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everett m. woodman papers
(1938 - 2005, bulk 1962 - 1972)
Acc. no. 1997-046 and 2003-001 through
2003-032, Coll. no. 001
Extent: 17 boxes + (approx. 9.25 linear feet)
Location: WR B
January 1998, last revision July 2005
Lianne E.H. Keary, College Archivist
Introduction
The papers of Everett Milton Woodman were acquired by the Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives in the summer of 1996 by donation from Dr. Woodman. The collection is open to researchers and may be consulted by appointment. Requests to publish material from this collection must be discussed with the College Archivist.
The Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives would like to thank Dr. Everett M. Woodman for his generosity and effort in making this collection available. The Archives would also like to express its appreciation to Ruthie Mellin, Barbara Style Stevens, and Margaret Kurtz who gave many hours of their time to help bring order to this collection.
Biographical Information
Everett M. Woodman was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Dartmouth College (A.B.) and Boston University (Ed.D.). His first teaching position was at Colby Junior College from 1939 to 1941, when he left for military service. After three years in the Navy as a lieutenant, he returned to Colby to teach until 1946. He married Ruth Randolph (Class of 1940, Colby Junior College) in 1941 and they became the parents of four daughters: Betsy (1946-), Lee “LeeLee” (1948-), Jane (1953 - ), and Deborah (1955- ). Upon completion of his doctoral studies in 1948, Dr. Woodman taught at the University of Illinois and was appointed a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Lyon and Strasbourg in France.
From 1952 to 1954, Dr. Woodman worked in Madras, India as a cultural affairs officer for the United States Information Agency, and for an interim as acting public affairs officer for South India. For the next four years he served as an attaché at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi and as director of the Educational Exchange Program under the India-U.S.A. Agreement of Public Law 48. In 1958, Dr. Woodman joined the Ford Foundation as an educational consultant to the Government of India's Ministry of Education until his appointment as president of Colby Junior College in 1962.
As president, Woodman led the college through ten years of growth and transformation. During his term, he emphasized the importance of an international perspective on education, as evidenced by campus events such as United Nations Day and Reaching the Questioning Mind Overseas. He also sought the opinions of the college's students, faculty, and alumnae and cultivated a strong relationship with them. Dr. Woodman served as president of the American Association of Junior Colleges from 1969 to 1970 and was also active in the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs.
After leaving Colby Junior College in 1972, Dr. Woodman served as president of the Nature Conservancy in Washington, D.C. Later he was appointed director of the Peace Corps in Morocco. Colby-Sawyer College presented him with an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in May of 1995.
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of this collection concerns the years of Dr. Woodman's presidency at Colby Junior College (1962-1972). During this time, the College experienced many changes: new programs, new buildings, and new awareness of the outside world. This collection consists mostly of manuscripts and sound recordings of speeches given by Dr. Woodman at various events, in his capacity as President or expert on international affairs.
Also included is a great deal of correspondence (both official and private) with students, parents, alumnae, faculty, and staff concerning specific issues pertaining to the administration of the College.
There is some material pertaining to the situation in Vietnam at the time, through correspondence with Ellsworth Bunker (Ambassador to Vietnam and a friend of Woodman's) and accounts of the Woodmans' trip there in 1970. Correspondence from students and faculty gives a unique perspective on campus unrest and protests during the 1960s and 1970s at Colby Junior College. The controversy over comedian Dick Gregory's visit to the campus in 1968 is also well documented.
Unfortunately, some of the photographs and newsclippings are unidentified or not cited. Identifications and citations have been given whenever possible.
The audio tape recordings included in this collection were originally recorded on 1/4-inch (6 mm) tape on five or six inch reels. Fortunately, Dr. Woodman transferred most of these tapes to standard 2 1/2 inch by 4-inch cassettes.
This collection also contains 32 reels of 16 mm film, only 3 of which have been transferred to VHS and DVD. These home movie images primarily consist of Mr. Woodman's appointments in India during the 1950's and his appointment as President of Colby Junior College in the 1960s. Other images include family trips. The earliest of the films is a 1938-1939 reel of footage of Camp Wallula in New London, New Hampshire. (Woodman did not shoot this film, but is in it).
