scientific Director of the 1989 State Department investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. and coordinated all aspects of the clinical assessment procedure. Dr. Regier completed twenty-five years at the National Institute of Mental Health (N.I.M.H.), during which time he directed three research divisions in the areas of epidemiology, prevention, clinical research, and health services research. Dr. Regier is currently a Senior Scientist at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, in the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University. He also serves as an independent senior scientific consultant to the American Psychiatric Association (A.P.A.) on DSM-5 and research related issues.","Dr. Roth was the psychiatric leader of the 1989 U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. Following 44 years of distinguished service to the Department of Psychiatry and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Loren H. Roth, M.D., M.P.H., was recognized and awarded Emeritus status at a special reception following the Department's Annual Research Day held June 7, 2018. \nPrior to his being an Emeritus Professor, for the previous five years Dr. Roth was the Associate Senior Vice Chancellor, Clinic Policy and Planning, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Health Policy and Management, and Clinical and Translational Science; and Senior Advisor, Quality, UPMC Health Plan.  In addition to his many academic positions, Dr. Roth has held multiple leadership roles at UPMC culminating in his being the first Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (U.P.M.C.) (2003-2007).","Mr. S. is a Soviet/Russian dissident who was repeatedly involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital for political reasons. He was one of the people interviewed by the U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. in 1989.","Fluent in English and Russian, Ms. Smith was a contract interpreter for the U.S. State Department for many years. She interpreted for both the 1989 American delegation and the 1991 WPA delegation to the Soviet Union. During the 1989 trip, she was on the sub-team # 1 under the leadership of Dr. Samuel J. Keith, M.D. interpreting in Moscow.","Dr. Leon Stern is a Russian-speaking psychiatrist who was a member of the field team that inspected four psychiatric hospitals across the Soviet Union. Dr. Stern is a psychiatrist in private practice.","Olena Protsenko processed this collection. She was a post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.","This collection is divided into two series. The first series, \"abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists\", consists of subject files compiled by Dr. Loren Roth, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. They are evidence of Dr. Roth's efforts to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union. The subject files contain correspondence, articles, reports, evaluations, meeting minutes, agendas, planning materials, diaries, photographs, memoranda, handwritten notes, programs, books, videotapes, ephemera, and other items. Together, these materials date from around 1950 to 2008. However the bulk of them date from the 1970s to the 1990s, when Dr. Roth participated in U.S. delegations to the former Soviet Union and was part of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Committees on Human Rights and International Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists.","\nThe second series consists of materials that were gathered and produced for the \"Retrospective Review of the 1989 U.S. State Department Psychiatric Mission to the U.S.S.R.\" project. These materials include oral history interviews with individuals involved with the 1989 mission, a 1989 recorded interview with a psychiatric patient, project correspondence, biographical files, interview minutes, and an organizational chart. Most of the items in this series date from the time of the project, 2021 to 2022.","This series consists of subject files that Dr. Loren Henry Roth assembled and used while working to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, emphasizing abuse in the former Soviet Union. The files contain correspondence, memoranda, meeting documents, articles, reports, lists, forms, evaluations, photographs, diaries, and other materials.","World Psychiatric Association Proposed Declaration of Hawaii; \"Honolulu Paper\": Somerville, John: \"Ethics and Psychiatry,\" (1977); Committee of French Psychiatrists Against The Political Uses of Psychiatry Special Bulletin, the World Congress of Psychiatry in Hawaii; newspaper clippings from Hawaiian newspapers (1977). APA white paper: \"Misuse and Abuse of Psychiatry in the U.S.: A definition and Discussion,\" (1991); correspondence and papers of Paul Chodoff, (1989-1990 and undated); Helmchen, H. and A. Okasha: \"From the Hawaii Declaration to the Declaration of Madrid,\" Acta Psychiatr Scand 200:101: 2023","Copy of the Report to the Board of Trustees, American Psychiatric Association of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Use of Psychiatric Institutions for the Commitment of Political Dissenters (1972); Boekovski Berichten Bukovsky News: The Case of Irina Grivnina (1985?); Statement of Dr. Algirdas Statkevicius to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1988); copy of letter from Peter Reddaway to Viktor Nakas, Leon Stern, Robert van Voren and Algirdas Statkevicius (1989); copy of translation of SB case (1987-1989); U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee [memorandum] re Shatravka Family (1988); Committee of Concerned Scientists, Inc \"Call for Action for Three Soviet Former Prisoners of Conscience,\" (1988); and newspaper clippings mainly of Pyotr G. Grigorenko and Anatoly Koryagin","\"Special Report, The Medical Profession and the Prevention of Torture,\" The New England Journal of Medicine (October 1985); \"Sowing fear: The Uses of Torture and Psychological Abuse in Chile,\" A Report by Physicians for Human Rights (October 1988); Proposal. Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims [RCT], New York, NY and Roseland, New Jersey (undated); RCT International Newsletter on Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (1990-1991); RCT IRCT [International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims]: Torture [packet of documents] (1991-1992); Jacobsen, Lone and Pete Vesti: Torture Survivors – a New Group of Patients, The Danish Nurses Organization, 1990; Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture","Human Rights Task Force of the APA survey on human rights organizations (1984); Human Rights Survey Responses (1988); Human Rights Cases Monitored by the APA (1990); photocopy of European Convention on Human Rights Collected Texts, Strasbourg, 1965.  Folder includes an incomplete set of The World Medical Association press releases (1975-1990), printed materials and news clippings","Documents from the Ninth Session of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Committee for Health Cooperation, (1988-11-17); Trip Report – P.H.S. Delegation Visit to the Soviet Union  November 13-20, 1988 Ninth U.S.-U.S.S.R. Health Committee Meeting (1989-01-25); Summary of Cooperation in Health Between the US Public Health Service and the Ministry of Health of the U.S.S.R. (1989-01-26); Peter Henry thoughts re Implications of Trip for U.S.-Soviet Health Agreement (1989-02-02)","Roth's printed account of trip that he made with Rabbi Mark Staitman, Larry Hurwitz, cardiologist;  Harold and Esther Garfinkel, community leaders; Joy Weber, science writer, and Rabbi Jonathan Stein. September 20-October 1, 1986. (2 versions)","Dr. Roth and Ambassador Schifter's preliminary planning documents for the U.S. mission to the U.S.S.R. in April of 1988.","APA Memorandum re \"use of psychiatry for political purposes\" (1988-03-21); [USSR] Regulations for Psychiatric Hospitals, LS No. 124600 JS/AO Russian, Appendix to Decree No. 225 of the USSR Ministry of Public Health, 21 March 1988; Pre-summit discussions. Report of Soviet Contact (1988-03-23): Gennadi N. Milyokhin, M.D. visit to Parklawn;  [Unedited] On the Record Briefing of Richard Schifter, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs,  March 25, 1988","Peter Reddaway: \"Will Perestroika End Political Abuse in Soviet Psychiatry?\" (1988-07-03); copy of pages 5-6 of \"Argumenty I fakty\" No. 11/1987, [Reporter V. Romanenko interviews with  Dr. Marat Vartanyan (1987- 03-21-27)]; anonymous draft \"Ground Rounds\", \"Abuses in Soviet Psychiatry\" (undated); Karklins, Rasma: \"The Dissent/Coercion Nexus in the USSR, Working Paper #36, Soviet Interview Project (1987-05); Roth's handwritten notes; copies of printed materials related to Soviet psychiatry; annotated copy of Berman, Harold J.: Soviet Criminal Law and Procedure. The RSFR Codes. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1977, pp. 3-124","Stipulations for Delegation of U.S. Psychiatrists and Other Experts Visiting the USSR (1988-11-09); Roth's handwritten notes. Also Ellen Mercer U.S.S.R. Trip Confidential  Report (1988 -11) and Saleem A. Shah Department of Health and Human Services Report on International Travel (1988-11-18). Correspondence to Alexander A. Churkin  with documents: US-Soviet Understanding for Delegation of US Psychiatrists and Other Experts Visiting the USSR; \"Discussions\"; Consent Forms for Persons Interviewed and of Relatives and Friends (1988-12-19)","re assesment of Soviet Psychiatry (1988-08-04), memorandum re \"Sensible Tactics re U.S. Delegation on Soviet Psychiatry; human rights and Soviet Psychiatry; \"things to do; Roth's notes; and Roth: \"Uses of Psychiatry in the U.S.S.R. and U.S.A,\" Browning Hoffman Lecture, UVA School of LAw (1988-10-07).","International Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry [IAPUP]: Information Bulletin Nos. 3, 9, 11, 18-21; also copy of \"II. The Case of All-Union Society (undated). Soviet Psychiatry News, vol. 1, nos. 1-2 (1989)","US State Department Soviet Psychiatric Project Delegation to the Soviet Union Planning Trip – correspondence, telegrams, memoranda re: negotiations, support and concerns, instructions, logistics for the trip. Correspondence with Soviet and US officials, and other psychiatrists. Summary of discussions with Ambassador Richard Schifter (1989-02-11); comments from Saleem Shah (1989-02-10); from Robert van Voren, Ellen Mercer, Dr. Edward Kelty and others.","This sub-series contains materials related to the organization, planning and logistics of the trip, as well as background information about the psychiatric abuse in the U.S.S.R.","This file contains memoranda, handwritten notes, list of participants, questionnaires, Forensic Interview Schedule, and Interpersonal Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE).","DSM-III-R Criteria Checklist (1988-05-23; Structural Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Patient Version (1988-06-01) SCID-NP/OP Psychotic Screening (1988-06-01); Instruction Manual for the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (1988 and 1989)","DSM-III-R Criteria Checklist (1988-05-23; Structural Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Patient Version (1988-06-01) SCID-NP/OP Psychotic Screening (1988-06-01); Instruction Manual for the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (1988 and 1989)","Russian version of IPDE (1989-02-16); Russian version of Revised SCID Standardized Clinical Study According to DSM-III-PD Criteria (SKID) (1991-04); Russian version of World Psychiatric Association visit to the USSR Forensic Examination (1991-03)","The reports were written by doctors Jonas Rappeport, M.D., Vladimir Levit, MD., Samuel J. Keith, M.D, Darrell A. Regier, M.D., Loren Roth, M.D., Felix Kleyman, M.D., Joseph Bloom, M.D., William. T. Carpenter, M.D., Robert Hirschfeld, M.D., Alla Arsenian (interpreter); Elmore Rigamer, M.D., Joel Klein; Boris Shostokovich, M.D.; John Monahan; Nancy Andreason, M.D.; William Farrand.","Reports of forensic evaluations done in Moscow and Leningrad by Jonas R. Rappeport, John Monahan, Joseph D. Bloom; draft of Roth's \"Patient Sample –Description. Methodological Issues – Obstacles\" (1989-04-10); assessments and handwritten notes re patients; Russian document with translation re patients (undated); Roth's notes on various interviewees (1991-02-07)","The materials in this file include Roth's letters to persons who he wished to interview but didn't; U.S. Department of State \"transliteration\" of names (1989-04-04) and inventory of status of cases (1989-04-05)","\"Delegation of US Psychiatrists Issues Press Statement\" signed by members of the US Psychiatric Delegation: Nancy Andreasen, M. D.; Joseph D. Bloom, M.D.; Richard J. Bonnie; William T. Carpenter, M.D.; Robert M. A. Hirschfeld, M. D.; Samuel J. Keith, M.D.; Joel Klein; Felix L. Kleyman, M.D.; Vladimir A. Levit, M.D.;  David Lozovsky, M. D.; Ellen Mercer, John Monahan, PhD; Jonas R. Rappeport, M.D.; Peter B. Reddaway, Ph.D; Darrel A. Regier, MD.D., M.P.H.; Elmore E. Rigamer, M.D.; Leon Stern, M.D.; Harold M. Visotsky, M. D.]","Testimonies of Darrel A. Regier, Robert W. Farrard, Peter Reddaway, Robert van Voren, Loren H. Roth; statement of Steny H. Hoyer; LHR's handwritten notes; correspondence; responses, printed materials; draft I Report of the U.S. Delegation and Preliminary Soviet Reply: Brief Analysis of Points of Agreement and Disagreement; Loren H. Roth Final Report of the US Delegation to Assess Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry. Objectives and Execution of the Visit. American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, May 15 1990; some correspondence and memoranda related to CSCE meetings in Copenhagen (June 1990); and copy of U.S. Report (speech) on CSCE – Moscow (1991-10-02)","Copy of Reddaway's Trip to Moscow, October 29-November 2, 1988; memo re: \"The difficult situation we are in: how should we proceed,\" (1989, 02-19); notes on Soviet Psychiatry Developments (1990-01-20); copy of \"Trip to Moscow, August 20-30, 1992.\"","\"Dissent and Disorder: Human Rights in Soviet Psychiatry,\" (1989-07-); copy of unauthored paper; \"The Legacy of Psychiatric Abuse in the U.S.S.R.,\" (undated); Russian version and translation of \"Proceedings of the session of Working Party formulating the draft law on 'Psychiatric Help in the U.S.S.R.',\" (1991-02-14)","\"Soviet Access to and Utilization of Mental Health Services: A Comparative View,\"  paper presented at the National Conference on Soviet Refugee Health and Mental Health, Chicago, IL (1991-12-11); Isaac Ray Lectures: \"The Future of the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Lesson from Two Cultures, The Former Soviet Union and the United States,\" Discussants: Loren H. Roth, M.D., Dean Eckenrode, George Huber, J.D., Mark Schmidhofer, M.D. (1998-05-07)","\"The New Soviet Legislation on the Provision of Psychiatric Care,\" speech delivered at the symposium of the International Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry, Washington, D.C., (1988-10-14); Koryagin: \"A Green Light of Injustice,\" Zurich, (1988-12-20); notes from Boris Zoubok, M.D.; copy of \"Law of the USSR on the protection of the rights and legal interests of persons suffering from psychiatric disorders and on the grounds and procedures for the administration of psychiatric care,\" (1990-10-08); Roth's Notes on Meeting of USSR Supreme Soviet Committee on Mental Health Law, Moscow (1990-10-26); copy of Smit, Jonna: \"Human Rights and Mental Health Legislation: the USSR,\" (1991-05-21); van Voren, Robert: \"Ukrainian Psychiatry: Starting from Scratch,\" (undated); Regulations on a psychiatric hospital (Положение о психиатрической больнице), [printed Russian document] CCCP, No. 225, 1988; printed materials and news clippings, 1988-2004; Patients in Psychiatric Hospital Requiring Follow-up and Review – interview methodology, list, memoranda","Draft and confidential memorandum of meeting with Minister of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs [Yuri A.] Reshetov. Also interview methodology and memoranda.","Kazan Special Psychiatric Hospital, Vilnius Ordinary Hospital, Kaunas Hospital, Chernyashovsk Special Psychiatric Hospital","Richard J. Bonnie draft; \"Legal and Humanitarian Aspects of Soviet Psychiatry: Some Preliminary Conclusions\" (1989-03-28); also comments on Klein's and Reddaway reports (1989-04 to 1989-05); LHR Confidential Drafts #1-5 (1989-05-19-31); Objectives of the Clinical Interviews (1989-05-22); Dr. Harold M. Visotsky Response to Joel Kline (1989-05-30); Hospital Team Report by Harold Visotsky, Elmore Rigamer, and Loren H. Roth (1989-05-30); remarks from Joe Bloom (1989-06-05); Richard Bonnie: Note to Members of the US Delegation to the Soviet Union (1989-06-16); Bill Farrad; Executive Summary [annotated] (1989-06-20); \"USSR Psychiatrists at a Human Rights Round Table in Moscow in April 1988,\" annotated copy of attachment sent by Joel Kline to Roth (undated); Vladimir A. Levit comments (1989-06-26); Saleem [Shah]: Soviet Compliance and Study Limitations (1989-06-28) and comments (1989-06-26); Peter Reddaway draft (1989-06-28) [2 folders], 1989-03 to 1989-06","Also: State Department \"rough translation\" of Soviet response: \"Response to the medical part of the report by the U.S. delegation of psychiatrists and lawyers,\" (1989-07-06); Draft translation of the final Soviet comments on the report: Commentary on the Report [130008 JS/AO Russian] (1989-09-26); U.S. Department of State Memorandum re Comments on the Soviet response to the Report (1989-10-12); printed Russian document inscribed by Polubinskaya to Loren H. Roth: [Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Soviet State and Right. Separate Report, Moscow 1990];  translation of S. V. Polubinskaya and S. V. Borodin: \"The Legal Problems of Soviet Psychiatry: The Views of American and Soviet Experts,\" Soviet State Law, No. 5, 1990, pp. 67-76","Resolution of the WPA (1989-10-17); WPA Statement by the All Union Society of Soviet Psychiatrists and Narcologists of the U.S.S.R. before the World Psychiatric Association General Assembly in Athens (1989-10-18); Memorandum re: Site Visit by the WPA Review Committee to the U.S.S.R. (1990-03-13); Reddaway, Peter: The Struggle over Reform in Soviet Psychiatry Intensifies: Is the Establishment Beginning to Panic? (1990-04-30); Remarks by Svetlana Poloubinskaya at the APA's Committee of International Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists (1990-05-16)","APA correspondence with the Center for Democracy in the U.S.S.R., U.S. Department of State, (Schifter and Mercer); University of London Institute of Psychiatry, 1989-05 to 1989-11. Also, miscellaneous correspondence with literary agents (1989-03 to 1989-04)","Translations of A.  Karpov, Chief Psychiatrist, U.S.S.R. Ministry of Health: \"The Registration of Mental Patients in the U.S.S.R.\" (1990-10-25) and \"Basic Findings of the Conclusion of the U.S.S.R. Constitutional Supervision Committee on Whether Legislation for the Compulsory Treatment and Re-Education of Through Labour of Persons Suffering from Alcoholism or Drug-Addiction Conforms to the U.S.S.R. Constitution and International Enactments on Human Rights,\" by B. M. Lazarev, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Constitutional Supervision Committee (1990-10-25). Also Saleem A. Shah: \"Forensic Interview Schedule\". Correspondence with Otto Dorr Zegers, Csaba Banki, M.P. Deva, Driss Moussaoui, Jim Birley, and Gerard Low-Geer","Correspondence with Dr. Otto Dörr-Zegers (Chile); Dr. Csava Bànki (Hungary); Dr. M. P. Deva (Malaysia); Dr. Driss Moussaoui (Morocco); Dr. Jim Birley (WPA Negotiating Team); Dr. Gerard Low-Greer (England).","Included are: Gostin, Larry: \"Human Rights in Mental Health: Japan. Report of an international mission to Japan: 1987,\"  World Health Organization/Harvard University International Collaborating Center on Health Legislation, World Federation for Mental Health [1987]; Kawasaki, Shigeru: \"Like a Shedding Snake,\" English Summary, J. JAPH 2:2 Spring 1991; news-clippings.","Correspondence with Ellen Mercer re Singapore (1985-09-18); UN Commission on Human Rights E/CN. 4 Sub.2/1988/23: Report on the Sessional Working Group on the question of persons detained on the grounds of mental ill-health or suffering from mental disorder; Proceedings. International Forum on Mental Health Reform, Kyoto, Japan, January 29-30, 1987; Benatar, S. R.: correspondence and articles (1990); Final draft of the \"UN Principles Produced by the Working Group on Human Rights,\" Annex A Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care","The sub-series consists of materials Loren Roth collected as part of his work on this committee. These include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, reports, articles, clippings, memoranda, and other items.","APA lists of cases in the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia and Romania (1988-07-05); memo for the record re Soviet dissidents","APA minutes of meeting (1988-09-07); Draft Statement Following Discussion with Dr. Sabshin; APA Draft Resolution by the Committee on International Abuse of Psychiatry to not object to the re-admittance of  the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Neuropathologists of the USSR into the WPA (1988-09-07); minutes of the APA Committee on Human Rights (1988-09-09); some correspondence, (1988 -09)","Minutes of conference call (1989-02-15); correspondence; IAPUP documents re to Soviet psychiatry (1989-02); copy of Dr. Marvin Brook handwritten comments on the By-Laws of the WPA (undated); Application of the Independent Psychiatric Association of the USSR (IPA) for membership to the WPA, includes Constitution and Declaration (1989-03-09); APA Guidelines for Psychiatric Services in Jails and Prisons; APA draft guidelines on the Right of Refuse (Anti-Psychotic) Medication.","Includes some correspondence and documents: Memorandum re Revision of the WPA Review Committee's Operational Instrument ( 1989-04-270; translation of letter from Nikolai Fedrovich Zhukov to US Congress (1989-03-04); IAPUP Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR 18: The Founding of the Association of Independent Psychiatrists in the USSR and the US Delegation of Psychiatrist to the USSR (March 1989); IAPUP Report and brochures, 1989-04","Memorandum re Detention of Cuban psychiatrist Dr. Alfredo Samuel Martínez Lara (1989-04-19); WPA Proposed alterations (1989-04 -25); copy of entrance application of the International Independent Research Centre on Psychiatry to the WPA (1989-03-27), news clippings; Dr. Marat Vartanian original article sent to the International Journal on Mental Health","Included are: Ellen Mercer and Fini Schulsinger interviews with Radio Canada (1989-03); and \"rough\" transcripts of  Radio Free Europe with Viktor Lanovoy, President of the Independent Association of Psychiatrists (1989-06-15); Croatian Committee for Human Rights press release re human rights abuses (1989-06-24); [translation] of M. Buyanov articles in Uchitelskaya Gazeta (1988-11-19); Association Psychiatric Independent (IPA) press release (1989-04-12); Commission of the European Communities: \"Observations on the State of Implementation of Programme of Psychiatrists Reform in Greece,: (1987-12-31); IAPUP Documents Special Issue: \"The Political Abuse of Psychiatry in Rumania (June 1989);  IAPUP Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry Nos. 22, 23, 24, 25 (June-July 1989)","Includes Summary of the WPA Executive Committee in Athens and Resolutions (1989-08-18); excerpts of anonymous document \"Autumm 1988, Gerlovka\" re abuse in the USSR ; printed articles, news clippings","Includes unofficial translation of  Statement by the All-Union Scientific Society of Psychiatrists (1989-10-02); Remarks of Christian Barton Concerning Allegations of Psychiatric Abuse of Dissidents by the Cuban Government (1989-09-13); Sabshin, Melvin: Statement to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment of the US House of Representatives re APA position on Soviet psychiatric practices (undated); Testimony of Victor Davidoff, former victim of abuse in the Soviet Union (undated); Commentary on the Report \"Assessment of Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry, prepared by the US Delegation on the Results of its visit to the USSR,\" (1989-09-15); IPA bulletins (1989 -08-07 and 1989-08-31); news clippings","Includes: Liaison Report (1989-10); Gluzman, Semyon: \"Bureaucratic Ethics and Soviet Psychiatry,\" (1989-11) and Commentary on the Memorandum of G. Lukacher (1989-10-14) re All Union Scientific Society of Psychiatrists; translation of A.I. letter \"To the World Congress of the WPA,\" (1989-10-16); translation of letter from Social Organizations in Leningrad To the Participants in the Congress of the WPA (Athens, Greece, October 1989); Schifter, Richard: \"An Inventory of Soviet Human Rights Developments\" (1989-10-04); IAPUP Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR No. 29, 30","Some copies of  documents related to the former Yugoslavia; lists of interments and releases in the Soviet Union (1989-12-21); draft translation of [Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya] A Detail report: Psychiatry Without Secrets (1989-10-31); Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union 31 (1989-12); WPA Minutes (1989-08-11-13)","Correspondence related to abuses in Cuba; Pena, Jose M. et al: \"Abuse and Misuse of Psychiatry in the U.S.: The Need for an Institutional Ethics,\" (1990-02); list of human rights cases monitored by the APA in Argentina, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Malawi, Morocco, Romania, South Africa, Sudan, Turkey, Uruguay, Yugoslavia, Zaire (1990-02-06); Mercer, Ellen: USSR Trip Report/February 25-March 3, 1990","Includes: Second World Center Annual Report 1989 and APA Statement on Simón Bolívar Award and Lecture (1990-02-15)","Correspondence re Cuban psychiatrists (1990-04); Keston College Support Group: \"Igor Rodionov Report\" (1990-04); Yelena Izyumova Open Letter to the Members of the APA, Moscow May 20, 1990; anonymous essay re : Psychiatric Abuse in the USSR (Helsinki Watch), undated","Also: \"Proposed New Policies for the APA in Regard to the Abuse of Psychiatry for Political and Other Non-Medical Purposes in the USSR,\" (undated)","Includes copy of Human Rights Survey Responses (1988-04-01) and reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education","Includes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education; memoranda re IAPUP meetings in Germany (1990-09); letter from Dr. Jeffrey Heller to the Committee on Abuse of Psychiatry re Soviet Delegation at H and CP Institute (1990-10-10); Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR No. 38 (1990-09)","Includes correspondence from Dr. Valerian Tuculesco re post-traumatic stress disorder after the Romanian revolution (1990-10); correspondence re Oleg Vitalyevich Kozlov re hijacked plane to Helsinki (1990-11); American Ambassadors People to People Trip to the USSR 14-27 August 1990 \"Professional Diary\" compiled by E. B. Brody (1990-09-05);  \"Psychiatric Issues Encountered on Recent Trip to USSR,\" memorandum from Holt Ruffin (World Without War) (1990-10-25); Hartmann, Lawrence M.D.: \"Notes on Some Social Psychiatric Problems in Chile, South Africa and the Soviet Union,\" (1990-10); Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR Nos. 39, 40, 41; documents relative to the Joint APA-Caribbean Psychiatric Association Meeting; Ellen Mercer: China Trip Report (1990-11)","Includes reports of the Committee on International Education; Final draft of the UN Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Case (1990-12-11); \"Sugar, Jonathan M.D. et al: \"Psychiatry's Global Challenge: Responsibilities of American Psychiatrists in International Health (undated)","Includes letter from Dr. Dainiys Pūras re abuse of psychiatry in Lithuania (1991-01-19); correspondence re abuse in Romania (1991-02-08); \"Proposal for The Moscow Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (undated)","Includes correspondence and document re abuses in Romania; correspondence between Dr. Roth, Gennadi Milyokhin, Juan José López-Ibor, re Revaz Uturgaury (1991-03); correspondence re Soviet individuals","Includes CIOMS: Development of International, Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiological Research and Practice, Plenary III Issues related to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Proposed Guidelines for International Testing of Vaccines and Drugs against HIV Infection and Aids (1990-11); copies of correspondence between and V. Tuculescu re Romania; Reddaway, Peter: Psychiatric Developments in the USSR (1991-06) and \" Problems of Reforming Soviet Psychiatry and Assuring Rights for the Mentally Ill,\" (undated); \"The Heartbeat of Reform. Soviet Jurists and Political Scientists Discuss the Progress of Perestroika, Glasnot, Democracy, Socialism,\" Translated from the Russian by Vic Schneierson, Moscow, [1991]; Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR No. 47, 48","Includes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education. Also includes several documents dated September 1991: Memo for the Record Briefing Meeting for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Human Rights Study Group (1991-09-24); USSR Draft Law (17 June 91) on Psychiatric Assistance; Ministry of Health, USSR, All-Union Society of Psychiatrists Governing Board Decision (1991-05-15-16); WPA Memorandum to the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists (1991-07-28); Dr. Stanislaw Golec: \"Health Care in Poland 91\"; \"Instructional Recommendations on the Application of USSR Ministry of Health Order No. 555 (1989-09-19); WPA documents; International Committee of the Red Cross Report on \"Second Working Group of Experts on Battlefield Laser Weapons,\" (1990-11-05-06)","Includes \"copy of a part\" of Japanese Mental Health Law with translation (1988); translation of  \"law on patient's rights\" in Finland (1991-08); WHO Guidelines for the Clinical Investigation of Antidepressant Drugs (1984)","Includes LHR handwritten notes re Abuse Committee (1992-04); \"Cuban Dissidents in Psychiatric Hospitals An Update of the Politics of Psychiatry in Revolutionary Cuba,\"; \"Dimineata, 7th January 1992, The Mad People Were Dissidents,\" re Romania (undated); \"The Plenary Session of the Board of Directors of the All-Union Scientific Society of Psychiatrists (1992-05) and Follow-Up of US Team's 1989 Patients list, Appendices 1 and 2 sent to Dr. Birley with names of patients (1992-02); Information about the Patient Bill of Rights Tally Sheet (1992-04); Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry [GPI]: Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry (1992-03 and 1992-04)","Includes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education. Also: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Yugoslavia (1992-06-01); GPI: Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry, April – June 1992; Mercer, Ellen: Exploring Hungarian Psychiatry (1992-05)","Includes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights. Also: International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions Proclamation of May 1992: Assuring the Mental Health of Children; APA Bilateral Exchange with Poland Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Summary of Responses and Recommendations of American Participants (1992-03-24 to 1992-04-12); copy of Act of the Russian Federation \"On Psychiatric Care and Citizens' Rights With Regard to Such Care,\" (1992-01); Polubinskaya, Svetlana: \"From the USSR to the Independent States: Where the Former Soviet Psychiatry Will Go,\" (1992-05); GIP Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry 56, June 1992","Includes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights. Also correspondence re psychiatric abuse in the former GDR, with the Romanian Psychiatric Association and the Committee to End the Chinese Gulag. \"Psychiatry Under Tyranny. An Assessment of the Political Abuse of Romanian Psychiatry During the Ceaucescu Years,\" Report of a consultative mission to Bucharest on behalf of the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry (1992-06); GIP Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry 57, July – August 1992","The sub-series consists of materials Loren Roth collected as part of his work with this committee. These include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, reports, articles, clippings, memoranda, and other items.","Included: \"Human Rights of Mental Patients in Japan,\" (1987 -04); Reich, Walter Report of Meeting with Gennadiy M. Yevstafiev (Soviet, member of the delegation to the Vienna Review Meeting) (1987-07-28); copy of letter from Senator Edward M. Kennedy to Lawrence Hartmann, M.D. re human rights violations in Paraguay (1988-04-22); World Medical Association, INC. memorandum: \"The Facts regarding health services in South Africa during 1987, and the role played by the Medical Association of South Africa,\" (1987-07- 08); Reddaway, Peter: Does Moscow's Purge of Corrupt Psychiatrists Threaten the Psychiatric Gulag?\" (1987-07-13); \"More Revelations about Stefanis' Negotiations with the Soviets (1987-09-11); Center for Victims of Torture pilot project (1987-08-28 and 1987-10); South Africa Briefing (1987-08-07); Minutes of Committee on Abuse of Psychiatry (1987-09-09 and 1987-12-02); \"Victims of Torture in Afghanistan. Presentation for Cairo World Congress\" by Mohammad Azam Dadfar (1987-10-18-22); Gralnick, Alexander M.D.: \"Public Health and Psychiatric Care in Cuba, Personal Report\" (November 1987);Political Imprisonment in Cuba. A Special Report from Amnesty International, The Cuban American Nation Foundation, 1987;  US/Soviet Human Rights Seminar: Statement by Ellen Mercer for the APA (1987-12-03). Also Bloche, Maxwell Gregg: \"Uruguay's Military Physicians: Cogs in a System of State Terror,\" (1987-03)","Miscellaneous documents: minutes, memoranda, correspondence. Included: [Argentina] Tribunal Etico de la Salud contra la Impunidad translation of statement: Medical Ethics Tribunal Against Impunity,\" (1988-01-11); Minutes of the APA Committee on Abuse of Psychiatry (1988-01-20, 1988-04-21; 1988-05-10); some documents related to South Africa, Pakistan, Argentina; Human Rights Survey Responses (1988-03-09); Amnesty International: \"China. Detention Without Trial, Ill-Treatment of Detainees and Police Shooting of Civilians in Tibet,\" (1988-02); Bitsch Christensen, Svend: \"Torture Related Documentation,\" (1987); International Commission of Jurists' Mission to Japan Preliminary Report and Recommendations (1988-04); \"The Casualties of Conflict: Medical Care and Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,\" Report of a Medical Fact Finding Mission by Physicians for Human Rights, (1988-03); Amnesty International Commission Medicale: Medicine at Risks. The Doctor as Abuser or Victim,\" (1987-09)","Miscellaneous documents: minutes, memoranda, correspondence related to Soviet psychiatry; human rights abuses in Honduras, Czechoslovakia, Somalia, South Africa, Israel, Haiti, Cuba, Egypt, China, BahrainGudava, Eduard M.D.: \"The events in Tbilisi, Georgia  (1989-04-18); Vesti, Peter and Inge Kemp: \"Chapter I: Treatment of Torture Survivors – theoretical views,\" \"Chapter 2: Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors, \" (1989-10); Collazo, Carlos R. M.D. and Martha Gerpe M.D.: \"Missing Parents,\" Paper presented at The World Psychiatric Association, Athens, October 1989","File includes: RCT [Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims] 7th Annual Report (1990-01); APA Position Statement on Apartheid and Academic Boycotting of South Africa (1990-01); Human Rights Cases Monitored by the APA (1990-02-01); signed Petition by doctors to recommend the APA to condemn the government of Turkey (1990-08); LHR handwritten notes of September meeting;  APA Council on International Affairs Joint Reference Committee (1990-10-12); Boyajian, Levon Z. M.D.: The Psychological Sequelae of the Armenian Genocide (1982); Leros Trip. Report on Visit to the Mental Institution on the Island of Leros, Greece (1989-12-3-5); \"'Bloody Sunday Trauma in Tbilisi. The Eents of April 9, 1989 and their Aftermath,\" Report of a Medical Mission to Soviet Georgia by Physicians for Human Rights, February 1990; printed materials.","Files include documents re Armenian Genocide and from the Free Romanian Foundation; \"Program for Administrators and Educators Specializing in Programs for People With Disabilities,\" with the Persian Gulf (1991-04); Martínez Lara, Samuel: \"Psychiatry in Cuba: Perspectives of a Human Rights Activist\" (1991-09-27);  ); National Academy of Sciences: \"Considerations Regarding Individual Scientific Visits to the People's Republic of China,\" (October 1991); also some documents about torture","Files include documents re torture in Egypt (1992-01); Dadfar, A. Azam M.D.: \"The Deep Scars of a Forgotten War, \" Psychiatry Centre for the Afghans; correspondence with Levon Z. Boyajian M.D. (1992-02); Croatian Medical Journal: \"Medical Testimony of the Vukovar Tragedy\"; memorandum re \"Abuse and Misuse of Psychiatry in the United States\" (1992-02); Committee to End the Chinese Gulag: \"On behalf of Political Prisoners in China: How to Raise Human Rights Cases,\" (1992-04); memoranda and correspondence re abuse of Palestinian physician (1992-05); APA Position Statement on Homosexuality and Civil Rights (1992-07); Americas Watch, Vol.4, Issue 7: \"Dangerous Dialogue, Attacks on Freedom of Expression in Miami's Cuban Exile Community,\" (1992-08);  Amnesty International French Section, Medical Group: \"Corporal Punishment. A study on legislation and enforcement in 18 countries,\" (1992); \"Stop Torture in Korea (STIK)\" (1998-08); APA Council on International Affairs: \"International Inpatients Bill of Rights,\" (1992-08); APA Communications Plan 1992-1994; APA: \"Human Rights and the American Psychiatric Association,\" (1992); memorandum and correspondence re abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists in México (1992-100; US Department of State: \"Renewing the U.S. Commitment to Human Rights,\" Special Report No. 164;  printed materials","World Health Organization Assignment Report re \"mentally infirm in Romania and possibilities for improvement,\" (1991-11); Rosenberg, David R. M.D. et al: \"A Cross-Cultural Study of \"Ceausescu's Orphans,\" (1992-03); Blom, G. et al: \"Program Touch – A Volunteer Intervention Program to Orphaned Disabled Children in Romania,\" (1991-11); Roth's reappointment as APA Chairperson of the Committee on Human Rights under the Council of International Affairs, (1992-04-13); draft of A.P.A. Action Paper Rescinding the 1982 APA Position on the Insanity Defense (1992-05-01); Pierce, Chester M. M.D.: \"Public Health and Human Rights: Racism, Torture and Terrorism,\" presented at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting (1992-05-04)","Files include translation of Croatian pamphlet: \"Protect Yourself and Help Others (1993-02); APA Office of International Affairs: Responses to Human Rights Questionnaire,\" (1993-08-18); Citizens Support Committee for the Psychiatric Farm Hospital Dr. Manuel Ramírez Moreno (1993-7-13)","correspondence and handwritten notes","evaluation forms and printed materials","Meetings between Ukrainian doctors Semyon F. Gluzman, Vladimir I. Poltavets, Valery N. Kutznetsov, Ada I. Korotenko, Oleg A, Nasinnik, Vladimir M. Cherniavsky and Juan Mezzich, American psychiatrist from the West Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh; also some case summaries (1994-02). Russian and English translation.","extensive correspondence, reports, handwritten notes. Savychyj, Jurij M.D.: \"Psychiatry in Ukraine,\" [1992]","correspondence, Ukrainian fliers, and handwritten notes","extensive correspondence, reports, data analysis, forms, handwritten notes (1995-05), \"Codebook\"","correspondence, clinical assessment forms, and handwritten notes","Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry. Annual Reports 1992 and 1995; Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry Nos. 65-67, 72, 74; \"Concepts for Developing Mental Health Care in Ukraine (First Draft),\" Developed by Experts of Ministry for Health Care, Kiev Research Institute of General and Forensic Psychiatry, Regional Chief Experts and Kiev Psychiatrists.","correspondence and forms","email correspondence, brochures, printed photographs","Joseph D. Bloom, Kyrill Borissow, William T. Carpenter, Robert W. Farrand, Robert M.A. Hirschfield, William H. Hopkins, Samuel Keith, Felix Kleyman, Andrei A. Kovalev, Ellen Mercer, John Monahan, Darrel A. Regier, Elmore F. Rigamer Jr, Carolyn Smith, Leon Stern","Includes: United States – Russia Health Committee 2000 – 2002, printed copies of photographs; The U.S.A. – Russia Health Committee: \"Access to Quality Health Care\" (draft), undated; \"Additional Materials on Diagnosing and Treating Mild and Moderate Depressions,\" [document in Russian with English title]","Gershman, Carl: Psychiatric Abuse in the Soviet Union,\" Society, July/August 1984; Lapenna, Ivo: \"The Medico-Legal Society. Use and Misuse of Psychiatry in the USSR,\" The Royal Society of Medicine, London 12th June 1986; McCready, John and Harold Merskey: \"Compliance by physicians with the 1978 Ontario Mental Health Act,\" Reprint from the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 124, March 15, 1981; McCready, John and Harold Merskey: \"On the Recoding of Mental Illness for Civil Commitment,\" Can. J. Psychiatry Vol. 27, March 1982; Slovenko, Ralph: Analysis. The Destiny of South Africa,\" The World and I, July 1991.","In 2021, members of the 1989 American delegation, some Soviet patients, Soviet doctors and other professionals, were invited to participate in the \"Retrospective Review of the 1989 U.S. State Department Psychiatric Mission to the USSR\" oral history project. Nineteen interviews were recorded, sixteen of them with the surviving members of the U.S. delegation, one with Andrei Kovalev, an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the U.S.S.R. at the time, and two with former \"Soviet patients.\" There is also an original 1989 recording of one interview.","These interviews provide a comprehensive overview of the history of Soviet psychiatric abuse, the reasons why psychiatric diagnosis was used to suppress dissent, the methods, medical and legal procedures, and who were the major players in Soviet psychiatric abuse. Emphasis is also made on assessing the U.S.