Series

Series One--Planning Series Two--Special Events Series Three--Official Publications/News Releases

Series One--Planning

Arranged chronologically, this series consists of budgets, proposals, committee minutes and reports, and correspondences and memorandums relating to the planning of the centennial year. This series also contains congratulatory letters/telegrams received during the Centennial year. The more prominent congratulatory letters/telegrams include a telegram from President Eisenhower, a letter from Vice President Nixon, and a copy of the Recital of Senate Proceedings Senate Resolution of Congratulations by State Senator Sido L. Ridolfi.

Series Two--Special Events

Arranged chronologically, this series consists of schedules of events for the Centennial year; programs for Convocation, Founders' Day, Parents' Day, Homecoming, and Commencement, including what appears to have been President West's copies with introductory notes from Convocation and Commencement; background information on Norman Cousins; and copies of the Address made by Herold C. Hunt, the Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Remarks made by Governor Robert Meyner at the Commencement ceremony. Also included in this series are lists of line-ups for the convocation procession; seating diagrams; maps of the Homecoming parade route, parade location and line-up; a number of correspondences from each event regarding invitations, letters of acceptance and regret, and thanks; and programs from conferences sponsored by various departments.

Series Three--Official Publications/News Releases

This file includes an order form to the book, Time, the Great Teacher, by Rachel Jarrold and Glenn Fromm, as well as a list of people to receive a complimentary book. In addition, arranged chronologically, is an excerpt from the June 28th, 1955 issue of "The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education" which gives background information on the book, a news release by NJ Bell Telephone Company (September 24-25, 1955), as well as copies of articles in the Trenton Sunday Times¬ Advertiser (May 29, 1955), The Monmouth Educator (February 1956), and the Newark Sunday News (February 12,1956). (Note: A copy of the Centennial Issue is located in the Signal Vol. 70)