Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Donald Stevenson Howard papers
- Dates:
- 1953-1970
- Creators:
- Howard, Donald S. (Donald Stevenson), 1912-
- Abstract:
- Donald Stevenson Howard was worked as a social welfare administrator, professor at and dean of the School of Social Warfare at the University of California at Los Angeles. He also served as the deputy director of UNRRA China Mission, Foreign Economic Administration and U.S. State Department (1943-46), vice-president of the National Conference on Social Welfare (1948), and vice-chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth (1960). The collection consists of correspondence from the period in which Howard taught at the University of California at Los Angeles.
- Extent:
- 2 boxes (1.0 linear ft.)
- Language:
- Finding aid is written in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Donald Stevenson Howard papers (Collection 1487). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of professional correspondence of Donald S. Howard, dean of the UCLA School of Social Welfare.
- Biographical / historical:
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Donald Stevenson Howard was worked as a social welfare administrator, professor at and dean of the School of Social Warfare at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Howard was born on September 22, 1902 in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated with an A.B. from Otterbein College in 1925, an A.M. from Denver University in 1931, and a PhD in social welfare from University of Chicago in 1941.
He worked as director of adult activities at the university settlement in Chicago from 1931-34 and then began work in the Denver office of the Colorado State Emergency Relief Administration. Two years later he became the resident assistant and then director of the department of social welfare administration of the Russell Sage Foundation. In 1948, he moved to Los Angeles to become a professor and the dean of the School of Social Welfare. He became a professor emeritus in 1970. During his career he also periodically served as the deputy director of UNRRA China Mission, vice-president of the National Conference on Social Welfare, and vice-chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Heather Lowe in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Megan Hahn Fraser, September 2011.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2011
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word document, encoding added via Notetab Pro. Date of source: August 2011 . Supplementary encoding and revision by Caroline Cubé using Notetab Pro.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including 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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Donald Stevenson Howard papers (Collection 1487). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988