Stewart S. Howe Collection

Stewart S. Howe helped created the founding organizations for the Student Life and Cultural Archival Progama at Illinois

The Stewart S. Howe Collection, 1923-94 (26/20/30, 332), contains books, journals, newsletters, clippings, photocopies, correspondence, photographs and other documentation on student life and organizations. The series includes fraternity and sorority issuances on management, fund raising, rushing, pledging, scholarship and history, Kappa Sigma, and interfraternity organizations. For descriptive purposes, seven of the twenty sub-series in the Howe Collection are listed as separate series.

Stewart Howe Alumni Service File, 1930-72 (26/20/30, 9.6), contains business records, files for campus branch offices at California, Colorado, Cornell, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon and Purdue (1951-71), associated companies' records (1953- 67), alumni relations projects (1932-72), fraternity educational foundations (1936-68), fraternity fundraising files (1939-71), round robin letters to branches (1943-72), and correspondence with Wilson B. Heller, Clyde S. Johnson, Leland F. Leland and others (1930-72). Stewart Howe Colleges and University File, 1966-72 (26/20/30, 18), contains articles, directories, studies, handbooks, interfraternity and panhellenic publications, brochures, clippings and scrapbooks (1964-71) on 311 institutions. Extensive holdings exist for California, Cornell, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin and Yale. Stewart Howe Fraternities File, 1836-1994 (26/20/30, 24.2), contains directories, handbooks, histories, pledge manuals, song books, brochures, clippings, kits and newsletters for Beta Theta Pi, Chi Omega, Chi Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Alpha Sigma, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Tau Kappa Epsilon and more than 100 other fraternities and sororities.

The Fraternity Journals and Publications File, 1867-1994 (26/20/30, 188.5) contains quarterly journals, directories, catalogs, song books, handbooks, histories and manuals for more than 200 fraternities and sororities. The Fraternity Subject File, 1888-1972 (26/20/30, 1.6), contains files on fraternity publishers, vendors and activities. General Fraternity Journals, 1918-91 (26/20/30, 8.2), includes BANTA'S GREEK EXCHANGE, 1913-72, THE FRATERNITY MONTH, 1933-71, BAIRD'S MANUAL, FRATERNITY INSIDER, 1965-82 and BALFOUR'S BLUE BOOK, 1957-62. Interfraternity Organizations File, 1909-73 (26/20/30, 6.3), includes National Interfraternity Conference yearbooks (1909-68), committee files (1942-68), and publications (1955-72); College Fraternities Secretaries Association (1956-70); College Fraternities Editors Association (1941-70); Interfraternity Research & Advisory Council (1949-75); National Panhellenic Conference (1954-72) and the Professional Interfraternity Conference (1954-59) and Professional Panhellenic Association (1957-69).