-Soviet relationship in the 1980s and the special place that the 1989 State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. held in the détente. All stages of negotiations and preparations for the mission were discussed as well as the methodology of psychiatric evaluations and the findings of the American experts. An additional emphasis was also made on assessing the state of Soviet psychiatric care as of the late 1980s and all the significant changes it was going through at the time. The role of World Psychiatric Association (WPA), the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Narcologists, the American Psychiatric Association and other important organizations, is also given proper attention. The interviewees also discuss the long-term impact that the 1989 U.S. mission made on Soviet and post-Soviet psychiatry.","In the interview Dr. Bloom discusses his career, his interest in the topic of abuse of psychiatry and his involvement in the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric delegation to the U.S.S.R. He talks about the U.S. and Soviet (both Soviet professionals and Soviet interviewees) understanding of the purpose of the visit and  the Soviet's compliance with the terms negotiated for the visit. He also talks about psychiatric hospitalization, detention and commitment process in the U.S.S.R., conditions of hospitalization in Soviet psychiatric hospitals and the legal rights of persons with mental disorders in the U.S.S.R.  Dr. Bloom's explains his impressions from the trip to the Soviet Union and the conclusions made by the American delegation. ","The highlights of the interview pertain to Dr. Bloom's recollection of a Soviet person who allegedly had a mental disorder, and his opinion as to the way the American final report should have been approached.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. Borissow shares his life story and describes his career. He talks about getting involved in the 1989 State Department trip to the Soviet Union, his previous trips to the U.S.S.R., and the  social and political context that surrounded the visit and made it possible in the first place. Mr. Borissow describes his experience of interpreting in one of the psychiatric hospitals in Moscow as a part of the 1989 American mission as well as the work that Mr. Borissow's sub-team #3 did in Leningrad. He shares very interesting anecdotes that happened during the trip and talks about the lessons he learned during this trip.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","In the interview Dr. Carpenter discusses his career, his involvement in the 1989 US State Department psychiatric delegation to the USSR, the main goals of the mission, various aspects of the implementation in great detail, the diagnostic aspects of the study, interview instruments and methodology, the Soviet mental health care system and its shortcomings, the conclusions made by Dr. Carpenter's sub-team, the impact the American visit made to the interviewed individuals an mental health in the region. ","Dr. Carpenter also discusses the United States - Great Britain cross-national study of schizophrenia conducted in the 1960s and 70s and its pertinency to the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. He also talks about the broad diagnostic criteria for sluggish schizophrenia and how much contributed to the missuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Ambassador Farrand talks about his long successful career in the U.S. State Department, the importance of the Soviet psychiatric abuse to the U.S. government and the larger context of the U.S. - U.S.S.R. relationships. As a person who worked closely with Ambassador Richard Schifter for many years, Mr. Farrand describes Schifter's goals and vision of the 1989 psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. ","Mr. Farrand describes the process of negotiating the terms of the visit and shares insights about interacting with a superpower as the Soviet Union was at that time. He also talks about the the peculiarities of governance in the U.S.S.R., and power dynamics inside the country. Mr. Farrand describes the efforts to preserve transparency and independence of the mission as well as managing its financial aspects and its highlighting in media. Mr. Farrand also talks about glasnost, perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Hirschfeld shares memories about his education and career, the way he got involved in the 1989 State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R., the methodological approach to the patient interviews, the range of findings of his sub-team # 3 in Leningrad, and his general impressions of the Soviet Union as of 1989.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. Hopkins talks at length about the way he became immersed in the Russian studies, his education, and career. He well remembers the settings and arrangements of interviewing the Soviet citizens who allegedly had mental disorders, his expectations and apprehensions about the upcoming 1989 mission, the types of questions asked of the Soviet interviewees, and the peculiarities of his task as an interpreter during this unique venture. He also mentions the debrief that the entire American team had in Washington, D.C. after the visit was over.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. I. talks about his early life, family, education, how his dissident views formed and evolved with time. He shares about his repeated contacts with psychiatric system; he also describes his social and political activity and the repercussions he faced as a result. Mr. I. then tells about his criminal case, his forensic psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, \"symptoms\", finding of non-imputability, the legal procedure used to involuntarily commit him to the Dnepropetrovsk special psychiatric hospital, and the inhumane conditions there. \nMr. I. then describes his transfer to Nikolayev ordinary psychiatric hospital and release; he talks about his dissident activity that brought him back to the same hospital. He also describes his contacts with Ukrainian dissident movement at the end of 1980s and how he got on the list of people to be assessed by the U.S. team. The details of his participation in 1989 U.S. State Department mission are discussed next. Mr. I. then shares about the long-term impact this mission made on his life, his subsequent legal rehabilitation, being taken off the psychiatric register, the removal of his psychiatric diagnosis, his life and activism after 1989. Mr. I. describes some of his most interesting campaigns. The interview ends with a brief discussion of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how it affected Mr. I.'s life. ","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Keith talks about the role and expertise of NIMH that was crucial to the success of the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. He recapitulates the main points and stumbling blocks of the negotiations with the Soviets in November 1988, various organizational aspects of the mission, as well as the interview instruments and methodology used by the American team. Dr. Keith shares his opinion about the concept of sluggish schizophrenia, its diagnostic criteria, and other factors that made it possible to abuse psychiatry in the Soviet Union. He also emphasizes Soviet life, society, and governance as of 1989. Dr. Keith discusses the Soviets' admission of \"hyperdiagnoses\" and the validity of the excuse of \"hyperdiagnoses\" from the professional point of view. He also expresses his opinion about the tone of the final report and the general context that the American team had to keep in mind when drafting it. Dr. Keith describes Schizophrenia Bulletin and his role as its editor-in-chief. He also talks about the 1990 Soviet Reciprocal Visit to the U.S.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Kleyman is a great source of knowledge about the ins and outs of the Soviet mental health care system as the person who had about 10 years of professional experience on the ground. He talked about the uniqueness of his role during the American psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. that resulted from him being a native Russian speaker and being well familiar with life in the Soviet Union. Dr. Kleyman discusses the social and political context that surrounded the 1989 U.S. State Department visit and made it possible in the first place; the doctor patient relationship in the U.S.S.R.; Soviet diagnostic approaches and the role of Soviet psychiatrists during the American visit. Dr. Kleyman recalls his unique trip to Moscow Psychiatric Hospital # 5 to briefly speak with the patient who was claimed by the Soviets to have refused examination. He also talks about his experience as a member of the 1991 W.P.A. mission to the U.S.S.R.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. Kovalev tells about the role of various domestic and international actors in the process of democratization of the U.S.S.R. in the late 1980s and bringing human rights into the Soviet Union. He also assesses the political factors of the early 1980s that allowed Gorbachev come to power and retain it. Mr. Kovalev shares his insights about the Soviet foreign policy of the second half of 1980s-early 1990s and the U.S. - U.S.S.R. relationships. He shares his knowledge about the history of abuse of psychiatry and the reasons for resorting to it; the Soviet psychiatric register and the consequences of being on a register; the sealed instruction on involuntary commitment that existed but was not available to the public. Mr. Kovalev talks about the chain of decision making in ensuring that the American visit will actually happen and the key events on that road. He also comments on the internal tensions between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health (M.O.H.) as well as the resistance put up by the M.O.H. in organizing the American visit. He also shares his views about the \"system dissidents\" in the U.S.S.R.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Ms. Mercer talks about her career at the APA and the role that the APA played in advocating for the rights of the persons committed to psychiatric hospitals for non-medical reasons in the USSR. She then discusses the historical context for the 1989 State Department psychiatric delegation to the Soviet Union, including the 1977 Declaration of Hawaii and the All-Union Society's walking out of the WPA in 1983 in the face of an almost certain expulsion. Being a part of the November 1988 negotiation team to the Soviet Union, Ms. Mercer shares her thoughts about the negotiation process and the Soviet's compliance with the terms agreed upon. Ms. Mercer describes the field visit to Soviet psychiatric hospitals and then talks about the Soviet's readmission to the WPA, the role the 1989 U.S. State Department played in this process, the APA's and Ms. Mercer's personal stance with regard to the readmission. Ms. Mercer concludes by discussing the difference the American visit made in the big picture.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Monahan talks about his professional training and the highlights of his career, his memories from the 1989 American visit to the Soviet Union, including the goals of the visit,  its organizational aspects, and its media coverage. Dr. Monahan then focuses on the forensic evaluation methods and results, the rights of psychiatric patients in the Soviet Union, conditions of their hospitalization, treatment, and hospital staffing. Dr. Monahan concludes by describing his general impressions of Moscow and Leningrad and the conclusions the American team made as a result of the visit. ","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. Reddaway talks about his education and career and the way he became interested and immersed in the issue of abuse of psychiatry in the U.S.S.R. He discusses the impact that his and Sidney Bloch's 1977 and 1983 books made in the Soviet Union. He also shares his knowledge about the evolution of punitive psychiatry with each new Soviet leader. Mr. Reddaway talks about Mr. Gorbachev's personality, the political factors in the early 1980s that allowed for such a leader to emerge and retain power; the reasons for perestroika;  the peculiarities of perestroika in psychiatry versus other spheres. Mr. Reddaway gives a comprehensive overview of various internal processes in the Soviet Union at the end of 1980s that were important prerequisites for the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission. He discusses at length the role of the WPA in the battle against the abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. Mr. Reddaway also gives a detailed overview of the field inspections to Soviet psychiatric hospitals that he did as a member of the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","The interview with Dr. Regier is of critical importance for the comprehensive retrospective evaluation of the long-term impact of the 1989 State Department investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. Dr. Regier not only played a key role in the preparation and implementation of the mission, but also successfully continued to help develop the quality and accessibility of mental health services in Russia after the U.S.S.R. collapse. Dr. Regier also continued to tackle the issue of psychiatric abuse in China.  \nIn his interview, Dr. Regier gives a historical overview of the development of diagnostic criteria that was subsequently used during the U.S. State Department investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. relating to psychiatric abuse. This interview provides a great description of the methodology used during the interviews. Dr. Regier also describes the NIMH goals, unique role and contribution to the 1989 mission and shares his insights about the factors that made it possible to weaponize psychiatry against dissidents in the Soviet Union. Dr. Regier also tells about his role in the work of Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission in the area on mental health care in Russia post the Soviet Union breakup.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Roth describes his training and the highlights of his career; he then tells how he became interested in the issue of abuse of psychiatry in the U.S.S.R. His two human rights trips to the U.S.S.R. in 1985 and 1986 are discussed next. Dr. Roth then gives an overview of the general political background to the visit and tensions between him and Ambassador Schifter about some critical aspect of the visit. Dr. Roth then describes in detail the negotiation process between the U.S. and Soviet side, the main stumbling blocks, how he managed to overcome them, and who were his allies. Dr. Roth describes the Soviet uncooperativeness and tensions between the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He then talks about informed consents, interview procedures, and the visit dynamics. He shares some anecdotes and most memorable events; he also talks about the people who meaningfully contributed to making the mission successful.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. S. describes his early years, how his dissident views formed, his first arrest under Article 70 of the Criminal Code, his expert psychiatric evaluation at the Serbsky Institute, and the judicial procedure that followed. He describes his subsequent commitment in an 'ordinary' psychiatric hospital and shares insights about the internal regulations, regime, and the release procedure. He also talks about his next arrest and the legal aspects of it. Mr. S. shares his views about whether Soviet psychiatrists seriously believed that 'failure to adapt to the society' was a sign of mental illness and whether they can be blamed for presumably following the orders from above.  Mr. S. proceedes to describe his transfer to a special psychiatric hospital, the mass release of political prisoners in 1987, the reasons for such a drastic change of the political course in the Soviet Union, and gives an overview of the U.S. – U.S.S.R. relationship in the second half of the twentieth century. He then talks about how the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. fit into the broader human rights negotiations in the CSCE. Mr. S. tells how he taken off the psychiatric register\nand legally rehabilitated; he talks about the destiny of the Criminal Code 'political' articles 70 and 190-1 and current political articles in Russian Criminal Code used to suppress dissent.\nMr. S. shares about his life and political activity after 1989, his subsequent arrests, and his assessment of the evolution of civil and political freedom in Russia after 1989.\nHe then talks about the future of Russia, his own future as a dissident in Russia, and his views about the Russian war in Ukraine.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","In addition to the oral history given in 2022, this file contains a recording of an interview that Mr. S gave on March 2, 1989.","Ms. Smith shares her memories about interpreting for both 1989 U.S. State Department delegation and the 1991 WPA delegation to the Soviet Union. She explains how this experience compares to the other interesting projects she has been involved in throughout her career. She describes her most prominent memories about this job as well as the Soviet Union as of 1989. ","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Stern describes his career and his pathway from the Soviet Union to the U.S. He shares his insights about some aspects of Soviet history, the issue of psychiatric abuse, its roots and reasons the Soviet government resorted to psychiatry to oppress dissent. Dr. Stern talks about the major differences between special psychiatrist hospitals vs. ordinary psychiatrist hospitals and gives some excellent illustrations of \"symptoms\" that the Soviet school of psychiatry considered signs of mental disorder. Dr. Stern shares his opinion as to the reasons why Soviet psychiatrists engaged in unethical practices. Dr. Stern describes the field trip in great detail, including some anecdotes and specific instances. He concludes by identifying the most important changes needed in Soviet psychiatry at the time and assesses the overall success of the American mission to the Soviet Union. ","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","This file includes correspondence with Richard Schifter and Robert van Voren.","The Arthur J. Morris Law Library does not grant researchers permission to publish copies of any of the materials in this collection.","Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections","Roth, Loren H.","Bloom, Joseph D.","Borissow, Kyrill","Carpenter, William T.","Farrand, Robert William, 1934-","Hirschfeld, Robert M. A.","Hopkins, William H. 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Monahan did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeter Reddaway did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Darrel Regier did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the restrictions on access that applies to all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022),  Dr. Loren Roth requested that The University of Virginia only make his interview available to researchers on-site at the repository preserving the interview.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. S. did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022). However, due to the sensitive nature of the topics covered in the interview, the University of Virginia restricts access to both recordings according to the guidelines for more sensitive materials outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarolyn Smith did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the restrictions on access that applies to all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022),  Dr. Leon Stern requested that The University of Virginia only make his interview available to researchers on-site at the repository preserving the interview.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of persons from the Soviet Union. 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The following additional restrictions apply to any materials that contain the names of the interviewees of the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union and/or 1991 ad hoc mission to the Soviet Union by the World Psychiatric Association:","1. To obtain access to these records, interested researchers must sign a form to agree not to use, document, or disclose names of the patients or their families, or other identifying information about these persons and to abide by all the provisions specified in the present document. The form is available on site from the responsible official of the UVA Law Library. ","2. These materials may not be copied, photographed, or otherwise reproduced digitally. ","3. Before accessing the requested materials, interested researchers must agree to abide by reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, as approved by the UVA Law Library, to prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of the information. These procedures shall be followed by all persons associated with the applicant's research project.  ","4. Records in this category are also subject to the following safeguards: (i) Any information that would permit the identification of an individual (names, biographical data, etc.) may not be used, documented, or made public by the researcher, nor will any attempt to contact them be made. However, this does not preclude the researcher from contacting a person in advance of gaining access, for the purpose of obtaining access.  (ii) If a researcher obtains written authorization for access from an interviewee or from his/her legal guardian, the records may be made available to that researcher. (iii) Interviewees themselves may have free access to their own health information if contained in this collection. ","5. If the University of Virginia Law Library discovers that a researcher has violated the confidentiality of information or the conditions of access, the Law Library shall take steps to revoke the research privileges of the researcher and shall consult with University of Virginia legal counsel to prevent further disclosure of the health information.","Finally, different access restrictions may apply to some of the items in  this collection. Whenever possible, archivists have made a note of these restrictions in other parts of the finding aid.","There are access restrictions on some of the materials in this series. When a file or item is restricted, an additional note explaining the conditions of access is attached to the file or item description.","The items in these folders contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contains sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed by the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed in the U.S.S.R. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed in the U.S.S.R. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed in the U.S.S.R. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of the persons interviewed in the U.S.S.R. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","The interviews with the former Soviet patients and the original 1989 recording are restricted and special permissions apply.","Dr. Joseph D. Bloom did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Kyrill Borissow did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Dr. William Carpenter did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Robert William Farrand did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Dr. Robert Hirschfeld did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","William Hopkins did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Mr. I. did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022). However, due to the sensitive nature of the topics covered in the interview, the University of Virginia restricts access according to the guidelines for more sensitive materials outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","Dr. Samuel Keith did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Dr. Felix Kleyman did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Andrey Kovalev did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Ellen Mercer did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Dr. John T. Monahan did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Peter Reddaway did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","Dr. Darrel Regier did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","In addition to the restrictions on access that applies to all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022),  Dr. Loren Roth requested that The University of Virginia only make his interview available to researchers on-site at the repository preserving the interview.","Mr. S. did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022). However, due to the sensitive nature of the topics covered in the interview, the University of Virginia restricts access to both recordings according to the guidelines for more sensitive materials outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","Carolyn Smith did not request any additional restrictions on access to this interview beyond those that the University of Virginia has made for all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022).","In addition to the restrictions on access that applies to all the oral histories from the Soviet Psychiatry Oral History Project (2021-2022),  Dr. Leon Stern requested that The University of Virginia only make his interview available to researchers on-site at the repository preserving the interview.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of persons from the Soviet Union. The restrictions on access to these materials are outlined in the Conditions Governing Access note at the collection level of this finding aid.","This file contain sensitive information about the health or treatment of persons from the Soviet Union. 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In a 1959 speech attributed to Khrushchev, he allegedly attempted to justify putting dissidents in psychiatric hospitals by saying that only a mentally ill person may be opposed to Communism (1). While there also were \"political\" parts of the R.S.F.S.R. Criminal Code that criminalized anti-Soviet agitation and slander of the Soviet state, psychiatry was often used to isolate dissidents, punish them with psychiatric drugs, discredit their ideas, and avoid criminal law procedures.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe \"Sluggish schizophrenia\" concept developed by academician Snezhnevsky had overly broad diagnostic criteria that allowed the diagnosis of schizophrenia in patients who showed no symptoms, on the assumption that these symptoms would appear later (2). In almost every case, dissidents were examined at the Serbsky Central Research Institute for Forensic Psychiatry.\nInformation about Soviet repressive psychiatry became well-known in the West after 1971 dissident Vladimir Bukovsky smuggled over 150 pages documenting the political abuse of psychiatric institutions in the Soviet Union into the West. The papers were studied by independent psychiatrists in several countries and released to the press (3). \"Bukovsky's papers\" galvanized human rights activists worldwide and those within the Soviet Union.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWhile the attempt to bring the matter to the official agenda of the World Psychiatric Association (W.P.A.) at their 1971 World Congress in Mexico was unsuccessful, it kept gaining more and more outcry worldwide. So, in 1977, the W.P.A. adopted the Hawaii Declaration – a milestone defining principles of good and ethical medical practice. The All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Narcologists, the official Soviet professional organization, was bound to withdraw from the W.P.A. at its next Congress in 1983—the allegations of the political abuse of psychiatry inflicted irretrievable damage on the prestige of Soviet medicine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1975, the Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries signed the Helsinki Accords - the key document of the Conference of Security and Cooperation in Europe (C.S.C.E.). The Accords signaled a détente between the East and the West and built the foundation for the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Soviet disarmament talks, and the \"third basket\" on human rights and freedoms in the Soviet Union.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMikhail Gorbachev, who became the head of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, prioritized the improvement of U.S.-Soviet relations. Also, Gorbachev launched the domestic \"perestroika\" (restructuring) and \"glasnost\" (openness) initiatives. These combined foreign and domestic policy developments fostered interest, internally and externally, in the plight of Soviet political prisoners. The Soviet Union released many political prisoners from labor camps, and in April 1987, Secretary Schultz and Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Shevardnadze agreed on a human rights dialog (4). As part of this broader dialog, in September 1987, the Soviet representatives began to try to assure their American counterparts that the abuse of psychiatry had ended (5).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNotes:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Khrushchev had said this in a speech published in the state newspaper Pravda on 24 May 1959: A crime is a deviation from generally recognized standards of behaviour frequently caused by mental disorder. Can there be diseases, nervous disorders among certain people in a Communist society? Evidently yes. If that is so, then there will also be offences, which are characteristic of people with abnormal minds. Of those who might start calling for opposition to Communism on this basis, we can say that clearly their mental state is not normal.\nKnapp, Martin, et al. Mental Health Policy and Practice Across Europe: The Future Direction of Mental Health Care, McGraw-Hill Education, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uva/detail.action?docID=316293.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Sfera, Adonis. Can psychiatry be misused again?. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 9 September 2013;(4):101. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00101. PMID 24058348.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. For more information, see Reddaway, Peter (12 March 1971). \"Plea to West on Soviet 'mad-house' jails\". The Times. p. 8.; Bloch, Sidney; Reddaway, Peter (1984). Soviet Psychiatric Abuse. The Shadow Over World Psychiatry. London: Gollancz.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4. Schifter-Adamishin book, timeline, page xix\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e5. Id, pages xix and xx\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring the late 1980s, U.S.-Soviet discussions about the abuse of psychiatry led to the formation of a special U.S. delegation to the Soviet Union. In February 1989, the U.S.S.R. allowed the delegation to independently assess 27 Soviet citizens believed to have been psychiatrically committed for non-medical reasons. The U.S.S.R. also allowed the delegation to inspect ordinary psychiatric hospitals and other hospitals known as \"psychoprisons.\" The U.S. delegation's psychiatric leader was Dr. Loren Roth of the University of Pittsburgh. The U.S. State Department organized the trip, closely cooperating with the American Psychiatric Association and the National Institute of Mental Health. Their Soviet counterparts were the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Soviet Ministry of Health and the conservative leadership of Soviet psychiatry, both believed to have been deeply involved in abuse, internally opposed the visit. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs overcame this opposition, and their support was critical to the U.S. delegation's success.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. delegation consisted of leading experts in psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychology, law, and Sovietology. Also, it included a representative of the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.), and émigré Soviet psychiatrists living in the United States.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom April 1988 onward, Dr. Loren Roth engaged in extensive negotiations with his Soviet counterparts on the details of the visit. They discussed the list of people (\"patients\") to be assessed by the delegation and the processes for obtaining their consent. There were difficult negotiations over the presence of Soviet psychiatrists during the examinations, and the need to protect the interviewees from potential intimidation and retaliation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. delegation advocated for and adopted critical precautions to ensure the transparency of the mission and its findings. They used scientifically developed structural psychiatric interview schedules, brought U.S. interpreters to assist the delegation, avoided sharing the cost of the trip with the Soviet side, collected urine samples to rule out overmedication, videotaped the interviews, and spoke with friends/relatives of those interviewed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlthough there was a significant risk that the Soviet Union would cancel the delegation's visit, it occurred between February and March, 1989. The American team evaluated 27 Soviet citizens and inspected special psychiatric hospitals in Kazan and Chernyakhovsk as well as ordinary psychiatric hospitals in Vilnius and Kaunas.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAmong those interviewed by the U.S. team were people still hospitalized, and those who had been previously discharged. The American team was greatly assisted by Mr. Aleksandr \"Sasha\" Podrabinek, the Soviet and, subsequently, Russian dissident. He was an expert on the issue of abuse of psychiatry and author of the 1979 book \"Punitive Medicine\" (see references). Mr. Podrabinek facilitated access to those who had been previously released and claimed to be unavailable by Soviet counterparts.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. team detailed their conclusions in their final report, \"Assessment of Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry\" (available in this collection), which researchers are encouraged to read. The Soviet Union responded officially with its own report.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe 1989 visit laid a foundation for subsequent collaboration between the two countries in the area of mental health. The U.S.-Russia Health Committee met from 1994 to 2000 as a part of a larger Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission. It focused, in particular, on mental health care during disasters and the primary care physician's role in caring for patients with depression.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eShortly after the American mission was over, the W.P.A. congress in Athens decided to provisionally readmit the Soviet All-Union Society after receiving an official, although somewhat vague, admission of the past wrongdoings (covered in detail in On Dissidents and Madness by Robert van Voren). In 1991, the W.P.A. undertook an ad hoc psychiatric inspection of the Soviet Union that Dr. Jim Birley headed. Dr. Loren Roth and other experts who served on the 1989 U.S. State Department mission joined this inspection.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1990, a delegation of Soviet psychiatrists and politicians visited the United States for an educational trip to American psychiatric services and scholarly dialogues.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nResearchers are encouraged to read the resources listed below to gain a better understanding of the historical events surrounding the 1989 delegation:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e- the Schizophrenia Bulletin (supplement to Vol 15, # 4, 1989), which contains the brief overview of the reasons, methodology, and findings of the American team in the U.S., the final report of the U.S. delegation both in English and Russian, as well as the Soviet response in both languages (Hyperlink1)\n- The New York Times article \"Accord Is Sought by U.S. And Soviet on Mental Wards\" of May 22, 1988\n- The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Volume 49, Number 4, 2021 \"Jonas Rappeport: A Direct, Accomplished AAPL Leader\" by Dr. Loren Roth\n- Report by the World Psychiatric Association Team on the Visit to the Soviet Union, 9-29 June 1991, headed by Dr. Jim Burley\n- Human Rights, Perestroika, and the End of the Cold War co-authored by Anatoly Adamishin and Richard Schifter in 2009\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 2021, three decades after the 1989 trip to assess the conditions of Soviet citizens confined in psychiatric hospitals for political reasons, an oral history project was initiated to document it. Loren H. Roth, Ellen Mercer, and Richard Bonnie, three members of the delegation, had always wanted to evaluate if the mission had had any lasting impact on the lives of the people interviewed and on the quality and ethical integrity of psychiatric care in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The oral history project began in conjunction with the donation of Loren Roth's papers to the University of Virginia School of Law Library. Olena Protsenko, a Ukrainian human rights lawyer, organized Roth's papers and began researching related collections. Richard Bonnie's papers and Saleem Shah's files on the abuse of psychiatry, also part of the University of Virginia Law Library manuscript collections, were essential to the project's development.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Joseph D. Bloom was one of the few forensic psychiatrists on the 1989 U.S. Department of State Delegation to the Soviet Union to investigate the abuse of psychiatry. Bloom is Dean Emeritus of the Oregon Health and Science University and Clinical Professor at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Arizona Fenix College of Medicine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Borissow is an American of a Russian descend. He was a contract interpreter for the U.S. State Department for many years. During the 1989 trip, he was on the sub-team # 3 under the leadership of Dr. Hirschfeld, interpreting in Leningrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. William Carpenter was leader of team #2 of the 1989 American investigative scientific mission to the Soviet Union. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and former Director of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert William Farrand retired in 1998 after 34 years in the U.S. Foreign Service. He served as Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu from 1990 until 1993. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1988-89 he led the U.S. delegation of medical and forensic professionals to investigate the Soviet Union's political weaponizing of psychiatry, for which he received a Superior Honor Award.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFarrand was concurrently Supervisor of the Bosnian city of Brčko and Deputy High Representative for the northern sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997 to 2000).  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Robert Hirschfeld is Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He was the team leader of team # 3 during the 1989 psychiatric delegation to the U.S.S.R.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. William Hopkins is a retired U.S. State Department staff interpreter. During the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission to the USSR, he interpreted for team # 2 under the leadership of Dr. William Carpenter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. I. is a Soviet/Ukrainian dissident who was repeatedly involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital for political reasons. He was one of the people interviewed by the U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Keith is the Emeritus Milton Rosenbaum Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He was a Deputy Director and Associate Director for Schizophrenia Programs at the NIMH as of 1989. He was the team leader of team # 1 during the 1989 psychiatric delegation to the U.S.S.R.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Felix Kleyman is a psychiatrist practicing in New York City. At the time of the 1989 U.S. State Department mission to the Soviet Union to investigate abuse of psychiatry, Dr. Kleyman was an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College. Dr. Kleyman was one of the few Russian-speaking, U.S.S.R. and U.S.-trained psychiatrists on the American team. Dr. Kleyman was also a member of the 1991 W.P.A.  mission to the Soviet Union once the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Narcologists was provisionally readmitted to the W.P.A.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs of 1989, Mr. Kovalev was a Senior Advisor of the Department for International Humanitarian and Cultural Relations at the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was charged with bringing Soviet legislation and practice in line with the international obligations of the U.S.S.R. Mr. Kovalev was responsible for the development and implementation of the psychiatric reform, including the organization of the visit of the American psychiatric delegation in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the time of the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. Ms. Mercer was the Director of the A.P.A. Office of International Affairs. She is believed to be one of the initiators of the visit and was deeply involved in its planning and preparation as the representative of the American Psychiatric Association (A.P.A.). During the visit itself, she was a member of the team inspecting psychiatric hospitals on the ground.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn T. Monahan is the John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, Hunton Andrews Kurth Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He was the only forensic psychologist on the 1989 U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the Soviet Union.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Reddaway is a renowned expert on Russian and Soviet politics, author of many books and publications. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Darrel Regier was the Scientific Director of the 1989 State Department investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. and coordinated all aspects of the clinical assessment procedure. Dr. Regier completed twenty-five years at the National Institute of Mental Health (N.I.M.H.), during which time he directed three research divisions in the areas of epidemiology, prevention, clinical research, and health services research. Dr. Regier is currently a Senior Scientist at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, in the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University. He also serves as an independent senior scientific consultant to the American Psychiatric Association (A.P.A.) on DSM-5 and research related issues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Roth was the psychiatric leader of the 1989 U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. Following 44 years of distinguished service to the Department of Psychiatry and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Loren H. Roth, M.D., M.P.H., was recognized and awarded Emeritus status at a special reception following the Department's Annual Research Day held June 7, 2018. \nPrior to his being an Emeritus Professor, for the previous five years Dr. Roth was the Associate Senior Vice Chancellor, Clinic Policy and Planning, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Health Policy and Management, and Clinical and Translational Science; and Senior Advisor, Quality, UPMC Health Plan.  