Community of Bosnia collection
Content Description
Materials related to the Community of Bosnia Foundation, an organization founded to help Bosnian students access better education opportunities in the United States through scholarship programs. The collection includes correspondence, publications, talks, reports, newspaper articles, photographs, and VHS tapes with interviews of students.
Dates
- Creation: 1993-2003
Creator
- Community of Bosnia Foundation. COB (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
The Community of Bosnia (COB) Foundation was founded by Michael Sells (head of the department of religion at Haverford College), and a few other colleagues in his academic community in 1993. The COB foundation was created to help Bosnian students escape the Bosnian war and gain access to a better education in the United States through a scholarship program. The schools providing scholarships include all the Friends schools, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr, Doylestown campus, the Shipley School, and several private Catholic schools. The COB foundation was most active from 1993-2003. The collection was gathered and donated by Walter Witte, the executive director of COB.
Extent
.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into 7 series. The newspaper clippings series holds clippings related to COB's work and general press on the Bosnian war. The booklets series contains annual reports published by COB and COB publications including Saud Slìpìcevìc's story. The correspondence series contains letters sent to and from Walter Witte, the executive director of COB. The talks series contains notes from talks and lectures COB members gave on their work. The reports series holds study and travel reports from COB. The photograph series contains photos from COB foundation meetings. The audio-visual series contains VHS tapes and a cassette tape with student interviews and projects.
Subject
- Witte, Walter (Person)
- Sells, Michael (Person)
- Slìpìcevìc, Suad (Person)
- Title
- COB collection
- Author
- Janeen Lamontagne
- Date
- May, 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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