2016-10-24 Guide to the James L. Morrill Papers, 1904-1967 RG.3.F.2 Finding aid prepared by Karen Glenn

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 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2019-01-31T11:51-0500 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard James L. Morrill Papers RG.3.F.2 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 12.55 Cubic feet 1904-1967 The James L. Morrill Papers contain scrapbooks, photographs, publications, correspondence, letters of recommendation, minutes of meetings, and reports relating to alumni affairs, athletics, legislative matters, student aid, WOSU radio and other subjects. James Morrill served as Alumni Secretary, Junior Dean of the College of Education, and Vice President for Public Relations at Ohio State University from 1932 to 1941. (10) cartons, (1) oversize flat box English Morrill, J.L. (James Lewis), 1891-1979 Arrangement of Materials

The Processed series of this collection is arranged in 4 series:

Series 1: Biographical

Series 2: Correspondence

Series 3: Organizations

Series 4: O.S.U.

All other materials are arranged in the order received.

 Acquisitions Information

Accession Number UA.1973.0008: Dr. J Lew Morrill, date unknown; Accession Number UA.1995.0045: Source unknown, date unknown

 Preferred Citation

[identification of item], James L. Morrill Papers, RG 3.F.2, Ohio State University Archives, The Ohio State University

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Finding aid written by Karen Glenn, 2016 October

 Biographical Note

James Lewis Morrill (1891-1979) served as Alumni Secretary at Ohio State University from 1919 to 1928, Junior Dean of the College of Education from 1928 to 1932, and Vice President for Public Relations from 1932 to 1941. Morrill was the first Vice President of The Ohio State University.

 Scope and Contents

The James L. Morrill Papers contain scrapbooks, photographs, publications, correspondence, letters of recommendation, minutes of meetings, and reports relating to alumni affairs, athletics, legislative matters, student aid, WOSU radio and other subjects.

