CIES records: Series 4: Founding Members: Gerald H. Read papers

Biographical Note: Gerald H. Read (1913-2005) was a central character in the early years of the Comparative and International Education Society, and was instrumental in developing CIES into the organization we know today. However, he held a special interest the educational systems of other countries and was the first to organize study tours abroad, including the first tours to Communist nations during the 1950s and 1960s, to investigate this wide variety of educational operations. Thousands of educators attended study tours organized by Read. He was a faculty member in the Kent State University College of Education from 1948 until his retirement in 1976. The College is also the home of the Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education established by the Read family in 1987.

Scope and Content: This series not only holds the reports, often handwritten notes of Dr. Read, schedules, and other items related to the study tours, but also includes the background research compiled in preparation for each visit and subject files of specific topics Dr. Read considered important to investigate. This series also include Read's correspondence with Russian scholar Dr. Zoya Malkova

Subseries 1: Study Tours
Subseries 2: Background Materials
Subseries 3: Subject Files
Subseries 4: Photographs
Subseries 5: Correspondence and Audio Recording

Subseries 1: Study Tours

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. CIES Study Tours: Afghanistan, 1967
2. CIES Study Tours: Africa and the United States, 1961
3. CIES Study Tours: Africa, 1966
4. CIES Study Tours: Argentina (Buenos Aires), 1963
5. CIES Study Tours: Argentina (Cordoba), 1963
6. CIES Study Tours: Argentina, 1970
7. CIES Study Tours: Austria (Vienna), 1966
8. CIES Study Tours: Austria, 1969
9. CIES Study Tours: Belgium (Brussels-Ghent), 1960
10. CIES Study Tours: Bolivia (La Paz), 1963
11. CIES Study Tours: Brazil, 1957
12. CIES Study Tours: Brazil, 1963
13. CIES Study Tours: Brazil, 1963
14. CIES Study Tours: Brazil, 1971
15. CIES Study Tours: Canada, 1955
16. CIES Study Tours: Chile, 1960-1970
17. CIES Study Tours: Colombia, 1960-1961
18. CIES Study Tours: Denmark, 1961
19. CIES Study Tours: Denmark, 1963
20. CIES Study Tours: Denmark (Copenhagen), 1968
21. CIES Study Tours: East Germany, 1964-1967
22. CIES Study Tours: Ecuador (Quito), 1971
23. CIES Study Tours: Egypt, 1959
24. CIES Study Tours: Finland, 1961
25. CIES Study Tours: Fiji, 1966
26. CIES Study Tours: Germany, 1961
27. CIES Study Tours: Germany, 1963-1964
28. CIES Study Tours: Germany (Hamburg), 1970
29. CIES Study Tours: Ghana, 1963
30. CIES Study Tours: Greece, 1960
31. CIES Study Tours: Guatemala, undated
32. CIES Study Tours: Hong Kong, 1970
33. CIES Study Tours: Hong Kong, 1971-1972
34. CIES Study Tours: India (New Dehli), 1966
35. CIES Study Tours: Indonesia, 1965
36. CIES Study Tours: Iran (Tehran), 1966
37. CIES Study Tours: Israel, 1965-1966
38. CIES Study Tours: Italy, 1966-1967
39. CIES Study Tours: Japan, 1959
40. CIES Study Tours: Japan, 1970-1971
41. CIES Study Tours: Japan, 1972
42. CIES Study Tours: Jordan, 1966

Box 2
Folder -- Contents

1. CIES Study Tours: Korea, 1959
2. CIES Study Tours: Korea, 1973
3. CIES Study Tours: Latin America, circa 1956-1960
4. CIES Study Tours: Latin American Schools, 1967-1971
5. CIES Study Tours: Lebanon (Beirut), 1969-1970
6. CIES Study Tours: Liberia, 1962
7. CIES Study Tours: Mexico, 1951
8. CIES Study Tours: Netherlands, 1955
9. CIES Study Tours: Norway, 1963
10. CIES Study Tours: Norway, 1968
11. CIES Study Tours: Peru, 1957-1970
12. CIES Study Tours: Peru (Lima), 1970-1971
13. CIES Study Tours: Philippines, 1972-1973
14. CIES Study Tours: Republic of Congo, 1963
15. CIES Study Tours: Romania, 1958
16. CIES Study Tours: Scotland, 1962
17. CIES Study Tours: Singapore, 1966
18. CIES Study Tours: South Africa, 1959-1960
19. CIES Study Tours: South Africa, 1962
20. CIES Study Tours: South Africa, 1963
21. CIES Study Tours: Spain, 1969
22. CIES Study Tours: Sweden, 1961
23. CIES Study Tours: Switzerland, 1965
24. CIES Study Tours: Switzerland (Geneva), 1970
25. CIES Study Tours: Thailand (Bangkok), 1970
26. CIES Study Tours: Thailand (Bangkok), 1970
27. CIES Study Tours: Taiwan, 1972
28. CIES Study Tours: Turkey, 1969
29. CIES Study Tours: Turkey, 1970
30. CIES Study Tours: Uruguay. 1962
31. CIES Study Tours: USSR, 1960
32. CIES Study Tours: USSR, 1963
33. CIES Study Tours: USSR, 1965
34. CIES Study Tours: USSR, 1972;1974
35. CIES Study Tours: Venezuela (Caracas), 1948
36. CIES Study Tours: Venezuela, 1956
37. CIES Study Tours: Venezuela, 1964
38. CIES Study Tours: Venezuela, 1967-1971
39. CIES Study Tours: Vietnam, 1963-1964

