Regina Hanway papers 1930-75

Finding Aid

Prepared by Barbara Bass March, 1997
8 record storage boxes; 8 cubic feet

This collection is housed in a climate-controlled environment off site and requires at least up to three weeks for retrieval. Please call or email the department with requests for this material prior to planning your visit.

Biography

Regina Hanway came to Kent State University in 1946 after doing graduate work in England and Ohio State University. She had previously taught in the public school system for 21 years. At Kent State she taught English courses about children's literature and was the first to teach black literature couses. She was very popular with the students.

She initiated many programs while at Kent State. The fall conference for high school English teachers in 1947 was one of them. The Creative Arts Festival which produced the first creative writing magazine, "Human Issues" was organized by Hanway and has become an annual event at the University.

She was deeply concerned about the university after May 4, 1970 and during the 1971-72 demonstrations, at the age of 66, she was a peace marshal. She received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences about 1963. She also received an award for Oustanding Service to the College of Education in October, 1970.

Hanway chaired the Assembly Committee and was responsible for setting up programs for students. Some of the people that were invited to do assemblies were Princess Ileana of Romania, Basil Rathbone, Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Ogden Nash, Karamu Dancers from Cleveland Karamu House, Charles Laughton, Carl C. Rowan, a Black social leader, David E. Lilenthal, retired chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and many others.

Hanway was instrumental in the instututes for high schools to instruct teachers how to teach English to disadvantaged youth using a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. With guest lecturers and discussions, the primary objective was to acquaint teachers with literature of black Americans. She founded the series, "Literature Discovered" on WCLV-FM at the request of Cleveland's fine art radio station. It presented subjects by Faculty members of the University.

She was active in community affairs concerning McElrath Park and was founder of the Animal Protective League.

Hanway retired in 1973 and was named Emeritus Professor of English by the board of trustees.

Scope and Content

The materials in Regina Hanways Papers include materials and /or materials used in various projects that she participated in and materials from her own school days in high school and her early teaching career in several high schools. Tapes in box 8 cover the program "Literature Discovered" that was a program that Hanway developed for a local radio station, WCLV which featured faculty members doing poetry readings or lectures on various topics relating to English.

Institute in Box 4 refers to the NDEA Institute for Advanced Study in English.

Pictures can be found in box 6 of some of the people that appeared at Kent State University for the student assemblies.

Series

• Box 1: High school, college and early teaching
• Box 2: English conferences
• Box 3: Committees and classroom materials
• Box 4-6: Institutes
• Box 7: Subject files
• Box 8: Sound tapes

Box 1

Folder--Content--Date

1. Ohio State University: notebooks, 1930
2. Columbia: notebook, 1936
3. Columbia: notebook, 1936
4. Mentor High School: miscellaneous, 1940 - 1946
5. Mentor High School:The Amateur, school publication, 194?, 1943-1944
6. Courses of English study (Loudenville High School), 1947
7. Courses of English study (Bedford High School) 1947-1948
8. Course of Study for English (Junior-Senior High School), Austintown-Fitch High School, 1955-56
9. Early publications by Hanway, 1953
10. Speeches
11. Program for "Methods and Materials" (seminar at which Hanway spoke)
12. "CEA Critic", 1951-1957 (misc. copies)
13. CEA "English Notes", v. 3, no. 1; v. 4, no. 1, Nov. 1968, Nov. 1969
14. English Association of Ohio: miscellaneous
15. National Council of Teachers of English: miscellaneous bibliographies
16. National Council of Teachers of English: correspondence, 1952
17. National Council of Teachers of English: "Convention News", 1962
18. National Council of Teachers of English: "Council Grams," Apr. 1969
19. National Council of Teachers of English: miscellaneous reports
20. National Council of Teachers of English: resolutions, 1962
21. National Council of Teachers of English: roster of annual meeting, 1963
22. National Council of Teachers of English: convention and meeting programs, 1949, 1950, 1962
23. National Council of Teachers of English: convention and meeting programs, 1963-1964
24. National Council of Teachers of English: convention program, 1965
25. National Council of Teachers of English: convention program, 1966
26. AAUP: correspondence, 1958, 1962
27. AAUP: announcement
28. AAUP: releases, 1973
29. AAUP: report on collective bargaining, 1973
30. Kent State Association for Higher Education: bulletins, 1973
31. World Student Services Fund: miscellaneous
32. Kent Reform Council
33. AAUW: minutes
34. Literature Discovered: list of programs for WCLV-FM, 1966
35. Literature Discovered: memos on WCLV-FM, 1967
36. Literature Discovered: report
37. Literature Discovered: memos, 1969
38. Literature Discovered: miscellaneous
39. Faculty Club: report, constitution
40. Faculty Senate: minutes, 1965, 1968
41. Faculty Senate: minutes, 1969
42. Faculty Senate: 1972
43. Faculty: correspondence, 1977
44. Faculty Portrait (booklet), 1962