In addition to his many academic positions, Dr. Roth has held multiple leadership roles at UPMC culminating in his being the first Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (U.P.M.C.) (2003-2007).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. S. is a Soviet/Russian dissident who was repeatedly involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital for political reasons. He was one of the people interviewed by the U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. in 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFluent in English and Russian, Ms. Smith was a contract interpreter for the U.S. State Department for many years. She interpreted for both the 1989 American delegation and the 1991 WPA delegation to the Soviet Union. During the 1989 trip, she was on the sub-team # 1 under the leadership of Dr. Samuel J. Keith, M.D. interpreting in Moscow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Leon Stern is a Russian-speaking psychiatrist who was a member of the field team that inspected four psychiatric hospitals across the Soviet Union. Dr. Stern is a psychiatrist in private practice.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["History of the Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists in the U.S.S.R.","History of the 1989 U.S. State Department Investigative Mission to the U.S.S.R.","History of the 2021-2022 Oral History Project","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["While it is understood that the misuse of psychiatry for non-medical reasons allegedly started in the U.S.S.R. after the October Revolution of 1917, its widespread and systematic use as a tool to silence political dissent became well-documented during Khrushchev's era. In a 1959 speech attributed to Khrushchev, he allegedly attempted to justify putting dissidents in psychiatric hospitals by saying that only a mentally ill person may be opposed to Communism (1). While there also were \"political\" parts of the R.S.F.S.R. Criminal Code that criminalized anti-Soviet agitation and slander of the Soviet state, psychiatry was often used to isolate dissidents, punish them with psychiatric drugs, discredit their ideas, and avoid criminal law procedures.","The \"Sluggish schizophrenia\" concept developed by academician Snezhnevsky had overly broad diagnostic criteria that allowed the diagnosis of schizophrenia in patients who showed no symptoms, on the assumption that these symptoms would appear later (2). In almost every case, dissidents were examined at the Serbsky Central Research Institute for Forensic Psychiatry.\nInformation about Soviet repressive psychiatry became well-known in the West after 1971 dissident Vladimir Bukovsky smuggled over 150 pages documenting the political abuse of psychiatric institutions in the Soviet Union into the West. The papers were studied by independent psychiatrists in several countries and released to the press (3). \"Bukovsky's papers\" galvanized human rights activists worldwide and those within the Soviet Union.","While the attempt to bring the matter to the official agenda of the World Psychiatric Association (W.P.A.) at their 1971 World Congress in Mexico was unsuccessful, it kept gaining more and more outcry worldwide. So, in 1977, the W.P.A. adopted the Hawaii Declaration – a milestone defining principles of good and ethical medical practice. The All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Narcologists, the official Soviet professional organization, was bound to withdraw from the W.P.A. at its next Congress in 1983—the allegations of the political abuse of psychiatry inflicted irretrievable damage on the prestige of Soviet medicine.","In 1975, the Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries signed the Helsinki Accords - the key document of the Conference of Security and Cooperation in Europe (C.S.C.E.). The Accords signaled a détente between the East and the West and built the foundation for the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Soviet disarmament talks, and the \"third basket\" on human rights and freedoms in the Soviet Union.","Mikhail Gorbachev, who became the head of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, prioritized the improvement of U.S.-Soviet relations. Also, Gorbachev launched the domestic \"perestroika\" (restructuring) and \"glasnost\" (openness) initiatives. These combined foreign and domestic policy developments fostered interest, internally and externally, in the plight of Soviet political prisoners. The Soviet Union released many political prisoners from labor camps, and in April 1987, Secretary Schultz and Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Shevardnadze agreed on a human rights dialog (4). As part of this broader dialog, in September 1987, the Soviet representatives began to try to assure their American counterparts that the abuse of psychiatry had ended (5).","Notes:","1. Khrushchev had said this in a speech published in the state newspaper Pravda on 24 May 1959: A crime is a deviation from generally recognized standards of behaviour frequently caused by mental disorder. Can there be diseases, nervous disorders among certain people in a Communist society? Evidently yes. If that is so, then there will also be offences, which are characteristic of people with abnormal minds. Of those who might start calling for opposition to Communism on this basis, we can say that clearly their mental state is not normal.\nKnapp, Martin, et al. Mental Health Policy and Practice Across Europe: The Future Direction of Mental Health Care, McGraw-Hill Education, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uva/detail.action?docID=316293.","2. Sfera, Adonis. Can psychiatry be misused again?. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 9 September 2013;(4):101. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00101. PMID 24058348.","3. For more information, see Reddaway, Peter (12 March 1971). \"Plea to West on Soviet 'mad-house' jails\". The Times. p. 8.; Bloch, Sidney; Reddaway, Peter (1984). Soviet Psychiatric Abuse. The Shadow Over World Psychiatry. London: Gollancz.","4. Schifter-Adamishin book, timeline, page xix","5. Id, pages xix and xx","During the late 1980s, U.S.-Soviet discussions about the abuse of psychiatry led to the formation of a special U.S. delegation to the Soviet Union. In February 1989, the U.S.S.R. allowed the delegation to independently assess 27 Soviet citizens believed to have been psychiatrically committed for non-medical reasons. The U.S.S.R. also allowed the delegation to inspect ordinary psychiatric hospitals and other hospitals known as \"psychoprisons.\" The U.S. delegation's psychiatric leader was Dr. Loren Roth of the University of Pittsburgh. The U.S. State Department organized the trip, closely cooperating with the American Psychiatric Association and the National Institute of Mental Health. Their Soviet counterparts were the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Soviet Ministry of Health and the conservative leadership of Soviet psychiatry, both believed to have been deeply involved in abuse, internally opposed the visit. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs overcame this opposition, and their support was critical to the U.S. delegation's success.","The U.S. delegation consisted of leading experts in psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychology, law, and Sovietology. Also, it included a representative of the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.), and émigré Soviet psychiatrists living in the United States.","From April 1988 onward, Dr. Loren Roth engaged in extensive negotiations with his Soviet counterparts on the details of the visit. They discussed the list of people (\"patients\") to be assessed by the delegation and the processes for obtaining their consent. There were difficult negotiations over the presence of Soviet psychiatrists during the examinations, and the need to protect the interviewees from potential intimidation and retaliation.","The U.S. delegation advocated for and adopted critical precautions to ensure the transparency of the mission and its findings. They used scientifically developed structural psychiatric interview schedules, brought U.S. interpreters to assist the delegation, avoided sharing the cost of the trip with the Soviet side, collected urine samples to rule out overmedication, videotaped the interviews, and spoke with friends/relatives of those interviewed.","Although there was a significant risk that the Soviet Union would cancel the delegation's visit, it occurred between February and March, 1989. The American team evaluated 27 Soviet citizens and inspected special psychiatric hospitals in Kazan and Chernyakhovsk as well as ordinary psychiatric hospitals in Vilnius and Kaunas.","Among those interviewed by the U.S. team were people still hospitalized, and those who had been previously discharged. The American team was greatly assisted by Mr. Aleksandr \"Sasha\" Podrabinek, the Soviet and, subsequently, Russian dissident. He was an expert on the issue of abuse of psychiatry and author of the 1979 book \"Punitive Medicine\" (see references). Mr. Podrabinek facilitated access to those who had been previously released and claimed to be unavailable by Soviet counterparts.","The U.S. team detailed their conclusions in their final report, \"Assessment of Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry\" (available in this collection), which researchers are encouraged to read. The Soviet Union responded officially with its own report.","The 1989 visit laid a foundation for subsequent collaboration between the two countries in the area of mental health. The U.S.-Russia Health Committee met from 1994 to 2000 as a part of a larger Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission. It focused, in particular, on mental health care during disasters and the primary care physician's role in caring for patients with depression.","Shortly after the American mission was over, the W.P.A. congress in Athens decided to provisionally readmit the Soviet All-Union Society after receiving an official, although somewhat vague, admission of the past wrongdoings (covered in detail in On Dissidents and Madness by Robert van Voren). In 1991, the W.P.A. undertook an ad hoc psychiatric inspection of the Soviet Union that Dr. Jim Birley headed. Dr. Loren Roth and other experts who served on the 1989 U.S. State Department mission joined this inspection.","In 1990, a delegation of Soviet psychiatrists and politicians visited the United States for an educational trip to American psychiatric services and scholarly dialogues.","\nResearchers are encouraged to read the resources listed below to gain a better understanding of the historical events surrounding the 1989 delegation:","- the Schizophrenia Bulletin (supplement to Vol 15, # 4, 1989), which contains the brief overview of the reasons, methodology, and findings of the American team in the U.S., the final report of the U.S. delegation both in English and Russian, as well as the Soviet response in both languages (Hyperlink1)\n- The New York Times article \"Accord Is Sought by U.S. And Soviet on Mental Wards\" of May 22, 1988\n- The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Volume 49, Number 4, 2021 \"Jonas Rappeport: A Direct, Accomplished AAPL Leader\" by Dr. Loren Roth\n- Report by the World Psychiatric Association Team on the Visit to the Soviet Union, 9-29 June 1991, headed by Dr. Jim Burley\n- Human Rights, Perestroika, and the End of the Cold War co-authored by Anatoly Adamishin and Richard Schifter in 2009","In 2021, three decades after the 1989 trip to assess the conditions of Soviet citizens confined in psychiatric hospitals for political reasons, an oral history project was initiated to document it. Loren H. Roth, Ellen Mercer, and Richard Bonnie, three members of the delegation, had always wanted to evaluate if the mission had had any lasting impact on the lives of the people interviewed and on the quality and ethical integrity of psychiatric care in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The oral history project began in conjunction with the donation of Loren Roth's papers to the University of Virginia School of Law Library. Olena Protsenko, a Ukrainian human rights lawyer, organized Roth's papers and began researching related collections. Richard Bonnie's papers and Saleem Shah's files on the abuse of psychiatry, also part of the University of Virginia Law Library manuscript collections, were essential to the project's development.","Dr. Joseph D. Bloom was one of the few forensic psychiatrists on the 1989 U.S. Department of State Delegation to the Soviet Union to investigate the abuse of psychiatry. Bloom is Dean Emeritus of the Oregon Health and Science University and Clinical Professor at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Arizona Fenix College of Medicine.","Mr. Borissow is an American of a Russian descend. He was a contract interpreter for the U.S. State Department for many years. During the 1989 trip, he was on the sub-team # 3 under the leadership of Dr. Hirschfeld, interpreting in Leningrad.","Dr. William Carpenter was leader of team #2 of the 1989 American investigative scientific mission to the Soviet Union. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and former Director of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center.","Robert William Farrand retired in 1998 after 34 years in the U.S. Foreign Service. He served as Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu from 1990 until 1993. ","In 1988-89 he led the U.S. delegation of medical and forensic professionals to investigate the Soviet Union's political weaponizing of psychiatry, for which he received a Superior Honor Award.","Farrand was concurrently Supervisor of the Bosnian city of Brčko and Deputy High Representative for the northern sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997 to 2000).  ","Dr. Robert Hirschfeld is Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He was the team leader of team # 3 during the 1989 psychiatric delegation to the U.S.S.R.","Mr. William Hopkins is a retired U.S. State Department staff interpreter. During the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission to the USSR, he interpreted for team # 2 under the leadership of Dr. William Carpenter.","Mr. I. is a Soviet/Ukrainian dissident who was repeatedly involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital for political reasons. He was one of the people interviewed by the U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. in 1989.","Dr. Keith is the Emeritus Milton Rosenbaum Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He was a Deputy Director and Associate Director for Schizophrenia Programs at the NIMH as of 1989. He was the team leader of team # 1 during the 1989 psychiatric delegation to the U.S.S.R.","Dr. Felix Kleyman is a psychiatrist practicing in New York City. At the time of the 1989 U.S. State Department mission to the Soviet Union to investigate abuse of psychiatry, Dr. Kleyman was an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College. Dr. Kleyman was one of the few Russian-speaking, U.S.S.R. and U.S.-trained psychiatrists on the American team. Dr. Kleyman was also a member of the 1991 W.P.A.  mission to the Soviet Union once the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Narcologists was provisionally readmitted to the W.P.A.","As of 1989, Mr. Kovalev was a Senior Advisor of the Department for International Humanitarian and Cultural Relations at the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was charged with bringing Soviet legislation and practice in line with the international obligations of the U.S.S.R. Mr. Kovalev was responsible for the development and implementation of the psychiatric reform, including the organization of the visit of the American psychiatric delegation in 1989.","At the time of the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. Ms. Mercer was the Director of the A.P.A. Office of International Affairs. She is believed to be one of the initiators of the visit and was deeply involved in its planning and preparation as the representative of the American Psychiatric Association (A.P.A.). During the visit itself, she was a member of the team inspecting psychiatric hospitals on the ground.","John T. Monahan is the John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, Hunton Andrews Kurth Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He was the only forensic psychologist on the 1989 U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the Soviet Union.","Mr. Reddaway is a renowned expert on Russian and Soviet politics, author of many books and publications. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.","Dr. Darrel Regier was the Scientific Director of the 1989 State Department investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. and coordinated all aspects of the clinical assessment procedure. Dr. Regier completed twenty-five years at the National Institute of Mental Health (N.I.M.H.), during which time he directed three research divisions in the areas of epidemiology, prevention, clinical research, and health services research. Dr. Regier is currently a Senior Scientist at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, in the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University. He also serves as an independent senior scientific consultant to the American Psychiatric Association (A.P.A.) on DSM-5 and research related issues.","Dr. Roth was the psychiatric leader of the 1989 U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. Following 44 years of distinguished service to the Department of Psychiatry and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Loren H. Roth, M.D., M.P.H., was recognized and awarded Emeritus status at a special reception following the Department's Annual Research Day held June 7, 2018. \nPrior to his being an Emeritus Professor, for the previous five years Dr. Roth was the Associate Senior Vice Chancellor, Clinic Policy and Planning, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Health Policy and Management, and Clinical and Translational Science; and Senior Advisor, Quality, UPMC Health Plan.  In addition to his many academic positions, Dr. Roth has held multiple leadership roles at UPMC culminating in his being the first Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (U.P.M.C.) (2003-2007).","Mr. S. is a Soviet/Russian dissident who was repeatedly involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital for political reasons. He was one of the people interviewed by the U.S. State Department investigative psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. in 1989.","Fluent in English and Russian, Ms. Smith was a contract interpreter for the U.S. State Department for many years. She interpreted for both the 1989 American delegation and the 1991 WPA delegation to the Soviet Union. During the 1989 trip, she was on the sub-team # 1 under the leadership of Dr. Samuel J. Keith, M.D. interpreting in Moscow.","Dr. Leon Stern is a Russian-speaking psychiatrist who was a member of the field team that inspected four psychiatric hospitals across the Soviet Union. Dr. Stern is a psychiatrist in private practice."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko processed this collection. She was a post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["Olena Protsenko processed this collection. She was a post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is divided into two series. The first series, \"abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists\", consists of subject files compiled by Dr. Loren Roth, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. They are evidence of Dr. Roth's efforts to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union. The subject files contain correspondence, articles, reports, evaluations, meeting minutes, agendas, planning materials, diaries, photographs, memoranda, handwritten notes, programs, books, videotapes, ephemera, and other items. Together, these materials date from around 1950 to 2008. However the bulk of them date from the 1970s to the 1990s, when Dr. Roth participated in U.S. delegations to the former Soviet Union and was part of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Committees on Human Rights and International Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe second series consists of materials that were gathered and produced for the \"Retrospective Review of the 1989 U.S. State Department Psychiatric Mission to the U.S.S.R.\" project. These materials include oral history interviews with individuals involved with the 1989 mission, a 1989 recorded interview with a psychiatric patient, project correspondence, biographical files, interview minutes, and an organizational chart. Most of the items in this series date from the time of the project, 2021 to 2022.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of subject files that Dr. Loren Henry Roth assembled and used while working to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, emphasizing abuse in the former Soviet Union. The files contain correspondence, memoranda, meeting documents, articles, reports, lists, forms, evaluations, photographs, diaries, and other materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorld Psychiatric Association Proposed Declaration of Hawaii; \"Honolulu Paper\": Somerville, John: \"Ethics and Psychiatry,\" (1977); Committee of French Psychiatrists Against The Political Uses of Psychiatry Special Bulletin, the World Congress of Psychiatry in Hawaii; newspaper clippings from Hawaiian newspapers (1977). APA white paper: \"Misuse and Abuse of Psychiatry in the U.S.: A definition and Discussion,\" (1991); correspondence and papers of Paul Chodoff, (1989-1990 and undated); Helmchen, H. and A. Okasha: \"From the Hawaii Declaration to the Declaration of Madrid,\" Acta Psychiatr Scand 200:101: 2023\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of the Report to the Board of Trustees, American Psychiatric Association of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Use of Psychiatric Institutions for the Commitment of Political Dissenters (1972); Boekovski Berichten Bukovsky News: The Case of Irina Grivnina (1985?); Statement of Dr. Algirdas Statkevicius to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1988); copy of letter from Peter Reddaway to Viktor Nakas, Leon Stern, Robert van Voren and Algirdas Statkevicius (1989); copy of translation of SB case (1987-1989); U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee [memorandum] re Shatravka Family (1988); Committee of Concerned Scientists, Inc \"Call for Action for Three Soviet Former Prisoners of Conscience,\" (1988); and newspaper clippings mainly of Pyotr G. Grigorenko and Anatoly Koryagin\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Special Report, The Medical Profession and the Prevention of Torture,\" The New England Journal of Medicine (October 1985); \"Sowing fear: The Uses of Torture and Psychological Abuse in Chile,\" A Report by Physicians for Human Rights (October 1988); Proposal. Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims [RCT], New York, NY and Roseland, New Jersey (undated); RCT International Newsletter on Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (1990-1991); RCT IRCT [International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims]: Torture [packet of documents] (1991-1992); Jacobsen, Lone and Pete Vesti: Torture Survivors – a New Group of Patients, The Danish Nurses Organization, 1990; Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHuman Rights Task Force of the APA survey on human rights organizations (1984); Human Rights Survey Responses (1988); Human Rights Cases Monitored by the APA (1990); photocopy of European Convention on Human Rights Collected Texts, Strasbourg, 1965.  Folder includes an incomplete set of The World Medical Association press releases (1975-1990), printed materials and news clippings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments from the Ninth Session of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Committee for Health Cooperation, (1988-11-17); Trip Report – P.H.S. Delegation Visit to the Soviet Union  November 13-20, 1988 Ninth U.S.-U.S.S.R. Health Committee Meeting (1989-01-25); Summary of Cooperation in Health Between the US Public Health Service and the Ministry of Health of the U.S.S.R. (1989-01-26); Peter Henry thoughts re Implications of Trip for U.S.-Soviet Health Agreement (1989-02-02)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoth's printed account of trip that he made with Rabbi Mark Staitman, Larry Hurwitz, cardiologist;  Harold and Esther Garfinkel, community leaders; Joy Weber, science writer, and Rabbi Jonathan Stein. September 20-October 1, 1986. (2 versions)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Roth and Ambassador Schifter's preliminary planning documents for the U.S. mission to the U.S.S.R. in April of 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAPA Memorandum re \"use of psychiatry for political purposes\" (1988-03-21); [USSR] Regulations for Psychiatric Hospitals, LS No. 124600 JS/AO Russian, Appendix to Decree No. 225 of the USSR Ministry of Public Health, 21 March 1988; Pre-summit discussions. Report of Soviet Contact (1988-03-23): Gennadi N. Milyokhin, M.D. visit to Parklawn;  [Unedited] On the Record Briefing of Richard Schifter, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs,  March 25, 1988\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeter Reddaway: \"Will Perestroika End Political Abuse in Soviet Psychiatry?\" (1988-07-03); copy of pages 5-6 of \"Argumenty I fakty\" No. 11/1987, [Reporter V. Romanenko interviews with  Dr. Marat Vartanyan (1987- 03-21-27)]; anonymous draft \"Ground Rounds\", \"Abuses in Soviet Psychiatry\" (undated); Karklins, Rasma: \"The Dissent/Coercion Nexus in the USSR, Working Paper #36, Soviet Interview Project (1987-05); Roth's handwritten notes; copies of printed materials related to Soviet psychiatry; annotated copy of Berman, Harold J.: Soviet Criminal Law and Procedure. The RSFR Codes. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1977, pp. 3-124\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStipulations for Delegation of U.S. Psychiatrists and Other Experts Visiting the USSR (1988-11-09); Roth's handwritten notes. Also Ellen Mercer U.S.S.R. Trip Confidential  Report (1988 -11) and Saleem A. Shah Department of Health and Human Services Report on International Travel (1988-11-18). Correspondence to Alexander A. Churkin  with documents: US-Soviet Understanding for Delegation of US Psychiatrists and Other Experts Visiting the USSR; \"Discussions\"; Consent Forms for Persons Interviewed and of Relatives and Friends (1988-12-19)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere assesment of Soviet Psychiatry (1988-08-04), memorandum re \"Sensible Tactics re U.S. Delegation on Soviet Psychiatry; human rights and Soviet Psychiatry; \"things to do; Roth's notes; and Roth: \"Uses of Psychiatry in the U.S.S.R. and U.S.A,\" Browning Hoffman Lecture, UVA School of LAw (1988-10-07).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInternational Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry [IAPUP]: Information Bulletin Nos. 3, 9, 11, 18-21; also copy of \"II. The Case of All-Union Society (undated). Soviet Psychiatry News, vol. 1, nos. 1-2 (1989)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUS State Department Soviet Psychiatric Project Delegation to the Soviet Union Planning Trip – correspondence, telegrams, memoranda re: negotiations, support and concerns, instructions, logistics for the trip. Correspondence with Soviet and US officials, and other psychiatrists. Summary of discussions with Ambassador Richard Schifter (1989-02-11); comments from Saleem Shah (1989-02-10); from Robert van Voren, Ellen Mercer, Dr. Edward Kelty and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis sub-series contains materials related to the organization, planning and logistics of the trip, as well as background information about the psychiatric abuse in the U.S.S.R.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file contains memoranda, handwritten notes, list of participants, questionnaires, Forensic Interview Schedule, and Interpersonal Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDSM-III-R Criteria Checklist (1988-05-23; Structural Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Patient Version (1988-06-01) SCID-NP/OP Psychotic Screening (1988-06-01); Instruction Manual for the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (1988 and 1989)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDSM-III-R Criteria Checklist (1988-05-23; Structural Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Patient Version (1988-06-01) SCID-NP/OP Psychotic Screening (1988-06-01); Instruction Manual for the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (1988 and 1989)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRussian version of IPDE (1989-02-16); Russian version of Revised SCID Standardized Clinical Study According to DSM-III-PD Criteria (SKID) (1991-04); Russian version of World Psychiatric Association visit to the USSR Forensic Examination (1991-03)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe reports were written by doctors Jonas Rappeport, M.D., Vladimir Levit, MD., Samuel J. Keith, M.D, Darrell A. Regier, M.D., Loren Roth, M.D., Felix Kleyman, M.D., Joseph Bloom, M.D., William. T. Carpenter, M.D., Robert Hirschfeld, M.D., Alla Arsenian (interpreter); Elmore Rigamer, M.D., Joel Klein; Boris Shostokovich, M.D.; John Monahan; Nancy Andreason, M.D.; William Farrand.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports of forensic evaluations done in Moscow and Leningrad by Jonas R. Rappeport, John Monahan, Joseph D. Bloom; draft of Roth's \"Patient Sample –Description. Methodological Issues – Obstacles\" (1989-04-10); assessments and handwritten notes re patients; Russian document with translation re patients (undated); Roth's notes on various interviewees (1991-02-07)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe materials in this file include Roth's letters to persons who he wished to interview but didn't; U.S. Department of State \"transliteration\" of names (1989-04-04) and inventory of status of cases (1989-04-05)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Delegation of US Psychiatrists Issues Press Statement\" signed by members of the US Psychiatric Delegation: Nancy Andreasen, M. D.; Joseph D. Bloom, M.D.; Richard J. Bonnie; William T. Carpenter, M.D.; Robert M. A. Hirschfeld, M. D.; Samuel J. Keith, M.D.; Joel Klein; Felix L. Kleyman, M.D.; Vladimir A. Levit, M.D.;  David Lozovsky, M. D.; Ellen Mercer, John Monahan, PhD; Jonas R. Rappeport, M.D.; Peter B. Reddaway, Ph.D; Darrel A. Regier, MD.D., M.P.H.; Elmore E. Rigamer, M.D.; Leon Stern, M.D.; Harold M. Visotsky, M. D.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTestimonies of Darrel A. Regier, Robert W. Farrard, Peter Reddaway, Robert van Voren, Loren H. Roth; statement of Steny H. Hoyer; LHR's handwritten notes; correspondence; responses, printed materials; draft I Report of the U.S. Delegation and Preliminary Soviet Reply: Brief Analysis of Points of Agreement and Disagreement; Loren H. Roth Final Report of the US Delegation to Assess Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry. Objectives and Execution of the Visit. American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, May 15 1990; some correspondence and memoranda related to CSCE meetings in Copenhagen (June 1990); and copy of U.S. Report (speech) on CSCE – Moscow (1991-10-02)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of Reddaway's Trip to Moscow, October 29-November 2, 1988; memo re: \"The difficult situation we are in: how should we proceed,\" (1989, 02-19); notes on Soviet Psychiatry Developments (1990-01-20); copy of \"Trip to Moscow, August 20-30, 1992.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Dissent and Disorder: Human Rights in Soviet Psychiatry,\" (1989-07-); copy of unauthored paper; \"The Legacy of Psychiatric Abuse in the U.S.S.R.,\" (undated); Russian version and translation of \"Proceedings of the session of Working Party formulating the draft law on 'Psychiatric Help in the U.S.S.R.',\" (1991-02-14)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Soviet Access to and Utilization of Mental Health Services: A Comparative View,\"  paper presented at the National Conference on Soviet Refugee Health and Mental Health, Chicago, IL (1991-12-11); Isaac Ray Lectures: \"The Future of the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Lesson from Two Cultures, The Former Soviet Union and the United States,\" Discussants: Loren H. Roth, M.D., Dean Eckenrode, George Huber, J.D., Mark Schmidhofer, M.D. (1998-05-07)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The New Soviet Legislation on the Provision of Psychiatric Care,\" speech delivered at the symposium of the International Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry, Washington, D.C., (1988-10-14); Koryagin: \"A Green Light of Injustice,\" Zurich, (1988-12-20); notes from Boris Zoubok, M.D.; copy of \"Law of the USSR on the protection of the rights and legal interests of persons suffering from psychiatric disorders and on the grounds and procedures for the administration of psychiatric care,\" (1990-10-08); Roth's Notes on Meeting of USSR Supreme Soviet Committee on Mental Health Law, Moscow (1990-10-26); copy of Smit, Jonna: \"Human Rights and Mental Health Legislation: the USSR,\" (1991-05-21); van Voren, Robert: \"Ukrainian Psychiatry: Starting from Scratch,\" (undated); Regulations on a psychiatric hospital (Положение о психиатрической больнице), [printed Russian document] CCCP, No. 225, 1988; printed materials and news clippings, 1988-2004; Patients in Psychiatric Hospital Requiring Follow-up and Review – interview methodology, list, memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft and confidential memorandum of meeting with Minister of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs [Yuri A.] Reshetov. Also interview methodology and memoranda.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKazan Special Psychiatric Hospital, Vilnius Ordinary Hospital, Kaunas Hospital, Chernyashovsk Special Psychiatric Hospital\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard J. Bonnie draft; \"Legal and Humanitarian Aspects of Soviet Psychiatry: Some Preliminary Conclusions\" (1989-03-28); also comments on Klein's and Reddaway reports (1989-04 to 1989-05); LHR Confidential Drafts #1-5 (1989-05-19-31); Objectives of the Clinical Interviews (1989-05-22); Dr. Harold M. Visotsky Response to Joel Kline (1989-05-30); Hospital Team Report by Harold Visotsky, Elmore Rigamer, and Loren H. Roth (1989-05-30); remarks from Joe Bloom (1989-06-05); Richard Bonnie: Note to Members of the US Delegation to the Soviet Union (1989-06-16); Bill Farrad; Executive Summary [annotated] (1989-06-20); \"USSR Psychiatrists at a Human Rights Round Table in Moscow in April 1988,\" annotated copy of attachment sent by Joel Kline to Roth (undated); Vladimir A. Levit comments (1989-06-26); Saleem [Shah]: Soviet Compliance and Study Limitations (1989-06-28) and comments (1989-06-26); Peter Reddaway draft (1989-06-28) [2 folders], 1989-03 to 1989-06\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso: State Department \"rough translation\" of Soviet response: \"Response to the medical part of the report by the U.S. delegation of psychiatrists and lawyers,\" (1989-07-06); Draft translation of the final Soviet comments on the report: Commentary on the Report [130008 JS/AO Russian] (1989-09-26); U.S. Department of State Memorandum re Comments on the Soviet response to the Report (1989-10-12); printed Russian document inscribed by Polubinskaya to Loren H. Roth: [Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Soviet State and Right. Separate Report, Moscow 1990];  translation of S. V. Polubinskaya and S. V. Borodin: \"The Legal Problems of Soviet Psychiatry: The Views of American and Soviet Experts,\" Soviet State Law, No. 5, 1990, pp. 67-76\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution of the WPA (1989-10-17); WPA Statement by the All Union Society of Soviet Psychiatrists and Narcologists of the U.S.S.R. before the World Psychiatric Association General Assembly in Athens (1989-10-18); Memorandum re: Site Visit by the WPA Review Committee to the U.S.S.R. (1990-03-13); Reddaway, Peter: The Struggle over Reform in Soviet Psychiatry Intensifies: Is the Establishment Beginning to Panic? (1990-04-30); Remarks by Svetlana Poloubinskaya at the APA's Committee of International Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists (1990-05-16)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAPA correspondence with the Center for Democracy in the U.S.S.R., U.S. Department of State, (Schifter and Mercer); University of London Institute of Psychiatry, 1989-05 to 1989-11. Also, miscellaneous correspondence with literary agents (1989-03 to 1989-04)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranslations of A.  Karpov, Chief Psychiatrist, U.S.S.R. Ministry of Health: \"The Registration of Mental Patients in the U.S.S.R.\" (1990-10-25) and \"Basic Findings of the Conclusion of the U.S.S.R. Constitutional Supervision Committee on Whether Legislation for the Compulsory Treatment and Re-Education of Through Labour of Persons Suffering from Alcoholism or Drug-Addiction Conforms to the U.S.S.R. Constitution and International Enactments on Human Rights,\" by B. M. Lazarev, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Constitutional Supervision Committee (1990-10-25). Also Saleem A. Shah: \"Forensic Interview Schedule\". Correspondence with Otto Dorr Zegers, Csaba Banki, M.P. Deva, Driss Moussaoui, Jim Birley, and Gerard Low-Geer\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Dr. Otto Dörr-Zegers (Chile); Dr. Csava Bànki (Hungary); Dr. M. P. Deva (Malaysia); Dr. Driss Moussaoui (Morocco); Dr. Jim Birley (WPA Negotiating Team); Dr. Gerard Low-Greer (England).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are: Gostin, Larry: \"Human Rights in Mental Health: Japan. Report of an international mission to Japan: 1987,\"  World Health Organization/Harvard University International Collaborating Center on Health Legislation, World Federation for Mental Health [1987]; Kawasaki, Shigeru: \"Like a Shedding Snake,\" English Summary, J. JAPH 2:2 Spring 1991; news-clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Ellen Mercer re Singapore (1985-09-18); UN Commission on Human Rights E/CN. 4 Sub.2/1988/23: Report on the Sessional Working Group on the question of persons detained on the grounds of mental ill-health or suffering from mental disorder; Proceedings. International Forum on Mental Health Reform, Kyoto, Japan, January 29-30, 1987; Benatar, S. R.: correspondence and articles (1990); Final draft of the \"UN Principles Produced by the Working Group on Human Rights,\" Annex A Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe sub-series consists of materials Loren Roth collected as part of his work on this committee. These include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, reports, articles, clippings, memoranda, and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAPA lists of cases in the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia and Romania (1988-07-05); memo for the record re Soviet dissidents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAPA minutes of meeting (1988-09-07); Draft Statement Following Discussion with Dr. Sabshin; APA Draft Resolution by the Committee on International Abuse of Psychiatry to not object to the re-admittance of  the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Neuropathologists of the USSR into the WPA (1988-09-07); minutes of the APA Committee on Human Rights (1988-09-09); some correspondence, (1988 -09)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes of conference call (1989-02-15); correspondence; IAPUP documents re to Soviet psychiatry (1989-02); copy of Dr. Marvin Brook handwritten comments on the By-Laws of the WPA (undated); Application of the Independent Psychiatric Association of the USSR (IPA) for membership to the WPA, includes Constitution and Declaration (1989-03-09); APA Guidelines for Psychiatric Services in Jails and Prisons; APA draft guidelines on the Right of Refuse (Anti-Psychotic) Medication.