Subseries 2: Background Materials

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. Background Materials: Africa, 1962
2. Background Materials: Bulgaria, 1963
3. Background Materials: Bulgaria, 1972
4. Background Materials: Czechoslovakia, 1957
5. Background Materials: Czechosloviakia, 1969
6. Background Materials: East Germany, 1968-1969
7. Background Materials: England, 1956-1962
8. Background Materials: England (London) 1968
9. Background Materials: France, 1958
10. Background Materials: France, 1961-1964
11. Background Materials: France, 1965
12. Background Materials: France (Aix-En-Provence), 1967
13. Background Materials: France (Paris), 1972
14. Background Materials: Germany (Munich), 1960
15. Background Materials: Germany (Hamburg), 1961
16. Background Materials: Greece, 1967
17. Background Materials: Holland (Amsterdam), 1960-1961
18. Background Materials: Holland, 1961
19. Background Materials: Hungary, 1958
20. Background Materials: Norway, 1965
21. Background Materials: Poland, 1961
22. Background Materials: Rhodesia, 1963
23. Background Materials: Sudan, 1959
24. Background Materials: Switzerland (Geneva), 1968
25. Background Materials: USSR, 1958-1964 (folder 1 of 3)
26. Background Materials: USSR, 1958-1964 (folder 2 of 3)
27. Background Materials: USSR, 1958-1964 (folder 3 of 3)
28. Background Materials: USSR, 1961
29. Background Materials: USSR, undated
30. Background Materials: Yugoslavia, 1964
31. Background Materials: Yugoslavia, 1967-1969

Subseries 3: Subject Files

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. Subject Files: Brief History of the Study Tours, undated
2. Subject Files: East-West Berlin Seminar (organized by Read following the Paris World Congress), 1984
3. Subject Files: Gerald H. Read Recollections on Founding of CIES, undated
4. Subject Files: Global Awareness, 1980
5. Subject Files: Joseph Lavwerys, 1969
6. Subject Files: Intercultural Communication in USA, 1963-1964
7. Subject Files: Mainland China, 1974
8. Subject Files: Peace Education, 1983
9. Subject Files: Religious Positions on Education Bill, 1870-1944
10. Subject Files: Socialist Education, 1968
11. Subject Files: Teacher Education Task Force, 1983
12. Subject Files: Travel Preparation, 1976
13. Subject Files: World Congress (Geneva), 1974
14. Subject Files: World Congress, 1980

Subseries 4: Photographs

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. Photographs: Australia, undated
2. Photographs: China Seminar, April 1974
3. Photographs: Cuba, 1977
4. Photographs: East Berlin Seminar, 1973
5. Photographs: England, 1961
6. Photographs: European Seminar, Summer 1961
7. Photographs: European Seminar, 1968
8. Photographs: European Seminar, 1972
9. Photographs: European Seminar, undated
10. Photographs: France, undated
11. Photographs: Gerald H. Read, Floating Market, Bangkok, Thailand, 1965
12. Photographs: Gerald H. Read Lecture, Isle of Youth, Cuba, 1977
13. Photographs: Gerald H. Read, Singapore, August 7, 1966
14. Photographs: Gerald H. Read stacking hops, Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1961
15. Photographs: Gerald H. Read, South America, October 28, 1971
16. Photographs: Gerald H. Read and Victoria C. T. Read, Tokyo, Japan, undated
17. Photographs: Gerald H. Read, unidentified location, undated
18. Photographs: Gerald H. Read, unidentified location, undated
19. Photographs: Hungary, 1970
20. Photographs: Mr. Kovalinka, Dr. Gerald H. Read, Mr. Cyrille Adoula, Mr. Rose, undated
21. Photographs: Liberia, 1962
22. Photographs: Russian Tour, August-September 1958
23. Photographs: Russian Tour, 1961
24. Photographs: Russian Tour, 1962
25. Photographs: Russian Tour, 1963
26. Photographs: Russian Tour, 1964
27. Photographs: Russian Tour, 1966
28. Photographs: Russian Tour, 1967 or 1969 (Note: photographs are identical, but labeled both 1967 and 1969)
29. Photographs: Russian Tour, 1968
30. Photographs: Russian Tour, undated
31. Photographs: Various Dresden Scenes, undated
32. Photographs: Various USSR Scenes, undated
33. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, Gerald H. Read, and Inez C. Jeffery, Hotel Yert (Farewll Party) Ulan Bator, Outer Mongolia, 1967
34. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read and Gerald H. Read, Hong Kong, undated
35. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, Gerald H. Read and Japanese Family, Tokyo, Japan, 1976
36. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read and Gerald H. Read, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, September, 1977
37. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read and Gerald H. Read, Japan, undated
38. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, Bangkok, Thailand, 1964
39. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, Bangkok, Thailand, 1964
40. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, Athens, Greece, 1960
41. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, Galapagos Islands, 1977
42. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, Iceland, undated
43. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, Taipei, Taiwan, 1965
44. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, Tokyo, Japan, 1959
45. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read with Gerald H. Read, Summer Palace, Beijing, China, 1976
46. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, Vicki A. R. Thornbury, and Gerald H. Read, Karachi, Pakistan, 1964
47. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read with Vicki A. R. Thornbury, along the Blue Nile, Egypt, 1960
48. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read with Vicki A. R. Thornbury, Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1964
49. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read with Zoya Malkova, Moscow, USSR, 1961
50. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, unidentified location, undated
51. Photographs: Victoria C. T. Read, unidentified location, undated

Subseries 5: Correspondence and Audio Recording

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. Malkova, Zoya: Correspondence from/about, 1958-1996 (bulk 1958-1960; undated)
2. Malkova, Zoya: Audio recording, Reel-to-reel tape, undated (note from Read on box: "Kim: This is the tape of Malkova's broadcast on Voice of America for which she was ordered home.")
3. Polojevets, Peter: Correspondence from (one letter), undated