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Organizations, 1951-1998 (continued)
BOX 175-182, 413 MAPCASE FOLDER 5 Other Organizational Activity, 1953-1998
This subseries documents Stevens's membership and participation in a variety of cultural, social, educational, and non-governmental organizations, including the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Salzburg Seminar, Urban Coalition, and many others. Two extensive sets of files concern Stevens's involvement in private clubs: the Bohemian Club (mainly arrangements for attending the summer encampment) and the Century Association (primarily documenting Stevens's nomination of new members).

Materials consist of agendas, announcements, correspondence, organizational literature, and programs and schedules.

Arranged alphabetically by organization name.
BOX-FOLDER 175/1 "Ac-Al" miscellaneous, 1963-1981
BOX-FOLDER 175/2 "American A-S" miscellaneous, 1961-1991
BOX-FOLDER 175/3 "American T-Au" miscellaneous, 1953-1988
BOX-FOLDER 175/4 Action for Children's Television, 1974-1978
BOX-FOLDER 175/5 Affiliate Artists Inc., 1969
BOX-FOLDER 175/6 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1966, 1977
BOX-FOLDER 175/7 The American Assembly, 1977, 1984
BOX-FOLDER 175/8 American Ditchley Foundation, 1982
BOX-FOLDER 175/9 Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1963-1979
BOX-FOLDER 175/10 Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1980-1992
BOX-FOLDER 175/11 Atlantic Council of United States, 1963
BOX-FOLDER 176/1, 413/2 "Ba-Bo" miscellaneous, 1956-1988
BOX-FOLDER 176/2 "Br-Bu" miscellaneous, 1955-1988
BOX-FOLDER 176/3 Black Man's Development Center, 1971, 1977
BOX-FOLDER 176/4 to 177/3 Bohemian Club, 1957-1993
Includes: 1967 and 1993 editions of Ernest Ingold's The Dragon Camp, in Box 177, Folder 3
MAPCASE FOLDER 5 Bohemian Grove maps, 1973, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 177/4 "Ca-Cha" miscellaneous, 1962-1995
BOX-FOLDER 177/5 "Chi-Com" miscellaneous, 1954-1991
BOX-FOLDER 177/6 "Con-Cz" miscellaneous, 1960-1993
BOX-FOLDER 177/7 to 178/1 Century Association, 1956-1998
BOX-FOLDER 178/2 "D" miscellaneous, 1955-1992
BOX-FOLDER 178/3 "E" miscellaneous, 1953-1990
BOX-FOLDER 178/4 "F" miscellaneous, 1948-1997
BOX-FOLDER 178/5 "G" miscellaneous, 1955-1994
BOX-FOLDER 178/6 "H" miscellaneous, 1960-1991
BOX-FOLDER 178/7 "I" miscellaneous, 1960-1992
BOX-FOLDER 179/1 "J" miscellaneous, 1961-1992
BOX-FOLDER 179/2 The James F. Mitchell Foundation, 1966
BOX-FOLDER 179/3 "L" miscellaneous, 1961-1989
BOX-FOLDER 179/4 Long Island University, 1963
BOX-FOLDER 179/5 "M" miscellaneous, 1957-1989
BOX-FOLDER 179/6 Menninger Foundation, 1953-1955
BOX-FOLDER 179/7 Municipal Art Society of New York, 1961
BOX-FOLDER 179/8 "National A"-"National F" miscellaneous, 1955-1992
BOX-FOLDER 179/9 "National G"-"Nature" miscellaneous, 1954-1991
BOX-FOLDER 180/1 "Ne-No" miscellaneous, 1953-1992
BOX-FOLDER 180/2 New School for Social Research, 1957-1959
BOX-FOLDER 180/3 "O" miscellaneous, 1969-1983
BOX-FOLDER 180/4 Overseas Development Council, 1980
BOX-FOLDER 180/5 "Pa-Pi" miscellaneous, 1960-1993
BOX-FOLDER 180/6 "Pl-Pu" miscellaneous, 1952-1990
BOX-FOLDER 180/7 "Q" miscellaneous, 1957-1979
BOX-FOLDER 180/8 "R" miscellaneous, 1959-1994
BOX-FOLDER 180/9 "Sa-Sk" miscellaneous, 1969-1993
BOX-FOLDER 180/10 "Sm-Sy" miscellaneous, 1969-1991
BOX-FOLDER 181/1-3 Salzburg Seminar, 1970-1997
Includes: Photographs of Roger L. Stevens in Box 181, Folder 1
BOX-FOLDER 181/4 Seton Hill College, 1991
BOX-FOLDER 181/5 "T" miscellaneous, 1959-1993
BOX-FOLDER 181/6 "U" miscellaneous, 1958-1991
BOX-FOLDER 181/7 United World Federalists, 1953-1955
BOX-FOLDER 181/8 University of North Carolina, 1965-1992
BOX-FOLDER 181/9 University of Wisconsin, 1961-1963, 1970-1981
BOX-FOLDER 181/10 The Urban Coalition, 1970
BOX-FOLDER 181/11 "V" miscellaneous, 1958-1991
BOX-FOLDER 181/12 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, 1980-1982, 1992
BOX-FOLDER 182/1 "Wa-Wh" miscellaneous, 1954-1990
BOX-FOLDER 182/2 "Wi-Wr" miscellaneous, 1958-1992
BOX-FOLDER 182/3 "Y" miscellaneous, 1959-1988
BOX-FOLDER 182/4 Yale University, 1954, 1969, 1989-1992
BOX-FOLDER 182/5 "Z" miscellaneous, 1969-1981
BOX 182-184, 405, 433-434 Political Fundraising Activity, 1952-1990
The bulk of the subseries documents Stevens's brief but active role in national politics as a member of the Democratic National Committee between 1952 and 1960 and as the treasurer of Adlai E. Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign. Later in life Stevens was a regular supporter of Democratic congressional candidates including Les Aspin, Birch Bayh, John Brademas, Frank Church, Tom Foley, Claiborne Pell, but also supported Republican candidates such as Charles Percy who he met and worked with during the years as an advocate for the National Council on the Arts and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Correspondence with these and other candidates is located in the Political Fundraising folders.

