Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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Papers of Robert Wallace Gilmore, 1960-1982

Collection: DG 163

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Contact Information
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
U.S.A.
Telephone: 610-328-8557 (curator)
Fax: 610-690-5728
Email: wchmiel@swarthmore.edu (curator)
URL: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/

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Descriptive Summary
Repository
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Creator
Gilmore, Robert Wallace (1921-1988)
Title
Robert W. Gilmore Papers
Inclusive Dates
1960-1982
Call Number
DG 163
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
11 linear feet [papers only]
Abstract
Robert W. Gilmore was a Quaker pacifist who was involved in a number of peace groups, either as a staffperson or as a Board member. His papers reflect these involvements through correspondence and other materials.

Administrative Information
Restrictions to Access
None
Usage Restrictions
None
Alternate Form of Material
None
Acquisitions Information
Gift of New York Friends Group, 1992 [acc. 92A-028]
Processing Information
Processed by Kate Myers, 199_; reprocessed by Anne M. Yoder, Oct. 2006
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Robert W. Gilmore Papers (DG 163), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law

Online Catalog Headings
These & related materials may be found under the following headings in online library/archival catalogs.
See tripod record

Related Collections
The SCPC holds some material from each of the organizations with which Gilmore was associated

Collection Overview
This collection is made up almost entirely of correspondence and other material that documents Gilmore's involvements with various peace organizations in the 1960s-1970s. The papers were sorted in Oct. 2006 and much general or non-RWG material was put in other collections where there will be better access to it (such as Negotiation Now!, New York Friends Group, Center for War/Peace Studies, World Without War Council, and Turn Toward Peace). The Gilmore papers still need to be processed completely and the material refoldered and labeled.

Some material was found from this collection in 2007 that had not been included in the above sorting. It appears below as part II; it has been sorted into the same categories as that in part I.

Detailed Description of the Collection

PART I

Box 1 (1/2 box)
Biographical information; material for speeches; endorsements
Joyce Mertz Gilmore (wife; died Jan. 16, 1974)
Swarthmore College baccalaureate speech, June 1, 1975
Economic assistance
Endorsements by RWG, 1962-1969
Endorsements by RWG, 1970-1979
 
Box 2
Correspondence with individuals; misc. correspondence
Ward Morehouse, 1972-1977
Ward Morehouse: Wingspread workshop, 1976
Robert Pickus
Stanley Platt
Roy L. Prosterman
Richard Remy (Mershon Center)
David Riesman
Indar Jit Rikhye
Wilson Riles
John Roche
Misc.
 
Box 3
Involvement (while with AFSC) with Committee of Correspondence
Articles of incorporation; by-laws
Statement of purpose, 1960
Meeting minutes; organization
Coordinating Committee: meeting minutes
Name change of Committee
Form letter
Lists of names
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): Jan.-March 1960
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): April-June 1960
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): July-Sept. 1960
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): Oct.-Dec. 1960
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): Jan.-Feb. 1961
 
Box 4
Involvement with Committee of Correspondence (cont.)
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): March 1961
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): April-June 1961
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): July-Sept. 1961
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): Oct.-Dec. 1961
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): Jan.-March 1962
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): April-June 1962
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): July-Sept. 1962
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): Oct.-Dec. 1962
Correspondence (of RWG related to Committee): 1963
 
Box 5
Involvement with Committee of Correspondence (cont.)
Manuscripts gathered for reading [3 folders]
Drafts of Bear Mountain Statement, 1960
Bear Mountain Statement: letterhead with committee members
Illinois branch newsletters; misc.
 
