Inventory of the Donald C. Stone, Jr. Papers, 1971-1983
Processed by Clae Styron.
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Arts and Humanities--Religion--Sects and Cults
Social Sciences--Sociology--Social Psychology
Inventory of the Donald C. Stone, Jr. Papers, 1971-1983
Accession number: GTU 2001-8-03
Shelf location: 5/D/4-5
The Graduate Theological Union Archives
Berkeley, California
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- Berkeley, California, 94709
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- URL: http://gtu.edu/library/information/special-collections
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- Date Completed:
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Donald C. Stone, Jr. Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1971-1983
Accession number: GTU 2001-8-03
Creator:
Stone, Donald C., Jr.
Extent:
4 boxes,
4 linear ft.
Repository: The Graduate Theological Union
Abstract: The papers document Donald C. Stone's work with Ornstein and Swencionis on the
est Outcome Project, and the development of his doctoral research, including his various publications on the human potential
movement, up to the completion of his doctoral dissertation.
Shelf location: 5/D/4-5
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research. Series IV, Interview #38 is restricted to the year 2035.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Graduate Theological Union
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Donald C. Stone, Jr. Papers, GTU 2001-8-03, The Graduate Theological Union Archives, Berkeley, CA.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Donald C. Stone, Jr.
Biography
Donald C. Stone, Jr., while a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, 1972-1981, was a teaching assistant for sociologist, Robert Bellah. Stone also worked with psychologist, Robert Ornstein, and psycho-physiologist, Charles Swencionis, at the University of California San Francisco Medical School, on their
est Outcome Study.
They were interested in demonstrating statistically a relationship between the graduates of Erhard Seminars Training [
est] and their physical and mental well-being.
Stone writes, "I had the good fortune to be at the center of conceptualizing and carrying out the
est Outcome Study which gave me the opportunity to investigate the experience of
est graduates with not only the
est training but also with religious, quasi-religious, and other human potential movement trainingsAnd having gained the confidence
of Werner Erhard [founder of
est] that I was a competent survey researcher and could be trusted to oversee an objective studyI was given unusual access as
an unpaid volunteer to the
est organization and to a random sample of
est graduates who I interviewed in depth, 2-4 hours.[Werner] really wanted to know what happened to
est graduates during and after the training, both good and bad outcomes, and I was delighted to carry out my mandate to be scrupulously
objectiveWhen the
est Outcome survey was complete, I then turned to my own
research and in-depth interviews of
est graduates." [See Box 2, Folder 37, for Stone's autobiographical account.]
Scope and Content
The papers document Stone's work with Ornstein and Swencionis on the
est Outcome Project,
and the development of his doctoral research, including his various publications on the
human potential movement, up to the completion of his doctoral dissertation.
They include, correspondence, annotated manuscripts and transcripts of interviews,
handwritten and typed research notes, notebooks, questionnaires, agendas and minutes of
meetings, drafts of manuscripts, reports, surveys, printouts, published materials,
clippings, audiovisual materials including data tapes and audiocassettes of lectures and panels, flyers and other ephemera.
Of note is Stone's set of interviews of
est graduates, which were coded to secure confidentiality, materials on Erhard Seminars Training at its beginnings, including
rare audiocassette recordings of Werner Erhard, and Stone's notes and annotations throughout
his papers.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into eight series: Doctoral Dissertation; Correspondence; Methodology and Planning; Interviews;
Writings and Publications; Erhard Seminars Training; Related Research; and Related Resources.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Erhard, Werner, 1936-
Est, an Education Corporation--History--Sources
People's Temple--History--Sources
Series I
Doctoral Dissertation, 1981
Physical Description:
Box 1:1-6
Scope and Content Note
This series is the published doctoral dissertation of Donald C. Stone, Jr.
Arrangement
The arrangement is as published.
Box-folder 1:1-6
Enlightenment American Style: The Personal and Social Significance of
est and the Human Potential Movement.
Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, 1981
Series II
Correspondence, 1973-1983
Physical Description:
Box 1:7-17
Scope and Content Note
This series contains correspondence.
