Guide to the Phi Delta Kappa, Delta Chapter (Stanford University), Records
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
Call Number: SC0213
Creator:
Phi Delta Kappa. Delta Chapter (Stanford University).
Title: Phi Delta Kappa, Delta Chapter (Stanford University), records
Dates: 1909-1965
Physical Description:
4.5 Linear feet
Summary: These records include memberships lists, constitution and bylaws, correspondence, minutes, account books, newsletters, publications,
and materials from several biennial meetings of the national council. In addition to correspondence between Stanford chapter
leaders and their membership, there is correspondence with national leaders and with other collegiate chapters. Correspondents
include E. P. Cubberley, John D. Houser, Frank A. Scofield, Erwin E. Lewis, Julian E. Butterworth, Albert M. Davis, Emmett
Ellis, Walter E. Morgan, and John R. Nichols.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Administrative transfer, 1979.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
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and educational purposes.
Cite As
Phi Delta Kappa,Delta Chapter (Stanford University), Records (SC0213). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Phi Delta Kappa, Honorary Fraternity, was organized May 23, 1911 at Stanford University. It is a chapter of Pi Kappa Mu, which
was organizaed May 4, 1909. Faculty members at the time of the founding of the Delta chapter at Stanford were Ellwood P. Cubberley,
Percy E. Davidson, Rufus Clarence Bentley, and Lewis Madison Terman. The nature and purpose of the club as stated in their
constitution reads: Phi Delta Kappa shall be a fraternity founded upon educational principles and supporting the highest educational
ideals. It shall exist for the purpose of mutual help of men of sound moral character and of recognized professional training
and ability interested in the scientific study of education. It shall foster research both in and out of the university and
shall ever uphold the great truth that the noblest and most efficient service to the state is that rendered through the education
of her children.
Description of the Collection
These records, dating from 1909 to 1965, include membership lists, constitution and bylaws, correspondence, minutes, account
books, newsletters, publications, and materials from several biennial meetings of the national council. In addition to correspondence
between Stanford chapter leaders and their membership, there is correspondence with national leaders and with other collegiate
chapters. Correspondents include E. P. Cubberley, John D. Houser, Frank A. Scofield, Erwin E. Lewis, Julian E. Butterworth,
Albert M. Davis, Emmett Ellis, Walter E. Morgan, and John R. Nichols.
The original order of the correspondence in Box 1 has not been substantially altered. It was removed from the letter-boxes
and refoldered; consequently there is some overlapping of dates. The alpha reference is not always to the letter writer, but
may reflect the state, other college chapters, or the national office. The correspondence in Box 3 was resorted and is filed
alphabetically by author, with the exception of several letters pertaining to “Lambda Chapter” at Berkeley, filed under L.
Access Terms
Butterworth, Julian Edward, 1884-
Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941
Davis, Albert Mott.
Ellis, Emmett.
Houser, J. David.
Lewis, Erwin E.
Morgan, Walter Emmett, 1896-
Nichols, John R.
Phi Delta Kappa. Delta Chapter (Stanford University).
Scofield, Frank A.
College students.
Education--Societies, etc.
Student activities.
