Peter Pousma De Boer Collection, 1948-2001 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

By Ed Gerritsen, 2011

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Collection Overview

Abstract

Biographical Note

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Correspondence --- 1962-1995

Box 1

Folder 1-2: Correspondence with Robert L. McCaul (University of Chicago) --- 1985-1992

Folder 3: Correspondence re: IDIS 150 (interim course) --- 1975

Folder 4: Correspondence re: speaking engagements in California --- 1982

Folder 5: Correspondence and related materials re: Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship (CCCS) --- 1975-1989

Folder 6: Correspondence re: leaves of absence --- 1964-1986

Folder 7: Correspondence --- 1962-1995

Folder 8: Letter to the editor of the Grand Rapids Press --- November 30, 1977

Folder 9: Memo to Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship Fellows --- 1979

Series 2: Addresses --- 1960-1992

Box 1

Folder 10: Address: "Organizing the Materials in Relation to some Broader Educational aspect of Speech Preparation," [Tri-State Teachers Convention, 1960 or 1961]

Folder 11: Address: "Religion in Public Education," [Christian Service Club --- 1964]

Folder 12: Address: "Why Have Christian Schools?" Grosse Point Christian School --- 1977

Folder 13: Address: "Deliver Us from Irrelevance," [Paterson, NJ --- 1981]

Folder 14: Address: "What's Your School's S.Q.?  CSI District IV Meeting at Sheboygan, Wisconsin --- 1982

Folder 15: Address: "Great Expectations," Honor Students at Calvin Christian High --- 1984

Folder 16: Address: "One Who Got Away," Calvin College and Seminary 110th Anniversary at Sarnia, Woodstock, Hamilton, and Grimsby, Ontario --- 1986

Folder 17: Address: "What Do We Mean by a Responsibility Theory for Christian Education," Calvin College Professional Education Staff Retreat --- 1988

Folder 18: Address: "Pedagogy for Christian Education," Trinity Christian College at Chicago Conference --- 1988

Folder 19: Address: ["So that We can Become All He Wants Us to Be,"] Sheboygan County Christian High School Commencement --- 1988

Folder 20: Address: ["This will be brief…"] Fountain Street Church Chapel --- 1989

Folder 21: Address: "Closing the Gap Between Vision and Practice," CCCS Workshop --- 1992

Folder 22: Address: "Becoming Everything You Ought to Be," Hastings, Michigan Rotary Club's annual Honors Convocation for High School Students --- undated

Folder 23: Address: "Christian Education: Why Bother?" [Given at Detroit, Grand Rapids, Illiana(Chicago) and others --- undated

Series 3: Papers --- 1960-1982

Box 2

Folder 1: Paper: "Report of the English Department," (Dordt College) --- 1960

Folder 2: College Forum, a review essay entitled, "On Teaching Style for Christian Higher Education" --- 1973

Folder 3: Essay: "The Mode is Part of the Message" --- 1973

Folder 4: Paper: "Omphaloskepsis in the Ed Department" --- 1975

Folder 5: Paper: "The Clinical Experience Year" --- 1977

Folder 6: Paper: "The American Dream" --- 1978

Folder 7: Paper: "Toward an Anatomy of Response" --- 1978

Folder 8: Paper: "The Michigan Internship or Clinical Experience Year" --- 1979

Folder 9: Paper: "High School Graduation" --- 1980

Folder 10: Paper: "Higher Education in America" --- 1981

Folder 11: Paper: "Back to Basics? What Basics?" --- 1982

Folder 12: Paper: "An Israel Diary" --- 1986

Folder 13: Paper: "Excellence in Christian Education" --- 1988

Folder 14: Paper and related documents: "Some Significant Shifts in Curricular Theory for Calvinist Colleges and Day Schools --- undated

Folder 15: Paper: "Toward a Responsibility Theory for Christian Education" --- undated

Folder 16: Paper: "Why Can't Johnny Write" --- undated

Folder 17: Paper and related correspondence: "The Edwards Law and the Perils of Nonpublic School Politics" --- undated

Folder 18: Papers

Item 1: "What's Your School's Social Quotient? --- Undated

Item 2: "A Christian Looks at Public Schools" --- 1982

Folder 19: Paper: "Some Significant Shifts in Curricular Theory for Reformed Christian Education" --- undated

Folder 20: Paper: "Whitman and Lincoln" --- undated

Folder 21: Paper: "Nineteenth Century Literary Romanticism in the United States" --- undated

Series 4: Articles --- 1962-1988

Box 3

Folder 1: Reformed Journal, articles --- 1962

Folder 2: Christian Educators Journal, article entitled, "On Teaching Style for Christian Higher Education" --- 1973

Folder 3: Christian Educators Journal, article entitled, ""A Case for Informal Education in Christian Schools," and a book review, "Freedom and Beyond" --- 1974

Item 1: Article: "A Case for Informal Education in Christian Schools"

Item 2: Book review: “Freedom and Beyond” --- 1974

Folder 4: Banner, article entitled, "Let's Hear it for Jake" --- 1977

Folder 5: Michigan School Board Journal, article entitled, "Teachers for Hire: A Market for Buyers?" --- 1977

Folder 6: H. Van Brummelen's article on Christian school teacher education and PPDB's reply --- 1978

