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Collection Overview
Title: Board of Trustees Meeting Records, 1831-2000
ID: Arch/02/001
Extent: 38.0 Boxes
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Contains handwritten, bound, and typewritten meeting records for the Board of Trustees, including minutes, ledgers, finance reports, and cash books, addressing institutional policy, board operations, tenure and raise decisions, university construction, scholarships, and endowments
Administrative Information
Repository:
Denison University Archives
Access Restrictions:
The Board of Trustees Records are confidential. Please consult archivist for more information.
Use Restrictions:
While Denison University may hold the physical rights for this collection, we may not hold the copyright or reproduction rights. If a researcher wishes to use or reproduce any of the material held in this collection, they are required to obtain copyrights, releases, and/or permissions their own. The Denison University Archives & Special Collections is not held liable.
Preferred Citation:
RG 02 Board of Trustees, Series 1 Board of Trustees Meeting Records, Denison University Archives. Granville, Ohio.
Finding Aid Revision History:
Original inventories created by Zakia Sultana '18. Finding aid created and data migrated to Archon by Charles Busby in November 2017. Previously classified as Series M.
Revised Aug 20, 2018 to include Series 5: Red Books
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Sub-Series:
[Sub-Series 1: Bookbound Minutes, 1831-1997],
[
Sub-Series 2: Handwritten & Unbound Meeting Records],
[
Sub-Series 3: Policies and Programs of the Board],
[
Sub-Series 4: Finance Reports, Construction, and Endowments, 1834-1990],
[
Sub-Series 5: Full Red Books, 1990-2016],
[
All]
- Sub-Series 1: Bookbound Minutes, 1831-1997
- Box 53: Trustee Records, 1831-1847
- "It was reported that the orignal records of the Board up to 1847 were burned in the Barney Hall fire. Of this I am not certain." Millard Brelsford
- Box 54: Trustee Records, 1846-1890
- "No records earlier than this [1846] were turned over to me when I became Secretary of the Board. It was reported to me by President Chamerlain that the earlier records were lost at the time of the fire which destroyed Barney Science Hall." Millar Brelsford Aug 23, 1927
- Box 55: Trustee Records, 1890-1904
- Box 56: Records of Denison University And Shepardson College, 1904-1922
- Box 57: Board of Trustee Meeting Minutes, 1922-1935
- Arrangement: Consolidated and indexed records of Shepherdson and Denison Board of Trustees minutes
- Box 58: Board of Trustee Meeting Minutes, 1936-1947
- Arrangement: Consolidated and indexed records of Shepherdson and Denison Board of Trustees minutes
- Box 59: Board of Trustee Meeting Minutes, 1922-1938
- Originals or Copies Note: Second copy of Board of Trustee minutes for these years
- Box 60: Board of Trustee Meeting Minutes, 1938-1945
- Originals or Copies Note: Second copy of Board of Trustee minutes for these years
- Box 61: Board of Trustee Meeting Minutes, 1947-1963
- Box 62: Board of Trustee Meeting Minutes, 1963-1977
- Box 63: Board of Trustee Meeting Minutes, 1978-1989
- Box 64: Board of Trustee Meeting Minutes, 1989-1997
Browse by Sub-Series:
[Sub-Series 1: Bookbound Minutes, 1831-1997],
[
Sub-Series 2: Handwritten & Unbound Meeting Records],
[
Sub-Series 3: Policies and Programs of the Board],
[
Sub-Series 4: Finance Reports, Construction, and Endowments, 1834-1990],
[
Sub-Series 5: Full Red Books, 1990-2016],
[
All]