Box 1, Folder 1
Introductory information, constitution, and newsletters of Phi Delta Kappa, 1912-1913
Box 1, Folder 2
Correspondence and financial records, A through H, 1911-1913
Box 1, Folder 3
Correspondence and financial records, I through S, 1911-1913
Box 1, Folder 4
Correspondence and financial records, S through Z, 1911-1913
Box 1, Folder 5
Correspondence, A through G, 1911-1912
Box 1, Folder 6
Correspondence, H through N, 1911-1912
Box 1, Folder 7
Correspondence, O through Z, 1911-1912
Box 2, Folder 1
Chron. file containing journals, newsletters, programs and some related correspondence, 1914
Box 2, Folder 2
Chron. file containing journals, newsletters, programs and some related correspondence, 1914-1915
Box 2, Folder 3
Chron. file containing journals, newsletters, programs and some related correspondence, 1917-1922
Box 2, Folder 4
Chron. file containing journals, newsletters, programs and some related correspondence, 1923-1924
Box 2, Folder 5
Chron. file containing journals, newsletters, programs and some related correspondence, 1925-1936
Box 2, Folder 6
San Francisco alumni newsletters, 1914-1918
Box 2, Folder 7
San Francisco alumni newsletters, 1915-1917
Box 2, Folder 8
San Francisco alumni yearbook, 1919
Box 2, Folder 9
San Francisco alumni chapter, report, constitution and misellaneous items
Box 2, Folder 10
Alumnus Alpha (San Francisco) newsletter, 1925-1930
Box 3, Folder 1
Correspondence, A through Z, 1930-1932
Box 3, Folder 2
Correspondence, A through L, 1933
Box 3, Folder 3
Correspondence, M through Z, 1933
Box 3, Folder 4
Correspondence, A through Z, 1934
Box 3, Folder 5
Correspondence, 1930s (non-specific date or name)
Box 3, Folder 6
Recommendations to national office and letter from P. Cook, 1933
Box 3, Folder 7
Letters to Don Nugent, 1933, pertaining to his suggestions for reorganization on national level
Box 3, Folder 8
Evaluations of Grayson Kefauver’s “Evaluating the School Program” with a letter from Charles S. Morris, 1933
Box 3, Folder 9
Membership records, 1932-1933
Box 3, Folder 10
Notification of election, 1925-1932
Box 3, Folder 12
Miscellaneous records, 1930s
Box 3, Folder 13
Candidate forms, tests, etc., 1932
Box 3, Folder 15
Minutes of national meetings and related correspondence, 1911-1933
Box 3, Folder 16
Report of the Executive Secretary to the 13th National Council of the Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity, 1929
Box 4, Folder 6
Constitution and Bylaws 1938, 1942
Box 5, Folder 3
Membership lists 1948-1949
Box 6, Folder 1
Receipts and disbursements 1924-1927
Box 6, Folder 2
Receipts and disbursements 1927-1930
Box 6, Folder 3
Receipts and disbursements 1930-1932
Box 6, Folder 4
Receipts and disbursements 1931-1934
Box 6, Folder 5
Receipts and disbursements 1933-1935
Box 6, Folder 6
Receipts and disbursements 1936-1937
Box 6, Folder 7
Receipts and disbursements 1940-1943
Box 6, Folder 8
Receipts and disbursements 1943-1948
Box 7, Folder 1
Stanford Journal of Phi Delta Kappa, 1923-1932 (incomplete)
Box 7, Folder 2
The Delta Journal, 1932-1938 (incomplete)
Box 7, Folder 3
The Delta Journal, 1939-1942 (incomplete)
Box 7, Folder 4
Stanford News Journal, March 1967
Box 7, Folder 5
Research Studies in Eduction, 1955
Box 7, Folder 6
“School District Reorganization,” The Phi Delta Kappan, March 1931
Box 8, Folder 1
Phi Delta Kappa Chapter Handbook, 1952
Box 8, Folder
(Materials on national, district, and chapter organization; official documents; business procedures; publications and forms)
Box 8, Folder 2
24th Biennial Council, December 1953 (notebook of meeting materials)
Box 8, Folder 3
24th Biennial Council, December 1953 (notebook of meeting materials)
Box 8, Folder 4
24th Biennial Council, December 1953 (notebook of meeting materials)
Box 9, Folder 1
26th Biennial Council, December 1957 (notebook of meeting materials)
Box 9, Folder 2
26th Biennial Council, December 1957 (notebook of meeting materials)
Box 9, Folder 3
30th Biennial Council, December 1965 (notebook of meeting materials)
Box 9, Folder 4
30th Biennial Council, December 1965 (notebook of meeting materials)
Box 9, Folder 5
30th Biennial Council, December 1965 (notebook of meeting materials)
Box 9, Folder 6
Phi Delta Kappa Directory, 1931
