Inventory of the Grayson Neikirk Kefauver papers
Inventory of the Grayson Neikirk Kefauver papers
Hoover Institution ArchivesStanford University
Stanford, California
- Processed by:
- Hoover Institution Archives Staff
- Date Completed:
- 2012
- Encoded by:
- Samira Bozorgi
| August 31, 1900 | Born, Middletown, Maryland |
| 1921 | BA, University of Arizona |
| 1925 | MA, Stanford University |
| 1928 | PhD, University of Minnesota |
| 1931-1932 | Member of National Survey of Secondary Education, conducted by U.S. Office of Education |
| 1933-1945 | Dean of School of Education, Stanford University |
| 1943 | Founder and chair, Liaison Committee on International Education, Washington, D.C. |
| September 1943 | Participated in International Education Assembly (IEA), Harpers Ferry, West Virginia |
| 1944 | American liaison to the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education (CAME), London |
| November 1945 | Member of U.S. delegation at the Conference for the Establishment of the United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization, London |
| January 4, 1946 | Died, Los Angeles, California |
Scope and Content of Collection
Summary of Conferences, New York, 1-9 February 1943
United States. Office of Education, 3 January 1943-9 June 1945
Correspondence on international education, November 1942-January 1944
Stanford Social Education study, Summer 1942
Report on Kefauver's talk in Los Angeles, 3 January 1946
Transcripts, 1900-1955
Stanford University correspondence, March 1943-February 1944
Biographical sketch of Kefauver, undated
Kefauver papers and letters, 1946
News clippings, May 1942-December 1945
Ginn and Company, March 1930-February 1950
Liaison Committee, Executive Committee Meeting, 7 September 1944
Liaison Committee, Executive Committee Meeting, 6 February 1945
International Education Assembly (IEA) participants, 12-16 April 1945
Hood College - IEA personal data sheets, 6-9 June 1944
IEA - Executive Committee Meeting, 13 February 1945
The School Executive correspondence, circa 1944-1946
Background book for the United States Delegation to the First General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): Paris, November 1946
Educational and cultural reconstruction, circa 1945
The Cultural Cooperation Program: 1938-1943, May 1944
Newsletters on international education, Yalta Conference Report, 19 February 1945
Newsletters on international education, May-September 1944
Proposals for an international education foundation, 1943-1944
Memorandum on the reconstruction of education in the Axis countries, circa 1942-1945
National Vocational Guidance Association, 13 December 1944
National Society of College Teachers of Education, circa 1943
Secondary Education Board, 1943-1945
American Federation of Teachers, 1943-1945
American Council on Public Affairs, circa 1943
United States Committee for Intellectual Cooperation, 1942-1946
American Association of School Administration, 1943-1944
National Edcuation Association, 1942-1944
World Federation of Education Associations, 1943-1944
Liaison Committee for International Education, news clippings, correspondence, and proposals, 1942-1945
Informal Conference Coordinating Committee on International Education II, 20 March 1943
Informal Conference Coordinating Committee on International Education III, 20 March 1943
Minutes of meeting on reconstruction of education in Germany, 22 March 1943
Informal Conference Coordination Committee on International Education II, 20 March 1943
Education for War and Peace, Summer 1942
Bibliography documents, 1945-1948
Liaison Committee for International Education, 5 May 1944
American Council of Learned Societies. Joint Meeting of Executive Committee and Advisory Board, 30-31 March 1944
American Council of Learned Societies, 1943-1945
United States. House of Representatives, 1944-1945
National Council for the Social Studies, circa 1943-1944
IEA correspondence, 1943-1945
American Education Fellowship, 1943-1945
Liaison Committee budget, 1943-1945
Receipts, 1944-1945
Liaison Committee meeting, 1945
Liaison Committee mimeographed letters, 15 January 1945
IEA Committee on Constitution, 1944-1945
IEA, Hood College meeting, list of participants, 6-9 June 1944
IEA, Executive committee meeting, 4 November 1944
American Association for Adult Education, 1943-1945
National Commission for the Defense of Democracy Through Education of the National Education Association (NEA), 1943-1944
National Association of Secondary School Principals of the NEA, 1943-1944
Dumbarton Oaks Conference. Meetings called by commission to study the organization of peace, 1944-1945
