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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1971







group during an experimental eighteen-month tryout period and pave the way for support from other sources that have indicated interest if the experiment is a success.

The Foundation also provided a second round of three-year scholarship assistance to black students enrolled at the Yale School of Drama. Funds supported tuition and living stipends for twenty-one students.

THE HUMANITIES

Although the Foundation has no program of support for individual libraries, it has assisted the Council on Library Resources since 1956 with grants totaling $23 million. The latest of these, a grant of $5 million made this year, continues support of the council's activities until 1976. The council administers research in such fields as automation, library management and administration, and the preservation of books, films, and other library materials. In the last fifteen years it has sought ways for libraries to use computers, television, microforms, and other developing technologies to save time, space, and manpower, and to improve scholars' access to the monumental increase in information, which is straining the resources of libraries everywhere.

With the 1976 American Bicentennial approaching, scholars are exploring the documents and papers recording the onset of the American Revolution and the birth of a new nation. To assist in the reordering of the records of the Continental Congress, the Foundation granted $500,000 to the Library of Congress and $150,000 to the National Archives Trust Fund Board. The Library of Congress will revise and add to Edmund C. Burnett's eight-volume Letters of Members of the Continental Congress. Since the collection was published, between 1921 and 1936, hundreds of other letters have been discovered. The first volume of a four-volume supplement is scheduled for publication in 1976. The National Archives project consists of reorganizing the papers of the Continental Congress. There are tens of thousands of documents, all badly jumbled. Teams of archivists and scholars expect to finish reindexing them in about two years.

GRANTS—HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS Grants Approved (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Cornell College (Iowa) [$50,000-1968] 5,000
Dartmouth College [$85,000-1968] 7,000
Davidson College [$50,000-1968] 10,000
Denison University [$50,000-1968] 5,000
De Pauw University [$50,000-1968] 15,000
Dickinson College [$42,400-1968] 3,450
Earlham College [$40,000-1968] 5,000
Franklin and Marshall College [$50,000-1968] 15,000
Gettysburg College [$29,000-1968] 2,900
Grinnell College [$57,500-1968] 12,500
Hamilton College [$45,000-1968] 8,750
Hollins College [$50,000-1968] 5,000
Holy Cross, College of the [$50,000-1968] 15,000
Kalamazoo College [$40,000-1968] 5,000
Kenyon College [$50,000-1968] 10,000
Knox College [$50,000-1968] 5,000
Lafayette College [$50,000-1968] 10,000
Lake Forest College [$50,000-1968] 5,000
Middlebury College [$46,500-1968] 16,500
Mount Holyoke College [$50,000-1968] 5,000
Muhlenberg College [$35,000-1968] 2,500
Oberlin College [$50,000-1968] 15,000
Occidental College [$50,000-1968] 10,000
Pomona College [$50,000-1968] 5,000
Randolph-Macon Woman's College [$30,000-1968] 3,000
Redlands, University of [$40,000-1968] 8,000
St. Lawrence University [$50,000-1968] 10,000
St. Olaf College [$30,000-1968] 4,000
Scripps College [$48,000-1968] 4,800
Skidmore College [$50,000-1968] 15,000
Smith College [$50,000-1968] 10,000
South, University of the [$25,000-1968] 2,500
Union College [$50,000-1968] 5,000
Vassar College [$50,000-1968] 5,000
Washington and Lee University [$60,000-1968] 5,000
Wellesley College [$16,000-1968] 2,000
Wesleyan University (Conn.) [$40,700-1968] 8,700
Wheaton College [$50,000-1968] 15,000
Williams College [$30,000-1968] 9,000
Wilson College [$40,000-1968] 5,000
Wooster, College of [$15,750-1968] (15,750)
Humanities research projects
American Academy of Arts and Sciences [$560,000-1967] 111,000
California, University of (Davis) [$220,000-1967] 58,045
Columbia University [$24,000-1970] 6,000
McGill University
Materials for teaching classical Greek [$65,520-1968] 8,500
Mycenaean Foundation (Greece)
Archaeological scholarship [$15,000-1970] 7,500
Princeton University
Support of the Council of the Humanities [$700,000-1969] 188,758
Total grants, Humanities and the Arts $30,942,265 $16,346,421

FOUNDATION MANAGED CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES are administered directly by the Foundation rather than by grantees. The first column shows activities approved during fiscal 1971; the second, total 1971 expenditures for activities approved in fiscal 1971 or earlier.

Authorized (Reductions) Expenditures
Contemporary American music recording program $214,236
Economic and financial survey of nonprofit performing groups $618,150 174,321
Evaluation of American studies abroad (16,501)
Grants-in-aid to concert artists, creative writers, and theater directors 32,670
Resident theater program for playwrights 11,382
Training of museum curatorial personnel 49,135
Total Foundation Managed Charitable Activities, Humanities and the Arts $601,649 $481,744