Box 6 (1/2 box)
Involvement with New York Friends Group
Involvement as President, 1962-1965
Advisory Committee (including RWG), 1964; Ethical Culture schools
Crozer Theological Seminary: correspondence with Ronald V. Wells, 1963-1964
Acquisition of periodical War/Peace, 1966
East Harlem tutoring project, 1965-1967
East Harlem program
Townhouse conversations, 1974-1980
Tape transcriptions: Bermuda conference; NYFG meeting
 
Box 7
Involvement with Turn Toward Peace
Correspondence
ICDP, 1962-1965: correspondence
Correspondence of RWG, TTP & other organizations
Correspondence of RWG, Homer Jack & Robert Pickus, July-Aug. 1961
W3: staff memos
Turn Toward Peace, Inc., 1962-1963
Turn Toward Peace, Inc., 1964-1966
Turn Toward Peace, Inc., 1966-1967
WWWCUS members/directors: memos & correspondence, 1966-1968
 
Box 8
Involvement with Turn Toward Peace (cont.)
TTP/WWWC: early documents re: transition & name change, 1964-1967
Personnel file (including RWG’s correspondence), 1963-1964
W3 (TTP): archive
W3 (TTP): affiliations
General
Peace Research Council, 1962; National Resource Council on Peace Strategy
TTP California
International Confederation for Disarmament: council meeting, 1967
Commission on Free Elections in the Dominican Republic
Castle project, 1964
European Federation Against Nuclear Arms: International Conference of Non-Aligned Organizations, 1963
ICDP conference, Frankfurt (West Germany), Aug. 22-27, 1966
Foreign peace groups
 
Box 9
Involvement with World Without War Council
1967-1969
1970-1973
misc.
Branches
WWWC West: Robert Pickus, 1974-1977
Robert S. Woito, 1966-1968
Meeting minutes, etc.
Vietnam peace proposal, 1967
International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace, 1967-1968; Stockholm Conference on Vietnam
WWWC conference, May 2-3, 1968
Futures committee, 1969
Interne program: printed materials
 
Box 10
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies
General, June-Dec. 1969
General, March 1972 - Jan. 1973
Staff meetings, 1969-1973
RWG: correspondence
Misc. correspondence, notes, reports, etc.
Notes taken
DVEP National Task Force
War/Peace Report: funding & reviving, 1968-1975
Organizations 1965-1966; topic briefings by RWG, 1969
Reports to reg. reps., 1966
Speakers’ evaluation forms, 1966
Steve Bischoff: social studies, March 1970
Reading material for “ Vietnam and the Churches” convocation, 1967
Consultation responses: correspondence, 1971
Consultation materials
 
Box 11
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies -- projects
CTIR: policy
Denver/CTIR: proposal & budget, 1973
CTIR: correspondence, 1973-1974
INTERCOM Evaluation Committee, May 1968 - April 1970
INTERCOM: memos & correspondence, 1969-1972, 1976-1978
Voluntary organization response proposal, 1968
Voluntary organization response report: responses, evaluations, June 1968 - Feb. 1969
Interne training program, 1968-1976
Youth Affairs, 1966
 
Box 12
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies -- projects
Task Force on International Education: Joint Committee of the APSA Committee on Pre-College Education, ISA Education Commission, & the CW/PS
Joint project with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations,1966, 1972
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Aug. 1967
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (San Francisco/Bay Area), 1972-1973
Bay Area China Education Project, 1973-1974
Sponsorship of China in the Schools project, 1972-1973
Education Probe/Project Action, Dec. 1969
Curriculum Resource Center of CW/PS, (through 1972)
Teacher-Scholar Linkup Program, 1971-1973
Correspondence, 1968-1971
Sponsorship of Connecticut School Project
 
Box 13
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies -- projects
Joint sponsorship of Center for Teaching International Relations, 1973-
Center for Teaching International Relations, 1974-1976
Vietnam protests: open letters to LBJ (including Teachers Committee newspaper ad)
1968 Elections: raw data; interpretations
Group for the Advancement of Global Education, 1972-1973
Group for Global Perspectives in American Education, 1973-1974: projects; mailing list
Group for Global Perspectives in American Education, 1973: meetings at O’Hare
Group for Global Perspectives in American Education: by-laws & certificate of incorporation
Group for Global Perspectives in American Education: meeting, Chicago (IL), April 14, 1975
Group for Global Perspectives in American Education: membership list, 1975
Mailing to Group for Global Perspectives in American Education, 1975: Morehouse paper, “Scaling the Shoulder of Atlas"
 
Box 14
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies (West Coast & New England)
West Coast office, 1967
West Coast office, Jan.-May 1969 [includes WWWC West Coast]
West Coast office,1974-1975
West Coast office correspondence, 1976-1977
Seattle office
New England: 1962-1968
Michael Kirby: correspondence, 1967
Michael Kirby: misc.
 
