Correspondence, chron., 1982, Apr.

Papers primarily relating to Corson's teaching, research, and administrative activities prior to his appointment as Provost in 1963 and after resigning from his position as President in 1977. Includes course material from his graduate studies at the University of Kansas, the University of California at Berkeley, and his teaching career at Cornell; notes, papers, and research material from Kansas, Berkeley, the War Department, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory, the Los Alamos National Laboratories, and Cornell; administrative files, including meeting minutes, agendas, programs, and photographs related to the Physics Department, the College of Engineering, the synchrotron, and various other academic units; development and other files relating to the Medical College, corporate and alumni relations, and the Board of Trustees, and to Corson's activities relating to the Library Advisory Council, the Music Committee, the Arecibo Observatory, and Deep Springs College and other educational institutions. Correspondents include E.B. White, Floyd R. Newman, Leslie R. Severinghaus, and Philip Will.

Includes material relating to student activism; race relations on campus and the Vietnam War; the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable; the Chinese University Development Project; the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering; and Corson's avocations, including photography and travel and his community activities with Kendal at Ithaca, the Sciencenter, the Tompkins County Trust Company, and the Tower Club.

Collection includes appointment books, diaries, calendars, notebooks, diplomas, awards, memorial documents, invitations, oral history transcripts, and a videotape and program from a 1999 symposium honoring Dr. Corson, "Strategy for a Great Research University."

Also, DVD, videotape and program from "Strategy for a Great Research University: A Symposium Honoring Dale Raymond Corson," December 5-7, 1999. DVD, "The Corson Symposium," produced by the Internet-First University Press, includes an 18-minute video tribute, the speeches at a gala banquet and a luncheon (71 minutes), and the audio for more than 13 major addresses presented at the Symposium, including Frank Rhodes and Hunter Rawlings, as well as photographs of family and friends, and presentations by the Glee Club and chimesmasters. Photographs by Jon Reis of Dale Corson's 90th birthday party, April, 2004.