Middletown Studies student papers MSC.006
Middletown Studies student papers
MSC.006
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Muncie, Indiana, 47306
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Middletown Studies student papers MSC.006
Table of Contents
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Middletown Studies student papers MSC.006
Summary Information
Repository
Title
Date
Extent
Language
Ball State University Archives and Special Collections
Middletown Studies student papers
1938-1989
1.2 Cubic feet 4 boxes
English
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Middletown Studies student papers MSC.006
Scope and Contents
This collection includes papers, theses, and dissertations from students at various Universities throughout the USA regarding the Middletown studies and Muncie, Indiana. The publication dates range from 1938 to 1989.
Arrangement
Materials arranged alphabetically by surname.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Ball State University Archives and Special Collections
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Copyright Notice
Literary rights, including copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their legal heirs and assigns. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Archives and Special
Collections. The publisher must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Accruals
Further additions are expected.
Processing Information
Collection processing completed 2009/11/11 by Jennifer Morrill. Finding aid created 2009/11/11 by
Jennifer Morrill. EAD finding aid completed 2010/01/21 by Maren L. Read.
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Middletown Studies student papers MSC.006
Related Materials
Related Materials
Materials relating to this collection may be found in the following collections in Archives and Special
Collections, Ball State University Libraries, Muncie IN:
MSC 001: Middletown III Surveys
MSC 002: Black Middletown Surveys
MSC 003: Middletown Area Study Surveys
MSC 004: Middletown Articles and Writings
MSC 005: Middletown Studies Bibliographies
MSC 007: Working in Middletown Interviews and Transcripts
MSC 012: Middletown Studies Collection Unpublished Writings
MSC 014: Middletown III Working Papers
MSC 019: Middletown III U-matic Tapes
MSC 022: Middletown III Papers
Related Archival Materials
Materials relating to this collection may be found in the following collections in Archives and Special
Collections, Ball State University Libraries, Muncie IN:
MSC.001: Middletown III surveys, 1976-1979
MSC.002: Black Middletown surveys, 1970s
MSC.003: Middletown Area Study surveys, 1978-2004
MSC.004: Middletown articles and writings, 1929-present
MSC.005: Middletown Studies bibliographies, 1929-1990
MSC.007: Working in Middletown interviews and transcripts, 1969-1980
MSC.008: Indiana Oral History Project transcripts, 1969-1980
MSC.009: Middletown Studies newspaper clippings, 1920-1991
MSC.010: First Measured Century oral history transcripts, 2000
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Middletown Studies student papers MSC.006
MSC.011: Bureau of Business Research reports, 1973-1974
MSC.012: Middletown Studies Collection unpublished writings, 1922-1990
MSC.013: Lynd correspondence and papers, 1922-1982
MSC.014: Middletown III working papers, 1970s
MSC.015: C. Warren Vander Hill project files and papers, 1924-1999
MSC.016: Middletown Exhibit photographs, 1900-1940s
MSC.017: My Grandfather's Middletown slide presentation, 1982
MSC.018: Lynn Perrigo papers, 0921-1992
MSC.019: Middletown III u-matic tapes, 1980
MSC.020: Middletown Studies magnetic tapes, 1980
MSC.022: Middletown III papers, 1921-1922
MSC.023: Middletown Film Series ephemera, 1979
Controlled Access Headings
Genre(s)
• Publications
Geographic Name(s)
• Muncie (Ind.)
