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The Library files collection includes reports, memoranda, financial records, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, and other documents generated by the North Central College library. The main subjects covered include building construction and renovation, finances, library instruction, collections, cataloging systems, gifts, grants, awards, policies, and procedures. See series notes for further details.

Scope and Contents The files of the literary societies of North-Western College include the minutes, programs, and papers of many different campus societies. Societies represented in this series include Cliosophic, Laconian, Neocosmian, North-Western Debating Club, Phi Beta Alpha/Phi Sigma Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, Philologian, Philorhetorian, Pi Kappa Delta, and Star. The bulk of this collection is minutes created by each society, usually handwritten into bound journals. These minutes include constitution...

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This collection consists of published material such as atlases, histories, directories, and news clippings related to the history of Naperville and surrounding areas. Topics include anniversaries, churches, landmarks, the Naperville Sun, and prominent families.

Scope and Contents The papers of Lowell Maechtle include records pertaining to Maechtle’s academic, and, to a lesser extent, personal life. These papers cover Maechtle’s undergraduate experience at North Central College, his graduate work at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his faculty positions in Sociology departments at Indiana Central College, St. Olaf College and finally, North Central. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence; Dissertation Research; Pastoral Files; Professor Files;...

Scope and Contents The collection includes correspondence, lecture notes, transcripts for writings, class notes from college, journals and a postcard collection. Correspondence contains letters from her involvement in the United War Work Campaign, and letters from Luella E. Kiekhoefer to her family during her time in Germany. Lecture notes are from her English and History teaching positions at Cosmopolitan Preparatory School. Most class notes are from her studies at John Hopkins University, and distinguished...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of two bound volumes which are transcriptions of the proceedings of each conference, compiled by the Lecture Recording Service in Chicago, Illinois. The transcripts include every lecture as well as the subsequent question and answer session. The first volume from the 1937 conference includes 28 lectures that cover various topics relating to tensions in Europe and Asia, including titles such as, “Tensions in the Orient,” “The Fascist Threat to World Peace,” and “If...

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This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, science survey reports, a scrapbook, letters, a high school diploma, offprints, Dr. Rebstock’s master’s thesis and doctoral thesis, awards, patent documents, and a funeral program. Artifacts, housed and inventoried separately include artwork, a chemistry scale, a wooden box with scale weights, two graduated cylinders, a gown worn by Dr. Rebstock at the National Press Club Awards, and a 250M bottle of chloromycetin.

Scope and Contents This collection contains programs, itineraries, newsletters, guidebooks, prospectuses, flyers, and brochures relating to the music department at North Central College. Subjects include tours of the Men’s Glee Club, Concert Choir, and Women’s Chorale, workshops in opera and church music, an early history of the School of Music, the Music Festival and the Fine Arts Festival, and the madrigal choir. The collection also contains programs from the Evangelical Theological Seminary’s choir...

Scope and Contents The NCC Chronicle has provided a voice for students and a medium to capture North Central College’s history through coverage of campus events and news, as well as national and international events such as World War II, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and the two Gulf Wars. Early issues of the NCC Chronicle, a monthly publication, are very similar to a literary journal and contain mostly essays, editorials, and poetry contributed by faculty members and students with very little...

Scope and Contents This collection contains newsletters published by North Central College from 1918 to 2003. These newsletters cover a variety of topics and were created for students, faculty, alumni, and prospective students, as outlined about in the description of this series. The calendars list upcoming events on campus. The calendars and Happenings both list upcoming events on campus which include athletics, meetings, programs, and activities. This Week includes weekly schedules of campus...