The Histories/Bylaws series, 1942-1975, includes several articles on the history of public health education at the University of Michigan and a list of items placed in the cornerstone of the School of Public Health Building in 1944. This series also contains the bylaws dealing with the governance of the school and organizational charts detailing the changing departmental and divisional structure over time.
8.74 GB (online) — 97 linear feet (in 98 boxes)
The records of the School Public Health include Dean's files of Henry F. Vaughan, Myron Wegman, Richard Remington, John Kirscht, June E. Osborn and Noreen M. Clark; files concerning the Association of Schools of Public Health; records of the school's Program in Public Health Nursing; institutes and inservice courses; records regarding school-wide issues and departmental affairs, including accreditation and program reviews; committee and faculty meeting minutes; building construction records; and files relating to state and national public health issues such as PBB contamination, poliomyelitis, and AIDS; including materials concerning public health in Detroit.
The Dean's Files: Henry F. Vaughan, 1941-1967 (primarily 1941-1959), comprise the is divided into five subseries: Annual Reports, Committees, Correspondence, Faculty Correspondence, and Topical Files. Portions of the dean's files have been significantly rearranged in processing the collection. Among the least disturbed from the original order are the Annual Reports and Committees subseries. The annual reports, 1944-1959, are sometimes duplicates of those printed in the President's Annual Report, but they often include more detailed reports of departmental and faculty activities. The Committees subseries, 1941-1967, consists of individual files of minutes for various school and departmental committees. Most of these files are very incomplete; the collection has only limited runs of executive committee and faculty minutes, for example.
The Correspondence, Faculty Correspondence, and Topical Files subseries represent a substantial rearrangement of the filing system used by the dean's office. In the original office organizing scheme all materials in these three subseries were in one alphabetical subseries filed geographically by origin or destination of the letter or memorandum. For example, correspondence relating to the planning and construction of the school's building was filed under "Battle Creek" because the architect was located there. Because this filing system hardly seemed intuitive for researchers, a new arrangement has been created breaking what had formerly been a single run of correspondence into three subseries: Correspondence, Faculty Correspondence, and Topical Files.
The first two subseries can be seen as paired; one (Correspondence) dealing primarily with developments in public health outside the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and the other (Faculty Correspondence) dealing mostly with the internal workings of the school.