Box 2

Folder--Contents--Date

1. Activity list (conferences)
2. Transportation and travel
3. Kent State University Bulletin Reading Conference, 1949
4. Kent State University Bulletin Reading Conference, 1950
5. Kent State University Bulletin Reading Conference, 1951
6. Kent State University Bulletin Reading Conference, 1952
7. Kent State University Bulletin Reading Conference, 1953
8. Reading Workshop, 1947
9. English Conference: programs, correspondence 1948-1963
10. Reading Conference, 1949
11. English Conference, 1950
12. English Conference: clippings, 1950
13. Akron English Conference, 1950
14. English Conference, 1951
15. English Conference (Clippings), 1951
16. English Conference, 1952
17. English Conference, 1953
18. English Conference (Clippings), 1953
19. English Conference, 1954
20. English Conference, 1955
21. Workshop report "The Gifted Child in High School," Jan. 4 to Apr. 5, 1955
22. English Conference, 1956
23. English Conference, 1957
24. English Conference, 1958
25. Conference for Methods Teachers, 1963
26. English Conference, 1964
27. English Conference, 1965
28. San Bernardino Conference, 1967
29. Atlanta University Conference, 1968
30. Cazenovia Conference, 1968
31. University of Colorado Conference, 1968
32. English Conference, 1968
33. Akron-Summit Tutorial Program, 1969
34. English Conference, 1970
35. English Conference, 1972
36. English Conference, 1973
37. Certificates
38. English Dept.: minutes, 1962-1973
39. English Dept.: Committee on Teaching Development), 1973
40. English Dept.: Student teacher evaluations
41. English Dept.: Budget, 1971
42. English Dept.: Promotions Committee
43. English Dept.: student questionnaire
44. English Dept.: newsletter, 1964-1973 (scattered issues)
45. English Dept.: Recruiting Committee, 1972
46. English Dept.: Correspondence, 1962
47. English Dept.: Correspondence, 1963
48. English Dept.: Correspondence, 1964
49. English Dept.: Correspondence, 1968
50. English Dept.: Correspondence, 1970
51. English Dept.: Correspondence, 1971
52. English Dept.: Correspondence, 1972
53. English Dept.: Correspondence, 1973
54. English Dept.: Correspondence, undated
55. English Dept.: Graduate Studies Committee, 1972-1973
56. English Dept.: Ad Hoc Committee, Apr. 10, 1970
57. English Dept.: Ad Hoc Commitee on the Plan of Organization, 1972
58. English Dept.: Ad Hoc Commitee on Secondary Education, 1970
59. English Dept.: Basic Studies Committee, 1971-1973
60. English Dept.: Major-Minor Committee, 1962-1964
61. English Dept.: Subcommittee for Salary Study, 1964
62. English Dept.: Ages Newsletter, 1972
63. English Dept.: Ombudsman, 1972-73
64. English Dept.: Subcommittee lists, 1971-1972
65. English Dept.: Graduate faculty lists
66. English Dept.: Planning Committee, 1972
67. English Dept.: Executive Committee, 1972-1973
68. English Dept.: Colloquiums
69. English Dept.: Salary policies April 17, 1972
70. English Dept.: Undergraduate Student Committee, 1972-1973
71. English Dept.: English Club, 1952
72. English Dept.: English Club, n.d.
73. English Dept.: Space needs
74. English Dept.: "Major" requirements
75. English Dept.: Ethical standards in student writing
76. English Dept.: Preliminary note on the revision of freshman syllabi and handbook
77. English Dept.: grievance procedure
78. English Dept.: proposal-bylaws of the Dept. of English
79. English Dept.: evaluation of
80. English Dept.: "Guide to Freshman English"
81. English Dept.: departmental theme experiment
82. English Dept.: courses-basic data sheets, 1962
83. English Dept.: Textbook Committee, 1953
84. English Dept.: English education, 1962-1967
85. English Dept.: guide, Apr. 1968, 1968-69
86. English Dept.: departmental planning seminar
87. Minutes: College of Education, Curriculum Committee, 1962
88. Proposal: minority literature, 1971
89. English Dept.: miscellaneous, 1962-1973