Foundations, requests for financial aid, circa 1944
National Education Association (NEA), 1944-1945
United States. Senate, 1943-1945
Twentieth Century Fund, 1943-1944
Revision of statement of suggestions concerning the program of the United Nations Organization for Educational and Cultural Reconstruction, 1944-1947
Conference on international education, 14 February 1943
Participants in the Harpers Ferry meeting of the IEA, 13-18 September 1943
Scope and Content Note
IEA New York meeting, personal data sheets, 12-16 April 1945
IEA New York meeting, list of participants, 12-16 April 1945
List of names, 30 April 1943
Columbia Foundation correspondence with Mrs. Elkus, 1944-1945
IEA New York meeting, program, 12-16 April 1945
Liaison Committee, members delegates and addresses, circa 1944
Institute of International Education, 1919-1944
American Education Research Association, 1943-1944
IEA New York Meeting, Foreign Delegates, invitations and replies, 12-16 April 1945
Liaison Committee Meeting speakers, 5 May 1944
Scope and Content Note
American Council of Education, Institute of Pacific Relations, Inc., 1943-1944
American Association of Teachers and Colleges, 1943-1944
American Association of University Women, 1942-1945
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Liaison Committee
Mimeographed letter to members of the Liaison Committee, 29 January 1946
Letter to Senators, 6 February 1946
Letter to Representatives on Unesco, 6 February 1946
Mimeographed letter to members of the liaison committee, 7 December 1945
Liaison Committee for International Education, 5 May 1944
American Library Association, 1943-1945
Liaison Committee meeting, 3 August 1945
Education for International Security letters and replies from embassies, 1943-1945
Education for International Security replies from government officials, circa 1943
Workers Education Bureau, 1944-1945
Committee on International Relations of the National Education Association, 1943-1944
Liaison Committee meeting, "Report of Chairman G. N. Kefauver," 31 January-1 February 1944
Liaison Committee, letter to Secretary of State Stettinius, 28 February 1945
Liaison Committee, miscellaneous memoranda, 1943-1944
Liaison Committee membership, invitations issued and applications received, 1944-1945
Liaison Committee, annual report, 1 March 1944-28 February 1945
Liaison Committee meeting, San Francisco, 28 April 1945
San Francisco conference, April-May 1945
Educational Policies Commission, 1943-1945
American Red Cross, circa 1945
Association of American Colleges, 1943-1944
Association of American Universities, 1943-1944
Assocation of Colleges and Secondary Schools for Negroes, 1943-1944
Application for Childhood Education, 1944-1945
Board of Tellers, 27 January 1945
Commission to Study the Organizations of Peace, 1943-1944
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1944
Commission on Post-War Planning of the American Federation of Teachers, 1943-1944
Commision on Trends in Eduction of the Modern Language Association, 1943-1944
Committee on International Education and Cultural Relations of the American Council on Education, May 1944
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, correspondence with Malcom Davis, February 1943-March 1945
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-Amercan Affairs, 1943-1945
Philadelphia Conference on Providing Educational Opportunites for Students from War-Torn Countries, 1 March 1944
Department of Adult Education of the National Education Association, 1943-1945
United States Committee on Educational Reconstruction, 1943-1944
Congressional Action of an International Office of Education Resolution, H215 and S122, May 1945
Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, 18 March 1944
Dumbarton Oaks Conference, 1944-1945
Educational Press Association of America, August-October 1944
Mailing lists of Harpers Ferry conference report, 1943-1944
IEA correspondence, 1944
IEA correspondence with Dr. Edgar J. Fisher, 1944-1945
Hood College memoranda, 16 June 1944
IEA, original materials for "Education in the United Nations," 24 July 1944
Edward Hazen Foundation, Inc., 1943-1944
IEA preliminary drafts of "Education for a Free Society," circa 1944
IEA meeting, New York City, correspondence, 12-16 April 1945
Institute for the Advancement of Visual Education and Vocational Training, 1943-1944
International Auxiliary Language Association, 1945
International Council of Religious Education, 1943-1945
Waldo Leland, Organization of International Educational Relations, Conference on Inernational Education, 21 March 1943
