mshm330 Finance Committee Records, 1930-1995, 1997-1998 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Joyce Clifford. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
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 Collection Overview Mount Holyoke College. Board of Trustees. Finance Committee Finance Committee Records 1930-1995, 1997-1998 RG 3.3.13 LD 7082 A1 19 boxes (9 linear ft.) English Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
South Hadley, MA
The records of the Mount Holyoke College Finance Committee, a standing committee of the Board of Trustees, date from 1930-1995, 1997-1998 and consist of minutes, agenda, correspondence, budgets, reports, financial statements, lists, and memoranda. These materials chiefly concern investments of the College and include information about faculty and staff salaries. Historical Note

The Mount Holyoke College Finance Committee is a standing committee of the Board of Trustees. The primary purpose of the committee is to select and monitor investments on behalf of Mount Holyoke College. A secondary purpose is to oversee the work of the chief financial officer of the College.

 Scope and Contents of the Collection

Finance Committee records concern the income, investments and expenditures of Mount Holyoke College (1930-1995) and are arranged into the following series: College Budgets and Academic and Administrative Salaries; Meeting Minutes; Proxy Note Proposals, Shareholder Proposals, and Meeting Minutes. College Budgets and Academic and Administrative Salaries materials (1931-1995) consist of budgets and other financial statement, reports, lists and analyses of departmental and individual salaries for faculty and administrators prepared for the Trustees Committee on Education, and correspondence regarding employee mortgage loan and interest policies. There are also minutes and reports of the Board of Trustees Investment and Finance Committees (November 1990-April 1992) and memoranda from various sub-committees (1960-1980). Meeting Minutes (1930-1995) consists of minutes and agenda, correspondence, and reports concerning the investment policies of the College. These records discuss the performance of investment and divestment strategies and also include information about academic and administrative salaries and annuities. Also included are the Board of Trustees Audit Committee reports for Mount Holyoke College and for Five Colleges, Inc., Investment Proxy Reports from 1989-1992, subcommittee meeting reports from November, 1990-April, 1991 subcommittee memoranda from 1960-1980, and special expenditures files. Of special note are financial reports from December 1970-May 1972 with proxy voting information for the committee. One memo discusses the possibility of adding a woman to serve on the General Motors Board of Directors despite the defect of sex. Proxy Note Proposals, Shareholder Proposals, and Meeting Minutes (1989-1992, 1997-1998) consist of proxy statements and reports, records for the Board of Trustees Proxy and Investment Committees, minutes of Finance Committee meetings including a conference call in January, 1998. Many of these records concern Mount Holyoke's investments in South Africa and Northern Ireland and in cigarette companies.

 Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into three series:

College Budgets and Academic and Administrative Salaries (1931-1995) Meeting Minutes (1930-1995) Proxy Note Proposals, Shareholder Proposals and Meeting Minutes (1989-1992, 1997-1998) Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

Records restricted to use by the Board of Trustees for 50 years from the date of record creation.

Use of the collection is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).

 Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Mount Holyoke College. Board of Trustees. Finance Committee Records, Archives and Special Collections, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA

 History of the Collection

Most records in this collection were transferred to the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections between 1999-2004. Each accretion has been processed as a separate series.

Proceed by Joyce Clifford, 2007. Juliana Kuipers and Eileen Chapman assisted with the arrangement and description of these records in 2002-2003.

