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Archives and Special Collections Finding Aids
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| Collection |
| Title: | Asa S. Knowles papers |
| Dates: | 1836-1990 (bulk 1920-1983) |
| Call Number: | M20 |
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Scope and Content Note
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The collection documents the awards and recognitions, professional associations, personal research interests, and writings of Asa S. Knowles during his tenure as president and chancellor of Northeastern University.
Series 1. Personal includes documents regarding awards and honorary degree. ASK's presidential papers (A3) should be consulted for additional documentation of his honors and awards. The series also contains biographical information, including material on ASK's inauguration as President of the University of Toledo, and various forms of correspondence, including letters of congratulations, invitations, and correspondence between various administrators at NU and members of professional associations and organizations with which ASK had been affiliated. Of interest is correspondence between ASK and Governor John Volpe; Rep. Francis W. Hatch, Jr. (Minority Leader – Massachusetts State House of Representatives); and Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. (Majority Leader - U.S. House of Representatives). This series also contains ASK's writings, some of which he wrote while Chancellor. In addition, the series includes documentation of the memorial dedicated to the memory of ASK'smother, Belle Smallidge Knowles.
Series 2. Chancellor documents ASK's tenure as Chancellor of NU. Included here are materials relating to ASK's professional association memberships. Of note are his memberships in the Cooperative Education Association, as a member of the Board of Trustees of Deree-Pierce College, as chair of the National Commission for Cooperative Education, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Planning Association. Also included here are correspondence and information packets for various conferences that ASK either attended, had planned to attend, or at which he had been asked to speak. Also documented in this series are projects that ASK had been a part of and/or had overseen. Such activities include fund raising on behalf of NU, international representation and promotion of NU, chair of the Nominating Committee of the Corporation and Board of Trustees at NU, author of a study for the Institute of International Education on cooperative education in the Arab Countries and Iran, and consulting work done for educational institutions not affiliated with NU. In addition, there are various articles, a bibliography, consortia, and notes on the subjects of cooperative education and higher education, and statements on Cooperative Education delivered before the Senate Subcommittee on Education (1975). Also documented here are the publications authored by ASK, including: the International Encyclopedia of Higher Education (1977), the Encyclopedia of Higher Education Administration (including a copy with margin notes - 1980), the Handbook of College and University Administration, and the Handbook of Postsecondary Education.
Series 3 concerns Shawmut Bank of Boston. In 1980 at the request of Shawmut Bank of Boston, N.A.'s board of directors, Asa S. Knowles agreed to write a history of Shawmut Bank for its 150th anniversary. Knowles researched all aspects of the Shawmut Bank of Boston, N.A., the Shawmut Corporation, and the Shawmut Corporation of Boston. In addition he examined the history of banking and Boston's early history. The Shawmut Bank provided Knowles approximately 10 cubic feet of its records, mostly dating between 1920 and 1983, with gaps. The collection includes articles on Boston's early history, biographical material on Shawmut directors, information on Shawmut's early history, material on the histories of Shawmut's affiliated banks, minutes from Executive Board meetings, Shawmut Bank of Boston, N.A. and Shawmut Corporation annual reports, and publications, both internal and external, generated by Shawmut Bank of Boston, N.A. and Shawmut Corporation. The collection also includes photographs of Shawmut branches, directors, and events. Two panoramic photographs of staff outings in 1929 and 1930 are also included. For a listing of presidents, chairmen, and directors of Shawmut Bank, Shawmut Corporation and its predecessor organizations, and the Affiliated Banks of Shawmut Corporation see the Appendices and Index in Asa S. Knowles' Shawmut, 150 Years of Banking, 1836-1986 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986), pp. 464-497. [HG 2613.B74S415]. |
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