The two films pertaining to India (2003-008 and 2003-009), have content descriptions taken from the handwritten notes by Dr. Woodman. The notes were retyped and edited by Dr. Everett Woodman in 2003 in conjunction with a Media Preservation course taught at Colby-Sawyer College by Jeff Heinle. Several of Mr. Woodman's family members appear throughout the India footage, as well as their neighbors in Madras, India, the Travancore sisters: Lolitha, Padmini, and Ragini.
Some materials which have been documented elsewhere by the Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives were removed from this collection, i.e. College catalogs, yearbooks, etc. Items of this type which contain some apocryphal research value (notes in the margins of a commencement program, for example) have been retained in the collection.
Materials are arranged chronologically within each folder unless otherwise noted in the container list below. Some items are undated. In these cases, the undated material is filed first in the folder followed by those with dates.
Related Collections
- James Duane Squires Papers, Coll. no. 025.
Sarah Buckley, Presidency of Dr. Everett Woodman [Oral History Project VHS], 2005-007
Container List
Box 1
File 1: Camp Wallulah
File 2: Camp Wallulah – Photographs
Photograph Scrapbook
File 3: Rothschild Correspondence
The Shadow of A Great Man by Lord Rothschild
Camp Wallulah News (1928-1929, 1932, 1934, 1937-1942)
Box 2
File 1: Philips Exeter Academy
File 2: Philips Exeter Academy
File 3: Phillips Exeter vs. Phillips Andover (1935)
Loose: Photograph of Exeter vs. Andover game, June 8, 1935
File 4: Dartmouth College
File 5: Dartmouth College
File 6: Dartmouth College baseball
File 7: Baseball
File 8: Early Colby Junior College Employment
File 9: Boston University (1941)
File 10: Fulbright Fellowship (1950-51)
Box 3
File 1: U.S. Navy
Orders
File 2: U.S. Navy
General
File 3: U.S. Navy
Training
File 4: D-Day
File 5: D-Day
Newspaper Clippings
File 6: D-Day Write-ups and Lecture Material
Loose: Map of France (Army Map Service)
Folder – Smithsonian D-Day 50th Anniversary Tour
Folder – International Ceremony for D-Day 50th Anniversary
2 U.S. Navy Training Notebooks
U.S. Navy Training School Textbook/Yearbook
Box 4
File 1: Navy and D-Day Photographs
File 2: Writings (1952)
File 3: International Education Workshop in Germany (1952)
File 4: India (1952-62)
File 5: India
File 6: India
File 7: India
File 8: India
File 9: India Correspondence
Box 5
File 1: Dalai Lama
File 2: Ford Foundation in India (1958-62)
File 3: India (Photographs)
File 4: Appointment as President
Correspondence (Aug.-Sept. 1962)
File 5: Inauguration (May 18, 1963)
News clippings
File 6: Inauguration
Photographs
File 7: Inauguration packet
Box 6
File 1: Faculty meetings (September 1962-December 1965)
File 2: Faculty meetings (January 1966-August 1968)
File 3: Faculty meetings (September 1968-April 1970)
File 4: Faculty meetings (May 1970-May 1971)
File 5: Faculty meetings (August 1971-June 1972)
File 6: Faculty meetings (undated)
File 7: Trustee meetings (1965-66)
File 8: Trustee meetings (1967-68)
File 9: Trustee meetings (1969)
File 10: Trustee meetings (1970)
File 11: Trustee meetings (1971-72)
File 12: Alumnae events - on and off campus
Newsclippings
File 13: Alumnae events - on and off campus (1962-63)
File 14: Alumnae events - on and off campus (1964)
File 15: Alumnae events - on and off campus (1965)
File 16: Alumnae events - on and off campus (1966)
File 17: Alumnae events - on and off campus (1967)
File 18: Alumnae events - on and off campus (1968)
File 19: Alumnae events - on and off campus (1969)
File 20: Alumnae events - on and off campus (1970)
File 21: Alumnae events - on and off campus (1971)
File 22: Alumnae events - on and off campus (1972)
File 23: Memoranda to faculty, staff, and students (1963-72)
Box 7
File 1: Parents' programs (1962-63)
File 2: Parents' programs (1964)
File 3: Parents' programs (1965-66)
File 4: Parents' programs (1967-71)
File 5: Senior banquets (1965-72)
File 6: Senior breakfasts (1966-72)
File 7: Awards assemblies (1965-72)
File 8: Courier articles (1962-67)
File 9: Honors convocations (1966-72)
File 10: House Presidents' Inductions (1965-72, with gaps)
Inductions of Minor Officers (1968-72, with gaps)
File 11: Mountain Day (1965-67)
Proclamations, Photographs
File 12: Christmas banquet (1968-69, 1971)
File 13: Student meetings, inc. Senior Counselors, petitioners, etc. (1962..71)
File 14: Talks to Students (1969-71)
File 15: May Day (1968-70)
File 16: Miscellaneous Campus Events
Dartmouth Connection
Fashions in the Garden (1967)
"At Home"
File 17: Performing Arts (c. 1960-73)
Programs, calendars, etc.