Folder 7

Item 1: Journal of Michigan Association of Teacher Educators, article entitled, "The Michigan Internship or Clinical Experience Year" --- 1979

Item 2: Christian Home and School, article entitled, "The North American Idea of Success: Some New Varieties" --- 1979

Folder 8: Calvin Spark, article re: N. H. Beversluis retirement --- 1980

Folder 9: Calvinist Contact, "Letter to the Reader --- 1981

Folder 10

Item 1: Christian Home and School, article entitled, "A Christian Looks at Public Schools" --- 1982

Item 2: Michigan School Board Journal, article entitled, "What's Your Social Quotient?" --- 1982

Folder 11: Articles re: Christian schools curriculum --- 1982

Folder 12: First draft of an article on North American Calvinists with back up materials --- 1982

Folder 13: Calvin Spark, article entitled, "Profile: Calvin College Alumni Choir" --- 1988

Series 5: Monographs and Manuscripts --- 1970-2001

Box 3

Folder 14: Manuscript: Encyclopedia of Education, "Protestant School Systems" --- 1970

Folder 15: Monograph: Readings for Christian Perspectives on Learning, 3rd ed. --- 1975

Folder 16: Manuscript: Teacher Education at Calvin College: The Early Years --- 1980

Folder 17: Monograph, Christian Vision in Education: the Growing Edge, edited --- 1980

Box 4

Folder 1: Shifts in Curricular Theory for Christian Education, [The Calvin College Monograph Series] [HERH LC533 .D4 1983] --- 1983

Folder 2: Manuscript: And Gladly Teach: Origins of Teacher Education at Calvin College, 1900-1930 --- [1991]

Folder 3: Annotated List of Chicago Tribune Editorials on Elementary and Secondary Education in the U.S., 1852-1971, 1992 [HERH LA219 .M33 1992]

Folder 4: Manuscript: Christian Studies Today: Educating Christian Teachers for Responsive Discipleship, [Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship] --- [1993]

Folder 5: Manuscript: Religious Higher Education in the US, "Reformed Colleges and Seminaries," (Chapter 5) --- 1995

Folder 6: Manuscript: Peaches and Other Stories about Growing Up in Prospect Park --- 1996

Folder 7: Monograph: Mission Nearly Impossible: Richard H. Pousma, the Rehoboth Hospital, and Controversy on the Indian Mission Field --- 2001

Folder 8: Manuscript: The Wisdom of Practice: Studies of Teaching in Christian Elementary and Middle Schools --- undated

Folder 9: Manuscript: This I Know: A Young Calvinist's Introduction to the Christian Life --- undated

Series 6: Class Notes, and Course Materials --- 1948-1963

Box 5

Folder 1: Class notes for Western Civilization course at Calvin College --- 1948-1951

Folder 2: Class notes for Medieval History course at Calvin College --- 1948-1951

Folder 3: Class notes for Teaching History course at Calvin College --- 1948-1951

Folder 4: Class notes for History of the Balkan States course at Calvin College --- 1948-1951

Folder 5: Class notes for Europe since 1815 course at Calvin College --- 1948-1951

Folder 6: Class notes for History 206 course at Calvin College --- 1948-1951

Folder 7: Class notes for American History course at Calvin College --- 1948-1951

Folder 8-9: Class notes for courses taken at Montclair State College (NJ) --- 1951-1952

Folder 10: Course Paper: "Similarities in Hawthorne and Melville's Concept of Evil" --- 1952

Folder 11: Course Paper: "Huckleberry Finn: A Critique" --- 1952

Folder 12: Course Paper: "The Elements of Juvenile Delinquency" --- 1952

Box 6

Folder 1: Class notes for History of the American West course at University of Iowa --- undated

Folder 2: Class notes for Renaissance in Italy course at University of Iowa --- undated

Folder 3: Class notes for American Civilization course at University of Iowa --- undated

Folder 4: Class notes for American Political Thought course at University of Iowa --- undated

Folder 5: Course Paper: "The Religious Question in English Education: 1870, 1902, 1944," at University of Iowa --- undated

Folder 6: Course Paper: "Mark Twain and the Civil War," at University of Iowa --- undated

Folder 7: Course Paper: "John Wise Versus the Mathers," at University of Iowa --- undated

Folder 8: Course outline for freshman English at Dordt College --- 1957-1962

Folder 9: Course outline for Western Civilization --- 1962-1963

Folder 10: Course outline and notes for English 103 --- undated

Series 7: Miscellaneous Materials --- 1961-1997

Box 7

Folder 1: Commencement program, State University of Iowa --- 1961

Folder 2: Convocation program, The University of Chicago --- 1968

Folder 3: Book reviews --- 1971-1995

Folder 4: Community Discussion Program, "Human Experience: Changing Changeless" --- 1975

Folder 5: Institutional Report for National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, Calvin College Grand Rapids, Michigan --- 1884

Folder 6: Masters of Arts Thesis, Frederick Manfred: the Developing Art of the Novelist, revised --- 1988

Folder 7: Chapter 24, Religious Colleges and Universities in America, "Reformed Colleges and Universities," bibliography --- 1988

Folder 8: Distance Learning, "Faith and Teaching/Learning" --- 1995

Folder 9: Bibliography of published materials --- [1996]

Folder 10: News clippings --- 1972-1997

Folder 11: Paper, untitled --- undated