This series, for the most part, contains the records of the Special Faculty Committee on the Presidency. It includes the correspondence received by the committee from members both inside and outside of Columbia nominating candidates for the presidency. There are three versions of the reports collecting the names of the nominees, their qualifications and statements of support, including the final version presented to the Board of Trustees in September 1945. The rest of the series contains the Trustees correspondence in conducting the search over the next two years. There are also newspaper clippings and articles related to search and the appointment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1947.
Box 1
Special Faculty Committee on the Presidency correspondence, 1945-1946
Names Suggested for Consideration for the Presidency, 1st edition, A-L,, 1945
Names Suggested for Consideration for the Presidency, 1st edition, M-Z,, 1945
Names Suggested for Consideration for the Presidency, A-I, 1945 August, 1945
Names Suggested for Consideration for the Presidency, J-W, 1945 August, 1945
Candidates submitted by the Executive Committee to the Trustees, 1945 September, 1945
Candidate report materials, 1945
Candidate report annotated drafts, 1945
Trustees' Special Committee on the Presidency correspondence, 1945
Trustees' Special Committee on the Presidency correspondence, 1946
Trustees' Special Committee on the Presidency correspondence, 1947
News clippings related to the search and Eisenhower's appointment,, 1945-1948
President Grayson Kirk's transfer of the 1945 presidential search files to the Columbiana Collection, 1967, 1945, 1967