Duncan S. Ballantine presidential records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of Duncan S. Ballantine, Reed College president from 1952 to 1954. The collection includes documents relating to administration, the bookstore, budgets, calendars, divisions, research, selective service, self-study 1953, songs, trips, trustees, tuition, the U.S. government.
Dates
- 1952 - 1954
Creator
- Ballantine, Duncan S. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is closed.
Biographical / Historical
Duncan S. Ballantine was born in Garden City, New Jersey, in 1912. Before arriving at Reed, Ballantine was an associate professor at MIT, where he helped to establish a core humanities program. In 1952, Ballantine became president of Reed College. At Reed, Ballantine made changes to disciplinary processes and faculty governance procedures. Then, the Velde Committee, a subcommittee of the House Un-American Activities Committee, arrived in Portland. The Velde Committee suspected three Reed faculty members of harboring communist sympathies. Ballantine and the Board of Trustees decided to break one faculty members tenure, and the professor left the college.
Ballantine resigned in 1954. He went on to serve as the President of the American College for Girls in Istanbul, Turkey.
[Information from Presidents of Reed on the Reed website.]
Extent
5.6 Linear Feet (12 manuscript boxes)
Language
English
Overview
This collection contains the personal papers of Duncan S. Ballantine, Reed College president from 1952 to 1954.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Physical Location
Archives Main Shelving (L014), Range C Section 6.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Unknown. Presumed transferred pre-1989.
- Author
- Isabel Lyndon
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Reed College Special Collections and Archives Repository
3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard
Portland Oregon 97202-8199 United States
archives@reed.edu