Inventory of the George Loft papers
1915 January 27 | Born, New York City |
1931 | Graduated, High School of Commerce, New York |
1932-1942 | Assistant to Economist, National Dairy Products Corporation, New York |
1938 | Graduated, Bachelor's degree in Accounting, New York University |
1940 | Completed Master of Business Administration, New York University |
1942 | Married Eleanor Riddle |
1942-1945 | Chief of Subsistence Requirements Section, Military Planning Division, Office of the Quartermaster General, Washington, D.C. |
1945-1947 | Executive Assistant to Director, Frozen Food Foundation, Inc., Syracuse, N.Y. |
1948 January-May | Legislative Representative, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Washington, D.C. |
1948-1953 | Associate Public Relations Secretary, American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia |
1953-1957 | Director, Public Relations, Atlas Chemical Industries, Wilmington, Delaware |
1957-1960 | Representative in Sub-Saharan Africa, American Friends Service Committee, based in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia |
1960-1961 | Advisor on African Programs, American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia |
1961-1963 | Director, Quaker Program at the United Nations, American Friends Service Committee |
1963-1966 | Vice President, African-American Institute, New York |
1966 November-December | Consultant, United Nations Development Program, Malawi |
1967-1977 | Employed by Field Foundation, New York |
1969 July-September | Consultant, American Friends Service Committee, Kafue Self-help Housing Project, Zambia |
1971 February | Consultant, American Friends Service Committee, Kafue Self-help Housing Project, Zambia |
1972 September-October | Special Mission to Rhodesia, with Eleanor Loft, on behalf of Friends Service Council, London, and American Friends Service Committee |
1974-1979 | Special Representative, African Service Programs and International Programs, American Friends Service Committee |
1975 | Consultant, American Friends Service Committee, Kafue Self-help Housing Project, Zambia |
1976 | Attended Rhodesia Conference, held in Geneva, as member of Quaker Rhodesia Conference group |
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence 1957-1998
General. Detainees 1959-1960
Alphabetical
A 1958-1960
African National Congress 1958
Alderson, Cecil 1957-1958
Armitage, Sir Robert 1959-1960
Ashton, Hugh 1957-1966
B 1958-1966
Banda, Aleke 1959-1966
Banda, Hastings K.
Correspondence with 1958-1965
Correspondence about 1959-1963
Memoranda of meetings with 1958-1960
Barton, Frank 1957
Benson, Sir Arthur 1958-1959
Bernard, Rev. Neil 1958-1959
Birmingham, Walter 1958-1959
Booth, Rev. Alan 1962-1964
Bottomley, Arthur G. 1964
Brownrigg, Philip 1969
Bwanausi, Augustine 1959-1966
C 1958-1965
Cadbury Trust 1974-1980
Callaghan, James 1959-1964
Cameron, Colin 1962-1965
Campbell, Sir Jock 1962-1965
Chakuamba, Steve-George 1958-1962
Chakulya, Wilson 1959-1960
Chibambo, MacKinley 1959
Chikerema, Robert 1959-1964
Chinamano, Josiah 1959-1976
Chipembere, Henry B. M. 1959-1972
Chirwa, Orton 1960-1966
Chisiza, Dunduza 1959-1962
Chisiza, Yatuta 1959-1964
Chitambala, Frank 1959-1964
Chitepo, Herbert 1957-1962
Chiume, M. W. K. 1958-1963
Chokani, Willie 1959-1998
Chona, Mainza 1964-1965
Clark, Kendall 1958-1959
Clutton-Brock, Guy 1958-1966
Cole, David 1957-1958
D 1958-1960
De Bunsen, Bernard 1959-1960
Dumbutshena, Enoch 1958-1969
E 1960-1979
Evangelische Zentralstelle für Entwicklungshilfe, e.V. (Bonn, W. Germany) 1975-1980
F 1958-1959
Field, Winston 1962-1964
Finn, H. R. 1958-1959
Foot, Sir Hugh 1962-1969
G 1957-1966
Garley, David 1958-1960
Gereta-Chirwa, D. S. 1959-1960
Gondwe, Vincent 1958-1965
Greaves, Bruce 1959
Gwandzura, Zechariah 1959
H 1957-1966
