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The Financial Planning Committee (FPC), a faculty-student body created under faculty by-laws, was formed in about 1968. It was composed of 6 faculty members, 4 undergraduate students, and 4 ex-officio administrators. The role of the group was to evaluate administrative proposals related to budgets and allocations, and provide suggestions and recommendations.

This collection of printed ephemera and subject files about fine presses has been accumulated by Olin Library throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Wesleyan football team has been in existence since 1883.

Fred B. Millett (1890-1976) was a professor of English and director of the Honors College at Wesleyan University.

The Wesleyan Glee Club formed in 1846 and frequently traveled and performed from the mid-19th century through the mid-20th century. The Glee Club, along with the Chapel Choir and Concert Choir, performed at the annual Christmas Candlelight Concerts beginning in 1930.

Social Credit has been an economic theory, a social philosophy, an ideology, and a political party in England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States since it was first advanced in 1920 by Major C. H. Douglas. He believed finance capitalism deprived individuals of sufficient purchasing power to buy otherwise available products. To overcome this Douglas proposed offering to every citizen dividend payments based on the community's real wealth. As monetary reform and as social theory Social Credit attracted intellectual support in England and the United States especially during the 1930s. Gorham Munson (Wesleyan class of 1917) was the most eloquent and durable Social Credit leader in the United States. In 1932, he became American correspondent for The New English Weekly, defended Social Credit in The Nation and helped form a key Social Credit organization, the New Economics Group of New York. In 1933 he initiated a vital Social Credit journal of the arts and public affairs, New Democracy, and was its chief editor during its three-year life.

In 1969, Peter Budryk opened the Great Hollow Wilderness School (GHWS) to provide disadvantaged children and teenagers with a wilderness experience. In 1985, the GHWS offered a Wesleyan Orientation in the Wilderness (WOW) program for incoming freshmen at Wesleyan University.

Harriet Stewart Judd, teacher at Albion Seminary and Rockford Female College, was born in 1822 in Lockport, New York. She married Orange Judd, a Wesleyan University graduate and publisher, and they had four sons with whom she traveled across much of the United States and Europe.

Includes programs from the Head of the Connecticut Regatta, 1981-1986, and approximately forty 3 x 5 inch photographs and two 8 x 10 inch photographs.

Henry Curtis Herge (1907-2003) was the Commanding Officer of the Navy College Training Program at Wesleyan University, known as the V-12.