Finding Aid to Caroline Schulz Service Papers, 1919-1997
Bancroft Library Staff
The Bancroft Library
© 2011
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Caroline Schulz Service Papers
Creator:
Service, Caroline
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 99/237 cz
Physical Description:
2.4 linear feet
(5 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1919-1997
Abstract: Contains correspondence between Caroline Schultz Service and family and friends, as well as writings and personal papers.
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Caroline Schulz Service Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by John S. Service in July 1998; additions made by Robert
E. Service on February 24, 1999.
Biography
Caroline Edward Service was born November 30, 1909, in Kansas City, Missouri, the third daughter of Col. Edward Hugh Schulz
and his wife, Katherine Muhleman Schulz. Her father was a career army officer who had graduated first in his class from West
Point in 1895 and went on to a career in the Engineers Corp, retiring from the Presidio in San Francisco in 1938.
Caroline attended Oberlin College, receiving a B.A. in 1931. There she met John Stewart Service, known as Jack. They were
married in Haiphong, French Indo-China in 1933, en route to Service's first assignment at the Consulate in Kunming. A daughter,
Virginia, was born there, and a son, Robert, when they moved to Beijing. Following a tour of duty in Shanghai, Caroline and
the two children were repatriated to the United States in late 1940 and spent the war years in Berkeley, Calif., with Caroline's
parents. Following the birth of their third child, Philip, in 1945, the Services served two years in New Zealand. While there,
Caroline became a good friend with Lisa Green, wife of Marshall Green. They corresponded almost continually for the next 50
years.
In 1950/51, Caroline and the children spent a year in New Delhi waiting for Jack to join them. He had been caught up in the
McCarthy-inspired purges of government officials and was fired from the State Department in December 1951. The Services moved
to New York for five years where Jack worked for a steam trap company and Caroline contributed to family finances by working
in a jewelry store. In 1957 the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Service reinstated. Their last post was in Liverpool, England.
In 1962, the Services returned to California. They lived for many years in north Berkeley, before moving to a retirement home
in Oakland in 1986. Caroline accompanied her husband on four trips to China beginning in 1971, and wrote a few articles. She
was also an amateur poet. Caroline Service died in 1997.
Written by son, Robert E. Service, 10 February 2002.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Caroline Schulz Service Papers, BANC MSS 99/237 cz, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley
Related Materials
Caroline Schulz Service: State Department Duty in China, the McCarthy era, and after, 1933 1977, oral history transcript,
BANC MSS 79/82 c Caroline Service Letters to Lisa Green, BANC MSS 99/81 cz
John Service Papers, BANC MSS 87/21 cz John S. Service: State Department Duty in China, the McCarthy Era, and after, 1933
1977, oral history transcript, BANC MSS 82/106 c
Grace Service Papers, BANC MSS 87/22 cz
Scope and Contents
The Caroline Schulz Service Papers, 1919-1997, consist of correspondence with family and friends, writings, and a small amount
of personal papers. The bulk of letters are from Jack, her husband, including some early correspondence written while he was
in China before their marriage. Also of interest is some early correspondence from Caroline to her family regarding her life
in China upon first settling there with Jack, as well as subsequent family developments and events. The bulk of Caroline's
correspondence with friends was written after the Services had resettled in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s, but also
includes a small amount of her frequent correspondence later in life with several newspaper and journal editors concerning
various issues and concerns. Caroline's writings consist of articles, editorials, poetry, and personal trip journals. These
often incorporated her personal experiences in China as well as revealed her political and humanistic concerns.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the appropriate curator or the Head of Public Services for forwarding. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library 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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Diplomats' spouses
Service, Caroline
China -- Description and travel
Service, John S. (John Stewart), 1909-1999
Service Family
United States. Foreign Service--Officials and Employees
Series 1: Family Correspondence
1930-1987
Scope and Contents
Divided into two sub-series: Incoming and Outgoing. The bulk of the letters are from her husband, Jack. Of particular interest
are the letters sent to Caroline by family and friends concerning the Supreme Court's decision in 1957.
box 1, folder 1-22
Letters from "Jack"
1930-1984,
Undated
box 1, folder 23
Letters from "Jack" to "everyone"
1941
1987
box 2, folder 1
Letters from "Mother"
1935,
1951-1954
box 2, folder 2
Letters from family, including "Father" (Schulz), Gertrude Hausman, "Tat" (sister, Katherine Bruce), "Mother" (Schulz), "Esta"
(sister-in-law), John (grandson)
1950-1987
box 2, folder 3-5
Letters from family and friends concerning Supreme Court Decision
1957 June-Oct
box 2, folder 6-13
Letters to Schulz family
1930-1959
box 2, folder 14-15
Letters to "Tat"
1935-1936
box 2, folder 16
Letters to "Tat and Al"
1978
box 2, folder 17
Letters to family
1956-1984
Series 2: General Correspondence
1935-1997
Scope and Contents
Divided into two sub-series: Letters from Friends, and Miscellaneous.