This subseries contains campaign literature, correspondence, financial statements, fundraising materials, and reports. Realia includes ribbons from the 1954 New York state Democratic convention and Stevens's 1960 Democratic Convention Finance Committee chairmanship; campaign buttons and pins for Jimmy Carter, W. Averell Harriman, Hubert Humphrey, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Adlai E. Stevenson, and Stuart Symington; and convention name tags and ribbons.

Arranged alphabetically by campaign or subject.
BOX-FOLDER 182/6 Adlai E. Stevenson 65th birthday, 1965
BOX-FOLDER 182/7 Adlai E. Stevenson memorial program - script, 1965
Campaigns
BOX-FOLDER 182/8 Lindsay, John V. campaign, 1969
BOX-FOLDER 182/9 Monroney, Mike campaign, 1968
Stevenson for President Committee
National campaign
BOX-FOLDER 182/10-11 Correspondence, 1955-1956
BOX-FOLDER 182/12 Correspondence - Harold Oram, 1955-1956
BOX-FOLDER 183/1-2 Fundraising, 1955-1956
BOX-FOLDER 183/3 Publicity, 1955-1956
BOX-FOLDER 183/4 Television Programing, 1956
State campaigns
BOX-FOLDER 183/5 California, 1952-1956
BOX-FOLDER 186/6 California - Report on California Campaign, undated
BOX-FOLDER 183/7 Various states, 1952-1960
BOX-FOLDER 184/1 Democratic National Committee, 1952-1963, 1971
BOX-FOLDER 184/2 Democratic National Committee - Advisory Committee, 1957-1958
BOX 433 Democratic National Convention, 1960
Finance Committee ribbon
BOX-FOLDER 184/3 Democratic State Committee of Michigan, 1958
BOX 433 Democratic State Committee of New York, 1954 and undated
Three convention ribbons
BOX-FOLDER 184/4 Democratic State Committee of Puerto Rico, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 184/5 Photographs, 1956-1959
Includes: Images of Roger L. Stevens and Adlai E. Stevenson
BOX-FOLDER 184/6-7 Political fund-raising - Stevens donations, 1958, 1966-1993
BOX-FOLDER 184/8 Political Organizations - miscellaneous, 1955-1990
BOX 405, 433-434 Ribbons and buttons, 1949-1960, 1965
Includes: Campaign buttons for Adlai E. Stevenson's 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns and the political campaigns of W. Averell Harriman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., and Stuart Symington; staff badges for the Stevenson-Kefauver campaign; and a badge from the 1956 Democratic convention in Box 405
Includes: Two Adlai Stevenson shoe pins in Box 433
Includes: An Inauguaral Committee honorary chairman ribbon in Box 434
BOX-FOLDER 184/9 The Simulmatics Corporation, 1960
BOX 185-240, 428-430 Office Files, 1937-2000
This series documents a cross section of Stevens's business interests through clippings, daily calendars detailing his whereabouts, telephone logs, and a correspondence reading file with chronologically organized carbon copies of outgoing mail. Invitations and event programs are evidence of the many parties, receptions, private concerts, and art openings the Stevenses were asked to attend; dinner party and reception planning documents also record the many events the Stevenses hosted. Financial records contain a wide range of personal and professional expenditures, including the personal tax records for both Roger L. Stevens and Christine G. Stevens, miscellaneous bills and receipts, and information on checking accounts and investment portfolios with banks such as Irving Trust Company and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, both of which are represented elsewhere in the collection.

Stevens collected information on investment opportunities with the newspaper the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Tiffany and Company, and electronics manufacturer Technical Services, Inc. A file on Thorley House of Flowers reveals professional and personal contacts to whom he sent flowers in the late 1950s. Writings by Stevens detail his thoughts on the real estate industry. The series also holds the business papers of Rolace, Inc., an office management company that addressed the administrative needs of Stevens's theatrical, real estate, and other business endeavors between 1965 and 1972.

Arranged alphabetically by material type or organization.
BOX-FOLDER 185/1-2 42nd Street Development Project, 1987-1989
BOX 428-430 Address and telephone cards, undated
BOX-FOLDER 185/3 American Humane Association, 1953-1957
BOX-FOLDER 185/4-6 Animal Welfare Institute, 1958-1992
BOX-FOLDER 185/7 Bright and Schiff & Co., 1958-1961
BOX-FOLDER 185/8 C. & C. Super Corporation, 1955-1957
Clippings
BOX-FOLDER 186/1-6 1943-1965
BOX-FOLDER 187/1-5 1966-1972
BOX-FOLDER 188/1-5 1973-1976
BOX-FOLDER 189/1-5 1977-1983
BOX-FOLDER 190/1-7 1984-1997 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 191/1 Comptometer Corporation, 1959-1963
BOX-FOLDER 191/2 Consular Corps Committee of the City of New York, 1960-1965
Correspondence reading file
Note: Telephone logs also found in years 1969 to 1980
BOX-FOLDER 191/3-7 1956-1958
BOX-FOLDER 192/1-5 1958-1959
BOX-FOLDER 193/1-5 1960-1961
BOX-FOLDER 194/1-6 1962-1965
BOX-FOLDER 195/1-7 1966-1970
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