May 4 Resource Room papers

May 4 Collection -- Box 192

Finding Aid

Historical Note

In 1974, a donation from Victor E. Buehrle made it possible to provide an inspirational setting and research center in the form of a room in the main library that would be open to the public, dedicated to the memory of those slain and wounded on May 4, 1970, and devoted to quiet reflection and study of the past, present and future. Subsequent actions on the part of concerned faculty and students brought together a number of memorials, resources and on-campus sites to make the room a center of the physical memory of May 4, 1970.

Scope and Content

This collection contains information on the May 4 Resource Room including files on its origins, meeting minutes and statements prepared by the ad hoc May 4 committee of the Retired Faculty Association, information about some of the artifacts housed in the room, and photographs. Also included are files relating to various refurbishment projects for the room.

May 4 Collection -- Box 192

1. Resource Room Proposal and Microfilm Project, 1972-1974
2. Resource Room: dedication and information about the room, 1974
3. Resource Room: correspondence, 1973-2003
4. Resource Room: stained glass windows information, 1985-2003
5. Resource Room: Mission Statement for the May 4th Resource Room, 1999
6. Resource Room: Retired Faculty Association of Kent State University: Resources and Memorabilia, 2004
7. Resource Room: inscription on bronze dedication marker, undated
8. Ad hoc May 4 committee of the Retired Faculty Association of Kent State University: proposed mission statement, strategic plan, and mission statement notes, October-November 1999
9. Ad hoc May 4 committee of the Retired Faculty Association of Kent State University: commemoration committee notes, reccommendations, correspondence, and proposals, 2000
10. Ad hoc May 4 committee of the Retired Faculty Association of Kent State University: correspondence, proposals and related information, 2001
11. Ad hoc May 4 committee of the Retired Faculty Association of Kent State University: Proposals, funding requests, drafts, and correspondence, 2002
12. Ad hoc May 4 committee of the Retired Faculty Association of Kent State University: correspondence, docent schedule, and strategy chart, 2003
13. Ad hoc May 4 committee of the Retired Faculty Association of Kent State University: Resource Materials, 2006-2009
14. Dedication Program, with Remarks by John Begala,1974
15. Visitors' Register: May 2002-August 2004 [visitors' names, geographic origin, and comments are recorded in this register]
16. Visitors' Register: August 2004-January 2009 [visitors' names--including the late Jim Russell, one of the students wounded on May 4, 1970--geographic origin, and comments are recorded in this register]
17. Docents' Handbook, revised 2004
18. Photograph: sign on door of resource room, May 1974
19. Photograph: selection of books about May 4, 1970, May 1974
20. Photograph: researcher in resource room, May 1974
21. Photograph: view inside resource room, May 1974
22. Photograph: another view inside resource room, May 1974
23. Photograph: researcher in resource room, May 1974
24. Photograph: researchers in resource room, January 1979
25. Photograph: researcher in resource room, January 1979
26. Photograph: researchers in resource room, January 1979
27. Photographs: former students wounded in 1970 were present at memorial services held April 30, 2002
28. Photographs and captions: Dr. Sidney Louis Jackson memorial framed pictures, undated
29. Oversize: a collection of monochrome copies of photographs and poems hung in memory of May 4 Task Force advisor Dr. Sidney L. Jackson (1914-1979) [in twelfth floor map case]
30. 4 black drapes used for photos in Resource Room, 2001
31. 6 docent pins for Resource Room, undated