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Howard Sayre Weaver papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1259

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, subject files, administrative files, financial papers, and film notes largely documenting Weaver's tenure as dean of the Yale School of Art and Architecture, 1968-1974. Also included are materials from the Yale New Haven Educational Corporation, the Hills Art Co-op, and the New Haven Foundation.

Dates

  • 1960-1979

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the Yale University Media Design Studio, 1980.

Extent

10 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1259

Abstract

Correspondence, subject files, administrative files, financial papers, and film notes largely documenting Weaver's tenure as dean of the Yale School of Art and Architecture, 1968-1974. Also included are materials from the Yale New Haven Educational Corporation, the Hills Art Co-op, and the New Haven Foundation.

Biographical / Historical

Howard S. Weaver: advisor to University Publications, Yale University Press, 1959-1960; assistant director, 1960-1964; acting Secretary of Yale University, 1963-1964; associate secretary and advisor to the president of Yale University, 1964-1968; Dean of the School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, 1967-1974; director, Media Design Studio, 1974-.

Biographical / Historical

Howard Sayre Weaver, Director of the Media Design Studio and former Dean of the School of Art and Architecture, died April 23, 1982 at his home in Guilford, Connecticut. He was fifty-seven.

A native of Fredonia, N.Y., Weaver entered Yale with the Class of 1945W but left college to serve as an Air Corps pilot in the Far East. He returned to Yale at the end of the war and received his B.A. degree in 1948. After working for a few years, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service and was assigned to Thailand. He later became European Director of the Free Europe Press in Munich, Germany, before returning to Yale in 1959 as Assistant Director of the Yale University Press. He subsequently served as Associate Secretary of the University and Director of External Relations before becoming Acting Dean of the School of Art and Architecture. He became Dean in 1968 and served until 1974.

Weaver organized the Media Design Studio, dedicated to the teaching and production of films. He was also Director of the Poynter Fellowship Program.

His interest in flying, developed as a B-25 pilot in China and Burma during World War II, continued throughout his life. He was a leader in the Yale Aviation Club, an extracurricular program for students.

He is survived by his wife, Deborah Drummond Weaver; two sons, Howard, Jr., of Guilford, and George of Maine; three daughters, Sayre Andre of North Dakota, Stephanie Weaver of Guilford, and Deborah Weaver of Boston; a sister, Ruth Pinkerton of Florida; and a brother, George B. Weaver of Fredonia, N.Y.

(Taken from Yale Alumni Magazine and Journal, 1982 May).

Title
Preliminary Guide to the Howard Sayre Weaver Papers
Status
Under Revision
Author
compiled by Staff of Manuscripts and Archives
Date
August 1982
Description rules
Finding Aid Created In Accordance With Manuscripts And Archives Processing Manual
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository

Contact:
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Location

Sterling Memorial Library
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New Haven, CT 06511

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