Bowling Green State University, Office of the President (Ralph W. McDonald) records
Collection
Identifier: UA-0002D
Collection Organization
The collection consists of subject files on various topics, correspondence, memorandums, and official statements. The records date from 1939-1961 with the bulk being from the 1950s-1961.
Collection size: 4 legal sized archivemanuscript boxes (2 cubic feet)
Administrative Organization, [1951]
File – Box 1, Folder: 1
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- Creation: [1951]
Alice Prout Scholarship, 1953-1957
File – Box 1, Folder: 2
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- Creation: 1953-1957
Alma mater contest, undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 3
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- Creation: undated
Alumni Association - amendments to constitution, 1959
File – Box 1, Folder: 4
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- Creation: 1959
American Association of University Professors (AAUP), correspondence, 1957-1962
File – Box 1, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1957-1962
AAUW Accreditation, 1947-1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 6
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- Creation: 1947-1961
Association of American Medical Colleges, correspondence, reports, 1960-1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 7
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- Creation: 1960-1961
Bowling Green City Board of Education - student teaching contracts, 1957-1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 8
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- Creation: 1957-1961
Branch campuses, 1953, 1958
File – Box 1, Folder: 9
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- Creation: 1953, 1958
California Poly Tech, 1960-1962
File – Box 1, Folder: 10
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- Creation: 1960-1962
Chemistry request for overtime work approval, 1960
File – Box 1, Folder: 11
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- Creation: 1960
Circle K Club, 1956
File – Box 1, Folder: 12
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- Creation: 1956
Civil Rights, 1960
File – Box 1, Folder: 13
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- Creation: 1960
Councils and committees - annual reports, 1955-1956
File – Box 1, Folder: 14
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- Creation: 1955-1956
Discrimination at BGSU and other institutions, 1939-1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 15
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- Creation: 1939-1961
Dedication - Hall of Music, 1956-1957
File – Box 1, Folder: 16
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- Creation: 1956-1957
Dedication - Memorial Hall, 1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 17
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- Creation: 1961
Dedication - Rodgers Quadrangle/Alice Prout Hall, 1955
File – Box 1, Folder: 18
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- Creation: 1955
The Falcon - class gift, 1959
File – Box 1, Folder: 19
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- Creation: 1959
English doctoral program, 1958-1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 20
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- Creation: 1958-1961
Fiftieth (Golden) Anniversary - paper by R. Freeman Butts for education symposium, 1960
File – Box 1, Folder: 21
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- Creation: 1960
Fiftieth Anniversary - medallion - correspondence, 1959
File – Box 1, Folder: 22
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- Creation: 1959
Financing Higher Education: Successful Capital Expansion Programs in Publicly Controlled Universities, 1956
File – Box 1, Folder: 23
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- Creation: 1956
Fostoria branch - establishment, 1958-1959
File – Box 1, Folder: 24
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- Creation: 1958-1959
Fremont branch - establishment, 1957
File – Box 1, Folder: 25
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- Creation: 1957
General Motors scholarship, 1958-1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 26
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- Creation: 1958-1961
Golden anniversary celebration, 1957-1959
File – Box 1, Folder: 27
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- Creation: 1957-1959
Health, Education and Welfare Department (HEW) questionnaires, 1958-1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 28
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- Creation: 1958-1961
Honors banquet, 1959-1960
File – Box 1, Folder: 29
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- Creation: 1959-1960
Housing statistics, 1954-1958
File – Box 1, Folder: 30
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- Creation: 1954-1958
Humanist Society, 1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 31
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- Creation: 1961
Inauguration program, 1952
File – Box 1, Folder: 32
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- Creation: 1952
International program, 1960-1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 33
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- Creation: 1960-1961
IUC Committee on the Superior Student, 1959
File – Box 1, Folder: 34
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- Creation: 1959
IUC Ad Hoc Committee on Admissions Policies report, 1957
File – Box 1, Folder: 35
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- Creation: 1957
IUC Ad Hoc Committee to Consider Promotion, Leaves for Faculty reports, 1959
File – Box 1, Folder: 36
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- Creation: 1959
IUC branch campuses budgets, 1959-1960
File – Box 1, Folder: 37
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- Creation: 1959-1960
IUC constitution, 1952-1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 38
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- Creation: 1952-1961
IUC construction, 1956
File – Box 1, Folder: 39
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- Creation: 1956
IUC correspondence, 1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 40
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- Creation: 1961
IUC dollar expenditures, charts, 1959-1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 41
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- Creation: 1959-1961
IUC educational and general expenditures, charts, 1960-1961
File – Box 1, Folder: 42
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- Creation: 1960-1961
IUC faculty salary data, 1952-1953
File – Box 2, Folder: 1
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- Creation: 1952-1953
IUC faculty salary data, 1954-1955
File – Box 2, Folder: 2
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- Creation: 1954-1955
IUC faculty salary data, 1956-1957
File – Box 2, Folder: 3
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- Creation: 1956-1957
IUC faculty salary data, 1958-1959
File – Box 2, Folder: 4
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- Creation: 1958-1959
IUC faculty salary data, 1960-1961
File – Box 2, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1960-1961
IUC fiscal authority of state universities in Ohio, 1961
File – Box 2, Folder: 6
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- Creation: 1961
IUC - fiscal officers meetings, 1960
File – Box 2, Folder: 7
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- Creation: 1960
IUC - "For a Better Tomorrow" - informational brochure, 1953
File – Box 2, Folder: 8