Box 15
Involvement with Committee on U.S.-U.S.S.R. Peace Leadership Exchange
General, 1963-1967
General
Soviet Peace Committee, 1963: literature; Peace Leadership Exchange, 1964: agenda
Correspondence (prior to 1964 visit)
General 1964-1965
Long Report on 1964 visit (1964-1965)
Joyce Gilmore’s 1965 notes on 1964 visit
Fundraising, 1965
General, 1967
General, Jan.-June 1967
AFSC (Peace Education Division), 1968: conference report
 
Box 16
Involvement with National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Inc.
General, 1965-1966
Fifth meeting of Joint Committee, 1972
Fourth meeting of Joint Committee, 1971
China Trip, 1972-1973
Visit by Table Tennis Association of China: advance
Table Tennis Tour: financial records, May 1971 - May 1972
Table Tennis Tour in U.S.: operations, Jan.-April 1972
Ping-Pong publicity, 1972
Table Tennis Tour: thank-you letters; lists; post-tour operations
 
Box 17 (1/2 box)
Involvement with Crozer Theological Seminary (& its merger)
Service on Board of Trustees, 1968-1970
Crozer/King Center merger
Colgate Rochester/Bexley Hall/Crozer, 1973
 
Box 18
Misc. involvements
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Committee for the Free World, 1980-1981
Gandhi Centenary Committee, 1964-1969
WCO / Bay Area Global Education Project, 1977-1980: report
Global Perspectives in Education: Democratic Values Project, 1980-1981
Global Perspectives in Education: future of West Coast program, 1981
International Study Project (Hubert Humphrey, 1970)
Land Council, 1979-1982
Mid-America Center, Inc. ( Mid-America Center for Global Perspectives in Education)
Mid-America Center, Inc. 1975: efforts in Illinois
Service on Executive Committee of Negotiation Now!, 1967-1969
 
Box 19 (1/2 box)
Misc. involvements (cont.)
SANE
Save San Francisco Bay Association, Inc., 1967
Scenic Hudson Preservation Committee
Sheffield Projects, Inc., 1966
Voluntary Organizations Conference, Puerto Rico, June 1969
Bermuda Conference, Dec. 1969
Consultation On Quaker Service, Dec. 1980
Peace movement controversy: withdrawal vs. negotiations, 1965
 
Box 20
Efforts re: stopping the Vietnam War (includes reference material)
International Committee of Conscience on Vietnam
Inter-University Committee for a Public Hearing on Vietnam [see also Robert Browne]
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam: NY office, 1969
Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam
Spring Mobilization, 1967
Students for a Democratic Society
Student Mobilization Committee: newsclippings & releases
Call for Democratic Action in South Vietnam: correspondence, 1967
Call for Democratic Action in South. Vietnam: government officials, 1967
Letters to editors / Norman Thomas: anti-Vietnam War
Vietnam Policy: criticism without offering clear alternatives
Vietnam: negotiations out of war
Vietnam: international alternatives to war in Southeast Asia
Vietnam: Buddhists in Vietnam
Vietnam: Communism in Asia
South Vietnam elections
Questionnaires & polls re: Vietnam War
National Dialogue on Vietnam (U.S. National Student Association), 1966

PART II

Box 1
Biographical information
Biographical information
Correspondence
Misc. correspondence, 1962-1969
Misc. correspondence, 1970-1971
Misc. correspondence, 1972
Misc. correspondence, 1973-1975
Misc. correspondence, 1976-1979
Misc. correspondence, 1980-1983
Correspondence, etc. re: Robert Pickus & others leading SANE [includes SANE work with labor unions on west coast]
Correspondence with individuals
Theodore C. Achilles
George Agree
Chadwick F. Alger
Sandy [Alexander] Allport (WWWC)
Lee Anderson
Joel Barker
James Becker
George A. Beebe
Stephen Benedict
George Benello
Nelson Bengston
John C. Bennett
Emile Benoit [with/about]
Jack Bollens
Franklin Bousma
 
