MSS 43
Schowe, Benjamin
Marshall, Sr., 1893-1979
Papers of Benjamin M. Schowe, Sr., 1912-1977
Gallaudet University Archives.
Descriptive Summary
Repository:
Gallaudet University
Archives
Call No.:
MSS 43
Creator:
Title: Papers of
Benjamin M. Schowe, Sr.,1912-1977
Quantity:
14.0
Linear Feet (28 document boxes)
Abstract:
Note: This document last updated 2006 January 9.
Acquisition
Information:
The papers of Benjamin Marshall Schowe, Sr. were donated to the
Gallaudet College Archives by his son, Ben Schowe, Jr. in June of 1980.
Processed by:
Michael J. Olson. 1982 November 18.
Processing
Note:
Conditions on
Use and Access:
This collection is open to the public with some restrictions.
Photocopies may be made for scholarly research. Restricted files are in
folders indicated by an asterisk.
Related Material
in the Archives:
Photographs
·
Ben M. Schowe, Sr.
[picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Portraits
Vertical Files
·
Benjamin M. Schowe. Gallaudet
University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Biographical.
Biographical
Sketch
1893 September 29 Born in Columbus,
Indiana
1906 Became deaf at 13
1913
Entered Gallaudet College
1918
Received Bachelor of Arts degree
1918
Married Dorothy Conover, Class of 1918
1919 Personnel Manager for Firestone Tire and
Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio
1920
Ben Schowe, Jr. born
1934
Rose to become labor economics Research Specialist
1939 – 1946
First Vice‑President of Gallaudet College Alumni Association
1946 ‑ 1950
President of Gallaudet College Alumni Association
1951 Honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from
Gallaudet College
1958 Retired from Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
1979
September 26 Died at Akron, Ohio
Scope and Content
The Benjamin Marshall Schowe, Sr. Papers consists of
correspondence and personal papers of Ben M. Schowe, Sr., a 1918
graduate of Gallaudet College, who held for almost 40 years as the
position of labor economist with the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
of Akron, Ohio. This collection, dated from 1912 to 1977, includes
approximately 30,000 pages of correspondence and some 10,000 pages of
manuscripts and notebooks. The bulk of the materials falls into the
period of his years on the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and as
President of Gallaudet College Alumni Association, specifically 1930 to
1960.
The collection includes a large amount of correspondence
which is in General Files. This collection concerns the problems of deaf
people's life, i. e., their employment and education. Ben's
correspondence talks about his philosophy and opinions about deaf people
and his personal writings about deaf people's problems and how they
might be solved.
While Ben was a labor economist for the Firestone Tire and
Rubber Company, he corresponded with federal authorities from the Civil
Works Projects about hiring deaf employees. Also he interviewed and
hired deaf people to work in the Firestone Company. There are some
surveys of deaf workers which were published and distributed to federal
agencies and companies across the United States during the 1940's.
There is correspondence between Ben Schowe and his alma
mater, Gallaudet College. His correspondence is concerned with the
education of deaf students, theories and methods of sign language vs
oralism, general philosophies of education and pedagogy, and staff and
administrators of the college. Ben was vice president and then president
of the Gallaudet College Alumni Association. The most exciting group of
this collection regards the charge of nepotism against President
Pervical Hall of Gallaudet during the mid‑1940's. Also he corresponded
with the alumni about the future development of Gallaudet College.
Ben Schowe was a member of National Association of the Deaf
and National Fraternal Society of the Deaf. The collection consists
correspondence between these deaf organizations about the problems of
deaf people in getting jobs, obtaining insurance, and problems with the
Work Projects Administration which prohibited deaf employees in getting
jobs with them. Ben was a member of the Industrial Committee for the
National Association of the Deaf which was involved in these matters.
In the collection, there are some correspondence and materials about
Ohio where he lived most of his life. His concern was to help deaf
people of Ohio make a better life for themselves without unnecessary
legal and attitude barriers.
There are manuscripts which are published and unpublished,
wrote articles for publications, some about deaf employment and some for
pleasure.
The collection consists of correspondence, personal and
business related with typewritten and handwritten. Also there are notes,
articles, publications, miscellaneous materials, printed materials,
pamphlets, reports, speeches and published and unpublished manuscripts.
Among Ben M. Schowe, Sr.'s correspondents were Tom L.