Hadsel, Fred 1958-1959
Harding, John 1974
Henson, Roy 1958-1959
Hodgson, G. C. D. 1958-1959
Hone, Sir Evelyn 1959-1963
Hooper, Mary-Louise 1959
Houser, George 1959-1960
Howard, Philip
1958-1960
1963-1966
1967-1974
1975-1986
I 1958-1959
Interchurch Coordination Committee for Development Projects (Netherlands) 1974-1979
J 1959-1960
Jere, Harrington 1983-1987
Jones, Sir Glyn 1960-1965
K 1957-1970
Kalulu, Solomon 1962-1975
Kamanga, Reuben 1963-1964
Kamba, Walter 1978-1980
Kapwepwe, Simon 1964-1965
Kaunda, Kenneth
1959
1960-1962
1963
1964
1965
1966-1967
1974-1979
1980-1989
Kumtumanji, Gabriel 1959
L 1957-1960
Laycock, Handley 1958
Lewis, Mark 1957-1958
M 1957-1975
Mackay, Peter 1962-1973
Macleod, Iain 1960-1965
Madavo, Crispin 1975
Madzimbamuto, Daniel 1959-1969
Makata, Lawrence 1959
Makulu, Henry 1958-1959
Maluleke, Josias 1960
Masemola, Nathaniel 1976
Matthews, Peter 1957-1958
Mawema, Michael 1967-1976
Mbekiani, Jasper 1959
Mbekiani, Wales (Nyemba) 1959-1964
Mboya, Tom 1957-1960
McAdam, Albert 1963
Meier, Rhys 1958-1966
Mew, Ken 1978
Micklem, Lorna 1959
Mkandawire, Chiza 1959
Mnthambala, Augustine 1958-1988
Moffat, Sir John 1959-1964
Morris, Colin 1958-1969
Mpofu, Alfred 1959
Msika, Joseph 1959-1980
Msonthi, John 1959-1966
Mtandwa, Peter 1960-1974
Mugabe, Robert and Sally 1967-1980
Muhsin, Ali 1959-1963
Mulikita, Fwanyanga 1971
Mundia, Nalumino 1964-1981
Murphy, Richard 1957-1974
Murray-Parker, May 1960
Mushonga, Paul and Evelin 1959
Musukwa, A. S. 1959
Mutasa, Didymus 1958-1973
Muvuti, Benjamin 1972
Muzorewa, Bishop Abel T. 1976
Mwale, Siteke 1975-1976
Mwanakatwe, John 1964-1965
N-O 1957-1978
Newhati, Francis 1959
Nixon, Richard M. 1960
Nkomo, Joshua 1959-1980
Noak, Hans 1957-1959
NORAD (Norwegian Aid) 1975-1980
NOVIB Foundation (Netherlands) 1974
Nyandoro, George 1959-1979
Nyerere, Julius 1959-1960
Nyimba, Opperson 1958
Ostrander, Taylor 1959
P 1957-1976
Padmore, George 1958-1959
Palley, Ahrn 1962-1966
Palmer, Joseph 1958-1969
Paradis, Ronald 1960
Pardey, H. G. 1958
Parry, Hugh 1959-1963
Paton, Alan 1962-1967
Pifer, Alan 1957
Potter, Philip 1959
Prain, Sir Ronald 1957-1969
Pretorius, J. L. 1959-1965
R 1957-1960
Radley, Philip 1958-1959
Rao, P. J. 1958
Rennie, Sir Gilbert 1959-1960
Rhodes, Willard 1958
Rubadiri, David and Gertrude 1963-1998
S 1957-1984
Senn, G. C. 1959-1980
Shamuyarira, Nathan 1962-1979
SIDA (Swedish International Development Authority) 1975-1981
Silundika, George 1980
Sipalo, Munukayumbwa 1964
Sithole, Edson 1959
Sithole, Rev. Ndabaningi 1960-1966
Sjöman, Vilgot 1958
Smith, George-Ivan 1974-1975
Smith, Leslie 1959-1960
Smyly, David and Veronica 1958-1959
Sonjo, A. Machila 1959-1960
Spivey, Ronald 1959
Steere, Loyd V. 1957-1959
Stephens, Christopher and Alice 1959
Stewart, Joyce 1958-1959
Swart, Edward 1958-1959
T 1957-1960
Takawira, Leopold 1962-1970
Tatum, Lyle 1962-1963
Temple, Merfyn 1957-1965
Thompson, Jack 1957-1960
Thorne, F. T. 1958
Todd, Garfield 1959-1988
Tredgold, Barbara 1958-1985
Tredgold, Sir Robert 1962-1977
Union Miniere du Haut Katanga 1957
V 1958-1960
Van der Merwe, Hendrik 1984-1987
Van Wyk, Fred J. 1979
Vernon-Jackson, Hugh 1975
W 1957-1979
Welensky, Sir Roy 1960
Whitehead, Sir Edgar 1958-1959
Wilson, Anthony E. 1971-1977
Wilson, Roger 1959
Wina, Arthur 1964-1965
Wina, Sikota 1964
Y 1958
Zvogbo, Eddison 1973-1980
Chronological
George Loft to AFSC Headquarters, Philadelphia
1957
1958
January-May
June-December
1959
January-May
July-December
1960
AFSC Headquarters, Philadelphia, to George Loft 1957-1960
Subject File 1958-1980
General
All-African People's Conference, Accra, Ghana 1958
Fundraising trips to Europe and Africa, for AFSC sponsored projects
1969 September
1974 September-October
1975 September-November
South Africa / Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, trip report, George Loft and Louis Schneider 1958