Subject(s)
• Middletown Studies Collection
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Series 1: Student papers, 1938-1989
Middletown Studies student papers MSC.006
Collection Inventory
Series 1: Student papers, 1938-1989
Attaallah, Baghestani, “The Muncie Mobile Home Study”, 1978
Beitler, Roger, “Socio-economic Background and Performance of Muncie in-migrant children from Kentucky and Tennessee”, 1953
Bever, David, “A Description Study of Variables related to suicides in
Delaware County, Indiana, and the United States”, 1974
Bondzi, John, “Housing for Senior Citizens in Muncie, Indiana”, 1980
Boston, Timothy, “Comparative analysis of Transportation Planning in
Five Small Urban Areas of Indiana”, 1980
Bracken, Alexander Elliot, “Middletown as a Pioneer Community”, 1978
Cahill, John, “Analysis of White River Water for Heavy Metals”, 1974
Caldemeyer, Steven, “The Legal Problems of a Liberal in Middletown during the 1920’s”, 1970
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Carrico, Michael, “Community Attitudes toward Mental Health in
Delaware County”, 1975
Carey, Kristy, “The Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce”, undated
Cayot, Dale, “An Analysis of Population and Employment in Delaware
County from 1958 to 1968”, 1969
Chappell, Craig Bradford, “The Status Attainment Process: Labor Force of
Middletown”, 1979
Clark, Thomas, “Plant Engineering Department of Delco-Remy Job
Analysis”, 1977
Coggins, Agatha, “A Model for the Development and Effective
Functioning of a Neighborhood Association”, 1978
Cox, Charles Benjamin, “Some Socio Economic Traits of Pentecostal
Sects as Revealed by an Analysis of Fifteen Representative Muncie
Congregations”, 1955
Coyle, Jean, “A Study of Adjustment of the Aged in Middletown”, 1971
Deahl, Floyd, “The Relationship between Socio-Economic Class and
Dental Fees in Muncie, Indiana”, 1969
Desler, James, “Operations Manual for the Gateway Peoples Center”,
1974
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Dietz, Claire, “The History of Muncie and Delaware County”, 1977
Domer, Marilyn, “The Development of Federated Fundraising in Muncie,
Indiana, 1925-1957”, 1968
Duke, Debra, “A Study of the Difference in Pretest and Posttest Scores based on the use of a Self-made Slide Series with Junior High, Senior High and Pregnant Students”, 1980
Eikenberry, Dorothy “An Examination of the Administration of Old-Age
Assistance in Delaware County, 1945-1950”, 1951
Elrod, Carol “A Descriptive Study of the Ku Klux Klan’s anti-Catholic
Propaganda from 1922-1924 in two of its publications distributed in
Indiana, The Fiery Cross and Dawn”, 1979
Erivn, Jon, “The Potentional Economic Impact to Industry in Muncie,
Indiana of Natural Gas Curtailments”, 1976
Ertl, Daniel, “Some Zoning Policies for the City of Muncie”, 1982
Frame, Velma, “Some Patterns of Ku Klux Klan Activities in Delaware
County During the 1920’s”, 1947
Fox, Dennis, “Delaware County’s Environmental Crisis: a Study of White
River Pollution Problems and the Political and Economic Complications surrounding a Solution”, 1972
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Frank, Carrolyle, “Politics in Middletown: a Reconsideration of Municipal
Government and Community power in Muncie, Indiana, 1925-1935”,
1974
Garner, Robert, “Developing and Area Labor Supply Profile to Aid
Target Industry Search Activities in an Overall Economic Development
Program”, 1977
Gardner, Karen, “An Analysis of the Need for Social Services by the
Elderly in East Central Indiana”, 1981
Giel, Lawrence, “George R. Dale, Crusader for Free Speech and a Free
Press”, 1967
Gorman, Charlotte, “The Expressed Needs, Wants and Selected
Characteristics of Homemakers concerning the Cooperative Extension
Service Home Economics Program in Delaware County, Indiana”, 1978
Gordon, Whitney, “Stress and the Jewish Community of Middletown”
Abstract, 1962
Grove, Carl, “Evaluation of the Interplant and Intraplant Movement of
Material at Delco Remy Division, Anderson, Indiana”, 1977
