Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1979-1994 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
27.85 Cubic Feet
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 3 September 1950, Miami, Florida.
BA from University of Southern California 1972. MA 1975. PhD 1981.
Taught political science and related courses at Bethel College fall 1979-spring 1990, then was an adjunct professor until spring 1994.
Harvey County commissioner 1981-1994?
Ran for US House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1986 (? or 1990? or both?).
Graduated from University of Kansas law school ca. 1996.
Lobbyist and attorney for Kansas chapter of Sierra Club ca. 1996-ca. 2006?? Then was director of the Nevada office of Western Resource Advocates in Reno.
Died 13 December 2010, Reno, Nevada.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
hauled out of his former campus faculty office
Content and structure area
Scope and content
box 1: file cabinet 1, drawer 4; A-C?; reports, course notes, subject files
box 2: file drawer A; C-H
box 3: file drawer A (end), file drawer B (beginning); H-T
box 4: file drawer B (end), file cabinet 1, drawers 1 and 2; W-Z (not quite full)
box 5: cassette tapes containing word processing files of his 1981 dissertation - in Wordstar or Scripsit - looks like 2 sets of tapes (backups)
box 6: Bethel course materials
box 7-8: political campaigns and offices
box 9-13: subject files? some articles by Benjamin, some course notes, "sorted 3/95"
box 14: grad school papers
box 15: file cabinet 1, drawer 4 (end), file cabinet 2, drawer 1( beginning); course materials, subject files?
box 16: statistical demographic tables - computer printed - from State Data Center, Hugo Wall Center for Urban Studies, Wichita State University for central and southeast Kansas (date?), presumably used for congressional campaign
box 17a: file cabinet 2, drawer 1; publications and papers by Benjamin
box 17b: file cabinet 2, drawer 1 (end), file cabinet 2, drawer 2; publications and papers by Benjamin; computer manual and software (see elecrec/acc8) (discarded many 8 inch floppy discs of voter registration data)
box 18: campaign files
box 19: audio cassettes, Betamax and VHS videos; some are recordings of Benjamin, others of local events
box 20-22: conference papers, articles, etc., maybe some by Benjamin
box 24a: clippings and research notes mostly related to agricultural trade; campaign materials (discarded some 5.25 inch floppys of voter registration data, also a 1/2 inch computer tape likely also voter registration (kept as exhibit))
box 24b: audio cassettes - poorly identified; campaign materials
box 25: Betamax videos of Bethel and Newton events (need to digitize)
box 26: file cabinet 1 drawer 3; subject files, course files
box 27: file cabinet 2 drawer 4 (beginning); subject and course files
box 28: file cabinet 3 drawer 3 (beginning); subject and course files
box 29: file cabinet 3 drawer 3 (end), drawer 4 (beginning); course files
box 30: file cabinet 3 drawer 5 (end); subject files
box 31: file cabinet 3 drawer 1 (end), drawer 2; subject files?
box 32: file cabinet 3 drawer 4 (end), drawer 5 (beginning); subject and course files
box 33: file cabinet 2 drawer 4 (end), file cabinet 3 drawer 1 (beginning); subject and course files
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
unprocessed
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
open for research use
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
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Place access points
Name access points
- Bethel College (North Newton, Kansas) (Subject)