Collections : [Wesleyan University -Special Collections and Archives]

Wesleyan University restarted its dormant chapter in the American Association of University Professors with a new constitution on October 9, 1974. Over the following two decades, the chapter took part in negotiations with the administration, including University President Colin Campbell. Beginning in 1977, Nathanael Greene, Vice President for Academic Affairs, would serve as Campbell’s liaison to the AAUP. The activities of the group appear to have dropped off around 1990.

The Atwater family included Wilbur O. Atwater, Wesleyan alumnus and professor, and his wife, Marcia Woodard Atwater. They had two children: Helen Woodard Atwater, a home economist and Charles Woodard Atwater, a lawyer.

Osmon Cleander Baker attended the Wesleyan Academy (now Wilbraham Academy) and Wesleyan University. Active in the Methodist Episcopal church, he taught and administered at the Newbury Seminary in Vermont and the Methodist General Biblical Institute, in Concord, New Hampshire. In 1852, he was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Bennet graduated from Wesleyan University, class of 1959, and was president of that institution from 1995 to 2007. These professional papers contain materials from his undergraduate studies, including materials from Bennet's position as co-president of fraternity Alpha Chi Rho. There are also materials from his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard University. The bulk of the materials cover his professional career, beginning as administrative assistant to Ambassador Chester Bowles in India in the mid 1960s, and continuting through his many years in Washington D.C. He was a speech writer for Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey from 1967 to 1968 and the collection contains realia from the 1968 Humphrey/Muskie presidential election. In the early 1970s, Bennet was an administrator, first for senator Thomas F. Eagleton and then for Abraham Ribicoff. As administrator for Senator Eagleton, he helped craft the Democratic Platform in the 1972 election and was active in Eagleton's political campaign. Bennet ran for the House of Representatives in 1974 and went on to be the staff director for the newly-formed Senate Budget Committee from 1974 to 1977. Bennet served twice as Assistant Secretary of State, as Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from 1977 to 1979, and as Assistant Secretary of State for International Affairs from 1993 to 1995. He also served as administrator for the Agency for International Development (AID), 1979 to 1981. The AID series contains many photographs. This collection also contains material on Bennet's two years as president of the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies and some material from his ten years as president of National Public Radio. The personal series includes a family scrapbook containing a 19th century sampler.

Lorenzo Whiting Blood, Methodist minister, was born April 13, 1812 in Mason, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. He graduated Wesleyan University in the class of 1838.

John Cage (1912-1992) was an experimental musician, composer, and writer.

Arthur Benjamin Calef, Wesleyan class of 1851, served in a variety of governmental positions in Middletown and Middlesex County, Connecticut and in the state as a whole, as well as being a delegate to the National Republican Conventions in 1860 and 1864.

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was an influential intellectual and writer. He was born and raised in Algeria, but spent most of his life during World War II and afterwards in France. Camus received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

Carl Carlson was a Wesleyan University student between 1937 and 1941 but did not graduate. He was killed in World War II.

A lifelong Democrat, William M. Citron served as a member of the Connecticut State Assembly, Connecticut State Legislature, and had two terms in the United States Congress as a representative for Connecticut. He served in the Army in both World War I and World War II. Citron was an outspoken opponent of anti-semitism and, in 1935, wrote to the U.S. Olympic Committee to urge that American athletes boycott the Olympics scheduled to take place in Berlin in the summer of 1936. He also made remarks (printed in the Congressional Record), that the United States' attendance at the Olympic events would give tacit approval to the racist practices of the Nazi government. In addition, Citron introduced legislation to regulate development along the Connecticut River and to provide flood control. His career was most active during the Great Depression, and he was a participant in the New Deal.