Arrangement
The outgoing correspondence is arranged chronologically. The incoming correspondence is arranged alphabetically.
Box-folder 1:7-11
Correspondence, Out-going, 1973-1983
Box-folder 1:12-17
Correspondence, In-coming, 1973-1977
Series III
Methodology and Planning, ca. 1971-1981
Physical Description:
Box 1:18-34
Scope and Content Note
This series contains the project methodology and plans, including project correspondence, handwritten notes, notebooks, drafts
of forms, reports, surveys, questionnaires.
Arrangement
The material is arranged by process.
Box-folder 1:18-34
Methodology and Planning.
Series IV
Interviews, ca. 1971-1983
Physical Description:
Box 1:35-49, Box 2:1-25
Scope and Content Note
This series includes Stone's set of interviews of
est graduates, which were coded to secure confidentiality.
NOTE: Interview #38 is restricted to the year 2035.
Arrangement
Interviews #30, #35, #36 are missing.
Box-folder 1:35-49
Interview #1 to Interview #15
Box-folder 2:1-25
Interview #16 to Interview #29, 31-34, 37-43[?]
Series V
Writings and Publications, 1974-1981, 2001
Physical Description:
Box 2:26-37
Scope and Content Note
This series contains drafts, reviews, published interviews and publications. Also included is Stone's autobiographical statement.
Arrangement
The material is arranged chronologically.
Box-folder 2:26
"These lines from a song written by a 'graduate' of the
est training" [rough draft], 1974
Box-folder 2:27
"Erhard Seminars Training"[draft], 1974
Box-folder 2:28
Spiritual and Political Interests of Encounter Group Participants: Results from the
Psychology Today Questionnaire [draft],1974-1975
Box-folder 2:29
"Seeking Transcendence in Human Potential Groups" [draft],1975
Box-folder 2:30
Evaluation of the est Experience by a National Sample of Graduates, by Earl Babbie and Donald C. Stone, Jr., 1977
Box-folder 2:31
The Awareness Trap: Self-Absorption Instead of Social Change (Book Review), 1978
Box-folder 2:32
New Religious Consciousness and Personal Religious Experience, 1978
Box-folder 2:33
Donald C. Stone's transcript of his People's Temple interview, 1979
[See also, Series VIII, Folder 25-31.]
Box-folder 2:34
Social Consciousness in the Human Potential Movement, 1981
Box-folder 2:35
The Peril of the New Religious Movements in America by Donald C. Stone, Jr. and James McCarthy, 1980-1981
Box-folder 2:36
The Human Potential Movement, n.d.
Box-folder 2:37
Biographical Statement, 1977, 2001
Series VI
Erhard Seminars Training, 1971-1981
Physical Description:
Box 2:38-41; 3:1-8
Scope and Content Note
This series contains information on the formation of the
est advisory committee, accrediation committee, taped lectures by Werner Erhard,
est Graduate Survey and taped Hunger Project interview by Will Noffke.
Arrangement
The material is arranged alphabetically by format.
Box-folder 2:38
Ad hoc Steering Committee Meeting re: Formation of an
est Advisory Board, Summary Reports, 1973
Box-folder 2:39
est Advisory Board Steering Committee, Agenda, 1973
Box-folder 2:40
est Accreditation Committee, 1973
Box-folder 2:41
Lectures by Werner Erhard (9 audiocassettes), 1973, 1975
Box-folder 2:42
Interview, seminar with Werner Erhard (4 audiocassettes), 1976
Box-folder 3:1
Lectures by Werner Erhard, #34 (7 ½ inch magnetic tape), 1973
Box-folder 3:2
Lecture on Love by Werner Erhard, #35 (7 ½ inch magnetic tape), 1973
Box-folder 3:3
Lectures, #36 (7 ½ inch magnetic tape), 1971
Box-folder 3:4
Lectures, Interview with Erhard, Bartley, Fuller, #37 (7 ½ inch magnetic tape), 1976
Box-folder 3:5
Lecture by Werner Erhard at Masonic Auditorium, #39 (7 ½ inch magnetic tape), 1974
Box-folder 3:6
Hunger Project interview of Werner Erhard by Will Noffke, New Horizons, KPFA-FM (script), 1979
Box-folder 3:7
est Graduate Survey, 1981
Box-folder 3:8
Articles by Others about
est, 1972-1978
Series VII
Related Research, 1973-1984
Physical Description:
Box 3:9-36; 4:1-10
Scope and Content Note
This series contains research and in-depth interviews of
est graduates conducted after the completion of the
est Outcome Study.
