Walton D. Clarke papers, 1940-1974

Finding Aid

Prepared by Barbara Bass, September 13, 1996; Updated February 2015
8 record storage boxes, 8 cubic feet, Storage

This collection is housed in a climate-controlled environment off site and requires at least up to three weeks for retrieval. Please call or email the department with requests for this material prior to planning your visit.

Scope and Content

In July 1975 the Walton D. Clarke papers (1940-1975) were transferred to the Kent State University Archives by Mr. Clarke, an emeritus professor of Speech and the former coordinator of the Division of Telecommunication. Of special interest in the collection are materials relating to athletics, and radio/TV/telecommunications at Kent State.

Materials have been arranged roughly by subject content as follows:

Box 1

Folder -- Contents

1. Athletic Policy Committee, 1949-1951
2. Athletic Policy Committee, 1951-1952
3. Athletic Policy Committee, minutes, 1940-1952
4. Athletic budget, 1953-1959
5. Athletic Committee, 1951-1956
6. Athletic Awards Criteria, 1952
7. Athletic Citations and Resolutions Presented to Coaches and Athletes
8. Special Athletic Reports (Report on Finances, 1957; Report on Athletic Program, 1962)
9. Athletic Screening Committee (Football Coach, 1963; Basketball Coach, 1966)
10. Eligibility memo directed to student athletes, 1962
11. Athletic Aid Summaries, by sport, class, and quarter, 1962-1963, 1965-1967
12. Athletics, 1952-1953
13. Athletics, 1953-1954
14. Athletics, 1954-1955
15. Athletics, 1955-1956
16. Athletics, 1956-1957
17. Athletics, 1957-1958
18. Athletics, 1958-1959
19. Athletics, 1959-1960
20. Athletics, 1960-1961
21. Athletics, 1961-1962
22. Athletics, 1962-1963
23. Athletics, 1963-1964
24. Athletics, 1964-1965
25. Athletics, 1965-1966
26. Athletics, 1966-1967
27. Athletics, 1967-1968
28. Athletics, 1968-1969
29. Athletics, 1969-1970
30. Athletics, 1970-1971
31. Athletics 1971-1972
32. Materials relating to Dr. Carl Erickson and KSU Athletics, 1964-1965

Box 2

Folder -- Contents

1. Kent State University Athletics and Ohio Athletic Conference, 1946-1951
2. Mid American Conference Athletic Records for Baseball, Basketball and Wrestling, 1947-1967
3. MAC Presidents' Report on Policies Regarding Athletics, 1953-1955
4. MAC
5. Kent State-MAC Scholar Athlete Award Nominations, Candidate Record, etc., 1962-1965
6. MAC materials - correspondence, rules clarification, misc.,1962-1965
7. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletes in all sports, 1952-1953
8. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletics in All Sports, 1953-1954
9. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletics in All Sports, 1958-1959
10. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletics in All Sports, 1959-1960
11. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletics in All Sports, 1960-1961
12. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletics in All Sports, 1961-1962
13. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletics in All Sports, 1962-1963
14. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletics in All Sports, 1963-1964
15. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletics in All Sports, 1964-1965
16. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletics in All Sports, 1965-1966
17. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletics in All Sports, 1966-1967
18. Kent State-MAC Annual Athletic Aid Report, Aid to Athletics in All Sports, 1967-1968
19. MAC Council, minutes, 1952-1958
20. MAC Athletic Rules, Regulations and Code (aid, eligibility, etc.), 1953
21. MAC Athletic Rules, Regulations and Code (aid, eligibility, etc.), 1968
22. MAC Athletic Rules, Regulations and Code (aid, eligibility, etc.), changes, 1968
23. MAC Rule Changes for Athletics, 1952-1968
24. MAC Commissioner (Reports, minutes, correspondence)
25. MAC Constitution
26. MAC misc. (correspondence, programs of spring sports, rules, etc) 1961-1971
27. National Collegiate Athletic Association, misc. (correspondence, constitution), 1951-1958
28. NCAA Council Reports, including "Federation Movement," "Academic Testing and Requirements," and a "Confidential Report" by the Committee on Infractions
29. NCAA Television Committee Reports -"The Television Saturday Games and Attendance", 1951-1956
30. NCAA Television Committee Year-End Report, 1952-1956
31. NCAA Television Committee Year-End Report, 1957-1961
32. NCAA Television Committee Year-End Report, 1962-1966
33. NCAA Television Committee Year-End Report, 1967-1969
34. NCAA Television Committee Year-End Report, 1970-1973
35. NCAA Report on "The Effects of Television on College Football Attendance", April 8, 1953, and April 22, 1954
36. NCAA Bulletins, Reports (membership reports, federation reports, "The Story of the NCAA" ), 1962-1965
37. NCAA Committee on Recruiting and Financial Aids, 1960, 1970, 1871