Modern Language Association, 1943-1945
The Nation Associates correspondence with Freda Kirchwey, circa 1944
Department of Supervision and Curriculum Development of the National Education Association, 1943-1944
Department of Elementary School Principles of the National Education Association, April 1943-1944
Commission on Resources and Education of the National Education Association and the Progressive Education Association, 1943-1944
United Nations Information Office, 1943-1944
Washington Letter on the United Nations: Livingston Hartley, circa 1945
World Education Service Council, 1944-1945
OWI, 1943-1945
UNESCO, general clippings, undated
Mexico City, Second general conference, 1947
San Francisco Pacific Region Conference clippings, 1948
Kefauver papers and letters, circa 1947
Paris First General Conference, 1946
Denver Conference press clippings, 15-17 May 1947
Institute of International Education, 1944-1946
American Council on Education, circa 1945
Edgar J. Fisher correspondence regarding Liaison Committee and International Education Assembly, 1943-1944
Unesco broadcasts, 1946
Fannie Fern Andrews, undated
"The Nation: Unesco Gets to Work" by A. G. Mezerik, 30 November 1946
Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, 1945-1946
United States Committee on Educational Reconstruction, 1940-1941
Articles on Unesco by Howard E. Wilson, 1946-1947
World Peace Foundation, 1946-1947
Church Peace Union, 1947
U.S. Committee on Edcuational Reconstruction from R. Schairer, 1941-1943
NEA Committee on International Relations, 1944
Waldo G. Leland, 1940-1946
Waldo G.Leland lecture, Stanford University, 25 July 1947
"Charts: The United Nations, State Presentations," undated
Miscellaneous, 1946
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Ben M. Cherrington, 1946
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"The School Executive Understanding Through Education," October 1946
H.R. 4368 and H.R. 4982. Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives, 1945-1946
H.R. 3342. The United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1947, 1947
H.R. 215. International Office of Education, 1945
H.J. Res. 305. "Membership and Participation by the United States in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization," 1946
Congressional Records of 79th and 80th Congresses, undated
International educational reconstruction, 1946-1948
John W. Studebaker Inter-American Education, undated
The United Nations, circa 1946
Scope and Content Note
S. 1440 and S. 1636, March 1946
H.R. 2083 (Copyrights), 21 April 1943
American Association of University Women (McHale), Summer 1945
Interdepartmental Committee on Cultural and Scientific Cooperation, 1942-1946
San Francisco Conference, 1945
Dumbarton Oaks Conference, October 1944
Liaison Committee for International Education, 1944-1947
Unesco miscellany, 1946
Carr
Letters from London, circa 1945
Letters from San Francisco, circa 1945
Letters from Paris, circa 1946
Department of State bulletins, circa 1946
Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs, 9 February 1947
London Conference, 1946
Reports of consultants, 1946
Carr speeches, undated
"Increasing Amount of Data on Foreign Affairs Issued by State Department," by John S. Dickey, 7 September 1944
"U.S. Department of State. Office of Public Affairs and Unesco: A Provisional Program," October 1946
U.S. Department of State. Unesco relations staff, circa 1947
Unesco reports, circa 1947
Department of State publications, circa 1946
Preparatory Commission, circa 1946
Regional Conference on the Humanities, Estes Park, Colorado, June 1946
Carl H. Milam, American Library Association, November 1946
Scope and Content Note
American Federation of Labor, 1946
First General Conference, Paris, 1946
Unesco Paris conference, November 1946
"Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion," circa 1944
Take to Washington, circa 1943
Education in Germany, 1943-1955
"Basic Differences in American and National Socialist Education," undated
Memorandum on reconstruction of education in the Axis countries, December 1942
International Education Organization, circa 1943
Bertrand Russell: Proposals for an International University, July 1942
Kefauver World Federation, circa 1942
USSR education, undated
Danish education, 2 May 1939
"Education: An Important Factor in Achieving an Enduring Peace," circa 1943
Newspaper clippings, circa 1943
Proposal for the establisment of an International Commission on Education, circa 1942
Miscellaneous manuscripts, circa 1943
Atomic control, circa 1945
Education and the war, circa 1942
