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Project established to study the public policy implications of an aging society. Administrative files, largely of project director D. Lydia Bronte, including subject files, name files, publication records, and conference files.

The Aging Society Project of the Carnegie Corporation of New York record group consists of administrative files, largely of project director D. Lydia Bronte, including subject files, name files, publication records, and conference files. The records have been divided into five series: Subject File; Individuals File; Organization File; Book File; and Conference File.

Gerontologist, lecturer in social research, and director of the Institute for Human Adjustment at the University of Michigan. Professional files, especially concerning the Institute, the University Board on University Policies, the Bureau of Psychological Services, and the University Fresh Air Camp; also photographs.

The Clark Tibbitts Papers, 1926-1969, are arranged into four principal series corresponding to the major activities of Tibbitts's career in the fields of sociology and gerontology. There are also eight smaller series (plus an addition to a series) received subsequent to the accessioning of the bulk of the papers.

Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Work, Professor Emeritus of Social Work, and Professor Emeritus of Health Behavior and Health Education. Dr. Harold R. Johnson was also one of the first Black Deans at the University of Michigan. Includes correspondence, reports, and topical files related to Johnson's academic and professional career.

The Harold R. Johnson papers primarily document Johnson's academic and professional career and includes correspondence, reports, talks, and topical files.

Interdisciplinary institute at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University for the study of aging. Records include administrative files relating to the activities, research, publications and conferences of the Institute's University of Michigan program; audio-visual material, and photographs.

The records of the Institute of Gerontology cover the period 1948 to 1987. They are composed of the office files of several staff members at the University of Michigan. (Not included are the records of that part of the IoG housed at Wayne State University.) Included are the scattered files of four of the institute's co-directors, the chairman of the Executive Board, the editor of the Occasional Papers series, the annual conference coordinators, and the directors of certain projects. Also included are correspondence and memos, financial information, grant proposals and reports, minutes, and printed matter. The programs for the Annual Conferences on Aging provide a "who's who" for many of the individuals represented in the collection.

The records provide an overview of the activities, policies, and personnel of the IoG from its inception. Some substantive and seminal memos and reports exist which throw light on the development of programs and on the value of certain projects. Most of the documents are routine, however, and serve primarily to introduce the researcher to the various units and activities of the institute. For details and insights into particular aspects of the IoG, the researcher should consult the separate collections of the various co-directors, directors of research, and project directors, as well as the institute's publications.

Sociologist and researcher into the subject of gerontology, particularly gerontophobia. Speeches, reprints, manuscripts of writings; also research materials, including reports and collected data, and correspondence, relating in part to his work on the Research Committee of the New York City Mayor's Advisory Committee for the Aged, 1949-1951.

The papers deal primarily with Bunzel's work and writings from 1936 to 1975, especially with the concept of gerontophobia. The papers also contain some items relating to Bunzel's work in other areas of sociology. The collection has been divided into two series: Papers and Research.

Professor of psychology and member of the Institute of Gerontology of the University of Michigan. Correspondence, conference and symposium files, teaching materials, grant proposals and reports, and papers and reprints; also papers of Ruth Riegel.

The Klaus Riegel papers, 1955-1977, document his educational, professional, and research activities in the discipline of psychology. The collection includes correspondence, grant applications, and progress reports, research reports, unpublished papers, reprints, lecture notes and transcriptions, syllabi and handouts, examinations, and conference programs. Riegel's specific interests within the discipline of psychology included developmental psychology of the aged, psycholinguistics, and history of the social sciences. Riegel's research activity in these areas was conducted under grant funding. Scope, objectives, and results of various research projects will be found in the Grant Materials series. While a few of the grant applications were to support graduate-level education, the Teaching Materials series contains course-related materials used by Riegel in his classes, most of which were offered through the Psychology department. Professional activity was a large part of Riegel's career. The Correspondence and Conferences and Symposia series are strongly related and illustrate the active role Riegel played in professional and theoretical development.

