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Correspondence (1945-1989, n.d.) consists of letters by and to Schuck reflecting her activities as a political scientist and Mount Holyoke College faculty member. Correspondents include Mount Holyoke students, alumnae, faculty and administrators, other colleagues, and politicians in the United States and other countries. Letters from alumnae such as Marilyn Ursu Bauridel (July 1, 1964 and April 1, 1969), Jane E. Cummins (October 31, 1970), and Astrid Merget (August 17, 1969) provide detailed descriptions of the activities of these women. Other alumnae correspondence concerns the many speeches that Schuck presented at meetings of Mount Holyoke alumnae clubs. There are also letters by Mount French professor Ruth Dean, who describes her experiences while at Oxford University between January-May 1968. Schuck's correspondence with other colleagues chiefly concerns her work at Mount Holyoke and her other professional activities. These documents discuss arrangements for courses, the work of students, visiting lecturers, her membership in organizations, and her 1966 candidacy for an appointment to the Board of Trustees of the University of Massachusetts. Letters from 1966-1967 also concern her sabbatical in Southeast Asia. Politicians represented by letters in this collection include Edward P. Boland and Ella Grasso. There is also a letter that Schuck wrote to Indira Gandhi (January 27, 1966) after receiving a Christmas card from her and a letter to Schuck from Massachusetts Attorney General Elliott L. Richardson (May 28, 1968), congratulating her for receiving the "Woman of the Year" award from the Massachusetts Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Schuck's correspondence after her retirement from Mount Holyoke in 1974 includes a draft of a comment that she wrote in April of 1989 to accompany a Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly article about Member of Congress Nita Melnikoff Lowey (Class of 1959).

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Writings (1941-1982) contain books, articles, reports, pamphlets, speeches, letters to the editor, and book reviews as well as unpublished notes, drafts, and typescripts. Most publications reflect Schuck's work for various organizations and commissions. These works chiefly concern Massachusetts state and local government, party politics, regional planning, racial discrimination, women in politics, and the teaching of politics at the college level. Two reports from 1944 about the administration of a "Large War Agency" reflect her work as Principal Program Analyst for the Office of Price Administration. Another article concerns "The Negro and the O.P.A." (1947). Some writings relate to South Hadley, Massachusetts, including a Comprehensive Planning Program prepared by Schuck and other members of the town's Planning Board (1964). The Report on Registration and Voting Participation from 1963 was prepared by Shuck and other members of a commission created President John F. Kennedy to study that issue. A Report on Racial Imbalance in the Boston Public Schools and Report of Massachusetts Housing Discriminations in the Springfield-Holyoke-Chicopee Metropolitan Area (1966) reflected her membership on the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Articles from 1966-1967 are based on her research about the constitution of South Vietnam. Drafts, notes, questionnaires, surveys, and correspondence from 1968-1971 concern a study conducted by Shuck and other members of the American Political Science Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Political Science Profession. Similar materials from 1969-1971 reflect Schuck's interest in the reorganization of executive branch of United States government at the state and federal level. There is analysis of "Political Science and Instruction in Political Science at Mount Holyoke College" that Schuck prepared for the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, D.C. Other writings include her article about "Sexism and Scholarship" (1974), three newspaper articles that she wrote as a delegate to the International Women's Year conference in 1975, and two collections of essays about politics that she co-edited in 1979 and 1981.

Arranged by course name and number.

Unrestricted except for evaluations of students. These records may be used by researchers who sign the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Restricted Records Statistical and Quantitative Research Contract.

Course Records (1930-1976) document Schuck's work as a professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College. These records primarily consists of syllabi; reading lists; lecture notes; course diaries, reports and papers written by students; examinations; announcements; class lists; and publications, campaign literature, transparencies, maps and charts used in several courses. Records for Political Science 244, Urban Politics and Planning, also contain the results of students' interviews with Springfield, Massachusetts business leaders and as well as a "Community Land Use" board game used in the course. Most of the remaining materials are for courses in American national, state, and local government; parties and politics; public policy; presidential leadership; and political behavior, philosophy, and problems. In addition, there are records for Winter Term classes and projects that Schuck taught or supervised in 1973, 1974, and 1976.

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Unrestricted except for surveys providing the names and descriptions of respondents and for student papers that are graded or otherwise evaluated. These records may be used by researchers who sign the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Restricted Records Statistical and Quantitative Research Contract.

The Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center was established at Mount Holyoke College in 1954 with grant funding from the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation. The Center (which became the Political Studies Center in 1965 then closed after Schuck's retirement in 1974) provided Mount Holyoke and Amherst College students with literature and source materials for the study of parties and politics and for making political surveys in local communities. The Center also supported an internship program for students who wanted to work in branches of the federal government in Washington, D.C. and a volunteer program for students interested in working in international organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Records (1952-1970) document efforts to gain support for the Center's creation and the subsequent activities of faculty and students associated with it. Most of these materials consist of student papers, questionnaires, and surveys analyzing the results of local, state, and national elections in local communities, particularly Holyoke, South Hadley, and Springfield, Massachusetts, 1954-1967. There are surveys of Mount Holyoke students who voted in the 1960 presidential election, questionnaires recording responses of Mount Holyoke students to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, and a study of "Negro Leadership" in Springfield in 1963-1964. Other records consist of Schuck's annual reports for the Center, correspondence with representatives of the Falk Foundation, syllabi, schedules, and brochures and articles about the Center's activities.

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Unrestricted except for evaluations of and recommendations for students who served as interns. These records may be used by researchers who sign the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Restricted Records Statistical and Quantitative Research Contract.

These records concern students who participated in summer internships available through the Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center or the Washington Internship Program. Correspondence in these materials consists of letters by and to Shuck concerning arrangements for internships and the activities of interns. Some letters are from staff members at Connecticut College, Wheaton College, and other schools who participated in the Washington Internship Program. There are many reports by student interns providing detailed descriptions of their work as assistants to members of congress, senators, and the administrators of federal agencies. Other materials consist of applications from potential interns, lists, schedules, and financial records. The records also include a summary of the "Most Memorable Experiences of Mount Holyoke Interns", possibly compiled in 1986 for the celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Washington Internship Program.

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Subject Files document Schuck's research interests, her service on a variety of boards, committees, and commissions, and her active membership in several professional organizations. Research materials include correspondence, memoranda, bibliographies, publications, and memorabilia concerning the Republican National Convention of 1964. Reports and other publications concern the creation and early years of the United Nations (1945-1957). Schuck's interest in women in politics is reflected by numerous publications relating to that subject, including a study of the Role of Women in the 1964 Republican National Convention and Women in the Public Service: A Series of Surveys on Women in Public Office issued in 1955, 1959, and 1963. Correspondence, reports, bibliographies, notes and lists concern her grant-supported research trips in Southeast Asia in 1966 and 1971. One subject file for Vietnam includes photographs sent to Schuck by Newsweek magazine relating to elections in South Vietnam in 1967.

Materials reflecting Schuck's public and professional service consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, by-laws, lists of members, notes, bibliographies, statistics, questionnaires, financial records, and publications. These documents primarily concern her work as a member of the Berkshire Community College New Campus Committee (1964-1973), the Massachusetts Commission on Interstate Cooperation (1957-1962), the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation (1963-1965), and the Massachusetts Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1961-1974). Her long association with the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts is documented by minutes and, reports, correspondence, memoranda, notes, lists, and financial record from her service on the University's Board of Trustees (1958-1971) and Building Authority (1960-1968). Other materials concern her work on commissions revising the constitutions of New York State and several other states.

Materials documenting Schuck's membership in professional organizations consist of minutes and agenda, correspondences, lists of officers and members, programs, newsletters, announcements, proposals, resolutions, questionnaires, notes, financial records. Most of these files relate to the American Association of University Women (1968-1974), the American Political Science Association (1950-1971), and the New England Political Science Association (1967-1973).

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Unrestricted except for records for records containing information about the grades of individual students. These records may be used by researchers who sign the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Restricted Records Statistical and Quantitative Research Contract.

Consist of minutes of Department meetings, correspondence, reports, memoranda, course descriptions, schedules, general examinations, financial records, publications, and lists. These documents reflect the overall activities of Department members. Some correspondence, financial records, and equipment manuals relate to the Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center. There are also copies of Schuck's reports concerning the Urban Studies Interdisciplinary Major Program for 1972/1973 and 1973/1974.

Arranged by name of committee, then chronologically.

Unrestricted except for Honors Work Committee material containing information about the grades of individual students. These records may be used by researchers who sign the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Restricted Records Statistical and Quantitative Research Contract.

Consist of correspondence, reports, schedules, financial records, lists, and other material reflecting Schuck's service on the Mount Holyoke College Lecture Committee, Honors Committee, and Special Events Committee. The Lecture Committee material (1948-1950, 1959) consists of lists and correspondence about lectures given at Mount Holyoke by a wide range of speakers. These documents include twenty-one letters exchanged by Schuck and Bertrand Russell, who gave a series of lectures at the College in the fall of 1950. There are also letters to Schuck from W.H. Auden, Hugo Black, Ralph Bunche, Bernard DeVoto, Thomas Dewey, William O. Douglas, John Foster Dulles, T.S. Eliot, Felix Frankfurter, Herbert Hoover, Harold Ickes, Thomas Mann, Robert Oppenheimer, Frances Perkins, Drew Pearson, Sumner Welles, Rebecca West, and Thornton Wilder discussing invitations to speak at Mount Holyoke in 1948-1950. Other Lecture Committee materials concern a conference on city planning held at the College in 1959. Honors Committee materials (1960-1962) consist of lists of students as well as reports, correspondence, and notes. The Special Events Committee planned events held during Mount Holyoke's one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary celebration in 1962. These materials date from 1961-1963 and consist of programs, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and lists. The letters are by and to participants in programs about "Art and Artists in Today's Society", "Words and Music", "The New in Science at Mid-Century", and "Women in Politics Around the World". Records for the Special Events Committee include correspondence with Edward Albee, W.H. Auden, Aaron Copeland, E.E. Cummings, Indira Gandhi, Ella Grasso, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Margaret Chase Smith.