 Related Materials Office of the President James L. Morrill Morrill, J.L. (James Lewis), 1891-1979 Ohio State University--Administration. Ohio State University--History. Ohio State University--Public relations. College administrators--Ohio--Columbus--20th century College publicity--Ohio--Columbus--20th century Public relations--Ohio--Columbus--20th century Processed 12.0 Cubic feet 1928-1942 (10) cartons Biographical Series 1 1934-1937 Genealogical Study UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 1 1937 High School Class 25th Reunion UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 2 1934 Correspondence Series 2 1931-1941 "A" UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 3 1931-1941 "B" UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 4 1932-1941 Bowling Green State University UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 5 1932-1941 "C" UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 6 1932-1941 Champney, Horace: Dissertation Misunderstanding UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 7 1939 Coffin, Foster M. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 8 1932-1935 "D", "E", "F" UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 9 1931-1941, 1932-1941, 1932-1941 Dumont, William P. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 10 1931-1941 Dykstra, Clarence A. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 11 1934-1941 "G", "H", "I" UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 12 1932-1941, 1930-1940, 1935-1941 Hamilton College UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 13 1937-1938 Heekin, Robert E. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 14 1931-1937 Invitations UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 15 1931-1938 "J", "K", "L" UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 16 1932-1941, 1932-1941, 1931-1940 Kent State University UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 17 1932-1941 Kiplinger, William M. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 18 1932-1938 Laybourne, Lawrence E. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 19 1934-1939 Lincoln, James F., Re: Shepherd, Ronald J. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 20 1932-1941 "M" UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 21 1932-1941 Mason, Frank E. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 22 1932-1941 Mason, Robert T. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 23 1932-1938 McKee, John D. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 24 1932-1941 Miami University UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 25 1932-1941 "N", "O", "P", "Q" UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 26 1932-1941, 1932-1937, 1932-1941, 1940 Ohio University UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 27 1932-1941 Peters, Ralph L. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 28 1932-1938 Pollard, John A. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 29 1931-1938 Potter, Frank D. UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 30 1932-1940 "R", "S" UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 31 1932-1941, 1932-1941 Recommendations UA.RG.3.F.2.0001 32-37 1932-1941 Schaefer, Carl A. UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 1 1934-1940 Shedd, Clarence P. UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 2 1939 Shepherd, Ronald J., Re: Lincoln, James F. UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 3 1933-1941 Speaking Invitations UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 4-7 1931-1938 Steffan, Roger UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 8 1931-1941 "T", "U", "V" UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 9 1932-1941, 1932-1941, 1936-1941 Tyson, Levering UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 10 1932-1941 "W", "Y", "Z" UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 11 1932-1941, 1934-1937, 1934-1938 Wainwright, W.E. UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 12 1937-1938 Organizations Series 3 1931-19401 Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 13 1932-1935 American Association for Adult Education UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 14 1934-1937 American Council on Public Relations UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 15 1939 Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 16 1934-1940 Columbus Chamber of Commerce UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 17 1932-1941 Correspondence Chess League of America UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 18 1937-1938 Inter-University Council of Ohio UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 19 1938-1941 Kit-Kat Club UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 20 1932-1941 Ohio College Association UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 21 1931-1940 Phi Beta Kappa UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 22 1933-1941 Rotary Club of Columbus UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 23 1931-1941 The American Alumni Council UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 24-26 1930-1940 O.S.U. Series 4 1929-1942 Administrative Council UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 27-30 1932-1941 Agriculture, College of UA.RG.3.F.2.0002 31-33 1932-1938 Agriculture, College of UA.RG.3.F.2.0003 1 1938-1941 Alumni Matters UA.RG.3.F.2.0003 2-9 1931-1941 Alumni Matters: Graduates on Faculties of Other Ohio Colleges and Universities UA.RG.3.F.2.0003 10 1932 Alumni Research Council UA.RG.3.F.2.0003 11 1929-1931 Amtorg Trading Corporation UA.RG.3.F.2.0003 12 1936 Annual Reports UA.RG.3.F.2.0003 13 1934-1938 Arts and Sciences, College of UA.RG.3.F.2.0003 14-16 1932-1941 Athletic Board UA.RG.3.F.2.0003 17-25 1929-1941 Athletic Board Financial Statements UA.RG.3.F.2.0003 26 1928-1936 Athletic Board Financial Statements UA.RG.3.F.2.0004 1 1937-1938 Athletic Board Minutes UA.RG.3.F.2.0004 2-3 1935-1939 Athletic Broadcasting UA.RG.3.F.2.0004 4 1934-1938 Bevis Inauguration and Dinner UA.RG.3.F.2.0004 5 1940 Bevis, Howard L., President UA.RG.3.F.2.0004 6 1940-1941 Board of Trustees UA.RG.3.F.2.0004 7-9 1931-1941 Broadcasting: WEAO Radio UA.RG.3.F.2.0004 10 1932 Broadcasting: WEAO and WOSU Radio UA.RG.3.F.2.0004 11 1933 Broadcasting: WOSU Radio UA.RG.3.F.2.0004 12-21 1934-1941 Chess Club UA.RG.3.F.2.0004 22 1938-1939 Civilian Pilot Training UA.RG.3.F.2.0004 23-25 1939-1940 Civilian Pilot Training UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 1-3 1940-1941 Commerce and Administration, College of UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 4-5 1932-1941 Committees: Emergency Cooperation UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 6 1940-1941 Committees: Emergency School for the Unemployed UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 7 1933-1935 Committees: General College UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 8 1935-1937 Committees: Quarter System Study: Report UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 9 circa 1932 Committees: Radio Education UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 10 1934-1935 Committees: University Chapel UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 11 1941 Committees: University Public Relations UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 12 1931-1937 Correspondence UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 13-16 1928-1941 Correspondence to Parents of Award-Winning Students UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 17 1932-1933 Council of Junior Deans UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 18-25 1932-1941 Dad's Association: 1932-37; Mom's Association UA.RG.3.F.2.0005 26 1937 Development Fund UA.RG.3.F.2.0006 1-4 1937-1941 Education, College of UA.RG.3.F.2.0006 5-13 1930-1941 Educational Conferences UA.RG.3.F.2.0006 14 1932-1935 Engineering, College of UA.RG.3.F.2.0006 15-20 1931-1941 Entrance Board UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 1 1932-1938 Faculty Club UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 2 1932-1938 Faculty Council UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 3 1941 Faculty Speakers' Service (1 of 2) UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 4 1932 April and May Faculty Speakers' Service (2 of 2) UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 5 1932 June-December Faculty Speakers' Service UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 6-7 1933-1940 Financial Relief Programs: Federal, State and Local UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 8 1933-1934 and 1937 Fowler, Charles E., Re: His Napoleonic Collection UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 9 1932 Fraternity Affairs Office UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 10 1940-1941 Graduate School UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 11-12 1936-1941 Graduate Unemployment Study UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 13 1936 Indiana University UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 14 1937 Industrial Research UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 15-17 1932-1936 Industrial Research Conference UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 18 1936 In-Service Training for State Employees UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 19 1939-1942 Journalism, School of UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 20-21 1932-1941 Law, College of UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 22 1932-1941 Lawrence, James C, Dean-University of Minnesota UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 23 1931-1932 Legislative Matters UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 24, 27 1929-1933 Legislative Matters (1 of 2) UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 25 1932 April-August Legislative Matters (2 of 2) UA.RG.3.F.2.0007 26 1932 September-December and undated Legislative Matters UA.RG.3.F.2.0008 1, 4-8 1934-1941 Legislative Matters (1 of 2) UA.RG.3.F.2.0008 2 1935 January-June Legislative Matters (2 of 2) UA.RG.3.F.2.0008 3 July-December and undated 1935 McPherson, William: Acting President UA.RG.3.F.2.0008 9 1938-1940 Medicine, College of UA.RG.3.F.2.0008 10-11 1932-1941 Medicine, College of: Admissions UA.RG.3.F.2.0008 12-13 1932-1941 Men, Dean of UA.RG.3.F.2.0008 14 1931-1941 Military Training UA.RG.3.F.2.0008 15-18 1931-1938 Military Training: News Clipping UA.RG.3.F.2.0008 19 1933-1935 National Youth Administration UA.RG.3.F.2.0008 20-27 1934-1941 News Bureau UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 1-2 1932-1941 Non-Academic Employees Evaluation UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 3 1932-1933 Non-Resident Fee Survey UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 4 1934-1935 Non-Resident Student Fees UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 5 1941 Nursing, School of UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 6 1941 The Ohio State University Association: Correspondence UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 7 1932-1941 Personnel Council UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 8-9 1935-1941 Pharmacy, College of UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 10 1932, 1935 and 1940 Race Discrimination Case: Styles, Wilhelmina and Weaver, Doris: Home Management House UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 11 1932-1933 Revenue Studies UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 12 1932-1933 Research Foundation UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 13-16 1937-1941 Rightmire, George W.: President UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 17-22 1932-1940 Stone Laboratory UA.RG.3.F.2.0009 23-24 1933-1941 Student Assistance UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 1-6 1932-1941 Student Employment Office UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 7 1933, 1936-1941 Student Fees UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 8-9 1931-1941 Student Loan Foundation UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 10 1930-1939 Student Matters UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 11 1938-1941 Student Senate UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 12 1932-1939 Thompson, William Oxley: Memorial Service UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 13 1933-1934 Tower Club UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 14 1933-1940 University Extension Bureau UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 15 1931-1933 University Y.M.C.A. UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 16 1931-1941 Veterinary Medicine, College of UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 17 1932-1941 Women, Dean of (1 of 2) UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 18 1932-1937 Women, Dean of (2 of 2) UA.RG.3.F.2.0010 19 1938-1941 Accession Number UA.1995.0045 0.55 Cubic feet 1904-1967 (1) oversize flat box Acquisitions Information

