Bernard Webster Reed Papers, 1915-1962 (with text)

Includes Some Records That Have Undergone Optical Character Recognition and Conversion

The Adult Education History Project

Based on Information in the Syracuse University Library Archives

Translated for the WWW by Roger Hiemstra

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35

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Collection

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NXSV953-A.

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Reed, Bernard W. (Bernard Webster) 1916-1962.

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Papers, 1915-1962.

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1.5 Linear ft.

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In the collections at Syracuse University, see also:

Association of University Evening Colleges [AUEC].

Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults [CSLEA].

Parkinson, George A.

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Educator.

Bernard Webster Reed graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1951. He served the same institution as Director of Information Programs (1952-1957), Assistant to the Dean, and assistant professor in the Evening College. He was affiliated with the adult education of the University of Chicago (1958) and was Dean of the School of Continuing Education Professional Studies at Pratt Institute. He was the editor of Who's Who in the Association of University Evening Colleges [AUEC] and the editor of the AUEC Newsletter. A history of the AUEC was the subject of Dr. Reed's dissertation.

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The Bernard W. Reed Papers are divided into three groups: correspondence; dissertation research, including primary material on the origins and history of the Association of University Evening Colleges [AUEC], the National University Extension Association [NUEA], and the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults [CSLEA]; and a subject file. Correspondence is arranged chronologically and concerns adult education research. Most of the dissertation material has been arranged chronologically by the approximate date of use and creation, rather than by publication date of the material collected. Material relating to methodology is followed by Reed's thesis proposal, collected data, thesis chapters, and his 1960 dissertation. AUEC material includes summaries of Proceedings of Annual Conventions, officer rosters, and transcripts of interviews with AUEC executives. Information on the Association of Urban Universities [AUU], NUEA, and CSLEA as it relates to AUEC is included. The

subject file is arranged alphabetically and contains material related to adult education and evening colleges.

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Correspondence.

Dissertation Material.

Subject File.

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19150000

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19620000

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Correspondence.

-Education-

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Adult Education -- United States.

Educators.

Educators -- United States.

Evening and continuation schools -- United States.

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Association of University Evening Colleges (U.S.) [AUEC].

Association of Urban Universities [AUU].

Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults [CSLEA].

National University Extension Association [NUEA].

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George Arents Research Library for Special Collections at Syracuse University,

Manuscript Collections,

Bird Library,

Room 600,

Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-2010.

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Gift of Mrs. Bernard W. Reed, 1966.

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In addition to following normal manuscript citation conventions, include these elements when citing records found "electronically" through The Adult Education History Project: Main entry, Title, Item number, and, if a specific image is being cited, Component number. Mention, too, that the record was found in "http://www-distance.syr.edu/history.html, an Electronic Source for Syracuse University Library's database for archives and manuscripts".

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{7:35:118:I:288,387:2052,1203} REED, BERNARD WEBSTER, 1916-1962 PAPERS, 1915-1962 3 boxes (1.5 linear feet) Biographical Sketch Bernard Webster Reed was graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1951. At the University of Cincinnati he was Assistant to the Dean and Assistant Professor in the Evening College, and from 1952 to 1957 he was Director of Informal Programs. He was affiliated with the adult education program of the University of Chicago in 1958, and from 1960 was Dean of the School of Continuing Professional Studies at Pratt Institute. Besides many professional associations in the field of continuing education, he served as editor of Who's Who in the Association of University Evening Colleges. From 1956 until 1962 he was the editor of the AUEC Newsletter. His dissertation was a history of that organization. Reed died in 1962 just after completing his doctorate in adult education from the University of Chicago.