Box 3

Folder--Contents--Date

1. Assembly Committee: announcements, 1949-1953
2. Assembly Committee: brochures, 1949-1953
3. Assembly Committee: correspondence, 1949-1950
4. Assembly Committee: correspondence, 1950-1951
5. Assembly Committee: correspondence, 1951-1959
6. Assembly Committee: miscellaneous notes
7. Assembly Committee: programs, 1949-1951
8. Assembly Committee: purchase orders, contracts, invoices, etc.
9. Assembly Committee: reports, budgets, etc. 1950-1952
10. Assembly Committee: clippings
11. Assembly Committee: clippings
12. Classroom materials: Black American literature
13. Classroom materials: children's literature films, 1968
14. Classroom materials: lesson plans & units
15. Classroom materials: library requests
16. Classroom materials: Methods course materials
17. Classroom materials: teacher training
18. Classroom materials: teaching methods
19. Classroom materials: teaching of teachers-methods
20. Classroom materials: readings lists
21. Classroom materials: miscellaneous
22. Classroom materials: miscellaneous
23. Classroom materials: miscellaneous
24. Classroom materials: miscellaneous
25. Classroom materials: miscellaneous
26. Classroom materials: miscellaneous
27. Audio-visual aids: catalog of films
28. Audio-visual aids: University School TV
29. Audio-visual aids: miscellaneous
30. Correspondence: undated, 1947-1958
31. Correspondence: 1962-1968
32. Correspondence: 1969-1972
33. Correspondence: 1973-1974
34. Evaluations by students
35. Evaluations by students
36. Evaluations by students
37. Evaluations by students

Box 4

Folder--Contents--Date

1. Disadvantaged youth
2. Project English
3. Project English: current file
4. Institute: correspondence, 1965
5. Institute: interdepartmental correspondence, 1965
6. Institute: proposals, 1965
7. Institute: report on evaluating NDEA Institutes, 1965
8. Institute: minutes on meeting about proposal, 1966
9. Institutes funded in 1966
10. Institute: Civil Rights Act, 1967
11. Intstitute: preparation for proposal, 1967
12. Institute: plans, 1967
13. Institute: plan of operation, 1967
14. Institute: table of organization/Office of Education, 1967
15. Institute: handbook for directors, 1967
16. Institute: design, 1967
17. Institute: publicity, 1967
18. Institute: publicity-materials, 1967
19. Institute: accounting, 1967
20. Institute: time effort reports, 1967
21. Institute: schedule & syllabus, 1967
22. Institute: housing & food service, 1967
23. Institute: food service choices, 1967
24. Institute: parking, 1967
25. Institute: stipends for dependents, revised, 1967
26. Institute: Screening Committee, 1967
27. Institute: correspondence with U.S. Office, 1967
28. Institute: contact with USOE, 1967
29. Institute: correspondence-Kent State University, 1967
30. Institute: correspondence, staff, 1967
31. Institute: correspondence, applicants, 1967
32. Institute: correspondence, general, 1967
33. Institute: correspondence, general, 1967
34. Institute: letters of inquiry, 1967
35. Institute: letters of inquiry, 1967
36. Institute: inelligible inquiries A-Z, 1967
37. Institute: applicants A-Z, incomplete, 1967
38. Institute: applicants,out of state B to K, 1967
39. Institute: applicants,out of state L-R, 1967
40. Institute: applicants,out of state S-W, 1967
41. Institute: applicants, late requests A-Z, 1967
42. Institute: applicants, accepted B-M, 1967
43. Institute: applicants, accepted R-Y, 1967
44. Institute: applicants, accepted-out of state, 1967
45. Institute: letters of acceptance-participants, 1967
46. Institute: letters of acceptance-declining participation, 1967
47. Institute: letters of acceptance-participants addresses, 1967
48. Institute: letters of acceptance-applications-Ohio; rejected A-D, 1967
49. Institute: applicants, Ohio; rejected F-H, 1967
50. Institute: applicants, Ohio; rejected J-Mc, 1967
51. Institute: applicants, Ohio; rejected Mc-P., 1967
52. Institute: applicants, Ohio; rejected R-T., 1967
53. Institute: applicants, Ohio; rejected V-W, 1967

