Record Group 13. Ethics Department and the Society for Ethical Culture (1901-1999; 7.5 linear feet), 1901-1999, inclusive

Includes event programs and newsletters.

Primarily pamphlets on issues and texts of addresses.

Materials from longtime leader of the Ethical Culture Society, and at one time head of Ethics Department at the Ethical Culture Schools. Items relate to moral education and the Ethical Culture Schools, with types of items including correspondence, essays, memorandum, notes, ephemera, news clippings, and transcripts of addresses and discussions with students. Files also include Ethical Culture Society committee meeting minutes and correspondence with Luther Tate.

Press release from the Society on the release of the book by the Fieldston Junior Peace Council, with correspondence (mainly requests for copies.)

Texts of talks given at Society meetings, most between 1945-1946.

Includes 1940s correspondence between Society leaders and Herbert A. Wolf (chairman of the Ethical Culture School Board of Governors), 1970s and 1980s records of the Council on Educational Philosophy and the School-Society Relations Committee, and 1980s correspondence on the use of shared space and the visit of President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega to the Society in 1985.

Mission statements and discussions of objectives, as well as records of the Council on Education Philosophy, 1976-1979.

Files of correspondence and documents, sent from the law offices of M. S. and I. S. Isaacs. Original folder titles: Re: Sutro correspondence, Re: Sutro - Will and Financial data, Re: classification of Society Funds.

Includes proposed changes to by-laws, 1985.

Correspondence and other documents from the administration and Board of Governors.

Continued as above.

Correspondence, legal documents, memorandum, and copy of 1995 provisional charter.

Three bound sets of legal and financial documents.

Includes correspondence of Algernon Black and Victoria Wagner.

Curriculum materials, descriptions of program and courses, reports, and statements of purpose.

Includes printed copies of stories by ethics instructor Florence W. Klaber.

Ethics program descriptions, curriculum materials, student work, and faculty meeting notes. Also includes some social studies and language arts program descriptions. Includes 1977 copy of "A Teacher's Guide for Algernon Black's First Book of Ethics."

Project planned in the 1950s, and revisited in the 1980s. 1950s manuscript drafts, publisher comments, and related correspondence. 1980s prospectus, contract correspondence, and teacher's manual for "The Fieldston Reader."

Readings, notes, correspondence, and meeting materials regarding curriculum and administrative matters.

Materials including Howard Radest writings and correspondence, program descriptions, background materials, grant proposals, and curriculum outlines.

Notes, reports, correspondence, memorandum, curriculum materials, student work, teacher materials, classroom evaluations, grant proposals, and bibliographies created by instructors or administrators for the Ethics program. Topics include curriculum, staffing, funding, and the direction of program. Curriculum subjects include moral theory, self-awareness, humanism, and human development.

Elementary school ethics curriculum materials from several teachers and Fieldston Upper ethics curriculum materials and readings.

Includes curriculum materials, teacher guide, and correspondence and meeting minutes for the Ethics faculty and related Board of Governors committees. Correspondence regarding proposal for an Ethical/Fieldston Institute. Program for 1990 conference on "the moral development of children."

Copies of "The Fieldston Ethics Reader," and "Exploring Ethics through Children's Literature." Copies of "Can We Teach Ethics?" and "The Devil and Secular Humanism" by Howard Radest, both with inscriptions to "Janet."