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Grunigen (Forest) files on the California Osteopathic Association
AS.083  
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California Osteopathic Association/California Medical Association merger Series 1. 1941-1990

Physical Description: 1 Linear Feet
General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains correspondence, reports, minutes and other material that reflects the work of the COA, CMA and their respective components related to the merger.

Arrangement

Arranged in 3 subseries:
Fact Finding Committee files
Evaluating Commission files
Topical files
 

Fact Finding Committee records 1941-1962

Scope and Contents note

This subseries documents the work of the Fact Finding Committee which was formed by Forest Grunigen in 1943 to lead COA in merger talks with CMA. The correspondence of especially prolific committee members have been filed under their respective names.

Arrangement note

The files are arranged by type of material. Correspondence is further arranged alphabetically by the writer of the outgoing correspondence, with the exception of three folders in which Grunigen's original thematic arrangement has been preserved.
box 1, folder 1

Agendas 1952-1961

box 1, folder 2

Agreements, contracts and resolutions 1952-1961

box 1, folder 3

Articles and news releases 1952-1958

box 1, folder 4

Brochures and pamphlets 1941-1956

box 1, folder 5-15

Correspondence

box 1, folder 5-8

General 1940-1962

box 1, folder 9-12

Individuals

box 1, folder 9

Caylor, George D. 1948-1960

box 1, folder 10

Grunigen, Forest 1952-1962

box 1, folder 11

Hufstedler, Seth 1950-1961

box 1, folder 12

Pollock, Wayne 1952-1959

box 1, folder 13-15

Thematic 1941-1962

box 1, folder 16

"Declaration of Geneva" 1948

box 1, folder 17

Invitations 1947

box 1, folder 18

Legal documents 1948-1961

box 1, folder 19-20

Meeting minutes 1949-1962

box 1, folder 21

Memoranda 1943-1962

box 1, folder 22

Newsletters and newspapers 1952-1961

box 1, folder 23

Notes 1943-1960

box 1, folder 24

Questionnaires 1951-1952

box 1, folder 25-27

Reports 1947-1961

box 1, folder 27

"Report of the A.O.A. Conference Committee to the House of Delegates" 1954 July

 

Evaluating Commission files 1948-1958

Scope and Contents note

This subseries reflects the work of the Evaluating Commission, appointed by the House of Delegates of the AOA in 1949 to study the awarding of the M.D. degree to osteopathic physicians. Files include correspondence, minutes and other material.

Arrangement note

The subseries is arranged alphabetically.
box 1, folder 28

Articles circa 1948-1949

box 1, folder 29

Bulletins 1955

box 1, folder 30

Correspondence 1948-1949

box 1, folder 31-32

Minutes 1948-1949

box 1, folder 33-34

Reports 1949-1958

box 1, folder 35

Resolutions 1948

 

Topical files 1962-1990

Scope and Contents note

This subseries contains documents relating to the transfer of administration of the Forty-First Medical Society to the California College of Medicine Support Foundation, Inc. The Society was first formed in 1962 as a component within the CMA. It was made up of former D.O.s. Included are budgets, reports and correspondence of the Society related to Proposition 22 of 1962 which amended the Osteopathic Initiative Act of 1922 by removing the power of the Board of Osteopathic Examiners to issue licenses to new applicants.Also included is a draft copy of a case study about the differences between osteopathy and more traditional medicine prepared by Arnold I. Kisch and Arthur J. Viseltear of UCLA's School of Public Health, under contract with the U.S. Public Health Service. It was published in 1967 by the Division of Medical Care Administration.

Arrangement note

This subseries is arranged alphabetically.
box 1, folder 36

"Analysis and report of opinion study among Doctors of Osteopathy in California concerning M.D. degree and name of college for California Osteopathic Association" undated

box 1, folder 37-40

Forty-First Medical Society files 1988-1990

box 1, folder 37

Agreements 1989-1990

box 1, folder 38

Budgets 1988-1990

box 1, folder 39

Correspondence 1990 April 3 - June 7

box 1, folder 40

Proposition no. 22 undated

box 1, folder 41

Kisch, Arnold I. and Arthur J. Viseltear, "Doctors of Medicine and Doctors of Osteopathy in California: Two Separately Legitimized Medical Professions Face the Problem of Providing Medical Care," draft 1966

 

California Osteopathic Association - Board of Trustees meeting material Series 2. 1951-1962

Physical Description: 0.3 Linear Feet
General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series includes minutes, agendas, budgets and other material of the California Osteopathic Association's Board of Trustees that is not directly related to the merger.

Arrangement

This series has been retained in its original chronological order.
box 2, folder 1-9

Meeting material 1950-1962

 

Dain Tasker writings, correspondence and other materials Series 3. 1950s

Physical Description: 0.4 Linear Feet
General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains the unpublished manuscript of COA Historian, Dain Tasker's history of the osteopathic profession in California. In comparison with the copy in AS-027 (California College of Medicine records), several chapters are missing. Also included are various correspondence, articles and other material from Tasker's files.

Arrangement

The first item in the series is Tasker's manuscript which is further arranged by chapter number. Tasker's Historian files are arranged in chronological order.
box 2, folder 10-19

Tasker, Dain L. "History of osteopathy in California [late 19th century to 1950s], manuscript circa 1954

box 2, folder 10-11

Chapters 1-10

box 2, folder 11-12

Chapters 15, 20, 21, 23

box 2, folder 12-13

Chapters 26-31

box 2, folder 13-17

Chapters 33-62

box 2, folder 17-18

Chapters 64-77

box 2, folder 19

(Unidentified chapter) "History of Osteopathy"

box 2, folder 20

Historian's files 1950-1959

 

Photographic material and realia Series 4. 1901-1989

Physical Description: 1.6 Linear Feet
General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

The photographs in this series include images of key figures in California osteopathy such as former presidents of the COA Dorothy Marsh and Forest Grunigen. The bulk of the photographs are unlabeled but seem to be from the 1940s. The slides are from a series titled "Cigarette smoking and your health," published by the California Interagency Council in 1965. There is no indication as to how these might have been used by Grunigen, but perhaps in a lecture. The guest book includes the signatures of Grunigen and Dorothy Marsh among others but there is no indication as to what occasion it represents. The date of the plaque that contains the osteopathic oath is unknown but the oath itself was first used in 1938.

Arrangement

This series is arranged alphabetically.
box 2, folder 21

COA charter awarded to Los Angeles City Osteopathic Society 1939 March 5

box 3

Guest book 1945 December 8

box 2, folder 22

Photographs 1901-1980s

box 4

Framed photograph of first board of osteopathic examiners 1901

box 3

Plaque of the Osteopathic Oath undated

box 2, folder 23

Slides 1965

 

Scrapbooks Series 5. 1912-1961

Physical Description: 0.4 Linear Feet
General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

The scrapbook of programs and badges has been taken apart and put into folders arranged by year. A preservation copy has been made of the intact scrapbook. The scrapbook of news clippings is a photocopy; the original clippings have been discarded.

Arrangement

Material is arranged alphabetically. The convention programs and badges are further arranged chronologically. The news clippings are kept in their original order.
 

Convention programs and badges scrapbook

box 2, folder 25-33

Original items, removed from scrapbook 1912-1942

box FB-034, folder 14

Preservation copy of intact scrapbook 1912-1942

 

Loose material

box 2, folder 34

Correspondence and invitations 1960-1961

box 2, folder 35

Newsletters and newspapers 1960-1961

box FB-034, folder 15

Scrapbook of news clippings, photocopy 1960-1961