{7:35:119:I:0,0:2544,3300} Description The Bernard W. Reed Papers are divided into three groups: correspondence, dissertation materials, and a subject file. Reed's own classification scheme has been followed in arranging his papers. The inclusive dates of the collection are 1915-1960, but the bulk of the material is dated 1959-1960. The collection contains much primary material on the origins and history of the Association of University Evening Colleges and some primary material from the period 1955-1962 on the National University Extension Association and the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults. The correspondence folder consists of typescript and carbon copies of incoming and outgoing letters, all concerning adult education research. Correspondence is arranged chronologically. Most of reed's dissertation materials have been arranged chronologically by the approximate date of use and creation, not by the publication date of the materials he collected. Materials dealing with the method of writing a thesis are followed by his 1959 proposal, collected data, thesis chapters, and 1960 dissertation. However, from the time his proposal was written until the writing of his thesis began, it is not clear in what order he collected or worked on the material, and the organization is alphabetical for that period. Material in this section consists primarily of typescript and handwritten notes as well as printed material concerning plans for his thesis and the history of AUEC--its formation, organization and purposes. There are summaries of the Proceedings of the annual conventions, rosters of officers, and portions of transcripts of interviews held with AUEC executives. (The phonotapes from which the transcripts were taken are found within the AUEC collection.) These interviews with founders and early members not only provide details of AUEC history, but include opinions of current adult education methods and organizations. Also included in this category are three small notebooks, and dittoed and mimeographed materials concerning the activities of the Association of Urban Universities (AUU), National University Extension Association (NUEA), and Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA), especially as they relate to AUEC history. The subject file contains an assortment of material, most of which deals with adult education and evening colleges. Sub-

{7:35:120:I:303,351:1977,1566} Subjects are arranged alphabetically. In this section, the listed dates are the actual dates of publication, not the dates Reed used the material. In two categories folder contents have been listed within the shelf list. There is an alphabetical list, by author, of thesis abstracts and proposals which Reed collected; and a list of book reviews which follows Reed's subject classification scheme. Book reviews are handwritten, typescript, dittoed, mimeographed, carbon, and published material. Abstracts are either dittoed or mimeographed. The complete thesis included in this section is a typescript carbon copy. Also included are lengthy typescript quotations from a number of books relating to adult education, arranged alphabetically by author. Other folders in this section deal with national and international adult education, the evening college and university extension services, and liberal education for adults. In these folders are special course description, pamphlets, addresses, clippings, and handwritten and typescript notes and quotations on the education of adults. Two remaining folders concern the relationship of education and leisure--mostly typed notes for a paper--and methods of studying one's community. In the collections, see also Association of University Evening Colleges (AUEC); Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA); and Parkinson, George A. Gift of Mrs. Bernard W. Reed, 1966

{7:35:121:I:0,0:2544,3300} Shelf List Box 1 CORRESPONDENCE, 1955-1962 DISSERTATION MATERIAL Preparation of thesis, ca. 1959 Proposal, 1959 AUEC background Early beginnings, ca. 1959 Interviews, 1959-1960 Cochran, Harry A. Hardy, Leslie P. Holsapple, Cortell K. Lang, Daniel A. Love, Robert A. Miller, Don S. Mills, Henry C. Neuffer, Frank R. Parkinson George A. Waters, John A. Notebooks, ca. 1959 Organization and purposes, 1960 Proceedings, 1939-1958, ca. 1959 Rosters, 1957 AAU proceedings, 1915-1939, ca. 1959 CSLEA activities, n.d. Box 2 NUEA proceedings, 1915-1956, ca. 1959 Thesis, 1959-1960 Chapters I-III Chapters IV-V Dissertation, 1960 SUBJECT FILE Adult education, 1953-1959 Book reviews (2 folders) Philosophy of adult education Bryson, Lyman, Adult Education, 1936 Bryson, Lyman, The Drive Toward Reason, 1954 Great Britain Adult Education Committee, A Design for Democracy, 1919 Hutchins, Robert M., Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education, 1954 Keppel, Frederick P., Education for Adults, 1926 Kotinsky, Ruth, Adult Education and the Social Scene, 1933 Lindeman, Edward C., The Meaning of Adult Education, 1926

