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Section III: Regional and Local Groups of FOR-USA

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Conditions Governing Access

Files related to the Bosnian Student Project and individual Bosnian students and their host families are restricted and may only be viewed by permission of the Peace Collection Curator. In addition, the material in the files of individual students may not be duplicated in any form, including, but not limited to, photocopying, scanning, and photographing. Researchers must sign form agreeing to anonymize any personal information found regarding the above. Doug Hostetter's papers on the Bosnian Student Project are similarly restricted. These restrictions remain in place until 2045. For more information, contact the Swarthmore College Peace Collection at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu.

Physical Access Note

All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.

Arrangement

Part III is arranged as follows: Series A, Boxes 1-6, General/Miscellaneous records; Newsletters 1917-1960s. Series B, Boxes 1-6, Local Groups of the FOR-USA; Newsletters 1970s-1990s. Series C, Urban Branches of the FOR-USA, Boxes 1-3 Boston/Greater Boston FOR, 1934-1970; Boxes 4-6 Boston/Greater Boston FOR, 1934-1970; Boxes 7-17 New York FOR (metropolitan & suburban) 1929-1978; Box 18 Philadelphia FOR & suburban areas, 1942-1956 Princeton FOR, 1960s.

Related Materials

Additional materials related to Regional and Local work: For Executive Secretaries see Section II. Series C, which includes Alfred Hassler, 1947-1960 (in Boxes 50-51) and Jo Becker, 1985-1993 (in Box 61). For National staff in charge of Field Work. See Section II, Series D, which includes Peter J. Boehmer, 1964-1967; A. Stuart Curry, 1967-1972; and Glenn E. Smiley, 1959-1966. See also Mailings to Local Organizers from the national office: 1988-1991 are in Section III, Series B, Box 1 and 1992- are in Section II, Series A-4, Box 6 of Releases/Mailings. Local Group News: 1989- included in the mailings above and 1994- published regularly in Fellowship magazine.

Separated Materials

Some Newsletters are cataloged and shelved in the Retired Periodicals section of the SCPC. See the Periodicals card catalog for details. Entries are under Fellowship of Reconciliation, US, and also under titles.

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Most of the materials in this catalog are not digitized and can only be accessed in person. Please see our website for more information about visiting or requesting repoductions from Swarthmore College Peace Collection Library

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