VIII. Writings About Oberlin

(These materials arranged alphabetically by author.)

A. Published Writings

Box 1

Anonymous, 1878

"An Oberlin Scandal": photocopies and photographs of newspaper clippings of 1878, including the cover of the Illustrated Police News, describing coeds sneaking out at night to be with male students.

Blue, Frederick J., 1989

Two manuscript copies of a speech delivered at Oberlin for "Heritage Days" in 1989 and a journal off print of "Oberlin's James Monroe: Forgotten Abolitionist," from Civil War History, A Journal of the Middle Period, vol. 35, no. 4, December 1989.

Butchart, Ronald E., 2002

Article (photocopy) entitled “Mission Matters: Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, and the Schooling of Southern Blacks, 1861-1917,” by Ronald E. Butchart, in History of Education Quarterly, 42 (Spring 2002), pp. vi., 1-17.

Cannon, James C., 1903

Record of Service of Company K, 150th O.V.I., 1864, by James C. Canon (photocopy)

Carlson, Bobbie [1976]

"A Patchwork Guide to Oberlin: The Oberlin quilt" (68 pp.) by Bobbie Carlson, [1976], tells the story of the squares in the quilt. A postcard photograph of the quilt is included. [See also "Oberlin in Appliqué" by Mary Potts Montgomery in Alumni Magazine, September/October, 1974, pp. 2-5.]

Christian History, 1988

Entire issue of magazine, Christian History, Volume VII, Number 4, Issue 20, containing articles about Charles Grandison Finney.

Christy, Mary H.

See VII. Writings by Oberlinians

Clark, Ricky, 1988

Chapter excerpt (photocopy) entitled, "Quilt Documentation: A Case Study," from Making the American Home: Middle Class Women and Domestic Material Culture 1840-1940 (1988). Also included, photocopy of an article appearing in Spectrum, Spring 1988, (a publication of the Lorain County Arts Council), "Quilting in Lorain County Today," by the same author.

Diepenbrock, David, 1993.

Article entitled "Black Women and Oberlin College in the Age of Jim Crow." UCLA Historical Journal, 23 (1993) pp. 27- 59. Acc. 1996/ 105.

Disbrow, Donald W., 1975

Article entitled "A Recent Find: The Hammond-Movius Papers" in Ypsilanti Gleanings (April 1975), in which a letter written from Oberlin in February 1838 by Henry L. Hammond (A.B. 1838, d. 1893) is described. A photocopy of this letter is included. [refers to need for Hebrew alphabet, and reports on the Mormon "Blow-up" in Kirkland, OH.]

Dober and Associates, 1973 Oversize Box 2

"Dober Reports" prepared by Dober and Associates, Inc., Belmont, Mass for Business and Finance Department: "Academic and Support Facilities at Oberlin College," (draft; 50 pp.); and "Planning Proposals for Eighteen College Buildings," (92 pp.). See Alumni Magazine, September/October 1973, p. 3, for further information.

Elcombe, Tim, 2005

A copy (typescript) of Time Elcombe’s published article entitled “Reformist America: ‘The Oberlin Experiment’ – The Limits of Jack Scott’s ‘Athletic Revolution in Post-1960s America.’” Published in the International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 22, no. 6, November 2005, 1060-1085. [2005/095]

Horger, Marc, 1996

Copy of his article “Basketball and Athletic Control at Oberlin College, 1896-1915,” in Journal of Sports History, Fall 1996.

Knight, George, 1983

Spring 1983, Vol. 8, No. 1 issue of Adventist Heritage: A Journal of Adventist History which includes the article, "Oberlin College and Adventist Educational Reforms."

Kuhle, Mrs. Charles R., 1928

Newspaper article by Mrs. Charles R. Kuhle about the Marshall Field Ranch in Nebraska on land formerly owned by Oberlin College, from the Omaha, Nebraska, Sunday World-Herald, March 25, 1928. (original and photocopy) [acc. 2001/94]

Masaryk, T. G., 1894

Photocopy of a published article in Czech (with accompanying English translation of an excerpt) written by founder of the Czechoslovakian state, Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), in 1893. The article describes Masaryk's favorable impressions of Oberlin, received during a visit to the United States. Attached correspondence from Oberlin College President, S. Frederick Starr. Received in September 1989.

Putney, Clifford 2001

"The Legacy of the Gulicks, 1827-1964, "Article by Clifford Putney in International Bulletin of Missionary Research, January 2001. [2001/010]

Raffel, Dawn, 1983

Excerpt from Seventeen magazine: article entitled, "My fourteen undercover days at college," by a reporter who posed as an incoming freshman at Oberlin in August 1983.

Reimer, Michael, 2006

A copy of Reimer’s published article “The King-Crane Commission at the Juncture of Politics and Historiography,” in Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, vol.15, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 129-150.  [2006/089]

Rokicky, Catherine M., 1991

"Lydia Finney and Evangelical Womanhood," student paper written at Kent State University. Published in Ohio History.

Scott, Jack, 1972

Printed materials relating to Jack Scott, chairman of the Physical Education Department and Director of Athletics at Oberlin, 1972-74. Copies of newspaper clippings and other writings regarding this controversial faculty member.

Shinn, Larry, 2006

Text copy of Shinn’s article “John G. Fee: His Pre-Berea Years,” published in the Berea Magazine, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, March 2006 (12 pages, typescript).

Smith, Edward Parmelee, 1865

Photocopy of a letter published in The Well-Spring, December 15 and 22, 1865, a publication of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society of Boston. The letter tells of racial relations in Oberlin and of school interest in going south to teach freed blacks.

Stuart, Charles, 1841

"Oneida and Oberlin, or a call addressed to British Christians and Philanthropists, affectionately inviting their sympathies, their prayers, and their assistance, in favor of the Christians and Philanthropists of the United States of North America, for the extirpation, by our aid, of the slavery which we introduced into those states, while they were under our power," Bristol, [England], 1841 (copy; 20 pp. printed; purchased form the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1982.).

Smith, Stephen, 1994

“Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing,” a radio biography for Minnesota Public Radio. Paper transcript and cassette tape included.

Williams, N. Eugene, 1988

Journal off print of "Footnote to Trivia: Moses Fleetwood Walker and the All-American Dream," from Journal of American Culture, Vol. 11, Number 2 (Summer 1988), pp. 65-72.

Wright, Arthur D. and George D. Gardner, 1929

Copy of "The Life and Works of Samuel Read Hall," in Hall's Lectures on School Keeping by Arthur D. Wright and George E. Gadner (Hanover, N.H.) 1929. Includes copies of bibliography. Hall, a noted educator, is said to have been offered the presidency of Oberlin College in 1834 (p. 26). He declined because of ill health, but recommended his brother-in-law James Dascomb to college officials.

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