OU.ACADEMICUNIT.PERFARTS

Summary Information

Repository
Oakland University Archives and Special Collections
Title
Records of the School of Performing Arts
ID
OU.ACADEMICUNIT.PERFARTS
Date
1966-late 1970s
Extent
2.0 Linear feet
Language
English

Preferred Citation

Item, folder title, box no., Oakland University School of Performing Arts records, Oakland University Archives.

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History

The School of Performing Arts was created in December 1965, at the same time as the College of Arts and Sciences and other schools were created. It housed the dance, theater and music programs and ran the Academy of Dramatic Art (ADA) from 1967 to 1977. The ADA program was launched as a separate academic unit in 1967 as a curricular counterpart to the professional Meadow Brook Theatre, directed by John Fernald, the renowned former head of England’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. . The distinctive program of the academy, and its close relationship to the Meadow Brook Theater and its world class director, provided students with a unique training program. The ADA closed in 1977 along with the School of Performing Arts as the departments of theater and dance were moved to the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Oakland University Archives and Special Collections

Kresge Library
100 Library Drive
Rochester, MI, 48309

Access and Use

The records of the School of Performing Arts are open for research except for certain records restricted by statute or university policy.

Copyright

Copyright held by Oakland University. The collection includes occasional materials produced by outside parties. Copyright to these items may be held by the original creators

Processing

Processed by Shirley Paquette, May 2016.

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Other Finding Aids

See also Annual Reports collection.

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Collection Inventory

Administration 

Scope and Contents

Dean Wilbur W. Kent files.

 Box
1
Box

ADA Cost Study 1970-1971 

 1

ADA Studio Company Memos 1968-1969 

 1

ADA New Students 1972 

 1

ADA Stage Management Course 

 1

ADA Teaching Load Analysis 

 1

Advertising Guidelines 

 1

Annual reports 1966-1975, 1980-1981   10 folders

Scope and Contents note

Some years include annual reports for ADA, Studio Company and Meadow Brook Summer School of Music.

 1

Audience Competition 

 1

Budget, memos September 7, 1971-August 1, 1972 

 1

Budget - 1972-1973 

 1

Receipts - 1969 

 1

Career Opportunities Program 

 1

Constitution 1981 

 1

Course Catalog Master of titles & numbers 

 1

Cultural Programs Abroad 

 1

Faculty Academic Conduct 

 1

Faculty Council 1978-1980 

 1

Faculty - Non-reappointment 

 1

Faculty Strikes 1971 

 1

Faculty Teaching Loads 

 1

Faculty Tenure & Appointment Policy Committee 

 1

Letters -Incoming September 20, 1968-August 28, 1972 

 1

Letters - Outgoing December 8, 1969-November 3, 1971 

 1

Letters - Outgoing November 9, 1971-July 12, 1972 

 1

Letters - Outgoing November 12, 1972 - March 1, 1974 

 1

Master check list 

 1

Master Class - memos 1968-1970 

 1

Master Classes at Sunset Terrace 1969 

 1

MBSSM Concerts & Class Schedule 1969 

 1

MBSSM Expenditures 1968-1969 

 1

MBSSM Memos December 12, 1968 - June 11, 1969  

 1

MBSSM Housing & Transport payments 

 1

Summer School Planning Memos 1970-1972 

 1

Memos - General 1967-1970 

 1

Memos - General 1970-1971 

 1

Memos - General 1971-1972 

 1

Memos - General 1972 - 1974 

 1

Memos - General 1979-1980 

 1

Memos - Reports - Notes 1966-1973 

 1

Records - Miscellaneous 1964-1972 

 1

North Central Accreditation Report 1967 1967-1971 

 1

Social Science Education Program Outline 

 1

Reorganization - SPA 1965-1972 

 1

Report - Patterns of Readmission 1966-1969 

 1

Report - Proposed Projects in Music Ed. 