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes some correspondence and documents: Memorandum re Revision of the WPA Review Committee's Operational Instrument ( 1989-04-270; translation of letter from Nikolai Fedrovich Zhukov to US Congress (1989-03-04); IAPUP Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR 18: The Founding of the Association of Independent Psychiatrists in the USSR and the US Delegation of Psychiatrist to the USSR (March 1989); IAPUP Report and brochures, 1989-04\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum re Detention of Cuban psychiatrist Dr. Alfredo Samuel Martínez Lara (1989-04-19); WPA Proposed alterations (1989-04 -25); copy of entrance application of the International Independent Research Centre on Psychiatry to the WPA (1989-03-27), news clippings; Dr. Marat Vartanian original article sent to the International Journal on Mental Health\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are: Ellen Mercer and Fini Schulsinger interviews with Radio Canada (1989-03); and \"rough\" transcripts of  Radio Free Europe with Viktor Lanovoy, President of the Independent Association of Psychiatrists (1989-06-15); Croatian Committee for Human Rights press release re human rights abuses (1989-06-24); [translation] of M. Buyanov articles in Uchitelskaya Gazeta (1988-11-19); Association Psychiatric Independent (IPA) press release (1989-04-12); Commission of the European Communities: \"Observations on the State of Implementation of Programme of Psychiatrists Reform in Greece,: (1987-12-31); IAPUP Documents Special Issue: \"The Political Abuse of Psychiatry in Rumania (June 1989);  IAPUP Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry Nos. 22, 23, 24, 25 (June-July 1989)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Summary of the WPA Executive Committee in Athens and Resolutions (1989-08-18); excerpts of anonymous document \"Autumm 1988, Gerlovka\" re abuse in the USSR ; printed articles, news clippings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes unofficial translation of  Statement by the All-Union Scientific Society of Psychiatrists (1989-10-02); Remarks of Christian Barton Concerning Allegations of Psychiatric Abuse of Dissidents by the Cuban Government (1989-09-13); Sabshin, Melvin: Statement to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment of the US House of Representatives re APA position on Soviet psychiatric practices (undated); Testimony of Victor Davidoff, former victim of abuse in the Soviet Union (undated); Commentary on the Report \"Assessment of Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry, prepared by the US Delegation on the Results of its visit to the USSR,\" (1989-09-15); IPA bulletins (1989 -08-07 and 1989-08-31); news clippings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes: Liaison Report (1989-10); Gluzman, Semyon: \"Bureaucratic Ethics and Soviet Psychiatry,\" (1989-11) and Commentary on the Memorandum of G. Lukacher (1989-10-14) re All Union Scientific Society of Psychiatrists; translation of A.I. letter \"To the World Congress of the WPA,\" (1989-10-16); translation of letter from Social Organizations in Leningrad To the Participants in the Congress of the WPA (Athens, Greece, October 1989); Schifter, Richard: \"An Inventory of Soviet Human Rights Developments\" (1989-10-04); IAPUP Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR No. 29, 30\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome copies of  documents related to the former Yugoslavia; lists of interments and releases in the Soviet Union (1989-12-21); draft translation of [Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya] A Detail report: Psychiatry Without Secrets (1989-10-31); Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union 31 (1989-12); WPA Minutes (1989-08-11-13)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence related to abuses in Cuba; Pena, Jose M. et al: \"Abuse and Misuse of Psychiatry in the U.S.: The Need for an Institutional Ethics,\" (1990-02); list of human rights cases monitored by the APA in Argentina, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Malawi, Morocco, Romania, South Africa, Sudan, Turkey, Uruguay, Yugoslavia, Zaire (1990-02-06); Mercer, Ellen: USSR Trip Report/February 25-March 3, 1990\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes: Second World Center Annual Report 1989 and APA Statement on Simón Bolívar Award and Lecture (1990-02-15)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence re Cuban psychiatrists (1990-04); Keston College Support Group: \"Igor Rodionov Report\" (1990-04); Yelena Izyumova Open Letter to the Members of the APA, Moscow May 20, 1990; anonymous essay re : Psychiatric Abuse in the USSR (Helsinki Watch), undated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso: \"Proposed New Policies for the APA in Regard to the Abuse of Psychiatry for Political and Other Non-Medical Purposes in the USSR,\" (undated)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes copy of Human Rights Survey Responses (1988-04-01) and reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education; memoranda re IAPUP meetings in Germany (1990-09); letter from Dr. Jeffrey Heller to the Committee on Abuse of Psychiatry re Soviet Delegation at H and CP Institute (1990-10-10); Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR No. 38 (1990-09)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence from Dr. Valerian Tuculesco re post-traumatic stress disorder after the Romanian revolution (1990-10); correspondence re Oleg Vitalyevich Kozlov re hijacked plane to Helsinki (1990-11); American Ambassadors People to People Trip to the USSR 14-27 August 1990 \"Professional Diary\" compiled by E. B. Brody (1990-09-05);  \"Psychiatric Issues Encountered on Recent Trip to USSR,\" memorandum from Holt Ruffin (World Without War) (1990-10-25); Hartmann, Lawrence M.D.: \"Notes on Some Social Psychiatric Problems in Chile, South Africa and the Soviet Union,\" (1990-10); Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR Nos. 39, 40, 41; documents relative to the Joint APA-Caribbean Psychiatric Association Meeting; Ellen Mercer: China Trip Report (1990-11)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports of the Committee on International Education; Final draft of the UN Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Case (1990-12-11); \"Sugar, Jonathan M.D. et al: \"Psychiatry's Global Challenge: Responsibilities of American Psychiatrists in International Health (undated)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letter from Dr. Dainiys Pūras re abuse of psychiatry in Lithuania (1991-01-19); correspondence re abuse in Romania (1991-02-08); \"Proposal for The Moscow Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (undated)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence and document re abuses in Romania; correspondence between Dr. Roth, Gennadi Milyokhin, Juan José López-Ibor, re Revaz Uturgaury (1991-03); correspondence re Soviet individuals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes CIOMS: Development of International, Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiological Research and Practice, Plenary III Issues related to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Proposed Guidelines for International Testing of Vaccines and Drugs against HIV Infection and Aids (1990-11); copies of correspondence between and V. Tuculescu re Romania; Reddaway, Peter: Psychiatric Developments in the USSR (1991-06) and \" Problems of Reforming Soviet Psychiatry and Assuring Rights for the Mentally Ill,\" (undated); \"The Heartbeat of Reform. Soviet Jurists and Political Scientists Discuss the Progress of Perestroika, Glasnot, Democracy, Socialism,\" Translated from the Russian by Vic Schneierson, Moscow, [1991]; Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR No. 47, 48\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education. Also includes several documents dated September 1991: Memo for the Record Briefing Meeting for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Human Rights Study Group (1991-09-24); USSR Draft Law (17 June 91) on Psychiatric Assistance; Ministry of Health, USSR, All-Union Society of Psychiatrists Governing Board Decision (1991-05-15-16); WPA Memorandum to the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists (1991-07-28); Dr. Stanislaw Golec: \"Health Care in Poland 91\"; \"Instructional Recommendations on the Application of USSR Ministry of Health Order No. 555 (1989-09-19); WPA documents; International Committee of the Red Cross Report on \"Second Working Group of Experts on Battlefield Laser Weapons,\" (1990-11-05-06)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"copy of a part\" of Japanese Mental Health Law with translation (1988); translation of  \"law on patient's rights\" in Finland (1991-08); WHO Guidelines for the Clinical Investigation of Antidepressant Drugs (1984)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes LHR handwritten notes re Abuse Committee (1992-04); \"Cuban Dissidents in Psychiatric Hospitals An Update of the Politics of Psychiatry in Revolutionary Cuba,\"; \"Dimineata, 7th January 1992, The Mad People Were Dissidents,\" re Romania (undated); \"The Plenary Session of the Board of Directors of the All-Union Scientific Society of Psychiatrists (1992-05) and Follow-Up of US Team's 1989 Patients list, Appendices 1 and 2 sent to Dr. Birley with names of patients (1992-02); Information about the Patient Bill of Rights Tally Sheet (1992-04); Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry [GPI]: Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry (1992-03 and 1992-04)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education. Also: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Yugoslavia (1992-06-01); GPI: Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry, April – June 1992; Mercer, Ellen: Exploring Hungarian Psychiatry (1992-05)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights. Also: International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions Proclamation of May 1992: Assuring the Mental Health of Children; APA Bilateral Exchange with Poland Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Summary of Responses and Recommendations of American Participants (1992-03-24 to 1992-04-12); copy of Act of the Russian Federation \"On Psychiatric Care and Citizens' Rights With Regard to Such Care,\" (1992-01); Polubinskaya, Svetlana: \"From the USSR to the Independent States: Where the Former Soviet Psychiatry Will Go,\" (1992-05); GIP Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry 56, June 1992\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights. Also correspondence re psychiatric abuse in the former GDR, with the Romanian Psychiatric Association and the Committee to End the Chinese Gulag. \"Psychiatry Under Tyranny. An Assessment of the Political Abuse of Romanian Psychiatry During the Ceaucescu Years,\" Report of a consultative mission to Bucharest on behalf of the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry (1992-06); GIP Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry 57, July – August 1992\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe sub-series consists of materials Loren Roth collected as part of his work with this committee. These include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, reports, articles, clippings, memoranda, and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded: \"Human Rights of Mental Patients in Japan,\" (1987 -04); Reich, Walter Report of Meeting with Gennadiy M. Yevstafiev (Soviet, member of the delegation to the Vienna Review Meeting) (1987-07-28); copy of letter from Senator Edward M. Kennedy to Lawrence Hartmann, M.D. re human rights violations in Paraguay (1988-04-22); World Medical Association, INC. memorandum: \"The Facts regarding health services in South Africa during 1987, and the role played by the Medical Association of South Africa,\" (1987-07- 08); Reddaway, Peter: Does Moscow's Purge of Corrupt Psychiatrists Threaten the Psychiatric Gulag?\" (1987-07-13); \"More Revelations about Stefanis' Negotiations with the Soviets (1987-09-11); Center for Victims of Torture pilot project (1987-08-28 and 1987-10); South Africa Briefing (1987-08-07); Minutes of Committee on Abuse of Psychiatry (1987-09-09 and 1987-12-02); \"Victims of Torture in Afghanistan. Presentation for Cairo World Congress\" by Mohammad Azam Dadfar (1987-10-18-22); Gralnick, Alexander M.D.: \"Public Health and Psychiatric Care in Cuba, Personal Report\" (November 1987);Political Imprisonment in Cuba. A Special Report from Amnesty International, The Cuban American Nation Foundation, 1987;  US/Soviet Human Rights Seminar: Statement by Ellen Mercer for the APA (1987-12-03). Also Bloche, Maxwell Gregg: \"Uruguay's Military Physicians: Cogs in a System of State Terror,\" (1987-03)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous documents: minutes, memoranda, correspondence. Included: [Argentina] Tribunal Etico de la Salud contra la Impunidad translation of statement: Medical Ethics Tribunal Against Impunity,\" (1988-01-11); Minutes of the APA Committee on Abuse of Psychiatry (1988-01-20, 1988-04-21; 1988-05-10); some documents related to South Africa, Pakistan, Argentina; Human Rights Survey Responses (1988-03-09); Amnesty International: \"China. Detention Without Trial, Ill-Treatment of Detainees and Police Shooting of Civilians in Tibet,\" (1988-02); Bitsch Christensen, Svend: \"Torture Related Documentation,\" (1987); International Commission of Jurists' Mission to Japan Preliminary Report and Recommendations (1988-04); \"The Casualties of Conflict: Medical Care and Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,\" Report of a Medical Fact Finding Mission by Physicians for Human Rights, (1988-03); Amnesty International Commission Medicale: Medicine at Risks. The Doctor as Abuser or Victim,\" (1987-09)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous documents: minutes, memoranda, correspondence related to Soviet psychiatry; human rights abuses in Honduras, Czechoslovakia, Somalia, South Africa, Israel, Haiti, Cuba, Egypt, China, BahrainGudava, Eduard M.D.: \"The events in Tbilisi, Georgia  (1989-04-18); Vesti, Peter and Inge Kemp: \"Chapter I: Treatment of Torture Survivors – theoretical views,\" \"Chapter 2: Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors, \" (1989-10); Collazo, Carlos R. M.D. and Martha Gerpe M.D.: \"Missing Parents,\" Paper presented at The World Psychiatric Association, Athens, October 1989\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFile includes: RCT [Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims] 7th Annual Report (1990-01); APA Position Statement on Apartheid and Academic Boycotting of South Africa (1990-01); Human Rights Cases Monitored by the APA (1990-02-01); signed Petition by doctors to recommend the APA to condemn the government of Turkey (1990-08); LHR handwritten notes of September meeting;  APA Council on International Affairs Joint Reference Committee (1990-10-12); Boyajian, Levon Z. M.D.: The Psychological Sequelae of the Armenian Genocide (1982); Leros Trip. Report on Visit to the Mental Institution on the Island of Leros, Greece (1989-12-3-5); \"'Bloody Sunday Trauma in Tbilisi. The Eents of April 9, 1989 and their Aftermath,\" Report of a Medical Mission to Soviet Georgia by Physicians for Human Rights, February 1990; printed materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFiles include documents re Armenian Genocide and from the Free Romanian Foundation; \"Program for Administrators and Educators Specializing in Programs for People With Disabilities,\" with the Persian Gulf (1991-04); Martínez Lara, Samuel: \"Psychiatry in Cuba: Perspectives of a Human Rights Activist\" (1991-09-27);  ); National Academy of Sciences: \"Considerations Regarding Individual Scientific Visits to the People's Republic of China,\" (October 1991); also some documents about torture\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFiles include documents re torture in Egypt (1992-01); Dadfar, A. Azam M.D.: \"The Deep Scars of a Forgotten War, \" Psychiatry Centre for the Afghans; correspondence with Levon Z. Boyajian M.D. (1992-02); Croatian Medical Journal: \"Medical Testimony of the Vukovar Tragedy\"; memorandum re \"Abuse and Misuse of Psychiatry in the United States\" (1992-02); Committee to End the Chinese Gulag: \"On behalf of Political Prisoners in China: How to Raise Human Rights Cases,\" (1992-04); memoranda and correspondence re abuse of Palestinian physician (1992-05); APA Position Statement on Homosexuality and Civil Rights (1992-07); Americas Watch, Vol.4, Issue 7: \"Dangerous Dialogue, Attacks on Freedom of Expression in Miami's Cuban Exile Community,\" (1992-08);  Amnesty International French Section, Medical Group: \"Corporal Punishment. A study on legislation and enforcement in 18 countries,\" (1992); \"Stop Torture in Korea (STIK)\" (1998-08); APA Council on International Affairs: \"International Inpatients Bill of Rights,\" (1992-08); APA Communications Plan 1992-1994; APA: \"Human Rights and the American Psychiatric Association,\" (1992); memorandum and correspondence re abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists in México (1992-100; US Department of State: \"Renewing the U.S. Commitment to Human Rights,\" Special Report No. 164;  printed materials\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWorld Health Organization Assignment Report re \"mentally infirm in Romania and possibilities for improvement,\" (1991-11); Rosenberg, David R. M.D. et al: \"A Cross-Cultural Study of \"Ceausescu's Orphans,\" (1992-03); Blom, G. et al: \"Program Touch – A Volunteer Intervention Program to Orphaned Disabled Children in Romania,\" (1991-11); Roth's reappointment as APA Chairperson of the Committee on Human Rights under the Council of International Affairs, (1992-04-13); draft of A.P.A. Action Paper Rescinding the 1982 APA Position on the Insanity Defense (1992-05-01); Pierce, Chester M. M.D.: \"Public Health and Human Rights: Racism, Torture and Terrorism,\" presented at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting (1992-05-04)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFiles include translation of Croatian pamphlet: \"Protect Yourself and Help Others (1993-02); APA Office of International Affairs: Responses to Human Rights Questionnaire,\" (1993-08-18); Citizens Support Committee for the Psychiatric Farm Hospital Dr. Manuel Ramírez Moreno (1993-7-13)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecorrespondence and handwritten notes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eevaluation forms and printed materials\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeetings between Ukrainian doctors Semyon F. Gluzman, Vladimir I. Poltavets, Valery N. Kutznetsov, Ada I. Korotenko, Oleg A, Nasinnik, Vladimir M. Cherniavsky and Juan Mezzich, American psychiatrist from the West Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh; also some case summaries (1994-02). Russian and English translation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eextensive correspondence, reports, handwritten notes. Savychyj, Jurij M.D.: \"Psychiatry in Ukraine,\" [1992]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecorrespondence, Ukrainian fliers, and handwritten notes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eextensive correspondence, reports, data analysis, forms, handwritten notes (1995-05), \"Codebook\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecorrespondence, clinical assessment forms, and handwritten notes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneva Initiative on Psychiatry. Annual Reports 1992 and 1995; Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry Nos. 65-67, 72, 74; \"Concepts for Developing Mental Health Care in Ukraine (First Draft),\" Developed by Experts of Ministry for Health Care, Kiev Research Institute of General and Forensic Psychiatry, Regional Chief Experts and Kiev Psychiatrists.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecorrespondence and forms\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eemail correspondence, brochures, printed photographs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph D. Bloom, Kyrill Borissow, William T. Carpenter, Robert W. Farrand, Robert M.A. Hirschfield, William H. Hopkins, Samuel Keith, Felix Kleyman, Andrei A. Kovalev, Ellen Mercer, John Monahan, Darrel A. Regier, Elmore F. Rigamer Jr, Carolyn Smith, Leon Stern\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes: United States – Russia Health Committee 2000 – 2002, printed copies of photographs; The U.S.A. – Russia Health Committee: \"Access to Quality Health Care\" (draft), undated; \"Additional Materials on Diagnosing and Treating Mild and Moderate Depressions,\" [document in Russian with English title]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGershman, Carl: Psychiatric Abuse in the Soviet Union,\" Society, July/August 1984; Lapenna, Ivo: \"The Medico-Legal Society. Use and Misuse of Psychiatry in the USSR,\" The Royal Society of Medicine, London 12th June 1986; McCready, John and Harold Merskey: \"Compliance by physicians with the 1978 Ontario Mental Health Act,\" Reprint from the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 124, March 15, 1981; McCready, John and Harold Merskey: \"On the Recoding of Mental Illness for Civil Commitment,\" Can. J. Psychiatry Vol. 27, March 1982; Slovenko, Ralph: Analysis. The Destiny of South Africa,\" The World and I, July 1991.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 2021, members of the 1989 American delegation, some Soviet patients, Soviet doctors and other professionals, were invited to participate in the \"Retrospective Review of the 1989 U.S. State Department Psychiatric Mission to the USSR\" oral history project. Nineteen interviews were recorded, sixteen of them with the surviving members of the U.S. delegation, one with Andrei Kovalev, an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the U.S.S.R. at the time, and two with former \"Soviet patients.\" There is also an original 1989 recording of one interview.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThese interviews provide a comprehensive overview of the history of Soviet psychiatric abuse, the reasons why psychiatric diagnosis was used to suppress dissent, the methods, medical and legal procedures, and who were the major players in Soviet psychiatric abuse. Emphasis is also made on assessing the U.S.-Soviet relationship in the 1980s and the special place that the 1989 State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. held in the détente. All stages of negotiations and preparations for the mission were discussed as well as the methodology of psychiatric evaluations and the findings of the American experts. An additional emphasis was also made on assessing the state of Soviet psychiatric care as of the late 1980s and all the significant changes it was going through at the time. The role of World Psychiatric Association (WPA), the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Narcologists, the American Psychiatric Association and other important organizations, is also given proper attention. The interviewees also discuss the long-term impact that the 1989 U.S. mission made on Soviet and post-Soviet psychiatry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the interview Dr. Bloom discusses his career, his interest in the topic of abuse of psychiatry and his involvement in the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric delegation to the U.S.S.R. He talks about the U.S. and Soviet (both Soviet professionals and Soviet interviewees) understanding of the purpose of the visit and  the Soviet's compliance with the terms negotiated for the visit. He also talks about psychiatric hospitalization, detention and commitment process in the U.S.S.R., conditions of hospitalization in Soviet psychiatric hospitals and the legal rights of persons with mental disorders in the U.S.S.R.  Dr. Bloom's explains his impressions from the trip to the Soviet Union and the conclusions made by the American delegation. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe highlights of the interview pertain to Dr. Bloom's recollection of a Soviet person who allegedly had a mental disorder, and his opinion as to the way the American final report should have been approached.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Borissow shares his life story and describes his career. He talks about getting involved in the 1989 State Department trip to the Soviet Union, his previous trips to the U.S.S.R., and the  social and political context that surrounded the visit and made it possible in the first place. Mr. Borissow describes his experience of interpreting in one of the psychiatric hospitals in Moscow as a part of the 1989 American mission as well as the work that Mr. Borissow's sub-team #3 did in Leningrad. He shares very interesting anecdotes that happened during the trip and talks about the lessons he learned during this trip.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the interview Dr. Carpenter discusses his career, his involvement in the 1989 US State Department psychiatric delegation to the USSR, the main goals of the mission, various aspects of the implementation in great detail, the diagnostic aspects of the study, interview instruments and methodology, the Soviet mental health care system and its shortcomings, the conclusions made by Dr. Carpenter's sub-team, the impact the American visit made to the interviewed individuals an mental health in the region. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDr. Carpenter also discusses the United States - Great Britain cross-national study of schizophrenia conducted in the 1960s and 70s and its pertinency to the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. He also talks about the broad diagnostic criteria for sluggish schizophrenia and how much contributed to the missuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmbassador Farrand talks about his long successful career in the U.S. State Department, the importance of the Soviet psychiatric abuse to the U.S. government and the larger context of the U.S. - U.S.S.R. relationships. As a person who worked closely with Ambassador Richard Schifter for many years, Mr. Farrand describes Schifter's goals and vision of the 1989 psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMr. Farrand describes the process of negotiating the terms of the visit and shares insights about interacting with a superpower as the Soviet Union was at that time. He also talks about the the peculiarities of governance in the U.S.S.R., and power dynamics inside the country. Mr. Farrand describes the efforts to preserve transparency and independence of the mission as well as managing its financial aspects and its highlighting in media. Mr. Farrand also talks about glasnost, perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Hirschfeld shares memories about his education and career, the way he got involved in the 1989 State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R., the methodological approach to the patient interviews, the range of findings of his sub-team # 3 in Leningrad, and his general impressions of the Soviet Union as of 1989.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hopkins talks at length about the way he became immersed in the Russian studies, his education, and career. He well remembers the settings and arrangements of interviewing the Soviet citizens who allegedly had mental disorders, his expectations and apprehensions about the upcoming 1989 mission, the types of questions asked of the Soviet interviewees, and the peculiarities of his task as an interpreter during this unique venture. He also mentions the debrief that the entire American team had in Washington, D.C. after the visit was over.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. I. talks about his early life, family, education, how his dissident views formed and evolved with time. He shares about his repeated contacts with psychiatric system; he also describes his social and political activity and the repercussions he faced as a result. Mr. I. then tells about his criminal case, his forensic psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, \"symptoms\", finding of non-imputability, the legal procedure used to involuntarily commit him to the Dnepropetrovsk special psychiatric hospital, and the inhumane conditions there. \nMr. I. then describes his transfer to Nikolayev ordinary psychiatric hospital and release; he talks about his dissident activity that brought him back to the same hospital. He also describes his contacts with Ukrainian dissident movement at the end of 1980s and how he got on the list of people to be assessed by the U.S. team. The details of his participation in 1989 U.S. State Department mission are discussed next. Mr. I. then shares about the long-term impact this mission made on his life, his subsequent legal rehabilitation, being taken off the psychiatric register, the removal of his psychiatric diagnosis, his life and activism after 1989. Mr. I. describes some of his most interesting campaigns. The interview ends with a brief discussion of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how it affected Mr. I.'s life. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Keith talks about the role and expertise of NIMH that was crucial to the success of the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. He recapitulates the main points and stumbling blocks of the negotiations with the Soviets in November 1988, various organizational aspects of the mission, as well as the interview instruments and methodology used by the American team. Dr. Keith shares his opinion about the concept of sluggish schizophrenia, its diagnostic criteria, and other factors that made it possible to abuse psychiatry in the Soviet Union. He also emphasizes Soviet life, society, and governance as of 1989. Dr. Keith discusses the Soviets' admission of \"hyperdiagnoses\" and the validity of the excuse of \"hyperdiagnoses\" from the professional point of view. He also expresses his opinion about the tone of the final report and the general context that the American team had to keep in mind when drafting it. Dr. Keith describes Schizophrenia Bulletin and his role as its editor-in-chief. He also talks about the 1990 Soviet Reciprocal Visit to the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Kleyman is a great source of knowledge about the ins and outs of the Soviet mental health care system as the person who had about 10 years of professional experience on the ground. He talked about the uniqueness of his role during the American psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. that resulted from him being a native Russian speaker and being well familiar with life in the Soviet Union. Dr. Kleyman discusses the social and political context that surrounded the 1989 U.S. State Department visit and made it possible in the first place; the doctor patient relationship in the U.S.S.R.; Soviet diagnostic approaches and the role of Soviet psychiatrists during the American visit. Dr. Kleyman recalls his unique trip to Moscow Psychiatric Hospital # 5 to briefly speak with the patient who was claimed by the Soviets to have refused examination. He also talks about his experience as a member of the 1991 W.P.A. mission to the U.S.S.R.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Kovalev tells about the role of various domestic and international actors in the process of democratization of the U.S.S.R. in the late 1980s and bringing human rights into the Soviet Union. He also assesses the political factors of the early 1980s that allowed Gorbachev come to power and retain it. Mr. Kovalev shares his insights about the Soviet foreign policy of the second half of 1980s-early 1990s and the U.S. - U.S.S.R. relationships. He shares his knowledge about the history of abuse of psychiatry and the reasons for resorting to it; the Soviet psychiatric register and the consequences of being on a register; the sealed instruction on involuntary commitment that existed but was not available to the public. Mr. Kovalev talks about the chain of decision making in ensuring that the American visit will actually happen and the key events on that road. He also comments on the internal tensions between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health (M.O.H.) as well as the resistance put up by the M.O.H. in organizing the American visit. He also shares his views about the \"system dissidents\" in the U.S.S.R.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMs. Mercer talks about her career at the APA and the role that the APA played in advocating for the rights of the persons committed to psychiatric hospitals for non-medical reasons in the USSR. She then discusses the historical context for the 1989 State Department psychiatric delegation to the Soviet Union, including the 1977 Declaration of Hawaii and the All-Union Society's walking out of the WPA in 1983 in the face of an almost certain expulsion. Being a part of the November 1988 negotiation team to the Soviet Union, Ms. Mercer shares her thoughts about the negotiation process and the Soviet's compliance with the terms agreed upon. Ms. Mercer describes the field visit to Soviet psychiatric hospitals and then talks about the Soviet's readmission to the WPA, the role the 1989 U.S. State Department played in this process, the APA's and Ms. Mercer's personal stance with regard to the readmission. Ms. Mercer concludes by discussing the difference the American visit made in the big picture.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Monahan talks about his professional training and the highlights of his career, his memories from the 1989 American visit to the Soviet Union, including the goals of the visit,  its organizational aspects, and its media coverage. Dr. Monahan then focuses on the forensic evaluation methods and results, the rights of psychiatric patients in the Soviet Union, conditions of their hospitalization, treatment, and hospital staffing. Dr. Monahan concludes by describing his general impressions of Moscow and Leningrad and the conclusions the American team made as a result of the visit. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Reddaway talks about his education and career and the way he became interested and immersed in the issue of abuse of psychiatry in the U.S.S.R. He discusses the impact that his and Sidney Bloch's 1977 and 1983 books made in the Soviet Union. He also shares his knowledge about the evolution of punitive psychiatry with each new Soviet leader. Mr. Reddaway talks about Mr. Gorbachev's personality, the political factors in the early 1980s that allowed for such a leader to emerge and retain power; the reasons for perestroika;  the peculiarities of perestroika in psychiatry versus other spheres. Mr. Reddaway gives a comprehensive overview of various internal processes in the Soviet Union at the end of 1980s that were important prerequisites for the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission. He discusses at length the role of the WPA in the battle against the abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. Mr. Reddaway also gives a detailed overview of the field inspections to Soviet psychiatric hospitals that he did as a member of the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview with Dr. Regier is of critical importance for the comprehensive retrospective evaluation of the long-term impact of the 1989 State Department investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. Dr. Regier not only played a key role in the preparation and implementation of the mission, but also successfully continued to help develop the quality and accessibility of mental health services in Russia after the U.S.S.R. collapse. Dr. Regier also continued to tackle the issue of psychiatric abuse in China.  \nIn his interview, Dr. Regier gives a historical overview of the development of diagnostic criteria that was subsequently used during the U.S. State Department investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. relating to psychiatric abuse. This interview provides a great description of the methodology used during the interviews. Dr. Regier also describes the NIMH goals, unique role and contribution to the 1989 mission and shares his insights about the factors that made it possible to weaponize psychiatry against dissidents in the Soviet Union. Dr. Regier also tells about his role in the work of Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission in the area on mental health care in Russia post the Soviet Union breakup.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Roth describes his training and the highlights of his career; he then tells how he became interested in the issue of abuse of psychiatry in the U.S.S.R. His two human rights trips to the U.S.S.R. in 1985 and 1986 are discussed next. Dr. Roth then gives an overview of the general political background to the visit and tensions between him and Ambassador Schifter about some critical aspect of the visit. Dr. Roth then describes in detail the negotiation process between the U.S. and Soviet side, the main stumbling blocks, how he managed to overcome them, and who were his allies. Dr. Roth describes the Soviet uncooperativeness and tensions between the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He then talks about informed consents, interview procedures, and the visit dynamics. He shares some anecdotes and most memorable events; he also talks about the people who meaningfully contributed to making the mission successful.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. S. describes his early years, how his dissident views formed, his first arrest under Article 70 of the Criminal Code, his expert psychiatric evaluation at the Serbsky Institute, and the judicial procedure that followed. He describes his subsequent commitment in an 'ordinary' psychiatric hospital and shares insights about the internal regulations, regime, and the release procedure. He also talks about his next arrest and the legal aspects of it. Mr. S. shares his views about whether Soviet psychiatrists seriously believed that 'failure to adapt to the society' was a sign of mental illness and whether they can be blamed for presumably following the orders from above.  Mr. S. proceedes to describe his transfer to a special psychiatric hospital, the mass release of political prisoners in 1987, the reasons for such a drastic change of the political course in the Soviet Union, and gives an overview of the U.S. – U.S.S.R. relationship in the second half of the twentieth century. He then talks about how the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. fit into the broader human rights negotiations in the CSCE. Mr. S. tells how he taken off the psychiatric register\nand legally rehabilitated; he talks about the destiny of the Criminal Code 'political' articles 70 and 190-1 and current political articles in Russian Criminal Code used to suppress dissent.\nMr. S. shares about his life and political activity after 1989, his subsequent arrests, and his assessment of the evolution of civil and political freedom in Russia after 1989.\nHe then talks about the future of Russia, his own future as a dissident in Russia, and his views about the Russian war in Ukraine.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the oral history given in 2022, this file contains a recording of an interview that Mr. S gave on March 2, 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMs. Smith shares her memories about interpreting for both 1989 U.S. State Department delegation and the 1991 WPA delegation to the Soviet Union. She explains how this experience compares to the other interesting projects she has been involved in throughout her career. She describes her most prominent memories about this job as well as the Soviet Union as of 1989. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Stern describes his career and his pathway from the Soviet Union to the U.S. He shares his insights about some aspects of Soviet history, the issue of psychiatric abuse, its roots and reasons the Soviet government resorted to psychiatry to oppress dissent. Dr. Stern talks about the major differences between special psychiatrist hospitals vs. ordinary psychiatrist hospitals and gives some excellent illustrations of \"symptoms\" that the Soviet school of psychiatry considered signs of mental disorder. Dr. Stern shares his opinion as to the reasons why Soviet psychiatrists engaged in unethical practices. Dr. Stern describes the field trip in great detail, including some anecdotes and specific instances. He concludes by identifying the most important changes needed in Soviet psychiatry at the time and assesses the overall success of the American mission to the Soviet Union. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOlena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file includes correspondence with Richard Schifter and Robert van Voren.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection is divided into two series. The first series, \"abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists\", consists of subject files compiled by Dr. Loren Roth, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. They are evidence of Dr. Roth's efforts to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union. The subject files contain correspondence, articles, reports, evaluations, meeting minutes, agendas, planning materials, diaries, photographs, memoranda, handwritten notes, programs, books, videotapes, ephemera, and other items. Together, these materials date from around 1950 to 2008. However the bulk of them date from the 1970s to the 1990s, when Dr. Roth participated in U.S. delegations to the former Soviet Union and was part of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Committees on Human Rights and International Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists.","\nThe second series consists of materials that were gathered and produced for the \"Retrospective Review of the 1989 U.S. State Department Psychiatric Mission to the U.S.S.R.\" project. These materials include oral history interviews with individuals involved with the 1989 mission, a 1989 recorded interview with a psychiatric patient, project correspondence, biographical files, interview minutes, and an organizational chart. Most of the items in this series date from the time of the project, 2021 to 2022.","This series consists of subject files that Dr. Loren Henry Roth assembled and used while working to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, emphasizing abuse in the former Soviet Union. The files contain correspondence, memoranda, meeting documents, articles, reports, lists, forms, evaluations, photographs, diaries, and other materials.","World Psychiatric Association Proposed Declaration of Hawaii; \"Honolulu Paper\": Somerville, John: \"Ethics and Psychiatry,\" (1977); Committee of French Psychiatrists Against The Political Uses of Psychiatry Special Bulletin, the World Congress of Psychiatry in Hawaii; newspaper clippings from Hawaiian newspapers (1977). APA white paper: \"Misuse and Abuse of Psychiatry in the U.S.: A definition and Discussion,\" (1991); correspondence and papers of Paul Chodoff, (1989-1990 and undated); Helmchen, H. and A. Okasha: \"From the Hawaii Declaration to the Declaration of Madrid,\" Acta Psychiatr Scand 200:101: 2023","Copy of the Report to the Board of Trustees, American Psychiatric Association of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Use of Psychiatric Institutions for the Commitment of Political Dissenters (1972); Boekovski Berichten Bukovsky News: The Case of Irina Grivnina (1985?); Statement of Dr. Algirdas Statkevicius to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1988); copy of letter from Peter Reddaway to Viktor Nakas, Leon Stern, Robert van Voren and Algirdas Statkevicius (1989); copy of translation of SB case (1987-1989); U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee [memorandum] re Shatravka Family (1988); Committee of Concerned Scientists, Inc \"Call for Action for Three Soviet Former Prisoners of Conscience,\" (1988); and newspaper clippings mainly of Pyotr G. Grigorenko and Anatoly Koryagin","\"Special Report, The Medical Profession and the Prevention of Torture,\" The New England Journal of Medicine (October 1985); \"Sowing fear: The Uses of Torture and Psychological Abuse in Chile,\" A Report by Physicians for Human Rights (October 1988); Proposal. Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims [RCT], New York, NY and Roseland, New Jersey (undated); RCT International Newsletter on Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (1990-1991); RCT IRCT [International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims]: Torture [packet of documents] (1991-1992); Jacobsen, Lone and Pete Vesti: Torture Survivors – a New Group of Patients, The Danish Nurses Organization, 1990; Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture","Human Rights Task Force of the APA survey on human rights organizations (1984); Human Rights Survey Responses (1988); Human Rights Cases Monitored by the APA (1990); photocopy of European Convention on Human Rights Collected Texts, Strasbourg, 1965.  