bMS 16171
Unitarian Service Committee. Administrative Records, 1940-1953.
Summary Information:
- Call Number: bMS 16171
- Title: Unitarian Service Committee. Administrative Records, 1940-1953.
- Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
- Quantity: 4 boxes
Administrative Information:
- Access: There are no restrictions on access to this collection.
- Acquisition Information: Gift of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
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 consists largely of correspondence between various members of the Unitarian Service Committee (USC), such as Raymond Bragg, Howard Brooks, Charles Joy, and Edward Cahill, who were all USC executives. The collection also includes material relating to several other USC staff members, such as Katharine Taylor, Marianne Welter, Helen Fogg, and Gustav Ulrich, who all worked on projects centered on children in Germany. There is also correspondence from such significant figures as Maurice Visscher, who worked on nutritional projects in France; Zoltan Nagy, a Unitarian minister who fled from Hungary to establish himself in the United States; and Ernst Papanek, who worked with American Youth for World Youth. The collection also includes reports that describe case work policies, the relationship of the USC to the UUA, medical missions in Italy, Austria, and Germany, and projects the USC was engaged in at home.
Container List:
- bMS 16171/1 (1) Case work policies, 1945-1947
- bMS 16171/1 (2) Dental supplies, 1947
- bMS 16171/1 (3) Documents and correspondence concerning the relationship of the USC to the AUA, 1949
- bMS 16171/1 (4) Executive Committee and General Committee, minutes, 1940-1941
- bMS 16171/1 (5-6) Financial records, USC, 1947
- bMS 16171/1 (7) Findly, John K., director of home projects, 1947-1948
- bMS 16171/1 (8) Inter-office memos, 1947
- bMS 16171/1 (9) Inter-office memos, 1948
- bMS 16171/1 (10) J correspondence, (includes Homer Jack), 1947-1948
- bMS 16171/1 (11) Joy, Charles R., reports and correspondence to Edward Cahill concerning the Italian medical nutrition mission, 1945
- bMS 16171/1 (12) Joy, Charles R., 1942-1945
- bMS 16171/1 (13) Joy, Charles, resignation, 1946
- bMS 16171/1 (14-15) Medical relief work, reports and correspondence, 1947
- bMS 16171/2 (1) Mendelsohn, Rev. Jack, USC medical mission to Austria, 1947
- bMS 16171/2 (2) Migrant workers, articles and news clippings, 1947
- bMS 16171/2 (3-4) Moore, Mrs. Dudley, home projects committee, 1950
- bMS 16171/2 (5) Muller, Henry, 1947
- bMS 16171/2 (6-8) Nagy, Zoltan, includes photographs, 1949-1951 (3 folders)
- bMS 16171/2 (9) Nash, Arthur, memorandums, 1947
- bMS 16171/2 (10) Office administration, correspondence, 1947
- bMS 16171/2 (11) Papanek, Ernst, biographical information, reports, photograph
- bMS 16171/2 (12) Policies for shipping overseas, 1947
- bMS 16171/2 (13) Public relations department, 1947
- bMS 16171/2 (14) Purchasing gifts in kind, 1947
- bMS 16171/3 (1) Reports: includes handwritten report to the USC Board of Directors from Howard Brooks, October 2, 1952
- bMS 16171/3 (2) Sharp, Waitstill, 1947
- bMS 16171/3 (3-5) Taylor, Katharine, 1947-1950
- bMS 16171/3 (6) Toplisky, Victor, 1949
- bMS 16171/3 (7) Ulrich, Gustav, 1949
- bMS 16171/3 (8-9) UUSC, general reports, significant correspondence, statistical information, medical mission to Germany, international and home projects (includes work with Navajos), 1950-1953
- bMS 16171/3 (10) Visscher, Maurice, correspondence, mostly with Howard Brooks, 1947-1950
- bMS 16171/3 (11) Visscher, Maurice, medical missions, 1944-1945
- bMS 16171/4 (1) Waite, Charlie budget memos, 1947
- bMS 16171/4 (2) Weil, Lewis P., Germantown USC drive, 1950
- bMS 16171/4 (3-6) Welter, Marianne, correspondence with Helen Fogg, Katharine Taylor, and others concerning work with children in Germany, 1949-1951
- bMS 16171/4 (7) Whitman, Alfred, Children's Aid Association, correspondence,1945-1947
- bMS 16171/4 (8-9) Work camps, in the United States and overseas, 1947-1948