 1

Rockefeller Fund (GA Arts 6731) 1967-1968 

 1

Rockefeller Foundation Arts Fund Ledgers 1966-1968 

 1

Rockefeller Fund (GA Arts 6726) 

 1

Summer Workshops 1970-1971 

 1

SPA - Senate 1971 

 1

SPA History Timeline Events 

 1

Title VI Memos 1969-1971 

 1

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Adventures in Creativity 
Box

Project Policies & Procedures 1970 

 2

Booklets 1970 

 2

Documents - Masters 1971 

 2

Housing 1970 

 2

Housing 1971 

 2

Letter of Agreement 1970 

 2

Letters of Agreement 1971 

 2

Memos 1970 

 2

Preparation memos 1970 

 2

Preparation memos 1971 

 2

Reimbursements 1971 

 2

Relationships With Other Groups 1971 

 2

Schedule of Events 1971 

Scope and Contents note

Includes student writings.

 2

Staff and Students - Addresses 1971 

Restricted Access

This folder contains confidential information. Closed for 75 years after creation or death of subjects.

 2

Staff and Student ID Notes 

Restricted Access

This folder contains confidential information. Closed for 75 years after creation or death of subjects.

 2

Time, Space, Equipment 1970 

 2

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Education & Social Science Building 
Box

COB #1 PAL - Memos, reports 1967-1969 

 1

COB #1- Acoustics 

 1

COB #1 - Budget - Control Allocations 

 1

COB #1 - Budget 1970 

 1

COB #1 - Budget 1971-1972 

 1

COB Program Outline by D. O'Dowd December 13, 1966 

 1

Audio Control Studio 

 2

Conference Notes - 1967 

 2

COB #2 - Program Outline memos & corresp. 1969 

 2

COB #2 - Program Outline 2 1969 

 2

COB Moveable Equipment Recommendations 

 2

Preliminary Schematic #1 - COB 2 

 2

Preliminary Schematics #2 -COB 2 October 4, 1967 

 2

TM Architects Project - Memos 

 2

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Scholarship & Funding 
Box

Algonac Music Study Club 

 2

Battle Creek Morning Musicale 

 2

Benton Harbor - St. Joseph Musicale 

 2

Birmingham Musicale Scholarship 

 2

BMI Scholarship 

 2

Cranbrook Music Guild Scholarship 

 2

De Bruyn, Helen Neff - Memorial Fund 

 2

Detroit Tuesday Musicale Scholarship 

 2

Frost, Wallace Mrs. 

 2

Gay Northeasterners 

 2

Harris, Robert H. - Memorial Fund 

 2

Holden Jennings, Martha - Foundation 

 2

Kesler Kimelman, Susan - Scholarship 

 2

Love, Josephine H. - Scholarship 

 2

MB Scholarship Committee 

 2

Michigan Federation of Music Clubs 

 2

Miscellaneous 1966-1968 

 2

Mu Phi Epsilon Scholarship 

 2

Oxford Music Club 

 2

Phi Mu Alpha Scholarship 

 2

Pontiac Musicale Scholarship 

 2

Shaw, Robert L. 

 2

Skirts, The 

 2

Stapleton, Helen 

 2

Symphony of Fashion 

 2

UAW 

 2

Vennan Scholarship 

 2

Veterans Benefits 

 2

Village Womens Club 

 2

Webber Charitable Fund 

 2

Topical Subjects 
Box

Alumni Association 

 2

Carnegie Corp. Report - Donald O'Dowd 

Scope and Contents note

"The University and the Performing Arts". Includes section: A Case Study at Oakland-Meadow Brook.

 2

Diploma - Certificate Design 

 2

Commission on Student Life 

 2

Curricular Changes 

 2

Faculty Club 

 2

Grinnells 

 2

History of Department Events 

 2

Huber vs. Elbinger 

 2

Latin American Area Studies 

 2

Music Department Curriculum 1969-1971 

 2

Music Department Memos 1967-1972 

 2

Selective Services 1967-1970 

 2

Selective Services Deferments 

Restricted Access

This folder contains confidential information. Closed for 75 years after creation or death of subjects.

 2

University Student Congress 1971 

 2

Varner, D.B. - Memos, Correspondence 1966-1971 

 2

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