Kara Bakken
Grinnell College Sesquicentennial Oral History Project: “What We Remember: An Oral History of Grinnell College 1925-1992"

Background Note:
 
This oral history collection is a celebration of nearly 70 years of Grinnell College history as told through the words of people who have studied, worked, and played at this institution.
 
Drawn from interviews with more than 50 alumni, these remembrances tell not only about the specifics of college life, but also about the collective identity of the Grinnell community.  These interviews offer insight into the successes and struggles of individuals and into the traditions and values that define Grinnell, whether they occurred in 1925, 1945, 1972, or 1992.
 
[This note is quoted from the brochure created for the exhibition (photographs and excerpts of the interviews) that was displayed in the Burling Gallery, June 1-September 23, 1995.]

Quantity: 3 archival boxes (17 linear inches)

Provenance: Materials were donated to the Archives by Kara Bakken, the Grinnell College Development Office, and Kay Jenkins (from the exhibition), Summer, 1996.
 
Suggested citation: Kara Bakken papers, Grinnell College Libraries, Department of Special Collections Ms.01.36.
 
Related Materials:
 
David Jordan’s Alumni History Project (RG-S. Ser. 2.1)
Other materials in the Archives on the Sesquicentennial (subject heading in
card catalog: Sesquicentennial Celebration 1996) 
 
Box Listing:

Box 1:
Deeds of Gift
[See restrictions from C. Alter, Bucksbaum, McClaurin, Sauder.]
Planning materials, correspondence, miscellanea
Photographs of interviewees
Transcripts of interviews:
Alter, Catherine Foster (‘60) and Thomas Alter (‘60)
Andelson, Jon (‘70)
Black, Dorothy Booz (‘44)
Bowers, Julie (‘80)
Bucksbaum, Carolyn Swartz (‘51)
Cubbage, Charlotte Strader (‘75)
Cubbage, Marion (‘48) and Jerome K. Cubbage (‘49)
Drake, Sue (‘58) and George Drake (‘56)
Dunham, Marian (‘42)
 
Box 2:
Transcripts of interviews (cont.):
Eggers, Lauretta Parker (‘51) and Delos Eggers (‘50)
Ewart, Ruth Empting (‘39)
Ferguson, William D. (‘75)
Gale, Grant O.
Garrett, James A. (‘73)
Greener, Jay H. (‘67)
Hebbeln, Jack (‘47)
Helpenstell, Fred (‘52) and Dean Martin (‘55)
Hiser, Velma (‘26)
Jones, Alan (‘50) and Jean Jones (‘51)
Kaufman, Ruth Hackett (‘44)
Koester, Marcia (‘77)
Koth, Kent (‘90) and Christine Thorburn (‘92)
Kraus, Lyle (‘44)
Leggett, Glen
McClanahan, Kevin (‘86)
McClaurin, Irma (‘73)
McCoy, Mary Ann Hursh (‘46)
McKee, Rita Rawson (‘90)
Mannheimer, Robert (‘39)
May, Ann Bacon (‘64)
Meacham, Lois Cliffton (‘43)
Montgomery, Ruth (‘77)
Munley, Mickey (‘87)Newman, Andrea (‘89)
Noun, Louise (‘29)
Parish, Elizabeth (‘31) and John Parish (‘27)
Ramsey, Anna K. (‘30)
Rosenfield, Joseph (‘25)
Russell, Douglas (‘71)
Sauder, Jane Wallace (‘44)
Schlanger, Litza Koppelman (‘44)
Slugg, Roger H. (‘40)
Snook, Donald (‘49)
Thiele, Ellen Warren (‘47)
Thompson, John (‘48)
Wall, Beatrice (‘40) and Joseph Wall (‘40)
Welgos, Barbara Wagner (‘44)
Wieman, Constance (‘44)
Wieman, Laura Matlack (‘35)
Wilhelm, Henry (‘68)
Zimmerman, Mary Jane (‘56)
[There are Deeds of Gift for, but no transcripts for:
Kennedy, Nelson, Plummer, Spears]
 
Box 3:
71 audiotapes of the interviews
19 - 3-1/2" computer disks
 
 
Items Discarded:
 
“A Selective Bibliography of Oral History” by Michael D. Gibson
Duplicates of typed transcripts
 
 

 
Processed by Leslie Czechowski, September 1996.