Industrial Relations and the Public

Manuscripts.

Approximately 250 in number, manuscripts range in form from notes, to unedited and edited drafts of articles, to addresses. They cover a wide range of topics in the fields of business management, public administration, and higher education. Major subjects of Tead's writings include: faculty administration; personnel administration; educational administration; church administration; personnel management; industry leadership; executive leadership; collective bargaining; liberal education; higher education; labor-management relations; education; faith; religion; democracy; industrial conflict; industrial relations; women and education; college teaching; human values; teachers; administrative personality; human relations; and two-year colleges. Tead's early manuscripts also include poetry and eleven play scripts, of which two are "Teaching Teddy: A Satire On Politics," and "The Professor at the Luncheon Table, or the Dictagraphs Revenge."



Correspondence.

Spanning from 1965 to 1969 (carbons and originals), this material is of a professional and personal nature. The professional correspondence deals chiefly with Tead's involvement in the publishing industry as an editor for the McGraw-Hill Book Company, and as an editor and director of social and economic books for Harper and Brothers. Major correspondents include: Oliver C. Carmichael (Ford Foundation Consultant), Thomas L. Cheney (Lawyer), Henry Geiger (Publisher, MANAS), John Graves, Richard H. Guggenheimer, John M. Gaus, Louis Finkelstein (Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion), Clara Fraser, M.J. Holahan (Secretary, Scholarship and Education Committee of Pitney-Bowes, Inc.), Gerhard Hirschfeld (Executive Director, Council for the Study of Mankind), Helen Emmans Hoar, Marvin T. Judy (Southern Methodist University), Robert L. Jackson (Yale University), John E. Ivey, Jr. (Dean, Michigan State University), F.L. Kunz (The Foundation for Integrative Education, Inc.), Irene R. Kiernan (Fashion Institute of Technology), Douglas M. Knight (President, Duke University), Allan Lewis (Director, The Shakespeare Institute), A.A. Liveright (Boston University), Charles T. Laugher (Amherst College), Howard Lee Nostrand (University of Washington), Thomas C. Mendenhall (President, Smith College), H.B. Maynard (President, Maynard Research Council), Franklin Patterson (President, Hampshire College), Earl V. Pullias (University of Southern California), Edward Joseph Shoben, Jr. (Director, American Council of Education), James H. Shroder, Evelyn Buckley Sauer (Management Consultant), Herbert Stroup (Brooklyn College), Henry W. Sweeney (Deputy Assistant, Secretary of Defense), Phil Tead (brother), Doris Campbell Thomas (Long Island University, C.W. Post College), Sherwood Trask, Mrs. Richard (Marguerite) Tirk, Robert Ulrich, Oliver L. Reiser (University of Pittsburgh), Herbert Coslet Armstrong, John J. Carhart, Thomas Dreier, and Clarence A. Faulcon. Also included is letter (1969) from Pitney-Bowes scholarship recipients to Tead on his retirement from the scholarship board; and letters (1965-1968) acknowledging receipt of contributions (gift and monetary) by Tead to various institutions and associations.



Clippings and reviews.

Clippings include articles on and by Tead;.the reviews deal with Tead's published books College Teaching and College Learning (1949), The Case of Democracy (1937), Human Nature and Management (1933), The Climate of Learning (1958), The Art of Administration (1951), and Character Building and Higher Education (1953); there are also reviews (1920-1927) written by Tead. Also included are reprints of Tead's publications.



Publications, reprints, and correspondence of Tead's colleagues.

Includes material by and about Abraham H. Maslow (Brandeis University), Ross Mooney (Ohio State University), Lewis Munford, Gardner Murphy, Oliver L. Reiser, E. John Wallace (Society for the Advancement of Management), Marshall Demock (University of Colorado), E.D. Duryen (Syracuse University), Frederick de W. Bolman, Delmer Goode (Oregon State University), and Robert G. Valentine.



Materials documenting Tead's work with the Bureau of Industrial Research

This portion of the collection includes: one volume (carbon) of Labor Survey of the Tanning Industry made for the Labor Committee of the Tanner's Council of America (1918); one volume (carbon) of the Industrial Audit of the Rock Island Arsenal with special reference to the principal sources of dissatisfaction, by Valentine, Tead and Gregg (Industrial Counselors); one volume (carbon) Industrial Audit of Osborn Mills, Fall River, Massachusets, by Valentine, Tead and Gregg; and series of data gathering forms designed and copywrighted (1916) by Valentine, Tead, and Gregg.



Miscellaneous materials

Included are: syllabi outlines and examinations for courses taught by Tead at Briancliff College, two recording tapes concerning an unidentified institute at which Tead spoke (1965); and 212-page (carbon) "Reminiscences of Ordway Tead" by the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University (1961).