NOTE: For additional materials on athletics, see box 8, folders 34-16

Box 3

Folder -- Contents

1. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1946-1948
2. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1948-1949
3. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1949-1950
4. Rotary "C" Lab Fees, 1949-1950
5. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1950-1951
6. Student employment records, 1950-1957
7. WKSU-FM labor and operating expenses, 1950-1952
8. WKSU-FM equipment requisition and purchase orders, 1950-1951
9. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1951-1952
10. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1952-1953
11. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1953-1954
12. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1954-1955
13. Rotary "C" (expenses), 1954-1958
14. State Funds (used for purchasing), 1955
15. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1955-1956
16. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1956-1957
17. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1957-1958
18. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1958-1959
19. Rotary IC Speech (use of IC funds, correspondence), 1958-1959
20. Allocations (budgets, fees, etc.), 1959-1960
21. I-C radio-TV allocations, 1960-1961
22. I-C speech allocations, 1960-1961
23. Local radio allocations, 1960-1961
24. I-C radio-TV allocations, 1961-1962
25. I-C speech allocations, 1961-1962
26. Student employment records, 1961-1962
27. I-C radio-TV allocations, 1962-1963
28. I-C radio-TV allocations, 1962-1963
29. Student employment records, 1963

Box 4

Folder -- Contents

1. I-C radio-TV allocations, 1963-1964
2. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1964-1965
3. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1964-1965
4. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1965-1966
5. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1965-1966
6. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1966-1967
7. Interdepartmental charges (credit), 1966-1967
8. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1967-1968
9. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1967-1968
10. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1968-1969
11. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1968-1969
12. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1969-1970
13. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1969-1970
14. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1970-1971
15. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1970-1971
16. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1971-1972
17. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1971-1972
18. Speech-radio-TV allocations, (requisitions), 1972-1973

Box 5

Folder -- Contents

1. Curriculum, requirements for Speech (radio), 1950-1973
2. Curriculum revision for Speech, 1959-1960
3. Curriculum revision for Speech, 1968
4. Course revision for Broadcasting, 1960-1961
5. Course revision for Broadcasting, 1965-1966
6. Examinations
7. Examinations
8. Speech 100 (course aids, guides, etc.)
9. Speech 100 (course aids, guides, etc.)
10. Speech 160 (course aims)
11. Speech 37038 (course aids, guides, etc.)
12. Speech 574 (course aids, guides, etc.)
13. Speech 576 (course aids, guides, etc.)
14. Speech 677 (course aids, guides, etc.)
15. Radio and TV Station Management (course aids, guides, etc.)
16. Student criticism forms for speech classes
17. Course Aid - Suggestions for the Group Leader and Participant
18. Course Aid - The Ten Commandments of Public Speaking
19. Course Guide - Agree-Disagree Discussion Topics
20. Course Guide - Speech-Definitions
21. Course handout - "Is Silence Golden?"
22. Supporting material (Dickens, Capp, Weaver and Ness) for course handout
23. Spring Quarter 1970 completion of assignments, course and credit
24. Bibliography for Radio Speech
25. British Information Service Magazine reprints
26. Letters of recommendation written for various students
27. Graduate study curriculums and internships in radio, TV, and film from Kent State University, University of Texas, University of Kansas
28. Class papers, term papers, and survey by various students
29. Teaching materials, booklets, magazines, and reprints
30. Teaching materials, magazine clippings and reprints, forms to make speeches by
31. Teaching materials, reprints, and major curriculum fill-in sheets
32. Demographic study and report of the class of 1965 for assistance in Institutional Planning
33. Class scheduling (Number of students, instructors, room assignments, 1956-1969
34. Class scheduling (Number of students, instructors, room assignments, 1969-1970
35. Class scheduling (Number of students, instructors, room assignments, 1970-1971
36. Class scheduling (Number of students, instructors, room assignments, 1971-1972
37. Class scheduling (Number of students, instructors, room assignments, 1972-1973
38. Class scheduling (Number of students, instructors, room assignments, 1973-1974
39. Class scheduling (Number of students, instructors, room assignments, Fall Quarter 1974