Folder includes an incomplete set of The World Medical Association press releases (1975-1990), printed materials and news clippings","Documents from the Ninth Session of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Committee for Health Cooperation, (1988-11-17); Trip Report – P.H.S. Delegation Visit to the Soviet Union  November 13-20, 1988 Ninth U.S.-U.S.S.R. Health Committee Meeting (1989-01-25); Summary of Cooperation in Health Between the US Public Health Service and the Ministry of Health of the U.S.S.R. (1989-01-26); Peter Henry thoughts re Implications of Trip for U.S.-Soviet Health Agreement (1989-02-02)","Roth's printed account of trip that he made with Rabbi Mark Staitman, Larry Hurwitz, cardiologist;  Harold and Esther Garfinkel, community leaders; Joy Weber, science writer, and Rabbi Jonathan Stein. September 20-October 1, 1986. (2 versions)","Dr. Roth and Ambassador Schifter's preliminary planning documents for the U.S. mission to the U.S.S.R. in April of 1988.","APA Memorandum re \"use of psychiatry for political purposes\" (1988-03-21); [USSR] Regulations for Psychiatric Hospitals, LS No. 124600 JS/AO Russian, Appendix to Decree No. 225 of the USSR Ministry of Public Health, 21 March 1988; Pre-summit discussions. Report of Soviet Contact (1988-03-23): Gennadi N. Milyokhin, M.D. visit to Parklawn;  [Unedited] On the Record Briefing of Richard Schifter, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs,  March 25, 1988","Peter Reddaway: \"Will Perestroika End Political Abuse in Soviet Psychiatry?\" (1988-07-03); copy of pages 5-6 of \"Argumenty I fakty\" No. 11/1987, [Reporter V. Romanenko interviews with  Dr. Marat Vartanyan (1987- 03-21-27)]; anonymous draft \"Ground Rounds\", \"Abuses in Soviet Psychiatry\" (undated); Karklins, Rasma: \"The Dissent/Coercion Nexus in the USSR, Working Paper #36, Soviet Interview Project (1987-05); Roth's handwritten notes; copies of printed materials related to Soviet psychiatry; annotated copy of Berman, Harold J.: Soviet Criminal Law and Procedure. The RSFR Codes. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1977, pp. 3-124","Stipulations for Delegation of U.S. Psychiatrists and Other Experts Visiting the USSR (1988-11-09); Roth's handwritten notes. Also Ellen Mercer U.S.S.R. Trip Confidential  Report (1988 -11) and Saleem A. Shah Department of Health and Human Services Report on International Travel (1988-11-18). Correspondence to Alexander A. Churkin  with documents: US-Soviet Understanding for Delegation of US Psychiatrists and Other Experts Visiting the USSR; \"Discussions\"; Consent Forms for Persons Interviewed and of Relatives and Friends (1988-12-19)","re assesment of Soviet Psychiatry (1988-08-04), memorandum re \"Sensible Tactics re U.S. Delegation on Soviet Psychiatry; human rights and Soviet Psychiatry; \"things to do; Roth's notes; and Roth: \"Uses of Psychiatry in the U.S.S.R. and U.S.A,\" Browning Hoffman Lecture, UVA School of LAw (1988-10-07).","International Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry [IAPUP]: Information Bulletin Nos. 3, 9, 11, 18-21; also copy of \"II. The Case of All-Union Society (undated). Soviet Psychiatry News, vol. 1, nos. 1-2 (1989)","US State Department Soviet Psychiatric Project Delegation to the Soviet Union Planning Trip – correspondence, telegrams, memoranda re: negotiations, support and concerns, instructions, logistics for the trip. Correspondence with Soviet and US officials, and other psychiatrists. Summary of discussions with Ambassador Richard Schifter (1989-02-11); comments from Saleem Shah (1989-02-10); from Robert van Voren, Ellen Mercer, Dr. Edward Kelty and others.","This sub-series contains materials related to the organization, planning and logistics of the trip, as well as background information about the psychiatric abuse in the U.S.S.R.","This file contains memoranda, handwritten notes, list of participants, questionnaires, Forensic Interview Schedule, and Interpersonal Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE).","DSM-III-R Criteria Checklist (1988-05-23; Structural Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Patient Version (1988-06-01) SCID-NP/OP Psychotic Screening (1988-06-01); Instruction Manual for the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (1988 and 1989)","DSM-III-R Criteria Checklist (1988-05-23; Structural Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Patient Version (1988-06-01) SCID-NP/OP Psychotic Screening (1988-06-01); Instruction Manual for the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (1988 and 1989)","Russian version of IPDE (1989-02-16); Russian version of Revised SCID Standardized Clinical Study According to DSM-III-PD Criteria (SKID) (1991-04); Russian version of World Psychiatric Association visit to the USSR Forensic Examination (1991-03)","The reports were written by doctors Jonas Rappeport, M.D., Vladimir Levit, MD., Samuel J. Keith, M.D, Darrell A. Regier, M.D., Loren Roth, M.D., Felix Kleyman, M.D., Joseph Bloom, M.D., William. T. Carpenter, M.D., Robert Hirschfeld, M.D., Alla Arsenian (interpreter); Elmore Rigamer, M.D., Joel Klein; Boris Shostokovich, M.D.; John Monahan; Nancy Andreason, M.D.; William Farrand.","Reports of forensic evaluations done in Moscow and Leningrad by Jonas R. Rappeport, John Monahan, Joseph D. Bloom; draft of Roth's \"Patient Sample –Description. Methodological Issues – Obstacles\" (1989-04-10); assessments and handwritten notes re patients; Russian document with translation re patients (undated); Roth's notes on various interviewees (1991-02-07)","The materials in this file include Roth's letters to persons who he wished to interview but didn't; U.S. Department of State \"transliteration\" of names (1989-04-04) and inventory of status of cases (1989-04-05)","\"Delegation of US Psychiatrists Issues Press Statement\" signed by members of the US Psychiatric Delegation: Nancy Andreasen, M. D.; Joseph D. Bloom, M.D.; Richard J. Bonnie; William T. Carpenter, M.D.; Robert M. A. Hirschfeld, M. D.; Samuel J. Keith, M.D.; Joel Klein; Felix L. Kleyman, M.D.; Vladimir A. Levit, M.D.;  David Lozovsky, M. D.; Ellen Mercer, John Monahan, PhD; Jonas R. Rappeport, M.D.; Peter B. Reddaway, Ph.D; Darrel A. Regier, MD.D., M.P.H.; Elmore E. Rigamer, M.D.; Leon Stern, M.D.; Harold M. Visotsky, M. D.]","Testimonies of Darrel A. Regier, Robert W. Farrard, Peter Reddaway, Robert van Voren, Loren H. Roth; statement of Steny H. Hoyer; LHR's handwritten notes; correspondence; responses, printed materials; draft I Report of the U.S. Delegation and Preliminary Soviet Reply: Brief Analysis of Points of Agreement and Disagreement; Loren H. Roth Final Report of the US Delegation to Assess Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry. Objectives and Execution of the Visit. American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, May 15 1990; some correspondence and memoranda related to CSCE meetings in Copenhagen (June 1990); and copy of U.S. Report (speech) on CSCE – Moscow (1991-10-02)","Copy of Reddaway's Trip to Moscow, October 29-November 2, 1988; memo re: \"The difficult situation we are in: how should we proceed,\" (1989, 02-19); notes on Soviet Psychiatry Developments (1990-01-20); copy of \"Trip to Moscow, August 20-30, 1992.\"","\"Dissent and Disorder: Human Rights in Soviet Psychiatry,\" (1989-07-); copy of unauthored paper; \"The Legacy of Psychiatric Abuse in the U.S.S.R.,\" (undated); Russian version and translation of \"Proceedings of the session of Working Party formulating the draft law on 'Psychiatric Help in the U.S.S.R.',\" (1991-02-14)","\"Soviet Access to and Utilization of Mental Health Services: A Comparative View,\"  paper presented at the National Conference on Soviet Refugee Health and Mental Health, Chicago, IL (1991-12-11); Isaac Ray Lectures: \"The Future of the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Lesson from Two Cultures, The Former Soviet Union and the United States,\" Discussants: Loren H. Roth, M.D., Dean Eckenrode, George Huber, J.D., Mark Schmidhofer, M.D. (1998-05-07)","\"The New Soviet Legislation on the Provision of Psychiatric Care,\" speech delivered at the symposium of the International Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry, Washington, D.C., (1988-10-14); Koryagin: \"A Green Light of Injustice,\" Zurich, (1988-12-20); notes from Boris Zoubok, M.D.; copy of \"Law of the USSR on the protection of the rights and legal interests of persons suffering from psychiatric disorders and on the grounds and procedures for the administration of psychiatric care,\" (1990-10-08); Roth's Notes on Meeting of USSR Supreme Soviet Committee on Mental Health Law, Moscow (1990-10-26); copy of Smit, Jonna: \"Human Rights and Mental Health Legislation: the USSR,\" (1991-05-21); van Voren, Robert: \"Ukrainian Psychiatry: Starting from Scratch,\" (undated); Regulations on a psychiatric hospital (Положение о психиатрической больнице), [printed Russian document] CCCP, No. 225, 1988; printed materials and news clippings, 1988-2004; Patients in Psychiatric Hospital Requiring Follow-up and Review – interview methodology, list, memoranda","Draft and confidential memorandum of meeting with Minister of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs [Yuri A.] Reshetov. Also interview methodology and memoranda.","Kazan Special Psychiatric Hospital, Vilnius Ordinary Hospital, Kaunas Hospital, Chernyashovsk Special Psychiatric Hospital","Richard J. Bonnie draft; \"Legal and Humanitarian Aspects of Soviet Psychiatry: Some Preliminary Conclusions\" (1989-03-28); also comments on Klein's and Reddaway reports (1989-04 to 1989-05); LHR Confidential Drafts #1-5 (1989-05-19-31); Objectives of the Clinical Interviews (1989-05-22); Dr. Harold M. Visotsky Response to Joel Kline (1989-05-30); Hospital Team Report by Harold Visotsky, Elmore Rigamer, and Loren H. Roth (1989-05-30); remarks from Joe Bloom (1989-06-05); Richard Bonnie: Note to Members of the US Delegation to the Soviet Union (1989-06-16); Bill Farrad; Executive Summary [annotated] (1989-06-20); \"USSR Psychiatrists at a Human Rights Round Table in Moscow in April 1988,\" annotated copy of attachment sent by Joel Kline to Roth (undated); Vladimir A. Levit comments (1989-06-26); Saleem [Shah]: Soviet Compliance and Study Limitations (1989-06-28) and comments (1989-06-26); Peter Reddaway draft (1989-06-28) [2 folders], 1989-03 to 1989-06","Also: State Department \"rough translation\" of Soviet response: \"Response to the medical part of the report by the U.S. delegation of psychiatrists and lawyers,\" (1989-07-06); Draft translation of the final Soviet comments on the report: Commentary on the Report [130008 JS/AO Russian] (1989-09-26); U.S. Department of State Memorandum re Comments on the Soviet response to the Report (1989-10-12); printed Russian document inscribed by Polubinskaya to Loren H. Roth: [Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Soviet State and Right. Separate Report, Moscow 1990];  translation of S. V. Polubinskaya and S. V. Borodin: \"The Legal Problems of Soviet Psychiatry: The Views of American and Soviet Experts,\" Soviet State Law, No. 5, 1990, pp. 67-76","Resolution of the WPA (1989-10-17); WPA Statement by the All Union Society of Soviet Psychiatrists and Narcologists of the U.S.S.R. before the World Psychiatric Association General Assembly in Athens (1989-10-18); Memorandum re: Site Visit by the WPA Review Committee to the U.S.S.R. (1990-03-13); Reddaway, Peter: The Struggle over Reform in Soviet Psychiatry Intensifies: Is the Establishment Beginning to Panic? (1990-04-30); Remarks by Svetlana Poloubinskaya at the APA's Committee of International Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists (1990-05-16)","APA correspondence with the Center for Democracy in the U.S.S.R., U.S. Department of State, (Schifter and Mercer); University of London Institute of Psychiatry, 1989-05 to 1989-11. Also, miscellaneous correspondence with literary agents (1989-03 to 1989-04)","Translations of A.  Karpov, Chief Psychiatrist, U.S.S.R. Ministry of Health: \"The Registration of Mental Patients in the U.S.S.R.\" (1990-10-25) and \"Basic Findings of the Conclusion of the U.S.S.R. Constitutional Supervision Committee on Whether Legislation for the Compulsory Treatment and Re-Education of Through Labour of Persons Suffering from Alcoholism or Drug-Addiction Conforms to the U.S.S.R. Constitution and International Enactments on Human Rights,\" by B. M. Lazarev, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Constitutional Supervision Committee (1990-10-25). Also Saleem A. Shah: \"Forensic Interview Schedule\". Correspondence with Otto Dorr Zegers, Csaba Banki, M.P. Deva, Driss Moussaoui, Jim Birley, and Gerard Low-Geer","Correspondence with Dr. Otto Dörr-Zegers (Chile); Dr. Csava Bànki (Hungary); Dr. M. P. Deva (Malaysia); Dr. Driss Moussaoui (Morocco); Dr. Jim Birley (WPA Negotiating Team); Dr. Gerard Low-Greer (England).","Included are: Gostin, Larry: \"Human Rights in Mental Health: Japan. Report of an international mission to Japan: 1987,\"  World Health Organization/Harvard University International Collaborating Center on Health Legislation, World Federation for Mental Health [1987]; Kawasaki, Shigeru: \"Like a Shedding Snake,\" English Summary, J. JAPH 2:2 Spring 1991; news-clippings.","Correspondence with Ellen Mercer re Singapore (1985-09-18); UN Commission on Human Rights E/CN. 4 Sub.2/1988/23: Report on the Sessional Working Group on the question of persons detained on the grounds of mental ill-health or suffering from mental disorder; Proceedings. International Forum on Mental Health Reform, Kyoto, Japan, January 29-30, 1987; Benatar, S. R.: correspondence and articles (1990); Final draft of the \"UN Principles Produced by the Working Group on Human Rights,\" Annex A Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care","The sub-series consists of materials Loren Roth collected as part of his work on this committee. These include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, reports, articles, clippings, memoranda, and other items.","APA lists of cases in the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia and Romania (1988-07-05); memo for the record re Soviet dissidents","APA minutes of meeting (1988-09-07); Draft Statement Following Discussion with Dr. Sabshin; APA Draft Resolution by the Committee on International Abuse of Psychiatry to not object to the re-admittance of  the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Neuropathologists of the USSR into the WPA (1988-09-07); minutes of the APA Committee on Human Rights (1988-09-09); some correspondence, (1988 -09)","Minutes of conference call (1989-02-15); correspondence; IAPUP documents re to Soviet psychiatry (1989-02); copy of Dr. Marvin Brook handwritten comments on the By-Laws of the WPA (undated); Application of the Independent Psychiatric Association of the USSR (IPA) for membership to the WPA, includes Constitution and Declaration (1989-03-09); APA Guidelines for Psychiatric Services in Jails and Prisons; APA draft guidelines on the Right of Refuse (Anti-Psychotic) Medication.","Includes some correspondence and documents: Memorandum re Revision of the WPA Review Committee's Operational Instrument ( 1989-04-270; translation of letter from Nikolai Fedrovich Zhukov to US Congress (1989-03-04); IAPUP Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR 18: The Founding of the Association of Independent Psychiatrists in the USSR and the US Delegation of Psychiatrist to the USSR (March 1989); IAPUP Report and brochures, 1989-04","Memorandum re Detention of Cuban psychiatrist Dr. Alfredo Samuel Martínez Lara (1989-04-19); WPA Proposed alterations (1989-04 -25); copy of entrance application of the International Independent Research Centre on Psychiatry to the WPA (1989-03-27), news clippings; Dr. Marat Vartanian original article sent to the International Journal on Mental Health","Included are: Ellen Mercer and Fini Schulsinger interviews with Radio Canada (1989-03); and \"rough\" transcripts of  Radio Free Europe with Viktor Lanovoy, President of the Independent Association of Psychiatrists (1989-06-15); Croatian Committee for Human Rights press release re human rights abuses (1989-06-24); [translation] of M. Buyanov articles in Uchitelskaya Gazeta (1988-11-19); Association Psychiatric Independent (IPA) press release (1989-04-12); Commission of the European Communities: \"Observations on the State of Implementation of Programme of Psychiatrists Reform in Greece,: (1987-12-31); IAPUP Documents Special Issue: \"The Political Abuse of Psychiatry in Rumania (June 1989);  IAPUP Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry Nos. 22, 23, 24, 25 (June-July 1989)","Includes Summary of the WPA Executive Committee in Athens and Resolutions (1989-08-18); excerpts of anonymous document \"Autumm 1988, Gerlovka\" re abuse in the USSR ; printed articles, news clippings","Includes unofficial translation of  Statement by the All-Union Scientific Society of Psychiatrists (1989-10-02); Remarks of Christian Barton Concerning Allegations of Psychiatric Abuse of Dissidents by the Cuban Government (1989-09-13); Sabshin, Melvin: Statement to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment of the US House of Representatives re APA position on Soviet psychiatric practices (undated); Testimony of Victor Davidoff, former victim of abuse in the Soviet Union (undated); Commentary on the Report \"Assessment of Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry, prepared by the US Delegation on the Results of its visit to the USSR,\" (1989-09-15); IPA bulletins (1989 -08-07 and 1989-08-31); news clippings","Includes: Liaison Report (1989-10); Gluzman, Semyon: \"Bureaucratic Ethics and Soviet Psychiatry,\" (1989-11) and Commentary on the Memorandum of G. Lukacher (1989-10-14) re All Union Scientific Society of Psychiatrists; translation of A.I. letter \"To the World Congress of the WPA,\" (1989-10-16); translation of letter from Social Organizations in Leningrad To the Participants in the Congress of the WPA (Athens, Greece, October 1989); Schifter, Richard: \"An Inventory of Soviet Human Rights Developments\" (1989-10-04); IAPUP Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR No. 29, 30","Some copies of  documents related to the former Yugoslavia; lists of interments and releases in the Soviet Union (1989-12-21); draft translation of [Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya] A Detail report: Psychiatry Without Secrets (1989-10-31); Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union 31 (1989-12); WPA Minutes (1989-08-11-13)","Correspondence related to abuses in Cuba; Pena, Jose M. et al: \"Abuse and Misuse of Psychiatry in the U.S.: The Need for an Institutional Ethics,\" (1990-02); list of human rights cases monitored by the APA in Argentina, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Malawi, Morocco, Romania, South Africa, Sudan, Turkey, Uruguay, Yugoslavia, Zaire (1990-02-06); Mercer, Ellen: USSR Trip Report/February 25-March 3, 1990","Includes: Second World Center Annual Report 1989 and APA Statement on Simón Bolívar Award and Lecture (1990-02-15)","Correspondence re Cuban psychiatrists (1990-04); Keston College Support Group: \"Igor Rodionov Report\" (1990-04); Yelena Izyumova Open Letter to the Members of the APA, Moscow May 20, 1990; anonymous essay re : Psychiatric Abuse in the USSR (Helsinki Watch), undated","Also: \"Proposed New Policies for the APA in Regard to the Abuse of Psychiatry for Political and Other Non-Medical Purposes in the USSR,\" (undated)","Includes copy of Human Rights Survey Responses (1988-04-01) and reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education","Includes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education; memoranda re IAPUP meetings in Germany (1990-09); letter from Dr. Jeffrey Heller to the Committee on Abuse of Psychiatry re Soviet Delegation at H and CP Institute (1990-10-10); Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR No. 38 (1990-09)","Includes correspondence from Dr. Valerian Tuculesco re post-traumatic stress disorder after the Romanian revolution (1990-10); correspondence re Oleg Vitalyevich Kozlov re hijacked plane to Helsinki (1990-11); American Ambassadors People to People Trip to the USSR 14-27 August 1990 \"Professional Diary\" compiled by E. B. Brody (1990-09-05);  \"Psychiatric Issues Encountered on Recent Trip to USSR,\" memorandum from Holt Ruffin (World Without War) (1990-10-25); Hartmann, Lawrence M.D.: \"Notes on Some Social Psychiatric Problems in Chile, South Africa and the Soviet Union,\" (1990-10); Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR Nos. 39, 40, 41; documents relative to the Joint APA-Caribbean Psychiatric Association Meeting; Ellen Mercer: China Trip Report (1990-11)","Includes reports of the Committee on International Education; Final draft of the UN Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Case (1990-12-11); \"Sugar, Jonathan M.D. et al: \"Psychiatry's Global Challenge: Responsibilities of American Psychiatrists in International Health (undated)","Includes letter from Dr. Dainiys Pūras re abuse of psychiatry in Lithuania (1991-01-19); correspondence re abuse in Romania (1991-02-08); \"Proposal for The Moscow Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (undated)","Includes correspondence and document re abuses in Romania; correspondence between Dr. Roth, Gennadi Milyokhin, Juan José López-Ibor, re Revaz Uturgaury (1991-03); correspondence re Soviet individuals","Includes CIOMS: Development of International, Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiological Research and Practice, Plenary III Issues related to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Proposed Guidelines for International Testing of Vaccines and Drugs against HIV Infection and Aids (1990-11); copies of correspondence between and V. Tuculescu re Romania; Reddaway, Peter: Psychiatric Developments in the USSR (1991-06) and \" Problems of Reforming Soviet Psychiatry and Assuring Rights for the Mentally Ill,\" (undated); \"The Heartbeat of Reform. Soviet Jurists and Political Scientists Discuss the Progress of Perestroika, Glasnot, Democracy, Socialism,\" Translated from the Russian by Vic Schneierson, Moscow, [1991]; Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR No. 47, 48","Includes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education. Also includes several documents dated September 1991: Memo for the Record Briefing Meeting for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Human Rights Study Group (1991-09-24); USSR Draft Law (17 June 91) on Psychiatric Assistance; Ministry of Health, USSR, All-Union Society of Psychiatrists Governing Board Decision (1991-05-15-16); WPA Memorandum to the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists (1991-07-28); Dr. Stanislaw Golec: \"Health Care in Poland 91\"; \"Instructional Recommendations on the Application of USSR Ministry of Health Order No. 555 (1989-09-19); WPA documents; International Committee of the Red Cross Report on \"Second Working Group of Experts on Battlefield Laser Weapons,\" (1990-11-05-06)","Includes \"copy of a part\" of Japanese Mental Health Law with translation (1988); translation of  \"law on patient's rights\" in Finland (1991-08); WHO Guidelines for the Clinical Investigation of Antidepressant Drugs (1984)","Includes LHR handwritten notes re Abuse Committee (1992-04); \"Cuban Dissidents in Psychiatric Hospitals An Update of the Politics of Psychiatry in Revolutionary Cuba,\"; \"Dimineata, 7th January 1992, The Mad People Were Dissidents,\" re Romania (undated); \"The Plenary Session of the Board of Directors of the All-Union Scientific Society of Psychiatrists (1992-05) and Follow-Up of US Team's 1989 Patients list, Appendices 1 and 2 sent to Dr. Birley with names of patients (1992-02); Information about the Patient Bill of Rights Tally Sheet (1992-04); Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry [GPI]: Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry (1992-03 and 1992-04)","Includes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights and Committee on International Education. Also: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Yugoslavia (1992-06-01); GPI: Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry, April – June 1992; Mercer, Ellen: Exploring Hungarian Psychiatry (1992-05)","Includes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights. Also: International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions Proclamation of May 1992: Assuring the Mental Health of Children; APA Bilateral Exchange with Poland Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Summary of Responses and Recommendations of American Participants (1992-03-24 to 1992-04-12); copy of Act of the Russian Federation \"On Psychiatric Care and Citizens' Rights With Regard to Such Care,\" (1992-01); Polubinskaya, Svetlana: \"From the USSR to the Independent States: Where the Former Soviet Psychiatry Will Go,\" (1992-05); GIP Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry 56, June 1992","Includes reports of the Council on International Affairs, Committee on Human Rights. Also correspondence re psychiatric abuse in the former GDR, with the Romanian Psychiatric Association and the Committee to End the Chinese Gulag. \"Psychiatry Under Tyranny. An Assessment of the Political Abuse of Romanian Psychiatry During the Ceaucescu Years,\" Report of a consultative mission to Bucharest on behalf of the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry (1992-06); GIP Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry 57, July – August 1992","The sub-series consists of materials Loren Roth collected as part of his work with this committee. These include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, reports, articles, clippings, memoranda, and other items.","Included: \"Human Rights of Mental Patients in Japan,\" (1987 -04); Reich, Walter Report of Meeting with Gennadiy M. Yevstafiev (Soviet, member of the delegation to the Vienna Review Meeting) (1987-07-28); copy of letter from Senator Edward M. Kennedy to Lawrence Hartmann, M.D. re human rights violations in Paraguay (1988-04-22); World Medical Association, INC. memorandum: \"The Facts regarding health services in South Africa during 1987, and the role played by the Medical Association of South Africa,\" (1987-07- 08); Reddaway, Peter: Does Moscow's Purge of Corrupt Psychiatrists Threaten the Psychiatric Gulag?\" (1987-07-13); \"More Revelations about Stefanis' Negotiations with the Soviets (1987-09-11); Center for Victims of Torture pilot project (1987-08-28 and 1987-10); South Africa Briefing (1987-08-07); Minutes of Committee on Abuse of Psychiatry (1987-09-09 and 1987-12-02); \"Victims of Torture in Afghanistan. Presentation for Cairo World Congress\" by Mohammad Azam Dadfar (1987-10-18-22); Gralnick, Alexander M.D.: \"Public Health and Psychiatric Care in Cuba, Personal Report\" (November 1987);Political Imprisonment in Cuba. A Special Report from Amnesty International, The Cuban American Nation Foundation, 1987;  US/Soviet Human Rights Seminar: Statement by Ellen Mercer for the APA (1987-12-03). Also Bloche, Maxwell Gregg: \"Uruguay's Military Physicians: Cogs in a System of State Terror,\" (1987-03)","Miscellaneous documents: minutes, memoranda, correspondence. Included: [Argentina] Tribunal Etico de la Salud contra la Impunidad translation of statement: Medical Ethics Tribunal Against Impunity,\" (1988-01-11); Minutes of the APA Committee on Abuse of Psychiatry (1988-01-20, 1988-04-21; 1988-05-10); some documents related to South Africa, Pakistan, Argentina; Human Rights Survey Responses (1988-03-09); Amnesty International: \"China. Detention Without Trial, Ill-Treatment of Detainees and Police Shooting of Civilians in Tibet,\" (1988-02); Bitsch Christensen, Svend: \"Torture Related Documentation,\" (1987); International Commission of Jurists' Mission to Japan Preliminary Report and Recommendations (1988-04); \"The Casualties of Conflict: Medical Care and Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,\" Report of a Medical Fact Finding Mission by Physicians for Human Rights, (1988-03); Amnesty International Commission Medicale: Medicine at Risks. The Doctor as Abuser or Victim,\" (1987-09)","Miscellaneous documents: minutes, memoranda, correspondence related to Soviet psychiatry; human rights abuses in Honduras, Czechoslovakia, Somalia, South Africa, Israel, Haiti, Cuba, Egypt, China, BahrainGudava, Eduard M.D.: \"The events in Tbilisi, Georgia  (1989-04-18); Vesti, Peter and Inge Kemp: \"Chapter I: Treatment of Torture Survivors – theoretical views,\" \"Chapter 2: Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors, \" (1989-10); Collazo, Carlos R. M.D. and Martha Gerpe M.D.: \"Missing Parents,\" Paper presented at The World Psychiatric Association, Athens, October 1989","File includes: RCT [Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims] 7th Annual Report (1990-01); APA Position Statement on Apartheid and Academic Boycotting of South Africa (1990-01); Human Rights Cases Monitored by the APA (1990-02-01); signed Petition by doctors to recommend the APA to condemn the government of Turkey (1990-08); LHR handwritten notes of September meeting;  APA Council on International Affairs Joint Reference Committee (1990-10-12); Boyajian, Levon Z. M.D.: The Psychological Sequelae of the Armenian Genocide (1982); Leros Trip. Report on Visit to the Mental Institution on the Island of Leros, Greece (1989-12-3-5); \"'Bloody Sunday Trauma in Tbilisi. The Eents of April 9, 1989 and their Aftermath,\" Report of a Medical Mission to Soviet Georgia by Physicians for Human Rights, February 1990; printed materials.","Files include documents re Armenian Genocide and from the Free Romanian Foundation; \"Program for Administrators and Educators Specializing in Programs for People With Disabilities,\" with the Persian Gulf (1991-04); Martínez Lara, Samuel: \"Psychiatry in Cuba: Perspectives of a Human Rights Activist\" (1991-09-27);  ); National Academy of Sciences: \"Considerations Regarding Individual Scientific Visits to the People's Republic of China,\" (October 1991); also some documents about torture","Files include documents re torture in Egypt (1992-01); Dadfar, A. Azam M.D.: \"The Deep Scars of a Forgotten War, \" Psychiatry Centre for the Afghans; correspondence with Levon Z. Boyajian M.D. (1992-02); Croatian Medical Journal: \"Medical Testimony of the Vukovar Tragedy\"; memorandum re \"Abuse and Misuse of Psychiatry in the United States\" (1992-02); Committee to End the Chinese Gulag: \"On behalf of Political Prisoners in China: How to Raise Human Rights Cases,\" (1992-04); memoranda and correspondence re abuse of Palestinian physician (1992-05); APA Position Statement on Homosexuality and Civil Rights (1992-07); Americas Watch, Vol.4, Issue 7: \"Dangerous Dialogue, Attacks on Freedom of Expression in Miami's Cuban Exile Community,\" (1992-08);  Amnesty International French Section, Medical Group: \"Corporal Punishment. A study on legislation and enforcement in 18 countries,\" (1992); \"Stop Torture in Korea (STIK)\" (1998-08); APA Council on International Affairs: \"International Inpatients Bill of Rights,\" (1992-08); APA Communications Plan 1992-1994; APA: \"Human Rights and the American Psychiatric Association,\" (1992); memorandum and correspondence re abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists in México (1992-100; US Department of State: \"Renewing the U.S. Commitment to Human Rights,\" Special Report No. 164;  printed materials","World Health Organization Assignment Report re \"mentally infirm in Romania and possibilities for improvement,\" (1991-11); Rosenberg, David R. M.D. et al: \"A Cross-Cultural Study of \"Ceausescu's Orphans,\" (1992-03); Blom, G. et al: \"Program Touch – A Volunteer Intervention Program to Orphaned Disabled Children in Romania,\" (1991-11); Roth's reappointment as APA Chairperson of the Committee on Human Rights under the Council of International Affairs, (1992-04-13); draft of A.P.A. Action Paper Rescinding the 1982 APA Position on the Insanity Defense (1992-05-01); Pierce, Chester M. M.D.: \"Public Health and Human Rights: Racism, Torture and Terrorism,\" presented at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting (1992-05-04)","Files include translation of Croatian pamphlet: \"Protect Yourself and Help Others (1993-02); APA Office of International Affairs: Responses to Human Rights Questionnaire,\" (1993-08-18); Citizens Support Committee for the Psychiatric Farm Hospital Dr. Manuel Ramírez Moreno (1993-7-13)","correspondence and handwritten notes","evaluation forms and printed materials","Meetings between Ukrainian doctors Semyon F. Gluzman, Vladimir I. Poltavets, Valery N. Kutznetsov, Ada I. Korotenko, Oleg A, Nasinnik, Vladimir M. Cherniavsky and Juan Mezzich, American psychiatrist from the West Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh; also some case summaries (1994-02). Russian and English translation.","extensive correspondence, reports, handwritten notes. Savychyj, Jurij M.D.: \"Psychiatry in Ukraine,\" [1992]","correspondence, Ukrainian fliers, and handwritten notes","extensive correspondence, reports, data analysis, forms, handwritten notes (1995-05), \"Codebook\"","correspondence, clinical assessment forms, and handwritten notes","Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry. Annual Reports 1992 and 1995; Documents on the Abolition and Prevention of Political Abuse of Psychiatry Nos. 65-67, 72, 74; \"Concepts for Developing Mental Health Care in Ukraine (First Draft),\" Developed by Experts of Ministry for Health Care, Kiev Research Institute of General and Forensic Psychiatry, Regional Chief Experts and Kiev Psychiatrists.","correspondence and forms","email correspondence, brochures, printed photographs","Joseph D. Bloom, Kyrill Borissow, William T. Carpenter, Robert W. Farrand, Robert M.A. Hirschfield, William H. Hopkins, Samuel Keith, Felix Kleyman, Andrei A. Kovalev, Ellen Mercer, John Monahan, Darrel A. Regier, Elmore F. Rigamer Jr, Carolyn Smith, Leon Stern","Includes: United States – Russia Health Committee 2000 – 2002, printed copies of photographs; The U.S.A. – Russia Health Committee: \"Access to Quality Health Care\" (draft), undated; \"Additional Materials on Diagnosing and Treating Mild and Moderate Depressions,\" [document in Russian with English title]","Gershman, Carl: Psychiatric Abuse in the Soviet Union,\" Society, July/August 1984; Lapenna, Ivo: \"The Medico-Legal Society. Use and Misuse of Psychiatry in the USSR,\" The Royal Society of Medicine, London 12th June 1986; McCready, John and Harold Merskey: \"Compliance by physicians with the 1978 Ontario Mental Health Act,\" Reprint from the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 124, March 15, 1981; McCready, John and Harold Merskey: \"On the Recoding of Mental Illness for Civil Commitment,\" Can. J. Psychiatry Vol. 27, March 1982; Slovenko, Ralph: Analysis. The Destiny of South Africa,\" The World and I, July 1991.","In 2021, members of the 1989 American delegation, some Soviet patients, Soviet doctors and other professionals, were invited to participate in the \"Retrospective Review of the 1989 U.S. State Department Psychiatric Mission to the USSR\" oral history project. Nineteen interviews were recorded, sixteen of them with the surviving members of the U.S. delegation, one with Andrei Kovalev, an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the U.S.S.R. at the time, and two with former \"Soviet patients.\" There is also an original 1989 recording of one interview.","These interviews provide a comprehensive overview of the history of Soviet psychiatric abuse, the reasons why psychiatric diagnosis was used to suppress dissent, the methods, medical and legal procedures, and who were the major players in Soviet psychiatric abuse. Emphasis is also made on assessing the U.S.-Soviet relationship in the 1980s and the special place that the 1989 State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. held in the détente. All stages of negotiations and preparations for the mission were discussed as well as the methodology of psychiatric evaluations and the findings of the American experts. An additional emphasis was also made on assessing the state of Soviet psychiatric care as of the late 1980s and all the significant changes it was going through at the time. The role of World Psychiatric Association (WPA), the All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Narcologists, the American Psychiatric Association and other important organizations, is also given proper attention. The interviewees also discuss the long-term impact that the 1989 U.S. mission made on Soviet and post-Soviet psychiatry.","In the interview Dr. Bloom discusses his career, his interest in the topic of abuse of psychiatry and his involvement in the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric delegation to the U.S.S.R. He talks about the U.S. and Soviet (both Soviet professionals and Soviet interviewees) understanding of the purpose of the visit and  the Soviet's compliance with the terms negotiated for the visit. He also talks about psychiatric hospitalization, detention and commitment process in the U.S.S.R., conditions of hospitalization in Soviet psychiatric hospitals and the legal rights of persons with mental disorders in the U.S.S.R.  Dr. Bloom's explains his impressions from the trip to the Soviet Union and the conclusions made by the American delegation. ","The highlights of the interview pertain to Dr. Bloom's recollection of a Soviet person who allegedly had a mental disorder, and his opinion as to the way the American final report should have been approached.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. Borissow shares his life story and describes his career. He talks about getting involved in the 1989 State Department trip to the Soviet Union, his previous trips to the U.S.S.R., and the  social and political context that surrounded the visit and made it possible in the first place. Mr. Borissow describes his experience of interpreting in one of the psychiatric hospitals in Moscow as a part of the 1989 American mission as well as the work that Mr. Borissow's sub-team #3 did in Leningrad. He shares very interesting anecdotes that happened during the trip and talks about the lessons he learned during this trip.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","In the interview Dr. Carpenter discusses his career, his involvement in the 1989 US State Department psychiatric delegation to the USSR, the main goals of the mission, various aspects of the implementation in great detail, the diagnostic aspects of the study, interview instruments and methodology, the Soviet mental health care system and its shortcomings, the conclusions made by Dr. Carpenter's sub-team, the impact the American visit made to the interviewed individuals an mental health in the region. ","Dr. Carpenter also discusses the United States - Great Britain cross-national study of schizophrenia conducted in the 1960s and 70s and its pertinency to the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. He also talks about the broad diagnostic criteria for sluggish schizophrenia and how much contributed to the missuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Ambassador Farrand talks about his long successful career in the U.S. State Department, the importance of the Soviet psychiatric abuse to the U.S. government and the larger context of the U.S. - U.S.S.R. relationships. As a person who worked closely with Ambassador Richard Schifter for many years, Mr. Farrand describes Schifter's goals and vision of the 1989 psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. ","Mr. Farrand describes the process of negotiating the terms of the visit and shares insights about interacting with a superpower as the Soviet Union was at that time. He also talks about the the peculiarities of governance in the U.S.S.R., and power dynamics inside the country. Mr. Farrand describes the efforts to preserve transparency and independence of the mission as well as managing its financial aspects and its highlighting in media. Mr. Farrand also talks about glasnost, perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Hirschfeld shares memories about his education and career, the way he got involved in the 1989 State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R., the methodological approach to the patient interviews, the range of findings of his sub-team # 3 in Leningrad, and his general impressions of the Soviet Union as of 1989.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. Hopkins talks at length about the way he became immersed in the Russian studies, his education, and career. He well remembers the settings and arrangements of interviewing the Soviet citizens who allegedly had mental disorders, his expectations and apprehensions about the upcoming 1989 mission, the types of questions asked of the Soviet interviewees, and the peculiarities of his task as an interpreter during this unique venture. He also mentions the debrief that the entire American team had in Washington, D.C. after the visit was over.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. I. talks about his early life, family, education, how his dissident views formed and evolved with time. He shares about his repeated contacts with psychiatric system; he also describes his social and political activity and the repercussions he faced as a result. Mr. I. then tells about his criminal case, his forensic psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, \"symptoms\", finding of non-imputability, the legal procedure used to involuntarily commit him to the Dnepropetrovsk special psychiatric hospital, and the inhumane conditions there. \nMr. I. then describes his transfer to Nikolayev ordinary psychiatric hospital and release; he talks about his dissident activity that brought him back to the same hospital. He also describes his contacts with Ukrainian dissident movement at the end of 1980s and how he got on the list of people to be assessed by the U.S. team. The details of his participation in 1989 U.S. State Department mission are discussed next. Mr. I. then shares about the long-term impact this mission made on his life, his subsequent legal rehabilitation, being taken off the psychiatric register, the removal of his psychiatric diagnosis, his life and activism after 1989. Mr. I. describes some of his most interesting campaigns. The interview ends with a brief discussion of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how it affected Mr. I.'s life. ","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Keith talks about the role and expertise of NIMH that was crucial to the success of the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. He recapitulates the main points and stumbling blocks of the negotiations with the Soviets in November 1988, various organizational aspects of the mission, as well as the interview instruments and methodology used by the American team. Dr. Keith shares his opinion about the concept of sluggish schizophrenia, its diagnostic criteria, and other factors that made it possible to abuse psychiatry in the Soviet Union. He also emphasizes Soviet life, society, and governance as of 1989. Dr. Keith discusses the Soviets' admission of \"hyperdiagnoses\" and the validity of the excuse of \"hyperdiagnoses\" from the professional point of view. He also expresses his opinion about the tone of the final report and the general context that the American team had to keep in mind when drafting it. Dr. Keith describes Schizophrenia Bulletin and his role as its editor-in-chief. He also talks about the 1990 Soviet Reciprocal Visit to the U.S.