Box 5

Folder--Contents--Date

1. Institute: alternates-1 to 15, 1967
2. Institute: alternates-16 to 31, 1967
3. Institute: letters of acceptance-alternates, 1967
4. Institute: Institute for directors, 1967
5. Institute: staff, 1967
6. Institute: applications, teaching positions, 1967
7. Institute: graduate assistants, 1967
8. Institute: bibliographies, 1967
9. Institute: secretarial help, 1967
10. Institute: staff meetings, 1967
11. Institute: staff salary, 1967
12. Institute: registration, 1967
13. Institute: registration - graduate credit, 1967
14. Institute: registration - participants, 1967
15. Institute: materials - audio visual aids, 1967
16. Institute: materials - booklists, 1967
17. Institute: materials - books, 1967
18. Institute: materials - paperbacks, 1967
19. Institute: materials - textbooks, 1967
20. Institute: English Institutes Material Center, 1967
21. Institute: materials - linguistic aids, 1967
22. Institute: materials - literature aids, 1967
23. Institute: materials - guest lecturers, 1967
24. Institute: materials - cultural programs, 1967
25. Institute: kinescopes, 1967
26. Institute: bills, overhead educational grant, 1967
27. Institute: bills & payment vouchers, 1967
28. Institute: bills-university, 1967
29. Institute: bills-outside, 1967
30. Institute: evaluation, 1967
31. Institute: participants evaluation, 1967
32. Institute: participants evaluation, 1967
33. Institute: participants evaluation, 1967
34. Institute: participants evaluation, 1967
35. Institute: participants evaluation, 1967
36. Institute: participants evaluation, 1967
37. Institute: faculty's evaluation, 1967
38. Institute: final evaluation, 1967
39. Institute: final report to USOE, 1967
40. Institute: header card, 1967
41. Institute: proposal to Graduate Council, 1967
42. Institute: insurance-electric equipment, 1967
43. Institute: keys, 1967
44. Institute: miscellaneous, 1967
45. Institute: miscellaneous, 1967
46. Institute: other pertinent institutes supported by national grants, 1967

Box 6

Folder--Contents--Date

1. Institute: proposal-reference material from 1967 Institute, 1968
2. Institute: 1967 proposal for Summer 1968
3. Institute: proposal-original for 1968, 1967
4. Institute: proposal-general institute, 1968
5. Institute: proposal, 1968
6. Institute: proposal, 1968
7. Institute: proposal, 1968
8. Institute: proposal, 1968
9. Institute: proposal, 1968
10. Institute: proposal preparation, 1968
11. Institute: publicity, 1968
12. Institute: proposed samples-vita sheet/syllabus, 1968
13. Institute: brochure, 1968
14. Institute: sample-work, 1968
15. Institute: correspondence, 1968
16. Institute: plan of operation, 1969
17. Institute: notes, 1969
18. Institute: brochure, 1969
19. Institute: correspondence, 1969
20. Institute: correspondence, 1969
21. Institute: correspondence, 1969
22. Institute: correspondence, 1969
23. Institute: questionnaire, 1969
24. Institute: participants, 1969
25. Institute: alternates, 1969
26. Institute: alternates, 1969
27. Institute: incomplete applications, 1969
28. Institute: rejected applicants, 1969
29. Institute: rejected applicants, 1969
30. Institute: accepted applicants - declined, 1969
31. Institute: sample work, 1969
32. Institute: bill & pay vouchers, 1969
33. Institute: budget, 1969
34. Institute: evaluation, 1969
35. Institute: Director's Report, pt. 1, 1969
36. Institute: Director's Report, pt. 2, 1969