Box 6

Folder -- Contents

1. Federal Communications Commission correspondence
2. FCC prints and correspondence
3. FCC financial report blanks, opinion and orders
4. FCC application correspondence, prints, and booklet, 1959-1961
5. FCC notices of proposed rule decisions
6. FCC surveys of political broadcasting for 1960, 1962, 1964
7. FCC License Renewal Application for 1952-1955, including correspondence, prints, and Kent State University's Comptroller Report, July 1951
8. FCC License Renewal Application for 1964
9. FCC License Renewal preparation logs for WKSU-FM and program summaries, 1967
10. Federal Aviation Agency, correspondence and maps for WKSU broadcasting tower, 1961-1962
11. Radio Workshop, attendance, constitution, handbook, and financial records, 1945-1946
12. Radio Workshop shows, with dates, personnel, and specifications on rooms with maps, 1948-1950
13. Radio Workshop, inventory of activities, physical inventory, scripts for shows, and reports
14. Radio activities at Kent State University - reports and historical reports on radio history, 1937-1942
15. Radio workshops expenditures record book, 1945-1954
16. WKSU-FM, staff members, correspondence, and program summaries
17. WKSU-FM transcription services and music licensing correspondence, 1950
18. FM bid correspondence, 1960-1961
19. WKSU-FM programming, "Kent at Work" series background information and scripts featuring Twin Coach, Wel-Met Co., Davey Tree Experts Co., and Ferry Machine Co.
20. WKSU-FM programming, program summaries and correspondence
21. WKSU-FM programming, "The American Story" scripts
22. WKSU-FM scripts and TV script reprints
23. WKSU-FM quarterly program summaries, programs, clippings, and broadcast hours
24. WKSU-FM sports broadcasting, programming and guide
25. Various contracts, WAKR and WCUE
26. Commercial correspondence, 1963, and "Advertising Highlights" booklets, 1953-1954
27. WKSU-FM staff members procedures and policies brochures
28. Radio history at Kent State University - correspondence, reports, reprints, and technical information, 1943-1949
29. WKSU-FM Historical Folder - program summaries, 1962-1964,
30. WKSU-FM Historical Folder, 1970 Spring and Summer
31. WKSU-FM Historical Folder - program summaries, correspondence, brochures and booklets, Winter 1971
32. WKSU-FM Historical Folder - reports, meetings, clippings, Winter 1971
33. WKSU-FM Historical Folder - reports, clippings, booklets, and reprints, Spring 1971

