Record Group 3. Fieldston School (1925-2012; 18.75 linear feet), 1925-2012, inclusive

Miscellaneous correspondence and notes. Includes "Report of the Subcommittee on Obstacles to Comprehension and How to Overcome them," 1927.

Files of the senior administration, primarily of the offices of Principals Smith and Tate. Includes correspondence, notes, ephemera, schedules, and reports. Subjects: (Faculty) apartments, Apprentices, "Black book" [schedules, rosters, reference information], Budget and purchase orders, Calendar, Class lists, Commission on Secondary Schools, Educational Records Bureau, Junior College Course, Schedules, Social Welfare Activities of New York, State of New York [student testing], Student Council Fund, Testing, Vacation surveys, Work load surveys.

Text of speeches and talks (for example, for graduation or memorials, or to Board of Governors), with drafts. Some teaching materials. Ephemera from 1966 memorial service.

Tate's correspondence (1929-1965) with Fieldston faculty and staff, parents, prospective students and employees, and administrators at other secondary schools and colleges. Frequent topics include college admissions, student progress, school scheduling and curriculum, facilities, textbooks, admissions to Fieldston, hiring of faculty, donations, discipline, events, and the use of school grounds. Includes a very small amount of personal correspondence, such as medical or car insurance inquiries.

Also contains some records from Tate's time at Fieldston before becoming principal, including correspondence with principal H.W. Smith and a 1929 letter accepting offer of teaching position. 1940s records include discussion of impact of World War II on the schools.

Itineraries, with Tate's summaries of visits.

From the administration of principal Luther Tate. Subjects: Academic honesty, Auerbach requests (math department), Austin-Mahoney Bill, Budget, Calendars.

Civil defense (4 folders), Curriculum, Educational Testing Service (2 folders, includes manuals and sample tests), Experimental Program for Students with Learning Disabilities, Funds and fees, Grades and evaluations, The Hilltop Association, Hudson Guild, "Living Newspaper" (radio program scripts), Meetings with teachers - notes, Menus, National Council of Independent Schools (3 folders), Public relations (2 folders), Schedules.

Papers of Spencer Brown, primarily from his teaching and administrative roles prior to becoming principal. Mostly correspondence, including much with Luther Tate, other Fieldston teachers and administrators, parents, and colleagues at other institutions. Correspondence often relates to college admissions, New York State testing, and Fieldston curriculum, with some letters on personal matters or Brown's writing career. Also includes some teaching materials, meeting minutes, congratulatory correspondence on Brown's appointment as principal in 1966, and Selective Service materials in the 1940s.

Materials from Brown's work as evaluator for Patchogue High School, Patchogue, New York.

Various reports and memorandum, 1954-1970. Discussion of faculty contracts, 1972-1975.

From the administrations of principals Spencer Brown, Kenneth Barton, and Ellen Stern, as well as administrator David Schwartz. Files: Academic honesty, Administration, Administrative structure, Business office, Calendars, Cheating, Comparative Study [of revenue], Dewitt-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, Diversity, Drug education, Education Records Bureau testing (2 folders), Faculty memos, Form lists, High school mailings, History department, Independent Schools Opportunity Project, Lunch, Middle school, Minority experiences at Fieldston, New York State Pupil Evaluation, Nemerov dinner, Albert G. Oliver program, Open School Evening, Planning Committee, Professional development, Questionnaire - midwinter vacation, Report on morale, Science Department, Student discipline, Student leadership conference, Study halls (Black and Latin-American Students Club), Sit-in, Suspensions, Trips.

Correspondence.

Correspondence.

Correspondence, primarily letters to parents.

Notes and meeting minutes, discussing specific school policies and their enforcement.

Meeting minutes, with a small amount of correspondence. Topics include curriculum and academic programs, college preparation, athletics and extracurricular activities, community work, faculty, administrative structure, events, and discipline. Matters discussed broadly, with very few mentions of specific staff members or students. 1973 letter with Faculty Council by-laws. No records for 1935 or 1951.

1942 report from Commission, with progress reports to the Commission in 1945 and 1947. Correspondence and memoranda, and questionnaires filled out by staff members (mostly on their schedules).

Reports, correspondence, evaluation criteria, background materials, and preparatory materials (forms filled out by staff members). Visiting Committee made up of representatives from other independent schools.

Report from the Research Center for Human Relations, New York University.

Report from the Evaluation Committee, with related correspondence.