Box 2
Correspondence with individuals
Ernest L. Boyer
William L. Bradley
William Breese
Henry M. Brickell
Joel I. Brooke
Dyke Brown
Malcolm Browne
Carter Burgess
Barbara B. Burn
James Campbell
Lettie (Mrs. Gerald) Carson
Jimmy Carter
Leo Cherne
Greenville Clark
Joseph S. Clark
Senator Joseph Clark
Coliver/Kano
H. Thomas Collins
 
Box 3
Correspondence with individuals
James & Randolph Compton
Larry E. Condon
Norman F. Cousins
Sen. Alan Cranston
Lawrence Cremin
John W. Darr Jr.
Katusha Davison
Moshe Decter
William A. Delano
David Dell
Charles Dennison
John Diebold
Gwyneth Donchin
Lucy & William Dougall
Joseph Duffey
Maurice A. East
David Egger
Ross Flanagan
Gerald R. Ford
Jack Fraenkel
Calvin Frazier
Judith Gillespie
Henry Goldstein
Sanford Greenberg
 
Box 4
Correspondence with individuals
Magnus Haavelsrud
Robert Havney
James E. Harf
Richard D. Hathaway
Merill F. Hartshorn
Robert Hartman
Rose Lee Hayden
Alfred Hero
Arthur Herzog
George C. Higgins
Harold Hochschild
Stephen R. Holman
Hua Huang
Richard Hudson
Robert Huffman
Judge Shirley Hufstedler
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
Norman Hunt
Florence Jackson
Tom Kahn (AFL-CIO)
Herbert Kelman [includes writings on conflict resolution]
Penn Kemble
 
Box 5
Correspondence with individuals
Leonard Kenworthy
George Kent
Francis Keppel
Henry Kissinger
Edward I. Koch
Dan Koshland
Mathilde & Arthur B. Krim
Geraldine Kunstadter
Jean La Rocque
Larry Leonard
George Loft
Arthur Logan -- tribute dinner, April 28, 1970
Clayton Loughran
Jay Lovestone
Robert A. Macosckey
Gerald W. Marker
Roger Mastrude
Stewart Meacham
Donald N. Morris
Irving Morrissett
Stewart Mott, 1967-1983
A. J. Muste
William A. Nesbitt, 1970-1975
Earl Dodge Osborn, 1970-1981
Homer & Marjory Page
 
Box 6
Correspondence with individuals
Linus Pauling
Miles Pennybacker, 1969-1981
James A. Perkins, 1976-1979
Roy Prosterman
David Riesman
John Roche
Robert Scalapino
Larry Scott
Albert Shanker
Gene Sharp
William Sharwell
Rodney Shaw
Robert L. Shayon
Anne Sheffield
Cong. Paul Simon
Norman Singer
Louis Smerling
Richard Snyder
Carl Stover
Harold Taylor
Arthur Thesenvitz
Cecil Thomas
Judith V. Torney
Alexander Trowbridge
Gus Tyler
Cyrus Vance
Charles Walker
 
Box 7
Correspondence with individuals; misc. correspondence
Arthur I. Waskow
Sheldon G. Weeks
Barbara M. White
Jayne Millar Wood
Involvements
Involvement with American Friends Service Committee
Involvement with the Center for Global Perspectives
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies: misc. [2 folders]
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies: fundraising efforts
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies: proposed cooperation with Indiana University [2 folders]
 
Box 8
Involvements
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies: projects -- Group for Global Perspectives in Education
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies: projects -- INTERCOM
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies: projects -- Democratic Engagement Project Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies: projects -- Project ‘76
Involvement with Center for War/Peace Studies: projects -- study/survey of voluntary organizations
Involvement with Mid-American Center, Inc.
Involvement with National Advisory Committee of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute and School for Social Change
Involvement with the National Research Council on Peace Strategy
Involvement with Negotiation Now!
Involvement with Turn Toward Peace
Involvement with Turn Toward Peace: fundraising efforts
Involvement with World Without War Council
Involvement with World Without War Council: intern program
Reference material
Reference material