Box 7

Folder -- Contents

1. College of Fine and Professional Arts - Faculty Handbooks, 1960, 1962; Provisional constitution, New Faculty Senate Charter and Bylaws, 1969; related correspondence
2. College of Fine and Professional Arts - College Policy Book, Sept. 8, 1972; correspondence
3. College of Fine and Professional Arts, Dean - correspondence, 1959-1974. Speech by the Dean, Sept. 26, 1966
4. Committee on Evaluation and Improvement of Teaching - correspondence, booklets, questionnaires, etc
5. College of Fine and Professional Arts - reports of schools and departments, 1962-1964
6. College of Fine and Professional Arts - Faculty Service Reports, 1963-1975; related correspondence
7. College of Fine and Professional Arts - correspondence, questionnaires, and applications for faculty and staff of Radio/TV
8. University committees - correspondence and publications, 1951-1971
9. Telecommunications Promotion Committee (Ad Hoc) - correspondence and policy statements, 1968-1973
10. Radio and TV Committee, reports, correspondence, and programming, 1957-1958
11. Presidential Search Committee - correspondence, 1971
12. School of Speech Executive Committee - correspondence, minutes, etc., 1963-1969
13. School of Speech Executive Committee - correspondence, minutes, etc., 1969-1971
14. School of Speech Executive Committee - correspondence, minutes, etc., 1971-1972
15. School of Speech Executive Committee - correspondence, minutes, etc., 1972-1973
16. School of Speech Executive Committee - correspondence, minutes, etc., 1973-1974
17. Telecommunications staff - correspondence, papers, minutes, 1962-1969
18. Telecommunications staff - correspondence, papers, minutes, 1969-1970
19. Telecommunications staff - correspondence, papers, minutes, 1970-1971
20. Telecommunications staff - correspondence, papers, minutes, 1971-1972
21. Telecommunications staff - correspondence, papers, minutes, 1973-1974
22. Quadrennial Review Committee for Industrial Arts and Technology - correspondence, guides and reports, 1966-1969
23. Correspondence - re. quarterly reports, 1965-1968
24. Correspondence, 1944
25. Correspondence, 1945-1946
26. Correspondence, 1946-1947
27. Correspondence, 1948-1949
28. Correspondence, 1949-1950
29. Correspondence, 1950-1951
30. Correspondence, 1951-1952
31. Correspondence, 1952-1953
32. Correspondence, 1953-1954
33. Correspondence, 1954-1955
34. Correspondence, 1955-1956
35. Correspondence, 1956-1957
36. Correspondence, 1957-1958
37. Correspondence, 1960-1961
38. Correspondence, scattered, 1959-1969
39. Ohio Association of Broadcasters at State Universities - correspondence, pamphlets
40. Storer Broadcasting Co. - correspondence, 1961-1963
41. National Association of Educational Broadcasters - annual convention materials, 1961, 1962; placement service
42. National Association for Broadcasters - correspondence, bylaws and booklets, 1969-1971

Box 8

Folder -- Contents

1. Speech Building - early planning correspondence, facilities plans, and costs, 1953-1960
2. Speech Building - instruction to bidders, general conditions, and broadcasting equipment bid
3. Speech Building - report and recommendations for management and operation of electronic engineering and maintenance staff, submitted by Smith Electronics, Inc., 1964
4. Broadcasting equipment - correspondence, purchase and sale
5. Broadcasting equipment - state funds, correspondence, purchases
6. Broadcasting equipment - budgetary request, correspondence, purchasing manual, 1960-1965
7. Broadcasting equipment - inventory, correspondence, index and cost
8. Classroom receivers - closed circuit equipment correspondence and specification, 1960-1962
9. Kent State University Educational Television - reports, reprints, correspondence
10. Instructional TV - purchasing copies, 1970-1971
11. Instructional TV - purchasing copies, 1971-1972
12. Kent State University Educational Television - correspondence to VP Kamerick, 1957-1969
13. Kent State University Educational Television - correspondence, 1954, 1963, 1970
14. Kent State University Radio/TV - correspondence, proposed legislation and bills, 1954
15. Kent State University - Akron U. Educational TV - background, correspondence, clippings, 1951-1956
16. Misc. correspondence and booklets
17. Kent State University - Akron U. Educational TV - TV agreement, FCC ruling, clippings and correspondence
18. Audio Record Monthly Magazine, 1948-1959
19. Audio Record Annual Tape Directory, 1951-1958
20. E. Turner Stump - correspondence, reports, songs, clippings
21. LeRoy Cowperthwaite - correspondence, 1953-1967
22. George Bowman - program honoring him in the tenth year of his presidency, 1954
23. Manchester, R. E., "Saturday Letters," Jan. 22, 1949-June 12, 1954
24. Manchester, R. E., "Saturday Letters," Oct. 12, 1946-Dec. 18, 1948
25. Kent Writer, 1954
26. Invitations to appear (Panel discussions, etc.), 1952
27. "Memos in Time of Crisis" - Clarke correspondence, minutes and faculty senate reports surrounding May 4, 1970
28. Clippings
29. Photographs of events - Kent State University Radio and TV
30. Misc. - Constitution, correspondence
31. Promotion & Publicity - Akron Beacon Journal clippings, programs re: football
32. Athletics - NCAA vs. AAU - Miscellaneous
33. Athletics - clippings and correspondence
34. Athletics - misc.
35. Sports Illustrated- "The Black Athlete" series, 1968
36. Newscast - Walton Clarke, KWTO, Springfield, MO., May 10, 1944