Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

The Administrative Records series (1 linear foot) include budget information, departmental histories, and club and organizational records. Budget files contain worksheets, used to track salaries, which detail increases, decreases and promotions. There is also correspondence concerning justification for budget requests. Departmental histories include several brief histories, as well as a copy of the script from a play, titled "T.H.", performed in 1957 in honor of T.H. Hildebrandt's retirement. There is, in addition, an interesting thirteen-page transcript of the recollections of Raymond L. Wilder, in which he discusses other faculty members, recruitment, and curriculum changes during his tenure as professor from 1926 to 1968. Wilfred Kaplan's history includes an appendix listing all of the faculty members who served in the department from 1841 to 1988. Club and organizational records contain the files of the Undergraduate Mathematics Club and the Ishango Society of Mathematics. The Undergraduate Mathematics Club was established ca. 1890 and was designed to stimulate discussion on mathematical topics through presentations and meetings. The records include a minute book covering the years 1913 to 1937. It presents a relatively complete record of the club's activities, finances, and papers presented. The Ishango Society of Mathematics was created in 1975 by African American graduate students to give voice to their demands for more minority students and faculty members. The materials primarily consist of correspondence between the organization and the department.

The Administrative records consist of operational and legal files relating to the administration of the Home. Included are board meeting minutes and reports dating from 1970 to 2002. These document the monthly board meetings in the last decade of the organization's existence giving insight into the daily running of the organization as well as a hint of the personal lives of the women living in the home. This series also includes other records of note, such as those relating to the designation of the Robert Mackenzie Home (which long housed the Anna Bach Home) as part of the Ann Arbor Historic District and a scrapbook kept by the organization and containing clippings dating from the Home's beginning in 1909.

The Administrative Records series is comprised of eight subseries: Annual Reports and Minutes, Clerk, Leadership, Membership, Nurture, Stewardship, Worship, and Miscellaneous.

Administrative Records contain the Ark's financial records and correspondence addressed to Dave and Linda Siglin. Financial records are part of this series and are most comprehensive for 1969 until the early 1970s, though scattered dates are represented in the collection. An oversized financial ledger also comprises part of this series.

The Administrative Records series (1 linear foot) contains a wide variety of materials pertaining to the club and its established mission and aims. The series includes three subseries: Constitutions and legal certification, 1944-1973, Minute Books, 1937-1947, and Chronological Files, 1937-1988. Included in the Chronological Files subseries are minutes for club meetings and board meetings, annual reports of elected club officers, newsletters detailing club activities, press releases to Detroit area newspapers, and correspondence with various parties that reflect the nature of the club's activities and the club's internal working mechanisms.

The Administrative Records series (1.5 linear feet), 1930-2002, includes historical information and physical descriptions of the E.S. George Reserve, correspondence, meeting minutes, and information about the facilities and maintenance of the reserve.

The Administrative Records series is divided into two subseries, Staff Files and Topical Files. The Staff Files subseries contains the Directors' Correspondence for the late 1960s, most of the 1970s and the early 1980s, information on the Center's associates, a few Library files regarding the Center's holdings in the Graduate Library's Asia Library, and Center correspondence with other Southeast Asian studies institutes. It includes information on staff and student work, and travel documents, and donor files. The Topical Files subseries was organized alphabetically, with new materials organized on the box level, and documents Center projects, studies groups, mailings and information on specific areas of South and Southeast Asian study.

The Administrative Records (0.4 linear feet) include by-laws as well as committee reports and meeting minutes.

The Administrative Records series contains material generated by the Washtenaw County chapter of the Labor Party, and documents both the local activities of the chapter and the national issues the Labor Party sought to address. The correspondence and minutes are the largest and most significant of the administrative material.