Lecturer and consultant on aging, retirement planning, and related topics. Sound recordings of San Francisco television program, "A gift of time," that Kuplan produced and hosted.

The Kuplan collection consists of sound recordings of his television program "A Gift of Time." The collection has been arranged chronologically, dating from 1970 to 1978. The tapes are all 7 in. reel-to-reel and play at 7 1/2 ips. The topics of the programs relate to concerns of the elderly. Guests on the program included important experts in the field of gerontology.

Doctoral student in educational gerontology at the Institute of Gerontology of the University of Michigan. Class notes and other materials received from her course work in psychology, social work, and education; and other collected material on topic of aging.

The Martha Olmsted collection relates primarily to her education at the University of Michigan and to her professional interests. Included are syllabi, handouts, notebooks, and essays for graduate school courses in psychology, social work, and education (including extensive teaching aids for student teaching of a secondary school social studies class); handouts and notes from two special short-term programs in gerontology, one at the University of Southern California and one on milieu therapy at the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan; Olmsted's dissertation along with some supporting documents; and scattered documents from the Washtenaw County Council on Aging (WCCOA), and the Hand-in-Hand Cross Age Program for Girl Scouts in Oakland County.

Gerontologist; series in collection include: Biography and Early Career; Lectures, Speeches, Publications; History of Gerontology; Correspondence; Gerontology Research Center Files; Conferences; Foundations; International Association of Gerontology (IAG); International Organizations; Gerontological Society of America; Other Organizations; Audio tapes; and Photographs.

The papers of Nathan Wetherill Shock, with bulk dates of 1927 to 1988, measure fifty linear feet. They are divided into thirteen series: Biography and Early Career; Lectures, Speeches, Publications; History of Gerontology; Correspondence; Gerontology Research Center Files; Conferences; Foundations; International Association of Gerontology (IAG); International Organizations-Other; Gerontological Society of America (GSA); Other Organizations; Photographs; and Audio Tapes.

Gerontologist, faculty member at the University of Michigan, first with the Bureau of Psychological Services, later with the Institute for Human Adjustment, and as co-director of its successor unit, the Institute of Gerontology. Files detailing her participation at various meetings and conferences, her other professional activities and affiliations, research projects files, University of Michigan administrative and teaching materials, and videotapes of presentations at 1979 conference, "White House Conferences as Agents of Social Change", also photographs.

The Wilma T. Donahue papers document her career as a teacher, researcher, and administrator at the University of Michigan. The papers span the years 1945-1990 with the bulk of the material falling within the two decades bound by 1949-1969. The Donahue papers are a subset of the Michigan Historical Collections/Institute of Gerontology Joint Archives in Gerontology and can best be understood as an integral element of that larger set.

The Donahue papers provide a clear insight to the development of the field of gerontology as an academic discipline and as an area of concern for policy makers and the general public. The earliest files reflect Donahue's training as a psychologist as it relates to her research on testing, returning veterans, and the blind. In the late 1940s Donahue and Clark Tibbitts began to research and publish articles on the aging population in America. Donahue's papers reflect this new interest as the focus of her writings now turns to issues of aging: housing, mental and physical health, adult education, and the economics of retirement. These issues dominated Donahue's research for twenty years and her papers document her increasing stature as an influential figure in gerontology at the state and national levels, especially her involvement with the University of Michigan Annual Conferences on Gerontology, the Michigan Commission on Aging, and her "cutting edge" research on housing the aging.

The collection came to the library in different accessions and from different sources. Although there is some overlap, the files as received represent distinct series. These series are Articles, Conferences, Addresses and Meetings, 1949-1970; Professional Activities and Affiliations, 1953-1970; Research Projects, 1955-1971; University of Michigan: Administration and Teaching, 1946-1968; Videotapes: White House Conferences as Agents of Social Change, 1979; International Center for Social Gerontology; and Miscellaneous.