- GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMITTEE ON THE ÚMIGRÚ AND THE COMMUNITY
- GUILFORD COLLEGE (GUILFORD, N.C.)
GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMITTEE ON THE ÚMIGRÚ AND THE COMMUNITY (Box
38)
I. GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMITTEE ... - Correspondence, minutes,
reports, etc., 1939. [1 folder in Box 38]
Notes on contents: letters, reports, printed material, minutes.
Wood was a member of this committee, which had as its honorary
chairman, Eleanor Roosevelt. Includes material on the "New
York City Conference on the ÚmigrÙ and the Community" held
in May 1939. Correspondents include Bart Andress (Executive Director
of the committee) and others.
GUILFORD COLLEGE (GUILFORD, N.C.) (Boxes 38-39)
Background: Wood was named to the New York branch of the "Committee
in Support of Guilford College" as part of the Quaker college's
centennial endowment campaign. Almost all of the correspondence
in these folders is concerned with various aspects of fund-raising
for Guilford: how to conduct the campaign (whether to hire a professional
fund-raising company or try and do it cheaper themselves), how
to approach the Biddle and Duke families for contributions, etc.
I. GUILFORD COLLEGE - "Correspondence with North Carolina
committee," 1930-1935. [1 folder in Box 38]
Notes on contents: letters, clippings, essays.
Discusses failure of Commercial National Bank of High Point (which
held Guilford's endowment fund) and death of bank's president
and member of college's Board of Trustees, J. Elwood Cox; death
of Guilford's President emeritus, Dr. Lewis Lyndon Hobbs. Correspondents
include Raymond Binford, L. L. Hobbs, Edgar T. Hole and others.
II. GUILFORD COLLEGE - "Correspondence with North Carolina
committee," Raymond M. Binford, 1930-1931. [1 folder in Box
38]
Notes on contents: letters.
Letters between Wood and Binford, President of Guilford, chiefly
discussing how the endowment campaign should be conducted. Wood
is on the New York committee which is trying to get contributions
from New York and Philadelphia Friends.
III. GUILFORD COLLEGE - "Correspondence with North Carolina
committee," Dudley D. Carroll, 1930-1932. [1 folder in Box
38
Notes on contents: letters.
Letters between Wood and Carroll (Dean of School of Commerce
at U. of N.C., Chapel Hill and chair of Trustees Committee of
the Guilford Centennial Endowment campaign) discussing the campaign.
IV. GUILFORD COLLEGE - "Correspondence with North Carolina
committee," J. Elwood Cox, 1930-1931. [1 folder in Box 38]
Notes on contents: letters.
Letters between Wood and Cox (President of the Commercial National
Bank of High Point, N.C. and member of Guilford Board of Trustees)
discussing endowment campaign.
V. GUILFORD COLLEGE - "Correspondence with North Carolina
committee," Edgar T. Hole, 1930-1932. [1 folder in Box 38]
Notes on contents: letters, clipping and essay "Historical
Sketch" by L. L. Hobbs.
Chiefly letters between Wood and Hole (Financial Secretary of
Guilford) discussing endowment campaign.
VI. GUILFORD COLLEGE - "Correspondence with New York
committee," 1930-1933. [1 folder in Box 38]
Notes on contents: letters.
Letters chiefly discussing fund-raising campaign, including how
to ask Biddle and Duke families for a contribution. Correspondents
include George Gordon Battle, Edgar T. Hole, Herbert Petty and
others.
VII. GUILFORD COLLEGE - "Miscellaneous correspondence,"
1930-1937. [3 folders in Box 39]
Notes on contents: letters, notes, memorandum, clipping, printed
brochures, map.
Chiefly discusses fund-raising campaign. Correspondents include
Alfred Busselle, L. L. Hobbs, Henry Goddard Leach, J. Hoge Ricks
and others.
- Misc. correspondence, 1930.
- Misc. correspondence, 1931.
- Misc. correspondence, 1932-1937.
VIII. GUILFORD COLLEGE - "Direct personal appeals to
individuals," 1930-1938. [1 folder in Box 39]
Notes on contents: letters, lists, essay on value of small colleges
by A. W. Blair.
Primarily Wood's letters appealing for contributions filed with
replies from prospective donors.
