MAY 4 COLLECTION -- Box 69
Prepared by John S. Skutnik, May 6, 1991
Updated by Craig Simpson, October 6, 2004
1 box, 1 cubic ft., 11th floor
Dr. Horace A. Page donated his materials to the Kent State University Archives on October 31, 1986.
Dr. Page was an instructor in the Psychology Department and Director of the department's clinical program in May 1970. Prior to the May 4th incident, Dr. Page gave a presentation on campus unrest to a Kent State University class studying contemporary issues. He gave a revised version of this speech, which incorporated comments on May 4th, to the Eastern Division of Managers who met in Alliance in June 1970. This speech and materials relevant to it are contained in Folders 1 through 5.
Following the May 4th incident, the Psychology Department faculty undertook to solve the problems that attended the closing of the University. A procedure for grading unfinished courses was implemented. Information relevant to this is arranged in Files 6 through 11.
Students concerned with completing their couses for the Spring 1970 term sent letters to "Concerned Kent State Student" at a post office box in Ravenna, OH. Some of these letters were apparently forwarded to Dr. Page. These letters are arranged alphabetically by the student's last name in Folders 13 through 38.
Various groups were formed in response to May 4th. The University Faculty Senate passed a resolution deploring the incident which is contained in Folder 39. The University formed the Committee to Implement a Commitment to Non-Violence, consisting of faculty and students. Information on this group is contained in Folders 40 through 42. Another group was organized to study methods of commemorating May 4th and materials relating to it are contained in Folder 43. Folder 44 contains the minutes of the Academic Administrative Advisory Council and Folder 45 contains information on the Committee for Political Education, which was made up of KSU faculty and students as well as members of the city of Kent.
When the University opened in the Fall of 1970, the administration implemented a number of procedures to prevent further unrest on the campus. Information for this group is in Folders 46 through 48.
Dr. Page also collected a number of documents that were produced or published after May 4, 1970. Each of these is retained in a separate folder. The items include an unsigned and undated eyewitness account by a national guardsman of the events leading to and concluding with the shootings and the June 1970 issue of Kent magazine. They are described more fully in the inventory folders numbered 49 through 53.
Finally, there are several folders containing newspaper articles reporting on the May 4th incident. It is interesting in its reflection of day-to-day decision making at the University shortly after May 4th.
Dr. Page has kindly donated to the Kent State University Archives whatever property and literary rights that he possesses in this collection.
1 -- Speech on student unrest presented to Contemporary Issues class and Eastern Division Managers
2 -- Background materials for speech dated 1968
3 -- Background materials for speech dated 1969
4 -- Background materials for speech dated 1970
5 -- Background materials for speech undated
6 -- Notes on reopening KSU from Dean Harkness
7 -- Memo from Psychology Dept. faculty on reopening KSU
8 -- Memo to S. Baron and H. Page from L. Killian regarding May 4, 1970
9 -- Memo from Donald Halter (Registrar) regarding registration and grades for Spring 1970 term
10 -- Correspondence to students registered in Psych 483 from H. Page re: grading for Spring 1970 term
11 -- Response to H. Page from student
12 -- List of "People who phoned in" (Folders 13 through 38 -- Letters/Post Cards addressed to "Concerned Kent State Student")
13 -- Unsigned
14 -- Bradshaw, Donald E., Jr.
15 -- Block, Christopher
16 -- Bockwalter, Virginia
17 -- Boulter, Nancy
18 -- Dorko, Christine
19 -- Fairweather, Malcolm and Goldenbaum, Kathe
20 -- Galida, Beverly
Golenbaum, Kathe (see folder 19)
21 -- Hanna, William R.
22 -- J.E.K. (initials only)
23 -- Kronick Jan
24 -- Liber, Jeffrey R.
25 -- Marx, Paula
26 -- May, Connie
27 -- May, W.S. (Mrs.) -- Mother of May, Connie
28 -- Morrissey, Diane
29 -- Ollila, Wayne A.
30 -- Pontones, Julie
31 -- Scott, Gerald
32 -- Schieber, Randy
33 -- Schwartz, Fred (Mr. & Mrs.) -- Parents of Schwartz, Linda
34 -- Schwartz, Linda
35 -- Skala, Frank
36 -- Whiteleather, Kathy and Whiteleather, Shirley
37 -- Windle, Betty
38 -- Zembala, Michael
39 -- Faculty Senate Resolution of May 5, 1970 on Commitment to Non-Violence
40 -- Committee on KSU Violence
41 -- University Committee to Implement a Commitment to Non-Violence Minutes, 9/2 and 9/4 1970
42 -- University Committee to Implement a Commitment to Non-Violence, Report by Charles Kegley, chairman
43 -- Committee on Commemorative Recognition
44 -- Academic Administration Advisory Council, Minutes, 10/20/70
45 -- Committee for Political Education
46 -- KSU Position Papers
47 -- KSU -- Third Party Service
48 -- Schedule -- "Think Week September 1970"
49 -- Unsigned and undated eyewitness account by National Guardsman
50 -- Kent magazine dated June 1970
51 -- Copy of letter dated 8/20/70 from John D. Millett, Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents to President White
52 -- Comments by Harold Kitner on a portion of the Portage County Grand Jury report
53 -- Copy of letter dated 10/27/70 from Executive Council to Prof. Glenn Frank re newspaper account of his comments about Mr. Seabury Ford
54 -- A Statement of Intent, by townspeople and members of the Kent community, published in the Record-Courier, July 30, 1970
55 -- (DELAWARE)
Wilmington Journal 5/5/70, 5/6/70
Wilmington Morning News 5/5/70
Wilmington Evening Journal 5/6/70
56 -- (NEW YORK)
New York Post 5/7/70
57 -- (NEW YORK)
New York Times 5/5/70, 5/7/70, 5/8/70, 5/11/70
58 -- (OHIO)
Akron Beacon Journal 5/5/70, 5/24/70, 10/24/70, 10/25/70
59 -- (OHIO)
Bowling Green News 10/5/70
60-- (OHIO)
Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 5/8/70, 10/5/70, 3/30/70
61 -- (OHIO)
Kent Record Courier 5/6/70-5/9/70, 5/13/70, 7/31/70, 9/22/70, 10/5/70, 3/30/70
62 -- National Observer 5/11/70
63 -- (PENNSYLVANIA)
Pennsylvania Mirror (Bellefonte) 5/7/70
64 -- (PENNSYLVANIA)
Harrisburg Evening News Undated
65 -- (PENNSYLVANIA)
Philadelphia Bulletin 5/5/70, 5/6/70, 5/8/70
66 -- (PENNSYLVANIA)
Philadelphia Inquirer 5/25/70, 5/26/70
67 -- (PENNSYLVANIA)
Daily Collegian (University Park) 5/6/70
68 -- Unitarian Universalist News 5/15/70?
69 -- Various editorials and articles, no date, no source