{7:35:122:I:0,0:2544,3300} Box 2 (continued) SUBJECT FILE (continued) Book reviews (2 folders) (continued) Philosophy of adult education (continued) Livingstone, Richard, The Future in Education, 1941 Powell, John W., Learning Comes of Age, 1956 Redfield, Robert, The Educational Experience, 1955 History of adult education Adams, Herbert B., Educational Extension in the United States, 1901 Cartwright, Morse A., Ten Years of Adult Education, 1936 Grattan, C. Hartley, In Quest of Knowledge, 1955 Lund, Ragnar, ed., Scandinavian Adult Education, 1949 Psychological development of adults Havighurst, Robert J., Human Development and Education, 1953 Overstreet, H.A., The Mature Mind, 1949 Pressey, S.L., and Kuhlen, R.G., Psychological Development Through the Life Span, 1957 Thorndike, E.R., Adult Interests, 1935 Thorndike, E.R., Adult Learning, 1936 Handbooks, directories, bibliographies, research Debatin, Frank M., Administration of Adult Education, 1938 Ely, Mary L., Adult Education in Action, 1936 Ely, Mary L., Handbook of Adult Education in the United States, 1948 Essert, Paul L., Creative Leadership of Adult Education, 1951 Kempfer, Homer, Adult Education, 1955 Knowles, Malcolm S., Informal Adult Education, 1951 Sheats, Paul H., Jayne, Clarence D., Spence, Ralph B., Adult Education, the Community Approach, 1953 Unesco, Adult Education: Current Trends and Practices, 1949 Adult education agencies and institutions Libraries American Library Association, Public Library Service, 1956 Berelson, Bernard, the Library's Public, 1949

{7:35:123:I:0,0:2544,3300} Box 2 (continued) SUBJECT FILE (continued) Book reviews (continued) Adult education agencies and institutions (cont.) Libraries (continued) Chancellor, John, ed., Helping Adults to Learn, 1939 Houle, Cyril O., Libraries in Adult and Fundamental Education, 1951 Phinney, Eleanor, Library Adult Education in Action, 1956 Public and community schools Bogus, Jesse Parker, The Community College, 1950 Englehardt, N.L., Planning the Community School, 1940 National Education Association, A Study of Urban Public School Adult Education Progress in the U.S., 1952 Snow, Robert H., Community Adult Education, 1955 Universities and colleges Burns, Norman, The Community Responsibility of Institutions of Higher Learning, 1948 Diekhoff, John S., The Domain of the Faculty, 1956 Dyer, John P., Ivory Towers in the Market Place Houle Cyril O., The University, the City, and World Affairs, 1956 Kelsey, Lincoln David, Cooperative Extension Work, 1955 Lord, Russell, The Agrarian Revival, 1939 Morton, John R., University Extension in the U.S., 1953 Unesco, Universities in Adult Education, 1952 Labor Kerrison, Irvine L.H., Workers' Education at the University Level, 1951 Mire, Joseph, Labor Education, 1956 Stocks, Mary, The Workers' Educational Association, 1953 Armed Forces Houle, Cyril O., The Armed Services and Adult Education, 1947 Program development Program organization Box 2 (continued) SUBJECT FILE (continued) Book reviews (continued) Program development (continued) Program organization (continued) Reeves, F.W., Adult Education, 1938 Rural Social Systems and Adult Education, 1953 Sorenson, Roy, and Dimock, Hedley, S., Designing Education in Values, 1955 Community study and community development Lippitt, Ronald, Training in Community Relations, 1949 Ogden, Jess, Small Communities in Action, 1946 Reid, Jesse T., It Happened in Taos, 1946 Ross, Murray G., Community Organization, 1955 Method Cartwright, Dorwin, Group Dynamics Research and Theory, 1956 Chase, Stuart, Roads to Agreement, 1951 Coyle, Grace L., Group Experience and Democratic Values, 1947 Fansler, Thomas, Creative Power through Group Discussion, 1950 Homans, George, The Human Group, 1950 Liveright, A.A., Union Leadership Training, 1951 Lowy, Louis, Adult Education and Group Work, 1955 Mueller, Alfred, Principles and Methods in Adult Education, 1937 National Society for the Study of Education, Adult Reading, 1956 Schramm, Wilbur, Mass Communications, 1949 Thelen, Herbert, Dynamics of Groups at Work, 1954 Counseling Klein, Paul, Counseling Techniques in Adult Education, 1946 Programs for special groups Cass, Angelica, Adult Elementary Education, 1956 Dohahue, Wilma C., ed., Education for Later Maturity, 1955 Bibliographies, directories, research Beals, Ralph A., The Literature of Adult Education, 1941

