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Box 6

 Container

Contains 26 Results:

Materials Relating to Cornell in 1969, 1969

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Includes a private letter to his brothers and sisters describing his perspective on the situation, correspondence, clippings, Newsweek magazine, speeches, Henderson Commission information

Dates: 1969

Oral history, 1969

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Transcript of an oral history interview conducted by Gould P. Colman as part of the Challenge to Governance Project. With index and correspondence regarding the oral history and its restrictions. See also archives 13-6-1285 for the audio tapes.

Dates: 1969

Cornell 1969 legacy materials, 1990s

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Includes information and correspondence regarding the death of Perkins, Perkins prize, Ari Van Tienhoven Tom Jones, DVD-1764 of "Cornell 1969: Key Issues Then and Now. A University Faculty Forum, 3 May 1999, Kennedy Hall;" "The 30th Anniversary of WSH Takeover" panel discussion, Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall, 19 April 1999, the DVD also includes relevant news clippings. Also a copy of a 1978 letter sent to Perkins from the President of Oberlin College Robert Fuller about increasing...
Dates: 1990s

Morris Bishop Correspondence, 1962, 1972

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence from daughter Anne Miller, Herbert Cahoon of the Pierpont Morgan library and Morris Bishop regarding Anne's interest in witchcraft and desire to become a witch. Also correspondence regarding an amusing anecdote at Alice Cook's retirement involving David Burak and a joke about the Cornell mace.

Dates: 1962; 1972

50th Anniversary Correspondence, 1991

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding Robert and Beulah's anniversary. Correspondence include Keith Kennedy, Dale Corson, and war buddy Captain Walter Huckbee.

Dates: 1991

Dean of Faculty, 1967, 1969, 1987

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and clipping regarding his election to the position of Dean of Faculty from Royse Murphy and Rolph Fairchild. Also a thank you note to a Mrs. Burton (a figure from his childhood) from Miller describing his work. Also a note of congratulations on retirement from Marlin Cline.

Dates: 1967; 1969; 1987

Presidential Correspondence, Various

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Includes letters and photographs from Perkins, Corson, Rhodes. Also a program from the Cornell Centennial Dinner. A photograph of Perkins shaking hands with Tom Jones inscribed "Without Bob Miller's cool head there would be no handshake."

Dates: Various

Family Correspondence, Various

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Letters from Miller's father Dean Merritt Miller and one to his wife.

Dates: Various

Correspondence to wife Beulah "Buty" from Russia, 1973

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Letters and ephemera sent to his wife while he was in Russia

Dates: 1973

Scientific Correspondence, Various

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Letters from colleagues and grad students. Includes letter to Dale Corson on soil physics. Also a floppy disk (FD-340) of soil correspondence

Dates: Various