During the period 1973 to 1979, Wilton S. Dillon was director of the Office of Symposia and Seminars.

The records, kept by Wilton S. Dillon, consist of correspondence, memoranda, background research material, invitations, brochures, resumes, photographs, grant information, publication contracts, symposia schedules, and other administrative records for the following events: the Nature of Scientific Discovery symposium celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Copernicus, the Outlook for Space symposium, the United States in the World symposium, the Kin and Community: the Peopling of America symposium, and a number of activities celebrating the centennial of the birth of Albert Einstein.

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Copernicus

• Proposals
• Meetings
• Prospectus
• Workshops
• J. Neyman (Copernican volume)
• Public Relations, News/Press Releases, TV/Radio, etc.
• Cunio/Piszek
• Congressional
• Chairman/Committees
• Exhibits
• Films
• Hotel Reservations
• Lectures
• Letters (Advisory Committee)
• O. Gingerich (Editor)
• Budget/Financing
• Planning-Programming
• Symposium-Incoming
• Fifth International Symposium Medals - Hodgkins/Copernicus Society
• Hodgkins Medal
• Copernicus Materials Required for Exhibition - pending
• Copernicus Picture - NYC
• Letters of Invitation for Copernicus Symposium
• Program - Copernicus Symposium
• UNESCO/Copernicus
• Science and the Liberal Arts/Copernicus Symposium
• Copernicus receptions, banquets, etc.
• Karol Estreiker/Copernicus Symposium
• Presidential Proclamation-Nicolaus Copernicus Week
• Funding from Copernicus Society of America
• Polish-American Relations
• Symposium Papers
• Baskin Copernicus Poster
• U.S. Copernicus Stamp
• Copernicus Fund Raising
• Other Copernican Celebrations
• Charles Eames
• Itek Copernicus Material
• Hodgkins Medal

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• Education Day, 4-26-73, Copernicus Symposium
• Polish Posters
• First day ceremony and luncheon, 4-23-73
• Things to Save for Frances
• All Symposium??
• Planning behind 5th symposium
• Copernicus: Press Releases and clippings
• Colloquia on: Interplay of science, literature, and art
• Comments, aftermath of Symposium
• Symposium volume
• Edward Haskell
• Space Age Children
• Innovation in Technology
• Jacob Bronowski and the "Descent of Man"

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Outlook for Space, 10-74

• NASA "Outlook for Space" Conference, Oct 1-8, 1974
• Daniel Bell Paper
• Outlook: lists; people
• Bibliography
• NASA participants: biographies
• Conference notebook (blue folder)
• Discussants/Biographies
• Charles Price
• Critical Choice
• Meeting Schedule
• "News Report"
• Press Release and newspaper clippings
• Discussants/Questions
• Readings I
• Readings II
• Readings III
• Reports
• Requests for Proceedings
• G. Robinson's book
• Travel Schedules
• 2 Reel-to-Reel audio tapes & 1 cassette tape (loose)

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United States in the World, Sept-Oct 1976

• "For Better or Worse: The American Influence on the World," Davis and Benson
• Invitations
• Regrets (foreign)
• Regrets (American)
• No Shows
• Courtesy invitations/acceptances
• Regrets for Conference Activities/courtesy list
• American Invitees-No Funds
• American Invitees-Full Funding
• Foreign Invitees-Some Funds
• Foreign Invitees-Full Funding
• Foreign Invitees-No Funds

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• ACLS correspondence
• ASA correspondence
• Biographical data-Conference planners
• Budgets and Finance
• China
• Closing ceremony/lunch
• Conference program
• Embassy mailings
• Parking and meeting facilities
• Food (receptions, lunches, other catering)
• Free-Day tours
• Fund Raising Letters
• General correspondence/inquiries
• Other hospitality ideas
• Insurance
• Intra-city transportation
• IREX
• Jazz Concert
• Carla-meeting notes
• Opening Ceremony/Kennedy Center
• Photos
• Participant kits
• Printing/Design/Logo
• Protocol
• Readings/Reprints
• Regional Conferences
• Registration
• Related programs
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Schedules
• Session summaries
• State/USIA
• State Dept. Reception
• Thank you notes
• Theme and Program
• Tickets sent
• Transcript and paper requests
• Travel
• Volunteers
• White House
• Welcoming reception
• Wine
• WWICS
• Yugoslavia
• Cable Traffic: Incoming and Outgoing

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United States in the World, Oct 1976 - Papers Presented

• Ahmad - IIA
• Ngubo - IIA
• El Calamawy - IIB
• Armytage - IIB
• Gattegno - IIB
• Gyllenhammar - IIC
• Bassett - IID
• Calvo - IID
• Hersaa - IIIA
• Zevi - IIIA
• Sivaraksa - IIIB
• Horn - IIIB
• Mudimbe-Boyi - IIIB
• Delaunay - IIIC
• Gillett - IIIC
• Makavejev - IIID
• Fuksiewicz - IIID
• Session Transcripts