Arrangement
This series is arranged by process.
Box-folder 3:9-10
"
est Outcome Study" (draft), 1975
Box-folder 3:11-12
Self-Report Survey, Preliminary Study of Participants in Erhard Seminars Training, 1975
Methodology and Planning, 1973-1974
Project notes by Stone, 1973-1975
Report on Second Questionnaire Pre-Test, 1973
Preliminary Survey of Results, 1974
Monthly Bulletin Project, ca.1974
Research Retrospective, 1974-1975
Notebook I-IV, ca. 1973-1975
Box-folder 3:36
Questionnaire, CATLA, Judaica Group, n.d. [legal size]
Box-folder 4:1-4
Codebook Guide, I-IV, n.d.
Box-folder 4:5
Transferring, Outcome Study Particle Count, 1974
Box-folder 4:9
Data Tape, labeled Donald C. Stone[1976?]
Box-folder 4:10
Data Tape, labeled Earl Babbie, n.d.
Series VIII
Related Resources, ca. 1971-1974
Physical Description:
Box 4:11-38
Scope and Content Note
This series contains related research resources.
Arrangement
The material is arranged alphabetically.
Box-folder 4:11
Abstract of the Behaviordyne Report on Psychological Changes Measured After Taking the Erhard Seminars Training, May 29, 1973
Box-folder 4:12
Bibliography of
est, 1978
Box-folder 4:13
Changing Attitudes Toward Psychotherapy on the Part of Converts to Eastern Mysticism, 1977?
Box-folder 4:14
The Complex Forms of the Religious Life: A Durkheimian View of New Religious Movements. Doctoral dissertation by Frances R. Westly, 1978
Box-folder 4:15-16
Encounter Groups, ca.1971-1974
Box-folder 4:17-18
Erhard Seminars Training: A Longitudinal Study of its Psychological Effects, Using Selected Studies Measured by the California
Psychological Inventory
, by Leilani Lewis, 1973
Box-folder 4:19
Excerpts annotated by Donald C. Stone, Jr. from
Changing Frontiers in the Science of Psychotherapy by Allen E. Bergin and Hans H. Strupp, 1972.
Box-folder 4:20-21
Human Potential Movement, 1971-1979
Box-folder 4:22
Human Potential Movement (Debunkers), 1969-1974
Box-folder 4:23
Large Group Awareness Training by Peter Finkelstein, Brant Wenegrat, and Irvin Yalom, 1982
Box-folder 4:24
Missionary and Cult Movements, A Mini-Course for the Upper Grades in Religious Schools. A Sixteen Unit Lesson Plan on Reform Judaism's Response to "Hebrew/Christian" Missionary Movements and the Cults, 1977
Box-folder 4:25-30
People's Temple, transcripts of interviews by Others, 1979
Note: This work was done as part of Stone's participation in the Center for the Study of New Religious Movements at the Graduate
Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. See the Center's Collection: GTU 91-9-3.
Box-folder 4:31
People's Temple interviews (3 audiocassettes), 1979
Box-folder 4:33
Radical Therapy, 1971-1974
Box-folder 4:34-35
Reported Changes in Personality, Self-Concept, and Personal Problems following Erhard Seminars Training (est). Doctoral dissertation by Jeffrey Weiss, 1977
Box-folder 4:37
Stillson Judah, lectures on Hare Krishna (2 audiocassettes), ca. 1974
Box-folder 4:38
Transcendental Meditation, 1972-1975