Harris, Thomas, “A Study to Determine the Adequacy of Electronic Data
Processing Service Centers Available to Business Firms in the Muncie
Area Currently using these Services”, 1968
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Hassel, Carl, “A Study of Significant Differences Existing between
Students of a Kentucky-Tennessee background and Students of an Indiana background”, 1951
Hauck, Robert, “An Attitude Survey Conducted in the Muncie
Metropolitan Area: the Desirability or Offensiveness of Teaching
Controversial Issues in the High School”, 1970
Hawes, G.K., “A Door Ajar: Race Relations in Muncie”, 1982
Hedrick, Jacolyn, “The Potential Benefits and Difficulties of a consolidated Regional Jail for the Blackford, Delaware and Randolph
Counties”, 1977
Hertle, Deborah, “The Role and Election of a Community School Board
Member”, 1982
Hewitt, John, “A Study of Preschool Child Care in Middletown USA”
Abstract, 1982
Hickey, Eric, “Theoretical Paradigms: an Application of Functionalism and Conflict Theory to Religion in Middletown USA 1924-1978” Abstract,
1985
Hill, Frederick, “A Critical Analysis of Absenteeism among Semi-skilled
Workers at the Ball Corporation Glass Plant, Asheville, North Carolina, on the basis of age, sex and marital status”, 1974
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Howell, Donald, “The Area Distribution of Social Agency Contacts of the
Seventh Grade Boys in Muncie, Indiana”, 1950
Holmes, Marilou, “A History of Professional Nursing Education in
Middletown, 1906-1968” Abstract, 1984
Jahns, Richard, “Interview for Folklore”, 1976
Janssen, Duane, “An Accounting System for the Local Wesleyan Church”,
1978
Jeep, Marian, “The Realism of Students’ Vocational Choices in the Light of Existing Occupational Opportunities”, 1948
Jensen, Diane, “National Hospital Week at Ball Memorial Hospital, 1977”,
1977
Jennings, Michael, “History of Muncie, Indiana and the Life of Fredrick
Willard Mathias”, 1976
Jensen, Diane, “National Hospital Week at Ball Memorial Hospital, 1977”,
1977
Jensen, Paul, “The Formal Voluntary Associations of the Sixty-Five and
Older Age Group of Delaware County, Indiana”, 1975
Jones, Carmel, “Migration, Religion, and Occupational Mobility of
Southern Appalachians in Muncie, Indiana”, 1978
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Kerr, John, “A Survey of Muncie Area Automobile Dealerships during the
1979/1980 Energy Crisis”, 1980
Klopfenstein, David, “The Development of the Community/University
Resource Center”, 1971
Kress, Elizabeth, “Network and Women in Delaware County”, 1982
Kuzma, Tim, “Audience Attitudes toward WIPB-TV”, 1977
Lowry, Murray, “Comprehensive Health Planning in Indiana: with Special
Emphasis on Planning Regions Six and Nine”, 1974
Leiding, James, “Selected Aspects of the Social Action Programs of
Muncie’s United Automobile Workers’ Locals, 1937-1964”, 1965
Leigh, Geoffrey, “Kinship Interaction Over the Family Life Span”
Abstract, 1980
Lewellen, Gary, “Patterns of Parental Contact in Middletown USA by
Distance and Sex”, 1982
Marvin, Grace, “Community Bonds in Middletown: Re-investigating the
Concept and Correlates of Location” Abstract, 1983
Matthews, Glenna, “A California Middletown: the Social History of San
Jose in the Depression” Abstract, 1977
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Mills, Cleo, “A Study of the Relationship of Economic and Social Factors to Variations among Indiana Counties’ Contribution to Who’s who in
America”, 1948
Murray, Barbara, “Field Trips Available in the Muncie Area: Particularly for Upper Elementary Grades, 1968
Nixon, Fran, “Our Public Schools Today”, undated
Owen, David, “A Pattern of Pseudo-Naturalism: Lynd, Mead, and Farrell”,
1950
Patterson, Daniel, “Analysis of Land Use and Development, Hamilton
Township, Delaware County”, 1969
Pence, Thomas, “Muncie’s Civil Defense”, 1982
Plummer, Ray, “An Analysis of the Quantity and the Quality of the
Unemployed Labor Pool in the Muncie, Indiana Area”, 1969
Posavec, Steven, “A Chemical and Physical Profile of White River-1975”,