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College Budgets and Academic and Administrative Salaries 1931-1995 1 1 College budgets 1931-1944 1 2 College budgets 1944-1947 1 3 College budgets 1948-1952 1 4 College budgets 1952-1957 1 5 College budgets 1957-1961 1 6 Salary analysis prepared for the Trustees Committee on Education 1958-1961 2 1 Salary analysis 1961-1965 2 2 Salary analysis 1965-1971 2 3 Correspondence regarding investments March-April 1972 2 4 Financial reports December 1970-May 1972 2 5 Investment/Finance Committee. minutes and report November 1990-April 1992 2 6 Miscellaneous sub-committee memoranda 1960-1980 Meeting minutes 1930-1995 3 1 Meeting minutes July 1930-June 1931 3 2 Meeting minutes July 1931-June 1932 3 3 Meeting minutes July 1932-June 1933 3 4 Meeting minutes July 1933-June 1934 3 5 Meeting minutes July 1934-June 1935 3 6 Meeting minutes July 1935-June 1936 3 7 Meeting minutes July 1936-June 1937 3 8 Meeting minutes July 1937-June 1938 3 9 Meeting minutes July 1938-June 1939 3 10 Meeting minutes July 1939-June 1940 3 11 Meeting minutes July 1940-June 1941 3 12 Meeting minutes July 1941-June 1942 3 13 Carbon copies of minutes July 13, 1942-June 28, 1944 4 1 Meeting minutes July 26, 1944-June 25, 1946 4 2 Meeting minutes August 12, 1946-June 22, 1948 4 3 Meeting minutes July 27, 1948-May 31, 1950 4 4 Meeting minutes July 26, 1950-June 4, 1952 4 5 Meeting minutes July 1, 1952-June 22, 1954 4 6 Meeting minutes June 30, 1954-June 19, 1955 4 7 Meeting minutes September 24, 1955-December 4, 1958 4 8 Meeting minutes February 16, 1959-September 14, 1961 4 9 Meeting minutes January 3, 1962-October 18, 1963 4 10 Meeting minutes January 17, 1964-November 27, 1964 5 1 Meeting minutes January 18, 1965-December 13, 1965 5 2 Meeting minutes January 12, 1966-December 9, 1966 5 3 Meeting minutes February 14, 1967-November 29, 1967 5 4 Meeting minutes January 17, 1968-December 31, 1968 5 5 Meeting minutes February 12, 1969-December 23, 1969 5 6 Meeting minutes January 28, 1970-June 30, 1970 5 7 Meeting minutes July 29, 1970-June 30, 1971 5 8 Meeting minutes August 4, 1971-May 20, 1972 5 9 Meeting minutes July 19, 1972-June 30, 1973 5 10 Meeting minutes agenda related correspondence September 20, 1973 5 11 Meeting minutes agenda related correspondence December 13, 1973 5 12 Meeting minutes agenda related correspondence January 17, 1974 5 13 Meeting minutes agenda related correspondence February 20, 1974 5 14 Meeting minutes agenda related correspondence March 19, 1974 5 15 Meeting minutes agenda related correspondence April 23, 1974 5 16 Meeting minutes agenda related correspondence May 18, 1974 6 1 Meeting minutes June 13, 1974 6 2 Meeting minutes with annual index August 1, 1973-June 13, 1974 6 3 Meeting minutes July 11, 1974 6 4 Meeting minutes September 4. 1974 6 5 Meeting minutes October 16, 1974 6 6 Meeting minutes November 19, 1974 6 7 Meeting minutes January 9, 1975 6 8 Meeting minutes February 19, 1975 6 9 Meeting minutes April 2, 1975 6 10 Meeting minutes April 30, 1975 6 11 Meeting minutes June 4, 1975 6 12 Meeting minutes with annual index July 11, 1974-June 4, 1975 6 13 Meeting minutes September 11, 1975 6 14 Meeting minutes October 16, 1975 6 15 Meeting minutes November 19, 1975 6 16 Meeting minutes December 11, 1975 6 17 Meeting minutes January 20, 1976 6 18 Meeting minutes February 18, 1976 6 19 Meeting minutes March 17, 1976 6 20 Meeting minutes April 26, 1976 6 21 Meeting minutes June 16, 1976 6 22 Meeting minutes with annual index September 11, 1975-June 16, 1977 6 23 Meeting minutes July 26, 1976 7 1 Meeting minutes September 22, 1976 7 2 Meeting minutes October 19, 1976 7 3 Meeting minutes December 8, 1976 7 4 Meeting minutes January 29, 1977 7 5 Meeting minutes February 15, 1977 7 6 Meeting minutes March 30, 1977 7 7 Meeting