Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the Vice President for Resource Development records

Boxes 1-7 contain records accumulated while Samuel Goldblith was vice-president for resource development and includes reports and correspondence about the Industrial Liaison Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) particularly regarding Japan, information and photographs about Goldblith's trips to Japan; and conferences, symposia, and other Underwood-Prescott events (named for Samuel Cate Prescott, Dean of Science 1932-1942 and William Lyman Underwood, of the Wm. Underwood canning company).

As Vice President of Resources a focus of Samuel Goldblith's position was to encourage and promote interaction between MIT and Japanese industrial firms. Records in boxes 8 to 12 include information about his trips to Japan, Japanese visitors to MIT, material about the MIT leadership campaign and the MIT Department of Nutrition and Food Science; correspondence with American and Japanese companies, James B. Lampert, and correspondence and reports about fundraising. In 1984 Samuel Goldblith was awarded the Second Class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Emperor of Japan in recognition of Goldblith's promotion of friendly relations and interactions between the US and Japan. His work in Japan was impactful both to MIT and to him personally. Samuel Goldblith survived the Bataan death march in the Phillipine Islands and three and a half years in various Japanese prisoner of war camps during World War II