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Contains correspondence, memoranda, press releases, programs, schedules, biographical information about participants, and lists relating to a symposium organized by Schuck and held at Mount Holyoke College on April 26-27, 1974. The program featured women elected to national, state and local offices who spoke about their experiences in politics. Speakers included Bella Abzug, Margaret M. Heckler, Madeleine Kunin, and Linda J. Melconian.

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Consists of programs, invitations, certificates, announcements, letters, publications, political cartoons, lists, cards, and a scrapbook. Some of these materials concern Schuck's attendance at the inaugural ceremonies for various politicians, including United States Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953) and Lyndon Baines Johnson (1965), as well as her own inauguration at President of Mount Vernon College in 1978. Announcements are for Senator John F. Kennedy's lecture on "American Foreign Policy Problems for 1956" at Mount Holyoke College (November 2, 1955) and for Schuck's campaign for election to the South Hadley, Massachusetts, Planning Board in 1961. Certificates include her appointments to the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission (1962) and the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation (1963). The menu is for a lunch at the White House on April 28, 1965. Materials from Schuck's tour of the Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in 1966 consist of letters, publications, and the certificate granting her an honorary "Doctor of Aerospaceology" degree. The scrapbook compiled on the occasion of Schuck's retirement from Mount Holyoke College in May of 1974 contains letters and tributes by colleagues and alumnae and a resolution from the Board of Trustees commending her thirty-four years of service. The five political cartoons (1957-1958) dealing with Cold War topics are original drawings by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Dispatch. Each cartoon panel measures 13.5 x 18 inches and is inscribed "To Mount Holyoke College".

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Consists of biographical forms completed by Schuck as well as copies of newspaper and journal articles, press releases, announcements, programs and newsletters in which she is mentioned. These materials primarily document her professional activities from 1940 until her retirement in 1980. They describe her appointments to committees, commissions, and boards; her work for professional organizations; her attendance at conferences; lectures and other talks by her; research and publications; her frequent trips to Washington, D.C. with students in her classes; her students' surveys of the results of elections; Political Science Department and Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center events; and the work of Mount Holyoke students in the Washington Internship Program. Included are copies of tributes to her and her work from members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in issues of the Congressional Record for November 9, 1978, June 18, 1980, and April 16, 1986. These materials also contain an article about the house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for her which was never built (circa 1986), and an obituary of Schuck (1999).

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Contains two copies of a tape of a panel discussion of "Abigail Adams and Her Times", presented as Panel XX at the Women and the Constitution: a Bicentennial History conference in Atlanta, Georgia, in February, 1988. Members of the panel, convened by Diane Fowlkes, were Schuck, Edith B. Gelles, and Mary Beth Norton. The conference was presented by the Carter Center at Emory University in conjunction with Georgia State University and the Jimmy Carter Library.

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Primarily consist of formal and informal photographs of Shuck and photographs of her with others. Included are photographs (1948-1966) of Schuck, students, and visiting politicians in her Political Science 241 (Parties and Politics) and 346 (Public Policy) and at Amherst-Mount Holyoke Political Studies Center classes and events. There are photographs of Mount Holyoke students serving as Washington Interns (circa 1957-circa 1971) and of Shuck and interns meeting with Lady Bird Johnson the White House in 1965 and 1968. Other photographs show Shuck and others with Robert Frost, Barry Goldwater, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Edward M. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Elliot Richardson (1955-1976). The photograph of Frost dates from October, 1962 when he gave a lecture at Mount Holyoke, while the photographs of political figures date from their appearances at the College or from students' trips to Washington, D.C. as Washington Interns or members of Schuck's classes. Photographs from 1952 and 1957 show Mount Holyoke students and others with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Autographed photographs sent to Schuck by Representative Silvio O. Conte, and other politicians are part of this series, as are two groups of photographs that were probably taken at the celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Washington Internships Program in 1986. There are also three photographs dating from 1982 of Frank Lloyd Wright's 1955 drawings for a house that he designed for Schuck in South Hadley, Mass. which was never built.

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Contains oversize items described as part of other series in the collection. The container list descriptions of these items include an indication that they are shelved in Folio. Among the materials shelved in this series are original political cartoons by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick (1957-1958) and a scrapbook compiled for Schuck's retirement from Mount Holyoke College in 1974.