Box 7

Folder--Contents--Date

1. Arts & Sciences, 1972/73
2. College of Education: Annual report, 1969/70; Dean's Bulletin, no. 111, Sept. 25, 1970
3. College of Education: Standards Committee, 1949/50
4. Foreign Language Review Committee
5. Office of Guidance & Testing, 1954/55
6. Honors College, 1966/67
7. Honors Program, 1962
8. Political Science Dept., 1973
9. Panhellenic: constitution, Spring, 1961
10. Student Government: constitution, 1953
11. Thaumaturge: constitution
12. Literary publications - Author, Creative Arts Festival, 1950
13. Literary publicatons - Note, v. 1, no. 2, Winter, 1967
14. Events: Creative Arts Festival, 1951
15. Clippings: Creative Arts Festival, 1951
16. Events: Creative Arts Festival, 1952
17. Events: Bowman Dinner Program, 1954
18. Events: Great Contemporary Issues, n.d.
19. Events: Artist-Lecture Series, 1972-1973
20. Events: Artist-Lecture Series, 1973-1974
21. Events: World Issues Seminar, Oct. 24, 1973
22. Events: 10th Annual Scholastic Press Clinic, April 22, 1950
23. Events: Music Dept., 1950, 1973
24. Events: Semicentennial, May 1960
25. Events: Invitational Exhibition, n.d.
26. Events: Symposium on Future Environment, May 17, 1973
27. Events: University Theater, 1950, n.d.
28. Events: November Dinner, Nov. 8, 1973
29. Events: miscellaneous brochures
30. Office of the Provost: "Academic Information," no. 68, May 29, 1969
31. Office of Vice President: "Academic Information," no. 40, Oct. 4, 1965
32. Student Non-violent Coordination Committee
33. VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War): "Winter Soldier" (newspaper), v. 3, no. 3, May, 1973
34. VVAW: notice
35. VVAW: newspaper
36. Center for International and Comparative Programs: brochure
37. Portage County ACLU: correspondence, Sept. 27, 1972
38. Nina Williams Burtsford Award: correspondence, 1959-1961
39. Sunday School: newsletter and paper about the Congregational Church in Kent, 1950
40. Credit Union: correspondence, brochures, 1956
41. Hibbard, D.: English class papers
42. Hayden, R.: poetry
43. Clippings: miscellaneous
44. English skills - primary grades: outline of programs
45. Summer enrichment program: outline of activities
46. Photos: from Institutes
47. Photos: Kent-miscellaneous
48. Photos: English Conference, 1950
49. Photos: personal, misc.
50. Photos: Assembly Committees-artists that visited Kent State University

Box 8

Reel to Reel tapes used on WCLV

1. "Literature Discovered" program 4/15/67: "Death, a Controlling Force in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe" by Dr. Ottavio M. Casale, Prof. of English, Kent State University.
2. "Literature Discovered" program 11-23-68: Jean Hanway, Professor, Kent State University, interviewing Dr. Sheldon Root, Prof. of Education, Specializing in Children's Literature at the University of Georgia.
3. "Literature Discovered" program 4/27/69: N.N.E.A. Institute, Prof. Jean Hanway, Dept. of English, Kent State University
4. "Literature Discovered" program 7/12/69: "Modern Black Theater" by Dr. Darwin Turner.
5. "Literature Discovered" program 7/26/69: "Poetry Reading"- Donald Hassler, Dept. of English, Kent State University.
6. "Literature Discovered" program 9/15/70: "The Duchess of Malfi: Tragedy of Disaster," Prof. John Gribben, Dept. of English, Kent State University.
7. "Literature Discovered" program 10/17/70: "The Works of Kurt Vonnegut" by Dr. Kenneth Pringle, Dept. of English, Kent State University
8. "Literature Discovered" program 11/14/70: Lecture: "Leopardi, and Italian Poet" by Ottavio M. Casale
9. "Literature Discovered" program 5/22/71: "Later versions of Romeo and Juliet" by Louis Paskoff, Dept. of English, Kent State University.
10. "Literature Discovered" program 12/13/71: Lecture: "Young Tom DeQuincey: The Quest for Freedom" by Dr. John S. Phillipson, University of Akron.
11. "Literature Discovered" program 10/14/72: "Two African Poets: Okot Bitek and Dennis Bgutus" by Prof. Harold Colling, Dept. of English, Kent State University.
12. "Literature Discovered" program 10/6/72 or 1/26/73: "Jack Conroy: The Worker as Writer" by Dr. Lewis Fried, Dept. of English, Kent State University?
13. "Literature Discovered" program 1/12/73: "The Man Shakespeare: Known & Unknown," Sid Reid, English Dept. Kent State University
14. "Literature Discovered" program 12/8/??: "The Literature of Exhaustion" by John Stark.
15. "Literature Discovered" program n.d.: Carlton tape

1. 7-12-69 "Press Day"- High School Journalism
2. 7-16-69 Press Day" - High School Journalism-Group 4
3. n.d. Mary Queen