Anderson, Albert W. Atwood, Leon Auerbach, Stanley K, Bigman, Ignatius
Bjorlee, Maxine Tull Boatner, Hubert Bonner, Guilbert C. Braddock,
Earnest E. Calkins, Cornett R. Orin, Alan B. Crammatte, Louise Culpher,
Ernest G. Draper, Sidney B. Fay, Leonard M. Elstad, James T. Flood,
Irving S. Fusfeld, Edward Denison Gallaudet, Jack R. Gannon, Robert
Greenmun, Oscar Guire, Percival Hall, Agatha T. Hanson, Kenneth Hodgson,
Jay Cooke Howard, Dick Kennedy, Wesley Lauritsen, Eric Malzkuhn, Gordon
B. McKeeman, Richard W. Meisegeier, Edward C. Merrill, Jr., Herbert C.
Merrill, Edwin W. Nies, James N. Orman, David Peikoff, Albert T.
Pimentel, Henry J. Pulver, Winfield Scott Runde, Arthur L. Roberts,
Jerome D. Schein, A. M. Schlesinger, Ben Schowe, Jr., Frederick
Schreiber, Charles D. Seaton, Carl B. Smith, Roy J. Stewart, William C.
Stokoe, Jr., Frank B. Sullivan, Nina Van Oss, McKay Vernon, Cadwallader
Washburn, Boyce R. Williams, and E. C. Wine.
Series Descriptions and Folder Lists
No Series.
|
Box |
Folder |
Title
of Folder |
Date |
|
1 |
1 |
Correspondence ‑ Activities ‑ Miscellaneous |
1964‑67 |
|
1 |
2 |
Correspondence ‑ Akron Beacon Journal |
1933‑73 |
|
1 |
3 |
Correspondence ‑ American Annals of the Deaf |
1971‑72 |
|
1 |
4 |
Correspondence ‑ American Federation of the Physically
Handicapped |
1942‑43, 1952 |
|
1 |
5 |
Correspondence ‑ American Hearing Society |
1960‑61 |
|
1 |
6 |
Correspondence ‑ Anderson, Tom L. |
1933 |
|
1 |
7 |
Correspondence ‑ Anthropology |
1957 |
|
1 |
8 |
Correspondence ‑ Attitudes of Organizations |
1941 |
|
1 |
9 |
Correspondence ‑ Babb, Paul & Eileen |
1957‑59, 1963 |
|
1 |
10 |
Correspondence ‑ Bigman, Stanley K. |
1959‑60, 68‑69 |
|
1 |
11 |
Correspondence ‑ Biography ‑ Edward M. Gallaudet |
1947‑48, 50-58 |
|
1 |
12 |
Correspondence ‑ Bonner, Hubert |
1964‑67 |
|
1 |
13 |
Correspondence ‑ Bowman, Margaret Braddock |
1976‑77 |
|
1 |
14 |
Correspondence ‑ Braddock, Guilbert C. |
1933‑34 |
|
1 |
15 |
Correspondence ‑ Braddock, Guilbert C. |
1969‑70 |
|
2 |
1 |
Correspondence ‑ Calkins, Earnest E |
1952‑59 |
|
2 |
2 |
Correspondence ‑ Casual Correspondence |
1939‑42, 48, 53 |
|
2 |
3 |
Correspondence ‑ Census |
1975‑76 |
|
2 |
4 |
Correspondence ‑ Church ‑ Unitarian |
1961, 63‑65 |
|
2 |
5 |
Correspondence ‑ Cornett, R. Orin |
1967 |
|
2 |
6 |
Correspondence ‑ Counseling Techniques & Facilities |
1941- 59 |
|
2 |
7 |
Correspondence ‑ Crammattee, Alan B. |
1940‑59 |
|
2 |
8 |
Correspondence ‑ Crammattee, Alan B. |
1955‑59 |
|
2 |
9 |
Correspondence ‑ Crammattee, Alan B |
1959 |
|
2 |
10 |
Correspondence ‑ Day School vs. Residential |
1953‑54 |
|
2 |
11 |
Correspondence ‑ Deaf Church Organization |
1951‑52 |
|
2 |
12 |
Correspondence ‑ Deaf Employment |