Letters from Friends
1935-1997
box 3, folder 7
Henderson, Loy W. (Loy Wesley), 1892-1986
1951
1973
box 3, folder 8
Larmour, Constance
1987-1992
box 3, folder 9
Lyon, Cecil and Elsie
1952-1992
box 3, folder 10
McKelvey, Steward and Virginia
1981-1982
box 3, folder 11
Moorhead, Hilda
1992-1993
box 3, folder 12
Salisbury, Charlotte Y. and Harrison Evans, 1908-
1935
1983-1992
Undated
Scope and Contents
Includes enclosure of letter from Cy Carney to Peggy Darrow, written from the British to Peggy Darrow, written from the British
Consulate in Yunnanfu on May 1, 1935
box 3, folder 13
Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim
1978-1986
box 3, folder 14
United States Government
1972
1989
Scope and Contents
Includes Griswold, Erwin N. (Erwin Nathaniel), 1904- (Solicitor General), Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1937- (Senator,
West Virginia)
box 3, folder 15
Unidentified correspondents
1957-1988
Undated
box 3, folder 16
Greeting cards from friends and family
1969-1991
Undated
box 3, folder 17
Letters to miscellaneous friends
1971-1996
box 3, folder 18
Correspondence with newspaper and journal editors
1975-1989
box 3, folder 19
Correspondence with U.S. Government officials regarding Vietnam War and various legislation
1965-1989
Series 3: Writings
1919-1986
Scope and Contents
Divided into three sub-series: Notebooks, Prose, and Poetry. Drafts of her article on the Yangtze River include portions written
by her mother-in-law, Grace Service in 1906 and by Caroline Service in 1975, along with source material, notes, and correspondence
to family and Lisa Green.
box 4, folder 5
"Chinese Spring, 1975"
1975
Scope and Contents
Drafts, correspondence, and printed copy of the New York Times, Nov. 1, 1975, p. 29 [published as "Homage to China"]
box 4, folder 6-10
"2 Trips Through the Yangtze Gorges"
1975-1978
Scope and Contents
Drafts, source material, and printed copy of China Reconstructs, v. 27, no.9, Sept. 1978
box 4, folder 11
"A Visit to Lhasa"
1978
Scope and Contents
Drafts, correspondence, and printed copy of the Foreign Service Journal, Dec. 1978
box 4, folder 12-13
"When the Snow Thaws"
1979
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and printed copy of The New Yorker, Sept. 10, 1979
box 4, folder 14
Other Writings
1919-1984,
Undated
box 4, folder 15-17
"The Human Race"
1967-1969
Scope and Contents
Drafts, correspondence, musical arrangement, and copyright information
box 4, folder 18
Poetry
1973-1982,
Undated
box 4, folder 19
"The Human Race and Other Poems"
1986
Series 4: Personal and Biographical
1930-1994
Scope and Contents
Includes material relating to Service's two oral histories, invitations, announcements, and other memorabilia, as well as
clippings relating to or of interest to Caroline Service.
box 5, folder 1-4
The Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office
1976-1992
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Willa Baum and Rosemary Levenson, drafts of introductory pages, and miscellaneous materials
box 5, folder 5-14
Foreign Service Family Oral History Project
1986-1994
Scope and Contents
Edited transcripts of interview, drafts, correspondence with Jewell Fenzi, and miscellaneous materials
box 5, folder 15
Photographs of Caroline Service
1970,
1973,
Undated
box 5, folder 16
Invitations and announcements
1933,
Undated
box 5, folder 17
Personal memorabilia
1971-1976,
Undated
box 5, folder 18
Newspaper clippings with mentions of Caroline
1930-1937
oversize_folder 1A
Newspaper clippings with mentions of Caroline
1930-1937
box 5, folder 19-20
Miscellaneous articles and clippings
1966-1991
oversize_folder 2A
Miscellaneous articles and clippings
1966-1991
box 5, folder 21
Memorial programs for friends
1963-1994
