bMS 16146
Unitarian Service Committee. Executive Director. Records, 1940-1950.
Summary Information:
- Call Number: bMS 16146
- Title: Unitarian Service Committee. Executive Director. Records, 1940-1950.
- Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
- Quantity: 3 boxes
Administrative Information:
- Access: There is no restriction on access to this collection.
Historical Note:
The Unitarian Service Committee was formed as a standing committee of the American Unitarian Association in May 1940. Its purpose was to be a committee to investigate opportunities both in America and abroad for humanitarian service. During and after World War II, the Unitarian Service Committee aided hundreds of displaced persons in occupied countries, allowing many of them to find passage to the United States. The present-day Unitarian Universalist Service Committee continues to endeavor to advance human rights and social justice throughout the world.
Scope and Content Note:
This collection includes the records of Robert Dexter, executive director, 1941-1944, and Charles Joy, executive director, 1944-1946. There is also correspondence from Edward A. Cahill, associate director, 1944-1947; Howard L. Brooks, associate director, 1943-1953, and acting director, July-November 1952, July 1946-March 1947; and other people associated with the Service Committee, such as Noel Field and Elizabeth Dexter. The records document controversies concerning Service Committee members Noel Field, Herta Tempi, and Charles Joy, and the serious financial crisis the Committee faced in the mid-1940s. There are also reports documenting the experiences of refugees in Italy, particularly in Vienna and Bologna, as well as in Czechoslovakia and other parts of Europe.
Container List:
- bMS 16146/1 (1) American Association of University Women.
- bMS 16146/1 (2) Central Bureau for Relief of the Evangelical Churches of Europe.
- bMS 16146/1 (3) College and summer institutes, 1942.
- bMS 16146/1 (4) Crobel, Dr. W.K., 1943.
- bMS 16146/1 (5) Czechs, 1940-1943.
- bMS 16146/1 (6) -D-, 1943.
- bMS 16146/1 (7) Department of State.
- bMS 16146/1 (8) Displaced persons.
- bMS 16146/1 (9) -E-, 1943.
- bMS 16146/1 (10) England, relief work, 1941-1942.
- bMS 16146/1 (11) -F-, 1943.
- bMS 16146/1 (12) Field, Noel H., 1943-1948.
- bMS 16146/1 (13) Field, Noel H., 1943-1948.
- bMS 16146/2 (1) Finance Committee
- bMS 16146/2 (2) Geneva, cables from Noel Field, 1944-1947.
- bMS 16146/2 (3) Geneva, correspondence, Noel Field, 1942-1944.
- bMS 16146/2 (4) Geneva, correspondence, 1944.
- bMS 16146/2 (5) Geneva, correspondence, 1944. Includes letter from Mrs. Champsaur.
- bMS 16146/2 (6) Geneva, correspondence, 1944.
- bMS 16146/2 (7) Geneva, letters from, 1946.
- bMS 16146/2 (8) Geneva, letters from, 1946.
- bMS 16146/2 (9) Geneva, letters to Field, 1945-1946. Includes reports on Vienna and Bologna.
- bMS 16146/3 (1) -H-, 1943.
- bMS 16146/3 (2) Hibbert Houses.
- bMS 16146/3 (3) -I-, 1943.
- bMS 16146/3 (4) Key to master files, 1943.
- bMS 16146/3 (5) Labor organizations, 1941-1942.
- bMS 16146/3 (6) Lisbon-based Catholic organizations, 1941-1942.
- bMS 16146/3 (7) Miscellaneous.
- bMS 16146/3 (8) Pamphlets, 1943.
- bMS 16146/3 (9) Postwar reconstruction, 1943.
- bMS 16146/3 (10) Projects, 1942-1943.
- bMS 16146/3 (11) Relief organizations, 1941.
- bMS 16146/3 (12) -S-, 1943.
- bMS 16146/3 (13) Switzerland. Noel Field confidential correspondence, 1947.
- bMS 16146/3 (14) Switzerland. Noel Field confidential correspondence, 1947.
- bMS 16146/3 (15) Transportation, 1941-1943.
- bMS 16146/3 (16) -V-, 1941-1943.