1967‑70 |
|
3 |
1 |
Correspondence ‑ Deaf Psychology |
1929‑58 |
|
3 |
2 |
Correspondence ‑ Deaf Workers at Noisy Jobs |
1956 |
|
3 |
3 |
Correspondence ‑ Detmold, George |
1953‑59 |
|
3 |
4 |
Correspondence ‑ Discrimination (Union) |
1941 |
|
3 |
5 |
Correspondence ‑ Education - |
1930-74 |
|
3 |
6 |
Correspondence ‑ Education Method |
1934- 59 |
|
3 |
7 |
Correspondence ‑ Elstad, Leonard M. & Detmold, G. |
1960, 62 |
|
3 |
8 |
Correspondence ‑ Federal Programs - Captioned Films |
1965 |
|
3 |
9 |
Correspondence ‑ Fusfeld, Irving S. |
1937, 41 |
|
3 |
10 |
Correspondence ‑ Fusfeld, Irving S. |
1939, 41, 43 |
|
3 |
11 |
Correspondence ‑ Fusfeld, Irving S. |
1941‑56 |
|
3 |
12 |
Correspondence ‑ Fusfeld, Irving S. |
1955 |
|
3 |
13 |
Correspondence ‑ Fusfeld, Irving S. |
1974 ‑ 76 |
|
3 |
14 |
Correspondence ‑ Gallaudet College & Ohio Alumni Assn. |
1960, 64‑65 |
|
3 |
15 |
Correspondence ‑ Gannon , Jack R. |
1978 |
|
3 |
16 |
Correspondence ‑ GoIf - |
1938‑64 |
|
3 |
17 |
Correspondence ‑ Greenberg, Bernard L. |
1970 |
|
3 |
18 |
Correspondence ‑ Greenmum, Robert |
1941 |
|
3 |
19 |
Correspondence ‑ Hearing & Non‑hearing |
1953, 55, 59 |
|
3 |
20 |
Correspondence ‑ Hodgson, Kenneth W. |
1974 |
|
3 |
21 |
Correspondence ‑ Howard, Jay Cooke |
1941‑42 |
|
3 |
22 |
Correspondence ‑ Incidence of Deafness |
1948, 60 |
|
3 |
23 |
Correspondence ‑ Kaczar, Emil |
1968‑69 |
|
3 |
24 |
Correspondence ‑ Kennedy, Dick |
1954, 56 |
|
3 |
25 |
Correspondence ‑ Kress, Mary Ann |
1958‑60 |
|
4 |
1 |
Correspondence ‑ Language |
1932, 43, 59‑60 |
|
4 |
2 |
Correspondence ‑ Linguistics‑Stokoe, William C. |
1971, 73 |
|
4 |
3 |
Correspondence ‑ Lip-reading |
1953, 56 |
|
4 |
4 |
Correspondence ‑ Lunde, Dr. |
1957 |
|
4 |
5 |
Correspondence ‑ Lunde, Meyerson, Rankin, Doctor |
1951, 56‑59 |
|
4 |
6 |
Correspondence ‑ Malzkuhn, Eric |
1941, 52, 54, 58 |
|
4 |
7 |
Correspondence ‑ Manual Communication |
1958 ‑ 60 |
|
4 |
8 |
Correspondence ‑ Manual Mode |
1938- 74 |
|
4 |
9 |
Correspondence ‑ Markman, Robert |
1972 |
|
4 |
10 |
Correspondence ‑ Mayme (Sister?) |
1941 |
|
4 |
11 |
Correspondence ‑ McKeeman, Gordon B. |
1970, 72‑77 |
|
4 |
12 |
Correspondence ‑ Meisegeier, Richard W. |
1969‑73 |
|
4 |
13 |
Correspondence ‑ Mental Hygiene |
1953-54 |
|
4 |
14 |
Correspondence ‑ Meyerson, Lee |
1962, 75‑76 |
|
4 |
15 |
Correspondence ‑ Miscellaneous |
1931,37,40‑44,53‑61 |
|
4 |
16 |
Correspondence ‑ Miscellaneous |
1940‑42, 52‑53 |
|
4 |
17 |
Correspondence ‑ Miscellaneous |
1959‑62 |
|
5 |
1 |
Correspondence ‑ Miscellaneous |
1967‑69 |
|
5 |
2 |
Correspondence ‑ Miscellaneous |
1969, 72 |
|
5 |
3 |
Correspondence ‑ Miscellaneous |
1972 |
|
5 |
4 |
Correspondence ‑ Miscellaneous-Mementos |
