Title: Records of the Office of the President: Donald R. Cruickshank, 1970-1972
Arrangement
The collection is organized in two series with the second series being organized into two sub-series.
Series I: Biographical, 1970-1971
Contains newspaper clippings regarding Cruickshank’s appointment as president of Wheelock College, a brief biographical sketch from the Faculty Information Service of Ohio State University, and the announcement of Cruickshank’s appointment in the Wheelock Alumnae Quarterly.
Series II: Professional Work, 1970-1972
Documents Cruickshank’s the professional work at Wheelock College. Contains information relating to Cruickshank's work within the educational community, and articles written by Cruickshank about education. The series is divided into two sub-series:
Subseries 1: Writings and Speeches, 1971-1972
Contains Cruickshank’s writings and speeches, including his Inaugural Address, the President’s Letter, 1972, and an article which appeared in The Journal of Teacher Education.
Subseries 2: Wheelock College Administrative, 1970-1972
Documents some of Cruickshank’s work at Wheelock College. Largely consisting of correspondence, this series contains information about the planning for Cruickshank’s inauguration as well as some meeting minutes, memoranda, and student responses relating to the "Futures Study" and proposed statement of educational policy at Wheelock.. There is also a letter written by Colby Hewitt, Chairman of the Board of Trustees announcing Cruickshank's resignation.
Administrative/Biographical History
Donald Cruickshank was the seventh President of Wheelock College. Cruickshank held a Bachelor's from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master's and Doctorate in Education from the University of Rochester. Prior to his appointment as chairman of the department of early and middle childhood education at Ohio State University in 1969, Cruickshank held administrative and teaching posts at the University of Tennessee, the State University College in Brockport, N.Y., and at two elementary schools in Rochester, N.Y. His professional activities included membership in the National Education Association and the American Education Research Association. In addition, he was the recipient of a special citation from AACTE for his work in the application of technology to teacher education. Cruickshank came to Wheelock in 1971 to serve as the President, and returned to his position at Ohio State University in 1972, after a year in which he professed disappointment at “merely bailing water but not plugging holes.”
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