minutes April 26, 1977 7 8 Meeting minutes June 2, 1977 7 9 Meeting minutes with annual index July 26, 1976-June 2, 1977 7 10 Meeting minutes July 11, 1977 7 11 Meeting minutes September 14, 1977 7 12 Meeting minutes October 19, 1977 7 13 Meeting minutes December 7, 1977 7 14 Meeting minutes January 24, 1978 7 15 Meeting minutes February 14, 1978 7 16 Meeting minutes April 11, 1978 7 17 Meeting minutes April 24, 1978 7 18 Meeting minutes June 7, 1978 7 19 Meeting minutes with annual index July 11, 1977-June 7, 1978 7 20 Meeting minutes July 28, 1977 7 21 Meeting minutes September 11, 1978 7 22 Meeting minutes October 20, 1978 7 23 Meeting minutes December 7, 1978 8 1 Meeting minutes January 22, 1979 8 2 Meeting minutes February 21, 1979 8 3 Meeting minutes April 11, 1979 8 4 Meeting minutes April 30, 1979 8 5 Meeting minutes June 11, 1979 8 6 Meeting minutes with annual index July 25, 1978-June 11, 1979 8 7 Meeting minutes July 30, 1979 8 8 Meeting minutes September 24, 1979 8 9 Meeting minutes October 24, 1979 8 10 Meeting minutes December 8, 1979 8 11 Meeting minutes January 21, 1980 8 12 Meeting minutes February 19, 1980 8 13 Meeting minutes April 17, 1980 8 14 Meeting minutes June 11, 1980 8 15 Meeting minutes with annual index July 30, 1979-April 17, 1980 8 16 Meeting minutes October 24, 1980 8 17 Meeting minutes October 24, 1980 8 18 Meeting minutes December 12, 1980 9 1 Meeting minutes January 22, 1981 9 2 Meeting minutes February 19, 1981 9 3 Mortgage Loan Policy Correspondence March 1981 9 4 Meeting minutes April 23, 1981 9 5 Meeting minutes June 4, 1981 9 6 Meeting minutes with annual index July 1980-June 4, 1981 9 7 Meeting minutes July 16, 1981 9 8 Meeting minutes September 24, 1981 9 9 Meeting minutes October 28, 1981 9 10 Meeting minutes December 4, 1981 9 11 Meeting minutes January 28, 1982 9 12 Meeting minutes February 19, 1982 9 13 Meeting minutes April 23, 1982 9 14 Meeting minutes June 11, 1982 9 15 Meeting minutes with annual index July 16, 1981-April 23, 1982 9 16 Meeting minutes July 14, 1982 9 17 Meeting minutes September 17, 1982 10 1 Meeting minutes October 29, 1982 10 2 Meeting minutes including execution reports correspondence and student loan delinquency December 17, 1982 10 3 Meeting minutes including memoranda about the Kendall Gym loan and endowment fund growth rates December 17 1982 10 4 Meeting minutes February 25, 1983 10 5 Meeting minutes March 3, 1983 10 6 Meeting minutes March 3, 1983 10 7 Meeting minutes April 15, 1983 10 8 Meeting minutes April 15, 1983 10 9 Meeting minutes with annual index June 11, 1982-June 29, 1983 10 10 Meeting minutes July 28, 1983 10 11 Meeting minutes September 16, 1983 11 1 Meeting minutes October 27, 1983 11 2 Meeting minutes December 22, 1983 11 3 Meeting minutes January 26, 1984 11 4 Meeting minutes February 23, 1984 11 5 Meeting minutes April 11, 1984 11 6 Meeting minutes: Special meeting to interview new potential international investment managers April 26, 1984 11 7 Meeting minutes June 28, 1984 11 8 Meeting minutes July 28, 1983-April 26, 1984 11 9 Meeting minutes July 26, 1984 11 10 Meeting minutes September 28, 1984 11 11 Meeting minutes October 25, 1984 11 12 Meeting minutes December 27, 1984 12 1 Meeting minutes January 23, 1985 12 2 Meeting minutes February 21, 1985 12 3 Meeting minutes April 16, 1985 12 4 Meeting minutes July 26, 1984-April 16, 1985 12 5 Meeting minutes August 14, 1985 12 6 Meeting minutes September 26, 1985 12 7 Meeting minutes October 24, 1985 12 8 Meeting minutes February 5, 1986 12 9 Meeting minutes February 27, 1986 12 10 Meeting minutes April 16, 1986 12 11 Meeting minutes June 25, 1986 12 12 Meeting minutes August 14, 1985-June 25, 1986 12 13 Meeting minutes August 5, 1986 12 14 Meeting minutes September 25, 1986 12 15 Meeting Minutes October 23, 1986 12 16 Meeting