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Kleyman is a great source of knowledge about the ins and outs of the Soviet mental health care system as the person who had about 10 years of professional experience on the ground. He talked about the uniqueness of his role during the American psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. that resulted from him being a native Russian speaker and being well familiar with life in the Soviet Union. Dr. Kleyman discusses the social and political context that surrounded the 1989 U.S. State Department visit and made it possible in the first place; the doctor patient relationship in the U.S.S.R.; Soviet diagnostic approaches and the role of Soviet psychiatrists during the American visit. Dr. Kleyman recalls his unique trip to Moscow Psychiatric Hospital # 5 to briefly speak with the patient who was claimed by the Soviets to have refused examination. He also talks about his experience as a member of the 1991 W.P.A. mission to the U.S.S.R.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. Kovalev tells about the role of various domestic and international actors in the process of democratization of the U.S.S.R. in the late 1980s and bringing human rights into the Soviet Union. He also assesses the political factors of the early 1980s that allowed Gorbachev come to power and retain it. Mr. Kovalev shares his insights about the Soviet foreign policy of the second half of 1980s-early 1990s and the U.S. - U.S.S.R. relationships. He shares his knowledge about the history of abuse of psychiatry and the reasons for resorting to it; the Soviet psychiatric register and the consequences of being on a register; the sealed instruction on involuntary commitment that existed but was not available to the public. Mr. Kovalev talks about the chain of decision making in ensuring that the American visit will actually happen and the key events on that road. He also comments on the internal tensions between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health (M.O.H.) as well as the resistance put up by the M.O.H. in organizing the American visit. He also shares his views about the \"system dissidents\" in the U.S.S.R.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Ms. Mercer talks about her career at the APA and the role that the APA played in advocating for the rights of the persons committed to psychiatric hospitals for non-medical reasons in the USSR. She then discusses the historical context for the 1989 State Department psychiatric delegation to the Soviet Union, including the 1977 Declaration of Hawaii and the All-Union Society's walking out of the WPA in 1983 in the face of an almost certain expulsion. Being a part of the November 1988 negotiation team to the Soviet Union, Ms. Mercer shares her thoughts about the negotiation process and the Soviet's compliance with the terms agreed upon. Ms. Mercer describes the field visit to Soviet psychiatric hospitals and then talks about the Soviet's readmission to the WPA, the role the 1989 U.S. State Department played in this process, the APA's and Ms. Mercer's personal stance with regard to the readmission. Ms. Mercer concludes by discussing the difference the American visit made in the big picture.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Monahan talks about his professional training and the highlights of his career, his memories from the 1989 American visit to the Soviet Union, including the goals of the visit,  its organizational aspects, and its media coverage. Dr. Monahan then focuses on the forensic evaluation methods and results, the rights of psychiatric patients in the Soviet Union, conditions of their hospitalization, treatment, and hospital staffing. Dr. Monahan concludes by describing his general impressions of Moscow and Leningrad and the conclusions the American team made as a result of the visit. ","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. Reddaway talks about his education and career and the way he became interested and immersed in the issue of abuse of psychiatry in the U.S.S.R. He discusses the impact that his and Sidney Bloch's 1977 and 1983 books made in the Soviet Union. He also shares his knowledge about the evolution of punitive psychiatry with each new Soviet leader. Mr. Reddaway talks about Mr. Gorbachev's personality, the political factors in the early 1980s that allowed for such a leader to emerge and retain power; the reasons for perestroika;  the peculiarities of perestroika in psychiatry versus other spheres. Mr. Reddaway gives a comprehensive overview of various internal processes in the Soviet Union at the end of 1980s that were important prerequisites for the 1989 U.S. psychiatric mission. He discusses at length the role of the WPA in the battle against the abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. Mr. Reddaway also gives a detailed overview of the field inspections to Soviet psychiatric hospitals that he did as a member of the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","The interview with Dr. Regier is of critical importance for the comprehensive retrospective evaluation of the long-term impact of the 1989 State Department investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. Dr. Regier not only played a key role in the preparation and implementation of the mission, but also successfully continued to help develop the quality and accessibility of mental health services in Russia after the U.S.S.R. collapse. Dr. Regier also continued to tackle the issue of psychiatric abuse in China.  \nIn his interview, Dr. Regier gives a historical overview of the development of diagnostic criteria that was subsequently used during the U.S. State Department investigative mission to the U.S.S.R. relating to psychiatric abuse. This interview provides a great description of the methodology used during the interviews. Dr. Regier also describes the NIMH goals, unique role and contribution to the 1989 mission and shares his insights about the factors that made it possible to weaponize psychiatry against dissidents in the Soviet Union. Dr. Regier also tells about his role in the work of Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission in the area on mental health care in Russia post the Soviet Union breakup.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Roth describes his training and the highlights of his career; he then tells how he became interested in the issue of abuse of psychiatry in the U.S.S.R. His two human rights trips to the U.S.S.R. in 1985 and 1986 are discussed next. Dr. Roth then gives an overview of the general political background to the visit and tensions between him and Ambassador Schifter about some critical aspect of the visit. Dr. Roth then describes in detail the negotiation process between the U.S. and Soviet side, the main stumbling blocks, how he managed to overcome them, and who were his allies. Dr. Roth describes the Soviet uncooperativeness and tensions between the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He then talks about informed consents, interview procedures, and the visit dynamics. He shares some anecdotes and most memorable events; he also talks about the people who meaningfully contributed to making the mission successful.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Mr. S. describes his early years, how his dissident views formed, his first arrest under Article 70 of the Criminal Code, his expert psychiatric evaluation at the Serbsky Institute, and the judicial procedure that followed. He describes his subsequent commitment in an 'ordinary' psychiatric hospital and shares insights about the internal regulations, regime, and the release procedure. He also talks about his next arrest and the legal aspects of it. Mr. S. shares his views about whether Soviet psychiatrists seriously believed that 'failure to adapt to the society' was a sign of mental illness and whether they can be blamed for presumably following the orders from above.  Mr. S. proceedes to describe his transfer to a special psychiatric hospital, the mass release of political prisoners in 1987, the reasons for such a drastic change of the political course in the Soviet Union, and gives an overview of the U.S. – U.S.S.R. relationship in the second half of the twentieth century. He then talks about how the 1989 U.S. State Department psychiatric mission to the U.S.S.R. fit into the broader human rights negotiations in the CSCE. Mr. S. tells how he taken off the psychiatric register\nand legally rehabilitated; he talks about the destiny of the Criminal Code 'political' articles 70 and 190-1 and current political articles in Russian Criminal Code used to suppress dissent.\nMr. S. shares about his life and political activity after 1989, his subsequent arrests, and his assessment of the evolution of civil and political freedom in Russia after 1989.\nHe then talks about the future of Russia, his own future as a dissident in Russia, and his views about the Russian war in Ukraine.","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","In addition to the oral history given in 2022, this file contains a recording of an interview that Mr. S gave on March 2, 1989.","Ms. Smith shares her memories about interpreting for both 1989 U.S. State Department delegation and the 1991 WPA delegation to the Soviet Union. She explains how this experience compares to the other interesting projects she has been involved in throughout her career. She describes her most prominent memories about this job as well as the Soviet Union as of 1989. ","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","Dr. Stern describes his career and his pathway from the Soviet Union to the U.S. He shares his insights about some aspects of Soviet history, the issue of psychiatric abuse, its roots and reasons the Soviet government resorted to psychiatry to oppress dissent. Dr. Stern talks about the major differences between special psychiatrist hospitals vs. ordinary psychiatrist hospitals and gives some excellent illustrations of \"symptoms\" that the Soviet school of psychiatry considered signs of mental disorder. Dr. Stern shares his opinion as to the reasons why Soviet psychiatrists engaged in unethical practices. Dr. Stern describes the field trip in great detail, including some anecdotes and specific instances. He concludes by identifying the most important changes needed in Soviet psychiatry at the time and assesses the overall success of the American mission to the Soviet Union. ","Olena Protsenko, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, conducted this interview remotely over the Zoom application.","This file includes correspondence with Richard Schifter and Robert van Voren."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Arthur J. Morris Law Library does not grant researchers permission to publish copies of any of the materials in this collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The Arthur J. 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Speeches and Writings Series VII. Environmental Activism Series VIII. News Clippings Series IX. Audio Visual Records","M. Rupert Cutler is a native of Detroit, Michigan. He is an environmentalist and a journalist focusing on conservation and local Roanoke issues. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Wildlife Management in 1955 and a Master's and Doctorate of Philosophy degrees from the Department of Resource Management at Michigan State University in 1969. ","After graduating from the University of Michigan, Cutler worked as an instruction book writer for Argus Cameras in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1956, he moved to Arizona where he edited the Winslow Mail, a weekly newspaper. In 1957, he accepted the post of executive secretary of Wildlife Conservation Incorporated in Boston and in 1958 he was hired by the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to be associate editor of Virginia Wildlife, the Virginia Game Department's magazine. In 1961, Cutler was promoted to Chief, Education Division, Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries. Cutler was then in Washington D.C. serving as editor of publications of the National Wildlife Federation (1962-1965) and then as assistant executive director of The Wilderness Society (1965-1969). ","In 1969, Cutler returned to Michigan to study for his doctorate at Michigan State University and to work as a Graduate Research Assistant in MSU's Department of Resource Development. With his degree, he became assistant professor of resource development and the state's extension specialist in natural resources policy, a post which he held from 1972-1977. In 1977 he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to serve as assistant secretary of agriculture for conservation, research, and education. From 1977 to 1980 he provided policy direction to the U.S. Forest Service, the Soil Conservation Service, and USDA's research, extension, and library agencies. He was also senior vice president of the National Audubon Society (1980-1983), and executive director of Population-Environment Balance (1983-1987). From 1987-1990 he was the president and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife, an organization based in Washington, DC devoted to protecting animals and their habitats in the United States.","M. Rupert Cutler moved to Roanoke, Virginia in January 1991. From 1991 to February of 1997, he was the executive director of Virginia's Explore Park, a 1,000-acre outdoor living history museum and environmental education center on the Roanoke River in Roanoke and Bedford counties. In March of 1997, M. Rupert Cutler became the founding executive director of the Western Virginia Land Trust, a new, private, nonprofit association created to help preserve the natural, scenic, and cultural heritage of western Virginia on private land, using conservation easements. Between 2004-2009, he sat on the board of the Western Virginia Water Authority, which was created in 2004 to provide water and waste water treatment to the City of Roanoke and Roanoke County. ","From 2002-2010, Cutler acted as a Trustee for the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, a semi-governmental organization created in 1966 to promote the use and preservation of Virginia's public lands. For part of this time he was also serving as President of the Roanoke chapter of the Kiwanis Club (2002-2003), of which he is a long-standing member. From 2006-2009 he also served as chair of the Steering Committee of the Nonprofit Resource Center of Western Virginia, which supports the work of regional nonprofits. He has also served on the boards of Opera Roanoke, the Harrison Museum of African-American Culture, Valley Beautiful, the Roanoke Urban Forestry Council, Historic Greenfield, and has worked on a number of committees to preserve and improve Roanoke and the environment.","The guide to the M. Rupert Cutler Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","Lovely card from a school class","Cool pictures","Cool singing group","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","Cool singing group","membership certificate","good photos","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","certificate","good pictures","Cool pictures","Cool pictures","Cool pictures","Cool pictures","good pictures","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool plans for Roanoke","good photos","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","Cool citizen award","This is when he won","name badge","Cool award","photos of the stadium","good pictures of Rupert","good photos","good pictures","neat certificate","marked up speech","Good pictures","good explore park picture","good pictures","good pictures","Sticker and pamphlet for exhibit","The processing, arrangement, and description of the M. Rupert Cutler Papers was completed in July 2021, as part of the project, \"This Land is Your Land: Creating Access to the M. Rupert Cutler Papers,\" funded by the  National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)  from 2020 to 2021. Additional materials were incorporated in April-May 2025 and May 2026.","Unprocessed additions are available for researchers. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.","There is also  a digital collection of Rupert Cutler's photographs featuring Explore Park  at the  Virginia Room of the Roanoke Public Library in Roanoke, Virginia.","The M. Rupert Cutler Papers includes personal and professional correspondence, records of Cutler's participation in a variety of clubs, boards, and committees, documents pertaining to local Roanoke issues and events, speeches, articles, and other writings by Cutler, news clippings pertaining to Cutler's interests, photographs, audio cassettes, CDs, VHS cassettes, and awards and certificates.","Series I. Personal Records consist of letters, emails, greeting cards, postcards and invitations to and from family and friends, travel records, and photographs of people and events. This series contains some restricted materials, mostly consisting of HIPAA-protected personal information. These restricted materials are noted at the file-level. ","Series II. Clubs contains records of Cutler's participation in the Roanoke Valley Bird Club, the Roanoke chapter of the Kiwanis Club, Sons of the American Revolution, and the Virginia Gentlemen Barbershop Chorus.","Series III. Roanoke Regional Records contains news articles, event records, invitations, correspondence, and publications relating to the City of Roanoke and the surrouding area. It also contains records of M. Rupert Cutler's service on the Roanoke City Council from 2002-2006 and 2009-2011.","Series IV. Boards and Committees Records consist of documents relating to M. Rupert Cutler's service on the boards of the Western Virginia Water Authority (2004-2009), Opera Roanoke (2006-2009), Virginia Outdoors Foundation (2006-2010), and the Blue Rdige Land Conservancy (2009-2020). It also contains records of his participation in committees such as Roanoke Arts Commission (2003-2014), Mill Mountain Advisory Committee (2003-2006), Sustainable Oceans, Coasts, and Waterways Advisory Committee (2004-2005), Cabell Brand Center (2005-2014), Nonprofit Resource Center of Western Virginia (2006-2009), Virginia Metropolitan League (2006-2014), Roanoke Valley Cool Cities Coalition (2008-2009), Hollins Presidential Advisory Council (2018-2019) and Historic Greenfield (2019-2020).","Series V. Professional Records cosists of correspondence and documents relatig to Cutler's work, including as senior vice president of the National Audubon Society (1980-1983), executive director of Population-Environment Balance (1983-1987), president and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife (1987-1990), executive director of Virginia's Explore Park (1991-1997), executive director of the Western Virginia Land Trust (1997-1999), and in several teaching positions at Virginia colleges and universities (1999, 2010, 2020). This series contains some restricted materials, consisting of FERPA protected personal information. These restricted materials are noted at the file-level. ","Series VI. Speeches and Writings contains opinion pieces, presentations, lectures, articles, book chapters, and speeches written by M. Rupert Cutler.","Series VII. Envrionmental Activism contains correspondence, publications, newsletters, conference materials, event materials, and travel documents relating to environmental and conservation work. ","Series VIII. News Clippings contains published news articles that Cutler collected and notated on subjects such as conservation, environmentalism, politics, local Roanoke issues, achievements of himself and people he knows, and disasters.","Series IX. Audio Visual Records consists of audio cassettes, VHS cassettes, CDs, DVDs, photographs and photographic negatives documenting Cutler's personal and professional activities, including events, ceremonies, lectures, parties, conferences, and documentaries.","[Removed from red photo album.]","The copyright for this collection is owned by Dr. M. Rupert Cutler. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. 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He was also senior vice president of the National Audubon Society (1980-1983), and executive director of Population-Environment Balance (1983-1987). From 1987-1990 he was the president and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife, an organization based in Washington, DC devoted to protecting animals and their habitats in the United States.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eM. Rupert Cutler moved to Roanoke, Virginia in January 1991. From 1991 to February of 1997, he was the executive director of Virginia's Explore Park, a 1,000-acre outdoor living history museum and environmental education center on the Roanoke River in Roanoke and Bedford counties. In March of 1997, M. Rupert Cutler became the founding executive director of the Western Virginia Land Trust, a new, private, nonprofit association created to help preserve the natural, scenic, and cultural heritage of western Virginia on private land, using conservation easements. Between 2004-2009, he sat on the board of the Western Virginia Water Authority, which was created in 2004 to provide water and waste water treatment to the City of Roanoke and Roanoke County. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom 2002-2010, Cutler acted as a Trustee for the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, a semi-governmental organization created in 1966 to promote the use and preservation of Virginia's public lands. For part of this time he was also serving as President of the Roanoke chapter of the Kiwanis Club (2002-2003), of which he is a long-standing member. From 2006-2009 he also served as chair of the Steering Committee of the Nonprofit Resource Center of Western Virginia, which supports the work of regional nonprofits. He has also served on the boards of Opera Roanoke, the Harrison Museum of African-American Culture, Valley Beautiful, the Roanoke Urban Forestry Council, Historic Greenfield, and has worked on a number of committees to preserve and improve Roanoke and the environment.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["M. Rupert Cutler is a native of Detroit, Michigan. He is an environmentalist and a journalist focusing on conservation and local Roanoke issues. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Wildlife Management in 1955 and a Master's and Doctorate of Philosophy degrees from the Department of Resource Management at Michigan State University in 1969. ","After graduating from the University of Michigan, Cutler worked as an instruction book writer for Argus Cameras in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1956, he moved to Arizona where he edited the Winslow Mail, a weekly newspaper. In 1957, he accepted the post of executive secretary of Wildlife Conservation Incorporated in Boston and in 1958 he was hired by the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to be associate editor of Virginia Wildlife, the Virginia Game Department's magazine. In 1961, Cutler was promoted to Chief, Education Division, Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries. Cutler was then in Washington D.C. serving as editor of publications of the National Wildlife Federation (1962-1965) and then as assistant executive director of The Wilderness Society (1965-1969). ","In 1969, Cutler returned to Michigan to study for his doctorate at Michigan State University and to work as a Graduate Research Assistant in MSU's Department of Resource Development. With his degree, he became assistant professor of resource development and the state's extension specialist in natural resources policy, a post which he held from 1972-1977. In 1977 he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to serve as assistant secretary of agriculture for conservation, research, and education. From 1977 to 1980 he provided policy direction to the U.S. Forest Service, the Soil Conservation Service, and USDA's research, extension, and library agencies. He was also senior vice president of the National Audubon Society (1980-1983), and executive director of Population-Environment Balance (1983-1987). From 1987-1990 he was the president and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife, an organization based in Washington, DC devoted to protecting animals and their habitats in the United States.","M. Rupert Cutler moved to Roanoke, Virginia in January 1991. From 1991 to February of 1997, he was the executive director of Virginia's Explore Park, a 1,000-acre outdoor living history museum and environmental education center on the Roanoke River in Roanoke and Bedford counties. In March of 1997, M. Rupert Cutler became the founding executive director of the Western Virginia Land Trust, a new, private, nonprofit association created to help preserve the natural, scenic, and cultural heritage of western Virginia on private land, using conservation easements. Between 2004-2009, he sat on the board of the Western Virginia Water Authority, which was created in 2004 to provide water and waste water treatment to the City of Roanoke and Roanoke County. ","From 2002-2010, Cutler acted as a Trustee for the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, a semi-governmental organization created in 1966 to promote the use and preservation of Virginia's public lands. For part of this time he was also serving as President of the Roanoke chapter of the Kiwanis Club (2002-2003), of which he is a long-standing member. From 2006-2009 he also served as chair of the Steering Committee of the Nonprofit Resource Center of Western Virginia, which supports the work of regional nonprofits. 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Rupert Cutler Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","Lovely card from a school class","Cool pictures","Cool singing group","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","Cool singing group","membership certificate","good photos","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","certificate","good pictures","Cool pictures","Cool pictures","Cool pictures","Cool pictures","good pictures","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool plans for Roanoke","good photos","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","Cool citizen award","This is when he won","name badge","Cool award","photos of the stadium","good pictures of Rupert","good photos","good pictures","neat certificate","marked up speech","Good pictures","good explore park picture","good pictures","good pictures","Sticker and pamphlet for exhibit"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], M. Rupert Cutler Papers, Ms2020-005, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], M. Rupert Cutler Papers, Ms2020-005, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the M. Rupert Cutler Papers was completed in July 2021, as part of the project, \"This Land is Your Land: Creating Access to the M. Rupert Cutler Papers,\" funded by the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.archives.gov/nhprc\"\u003eNational Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)\u003c/a\u003e from 2020 to 2021. Additional materials were incorporated in April-May 2025 and May 2026.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnprocessed additions are available for researchers. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the M. Rupert Cutler Papers was completed in July 2021, as part of the project, \"This Land is Your Land: Creating Access to the M. Rupert Cutler Papers,\" funded by the  National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)  from 2020 to 2021. Additional materials were incorporated in April-May 2025 and May 2026.","Unprocessed additions are available for researchers. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is also \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.virginiaroom.org/digital/exhibits/show/explore-park\"\u003ea digital collection of Rupert Cutler's photographs featuring Explore Park\u003c/a\u003e at the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.virginiaroom.org/\"\u003eVirginia Room of the Roanoke Public Library in Roanoke, Virginia.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Archival Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["There is also  a digital collection of Rupert Cutler's photographs featuring Explore Park  at the  Virginia Room of the Roanoke Public Library in Roanoke, Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe M. Rupert Cutler Papers includes personal and professional correspondence, records of Cutler's participation in a variety of clubs, boards, and committees, documents pertaining to local Roanoke issues and events, speeches, articles, and other writings by Cutler, news clippings pertaining to Cutler's interests, photographs, audio cassettes, CDs, VHS cassettes, and awards and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries I. Personal Records consist of letters, emails, greeting cards, postcards and invitations to and from family and friends, travel records, and photographs of people and events. This series contains some restricted materials, mostly consisting of HIPAA-protected personal information. These restricted materials are noted at the file-level. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Clubs contains records of Cutler's participation in the Roanoke Valley Bird Club, the Roanoke chapter of the Kiwanis Club, Sons of the American Revolution, and the Virginia Gentlemen Barbershop Chorus.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Roanoke Regional Records contains news articles, event records, invitations, correspondence, and publications relating to the City of Roanoke and the surrouding area. It also contains records of M. Rupert Cutler's service on the Roanoke City Council from 2002-2006 and 2009-2011.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV. Boards and Committees Records consist of documents relating to M. Rupert Cutler's service on the boards of the Western Virginia Water Authority (2004-2009), Opera Roanoke (2006-2009), Virginia Outdoors Foundation (2006-2010), and the Blue Rdige Land Conservancy (2009-2020). It also contains records of his participation in committees such as Roanoke Arts Commission (2003-2014), Mill Mountain Advisory Committee (2003-2006), Sustainable Oceans, Coasts, and Waterways Advisory Committee (2004-2005), Cabell Brand Center (2005-2014), Nonprofit Resource Center of Western Virginia (2006-2009), Virginia Metropolitan League (2006-2014), Roanoke Valley Cool Cities Coalition (2008-2009), Hollins Presidential Advisory Council (2018-2019) and Historic Greenfield (2019-2020).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries V. Professional Records cosists of correspondence and documents relatig to Cutler's work, including as senior vice president of the National Audubon Society (1980-1983), executive director of Population-Environment Balance (1983-1987), president and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife (1987-1990), executive director of Virginia's Explore Park (1991-1997), executive director of the Western Virginia Land Trust (1997-1999), and in several teaching positions at Virginia colleges and universities (1999, 2010, 2020). This series contains some restricted materials, consisting of FERPA protected personal information. These restricted materials are noted at the file-level. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI. Speeches and Writings contains opinion pieces, presentations, lectures, articles, book chapters, and speeches written by M. Rupert Cutler.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII. 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Rupert Cutler Papers includes personal and professional correspondence, records of Cutler's participation in a variety of clubs, boards, and committees, documents pertaining to local Roanoke issues and events, speeches, articles, and other writings by Cutler, news clippings pertaining to Cutler's interests, photographs, audio cassettes, CDs, VHS cassettes, and awards and certificates.","Series I. Personal Records consist of letters, emails, greeting cards, postcards and invitations to and from family and friends, travel records, and photographs of people and events. This series contains some restricted materials, mostly consisting of HIPAA-protected personal information. These restricted materials are noted at the file-level. ","Series II. Clubs contains records of Cutler's participation in the Roanoke Valley Bird Club, the Roanoke chapter of the Kiwanis Club, Sons of the American Revolution, and the Virginia Gentlemen Barbershop Chorus.","Series III. Roanoke Regional Records contains news articles, event records, invitations, correspondence, and publications relating to the City of Roanoke and the surrouding area. It also contains records of M. Rupert Cutler's service on the Roanoke City Council from 2002-2006 and 2009-2011.","Series IV. Boards and Committees Records consist of documents relating to M. Rupert Cutler's service on the boards of the Western Virginia Water Authority (2004-2009), Opera Roanoke (2006-2009), Virginia Outdoors Foundation (2006-2010), and the Blue Rdige Land Conservancy (2009-2020). It also contains records of his participation in committees such as Roanoke Arts Commission (2003-2014), Mill Mountain Advisory Committee (2003-2006), Sustainable Oceans, Coasts, and Waterways Advisory Committee (2004-2005), Cabell Brand Center (2005-2014), Nonprofit Resource Center of Western Virginia (2006-2009), Virginia Metropolitan League (2006-2014), Roanoke Valley Cool Cities Coalition (2008-2009), Hollins Presidential Advisory Council (2018-2019) and Historic Greenfield (2019-2020).","Series V. Professional Records cosists of correspondence and documents relatig to Cutler's work, including as senior vice president of the National Audubon Society (1980-1983), executive director of Population-Environment Balance (1983-1987), president and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife (1987-1990), executive director of Virginia's Explore Park (1991-1997), executive director of the Western Virginia Land Trust (1997-1999), and in several teaching positions at Virginia colleges and universities (1999, 2010, 2020). This series contains some restricted materials, consisting of FERPA protected personal information. These restricted materials are noted at the file-level. ","Series VI. Speeches and Writings contains opinion pieces, presentations, lectures, articles, book chapters, and speeches written by M. Rupert Cutler.","Series VII. Envrionmental Activism contains correspondence, publications, newsletters, conference materials, event materials, and travel documents relating to environmental and conservation work. ","Series VIII. News Clippings contains published news articles that Cutler collected and notated on subjects such as conservation, environmentalism, politics, local Roanoke issues, achievements of himself and people he knows, and disasters.","Series IX. Audio Visual Records consists of audio cassettes, VHS cassettes, CDs, DVDs, photographs and photographic negatives documenting Cutler's personal and professional activities, including events, ceremonies, lectures, parties, conferences, and documentaries.","[Removed from red photo album.]"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright for this collection is owned by Dr. M. Rupert Cutler. Copyright restrictions may apply. 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Rupert Cutler Papers includes personal and professional correspondence, records of Cutler's participation in a variety of clubs, boards, and committees, documents pertaining to local Roanoke issues and events, speeches, articles, and other writings by Cutler, news clippings pertaining to Cutler's interests, photographs, audio cassettes, CDs, VHS cassettes, and awards and certificates. The collection provides a comprehensive history of the personal and professional activities of M. Rupert Cutler from 1981-2021, and also contains some records from 1962-1980. Most records from before 1977 are housed at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. Records from his service in the Carter Administration, 1977-1981, are housed at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The M. 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Speeches and Writings Series VII. Environmental Activism Series VIII. News Clippings Series IX. Audio Visual Records","M. Rupert Cutler is a native of Detroit, Michigan. He is an environmentalist and a journalist focusing on conservation and local Roanoke issues. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Wildlife Management in 1955 and a Master's and Doctorate of Philosophy degrees from the Department of Resource Management at Michigan State University in 1969. ","After graduating from the University of Michigan, Cutler worked as an instruction book writer for Argus Cameras in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1956, he moved to Arizona where he edited the Winslow Mail, a weekly newspaper. In 1957, he accepted the post of executive secretary of Wildlife Conservation Incorporated in Boston and in 1958 he was hired by the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to be associate editor of Virginia Wildlife, the Virginia Game Department's magazine. In 1961, Cutler was promoted to Chief, Education Division, Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries. Cutler was then in Washington D.C. serving as editor of publications of the National Wildlife Federation (1962-1965) and then as assistant executive director of The Wilderness Society (1965-1969). ","In 1969, Cutler returned to Michigan to study for his doctorate at Michigan State University and to work as a Graduate Research Assistant in MSU's Department of Resource Development. With his degree, he became assistant professor of resource development and the state's extension specialist in natural resources policy, a post which he held from 1972-1977. In 1977 he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to serve as assistant secretary of agriculture for conservation, research, and education. From 1977 to 1980 he provided policy direction to the U.S. Forest Service, the Soil Conservation Service, and USDA's research, extension, and library agencies. He was also senior vice president of the National Audubon Society (1980-1983), and executive director of Population-Environment Balance (1983-1987). From 1987-1990 he was the president and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife, an organization based in Washington, DC devoted to protecting animals and their habitats in the United States.","M. Rupert Cutler moved to Roanoke, Virginia in January 1991. From 1991 to February of 1997, he was the executive director of Virginia's Explore Park, a 1,000-acre outdoor living history museum and environmental education center on the Roanoke River in Roanoke and Bedford counties. In March of 1997, M. Rupert Cutler became the founding executive director of the Western Virginia Land Trust, a new, private, nonprofit association created to help preserve the natural, scenic, and cultural heritage of western Virginia on private land, using conservation easements. Between 2004-2009, he sat on the board of the Western Virginia Water Authority, which was created in 2004 to provide water and waste water treatment to the City of Roanoke and Roanoke County. ","From 2002-2010, Cutler acted as a Trustee for the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, a semi-governmental organization created in 1966 to promote the use and preservation of Virginia's public lands. For part of this time he was also serving as President of the Roanoke chapter of the Kiwanis Club (2002-2003), of which he is a long-standing member. From 2006-2009 he also served as chair of the Steering Committee of the Nonprofit Resource Center of Western Virginia, which supports the work of regional nonprofits. He has also served on the boards of Opera Roanoke, the Harrison Museum of African-American Culture, Valley Beautiful, the Roanoke Urban Forestry Council, Historic Greenfield, and has worked on a number of committees to preserve and improve Roanoke and the environment.","The guide to the M. Rupert Cutler Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","Lovely card from a school class","Cool pictures","Cool singing group","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","Cool singing group","membership certificate","good photos","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","certificate","good pictures","Cool pictures","Cool pictures","Cool pictures","Cool pictures","good pictures","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool vision of Roanoke 2020*","Cool plans for Roanoke","good photos","good pictures","good pictures","good pictures","Cool citizen award","This is when he won","name badge","Cool award","photos of the stadium","good pictures of Rupert","good photos","good pictures","neat certificate","marked up speech","Good pictures","good explore park picture","good pictures","good pictures","Sticker and pamphlet for exhibit","The processing, arrangement, and description of the M. Rupert Cutler Papers was completed in July 2021, as part of the project, \"This Land is Your Land: Creating Access to the M. Rupert Cutler Papers,\" funded by the  National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)  from 2020 to 2021. Additional materials were incorporated in April-May 2025 and May 2026.","Unprocessed additions are available for researchers. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.","There is also  a digital collection of Rupert Cutler's photographs featuring Explore Park  at the  Virginia Room of the Roanoke Public Library in Roanoke, Virginia.","The M. Rupert Cutler Papers includes personal and professional correspondence, records of Cutler's participation in a variety of clubs, boards, and committees, documents pertaining to local Roanoke issues and events, speeches, articles, and other writings by Cutler, news clippings pertaining to Cutler's interests, photographs, audio cassettes, CDs, VHS cassettes, and awards and certificates.","Series I. Personal Records consist of letters, emails, greeting cards, postcards and invitations to and from family and friends, travel records, and photographs of people and events. This series contains some restricted materials, mostly consisting of HIPAA-protected personal information. These restricted materials are noted at the file-level. ","Series II. Clubs contains records of Cutler's participation in the Roanoke Valley Bird Club, the Roanoke chapter of the Kiwanis Club, Sons of the American Revolution, and the Virginia Gentlemen Barbershop Chorus.","Series III. Roanoke Regional Records contains news articles, event records, invitations, correspondence, and publications relating to the City of Roanoke and the surrouding area. It also contains records of M. Rupert Cutler's service on the Roanoke City Council from 2002-2006 and 2009-2011.","Series IV. Boards and Committees Records consist of documents relating to M. Rupert Cutler's service on the boards of the Western Virginia Water Authority (2004-2009), Opera Roanoke (2006-2009), Virginia Outdoors Foundation (2006-2010), and the Blue Rdige Land Conservancy (2009-2020). It also contains records of his participation in committees such as Roanoke Arts Commission (2003-2014), Mill Mountain Advisory Committee (2003-2006), Sustainable Oceans, Coasts, and Waterways Advisory Committee (2004-2005), Cabell Brand Center (2005-2014), Nonprofit Resource Center of Western Virginia (2006-2009), Virginia Metropolitan League (2006-2014), Roanoke Valley Cool Cities Coalition (2008-2009), Hollins Presidential Advisory Council (2018-2019) and Historic Greenfield (2019-2020).","Series V. Professional Records cosists of correspondence and documents relatig to Cutler's work, including as senior vice president of the National Audubon Society (1980-1983), executive director of Population-Environment Balance (1983-1987), president and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife (1987-1990), executive director of Virginia's Explore Park (1991-1997), executive director of the Western Virginia Land Trust (1997-1999), and in several teaching positions at Virginia colleges and universities (1999, 2010, 2020). This series contains some restricted materials, consisting of FERPA protected personal information. These restricted materials are noted at the file-level. ","Series VI. Speeches and Writings contains opinion pieces, presentations, lectures, articles, book chapters, and speeches written by M. Rupert Cutler.","Series VII. Envrionmental Activism contains correspondence, publications, newsletters, conference materials, event materials, and travel documents relating to environmental and conservation work. ","Series VIII. News Clippings contains published news articles that Cutler collected and notated on subjects such as conservation, environmentalism, politics, local Roanoke issues, achievements of himself and people he knows, and disasters.","Series IX. Audio Visual Records consists of audio cassettes, VHS cassettes, CDs, DVDs, photographs and photographic negatives documenting Cutler's personal and professional activities, including events, ceremonies, lectures, parties, conferences, and documentaries.","[Removed from red photo album.]","The copyright for this collection is owned by Dr. M. Rupert Cutler. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. 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Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is also \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.virginiaroom.org/digital/exhibits/show/explore-park\"\u003ea digital collection of Rupert Cutler's photographs featuring Explore Park\u003c/a\u003e at the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.virginiaroom.org/\"\u003eVirginia Room of the Roanoke Public Library in Roanoke, Virginia.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Archival Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["There is also  a digital collection of Rupert Cutler's photographs featuring Explore Park  at the  Virginia Room of the Roanoke Public Library in Roanoke, Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe M. Rupert Cutler Papers includes personal and professional correspondence, records of Cutler's participation in a variety of clubs, boards, and committees, documents pertaining to local Roanoke issues and events, speeches, articles, and other writings by Cutler, news clippings pertaining to Cutler's interests, photographs, audio cassettes, CDs, VHS cassettes, and awards and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries I. Personal Records consist of letters, emails, greeting cards, postcards and invitations to and from family and friends, travel records, and photographs of people and events. This series contains some restricted materials, mostly consisting of HIPAA-protected personal information. These restricted materials are noted at the file-level. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Clubs contains records of Cutler's participation in the Roanoke Valley Bird Club, the Roanoke chapter of the Kiwanis Club, Sons of the American Revolution, and the Virginia Gentlemen Barbershop Chorus.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Roanoke Regional Records contains news articles, event records, invitations, correspondence, and publications relating to the City of Roanoke and the surrouding area. It also contains records of M. Rupert Cutler's service on the Roanoke City Council from 2002-2006 and 2009-2011.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV. Boards and Committees Records consist of documents relating to M. Rupert Cutler's service on the boards of the Western Virginia Water Authority (2004-2009), Opera Roanoke (2006-2009), Virginia Outdoors Foundation (2006-2010), and the Blue Rdige Land Conservancy (2009-2020). 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Articles\nSeries 2. Books\nSeries 3. Booklets and Ephemera\nSeries 4. Children's Books","Editorial reprinted from the Arizona Daily Star. Volume 70, No. 6. No author listed.","The American Heritage Society's Americana Magazine. Volume 4, Number 1. Article written by Ken and Pat Kraft.","The American Heritage Society's Americana Magazine. Volume 12, Number 2. Article written by Constance Stapleton.","Article written by Wendy J. Shadwell.","Reprinted from Architecture February 1997. Article written by Vernon Mays. Copy produced by Quinn Evans Architects.","RL-995. Article written by Charles F. Deems, D.D., LL. D.","Article written by Mary McMahon.","The Carpenter, Volume LXXXIV (84), No. 2. Article written by E. John Long.","Colonial Homes Volume 23, No. 2. \"George Washington: Farming by the Book\" written by Annette Stramesi, photography by Erik Kvalsvik. \"Mount Vernon Furniture Collection\" written by Mervyn Kaufman, produced by Doretta S. Sperduto, photography by Erik Kvalsvik.","Colonial Homes Volume 20, No. 3. Article written by Diane DiPiero, photography by Richard Bryant/Arcaid, courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association except where noted.","Confederate Veteran Volume XXXIV (34), No. 3, Nashville, Tennessee.","Volume No. 123, No. 2. Mount Vernon cover art. Article written by George W. Nordham.","By Benson J. Lossing. Volume 3, No. 5.","Volume XLV (45), Number 5. Issue concerning Mount Vernon and Washington.","GW Magazine, A Magazine for Alumni and Friends. Article written by George W. Nordham.","Volume XVIII (18), No. CVL (145). Includes accession number RL-2356, lacks pages 437-444.","Volume 34, Number 3. Article written by Edward O. Welles, Jr., photographs by Ted Vaughan.","Volume 45, Number 6.","Volume 41, Number 5. Article written by Charles Hosmer, Jr.","Volume 45, Number 1. National Symbols: Presidential Homes - Directors of six presidential homes answer HN's questions.","Volume 78, No. 1. Section I and Section II. The Conde Nast Publications, Inc. Section II contains Mount Vernon article, full title - Mount Vernon: Five Historic Interiors - George Washington's country estate recalls today the full, leisurely life of an 18th Century gentleman.","Volume 82, No.1","Volume 161, Number 5. Article written by Martin Filler, photographs by Marina Schinz.","By Sherrill Schell and others. Volume 11, No. 5. Serial no. 244. With pictures reproduced from art photographs specially made for this number of The Mentor.","Volume 5, No. 4. Article written by Charles Fenyvesi.","Volume 38, Number 1. Article written by Charles C. Wall.","Volume 46, No. 6. Article written by Charles C. Wall.","Text copy of article not the full magazine. Article written by Lonnelle Aikman.","Article only not the full magazine. Article written by Georgiana Lockwood.","Volume XXI (21), Number 1. Article written by Justin Torres.","Issue 94, pages 25-31. Discusses Washington's World map project at Mount Vernon. 2017-A-085","Article only not the full magazine. Article written by Doris T. Stuart.","Volume 107, No. 21. Special issue for the Bicentennial of the United States dedicated to George Washington's life.","Volume 105, No. 20. Special issue for the Bicentennial of the United States dedicated to Thomas Jefferson's life.","Volume XI (11), Number 3. Article written by Ulrich Troubetzkoy.","Article only not full magazine. Article written by Walter L. Jones.","Volume XV (15), Number 2. Article only not the full magazine. Article written by Robert L. Scribner.","Article written by Emily L. Schulz and Ellen McCallister Clark.","Edited and annotated by Richard Brookhiser.","Annotated copies of the annual report showing images that were used courtesy of the MVLA.","Article only. Article written by Norman Kahl.","Printed for sale at Mount Vernon. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.","With illustrations. Copyright 1897 by Brentano's. Press of J.J. Little and Co., Astor Place, New York.","Congressional Directory belonging to Mrs. Lillie McAllister Laughton (sp.), Washington, Government Printing Office, 1890.","Printed by P.J. Kenedy and Sons, New York, 1931. Foreword by Peter Guilday, Ph.D. Book donated by Estelle Philibert.","Accession number RL-3035","Edited by Donald M. Sweig with an Explanatory Text, Appendices, and Source Lists by Beth Mitchell and Donald M. Sweig. Published by the Office of Comprehensive Planning, Fairfax County, 1987.","Accession number RL-6171a","The Macmillan Company, New York, 1914. Book donated by Estelle Philibert.","University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville. ISBN 0-8139-0851-5 and 0-8139-0852-3.","University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London. ISBN 0-8262-1135-6.","Published by the Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission. Edward M. Riley, Editor.","The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, Indianapolis. First Edition, 1933.","Copyright Rudolph E. Prussing, 1925. Chapters IV and V copyright by Charles Scribners Sons, 1921. Limited release sale, copy no. 504 and 582. Signed by the author. Publisher Pascal Covici, Chicago.","Published by the George Washington Bicentennial Commission of New Hampshire, Houghton Miffling Company, Boston and New York. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. With illustrations.","With an introductory essay by Michael Wentworth. Published by the Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA. Signed by the author. ISBN 0-934552-63-0. Copyright by the Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum.","University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London. William M. Ferraro, Editor in Chief. This edition has been prepared by the staff of the Washington Papers sponsored by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the University of Virginia.","By James C. Rees with Stephen Spignesi. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New Jersey. ISBN 978-0-470-08887-6.","Photography by Robert C. Lautman. Collection photography by Edward Owen. Essays by Susan Gray Detweiler, Rudy J. Favretti, Allan Greenberg, Ronald L. Hurst, James C. Rees, and Gilbert T. Vincent. The Monacelli Press, New York. ISBN 0-58093-010-7.","Oxford University Press, Inc., Oxford and New York. ISBN 0-19-512114-7.","Previously published under the title The Home of Washington. Illustrated with numerous engravings. Published by The Fairfax Press.","Previously published as The Tomb of Washington, 1858. Full title The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon, Emracing a Full and Accurate Description, as well as of the Birthplace, Genealogy, Character, Marriage, and Last Illness of Washington, together with Incidents pertaining to the Burial of Washington, Removal from the Old Family Vault, and His Being Placed in the New Tomb, in a Marble Sarcophagus. Washington: Thomas McGill, Printer. 1860. Magnolia leaf sewn into the front page with note on origin dated April 18th, 1861.","Full title \"The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon and Its Associations: Embracing the Birthplace, Genealogy, Courtship, and Marriage of Washington. With Illustrations.\" Washington: McGill and Witherow, Printers and Stereotypers. Copyright 1866. Fragile condition, loose cover and pages. Accession number 2019-A-006","John B. Alden, Publisher, New York.","62nd Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Document No. 86. The Only Authenticated Copy, Full and Complete, Embracing a Schedule of His Real Estate, and Explanatory Notes Thereto by the Testator; To Which is Added Important Historical Notes, Biographical Sketches, and Anecdotes. Presented by Mr. Heyburn, August 5, 1911. United States Government Printing Office.","Harper and Brothers, New York. One copy given by the National Society of the Washington Family Descendants, 1976, Book plate 1984. One copy given by Estelle Philibert.","Collected and Arranged by John Frederick Schroeder, D.D. Third edition. D. Appleton and Company, New York.","Full title - Maxims of Washington, compiled for use in schools, libraries, and all American homes. D. Appleton and Company, New York. 1909. Copyright 1894. Accession number RL-803, gift of Mrs. Henry Norris Platt, Vice Regent of Pennsylvania, 1970.","Published by the Long Island Historical Society, New York. George Washington and Mount Vernon: A Collection of Washington's Unpublished Agricultural and Personal Letters, edited with historical and genealogical introduction by Moncure Daniel Conway. Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, New York. Note on the title page of both copies reads \"These manuscripts were acquired by Dr. Sol Feinstone and placed on permanent loan at Mount Vernon.\"","C.M. Saxton, Barker and Co., New York. New edition, revised and enlarged. Inscribed on the inside, Mrs. Emily Barker Gerry. N.Y.","D. Appleton and Company, New York. Printed notes inside both copies read \"To the Public - The entire profits that may accrue, to either the author or the publishers, will be contributed to the Mount Vernon Fund.\"","The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia. Dedication to Ann Pamela Cunningham and the MVLA. One copy originally belonged to the National Society of Washington Family Descendants.","Full title, Mount Vernon: The Home of Washington, Descriptive, Historical, and Pictorial. With 160 Illustrations. John C. Yorston and Company, Cincinnati. Gift of Estelle Philibert.","Full title - Mount Vernon: The Legacy, The Story of Its Preservation and Care Since 1885. Copy signed by the author and dedicated to Mrs. Holden, Vice Regent. J.B. Lippincott Company, New York and Philadelphia. Book dedication to Frank Morse.","Illustrated. Doubleday, Page and Company, New York. Dedicated to Harrison H. Dodge. One copy belonged to the National Society of Washington Family Descendants.","Illustrated. Blue Ribbon Books, New York. Second edition, 1930. Dedicated to Harrison H. Dodge. Includes accession number RL-6253/s","Illustrated by numerous engravings. W.A. Townsend and Company, New York.","Full title - Mount Vernon and the Washington Family, A concise handbook on the ancestry, youth and family of George Washington, and history of his home. Third and Enlarged Edition. Illustrated and Indexed. Prepared for the busy reader who does not have time to peruse voluminous works on these subjects. Ziegler Printing Co. Inc.","Crowell-Collier Press, New York. Copyright 1968 The MacMillan Company. Signed by the author and dedicated to Mrs. Holden, Vice Regent. Book dedication to Charles C. Wall. Includes accession number RL-6253/P.","Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. First edition. Dedicated to the Regent, Mrs. Beirne, and the Vice Regents of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.","The MacMillan Company, New York.","D. Appleton and Company, New York.","Author appears as Mrs. Roger A. Pryor on the title page. The MacMillan Company, New York. Includes accession number RL-3816, a gift of Estelle Philibert.","With illustrations. By the author of \"Sunlight throught the Mist,\" \"The Martyr Land,\" and \"Triumphs of Steam.\" (E. Burrows) John F. Shaw and Co., London. Inscribed page is damaged. Gift of Estelle Philibert, accession number RL-3454.","The Accokeek Foundation. First edition, June 1988. Includes accession number RL-6170c.","Full title - The Report of the Virginia Board of Visitors to Mount Vernon for the year 1901: Showing the History of the Ladies Mount Vernon Association of the Union and Virginia's Connection Therewith and Action of Congress and Legislature of Virginia Touching Removal of Remains of Washington. J.H. O'Bannon, Superintendent of Public Relations, Richmond. 1901. From the press of Clyde W. Saunders, Richmond.","Full title - Rosemont and Its Famous Daughter: The Story of Rosemont Plantation, Laurens County, South Carolina, and Ann Pamela Cunningham Who Saved Mount Vernon for a National Shrine. Published by M.R. Wilkes, first printing 200 copies.","Grosset and Dunlap Publishers, New York. Gift of Estelle Philibert.","Copyright by the Mary Washington Memorial Association. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, New York. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. With portrait and eight illustrations. Gift of Estelle Philibert.","Written and compiled by Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall. The Neale Publishing Company, Washington, D.C. Copyright 1908 by Robert L. Brownfield.","Later published as The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon, 1860. Full title - The Tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon, Embracing a Full and Accurate Description of Mount Vernon as well as of the Birthplace, Genealogy, Character, Marriage, and Last Illness of Washington, Together with Incidents Pertaining to the Burial of Washington, Removal from the Old Family Vault, and His Being Placed in the New Tomb, in a Marble Sarcophagus. Thomas McGill Printer, Washington.","Symposium handbook, edited by Jane Benton Butler. The International Molinological Society or T.I.M.S. Section on George Washington's Treading Barn and Grist Mill. Gift of Derek Ogden.","Published by Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico. Copyright 1966 by Arthur Newton Pack. Includes accession number RL-6256/L.","Accession number RL-6256/a. The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts.","Evander Childs, Steam Book and Job Printer, New York. 1856. Accession number 2016-A-011.","Potomac Gardens Incorporated.","Full title - Authenticated Copy of the Last Will and Testament of George Washington, of Mt. Vernon, Emracing a Schedule of his Real Estate and Notes Thereto by the Testator, to which is added Historical Notes and Biographical Sketches by the Publisher. A. Jackson, Publisher, Washington, D.C. 1868.","Cobblestone, Carus Publishing Company.","Full title - Copies of the Wills of General George Washington, the First President of the United States, and of Martha Washington, His Wife, and other interesting records of the County of Fairfax, Virginia wherein they lived and died. Second edition. Copyright 1904 by E. Richardson Holbrook. National Capital Press, Inc., Washington, D.C.","American Antiquarian Society. A Paper Read before the American Antiquarian Society at their Semi-Annual Meeting in Boston, April 30, 1879. Press of Charles Hamilton, Worcester, MA.","Reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for October 1889. Boston.","George Washington Bicentennial, 1999. Washington's Virginia.","Stories of Cross and Flag No. 1. The Hampshire Art Press, Keene, N.H. 1913.","Produced by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.","Special Journey Supplement, We the People May 1989.","Alderman Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Virginia.","1 symposium program and 1 schedule of events leaflet","Bulletin No. 1 of the Washington Society of Alexandria 1800-1929. Republished with some additions through the courtesy of Scribner's Magazine.","Fairfax County Tourism and Convention Bureau, Vienna, VA. c. 1988.","Presented with the compliments of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, Alexandria, Virginia. Alexandria Print Shop.","John Borman and Son, Printers, Detroit, Michigan.","The National Art Service Co., Inc. Accession number 2016_A-033.","The National Trust, UK.","62nd Congress, 1st Session Senate Document No. 86.","Printed for the author, Trow's Printing and Bookbinding, New York.","Printed for the subscribers, Philadelphia. Copyrighted by the authors.","By Alexandria-Washington Lodge, No. 22.","The Grave of Mary Ball Washington, The National Mary Washington Memorial Association, Fredericksburg, Virginia.","Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1885, by N.R. Ball, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.","Printed by the Citizens Committee on Natural Resources, Washington, D.C.","Mt. Vernon Ave., From the Captiol by Grants Statue, Lincoln Memorial, over the Memorial Bridge, by Arlington, through Alexandria - To the Tomb of Washington. Published by Authority Mt. Vernon Avenue Association. Prepared by Alex J. Wedderburn, The Art Publishing Company, Washington, D.C., 1913.","Third edition revised. Printed at the Office of \"Our Fireside,\" Baltimore, MD. All Orders Should be Addressed to A.J. Wedderburn.","Published by John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, Massachusetts. Includes accession number RP-1007 and RL-1511","Copyright 1906, Southern Railway Company. \nCopyright 1921, M.L. Dinwiddie. Press of Harry W. Wade, Alexandria, VA. Published by Ye Olde Mount Vernon Inn, Mt. Vernon on the Potomac, VA.","The Accokeek Foundation.","Navy Department, Naval History Division, Washington.","Editorial Offices: Alderman Library, University of Virginia. National Historical Publications Commission.","Published by the Accokeek Foundation. June 1962.","Speech of Hon. R. Walton Moore of Virginia in the House of Representatives. Government Printing Office, Washington.","Little Leather Library Corporation, New York.","Guide book. English Life Publications, Ltd. ISBN 0-85101-3503","A National Trust for Historic Preservation Field Study for the Bicentennial of the United States Capitol sponsored by the Georgetown Heritage Trust. Funded by Mobil Corporation.","The Mount Vernon Guide Company. Hayworth Pub. House, Washington, D.C. With advertisements. Includes RM-321, MISC-2992","Sawyer's Inc. Portland, Oregon.","4th printing, revised and enlarged. Published by Eleanor Lee Templeman. Includes accession numbers RL-1908 and RL-1874.","Happy Inns of America, Inc. brochure.","Gibson Brothers Printers, Washington, D.C. Includes accession numbers RL-827, RL-2913, 2017-A-015, 2022-A-021, and 2024-A-005","The Wakefield National Memorial Association, 1932. Printed by H.L. and J.B. McQueen, Inc. Washington, D.C.","Illustrated by William D. Eubank. Published by Whitney and White. Ranson, West Virginia.","Edited by John Mahey. The Peale Museum, January 1966.","A Paper Read Before the Mount Vernon Society of Detroit, by Mrs. Thomas Clapp Pitkin, December 2, 1892. Printed by the Society.","H.H.P. 118. Printed in the U.S.A.","The Newberry Library, Chicago, 1958.","Reproduced in facsimile from the original in the Huntington Library. With an introduction by Lawrence Martin. Huntington Library Publications, copyright 1932 printed by University of Chicago Press, reprint 1958.","Copyright by M.L. Lukens, 1907. Leet Bros. Publishers, Washington, D.C.","The Star Publishing Co., Wilmington, Delaware.","Published for The Washington Loan and Trust Co., Washington, D.C. Copyrighted and produced by Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore.","Pictures by Seymour Fleishman. Scholastic Inc., New York. ISBN 0-590-41814-9.","Illustrated by Gloria Kamen. Doubleday and Company, Inc. Garden City, New York. ISBN 0-385-15534-4 trade and 0-385-15535-2 prebound. Copyright 1981 by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.","Illustrated by Moneta Barnett. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Third impression. Includes accession number RL-6256/b","U.S. Press Association, Washington, D.C. One copy printed \"Compliments of the Continental Trust Company\" with different cover and different size.","Pictures by Lynd Ward. Abingdon, Nashville and New York. Note: Was prepared with the cooperation and gracious assistance of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and is published with their approval.\" ISBN 0-687-39685-9.","Fragile condition. Pages loose.","This collection contains publications concerning the history of Mount Vernon and George Washington that were not published by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. The MVLA collaborated with other authors and publishers to produce many of these titles, however the Association was not the copyright holder. These items have been merged together into this collection but are from different sources or accessions. Most of the publications were either originally collected by the Library at Mount Vernon, or were previously owned by Vice Regents of the Association. Others were given as gifts to the MVLA.","A good number of brochures or booklets represented in this collection were produced by different businesses or organizations in the travel industry as information for tourists to Mount Vernon. Other publications were written by scholars or historians who researched at Mount Vernon and later donated their work to the Library. Several books were donated by Estelle Philibert, a local historian of Alexandria, Virginia, who discussed Washington and Mount Vernon in some of her works. These books can be cross-referenced through the Agent Link in Archives Space or through the Notes sections of each individual book.","Adventure Road, Amoco Motor Club magazine. \"A Lasting Tribute to our Colonial Heritage,\" author unknown. p. 5-6","Article posted on cardboard, does not include the full article (first page only).","Antiques - \"Mount Vernon Centennial\" July 1953 by Helen Comstock. Vol. LXIV, No. 1","George Washington's Mount Vernon article, Antiques and Fine Arts, 6th anniversary edition, Vol. VI Issue 5, January-February 2006","Article about the opening of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington. Written by Annie Groer.","The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, \"The Preservation of Mount Vernon: A Record of a half century of patriotic work by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union,\" by Abby Gunn Baker. Vol. LXXIX, No. 4, Midwinter Number.","The Commonwealth, \"The Story of Mt. Vernon\" by James Wharton, April 1953.","Article featuring Mount Vernon by Jane Ford Lopez, February 1991. p. 49-53.","Catalog of products from Edwards Virginia Smokehouse with brief summary of their support in the restoration of the smokehouse at Mount Vernon. Volume 214.","History in Motion: Gum Springs Historical Society. Volume 4, Number 1. Spring 1996. \"Thirteenth anniversary of the Mount Vernon Slave Memorial\" by Dr. Judith Saunders Burton. Also includes reprinting of Dorothy Gilliam's Washington Post columns \"Remembrance\" and \"Memorial\" dated February 6, 1982 and February 28, 1983.","Article, \"Shrine on the Potomac\" by Henry F. and Katharine Pringle. Photographs by Bradley Smith. Includes images of Mount Vernon employees cleaning and caring for the Mansion (Holland family).","Bicentennial issue of the magazine with articles on Mount Vernon and George Washington.","Includes article \"The Blameless Hero,\" by the American Macaulay, Illustrated with Rare Portraits and Prints. Washington anecdotes and imagery throughout. Vol. XVII. No. 8, Whole number 262.","The Iron Worker \"The Story of Mt. Vernon\" by James Wharton, Spring 1954 Vol. XVIII, No. 2. p. 1-13","The Ladies' Home Journal with article \"In Washington's Garden: from recent photographs taken at Mount Vernon for the Journal by Leet Brothers, through the courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union.\"","Life Magazine Fall 1987, Volume 10 Number 10. Multiple articles on the Bicentennial.","Article by Worth E. Shoults. p. 602-628 with color illustrations.","The Saturday Evening Post article \"How the Girls Save Mount Vernon\" by Gerald Johnson. With color images, multiple pages.","Virginia Cavalcade, volume 48 Autumn 1999 number 4. Multiple articles concerning George Washington and Mount Vernon including \"The satisfaction I feel in having my papers so properly arranged\" by Dorothy Twohig; \"Every thing trim, handsome, and thriving\" by Dennis Pogue; \"Written in my own hand\" by John Riley; \"And procure for themselves a few amenities\" by Mary V. Thompson; \"George Washington in Virginia Cavalcade: A Bibliography\"","The Quarterly Journal of the White House Historical Association, Number 49, Spring 2018. Article on social secretaries includes information on Letitia Baldridge and the State Dinner at Mount Vernon.","Summary inserted in the front cover reads \"Mrs. Ira A. Richardson's compilation of early pamphlets bound for reference during Council.\" Contents - Authenticated copy of the last will and testament of George Washington (1868), Some of the secret troubles of Washington when Commander-in-Chief by Pitkin, Christianity the key to the character of Washington by Slaughter (1886), The Maternal ancestry and nearest kin of Washington (1885), George Washington as an inventor and promoter of the useful arts (1891), and Washington's Rules for Civility and decent behavior ed. by J.M. Toner (1888).","Title \"Mount Vernon, Arlington, and Woodlawn: History of these national shrines from the earliest titles of ownership to the present, with biographical sketches, portraits, and interesting reminiscences of the families, who founded them.\" Illustrated, Ben Franklin Press, Inc. Washington, D.C. First printing September 1922, Second printing, May 1923. Accession number 2019-A-018.","Booklet, \"Mt. Vernon Avenue: A National Memorial Highway from Washington to Mt. Vernon, with some account of the natural and historical attractions along its proposed route.\" Illustrated, by John R. Reavis. Published under the auspices of the Mt. Vernon Avenue Association. Washington, D.C. 1888. Gibson Bros. Printers and Bookbinders.","Compiled by Polly Graham Latane and Joyce Graham. Cover desinged exclusively for Mount Vernon Shops, Mount Vernon, Virginia. 1932.","Archives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association","Black Women United for Action","Mount Vernon Avenue Association","Philibert, Estelle","Ayres, Linda, 1947-","Wall, Charles Cecil, 1903-1995","Richardson, Ida Ann Slocomb, 1830-1910","Laughton, Lily Macalester Berghmans, 1832-1891","Hirschfeld, Fritz, 1924-","Rees, James C., 1952-2014","Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891","Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 1813-1894","Lowther, Minnie Kendall, 1869-1947","Thane, Elswyth, 1900-1984","Wilstach, Paul, 1870-1952","King, Grace Elizabeth, 1851 or 1852-1932","Everett, Edward, 1794-1865","English \n.    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Volume 3, No. 5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume XLV (45), Number 5. Issue concerning Mount Vernon and Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGW Magazine, A Magazine for Alumni and Friends. Article written by George W. Nordham.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume XVIII (18), No. CVL (145). Includes accession number RL-2356, lacks pages 437-444.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 34, Number 3. Article written by Edward O. Welles, Jr., photographs by Ted Vaughan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 45, Number 6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 41, Number 5. Article written by Charles Hosmer, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 45, Number 1. National Symbols: Presidential Homes - Directors of six presidential homes answer HN's questions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 78, No. 1. Section I and Section II. The Conde Nast Publications, Inc. Section II contains Mount Vernon article, full title - Mount Vernon: Five Historic Interiors - George Washington's country estate recalls today the full, leisurely life of an 18th Century gentleman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 82, No.1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 161, Number 5. Article written by Martin Filler, photographs by Marina Schinz.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Sherrill Schell and others. Volume 11, No. 5. Serial no. 244. With pictures reproduced from art photographs specially made for this number of The Mentor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 5, No. 4. Article written by Charles Fenyvesi.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 38, Number 1. Article written by Charles C. Wall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 46, No. 6. Article written by Charles C. Wall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText copy of article not the full magazine. Article written by Lonnelle Aikman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle only not the full magazine. Article written by Georgiana Lockwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume XXI (21), Number 1. Article written by Justin Torres.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssue 94, pages 25-31. Discusses Washington's World map project at Mount Vernon. 2017-A-085\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle only not the full magazine. Article written by Doris T. Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 107, No. 21. Special issue for the Bicentennial of the United States dedicated to George Washington's life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 105, No. 20. Special issue for the Bicentennial of the United States dedicated to Thomas Jefferson's life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume XI (11), Number 3. Article written by Ulrich Troubetzkoy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle only not full magazine. Article written by Walter L. Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume XV (15), Number 2. Article only not the full magazine. Article written by Robert L. Scribner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle written by Emily L. Schulz and Ellen McCallister Clark.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdited and annotated by Richard Brookhiser.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated copies of the annual report showing images that were used courtesy of the MVLA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle only. Article written by Norman Kahl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted for sale at Mount Vernon. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith illustrations. Copyright 1897 by Brentano's. Press of J.J. Little and Co., Astor Place, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressional Directory belonging to Mrs. Lillie McAllister Laughton (sp.), Washington, Government Printing Office, 1890.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted by P.J. Kenedy and Sons, New York, 1931. Foreword by Peter Guilday, Ph.D. Book donated by Estelle Philibert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccession number RL-3035\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdited by Donald M. Sweig with an Explanatory Text, Appendices, and Source Lists by Beth Mitchell and Donald M. Sweig. Published by the Office of Comprehensive Planning, Fairfax County, 1987.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccession number RL-6171a\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Macmillan Company, New York, 1914. Book donated by Estelle Philibert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUniversity Press of Virginia, Charlottesville. ISBN 0-8139-0851-5 and 0-8139-0852-3.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Missouri Press, Columbia and London. ISBN 0-8262-1135-6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by the Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission. Edward M. Riley, Editor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, Indianapolis. First Edition, 1933.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopyright Rudolph E. Prussing, 1925. Chapters IV and V copyright by Charles Scribners Sons, 1921. Limited release sale, copy no. 504 and 582. Signed by the author. Publisher Pascal Covici, Chicago.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by the George Washington Bicentennial Commission of New Hampshire, Houghton Miffling Company, Boston and New York. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. With illustrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith an introductory essay by Michael Wentworth. Published by the Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA. Signed by the author. ISBN 0-934552-63-0. Copyright by the Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London. William M. Ferraro, Editor in Chief. This edition has been prepared by the staff of the Washington Papers sponsored by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy James C. Rees with Stephen Spignesi. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New Jersey. ISBN 978-0-470-08887-6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotography by Robert C. Lautman. Collection photography by Edward Owen. Essays by Susan Gray Detweiler, Rudy J. Favretti, Allan Greenberg, Ronald L. Hurst, James C. Rees, and Gilbert T. Vincent. The Monacelli Press, New York. ISBN 0-58093-010-7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOxford University Press, Inc., Oxford and New York. ISBN 0-19-512114-7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreviously published under the title The Home of Washington. Illustrated with numerous engravings. Published by The Fairfax Press.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreviously published as The Tomb of Washington, 1858. Full title The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon, Emracing a Full and Accurate Description, as well as of the Birthplace, Genealogy, Character, Marriage, and Last Illness of Washington, together with Incidents pertaining to the Burial of Washington, Removal from the Old Family Vault, and His Being Placed in the New Tomb, in a Marble Sarcophagus. Washington: Thomas McGill, Printer. 1860. Magnolia leaf sewn into the front page with note on origin dated April 18th, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title \"The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon and Its Associations: Embracing the Birthplace, Genealogy, Courtship, and Marriage of Washington. With Illustrations.\" Washington: McGill and Witherow, Printers and Stereotypers. Copyright 1866. Fragile condition, loose cover and pages. Accession number 2019-A-006\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn B. Alden, Publisher, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e62nd Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Document No. 86. The Only Authenticated Copy, Full and Complete, Embracing a Schedule of His Real Estate, and Explanatory Notes Thereto by the Testator; To Which is Added Important Historical Notes, Biographical Sketches, and Anecdotes. Presented by Mr. Heyburn, August 5, 1911. United States Government Printing Office.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarper and Brothers, New York. One copy given by the National Society of the Washington Family Descendants, 1976, Book plate 1984. One copy given by Estelle Philibert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollected and Arranged by John Frederick Schroeder, D.D. Third edition. D. Appleton and Company, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title - Maxims of Washington, compiled for use in schools, libraries, and all American homes. D. Appleton and Company, New York. 1909. Copyright 1894. Accession number RL-803, gift of Mrs. Henry Norris Platt, Vice Regent of Pennsylvania, 1970.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by the Long Island Historical Society, New York. George Washington and Mount Vernon: A Collection of Washington's Unpublished Agricultural and Personal Letters, edited with historical and genealogical introduction by Moncure Daniel Conway. Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, New York. Note on the title page of both copies reads \"These manuscripts were acquired by Dr. Sol Feinstone and placed on permanent loan at Mount Vernon.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eC.M. Saxton, Barker and Co., New York. New edition, revised and enlarged. Inscribed on the inside, Mrs. Emily Barker Gerry. N.Y.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eD. Appleton and Company, New York. Printed notes inside both copies read \"To the Public - The entire profits that may accrue, to either the author or the publishers, will be contributed to the Mount Vernon Fund.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia. Dedication to Ann Pamela Cunningham and the MVLA. One copy originally belonged to the National Society of Washington Family Descendants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title, Mount Vernon: The Home of Washington, Descriptive, Historical, and Pictorial. With 160 Illustrations. John C. Yorston and Company, Cincinnati. Gift of Estelle Philibert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title - Mount Vernon: The Legacy, The Story of Its Preservation and Care Since 1885. Copy signed by the author and dedicated to Mrs. Holden, Vice Regent. J.B. Lippincott Company, New York and Philadelphia. Book dedication to Frank Morse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated. Doubleday, Page and Company, New York. Dedicated to Harrison H. Dodge. One copy belonged to the National Society of Washington Family Descendants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated. Blue Ribbon Books, New York. Second edition, 1930. Dedicated to Harrison H. Dodge. Includes accession number RL-6253/s\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by numerous engravings. W.A. Townsend and Company, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title - Mount Vernon and the Washington Family, A concise handbook on the ancestry, youth and family of George Washington, and history of his home. Third and Enlarged Edition. Illustrated and Indexed. Prepared for the busy reader who does not have time to peruse voluminous works on these subjects. Ziegler Printing Co. Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrowell-Collier Press, New York. Copyright 1968 The MacMillan Company. Signed by the author and dedicated to Mrs. Holden, Vice Regent. Book dedication to Charles C. Wall. Includes accession number RL-6253/P.