United States in the World, Oct 1976 - Speakers

• Ahmad, Egbal
• Anderson, Doris
• Armytage, W.
• Banham, R.
• Barco, V.
• Barna, Y.
• Bassett, M.
• Beckwith, John
• Ben-David, J.
• Berendt, J.
• Bindary, A.
• Boldizsar, I.
• Bondy, F.
• Borlin, M.
• Bourgeois-Pichat
• Briggs, A.
• Calvo, R.
• Clement, A.
• Cunliffe, M.
• Dedijer, S.
• Delaunay, C.
• El-Calamawy, S.
• Flit-Stern, I.
• Fuksiewicz, J.
• Gattegno, C.
• Gillett, C.
• Goldschmidt-Clermont, Y.
• Guvenc, B.
• Gyllenhammer, P.
• Hafid, A.
• Hermeren, G.
• Hersaa, J.
• Horn, M.
• Hu King
• Husen, T.
• Ikuta, T.
• Kinloch, H.
• Keynan, A.
• Kocka, J.
• Kohler, F.
• Kwapong, A.
• Liu, T.
• MacLeod, R.
• Makavejev, D.
• Mardin, S.
• Menshikova, M.
• Mudimbe-Boy, M.
• Muntanola Thornberg, J.
• Ngubo, A.
• Oda, M.
• Petric, V.
• Pomerance, M.
• Probald, F.
• Sachs, I.
• Salas, R.
• Samii, A.
• Seymour-Ure, C.
• Sinclair, B.
• Sivaraksa, S.
• Sowande, F.
• Teodori, M.
• Toba, K.
• Tracy, M.
• Tripathi, D.
• Velazquez, G.
• Zevi, B.
• Ziman, J.

United States in the World, Oct 1976 - American Discussants

• Barnet, R.
• Barnovw, E.
• Berman, M.
• Byerly, T.
• Chase, G.
• Cochran, T.
• Diggins, J.
• Feld, B.
• Fitzgerald, F.
• Fornari, H.
• Friedenberg, E.
• Hitchcock, H.
• Hitchcock, H.R.
• Kessler-Harris, A.
• Knowles, J.
• Kozmetsky, G.
• Lee, S.
• Leyda, J.
• Kingsbury, M.
• Mauldin, W.
• Pursell, C.
• Raskin, M.

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• Rosenberg, H.
• Schiffrin, A.
• Sklar, R.
• Sullivan, W.
• Vogel, D.

United States in the World, 1976

• Paper givers
• Chairpersons and commentators
• American Commentators-Discussants
• American Participants - Suggested
• Foreign Participants- Suggested

United States in the World, Oct 1976-Speakers

• Menshikova - IA
• Salas - IB
• Samil - IB
• Goldschmitt-Clermont - IC
• Nag Chaudhuri - IC
• Sinclair - ID
• Flit - ID

Kin and Communities, 1976

• Readings for Speakers
• Around the Mall and Beyond
• Genealogy: Guides and Indexes
• Digging for Roots
• Family Chronicles: Coming of Age in America
• Write your life story in 7 days
• Primary Sources for researching the family history
• Everybody is climbing their family tree
• How can you find your ancestors?
• SI urges public to dig at the family tree
• What do you know about your kinfolk?
• Genealogical flurry
• Preserving lore of bygone years
• New interest in genealogy
• How to interview your grandparents
• Interest in Blacks in genealogy is gaining
• Is the American family dying?
• Margaret Mead - Redbook Mag.
• Where's the American family going
• Jewish Forebearers Emerge in Stories
• Blacks discover Indian Ancestry
• Shared Legacy: Why Whites Watched Roots
• Goodman - A Rootless Society Digs In
• Hendin - The Ties Don't Bind
• Novak - They're finding roots all over the world
• Cohen - The Mystery of Heritage
• Bronfenbrenner: The Calamitous Decline of the American Family
• Mead - Our Next Hundred years
• Eli Evans Article
• Hand-outs, etc. (3 folders)
• Newspaper originals

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• Press
• Press Releases (2 folders)

Kin and Communities - Participants

• Arensberg, C.
• Bailyn, Bernard
• Bowen, M.
• Botstein, L.
• Bourne, P.
• Bryce-Laporte, R.
• Butler, Robert
• Challinor, David
• Chapple, E.
• Culpepper, C.
• Cooper, W.
• De Riencourt, A.
• Demmert, W.
• Demos, J.
• Eisenberg, J.
• Elder, G.
• Fiske, E.
• Ford, A.
• Galbis, R.
• Getzels, J.
• Gutman, J.
• Haley, A.
• Hoffman, J.
• Hsu, F.
• Jackson, J.
• Jackson, P.
• Janeway, Elizabeth
• Jenni, Donald
• Kanter, R.
• Kleiman, Devra
• Kohl, S.
• Levine, R.
• Martin, J.
• Mitchell, W.
• Modell, J.
• Mooz, R. Peter
• Musto, D.
• Rosen, D.
• Rosenkrantz, B.
• Rothschild, A.
• Schneider, D.
• Shayon, R.
• Simon, J.
• Stewart, T. Dale
• Trivers, R.
• Vinovskis, M.
• Warren, D.

Kin and Communities, 1976-1977 - Sessions

• Future Research Opportunities (workshop)
• Families in Nature
• Where did Americans Come from and Why?
• Recording Oral Tradition (workshop)
• What Happened After They Got Here, #1
• Humanities and Families
• What Happened After They Got Here, #2
• Family Hindsight
• Family Artifacts and Images
• Re-evaluating the Asian-American Experience
• Family Documents (workshop)
• Families and the Media
• Family Photo Interpretation (workshop)
• Family Histories and the Liberal Arts
• Families and Communities as Educators
• Whither Kinship in Industrial Society?
• Aries
• Chapple Session
• Possible Participants, 1976

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Kin and Communities, 1976-1977

• Possible Participants, 1977
• Participants, 1976
• Family Policy Forum, 1976
• Lichtman workshop, 1976
• Opening Ceremony, 1977

Albert Einstein Centennial, 1979-1980

• Einstein
• Einstein: Programs & Budget
• Conference Packet
• Press Release
• Participants (potential)
• Einstein Symposium, 1979-80
• Einstein in China
• Torch article
• Dibner Library exhibit
• Other Einstein seminars and observances
• Institute for Advanced Study
• Press
• Wilson Center
• Reprint
• Teachers Workshop
• Resources-Films, books
• Various publications on Einstein