Scope and Contents

Sub-series includes the minutes of the Academic and Collegiate Teachers' Associations and other faculty organizations, dating from 1883 to the 1970s. The various faculty committee minutes provide insight into the inner-workings of Packer drawn from the perspectives of faculty members. The minutes include draft examination schedules and letters to the Teachers' Associations from students and staff. Additionally, the sub-series contains faculty manuals (1967-1982), directories (2002-2006), and assorted miscellaneous files.

Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains files on individual faculty members, as well as faculty events and clubs, which were collected by Packer's Development Office. The dates of the material range from circa 1840s to 2007. An incomplete finding aid that includes dates through 2006 for faculty members containing name, subject taught, and date of death can be found at the beginning of the sub-series.

Included in this series are correspondences between faculty members; the writings of faculty members; newspaper clippings; personal letters and obituaries. The majority of faculty files are composed of information questionnaires and/or the initial employment applications. Individual faculty files of particular interest are Caroline Chesebrough, a 19th century writer; Bruce Tulloch, former Director of the Upper school; Eleanor Bannister, class of 1875 and distinguished artist who painted many portraits of Packer notables; Alex Bernstein, son of Leonard Bernstein; and Stephen Koplowitz, professional dancer/choreographer and director of Packer's dance program from 1984 onward.

Scope and Contents

The sub-series consists mainly of handwritten drafts and typescripts of correspondence and manuscripts, along with a smaller quantity of poems and plays by Alice Van Vliet, who was a Latin teacher at Packer Collegiate Institute from 1901 to 1905. The bulk of material in this collection dates from 1924 to 1927, when Alice Van Vliet studied and received honors in Classical Moderations at Oxford University in England and toured around post-WWI Europe. Van Vliet documented her experiences in a travel journal and letters that she composed to a large group of friends back in America.

Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains four poems, two plays, miscellaneous manuscripts, and a collection of handwritten copies of Ovid poems. They are all in good condition, though the handwritten material from the early part of the 20th century shows signs of brittleness and age, and can be difficult to read.

Scope and Contents

The sub-series consists mainly of handwritten drafts and typescripts of correspondence. This includes drafts of letters written by Alice Van Vliet and letters she received while she studied Classical Moderations at Oxford University, England, and traveled throughout Europe during the post-WWI period, 1924-1927. They conclude with correspondence from her time as a teacher at the Katherine Branson School in Ross, California. The tone of these letters is chatty and conversational, revealing personal experiences and the thrill of traveling and studying Classical Moderations at Oxford —referred to as "Mods" in many of her letters and diaries. The material in this Series is in good condition; most are not brittle, though some are difficult to read. Several of the letters were composed while on trains or boats and later typed. Because many of these letters are drafts, the paper is sometimes thin, the handwriting informal, and Van Vliet would often write on both sides of the paper in ink, which would seep through to the other side, thus making the letters almost entirely illegible.