Southern Africa reports from George Loft 1958-1960
Malawi
Cabinet crisis 1964
U.N. Development Program, special mission (1966)
Background information 1966-1967
Correspondence 1966-1967
Itinerary and contacts list 1966
Reports
George Loft 1966
International Labor Organization 1966
United Nations Development Program 1965-1966
Government offices directory 1974
Mali
Drought relief project 1974
Drought relief project 1975
Photographs, relief projects circa 1977
Zambia / AFSC housing projects
Agreements with the Zambian government 1967-1968
Contact lists 1967-1968
Correspondence
General 1967-1974
Bard McAllister, AFSC Zambia Field Director
1967
1968
1969
1971
Henry Passmore, AFSC Headquarters
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
Zambian government
General 1967-1970
President Kenneth Kaunda 1967-1970
George Loft visits
1967
1969
Correspondence and news reports 1969
News clippings and background information 1969
1971
Background information
General 1968-1971
Kafue Housing Project 1967-1971
Correspondence
Contacts in Geneva 1971
Contacts in Zambia 1971
Other aid and development agencies 1971
Miscellany 1971
1975
Photographs 1969-1977
Publicity 1970-1978
Reports
"A View of the Kafue Squatter," 1970
"Chawama Self-Help Housing Project," 1975
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
George and Eleanor Loft mission (September-October 1972)
Background material
Abel Muzorewa, pamphlets 1972
Government publications, Rhodesia
"Anglo-Rhodesian Relations," 1971
"Constitution," 1969
"Economic Survey of Rhodesia," 1972
Government publications, United Kingdom, Pearce Commission Report 1972
Justice for Rhodesia campaign 1972
Miscellany 1969-1972
Report 1972
Part I
Part II
Rhodesia Conference, Geneva (October-December 1976)
Background material 1976-1977
Correspondence
Conference participants 1976-1977
Friends Service Council, London
Walter Martin 1976-1977
Others 1976
Trevor Jepson 1976-1977
Kenneth Kaunda 1976
Others 1976
Meeting minutes, Friends Service Council, London, Ad Hoc Group on Quaker Presence at Geneva Talks 1976
Meeting notes (George Loft, Trevor Jepson, Lyle Tatum) 1976
Press clippings 1976
Press releases and position papers
African National Council 1976
Zimbabwe African National Union 1976
Other parties 1976
Weekly reports (George Loft, Trevor Jepson) 1976
Friends Service Council / Quaker Peace and Service, London 1978-1980
London Conference (1979)
Freedom House--Election monitoring (1979)
Correspondence and press clippings 1979
Report 1979
News clippings
1969
1974
1976-1977
1978-1980
Photographs 1958-1979
35mm slides, taken by George Loft 1958-1979
List of individual slides, arranged by group
Group A: Third All-African People's Conference, Cairo, Egypt March 1961
Group B: Second All-African People's Conference, Tunis, Tunisia January 1960
Group C: First All-African People's Conference, Accra, Ghana December 1958
Group D: Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) 1959-1964
Group E: Northern Rhodesia / Zambia 1957-1964
Group F: Nyasaland / Malawi 1957-1964
Group G: First International Congress of Africanists, Accra, Ghana December 1962
Group H: Dakar Colloquium on African Economic Development and Ways of Socialism, Dakar, Senegal December 1962
Group I: Field trip for American Friends Service Committee to Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), Congo Republic, Nigeria April-May 1961
Group J: Belgian Congo trips, Elizabethville (1957), Leopoldville (1958)
Group K: Mission to Mali, American Friends Service Committee resettlement scheme for Sahel nomads; women's work projects March 1979
Group L: Lusaka, Zambia, October 1974 and October 1975, Self-help urban squatter upgrading scheme at John Howard Compound, led by American Friends Service Committee