Finding Aid for the Jack Morrison Papers, 1940-1989
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UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Note
Arts and Humanities --Performing Arts
--Theater
History --History,
University of California --History, UC Los Angeles
Geographical (By Place) --University of California
--University of California Los Angeles
Finding Aid for the Jack Morrison Papers, 1940-1989
Collection number: 290
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff, 1998
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, August 2002 and March 2003
© 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Jack Morrison Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1940-1989
Collection number: 290
Creator:
Morrison, Jack, 1912-
Extent: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
24 cartons (24 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Jack Sherman Morrison (1912-1997) was a theater arts professor, fine arts dean, theater director, advisor to the dean of the
UCLA College of Fine Arts, and winner of the UCLA Life Achievement Award in 1980. The collection consists of Morrison's personal
papers, letters, articles, photographs, memos, speeches, teaching materials, tapes, film, and costume sketches.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold
the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jack Sherman Morrison, 1994.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jack Morrison Papers (Collection 290). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Jack Sherman Morrison was born on December 17, 1912 in Santa Barbara, California; BA (1934), MA (1951), UCLA; Ed.D., University
of Southern California, 1962; director of theater activities (1938-47), associate professor of theatre arts (1957-66), UCLA;
professor of theatre and dean of College of Fine Arts, Ohio University, 1966-71; associate director of arts in education for
JDR 3rd fund, 1971-76; in 1976 appointed executive director, American Theatre Association; theater consultant to Arts and
Humanities Branch, U.S. Office of Education; executive editor of
Design; publications include
The Rise of the Arts on the American Campus (1973) and
The Maturing of the Arts on the American Campus: a Commentary (c. 1985); advisor to the dean, UCLA College of Fine Arts; winner of the UCLA Life Achievement Award in 1980; he died on
February 20, 1997.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of personal papers, letters, articles, photographs, memos, speeches, teaching materials, tapes, film,
and costume sketches of theater arts professor, fine arts dean, and theater director, Jack Sherman Morrison. Contains material
on Arts in Education, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Cleveland Area Arts Council, American Theater Association,
National Council on the Arts, Gulbenkian Foundation Advisory Committee on the Arts, and International Council of Fine Arts
Deans.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Morrison, Jack, 1912- --Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles--Dept. of Theater Arts--Faculty--Archival resources.
Theatrical producers and directors--United States--Archival resources.
Box 1
Bio-bibliographies, Curriculum vitaes, files and correspondence, 1985-1986.
Box 2
Memos, articles, speeches, Kenneth MacGowan file.
Box 3
Correspondence, 1983-1986 and project files.
Box 4
Correspondence 1970-1973, 1984-1985, OEDIE, deanships, Morrison Report & Master Plan.
Box 5
Correspondence 1985-1986, Arts in Education, correspondence 1973-1975.
Box 6
Files: American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA), AETA, etc., memos 1985-1986 to Dean Gray.
Box 7
Files: 1960s, CEMREL reports.
Box 8
World War II correspondence, UCLA material.
Box 9
Files: NEA, AAMT, Cleveland Area Arts Council, Mexico, New Orleans, unfoldered material.
Box 10
America Theater Association files, personal.
Box 11
Files, UCLA course material, printed material.
Box 12
Morrison Curriculum vitae, correspondence 1959-1960s, correspondence with Jeanne Cagney, JDR 3rd Fund, Ohio University.
Box 13
Ohio University papers, National Council on the Arts, America Theater Association, printed material, personal.
Box 14
UCLA files, Morrison transcript, resume, Gulbenkian Foundation Advisory Committee on the Arts.
Box 15
The Rise of the Arts on the American Campus, International Council of Fine Arts Deans.
Box 16
America Theater Association, 1976-1979.
Box 17
The International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD) 1973, files on theater & dance 1975.
Box 18
1975 files, 1971 files, files on theater & dance, 1975.
Box 19
America Theater Association, 1979-1982, 1983-1984.
Box 20
JDR 3rd Fund, speeches & articles by JM, JM kudos file, JM publications, reprints, thesis (1951), dissertation (1962).
Box 21
Theater files, background material for
The Rise of the Arts on the American Campus, AHE, articles, papers, consulting, correspondence.
Box 23
JM correspondence (1966-1989), including UCLA, conference files, JM article Academic Flesh Peddlers.
Box 24
Just by Albert Camus, From the Heart by JM
re Jeanne Morrison, Carola by Jean Renoir, A War Several Wars Ago by Irwin Shaw, conference files, UCLA, Wenner, Deja Vu, miscellaneous.
Box 25
Tapes, film, UCLA, biographical material, miscellaneous.
Box 26
Costume sketches, photos, Watch works, Seven Princesses, children's drawings, JDR 3rd Fund research 1971.