Report from the Evaluation Committee, two copies.

Correspondence and questionnaires.

Brochures, news clippings, and academic publications from the Progressive Education Association and others. Includes Report of the Committee on Experimental Schools, 1937.

Correspondence, with some notes and meeting materials. Correspondence primarily with other administrators, those from the Progressive Education Association, and others from ECFS.

Evaluations, background materials, meeting minutes, correspondence, drafts, reports.

Two reports from Principal Herbert W. Smith to the Commission on the Relation of Secondary School and College, along with supplementary materials on curriculum for English, Latin, art and "verbal expression," and copy of Annual Report to Board of Governors, 1837. (Possibly duplicate copies of materials found in Box 70 through 73.)

Records of the faculty liaison group to the Board of Governors. Includes minutes and meeting notes and correspondence on topics including salaries, schedules, and educational policy.

Meeting notes and minutes on topics including disciplinary policies, curriculum, committee work, new hires, event planning, facilities, and schedules.

Includes meeting materials, correspondence, handbooks, and examination materials.

Weekly class schedules.

Primarily all-faculty correspondence and lists of new teachers.

Valedictory addresses, planning correspondence, graduation dinner materials, and diploma design examples.

Incomplete run.

Daily notices for faculty and administration, for 1942, 1948, 1956, 1991-1994, 1996-1998.

Correspondence, memorandum, meeting minutes, mostly on college application and selection.

Brief forms on history of illnesses and immunizations.

Includes AIDS policy.

Includes discussion of non-school sponsored parties.

Includes 1980 dedication of Fieldston auditorium.

Includes 1936 Parent & Teacher accession book.

Accession ledgers listing book purchases for the library at Fieldston.

New book lists. Also 1948 list of "periodicals received at the Fieldston School."

Monthly reports, with some daily records from 1992.

Book with list of names of donors for the construction of Tate Library.

Home reports for students Hilda Lazarus Pearlman and Sanford Ehrmann. Includes 1991 and 1998 letters granting permission for use in archive.

Sample home reports on student progress, along with correspondence and instructions for grading and creating reports.

End of year reports from the following departments: Art, Economics, English, Ethics, Household Arts, History, Latin, French and Spanish, German, Graphic Art, Mathematics, Mechanic Arts, Music, Printing, Psychology, Science, and Speech and Drama. Also includes some reports on the School and Community Committee, Middle School, field trips, festivals, and the library. Number and type of reports varies each year.

Additional end of year departmental reports.

Relating to budgets, committees, student council, rules, and teaching apprentices.

Includes "The Arts in Modern Society" by Elbert Lenrow, Research Associate and Teacher of English," 1936. Also includes African-American literature and Southern literature curriculum materials from the 1980s-1990s.

Duplicate copy of ""The Arts in Modern Society" by Elbert Lenrow.

See Record Group 13 for additional material on Ethics programs.

Includes information on 1972 trip to Greece and 1991 trip to Italy.

Includes the "Fieldston American Reader" and Form IV resource and reader notebooks.

Questionnaires on homework load.

Includes "Introducing Geometry" by Joseph Jablonower, 1936.

Includes texts on pre-calculus and geometry written by faculty.

Notes and lecture schedule for History of American Jazz course.

Papers of Tom Christenson. Primarily evaluations and score sheets (with some cassettes) from student competitions at the Berklee High School Jazz Festival. Also includes notes from students, photographs, and ephemera used in teaching.

Student copy of textbook "Pre-Calculus Mathematics," circa mid-20th century.

Includes records of the Senior End of Year Committee, 1963-1967.

Bilingual exchange programs, mini-week.

Schedules and lists of course offerings.

Photographs.

Includes 1931 report on activities of each department and 1951 brochure on curriculum.

Memorandum, correspondence, course descriptions.

Bound copy of script with description of student production.

Both include photographs.

Photographs and captions adhered to construction paper, bound with string. Includes student essays describing trip to Allied Textile Printers, a textile manufacturer, in Paterson, New Jersey in March of 1954.

Construction paper with captions and photographs adhered. Tour of A.J. Siris Products Corporation, referred to as a "powder puff packing plant."

Photographs of field trips, including ice-skating. Other photographs possibly additional Allied Textile Printers or A.J. Siris Products field trip images.

Script for "The Graduwits or Waiting for Goto," 1972. Photocopy of illustrated description of water cycle and class trip to reservoir, 1990.