Minutes January 29, 1987 13 1 Meeting Minutes February 26, 1987 13 2 Meeting Minutes February 26, 1987 13 3 Meeting Minutes February 26, 1987 13 4 Meeting Minutes April 14, 1987 13 5 Meeting Minutes May 14, 1987 13 6 Meeting Minutes May 14, 1987 13 7 Meeting Minutes May 14, 1987 13 8 Meeting Minutes June 11, 1987 13 9 Meeting Minutes June 25, 1987 13 10 Meeting Minutes 1986-1987 13 11 Meeting Minutes July 2, 1987 13 12 Meeting Minutes October 16, 1987 13 13 Meeting Minutes November 10, 1987 13 14 Meeting Minutes December 3, 1987 13 15 Meeting Minutes: includes separate Miller, Anderson, and Sherrerd Report December 3, 1987 13 16 Meeting Minutes January 28, 1988 13 17 Meeting Minutes February 25, 1988 13 18 Meeting Minutes April 15, 1988 14 1 Meeting Minutes June 23, 1988 14 2 Meeting Minutes September 22, 1988 14 3 Meeting Minutes September 22, 1988 14 4 Meeting Minutes October 27, 1988 14 5 Meeting Minutes December 1, 1988 14 6 Meeting Minutes February 23, 1989 14 7 Meeting Minutes April 18, 1989 14 8 Meeting Minutes June 22, 1989 14 9 Meeting Minutes 1988-1989 14 10 Meeting Minutes September 28, 1989 14 11 Meeting Minutes October 26, 1989 14 12 Meeting Minutes October 26. 1989 14 13 Meeting Minutes December 7, 1989 14 14 Meeting Minutes 1989-1990 14 15 Meeting Minutes January 25, 1990 15 1 Meeting Minutes February 22, 1990 15 2 Meeting Minutes April 12, 1990 15 3 Meeting Minutes June 28, 1990 15 4 Meeting Minutes 1990-1991 15 5 Meeting Minutes September 27, 1990 15 6 Meeting Minutes October 26, 1990 15 7 Meeting Minutes December 13, 1990 15 8 Meeting Minutes January 24, 1991 15 9 Meeting Minutes February 22, 1991 15 10 Meeting Minutes April 12, 1991 15 11 Meeting Minutes May 2, 1991 15 12 Meeting Minutes June 27, 1991 15 13 Meeting Minutes: Scudder Report June 27, 1991 15 14 Meeting Minutes September 26, 1991 15 15 Meeting Minutes September 26, 1991 15 16 Meeting Minutes October 21, 1991 15 17 Meeting Minutes December 12, 1991 15 18 Meeting Minutes January 22, 1992 15 19 Meeting Minutes February 27, 1992 16 1 Meeting Minutes May 4, 1992 16 2 Meeting Minutes June 25, 1992 16 3 Meeting Minutes September 24, 1992 16 4 Meeting Minutes September 24, 1992 16 5 Meeting Minutes October 24, 1992 16 6 Meeting Minutes January 28, 1993 16 7 Meeting Minutes February 25, 1993 16 8 Meeting Minutes April 29, 1993 16 9 Meeting Minutes May 14, 1993 16 10 Meeting Minutes June 24, 1993 16 11 Meeting Minutes September 29, 1993 16 12 Meeting Minutes: Scudder Report September 29, 1993 16 13 Meeting Minutes October 27, 1993 16 14 Meeting Minutes December 15, 1993 16 15 Meeting Minutes February 23, 1994 16 16 Meeting Minutes April 27, 1994 16 17 Meeting Minutes June 22, 1994 16 18 Meeting Minutes September 28, 1994 16 19 Meeting Minutes 1993-1994 16 20 Meeting Minutes October 19, 1994 17 1 Meeting Minutes December 14, 1994 17 2 Meeting Minutes January 25, 1995 17 3 Meeting Minutes February 22, 1995 17 4 Meeting Minutes April 26, 1995 17 5 Meeting Minutes June 28, 1995 17 6 Meeting Minutes September 28, 1994-June 28, 1995 Proxy Note Proposals, Shareholders Proposals and Meeting Minutes 1989-1992 18 1 Proxy Statements 1989-1992 18 2 IRRC Reports 1990 18 3 Meeting Minutes September 28, 1989 18 4 Meeting Minutes October 26, 1989 18 5 Meeting Minutes April 12, 1990 18 6 Meeting Minutes October 26, 1990 18 7 Meeting Minutes January 25, 1990 18 8 Meeting Minutes April 12, 1990 18 9 Meeting Minutes December 13, 1990 18 10 Meeting Minutes January 24, 1991 18 11 Meeting Minutes: Boston February 22, 1991 18 12 Proxy Committee April 1991 18 13 Investment Committee 1991 19 1 Meeting Minutes December 12, 1991 19 2 Meeting minutes January 22, 1992 19 3 Meeting Minutes February 27, 1992 19 4 Meeting Minutes June 25, 1992 20 4 Meeting Minutes and Conference Call Materials October 24, 1997, January 28, 1998