Liaison Committee conferences, circa 1945
National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), 1942-1944
Kefauver: General agreement on international action in education, July 1943
Kefauver: speeches, circa 1942
First Session of the General Conference of Unesco, Paris, 19 November-10 December 1946
"Post-War Education, Peace Aims, Misc.," 1942-1943
Miscellaneous articles filed by author, 1942-1943
Kefauver: Peace Aims Call for International Action in Education, undated
Educational Reconstruction for the Four Central and Eastern European Nations, March 1943
Progressive Education Association (PEA) and Post-War materials, circa 1941
Foundations, circa 1943
Section meetings, 25 March 1947
General sessions, March 1947
Representatives of organizations attending the Philadelphia conference, March 1947
Transcripts and interviews, 1940-1943
Philadelphia conference summary program, 24-26 March 1947
President Truman's message to first national conference and message from Julian Huxley, 24-26 March 1947
Press releases, 24-26 March 1947
Progress report on Unesco and its relation to the national commission, 24-26 March 1947
"Selected Documents of U.S. National Commissions, First Meeting," September 1946
Mountain Plains Regular Conference, Denver, Colorado
"Guide: National Conference on Unesco, Philadelphia," 24-26 March 1947
Section meetings: summary reports, 24-26 March 1947
"Invitation, Pre Registration, Registration, etc.," 15-17 May 1947
Subject forums, 15-17 May 1947
Mass media, 15-17 May 1947
Conference reports from organizational sections 15-17 May 1947
Organizational section meetings, 15-17 May 1947
Educational reconstruction, 15-17 May 1947
Plenary speeches, 15-17 May 1947
Handbook of the United States National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, 15-17 May 1947
Press releases, 15-17 May 1947
Guide and program, 15-17 May 1947
Directory, 15-17 May 1947
Working papers, 15-17 May 1947
Report on Mountain Plains Regional Conference, 15-17 May 1947
Unesco Regional Conference, San Francisco, California, 13-15 May 1948
Central Planning Committee
"Unesco and Community Action" by Louis Wasserman
Press releases
Roster of delegates
Group meetings
Cultural interchange
Human and social relations
Plenary speeches
"Unesco and You," U.S. Department of State, Publication 2904, IOC Series IV
Progress reports (1-9), conference planning documents
Unesco Pacific Regional Conference Guides
Tentative programs
Tentative pattern, section meetings
Wallace Stegner report
Section meeting reports
Luncheon meetings
Registration and reservations
Suggestions for group leaders
Group meetings
Education
Communication
Natural Sciences
General information
Order of the day
Index and order list of materials relating to Unesco
Background materials for Pacific Regional Conference
IEA New York meeting, general correspondence, 12-16 April 1945
Liaison Committee
Minutes of Hood College meeting, 5-9 June 1944
Meeting, 20-22 May 1943
Harpers Ferry revisions of "Education for International Security," 13-18 September 1943
Meeting agenda, participants, and memorandum, 14 February 1943
Meeting minutes, January-February 1944
Meeting, statement of position, January-February 1944
Meeting agenda, participants, and memorandum, January-February 1944
Statement to educational press, 26 February 1944
Minutes of Executive Committee meeting, NEA, 23 March 1944
IEA New York meeting, expense accounts for delegates, 12-16 April 1945
IEA, New York meeting, Liaison Committee, invitations and replies, 12-16 April 1945
IEA, New York meeting, invitations and replies, 12-16 April 1945
Liaison Committee
Hood College meeting, 6-9 June 1944
Meeting agenda, participants, plan of organization, resolutions adopted, 20-21 March 1943
Meeting, 2 July 1945
IEA, New York meeting, correspondence with Dr. Edgar J. Fisher and Mrs. McCunn, 12-16 April 1945
National Council of Teachers of English, 1943-1945
IEA meeting, 22 November 1944
National Catholic Educational Association, 1943-1945
Liaison Committee meeting, 20-21 November 1944
IEA manuscript for "Education in the United and Associated Nations," June 1944
Annual report, 1 March 1944-28 February 1945
Informal conference, Coordinating Committee on International Education, 21 March 1943
Liaison Committee for International Education, 1944-1945
IEA, 1944-1945
Conference on International Education, Mayflower Hotel, Washington D.C., 14 February 1943
Minutes of Meeting on Reconstruction of Education in Germany, 22 March 1943
Conference of the Liaison Committee for International Education Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C., 20-22 May 1943