Accession Number UA.1995.0045

 Scope and Contents

This series contains scrapbooks, photos and publications, especially concerning the San Francisco Earthquake, Panama, and the Louisiana Exposition.

 Postcard of West Lake Park, Los Angeles, to D.A. Morrill UA.1995.0045.0001 1 undated Folded handwritten speech about San Francisco earthquake, with access passes to area affected by earthquake UA.1995.0045.0001 2 1906 Official Guide of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition – 1915, held in San Francisco, CA, February 20 – December 4, 1915 UA.1995.0045.0001 3 1915 Columbus Dispatch, page 23A, featuring an article on the 50th Anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Quake with DeWitt Morrill recalling the event as he experienced it (Qty 3) UA.1995.0045.0001 4 1956 April 18 Postcard Album featuring scenic postcards from California UA.1995.0045.0001 5 undated Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, introduction by Bishop Fallows UA.1995.0045.0001 6 undated Untitled book on the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the laying of the corner stone of the Nation's Capitol, no author UA.1995.0045.0001 7 undated Columbus Dispatch, page 1-D, featuring an article on Survivors of Great Disasters focusing on the San Francisco Quake of 1906 UA.1995.0045.0001 8 1957 May 05 San Francisco The Metropolis of the West 1910, published by Western Press Association UA.1995.0045.0001 9 1910 Program for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco (Balboa cover) UA.1995.0045.0001 10 1915 "Serious Faults" article with map of San Andreas Fault on back, mounted on cardboard UA.1995.0045.0001 11 1956 The Greatest of Exposition Completely Illustrated – Official Views of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, printed by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co UA.1995.0045.0001 12 1904 Sunset, New San Francisco Emergency Edition UA.1995.0045.0001 13 1906 May Magazine page with assumed picture of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake aftermath UA.1995.0045.0001 14 undated The Ohio State Lantern article on DeWitt Clinton Morrill's memory of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 (Qty 2) UA.1995.0045.0001 15 1967 April 27 The New York Times pictorial featuring the opening of the San-Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge UA.1995.0045.0001 16 1936 November 15 The Columbus Dispatch, article on San Francisco, "Baghdad-by-the Bay Is Unchanged by Time" UA.1995.0045.0001 17 1960 July 17 The New York Times pictorial featuring the building of the San Francisco-Oakland By Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge UA.1995.0045.0001 18 1935 December 01 "The Great San Francisco Earthquake" by Vincent McHugh, magazine article UA.1995.0045.0001 19 May, undated Collier's, "When San Francisco Went Up in Flames" by Robert O'Brien UA.1995.0045.0001 20 1956 March 30 Program for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco (Hercules cover) UA.1995.0045.0001 21 1915 Big Trees of California published by the Passenger Department Southern Pacific Company UA.1995.0045.0001 22 undated California Rock Island Lines copyright by John Sebastian UA.1995.0045.0001 23 1909 The New San Francisco Magazine UA.1995.0045.0001 24, 29 1906 Los Angeles California: The City and County written by Harry Ellington Brook UA.1995.0045.0001 25 1917 May The Challenge of the Mountains issued by the Canadian Pacific Railway UA.1995.0045.0001 26 undated Titan of Chasms: Grand Canyon of Arizona copyright by W.J. Black UA.1995.0045.0001 27 1910 Los Angeles Today April 1922 Compliments of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce UA.1995.0045.0001 28 1922 The City of Gold: The Story of City Planning in San Francisco by Steven Warshaw UA.1995.0045.0001 30 1960 Crown Zellerbach Building pamphlet UA.1995.0045.0001 31 undated California Winter's Summer Garden copyright by F.A. Miller UA.1995.0045.0001 32 1911 Collier's "Earthquake! San Francisco's Day of Terror UA.1995.0045.0001 33 1956 March 30 San Francisco Examiner Supplement poster of the "Panorama of the Western Addition and the Mission" (in four pieces) UA.1995.0045.0001 34 1906 August 05 San Francisco Examiner Supplement poster of the "Birdseye View of San Francisco From Top of Wrecked City Hall Dome" UA.1995.0045.0001 35 1906 June 10 San Francisco Examiner Supplement poster of the "Birdseye View of the Ruins of San Francisco" UA.1995.0045.0001 36 1906 May 13 Southern California Magazine UA.1995.0045.0001 37 1916 September San Francisco Examiner Supplement poster of the "Birdseye View of San Francisco From Twin Peaks" UA.1995.0045.0001 38 1906 May 27 Time magazine article and pictures of the "Land of the Angels" UA.1995.0045.0001 39 1949 July 04 An article from "Signs of the Times" discussing the seismographic records of the earthquakes in San Francisco, mounted on poster board UA.1995.0045.0001 40 undated Hand drawn (traced) map of West Coast noting the fault lines and danger areas in California UA.1995.0045.0001 41 undated