File 18: Chapel and Chapel Talks (1962)
File 19: Chapel and Chapel Talks (1963)
File 20: Chapel and Chapel Talks (1964)
File 21: Chapel and Chapel Talks (1965)
File 22: Chapel and Chapel Talks (1966)
File 23: Chapel and Chapel Talks (1967)
File 24: Town/Gown Events
Installation of Reverend Thurston (1967)
Garden Club [photographs of President's House]
File 25: Honor Code
File 26: Academic Convocations (1962)
File 27: Academic Convocations (1963-64)
File 28: Academic Convocations (1965)
File 29: Academic Convocations (1966-68)
File 30: Academic Convocations (1969)
Box 8
File 1: Academic Convocations (1970-71)
File 2: Colbytown Camp
File 3: On Campus Events (no date)
File 4: On Campus Events (1967-68)
File 5: On Campus Events (1969-70)
File 6: Friends of the Library (c. 1970)
File 7: State and Regional Conferences on campus
Dartmouth Language Institute (August 1963)
Civil War Centennial Commission (March 1964)
Secondary School Guidance Counselors (April 1965)
New Hampshire Society of Medical Technologists (May 1965)
American College Health Association (June 1965)
New Hampshire Librarians Association (June 1966)
Psychologists Conference (November 19??)
Dartmouth Russian Language Lab (June 1968)
Management Institute for National Development (September 1969)
United Baptist Convention (May 1970)
Soviet and U.S. Journalists Conference (September 1982)
File 8: New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
New England Junior College Council
File 9: Channel 11 Talk (September 1966)
File 10: American Association of Junior Colleges
File 11: American Association of Junior Colleges
File 12: Consultant trip for AAJC to India/Africa (1972)
File 13: New Hampshire Council on World Affairs
File 14: New Hampshire Council on World Affairs
File 15: Crossroads Africa (c. 1970-74)
International Development of the Junior College Idea, ed. by Roger Yarrington(1970)
Box 9
File 1: Reaching the Questioning Mind Overseas
File 2: Reaching the Questioning Mind Overseas
File 3: Reaching the Questioning Mind Overseas (1966)
Correspondence
Scrapbook: Reaching the Questioning Mind Overseas
File 4: Visit to Vietnam (1970)
File 5: Ellsworth Bunker (Ambassador to Vietnam) Correspondence
File 6: Campus unrest at other schools
File 7: Campus unrest at Colby Junior College (1967-69)
File 8: Campus unrest at Colby Junior College (1970-72)
File 9: Dick Gregory visit controversy
Newspaper clippings
File 10: Dick Gregory visit controversy
Newspaper clippings
File 11: Dick Gregory visit controversy (January-February 1968)
File 12: Dick Gregory visit controversy (March-Sept. 1968)
File 13: Talks at Colby Junior College re: India (1955, 1963, 1965)
File 14: Campus Visits
Nelson Rockefeller (October 1963)
M.J. Desai (November 1966)
Carl De Suze (August 1965)
Governor George Romney (January 1968)
Lincoln Gordon (January 1966)
File 15: Kearsarge Valley Golf and Country Club
File 16: Speeches at other schools, groups (1963-64)
File 17: Speeches at other schools, groups (1965-66)
Box 10
File 1: Speeches at other schools, groups (1967-72)
File 2: Commencement speeches at other schools (1963. .72)
File 3: Promotional projects (1969, 1971)
