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Sanford Marovitz May 4 papers
Special Collections and Archives
Sanford Marovitz May 4 papers
Special Collections and Archives
Sanford Marovitz May 4 papers
- Repository: Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
- Title: Sanford Marovitz May 4 papers
- Inclusive Date(s): 1970-2000
- Bulk Date(s): 1970-1971
- Author: Finding aid prepared by Rennie Greenfield, November 2015
- Creation: Finding aid encoded by Rennie Greenfield using the OhioLINK EAD Application in 2015
- Origination: Marovitz, Sanford E.
- Extent: .33 cubic feet (1 document case)
- Physical Location: 11th floor (May 4 Collection, Box 213)
- Finding Aid Identifier: OhKeUSC0167
- Abstract: This collection contains the personal papers of Sanford Marovitz collected primarily during the first year after the Kent State shootings. The materials mostly center around the events of May 4, 1970 and provide an inside look at the events from a faculty and administrative perspective.
- Language(s): The records are in English
Biography of Sanford Marovitz
Sanford Marovitz was born on May 10, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. Marovitz served four years in the U. S. Air Force (1953-1957) and then earned a B.A. from Lake Forest College in 1960, an M.A. in June 1961, and a Ph.D. completed in October 1967 and awarded June 1968 from Duke University. He taught at Temple University and the University of Athens in Greece under the Fulbright Program. He began his career at Kent State University in 1967 as an assistant professor. He was a professor of English and chairman of Graduate Studies at Kent State University. American literature is his major field of study, within which he holds particular interests in Jewish-American fiction, Western writing, and the literature of the American Renaissance. He taught at Shimane University in Matsue, Japan as a visiting professor (1976-1977). Professor Marovitz has published widely in professional journals and collected volumes of criticism. He was co-editor of Artful Thunder (1975), a festschrift in honor of Howard P. Vincent. He collaborated with Clarence Gohdes on the fifth edition of A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A. (1984). Other publications include Abraham Cahan (Twayne's United States Authors Series, 1996) and Melville "Among the Nations": Proceedings of an International Conference, Volos, Greece, July 2-6, 1997 (2001). He was also the associate editor of Studies in American Jewish Literature. Marovitz received the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1960-1961; Fulbright Teaching Grant to Greece, 1965-66; renewed, 1966-67 and also the Academic Quarter Research Awards at Kent State University in 1971, 1974 and 1977. He has been listed in Who's Who in the Midwest and Who's Who in the World. He retired from Kent State University in 1996. Marovitz passed away on July 9, 2023.
Scope and Content
This collection contains papers compiled primarily in the first year after the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. It details faculty, administrative, and student reactions as well as personal narratives, position papers, and statements given in the weeks just after May 4. There are several documents dealing with the Kent State Medical Fund including the founding papers of that organization. There are also clippings, posters, brochures, and correspondence-all from 1970 and 1971.
Statement of Arrangement
This collection has been arranged into the following five series:
- Series 1: Responses to the Kent State Shootings
- Series 2: Records of Faculty Organizations
- Series 3: Publications
- Series 4: Correspondence
- Series 5: Artifacts
Related Material
Further information concerning Sanford Marovitz can be found in the Sanford Marovitz papers.
Restrictions on Access
Some information included in this collection is restricted due to the presence of information protected by privacy laws. This information has been redacted where present on documents in the collection. Un-redacted originals, in all cases, have been retained by Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Sanford Marovitz May 4 papers. May 4 Collection. Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
Acquisition Information
Sanford Marovitz donated his May 4 papers to Special Collections and Archives in 2014.
Subject Headings
The following subjects are found in this collection:
- Subjects:
- Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
- Kent State University--History
- Kent (Ohio)--History
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
- Ohio. Municipal Court (Portage County). Special Grand Jury
- Persons:
- White, Robert I., 1908-
- Marovitz, Sanford E.
- Functions:
- Universities and colleges--Administration
- Occupations:
- University administrators
- College Administrators
- College teachers
- Material Types:
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Correspondence
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1: Responses to the Kent State Shootings, 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 1
- Faculty Responses to the Kent State Shootings, May-June 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 2
- Administrative Responses to the Kent State Shootings, June-October 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 3
- Responses to the Kent State Shootings from outside the University, May-November 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 4
- Responses to the Special Grand Jury (Portage County), October-November 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 5
- Personal Narratives/Statements about the Kent State Shootings, May 1970
Series 2: Records of Faculty Organizations, 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 6
- Faculty Senate Meetings, May-June 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 7
- Kent State Medical Fund, May-June 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 8
- The Committee for Political Education, undated
Series 3: Publications, 1970-2000
- Box 213 / Folder 9
- "Kent Ohio: The American Crisis" article by Sanford Marovitz, 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 10
- KSU Position Paper, September-October 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 11
- Kent Strike Paper, May-June 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 12
- Posters: May 4, 1970, "Americans Want Peace," "Unite Against the War", undated
- Box 213 / Folder 13
- Flyers and Brochures, 1979-2000
- Box 213 / Folder 14
- Clippings, June 1970-November 1971
Series 4: Correspondence, 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 15
- Correspondence, May 1970-February 1971
- Box 213 / Folder 16
- Correspondence, undated
Series 5: Artifacts, 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 17
- Two Buttons: Kent State Medical Fund, Kent 25, 1970
- Box 213 / Folder 18
- Two Tickets for the Artist Lecture Series (canceled after the Kent State Shootings), May 1970