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- Creation: 1953
IUC - graduate study, a proposal, 1952
File – Box 2, Folder: 9
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- Creation: 1952
IUC - student fees, 1959
File – Box 2, Folder: 10
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- Creation: 1959
Journalism activities committee, 1961
File – Box 2, Folder: 11
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- Creation: 1961
Land acquisition, 1956, 1960
File – Box 2, Folder: 12
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- Creation: 1956, 1960
Lausche, Frank - correspondence on number of BGSU employees, 1954
File – Box 2, Folder: 13
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- Creation: 1954
Memorandums/official statements , 1951-1952
File – Box 2, Folder: 14
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- Creation: 1951-1952
Memorandums/official statements, 1953
File – Box 2, Folder: 15
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- Creation: 1953
Memorandums/official statements, 1954
File – Box 3, Folder: 1
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- Creation: 1954
Memorandums/official statements, 1955
File – Box 3, Folder: 2
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- Creation: 1955
Memorandums/official statements, 1956
File – Box 3, Folder: 3
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- Creation: 1956
Memorandums/official statements, 1957
File – Box 3, Folder: 4
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- Creation: 1957
Memorandums/official statements, 1958
File – Box 3, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1958
Memorandums/official statements, 1959
File – Box 3, Folder: 6
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- Creation: 1959
Memorandums/official statements, 1960-1961
File – Box 3, Folder: 7
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- Creation: 1960-1961
Mid-American Conference - code/regulations (revisions), 1953, 1955
File – Box 3, Folder: 8
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- Creation: 1953, 1955
Mid-American Conference -code/regulations (revisions), 1956, 1961
File – Box 3, Folder: 9
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- Creation: 1956, 1961
Mid-American Conference - meetings/reports, 1952-1957
File – Box 3, Folder: 10
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- Creation: 1952-1957
Mid-American Conference - meetings/reports, 1958-1961
File – Box 3, Folder: 11
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- Creation: 1958-1961
MidWest Program on Airborne Television Instruction, 1960-1961
File – Box 3, Folder: 12
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- Creation: 1960-1961
National Defense Student Loan Program, 1960-1961
File – Box 3, Folder: 13
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- Creation: 1960-1961
National Education Association - questionnaire, 1953-1960
File – Box 3, Folder: 14
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- Creation: 1953-1960
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools - correspondence/reports, 1951-1960
File – Box 3, Folder: 15
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- Creation: 1951-1960
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools - correspondence/reports, 1961
File – Box 3, Folder: 16
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- Creation: 1961
Prout, Frank J., 1951-1961
File – Box 4, Folder: 1
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- Creation: 1951-1961
Religious Activities Committee, 1954, 1956
File – Box 4, Folder: 2
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- Creation: 1954, 1956
Resignation, 1961
File – Box 4, Folder: 3
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- Creation: 1961
ROTC, 1953, 1957, 1961
File – Box 4, Folder: 4
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- Creation: 1953, 1957, 1961
ROTC, Air Force, 1956-1958
File – Box 4, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1956-1958
Sidney Frohman Scholarship, 1954, 1956-1960
File – Box 4, Folder: 6
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- Creation: 1954, 1956-1960
Social Policy Committee - minutes/correspondence, 1958-1961
File – Box 4, Folder: 7
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- Creation: 1958-1961
State Attorney General opinions, 1951-1960
File – Box 4, Folder: 8
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- Creation: 1951-1960
State Department of Education, 1952-1958
File – Box 4, Folder: 9
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- Creation: 1952-1958
State Department of Education - annual report of BGSU, 1951-1960
File – Box 4, Folder: 10
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- Creation: 1951-1960
State Universities - financial support - statistics, 1954-1960
File – Box 4, Folder: 11
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- Creation: 1954-1960
Sterling farm aquisition, 1956, 1958
File – Box 4, Folder: 12
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- Creation: 1956, 1958
Student Court - files/minutes, 1954-1961
File – Box 4, Folder: 13
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- Creation: 1954-1961
Summer swimming program, 1960
File – Box 4, Folder: 14
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- Creation: 1960
Teaching loads - memos/reports, 1952-1955
File – Box 4, Folder: 15
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- Creation: 1952-1955
Ticket sales, 1961
File – Box 4, Folder: 16
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- Creation: 1961
Toledo University - BGSU melee report, 1951
File – Box 4, Folder: 17
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- Creation: 1951
Union Activities Organization - memos/proposals, 1959-1961
File – Box 4, Folder: 18
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- Creation: 1959-1961
University Union, 1954, 1958
File – Box 4, Folder: 19
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- Creation: 1954, 1958
"Speak Now! We Are Sure You Can" (in College and University Busines, bu Ralph McDonald, p. 17, 1958
File – Box 4, Folder: 20
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- Creation: 1958
State tax dollars per full time equivalent student approximated by forty two states for educational and general operations expenses of eighty state universities for 1959/60, 1959-1960
File – Box 4, Folder: 21
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- Creation: 1959-1960
Step One Committee in the planning of expanded educational facilities report, 1955
File – Box 4, Folder: 22
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- Creation: 1955
Veterans Administration, 1951-1959
File – Box 4, Folder: 23
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- Creation: 1951-1959
Art facilities, 1959
File – Box 5, Folder: 1
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- Creation: 1959
BGSU founders biographies, 1955
File – Box 5, Folder: 2
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- Creation: 1955
Classroom building, 1956
File – Box 5, Folder: 3
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- Creation: 1956
Commencement, 1953
File – Box 5, Folder: 4
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- Creation: 1953
Faculty senate, 1961
File – Box 5, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1961
IUC building program, 1955
File – Box 5, Folder: 6
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- Creation: 1955
Memorial Hall preliminary planning committee, 1956-1957
File – Box 5, Folder: 7
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- Creation: 1956-1957
Overman Hall, 1956
File – Box 5, Folder: 8
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- Creation: 1956