File 4: Commencement at Colby Junior College (1963, 1965-72, 1993)
File 5: New Gymnasium dedication (October 1963)
Austin Hall dedication (October 1965)
File 6: William T. Baird Testimonial Dinner (October 1967)
File 7: William T. Baird Testimonial Dinner (October 1967)
Photographs
File 8: Resignation
File 9: Correspondence re: resignation (arranged alphabetically by correspondent)
A-F
File 10: Correspondence re: resignation
File 11: Correspondence re: resignation
File 12: Correspondence re: resignation
File 13: Correspondence re: resignation (no order)
File 14: Personal correspondence (no order)
Box 11
File 1: Correspondence with M. Maurice Debesse (1966-69)
File 2: Correspondence with alumnae, parents, faculty (1962-65)
File 3: Correspondence with alumnae, parents, faculty (1966-68)
File 4: Correspondence with alumnae, parents, faculty (1969-72)
File 5: Correspondence with alumnae, parents, students (1973-2005)
File 6: Correspondence with faculty and staff (1973-2004)
File 7: Correspondence re: Susan Piaseczny
File 8: Edward DeCourcy correspondence (1968-2001)
File 9: Miscellaneous/undated correspondence
File 10: Academy Alumni Events
File 11: Fundraising, Grants, Scholarships
File 12: Photographs of Everett M. Woodman
File 13: Hanging of Everett M. Woodman Portrait (June 2, 1979)
Guestbook of portrait hanging reception
Box 12
File 1: Emma B. Sawyer Reading Area dedication (May 31, 1986)
File 2: Class of 1938 50th Reunion (June 3-5, 1988)
File 3: Class of 1940 50th Reunion (June 1-3, 1990)
File 4: Distinguished Alumnae Award presentation to Ann Blackman
(May 11, 1991)
File 5: Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters (May 13, 1995)
File 6: “Going Co-Ed” (1989)
2 Class of 1940 Reunion pins
File 7: Photographs
Buildings/Views
File 8: Photographs
Buildings/Views
File 9: Photographs
Individuals
File 10: Photographs
Classroom Situations
Box 13
File 1: Newsclippings
Miscellaneous
File 2: Nature Conservancy
Press Releases
File 3: Nature Conservancy
Dismal Swamp
File 4: Nature Conservancy
Newsclippings
File 5: Nature Conservancy
Photographs
File 6: Nature Conservancy
Correspondence (Early 1972)
File 7: Nature Conservancy
Correspondence (July 1972)
File 8: Nature Conservancy
Correspondence (July 1972)
File 9: Nature Conservancy
Correspondence (July 1972)
File 10: Nature Conservancy
Correspondence (July 1972)
File 11: Nature Conservancy
Correspondence (August 1972-80)
File 12: Nature Conservancy
Miscellaneous
File 13: Peace Corps in Morocco (1976)
File 14: Gene Sarazen
File 15: Gene Sarazen
File 16: Dartmouth Class of 1939 Man of the Year (October 2000)
File 17: Newspaper Articles (2001)
Box 14
File 1: Photographs
Events/Performances
File 2: Photographs
Groups
File 3: Public Events
File 4: Observations on Current Events (1982– )
File 5: Students' Projects on Dr. Woodman (2003– )
File 6: Unitarian Church
Box 15
Audio Tape Recordings: Original format
Convocations (1962 [incomplete], 1964-66, 1968-69, 1971)
Inauguration (May 18, 1963 [incomplete])
Convocation Special Wednesday Day Program (February 5, 1969)
Talk to students (April 23, 1970)
Honors Convocation (May 27, 1972)
Presented by David Coffin
Commencement (1972)
