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Alfred Sherwood Romer (AC 1917) Papers
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Contents List
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1913-1919
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The scrapbook contains memorabilia from ASR's four years at Amherst, including photos, tickets, formal affair and sporting event programs, dance cards, short letters, playbills, the announcement of his selection as editor of The Student, his Army registration, train tickets within France, a French traffic violation, a mimeographed note about a new "German GAS," as well as his promotion to Second Lieutenant toward the end of WWI. Included with the scrapbook is a data disk created by Robert H. Romer (AC 1952) containing a guide to the DVD's contents, "Readme-ASR," dated 5/17/09, a short essay by RHR entitled "ASR and WWI," a digital photo of the certificate awarded to ASR upon completion of his service in the A.F.S., as well as digital photos of some of the contents of the scrapbook taken by RHR in August 2007.
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Scrapbook
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1913-1919
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Box 1: folder 1
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SERIES 2: AMHERST-RELATED CORRESPONDENCE, MANUSCRIPTS AND PUBLICATIONS,
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1942-1977
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Subseries A: Class of 1917 Reunion Materials
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Includes correspondence and other planning documents related to the class's 25th, 50th, 60th reunions. Folder 1, 25th Reunion, as well as several pins.
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Class of 1917 25th Reunion materials
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1942-1977
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Box 2: folder 1
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Class of 1917 50th Reunion materials
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1966-1967
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Box 2: folder 2
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Class of 1917 60th Reunion materials
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1976-1977
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Box 2: folder 3
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Various reunion pins (3 large, 3 medium, 6 small, one mule/double horseshoe pin)
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Box 2: folder 4
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Subseries B: Phi Alpha Psi Correspondence and Publications,
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1948-1967
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Includes correspondence recording a crucial period in ASR's Chairmanship of Phi Alpha Psi. In 1948, Phi Kappa Psi elected to pledge Tom Gibbs (AC 1951), an African American, as a member. This includes letters to ASR from the present fraternity members as well as from the National Chapter "detailing" their objections to pledging Tom Gibbs. The National Chapter expelled the Amherst chapter and they became "Phi Alpha Psi." Also included are two copies of an offprint of ASR's essay published in the June 1949 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. These were distributed by the National Committee on
Fraternities in 1954 with their own postscript added.
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Phi Alpha Psi Correspondence
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1948-1967
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Box 2: folder 5
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Subseries C: Admissions and Scholarships Subcommittee of the Alumni Committee on Postwar Amherst
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Correspondence about meetings as well as drafts of the "Admissions and Scholarships Subcommittee" report. Includes a final draft of the document and correspondence showing a foul-up in the delivery of documents from ASR to the Trustees when the report was delivered to them. Throughout, ASR is a strong advocate of greater public school
presence at Amherst.
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Mss. and Correspondence regarding the 1944 "Admissions and Scholarships Subcommittee of the Alumni Committee on Postwar Amherst"
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1944
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Box 2: folder 6
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Subseries D: Correspondence with 1917 Alumni, 1945-1973
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The later correspondence includes 1967 letters to President Calvin Plimpton (AC 1939) about his treatment of faculty members, particularly around issues of retirement. It also includes ASR's letter of support sent to President John Ward after Ward's 1972 arrest during a protest of the Vietnam War. ASR's son, Robert, had been arrested with Ward at the Westover site in Chicopee.
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Correspondence with 1917 Alumni
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1945-1973
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Box 2: folder 7
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Correspondence with 1917 Alumni (continued)
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1945-1973
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Box 2: folder 8
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Correspondence with Lloyd "Monty" Clark (AC 1917)
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1961-1968
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Box 2: folder 9
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Subseries E: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Publications
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Miscellaneous Correspondence and Publications
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1945-1972
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Box 2: folder 10
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