1976
Printz, John, “Through a Glass Darkly: Value Presuppositions in the Work of Robert S. Lynd” Abstract, 1978
Quirk, Jack, “The Dissensus Concerning the Muncie Merit Law of 1963”,
1969
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Rains, Barbara, “Public Relations Activities Leading to the Founding of
Ball Brothers Company in Muncie Indiana”, 1977
Ray, Scott, “Popular Historical Recollection in“Middletown”: a
Quantitative Study on the Views of the Muncie Public on Aspects of Pretwentieth Century America, Compared to Specialist Opinion, 1975
Ray, Scott, “The Depressed Industrial Society: Occupational Movement,
Out-migration and Residential Mobility in the Industrial-Urbanization of
Middletown, 1880-1925”, 1981
Reed, James, “Clark Wissler, a Forgotten Influence in American
Anthropology”, 1980
Rippy, Felix, “The Effects of the Creation of the Municipal Police Force
(1891-1893) in Muncie Indiana on Patterns of Crime”, undated
Rose, Irene, “Testing Coalition Theory in the Great Gatsby and the Rabbit
Trilogy” Abstract, 1986
Samuelson, Nancy, “Publishing a Literary Magazine”, 1977
Schroeder, Steven “The Automotive Industry in Transition: with a Focus on Changes being Implemented at General Motors”, 1982
Schubert, Vincent, “Major Community Problems and Solutions as
Perceived by Some Local Ministers”, undated
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Siegal, Marcia, “Difference in the Acceptance and Subsequent Purchase between Two Baked Products by Shoppers at Ross Supermarkets in
Muncie Indiana according to Sex of the Individual”, 1979
Sexton, Maria, “A Study of Attitudes of Union Members and Business
Men toward Several Phases of the Public School Systems of Muncie
Indiana”, 1951
Shober, David, “Effects of Changing Basic Employment Patterns upon the Growth of Derived Employment in the Muncie Standard Metropolitan
Statistical Area”, 1975
Smith, Mark, “Knowledge for What: Social Science and the Debate over its Role in 1930’s America” Abstract, 1980
Spath, Lyla, “Muncie Community Schools Food Service: Orientation
Handbook for Parents”, 1981
Schwartz, Martin, “Unrest in Middletown: a Study in Municipal
Pressures”, 1938
Schwartz, Helen, “The Relationship between Community Leadership and
Status Position”, 1949
Thomas, Otis, “Citizen Participation in Community Development Projects in Muncie Indiana: a Developmental Project”, 1977
Tipton, Judith, “A Model for the Determination of a Market Strategy for
Merchants in a College Community”, 1977
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Truex, Scott, ““Muncie Charrette ‘82” a Different Middletown USA
Study”, 1982
Ullman, Walter, “Public Relations Efforts of Ball Corporation to Solve
Problems Resulting from the Shortages of Lids and other Canning Supplies during the Economic Recession of 1974-1975”, 1978
Walker, Brian, “Prejudiced or Not: a Study of Racial Bias in the Selection of Front Page Photographs in the Muncie Evening Press”, 1979
Walter, Leigh, “A Comparison of American and Grenadian Student
Aspiration” Abstract, undated
Wean, John, “The Relation between Attendance and Intelligence,
Personality, Achievement, and Socio-economic Status of Fourth Grade
Pupils in Muncie Indiana” 1953
Whitaker, John, “Attitudes of Medical Personnel in Delaware County: with
Respect to Death and Dying Issues and with Respect to the Concept of
Living Wills”, 1978
Wildey, Morris, “Consolidation of Municipal Government for a Second-
Class City: “Will it Work for Middletown?””, 1982
Woodress, Frederick, “The Impact of the Media on the Elderly (over 60)
Population in America’s Middletown”, 1989
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Worden, Mary, “YWCA Proposal to Ball Brothers Foundation for
Expanding Program and Restoring Buildings at Camp Sing-A-Long”,
1975
Yaqubi, M.M. Kabir, “Black Audience Attitude toward Public T.V.
Channel 49 (WIPB)”, 1977
Young, Lawrence, “Job Satisfaction in Middletown 1924-1978”, 1980
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