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Collection Overview
Abstract
Professor of sociology at Calvin College and at Western Michigan University. The collection includes articles published in the Calvin Monograph Series in sociology, reports for the Grand Rapids City Planning Commission, five lectures presented as a community service, a housing proposal report published by the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, and correspondence regarding racial prejudice in the National Union of Christian Schools publications. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]
Biographical Note
Donald H. Bouma was born in 1918 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Fred D. and Anna Breen Bouma. He was a graduate of Calvin College and received his BA in 1940, his MA from the University of Michigan, and his PhD in sociology and anthropology from Michigan State University. Donald served in the US Navy from 1944-1946. Donald worked as a sociology professor for both Calvin College (1946-1960) and Western Michigan University (1960-1984). He was also the chair of Calvin's sociology department. Donald also served twenty-five of those years as an adjunct professor of criminology to the University of Michigan and as a visiting professor at Michigan State University. He was also the author of Dynamics of School Integration, 1958, and Kids and Cops: A problem of Mutual Hostility, 1969, and several monographs and articles for professional journals.
From 1974 to 1984 Donald was the associate editor of the USA Today magazine. Donald spent most of his life in Western Michigan and retired to the Phoenix area in 1984. Donald died on 8 August 2006 in Sun City, Arizona.
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- Series 1: [General Materials]
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Biographical Information
- Folder 2: Vita
- Folder 3: Personal Educational History
- Folder 4: Navy Record --- 1946
- Folder 5: Diplomas, memberships, Awards
- Folder 6: Teacher Wyoming Park Schools --- 1940-1943
- Folder 7: Commendations and Appointments
- Folder 8: Calvin College Professorship --- 1946-1960
- Folder 9: Western Michigan University Professorship --- 1960-1983
- Folder 10: Student and Course Listings
- Folder 11: Retirement --- 1983
- Folder 12: Correspondence
- Folder 13: Bethany Christian Home Board Member
- Folder 14: Sociology and Calvinism
- Folder 15: Grand Rapids Civic Issues
- Folder 16: Pamphlet: Why Kalamazoo Voted No --- 1962
- Folder 17: Address: "This is Grand Rapids" --- 1960
- Folder 18: Memoir: "Academe and the Minesweeper" --- 1940-1960
- Folder 19: Notes on Female Superiority
- Folder 20: Notes on Biblical Women
- Folder 21: Notes on Contradictions
- Folder 22: "The Dynamics of Social Integration" by Bouma and Hoffman - Book Information
- Folder 23: "Kids and Cops" Book Reviews --- 1970
- Folder 24: Le Hers to Media --- 1988-2001
- Folder 25: Guest Lecturer Appointments
- Folder 26: Grand Rapids Press Correspondent --- 1939-1944
- Folder 27: Lectures, Sermons at Fountain Street Church
- Folder 28: White House Youth Conference --- 1960
- Folder 29: Miscellaneous News Clippings
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Notes from Sociology Courses
- Folder 2: Sociology 204 - Problems --- 1954
- Folder 3: Evolution
- Folder 4: School Integration
- Folder 5: Race Issues
- Folder 6: Anti-Poverty Issues
- Folder 7: Abortion/Planned Parenthood
- Folder 8: Censorship
- Folder 9: Sermons, Chapel Speeches
- Folder 10: Articles and Speeches (see Vita) --- 1936
- Folder 11-18: Articles and Speeches (see Vita) --- 1941-2004
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Donald H. Bouma - WOOD-TV - "Ten O'Clock Scholar" - Crowd Behavior --- 1966
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