{7:35:124:I:213,351:2100,2601} Box 2 (continued) SUBJECT FILE (continued) Book reviews (continued) Program development (continued) Bibliographies, directories, research (cont.) National Education Association, Review of Educational Research, 1953 Unesco, International Directory of Adult Education, 1952 Community survey, ca. 1956 Evening college and university extension, 1953-1962 Box 3 General-liberal-vocational education, 1954-1960 International adult education, 1954-1960 Leisure and education, ca. 1960 Thesis abstracts and proposals, 1954-1960 Averill, Thomas, An exploratory study of motives associated with self-education, 1959 Brian, D. Garron, Adult education in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, ca. 1959 Campbell, Frank N., A study of factors associated with community group activities in Wisconsin 4-H clubs, ca. 1959 Chamberlain, Martin N., The professional adult educator, ca. 1957 Coughlan, Robert J., Levels of management, corresponding work attitudes and the anticipatory socialization of vertically mobile individuals, 1960 Crimi, James E., Adult education curricula in the liberal arts colleges, 1954 Halfter, Irma T., The comparative academic achievement of women eighteen to twenty-five and women forty years of age and over, n.d. Halfter, Irma T., A contrast between the structure and functioning of undergraduate collegiate business education, day and evening divisions, n.d. Hargett, Earl F., A study of the relationship between self-education and intelligence, 1960 Harrison, James W., Criteria used in planning courses for adults by teachers, administrators, and students of evening colleges, 1954 Harrison, James W., Designing educational programs for adults: a comparison of non-credit and credit courses in university evening colleges, 1957

{7:35:125:I:0,0:2544,3300} Box 3 (continued) SUBJECT FILE (continued) Thesis abstracts and proposals, 1954-1960 (cont.) Ingham, Roy J., A comparative study of two conceptions of adult education: community development and continuing education, ca. 1957 Koch, W.H., An investigation into concepts of citizenship: aspirations and concerns among selected groups of adult agricultural migrant workers, 1960 Knowles, Malcolm S., The development of a coordinated adult education movement in the United States, n.d. Larson, Melvin J., Relationship of certain characteristics of church members to their financial support of denominational higher education, ca. 1956 Lee, Robert, the educational objective of the American public library: an historical study, 1959 Liveright, A.A., Lay-leaders in adult education, 1954 Mees, Carl F., The historical development of the cooperative agricultural extension service in Cook County, Illinois, 1958 Moorhead, Hugh S., The Great Books Movement, 1960 Orr, Betty, The study of successful aging: the social role study, 1956 Siegle, Peter E., The social life of a Jewish community, n.d. Soffen, Joesph, Training of non-professionals in adult education, 1960 Toone, Howard G., Jr., A comparison of the operating principles of one hundred five university evening colleges, ca. 1957 Thesis of Papanestor, William, A study of job satisfaction as related to need satisfaction, both on the job and off the job, 1958 Quotations Cantrell, Loula N., The growth and development of the Atlanta Division, University of Georgia, 1953 Carnovsky, L., The Library in the Community, 1944 Creese, James, The Extension of University Teaching, 1941

{7:35:126:I:0,0:2544,3300} Box 3 (continued) SUBJECT FILE (continued) Quotations (continued) Earnest, Ernest, Academic Procession, 1953 Hamlin, Herbert M., The Public and Its Education, 1955 Kolbe, Parke R., Urban Influence on Higher Education in England and the U.S., 1928 McMahon, Ernest, lecture, ca. 1957 Orr, Betty, dissertation, ca. 1957 Rudy, S. Willis, The College of the City of New York, 1949 Thwing, Charles F., A History of Higher Education in America, 1906 Valentine, P.F., ed., Twentieth Century Education, 1946 sws 4/71 Revised 1/77

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