President Woodman's Farewell Address, Ruth Woodman's
Honorary Degree
Box 16
Audio Tape Recordings: Original format
Convocations (1963, 1967, 1970)
Colbytown children's message to Jane Woodman (undated)
Parents' Weekend (1963)
VHS videocassettes
Youth Forum on the Air (1970)
Woodman Tribute to Ann Blackman (Commencement, May 11, 1991)
Box 17
Audio Tape Recordings: standard cassettes
World War II [3 cassettes] (Nov. 25, 2002)
Ruth R. Woodman: Growing up, War years, Life in India (Nov. 26, 2002)
India (Nov. 17, 2002)
Abbey aux Dames Medal ceremony (June 3, 1994)
Speech to Peace Corps, Rabat, Morocco (Sept. 3, 1977)
Mary/Gene Sarazen (July 29, 1986)
Talk on Gene Sarazen at Lake Sunapee Country Club (Sept. 19, 1999)
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller Visit and Speech (Oct. 19, 1963)
50th D-Day Anniversary [2 cassettes] (June 1994)
Dartmouth Phi Beta kappa Address (June 10, 1989)
USIA in India (c. 2002)
Speech at Ragged Mountain Club (July 1, 2001)
Phillips Exeter Academy 50th Reunion Speech (June 1985)
Emma Sawyer Room Dedication, CSC Library (May 31, 1986)
Colby-Sawyer's 50th Reunion (June 5, 1988)
Woodman Inauguration (May 18, 1963)
Special Convocation, Wednesday Program (Feb. 5, 1969)
Commencement: Woodman Farewell Address (May 28, 1972)
Talk to Students (April 23, 1970)
Convocation (Sept. 21, 1962)
Convocation (Sept. 16, 1963)
Convocation (Sept. 23, 1964)
Convocation (Sept. 22, 1965)
Convocation (Sept. 21, 1966)
Convocation (Sept. 20, 1967)
Convocation (Sept. 18, 1968)
Convocation (Sept. 16, 1969)
Convocation (Sept. 16, 1970)
Convocation (Sept. 12, 1971)
Portrait Hanging speeches: Carl DeSuze, et al.
Portrait Hanging (June 2, 1979)
Ruth Woodman's 50th Reunion (June 1990)
Colby-Sawyer Reunion (June 31, 199?)
16 mm Films
2003-001: Colby Junior College (August 1962-1963)
2003-002 Colby Junior College (September 10, 1963 and June 1964)
2003-003: Colby Junior College (1964-1965)
2003-004: Colby Junior College (October 1966-September 1967)
2003-005: Colby Junior College Commencement/Trip to Italy & France (Summer 1969)
2003-006: Amsterdam/Colby Junior College Commencement (Spring 1970)
2003-007: India (1970)
2003-008: India (includes Nixon Visit, 1952-1958) * Also in VHS and DVD
2003-009: India (1957-1960) * Also in VHS and DVD
2003-010: India (n.d.)
2003-011: Indian dance by Mrs. Woodman (no date)
2003-012: India/Cruise to Naples (September 1962)
2003-013: Trip home from India (1962)
2003-014: Camp Wallulah (1937-1938) ** Also in VHS and DVD
2003-015: Trip to Western U.S. (December 1945-July 1946)
2003-016: France (1960)
2003-017: Strasburg (1950)
2003-018: India (1957)
2003-019: India (1957)
2003-020: India (1957)
2003-021: India (1957)
2003-022: India (1957)
2003-023: India (1959)
2003-024: Nepal and India (October 1959)
2003-025: Kulu Valley [N. India] Trip (May–June 1960)
2003-026: Woodstock School [N. India] (1960)
2003-027: Traveling: Boston, England, France, New London (1963-1965)
2003-028: Trip to Spain (1965)
2003-029: Trip Home (September 1962)
2003-030: Morocco (1974-1975)
2003-031: India (c. 1950)
2003-032: India (no date)
Scrapbook: Christmas at Colby
Oversize Folder: Large newspaper cuttings, etc.
