Advocate Research and Education Foundation records
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
The collection is divided into four series: Advocate Research and Education Foundation and Advocate Experience Correspondence and Memos' and Alphabetical Subject File; Facilitator Information Sheets; and an Audio and Video cassette series. The Facilitator Information Sheets are restricted until 2041.
Dates
- 1978-1981.
Creator
- Advocate Research and Education Foundation (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
In the 1970s, David B. Goodstein created the Advocate Research and Education Foundation, a non-profit structure through which to conduct the "Advocate Experience." Initially the Experience was a one-weekend seminar similar to Werner Erhard's EST, only targeted at a gay audience. The foundation was eventually combined with the Mariposa Education and Research Foundation.
Extent
12.5 cubic feet. (12.5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
The collection pertains chiefly to the Advocate Experience, an EST-derived seminar for lesbians and gays founded by David B. Goodstein. The contains various materials from 1978 to 1981 of the Advocate Research and Education Foundation Board and the Advocate Experience staff, and manuals pertaining to the Advocate Experience and the Outrageous Experience (a seminar for instructors).
SERIES LIST
- Series I. Correspondence (incoming and outgoing)
- Boxes 1-4
- Series II. Alphabetical Subject File
- Boxes 5-9
- Series III. Advocate Experience Facilitator Information Sheets
- Boxes 10-12
- Series IV. Advocate Experience Audio and Video Cassettes and Slides
- Box 13
Physical Description
Correspondence, financial records, registration files, topical seminar background material, "facilitator information sheets," audio and video cassettes, slides.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Phil McCray
- Date completed:
- September 1991
- EAD encoding:
- Mireille Lee, April 2000
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Phil McCray
- Date
- 2000
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu