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Memo from Rose Mary Woods to Pat Hitt re: Don Kendall and the Board of Whittier College. 1pg. [Memo], 12/5/1969
Memo from Tod Hullin to Rose Mary Woods re: attached letter concerning Board of Trustees of Whittier College. 1 pg. [Memo], 12/4/1969
Letter from Thomas W. Bewley to RN re: report on Whittier College. 3 pg. [Letter], 11/24/1969
Alumni Magazine of Whittier College ("The Rock") title story "Whittier Welcomes Pat & Dick". 1pg. [Newsletter], n.d.
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Letter from Thomas W. Bewley to RN re: report on Whittier College. 3 pg. [Letter], 11/24/1969
Alumni Magazine of Whittier College ("The Rock") title story "Whittier Welcomes Pat & Dick". 1pg. [Newsletter], n.d.
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12/05/1969
Memo
Memo from Rose Mary Woods to Pat Hitt re:
Don Kendall and the Board of Whittier
College. 1pg.
4
3
12/04/1969
Memo
Memo from Tod Hullin to Rose Mary
Woods re: attached letter concerning Board
of Trustees of Whittier College. 1 pg.
4
3
11/24/1969
Letter
Letter from Thomas W. Bewley to RN re:
report on Whittier College. 3 pg.
4
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n.d.
Newsletter
Alumni Magazine of Whittier College ("The
Rock") title story "Whittier Welcomes Pat &
Dick". 1pg.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Page 1 of 1
December 5, 1969
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Pat Hitt
FROM:
Rose Mary Woods
After our conversation concerning free the Nixon
Chair, etc., I had a call from Don Kendall saying that they had
asked him to go on the Board of Whittier College. I did find a
chance to ask the President about it and he suggested if Don could
do this it would be great because he would have imagination and
drive, etc. Don is going to accept.
Also, I thought you might like to have a copy of
the letter Tom Bewley sent to the President concerning the Trustees
Meeting they had just recently.
When I talked with Tom - as the President sug-
gested - concerning whether the Chair was actually under the direction
of the Board because he wanted to have Don go on if that were the case
but did not want to have do so if it had no control.
If you find this is not the case, let me know and I
will see what else we can find out.
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DECEMBER 4, 1969
TO:
ROSE MARY WOODS
FROM: TOD HULLIN
At
Attached is a letter to the President from
Thomas W. Bewley, President of the Board of
Trustees of Whittier College, in which he brings
the President up to date on the latest Trustees meeting.
John feels that this may require a personal acknowledgement
from the President.
Would you please handle as you deem appropriate?
DEC 2 1969
BEWLEY, LASSLEBEN, WHELAN & MILLER
THOMAS W. BEWLEY
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AREA CODE 213
HENRY L. KNOOP (1890-1965)
TELEPHONE 698-9771
SUITE 510 WHITTIER SQUARE
WILLIAM M. LASSLEBEN, JR.
TELEPHONE 723-8062
MARTIN E. WHELAN, JR.
13215 EAST PENN STREET
EDWARD L. MILLER
WHITTIER, CALIFORNIA 90602
FRANK G. SWAIN
JOHN W. SCHOOLING
OF COUNSEL
November 24, 1969
My dear Mr. President:
This is a brief report on Whittier College. We had
probably the finest Trustees' meeting last Monday that we have
ever had and took the following action:
1. Don Graham, President of Smith, Industries (son-in-
law of H. C. Smith), Bob Elkington, of the Philadelphia Quaker
Silicon Company, and Jessamyn West were elected Members of the
Board of Trustees and all have accepted.
2. The Board reorganized with myself as President again
NM
and committees were appointed with new members, and a general
shaking up of the committees.
3. The Presidential Selection Committee now has two
hundred forty (240) nominations for the new president, there
are forty (40) actively seeking the position, and last Saturday
four of us reduced eighteen (18) outstanding applications to
eleven (11). The eleven are from colleges and universities in
the United States with a standing equal to Whittier or better.
You would be surprised at some of the fine men who are now seek-
ing the position. Our big problem is to eliminate and pick a
final candidate. We will bring the top five (5) candidates and
their wives to the campus to meet with the Trustees and go over
the financial and physical parts of the college. We expect a
new president by March.
We are offering $35,000.00-$40,000.00 salary, which is
an inducement.
4. The annual audit was presented showing we netted
over $800,000.00 last year in income over expenses. All debts
are paid, except our long-term bonds for dormitories and we have
$75,000.00 in the sinking fund for that this year.
5. We have 2247 students enrolled, the largest student
body ever. We adopted a Resolution holding enrollment to no
more than that figure next year. We haven't the space and
faculty for more students.
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November 24, 1969
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6. The Trustees enlarged the policy on student activism
and increased the penalties. I am now drawing a set of procedures
to be followed providing for dismissal of students in certain
events after regular charges and hearings.
7. We have hired two (2) new men on the Public Relations
staff with a minimum of $15,000.00 per year salary.
8. We have hired a Chief of Security, with additional
help, a communication system therefor is now being installed, and
the entire security program revamped.
9. Faculty salaries were increased in all cases to our
minimum and, in some special cases additional salaries granted.
10. We fixed sixty-five (65) as the age of retirement for
all employees, including faculty.
11. We provided a Pension System for employees and faculty.
12. We adopted an insurance plan where the college is pay-
ing a portion of the health and accident insurance costs and
increased the benefits. Heretofore the college has had no insur-
ance plan or pension plan.
13. We considered tenure for some eight (8) professors and
denied tenure to four (4) with instructions requesting their
resignation as they are not up to our standard as professors.
14. All assets of the Nixon Chair were transferred to the
Nixon Institution for Human Relations.
15. I asked three (3) members of the faculty and the
President of the Student Body to attend the Board Meeting and
speak to the Board on some vital issue, with the Board having the
right to question them on any matter. This was indeed a great
hour as the Trustees asked some important questions and got some
straightforward answers. They loved it.
16. The Quaker Campus editor was asked to give a statement
of his policies, his paper was criticized as of last year and he
was well complimented for the different type of paper this year.
He is Howard Seelye's son and was very pleased that the Board
gave him time to explain the Quaker Campus.
As you well know, this took a great deal of planning and
maneuvering long prior to the Trustee's Meeting. The Trustees
were in total agreement on almost every one of these subjects and
November 24, 1969
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were unusually happy about the type of meeting we had and the
business conducted.
Jessamyn West was tremendous. She took an active part in
the meeting, told some interesting stories and handled the
President of the Student Body as only she could have done.
We are off on a new era at the college and we have no
apologies for anything. Some of the applicants for president
have told us how good we are and I think some of us have tended
to underrate Whittier College and are now finding out that it
has a fine reputation, an excellent faculty and a great campus.
Any suggestions or criticisms you have will be welcome
and we all appreciate your interest in your Alma Mater.
Sincerely yours,
Tom
Thomas W. Bewley
President, Board of Trustees
of Whittier College
TWB/tdj
President Richard M. Nixon
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Little college F.Y.I.
THE WHITTIER ROCK
The Alumni Magazine of Whittier College SPRING 1969 Vol. XXVII, No. 1
WELCOM
WHITTIER WELCOMES PAT & DICK
STORY ON PAGE 10