alumni and alumnae

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This collection includes minutes and other records of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from the organization of the board in 1968 through 1983. Also in the collection are board resolutions, by-laws, and by-law revisions.

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The collection includes early Alumni Association reports and meeting records, information on the Committee on Publication, which led to the establishment of Technology Review, Board of Directors minutes, financial records and budgets, information regarding reunions, Alumni Officers conference files, records of the National Selection Committee, and information regarding the choosing of MIT’s colors. Also included are audio tapes of speakers at alumni events.

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection includes the earliest records and minutes of the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dating from 1874 discussions of its formation to the formal minutes and report from 1875, when the Alumni Association was organized. There are reports on course of study at the Institute, prepared in the years 1870 to 1877. The colleciton also includes annual reports of the Committee on the School dated 1881, 1884, and 1885. A report on the Women's...

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The collection comprises records produced by Donald P. Severence and William J. Hecht, Executive Vice Presidents of the Association of Alumni and Alumnae of MIT. The materials span the years of 1962 to 1970 and 1980 to 1997.

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The collection of the Boston Stein Club records includes the bylaws and articles of the club, correspondence about activities, announcements and programs, and club minutes related to this organization of Boston area MIT Jewish alumni.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The records of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Club of New York contains the club constitution and bylaws, correspondence and reports of club officers, and newsletters. Minutes of the general meetings of the club (1947-1959), and minutes of executive committee meetings are included, as are correspondence, reports, and minutes of meetings of the Board of Governors, the Finance Committee, the Membership Committee, and the Program Committee. There is information about the...

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The MIT Club of Washington, DC was established in 1899 in order to serve area alumni and alumnae. This collection documents the activities and membership of the club from the 1940s to the present (2004). The records include flyers and announcements of major club events and annual club meetings, minutes of meetings for the years 1956-1994, correspondence, and club newsletters from 1970 to 2004.

Scope and Contents This collection consists chiefly of the Visiting Committee reports submitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation and administration, which summarize discussion and recommendations of their formal meetings every two years. Although visting committees were established in 1875, reports in this collection date from 1930. Visiting Committee reports from the period 1905-1930 can be found in the administrative records of the Office of the President, boxes 5, 6, and 24, of...

Scope and Contents of the Collection Records received in 1982, boxes 1-4, 1948-1981, include histories of the Alumni Inter-Fraternity Conference (AIFC), fraternities, and independent living groups; records of AIFC, including minutes, reports, correspondence, and budgets; fraternity constitutions, bylaws, lists of members, and newletters; and correspondence, architectural plans, and reports concerning residence inspection and renovation. Of special interest is material in the AIFC general files concerning hazing in fraternity...

Abstract The Walker Memorial Gymnasium Committee was appointed in 1899 to secure subscriptions from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alumni and local representatives for a new memorial gymnasium on the Boston campus, to be built as a tribute to the late MIT president Francis Amasa Walker. The committee also sought to garner support for the gymnasium from the MIT Corporation, faculty, and undergraduates. The collection includes four account ledger books maintained by the Walker Memorial...

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The collection contains materials that document the academic student experience on the MIT campus. The collection includes handwritten and printed notebooks, exams, assignments, p-sets, and notes created by those teaching the class and by those taking the class.

Scope and Contents The collection of Takuma Dan includes correspondence and a 1921 speech which Dan delivered before a convocation of students, faculty and alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dan was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Class of 1878. The correspondence concerns Dan's contributions to MIT, his classmates, and plans for class reunions. After Dan's death in 1932, his eldest son, Ino Dan, corresponded with MIT representatives in an effort to...

Scope and Contents The collection includes some correspondence, subscription records, and office manuals of the Tech Engineering News, a monthly professional journal published by undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with alumni and faculty. It was originally conceived of as a supplement to the student newspaper,The Tech, in 1919, when Tech advertising manager Ray St. Laurent discovered that some businesses preferred to advertise in a college technical journal rather than a...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection is arranged into two series. The materials in Series 1 were received in 1979 and include primarily bound financial records, in addition to auditor’s reports and a staff manual. The materials in Series 2 were added in 2007 and include correspondence between Technology Review staff members (particularly John Mattill) and the public and the MIT community. The correspondence, dated 1966-1980, pertains to article submissions, editorial comments,...

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The collection spans from approximately 1903 to 2008. Records include newsletters, correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, news releases, directories, and photographs of both active and inactive clubs and affinity groups.