Liaison Committee for International Education, 5 May 1944
Formation of the Liaison Committee, 1943
National Conference of Christians and Jews, Inc., 1943-1944
Educational and Cultural Organization (ECO), London conference, November 1945
Notes pertaining to the ECO Conference, London, November 1945
General Advisory Committee Division of Cultural Relations minutes, 17-18 September 1941; 23-24 February 1943; 9-10 June 1943; 18-19 February 1944
General Advisory Committee documents, 17-18 September 1941; 23-24 February 1943; 9-10 June 1943; 18-19 February 1944
U.S. Department of State, 1943-1945
Unesco file
"Organization des Nations Unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture: Paris Conference," June 1946
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General Conference, Paris, 1947
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U.S. Department of State press release, 1947
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Journal of the General Conference, first session, Paris, 7 December 1946
Scope and Content Note
U.S. Department of State press release, 1943-1946
Prepatory Commission supplementary report on museums, 1946
Conference for the Establisment of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, London, June 1946
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General Conference, 2 September 1946
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Preparatory Commission Fine Arts Committee, Notice of Meeting, and other materials, 1946
Preparatory Commission, June 1946
Preparatory Commission, May 1946
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Prepatory Commission, Executive Committee, circa 1946
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Prepatory Commission, Executive Committee, circa 1946
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Paris Conference, circa 1947
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Paris Conference, circa 1947
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Executive Council, circa 1947
General Session, Prepatory Commission, circa 1946
Revised Progress Report on the Program of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, 16 August 1946
Social Science Committee, 17 July 1946
Prepatory Commission, Provisional Record, 5 July 1946
Prepatory Commission, circa 1947
Prepatory Commission, Technical Sub-Committee, 1945-1946
Prepatory Commission, Documents, circa 1946
The School Executive, October 1943
Unesco: Report on Pacific Regional Conference, San Francisco, CA, 13-15 May 1948
The School Executive, March 1944
War and Peace Aims: Extracts from Statements of United Nations Leaders, 30 January 1943
Duplicate of "Conference on International Education held at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.," 14 February 1943
The School Executive, January 1944
Miscellaneous publications, circa 1946
Miscellaneous publications, 1944-1946
School Life, Official Journal of the U.S. Office of Education, December 1946
Miscellaneous correspondence and reports, circa 1945
Unesco file
Final Act of Unesco, November 1945
Miscellaneous publications, 1944-1947
Miscellaneous publications related to Unesco plans for future schools, circa 1943
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Miscellaneous publications related to postwar cooperation, 1944-1948
Scope and Content Note
Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, 16 November 1945
Miscellaneous publications related to the development of future education systems, 1941-1946
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Department of State Appropriation Bill for 1946, 1946
Worldover Press, 1948
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Miscellaneous publications related to socialism and foreign governments, 1943-1947
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Commission to Study the Organizations of Peace, 1947
Miscellaneous publications related to postwar education in primary and secondary schools, 1943-1946
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H.R. 2603, 13 March 1945
London Charter
College Presidents and Statements
Labor Material
Liaison Committee
American Council for Education,
circa 1944-1945
American Association for IOE correspondence, 1945
Extra copies of previous documents, circa 1944
Department of State material National Convention correspondence and endorsements to Constitution (Unesco) pamphlets, articles, and statements, circa 1949
Revision and statement of suggestions concerning Unesco; U.S. Convention on Educational Reconstruction, circa 1943