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. First edition. Dedicated to the Regent, Mrs. Beirne, and the Vice Regents of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe MacMillan Company, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eD. Appleton and Company, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAuthor appears as Mrs. Roger A. Pryor on the title page. The MacMillan Company, New York. Includes accession number RL-3816, a gift of Estelle Philibert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith illustrations. By the author of \"Sunlight throught the Mist,\" \"The Martyr Land,\" and \"Triumphs of Steam.\" (E. Burrows) John F. Shaw and Co., London. Inscribed page is damaged. Gift of Estelle Philibert, accession number RL-3454.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Accokeek Foundation. First edition, June 1988. Includes accession number RL-6170c.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title - The Report of the Virginia Board of Visitors to Mount Vernon for the year 1901: Showing the History of the Ladies Mount Vernon Association of the Union and Virginia's Connection Therewith and Action of Congress and Legislature of Virginia Touching Removal of Remains of Washington. J.H. O'Bannon, Superintendent of Public Relations, Richmond. 1901. From the press of Clyde W. Saunders, Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title - Rosemont and Its Famous Daughter: The Story of Rosemont Plantation, Laurens County, South Carolina, and Ann Pamela Cunningham Who Saved Mount Vernon for a National Shrine. Published by M.R. Wilkes, first printing 200 copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGrosset and Dunlap Publishers, New York. Gift of Estelle Philibert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopyright by the Mary Washington Memorial Association. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, New York. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. With portrait and eight illustrations. Gift of Estelle Philibert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten and compiled by Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall. The Neale Publishing Company, Washington, D.C. Copyright 1908 by Robert L. Brownfield.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLater published as The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon, 1860. Full title - The Tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon, Embracing a Full and Accurate Description of Mount Vernon as well as of the Birthplace, Genealogy, Character, Marriage, and Last Illness of Washington, Together with Incidents Pertaining to the Burial of Washington, Removal from the Old Family Vault, and His Being Placed in the New Tomb, in a Marble Sarcophagus. Thomas McGill Printer, Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSymposium handbook, edited by Jane Benton Butler. The International Molinological Society or T.I.M.S. Section on George Washington's Treading Barn and Grist Mill. Gift of Derek Ogden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico. Copyright 1966 by Arthur Newton Pack. Includes accession number RL-6256/L.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccession number RL-6256/a. The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvander Childs, Steam Book and Job Printer, New York. 1856. Accession number 2016-A-011.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePotomac Gardens Incorporated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title - Authenticated Copy of the Last Will and Testament of George Washington, of Mt. Vernon, Emracing a Schedule of his Real Estate and Notes Thereto by the Testator, to which is added Historical Notes and Biographical Sketches by the Publisher. A. Jackson, Publisher, Washington, D.C. 1868.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCobblestone, Carus Publishing Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFull title - Copies of the Wills of General George Washington, the First President of the United States, and of Martha Washington, His Wife, and other interesting records of the County of Fairfax, Virginia wherein they lived and died. Second edition. Copyright 1904 by E. Richardson Holbrook. National Capital Press, Inc., Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Antiquarian Society. A Paper Read before the American Antiquarian Society at their Semi-Annual Meeting in Boston, April 30, 1879. Press of Charles Hamilton, Worcester, MA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for October 1889. Boston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Washington Bicentennial, 1999. Washington's Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStories of Cross and Flag No. 1. The Hampshire Art Press, Keene, N.H. 1913.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProduced by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Journey Supplement, We the People May 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlderman Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 symposium program and 1 schedule of events leaflet\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBulletin No. 1 of the Washington Society of Alexandria 1800-1929. Republished with some additions through the courtesy of Scribner's Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFairfax County Tourism and Convention Bureau, Vienna, VA. c. 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresented with the compliments of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, Alexandria, Virginia. Alexandria Print Shop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Borman and Son, Printers, Detroit, Michigan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe National Art Service Co., Inc. Accession number 2016_A-033.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe National Trust, UK.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e62nd Congress, 1st Session Senate Document No. 86.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted for the author, Trow's Printing and Bookbinding, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted for the subscribers, Philadelphia. Copyrighted by the authors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Alexandria-Washington Lodge, No. 22.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Grave of Mary Ball Washington, The National Mary Washington Memorial Association, Fredericksburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEntered according to act of Congress, in the year 1885, by N.R. Ball, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted by the Citizens Committee on Natural Resources, Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMt. Vernon Ave., From the Captiol by Grants Statue, Lincoln Memorial, over the Memorial Bridge, by Arlington, through Alexandria - To the Tomb of Washington. Published by Authority Mt. Vernon Avenue Association. Prepared by Alex J. Wedderburn, The Art Publishing Company, Washington, D.C., 1913.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThird edition revised. Printed at the Office of \"Our Fireside,\" Baltimore, MD. All Orders Should be Addressed to A.J. Wedderburn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, Massachusetts. Includes accession number RP-1007 and RL-1511\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopyright 1906, Southern Railway Company. \nCopyright 1921, M.L. Dinwiddie. Press of Harry W. Wade, Alexandria, VA. Published by Ye Olde Mount Vernon Inn, Mt. Vernon on the Potomac, VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Accokeek Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy Department, Naval History Division, Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEditorial Offices: Alderman Library, University of Virginia. National Historical Publications Commission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by the Accokeek Foundation. June 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeech of Hon. R. Walton Moore of Virginia in the House of Representatives. Government Printing Office, Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittle Leather Library Corporation, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGuide book. English Life Publications, Ltd. ISBN 0-85101-3503\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA National Trust for Historic Preservation Field Study for the Bicentennial of the United States Capitol sponsored by the Georgetown Heritage Trust. Funded by Mobil Corporation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Mount Vernon Guide Company. Hayworth Pub. House, Washington, D.C. With advertisements. Includes RM-321, MISC-2992\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSawyer's Inc. Portland, Oregon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4th printing, revised and enlarged. Published by Eleanor Lee Templeman. Includes accession numbers RL-1908 and RL-1874.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHappy Inns of America, Inc. brochure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGibson Brothers Printers, Washington, D.C. Includes accession numbers RL-827, RL-2913, 2017-A-015, 2022-A-021, and 2024-A-005\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Wakefield National Memorial Association, 1932. Printed by H.L. and J.B. McQueen, Inc. Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by William D. Eubank. Published by Whitney and White. Ranson, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdited by John Mahey. The Peale Museum, January 1966.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Paper Read Before the Mount Vernon Society of Detroit, by Mrs. Thomas Clapp Pitkin, December 2, 1892. Printed by the Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH.H.P. 118. Printed in the U.S.A.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Newberry Library, Chicago, 1958.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReproduced in facsimile from the original in the Huntington Library. With an introduction by Lawrence Martin. Huntington Library Publications, copyright 1932 printed by University of Chicago Press, reprint 1958.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopyright by M.L. Lukens, 1907. Leet Bros. Publishers, Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Star Publishing Co., Wilmington, Delaware.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished for The Washington Loan and Trust Co., Washington, D.C. Copyrighted and produced by Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePictures by Seymour Fleishman. Scholastic Inc., New York. ISBN 0-590-41814-9.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by Gloria Kamen. Doubleday and Company, Inc. Garden City, New York. ISBN 0-385-15534-4 trade and 0-385-15535-2 prebound. Copyright 1981 by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by Moneta Barnett. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Third impression. Includes accession number RL-6256/b\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eU.S. Press Association, Washington, D.C. One copy printed \"Compliments of the Continental Trust Company\" with different cover and different size.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePictures by Lynd Ward. Abingdon, Nashville and New York. Note: Was prepared with the cooperation and gracious assistance of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and is published with their approval.\" ISBN 0-687-39685-9.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General","General"],"odd_tesim":["Editorial reprinted from the Arizona Daily Star. Volume 70, No. 6. No author listed.","The American Heritage Society's Americana Magazine. Volume 4, Number 1. Article written by Ken and Pat Kraft.","The American Heritage Society's Americana Magazine. Volume 12, Number 2. Article written by Constance Stapleton.","Article written by Wendy J. Shadwell.","Reprinted from Architecture February 1997. Article written by Vernon Mays. Copy produced by Quinn Evans Architects.","RL-995. Article written by Charles F. Deems, D.D., LL. D.","Article written by Mary McMahon.","The Carpenter, Volume LXXXIV (84), No. 2. Article written by E. John Long.","Colonial Homes Volume 23, No. 2. \"George Washington: Farming by the Book\" written by Annette Stramesi, photography by Erik Kvalsvik. \"Mount Vernon Furniture Collection\" written by Mervyn Kaufman, produced by Doretta S. Sperduto, photography by Erik Kvalsvik.","Colonial Homes Volume 20, No. 3. Article written by Diane DiPiero, photography by Richard Bryant/Arcaid, courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association except where noted.","Confederate Veteran Volume XXXIV (34), No. 3, Nashville, Tennessee.","Volume No. 123, No. 2. Mount Vernon cover art. Article written by George W. Nordham.","By Benson J. Lossing. Volume 3, No. 5.","Volume XLV (45), Number 5. Issue concerning Mount Vernon and Washington.","GW Magazine, A Magazine for Alumni and Friends. Article written by George W. Nordham.","Volume XVIII (18), No. CVL (145). Includes accession number RL-2356, lacks pages 437-444.","Volume 34, Number 3. Article written by Edward O. Welles, Jr., photographs by Ted Vaughan.","Volume 45, Number 6.","Volume 41, Number 5. Article written by Charles Hosmer, Jr.","Volume 45, Number 1. National Symbols: Presidential Homes - Directors of six presidential homes answer HN's questions.","Volume 78, No. 1. Section I and Section II. The Conde Nast Publications, Inc. Section II contains Mount Vernon article, full title - Mount Vernon: Five Historic Interiors - George Washington's country estate recalls today the full, leisurely life of an 18th Century gentleman.","Volume 82, No.1","Volume 161, Number 5. Article written by Martin Filler, photographs by Marina Schinz.","By Sherrill Schell and others. Volume 11, No. 5. Serial no. 244. With pictures reproduced from art photographs specially made for this number of The Mentor.","Volume 5, No. 4. Article written by Charles Fenyvesi.","Volume 38, Number 1. Article written by Charles C. Wall.","Volume 46, No. 6. Article written by Charles C. Wall.","Text copy of article not the full magazine. Article written by Lonnelle Aikman.","Article only not the full magazine. Article written by Georgiana Lockwood.","Volume XXI (21), Number 1. Article written by Justin Torres.","Issue 94, pages 25-31. Discusses Washington's World map project at Mount Vernon. 2017-A-085","Article only not the full magazine. Article written by Doris T. Stuart.","Volume 107, No. 21. Special issue for the Bicentennial of the United States dedicated to George Washington's life.","Volume 105, No. 20. Special issue for the Bicentennial of the United States dedicated to Thomas Jefferson's life.","Volume XI (11), Number 3. Article written by Ulrich Troubetzkoy.","Article only not full magazine. Article written by Walter L. Jones.","Volume XV (15), Number 2. Article only not the full magazine. Article written by Robert L. Scribner.","Article written by Emily L. Schulz and Ellen McCallister Clark.","Edited and annotated by Richard Brookhiser.","Annotated copies of the annual report showing images that were used courtesy of the MVLA.","Article only. Article written by Norman Kahl.","Printed for sale at Mount Vernon. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.","With illustrations. Copyright 1897 by Brentano's. Press of J.J. Little and Co., Astor Place, New York.","Congressional Directory belonging to Mrs. Lillie McAllister Laughton (sp.), Washington, Government Printing Office, 1890.","Printed by P.J. Kenedy and Sons, New York, 1931. Foreword by Peter Guilday, Ph.D. Book donated by Estelle Philibert.","Accession number RL-3035","Edited by Donald M. Sweig with an Explanatory Text, Appendices, and Source Lists by Beth Mitchell and Donald M. Sweig. Published by the Office of Comprehensive Planning, Fairfax County, 1987.","Accession number RL-6171a","The Macmillan Company, New York, 1914. Book donated by Estelle Philibert.","University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville. ISBN 0-8139-0851-5 and 0-8139-0852-3.","University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London. ISBN 0-8262-1135-6.","Published by the Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission. Edward M. Riley, Editor.","The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, Indianapolis. First Edition, 1933.","Copyright Rudolph E. Prussing, 1925. Chapters IV and V copyright by Charles Scribners Sons, 1921. Limited release sale, copy no. 504 and 582. Signed by the author. Publisher Pascal Covici, Chicago.","Published by the George Washington Bicentennial Commission of New Hampshire, Houghton Miffling Company, Boston and New York. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. With illustrations.","With an introductory essay by Michael Wentworth. Published by the Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA. Signed by the author. ISBN 0-934552-63-0. Copyright by the Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum.","University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London. William M. Ferraro, Editor in Chief. This edition has been prepared by the staff of the Washington Papers sponsored by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the University of Virginia.","By James C. Rees with Stephen Spignesi. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New Jersey. ISBN 978-0-470-08887-6.","Photography by Robert C. Lautman. Collection photography by Edward Owen. Essays by Susan Gray Detweiler, Rudy J. Favretti, Allan Greenberg, Ronald L. Hurst, James C. Rees, and Gilbert T. Vincent. The Monacelli Press, New York. ISBN 0-58093-010-7.","Oxford University Press, Inc., Oxford and New York. ISBN 0-19-512114-7.","Previously published under the title The Home of Washington. Illustrated with numerous engravings. Published by The Fairfax Press.","Previously published as The Tomb of Washington, 1858. Full title The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon, Emracing a Full and Accurate Description, as well as of the Birthplace, Genealogy, Character, Marriage, and Last Illness of Washington, together with Incidents pertaining to the Burial of Washington, Removal from the Old Family Vault, and His Being Placed in the New Tomb, in a Marble Sarcophagus. Washington: Thomas McGill, Printer. 1860. Magnolia leaf sewn into the front page with note on origin dated April 18th, 1861.","Full title \"The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon and Its Associations: Embracing the Birthplace, Genealogy, Courtship, and Marriage of Washington. With Illustrations.\" Washington: McGill and Witherow, Printers and Stereotypers. Copyright 1866. Fragile condition, loose cover and pages. Accession number 2019-A-006","John B. Alden, Publisher, New York.","62nd Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Document No. 86. The Only Authenticated Copy, Full and Complete, Embracing a Schedule of His Real Estate, and Explanatory Notes Thereto by the Testator; To Which is Added Important Historical Notes, Biographical Sketches, and Anecdotes. Presented by Mr. Heyburn, August 5, 1911. United States Government Printing Office.","Harper and Brothers, New York. One copy given by the National Society of the Washington Family Descendants, 1976, Book plate 1984. One copy given by Estelle Philibert.","Collected and Arranged by John Frederick Schroeder, D.D. Third edition. D. Appleton and Company, New York.","Full title - Maxims of Washington, compiled for use in schools, libraries, and all American homes. D. Appleton and Company, New York. 1909. Copyright 1894. Accession number RL-803, gift of Mrs. Henry Norris Platt, Vice Regent of Pennsylvania, 1970.","Published by the Long Island Historical Society, New York. George Washington and Mount Vernon: A Collection of Washington's Unpublished Agricultural and Personal Letters, edited with historical and genealogical introduction by Moncure Daniel Conway. Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, New York. Note on the title page of both copies reads \"These manuscripts were acquired by Dr. Sol Feinstone and placed on permanent loan at Mount Vernon.\"","C.M. Saxton, Barker and Co., New York. New edition, revised and enlarged. Inscribed on the inside, Mrs. Emily Barker Gerry. N.Y.","D. Appleton and Company, New York. Printed notes inside both copies read \"To the Public - The entire profits that may accrue, to either the author or the publishers, will be contributed to the Mount Vernon Fund.\"","The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia. Dedication to Ann Pamela Cunningham and the MVLA. One copy originally belonged to the National Society of Washington Family Descendants.","Full title, Mount Vernon: The Home of Washington, Descriptive, Historical, and Pictorial. With 160 Illustrations. John C. Yorston and Company, Cincinnati. Gift of Estelle Philibert.","Full title - Mount Vernon: The Legacy, The Story of Its Preservation and Care Since 1885. Copy signed by the author and dedicated to Mrs. Holden, Vice Regent. J.B. Lippincott Company, New York and Philadelphia. Book dedication to Frank Morse.","Illustrated. Doubleday, Page and Company, New York. Dedicated to Harrison H. Dodge. One copy belonged to the National Society of Washington Family Descendants.","Illustrated. Blue Ribbon Books, New York. Second edition, 1930. Dedicated to Harrison H. Dodge. Includes accession number RL-6253/s","Illustrated by numerous engravings. W.A. Townsend and Company, New York.","Full title - Mount Vernon and the Washington Family, A concise handbook on the ancestry, youth and family of George Washington, and history of his home. Third and Enlarged Edition. Illustrated and Indexed. Prepared for the busy reader who does not have time to peruse voluminous works on these subjects. Ziegler Printing Co. Inc.","Crowell-Collier Press, New York. Copyright 1968 The MacMillan Company. Signed by the author and dedicated to Mrs. Holden, Vice Regent. Book dedication to Charles C. Wall. Includes accession number RL-6253/P.","Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. First edition. Dedicated to the Regent, Mrs. Beirne, and the Vice Regents of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.","The MacMillan Company, New York.","D. Appleton and Company, New York.","Author appears as Mrs. Roger A. Pryor on the title page. The MacMillan Company, New York. Includes accession number RL-3816, a gift of Estelle Philibert.","With illustrations. By the author of \"Sunlight throught the Mist,\" \"The Martyr Land,\" and \"Triumphs of Steam.\" (E. Burrows) John F. Shaw and Co., London. Inscribed page is damaged. Gift of Estelle Philibert, accession number RL-3454.","The Accokeek Foundation. First edition, June 1988. Includes accession number RL-6170c.","Full title - The Report of the Virginia Board of Visitors to Mount Vernon for the year 1901: Showing the History of the Ladies Mount Vernon Association of the Union and Virginia's Connection Therewith and Action of Congress and Legislature of Virginia Touching Removal of Remains of Washington. J.H. O'Bannon, Superintendent of Public Relations, Richmond. 1901. From the press of Clyde W. Saunders, Richmond.","Full title - Rosemont and Its Famous Daughter: The Story of Rosemont Plantation, Laurens County, South Carolina, and Ann Pamela Cunningham Who Saved Mount Vernon for a National Shrine. Published by M.R. Wilkes, first printing 200 copies.","Grosset and Dunlap Publishers, New York. Gift of Estelle Philibert.","Copyright by the Mary Washington Memorial Association. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, New York. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. With portrait and eight illustrations. Gift of Estelle Philibert.","Written and compiled by Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall. The Neale Publishing Company, Washington, D.C. Copyright 1908 by Robert L. Brownfield.","Later published as The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon, 1860. Full title - The Tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon, Embracing a Full and Accurate Description of Mount Vernon as well as of the Birthplace, Genealogy, Character, Marriage, and Last Illness of Washington, Together with Incidents Pertaining to the Burial of Washington, Removal from the Old Family Vault, and His Being Placed in the New Tomb, in a Marble Sarcophagus. Thomas McGill Printer, Washington.","Symposium handbook, edited by Jane Benton Butler. The International Molinological Society or T.I.M.S. Section on George Washington's Treading Barn and Grist Mill. Gift of Derek Ogden.","Published by Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico. Copyright 1966 by Arthur Newton Pack. Includes accession number RL-6256/L.","Accession number RL-6256/a. The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts.","Evander Childs, Steam Book and Job Printer, New York. 1856. Accession number 2016-A-011.","Potomac Gardens Incorporated.","Full title - Authenticated Copy of the Last Will and Testament of George Washington, of Mt. Vernon, Emracing a Schedule of his Real Estate and Notes Thereto by the Testator, to which is added Historical Notes and Biographical Sketches by the Publisher. A. Jackson, Publisher, Washington, D.C. 1868.","Cobblestone, Carus Publishing Company.","Full title - Copies of the Wills of General George Washington, the First President of the United States, and of Martha Washington, His Wife, and other interesting records of the County of Fairfax, Virginia wherein they lived and died. Second edition. Copyright 1904 by E. Richardson Holbrook. National Capital Press, Inc., Washington, D.C.","American Antiquarian Society. A Paper Read before the American Antiquarian Society at their Semi-Annual Meeting in Boston, April 30, 1879. Press of Charles Hamilton, Worcester, MA.","Reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for October 1889. Boston.","George Washington Bicentennial, 1999. Washington's Virginia.","Stories of Cross and Flag No. 1. The Hampshire Art Press, Keene, N.H. 1913.","Produced by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.","Special Journey Supplement, We the People May 1989.","Alderman Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Virginia.","1 symposium program and 1 schedule of events leaflet","Bulletin No. 1 of the Washington Society of Alexandria 1800-1929. Republished with some additions through the courtesy of Scribner's Magazine.","Fairfax County Tourism and Convention Bureau, Vienna, VA. c. 1988.","Presented with the compliments of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, Alexandria, Virginia. Alexandria Print Shop.","John Borman and Son, Printers, Detroit, Michigan.","The National Art Service Co., Inc. Accession number 2016_A-033.","The National Trust, UK.","62nd Congress, 1st Session Senate Document No. 86.","Printed for the author, Trow's Printing and Bookbinding, New York.","Printed for the subscribers, Philadelphia. Copyrighted by the authors.","By Alexandria-Washington Lodge, No. 22.","The Grave of Mary Ball Washington, The National Mary Washington Memorial Association, Fredericksburg, Virginia.","Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1885, by N.R. Ball, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.","Printed by the Citizens Committee on Natural Resources, Washington, D.C.","Mt. Vernon Ave., From the Captiol by Grants Statue, Lincoln Memorial, over the Memorial Bridge, by Arlington, through Alexandria - To the Tomb of Washington. Published by Authority Mt. Vernon Avenue Association. Prepared by Alex J. Wedderburn, The Art Publishing Company, Washington, D.C., 1913.","Third edition revised. Printed at the Office of \"Our Fireside,\" Baltimore, MD. All Orders Should be Addressed to A.J. Wedderburn.","Published by John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, Massachusetts. Includes accession number RP-1007 and RL-1511","Copyright 1906, Southern Railway Company. \nCopyright 1921, M.L. Dinwiddie. Press of Harry W. Wade, Alexandria, VA. Published by Ye Olde Mount Vernon Inn, Mt. Vernon on the Potomac, VA.","The Accokeek Foundation.","Navy Department, Naval History Division, Washington.","Editorial Offices: Alderman Library, University of Virginia. National Historical Publications Commission.","Published by the Accokeek Foundation. June 1962.","Speech of Hon. R. Walton Moore of Virginia in the House of Representatives. Government Printing Office, Washington.","Little Leather Library Corporation, New York.","Guide book. English Life Publications, Ltd. ISBN 0-85101-3503","A National Trust for Historic Preservation Field Study for the Bicentennial of the United States Capitol sponsored by the Georgetown Heritage Trust. Funded by Mobil Corporation.","The Mount Vernon Guide Company. Hayworth Pub. House, Washington, D.C. With advertisements. Includes RM-321, MISC-2992","Sawyer's Inc. Portland, Oregon.","4th printing, revised and enlarged. Published by Eleanor Lee Templeman. Includes accession numbers RL-1908 and RL-1874.","Happy Inns of America, Inc. brochure.","Gibson Brothers Printers, Washington, D.C. Includes accession numbers RL-827, RL-2913, 2017-A-015, 2022-A-021, and 2024-A-005","The Wakefield National Memorial Association, 1932. Printed by H.L. and J.B. McQueen, Inc. Washington, D.C.","Illustrated by William D. Eubank. Published by Whitney and White. Ranson, West Virginia.","Edited by John Mahey. The Peale Museum, January 1966.","A Paper Read Before the Mount Vernon Society of Detroit, by Mrs. Thomas Clapp Pitkin, December 2, 1892. Printed by the Society.","H.H.P. 118. Printed in the U.S.A.","The Newberry Library, Chicago, 1958.","Reproduced in facsimile from the original in the Huntington Library. With an introduction by Lawrence Martin. Huntington Library Publications, copyright 1932 printed by University of Chicago Press, reprint 1958.","Copyright by M.L. Lukens, 1907. Leet Bros. Publishers, Washington, D.C.","The Star Publishing Co., Wilmington, Delaware.","Published for The Washington Loan and Trust Co., Washington, D.C. Copyrighted and produced by Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore.","Pictures by Seymour Fleishman. Scholastic Inc., New York. ISBN 0-590-41814-9.","Illustrated by Gloria Kamen. Doubleday and Company, Inc. Garden City, New York. ISBN 0-385-15534-4 trade and 0-385-15535-2 prebound. Copyright 1981 by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.","Illustrated by Moneta Barnett. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Third impression. Includes accession number RL-6256/b","U.S. Press Association, Washington, D.C. One copy printed \"Compliments of the Continental Trust Company\" with different cover and different size.","Pictures by Lynd Ward. Abingdon, Nashville and New York. Note: Was prepared with the cooperation and gracious assistance of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and is published with their approval.\" ISBN 0-687-39685-9."],"phystech_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFragile condition. Pages loose.\u003c/p\u003e"],"phystech_heading_ssm":["Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements"],"phystech_tesim":["Fragile condition. Pages loose."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Name and date of item], Publications - History of Mount Vernon and George Washington, [Series, Folder], Archives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, Fred W. 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These items have been merged together into this collection but are from different sources or accessions. Most of the publications were either originally collected by the Library at Mount Vernon, or were previously owned by Vice Regents of the Association. Others were given as gifts to the MVLA.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA good number of brochures or booklets represented in this collection were produced by different businesses or organizations in the travel industry as information for tourists to Mount Vernon. Other publications were written by scholars or historians who researched at Mount Vernon and later donated their work to the Library. Several books were donated by Estelle Philibert, a local historian of Alexandria, Virginia, who discussed Washington and Mount Vernon in some of her works. These books can be cross-referenced through the Agent Link in Archives Space or through the Notes sections of each individual book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdventure Road, Amoco Motor Club magazine. \"A Lasting Tribute to our Colonial Heritage,\" author unknown. p. 5-6\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle posted on cardboard, does not include the full article (first page only).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAntiques - \"Mount Vernon Centennial\" July 1953 by Helen Comstock. Vol. LXIV, No. 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Washington's Mount Vernon article, Antiques and Fine Arts, 6th anniversary edition, Vol. VI Issue 5, January-February 2006\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle about the opening of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington. Written by Annie Groer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, \"The Preservation of Mount Vernon: A Record of a half century of patriotic work by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union,\" by Abby Gunn Baker. Vol. LXXIX, No. 4, Midwinter Number.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Commonwealth, \"The Story of Mt. Vernon\" by James Wharton, April 1953.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle featuring Mount Vernon by Jane Ford Lopez, February 1991. p. 49-53.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCatalog of products from Edwards Virginia Smokehouse with brief summary of their support in the restoration of the smokehouse at Mount Vernon. Volume 214.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHistory in Motion: Gum Springs Historical Society. Volume 4, Number 1. Spring 1996. \"Thirteenth anniversary of the Mount Vernon Slave Memorial\" by Dr. Judith Saunders Burton. Also includes reprinting of Dorothy Gilliam's Washington Post columns \"Remembrance\" and \"Memorial\" dated February 6, 1982 and February 28, 1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle, \"Shrine on the Potomac\" by Henry F. and Katharine Pringle. Photographs by Bradley Smith. Includes images of Mount Vernon employees cleaning and caring for the Mansion (Holland family).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial issue of the magazine with articles on Mount Vernon and George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes article \"The Blameless Hero,\" by the American Macaulay, Illustrated with Rare Portraits and Prints. Washington anecdotes and imagery throughout. Vol. XVII. No. 8, Whole number 262.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Iron Worker \"The Story of Mt. Vernon\" by James Wharton, Spring 1954 Vol. XVIII, No. 2. p. 1-13\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ladies' Home Journal with article \"In Washington's Garden: from recent photographs taken at Mount Vernon for the Journal by Leet Brothers, through the courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife Magazine Fall 1987, Volume 10 Number 10. Multiple articles on the Bicentennial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle by Worth E. Shoults. p. 602-628 with color illustrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post article \"How the Girls Save Mount Vernon\" by Gerald Johnson. With color images, multiple pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Cavalcade, volume 48 Autumn 1999 number 4. Multiple articles concerning George Washington and Mount Vernon including \"The satisfaction I feel in having my papers so properly arranged\" by Dorothy Twohig; \"Every thing trim, handsome, and thriving\" by Dennis Pogue; \"Written in my own hand\" by John Riley; \"And procure for themselves a few amenities\" by Mary V. Thompson; \"George Washington in Virginia Cavalcade: A Bibliography\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Quarterly Journal of the White House Historical Association, Number 49, Spring 2018. Article on social secretaries includes information on Letitia Baldridge and the State Dinner at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSummary inserted in the front cover reads \"Mrs. Ira A. Richardson's compilation of early pamphlets bound for reference during Council.\" Contents - Authenticated copy of the last will and testament of George Washington (1868), Some of the secret troubles of Washington when Commander-in-Chief by Pitkin, Christianity the key to the character of Washington by Slaughter (1886), The Maternal ancestry and nearest kin of Washington (1885), George Washington as an inventor and promoter of the useful arts (1891), and Washington's Rules for Civility and decent behavior ed. by J.M. Toner (1888).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle \"Mount Vernon, Arlington, and Woodlawn: History of these national shrines from the earliest titles of ownership to the present, with biographical sketches, portraits, and interesting reminiscences of the families, who founded them.\" Illustrated, Ben Franklin Press, Inc. Washington, D.C. First printing September 1922, Second printing, May 1923. Accession number 2019-A-018.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet, \"Mt. Vernon Avenue: A National Memorial Highway from Washington to Mt. Vernon, with some account of the natural and historical attractions along its proposed route.\" Illustrated, by John R. Reavis. Published under the auspices of the Mt. Vernon Avenue Association. Washington, D.C. 1888. Gibson Bros. Printers and Bookbinders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompiled by Polly Graham Latane and Joyce Graham. Cover desinged exclusively for Mount Vernon Shops, Mount Vernon, Virginia. 1932.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains publications concerning the history of Mount Vernon and George Washington that were not published by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. The MVLA collaborated with other authors and publishers to produce many of these titles, however the Association was not the copyright holder. These items have been merged together into this collection but are from different sources or accessions. Most of the publications were either originally collected by the Library at Mount Vernon, or were previously owned by Vice Regents of the Association. Others were given as gifts to the MVLA.","A good number of brochures or booklets represented in this collection were produced by different businesses or organizations in the travel industry as information for tourists to Mount Vernon. Other publications were written by scholars or historians who researched at Mount Vernon and later donated their work to the Library. Several books were donated by Estelle Philibert, a local historian of Alexandria, Virginia, who discussed Washington and Mount Vernon in some of her works. These books can be cross-referenced through the Agent Link in Archives Space or through the Notes sections of each individual book.","Adventure Road, Amoco Motor Club magazine. \"A Lasting Tribute to our Colonial Heritage,\" author unknown. p. 5-6","Article posted on cardboard, does not include the full article (first page only).","Antiques - \"Mount Vernon Centennial\" July 1953 by Helen Comstock. Vol. LXIV, No. 1","George Washington's Mount Vernon article, Antiques and Fine Arts, 6th anniversary edition, Vol. VI Issue 5, January-February 2006","Article about the opening of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington. Written by Annie Groer.","The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, \"The Preservation of Mount Vernon: A Record of a half century of patriotic work by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union,\" by Abby Gunn Baker. Vol. LXXIX, No. 4, Midwinter Number.","The Commonwealth, \"The Story of Mt. Vernon\" by James Wharton, April 1953.","Article featuring Mount Vernon by Jane Ford Lopez, February 1991. p. 49-53.","Catalog of products from Edwards Virginia Smokehouse with brief summary of their support in the restoration of the smokehouse at Mount Vernon. Volume 214.","History in Motion: Gum Springs Historical Society. Volume 4, Number 1. Spring 1996. \"Thirteenth anniversary of the Mount Vernon Slave Memorial\" by Dr. Judith Saunders Burton. Also includes reprinting of Dorothy Gilliam's Washington Post columns \"Remembrance\" and \"Memorial\" dated February 6, 1982 and February 28, 1983.","Article, \"Shrine on the Potomac\" by Henry F. and Katharine Pringle. Photographs by Bradley Smith. Includes images of Mount Vernon employees cleaning and caring for the Mansion (Holland family).","Bicentennial issue of the magazine with articles on Mount Vernon and George Washington.","Includes article \"The Blameless Hero,\" by the American Macaulay, Illustrated with Rare Portraits and Prints. Washington anecdotes and imagery throughout. Vol. XVII. No. 8, Whole number 262.","The Iron Worker \"The Story of Mt. Vernon\" by James Wharton, Spring 1954 Vol. XVIII, No. 2. p. 1-13","The Ladies' Home Journal with article \"In Washington's Garden: from recent photographs taken at Mount Vernon for the Journal by Leet Brothers, through the courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union.\"","Life Magazine Fall 1987, Volume 10 Number 10. Multiple articles on the Bicentennial.","Article by Worth E. Shoults. p. 602-628 with color illustrations.","The Saturday Evening Post article \"How the Girls Save Mount Vernon\" by Gerald Johnson. With color images, multiple pages.","Virginia Cavalcade, volume 48 Autumn 1999 number 4. Multiple articles concerning George Washington and Mount Vernon including \"The satisfaction I feel in having my papers so properly arranged\" by Dorothy Twohig; \"Every thing trim, handsome, and thriving\" by Dennis Pogue; \"Written in my own hand\" by John Riley; \"And procure for themselves a few amenities\" by Mary V. Thompson; \"George Washington in Virginia Cavalcade: A Bibliography\"","The Quarterly Journal of the White House Historical Association, Number 49, Spring 2018. Article on social secretaries includes information on Letitia Baldridge and the State Dinner at Mount Vernon.","Summary inserted in the front cover reads \"Mrs. Ira A. Richardson's compilation of early pamphlets bound for reference during Council.\" Contents - Authenticated copy of the last will and testament of George Washington (1868), Some of the secret troubles of Washington when Commander-in-Chief by Pitkin, Christianity the key to the character of Washington by Slaughter (1886), The Maternal ancestry and nearest kin of Washington (1885), George Washington as an inventor and promoter of the useful arts (1891), and Washington's Rules for Civility and decent behavior ed. by J.M. Toner (1888).","Title \"Mount Vernon, Arlington, and Woodlawn: History of these national shrines from the earliest titles of ownership to the present, with biographical sketches, portraits, and interesting reminiscences of the families, who founded them.\" Illustrated, Ben Franklin Press, Inc. Washington, D.C. First printing September 1922, Second printing, May 1923. Accession number 2019-A-018.","Booklet, \"Mt. 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