1962, 66, 72‑75, 79 |
|
5 |
5 |
Correspondence ‑ Miscelleneous - Personal |
1941‑42, 50-59 |
|
5 |
6 |
Correspondence ‑ Nash, A. Felix (Rabbi) |
1932 |
|
5 |
7 |
Correspondence ‑ Oral Deaf |
1947‑48,50‑59,66‑67 |
|
5 |
8 |
Correspondence ‑ Oral ‑ Manual Debate |
1952, 57 |
|
5 |
9 |
Correspondence ‑ Oralism |
1948‑50 |
|
5 |
10 |
Correspondence ‑ Oralism |
1949‑50, 53‑57, 60 |
|
5 |
11 |
Correspondence ‑ Oralism-"Deaf" Language - |
1964‑67, 69 |
|
5 |
12 |
Correspondence ‑ Oralism‑ Silverman, S. Richard |
1963‑64 |
|
5 |
13 |
Correspondence ‑ Our British Brethren |
1958‑59, 66‑67 |
|
5 |
14 |
Correspondence ‑ Peddler's Testimony |
1948 |
|
5 |
15 |
Correspondence ‑ Personal |
1944‑48 |
|
5 |
16 |
Correspondence ‑ Personal |
1971‑73 |
|
5 |
17 |
Correspondence ‑ Personal friends |
1949, 56, 64, 66 |
|
5 |
18 |
Correspondence ‑ Philosophy ‑ General |
1966 – 67 |
|
6 |
1 |
Correspondence ‑ "Polemics" ‑ Unclassified |
1945, 62, 64‑67, 72 |
|
6 |
2 |
Correspondence ‑ President's Committee on Employment of the
Physically Handicapped |
1958‑59, 63 |
|
6 |
3 |
Correspondence ‑ Promotion for deaf workers |
1957, 59 |
|
6 |
4 |
Correspondence ‑ Rehabilitation ‑ Federal Agencies |
1967 |
|
6 |
5 |
Correspondence ‑ Relatives |
1966‑70 |
|
6 |
6 |
Correspondence ‑ Runde, Winfield Scott |
1951, 54 |
|
6 |
7 |
Correspondence ‑ Sampson, Robert C. |
1966‑71 |
|
6 |
8 |
Correspondence ‑ Schein, Jerome D. & Detmold, G. |
1962‑64 |
|
6 |
9 |
Correspondence ‑ Schirmer, L. |
1948‑49 |
|
6 |
10 |
Correspondence ‑ School Officials |
1943-49, 51, 56‑57 |
|
6 |
11 |
Correspondence ‑ Schowe, Ben Jr. |
1946, 48, 50‑59 |
|
6 |
12 |
Correspondence ‑ Schowe, Ben Jr. |
1956 |
|
6 |
13 |
Correspondence ‑ Schowe, Ben Jr. |
1965‑67 |
|
6 |
14 |
Correspondence ‑ Schowe, Ben Jr. |
1966‑69 |
|
6 |
15 |
Correspondence ‑ Schowe, Ben Jr. |
1968‑69, 1972 |
|
7 |
1 |
Correspondence ‑ Schowe, Ben Jr. |
1969‑71 |
|
7 |
2 |
Correspondence ‑ Schowe, Ben Jr. |
1975‑76 |
|
7 |
3 |
Correspondence ‑ Schowe, Ben Jr. |
1976‑77 |
|
7 |
4 |
Correspondence ‑ Schreiber, Frederick C. & Kit |
1975‑76 |
|
7 |
5 |
Correspondence ‑ Science & Education |
1953, 59 |
|
7 |
6 |
Correspondence ‑ Science & Education ‑ Research Projects |
1949, 55‑57, 59‑60 |
|
7 |
7 |
Correspondence ‑ Self‑Concept |
1955 |
|
7 |
8 |
Correspondence ‑ Sign Language |
1932, 48‑49, 59 |
|
7 |
9 |
Correspondence ‑ Sign Language vs. Spoken Communication
|
1937, 47, 61 |
|
7 |
10 |
Correspondence ‑ Smith, Carl B. |
1950, 66‑68, 71, 65 |
|
7 |
11 |
Correspondence ‑ Social Resources |
1944, 50‑60 |
|
7 |
12 |
Correspondence ‑ Social Sciences, Philosophy |
1968‑70, 72 |
|
7 |
13 |
Correspondence ‑ Source of Maladjustment |
1956 |
|
7 |
14 |
Correspondence ̴ | |