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Box 11

 Container

Contains 25 Results:

Form letters, 1961-1975

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 16-17
Scope and Contents

Various form letters directed to faculty, as well as packets of general information on The New School, akin to a faculty manual.

Dates: 1961-1975

Faculty meetings, 1955-1965

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 18-21
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence from Dean Mayer.

Dates: 1955-1965

Fifth Avenue Cinema, 1975-1976

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Relates to policy regarding projectionists for Adult Division cinema studies classes, Parsons School of Design film classes, and others who rented the theater. Located on the ground level of 66 5th Avenue, the Fifth Avenue Cinema was renamed the May Company Auditorium after a renovation that occurred during this period.

Dates: 1975-1976

Files, 1963-1964

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

Documentation on the Dean's Office filing system and lists of files.

Dates: 1963-1964

Film department, 1961-1970s

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence between Leo Hurwitz and Allen Austill regarding an application for a grant that Hurwitz wrote in 1967 to establish a film school at The New School. Also includes fliers for film screenings in the 1970s.

Dates: 1961-1970s

Financial Agreements with instructors, 1949-1962

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 9-15
Scope and Contents

Lists of financial arrangements with individual faculty members as well as some correspondence with faculty and potential faculty. These agreements document revenue sharing arrangements made with faculty, which appears to be the primary means of faculty compensation prior to the fall of 1962. The course agreement files contain similar records, but dating from the 1962-1963 academic year, when flat rates replaced revenue sharing agreements.

Dates: 1949-1962

Founder's Award Dinner, 1962

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

This file was found in the office of a New School librarian and integrated here because it holds material addressed to Dean Birenbaum and had a label that matched other files in this record group.

Dates: 1962