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Cranbrook Educational Community Vice President of Finance and Administration: George Herbst Records

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Identifier: 1992-21
Abstract George Herbst served as Vice President of Finance and Administration of Cranbrook Educational Community between 1986 and 1996. Herbst’s administrative duties included managing capital projects, finances, legal actions, and human relations. During his term, Herbst also oversaw numerous projects including restoration or construction initiatives for the Greek Theatre, Kingswood School, Cranbrook House, the Henry Booth Studio, and the DeSalle Auditorium. He was also involved in the acquisition...
Dates: 1966 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1984 - 1992

Cranbrook Foundation Executive Secretary: William Alley Frayer Records

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Identifier: 1980-04
Abstract William Alley Frayer had over a thirty-year careeer as a historian, teaching at both Cornell University and University of Michigan before Cranbrook Board of Trustees hired him as Executive Secretary of the Foundation in 1935. Frayer worked closely with chairman George Booth, daily discussing matters of general Cranbrook concern. Upon Frayer's retirement in 1938, Booth and Frayer decided to close the office of Executive Secretary. Frayer returned to Ann Arbor and died June 29, 1946, at the...
Dates: 1935 - 1938

Cranbrook Foundation Office Records

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Identifier: 1981-05
Abstract The Cranbrook Foundation was established on November 28, 1927, by George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth. It was a trust and administrative entity to endow and support the six institutions that George and Ellen had founded: Brookside School Cranbrook, Christ Church Cranbrook, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook School, and Kingswood School Cranbrook. It's initial mission was, "to add to and strengthen the educational and cultural facilities within the...
Dates: 1926 - 1973

Cranbrook Photograph Collection

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Identifier: 2020-03
Abstract Cranbrook history dates back to 1904 when George and Ellen Booth purchased land in Bloomfield Hills, MI for their home. The next five decades saw the majority of this land transformed into an educational, artistic, and scientific community. In the early 1970s, a major reorganzition created the Cranbrook Educational Community. More than a century later, in 2021, this Community comprises five program areas: Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Art Academy, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of...
Dates: circa 1830-; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1970

Cranbrook P.M. Records

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Identifier: 1999-12
Abstract

Cranbrook P.M., a continuing education and outreach program, was founded in 1973 by the Cranbrook School Mother’s Council. The program, which became defunct by the mid-1990s offered a series of evening classes, lectures, seminars, workshops, tours, etc. focusing on the arts, languages, math, music, sports, and the sciences. The collection primarily focuses on the program's curricula, however there is a small amount of material associated with its administrative functions.

Dates: 1975 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1991 - 1993

Cranbrook School Sydney, Australia Collection

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Identifier: 1997-17
Abstract A boys school in Sydney, Australia, sharing the same name as Cranbrook School in Blooomfield Hills, MI, was established in 1918. The school was originally organized as an Anglican boarding and day school, and was governed by a School Council consisting of eighteen clergy and laymen. Junior facilities expanded with the establishment of two kindergartens (or Pre-schools) in 1944 at St Michael's Church Hall, Vaucluse and St Mark's Church Hall, Darling Point. This small artificial collection...
Dates: 1929 - 1982

Cranbrook Schools Board of Trustees/Governors Records

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Identifier: 1991-10
Abstract The collection pertains to the administrative functions of the Board of Trustees for Cranbrook Schools, governing Brookside, Cranbrook, and Kingswood Schools, and which exsited for three years (1970-1973). When Cranbrook was reorganized as the Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC), with a unified Board of Trustees, the Schools' board was renamed the Cranbrook Schools Board of Governors. It began serving in an advisory capacity to the Cranbrook Schools Division. The collection comprises of...
Dates: 1966 - 1999

Cranbrook School Records

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Identifier: 1979-06
Abstract Cranbrook School was established by a Trust Indenture on 15 January 1926 to, “provide for the moral and religious education of the youth committed to its care,” under the supervision of three governing boards: the Board of Directors, the Advisory Board, and the Board of Trustees. Originally conceived as a Church school of Christ Church Cranbrook by September of 1924, George Booth had decided that the school should have a separate site to allow for expansion. When it opened on September 19,...
Dates: 1927 - 1985

Kingswood School Records

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Identifier: 1980-01
Abstract Kingswood School Cranbrook was a day and boarding school for girls beginning with the seventh grade and continuing through the twelfth grade. Kingswood School was established through a deed of Trust executed on July 24, 1930, between the Cranbrook Foundation and a Board of Trustees consisting of William T. Barbour, Ralph Stone, Luman W. Goodenough, Alvan Macauley, Clarence H. Booth, James Inglis, and Sidney D. Waldon. The Board selected Gladys Turnbach, of Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield,...
Dates: 1930 - 1985

Roswell G. Curtis, Jr. Papers

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Identifier: 1997-03
Abstract From 1925 to 1927, Curtis attended the Hill School in Birmingham and in September 1927 he became a charter member of Cranbrook School by entering as a first former. He graduated from Cranbrook School in 1933. It was during the summer of 1927 that Curtis met Cranbrook School's first headmaster, William O. Stevens. He admired Dr. and Mrs. Stevens and they ultimately maintained a close friendship throughout the rest of their lives. Roswell Curtis was an organizer and original member of the...
Dates: 1906 - 1980

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Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 13
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Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 9
Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 8
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Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 6
Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 6
Buckberrough, John 5
Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 5
Frayer, William Alley 5
Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 5
Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 5
Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 4
Cranbrook Press 4
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 4
McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 4
Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 4
Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 4
University of Michigan 4
Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 3
Cranbrook School (Sydney, Australia) 3
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Detroit Institute of Arts 3
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Maroti, Geza 3
Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 3
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Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 3
Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 3
White, Lee A., 1886- 3
Winter, Jessie 3
Barbour, William T. 2
Bauder, Lillian 2
Booth, Carolyn Farr 2
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Coulter, Bruce 2
Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 2
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Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 2
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 2
Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
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Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 2
Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 2
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Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 2
Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 2
Martin, Dan M. 2
Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 2
Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
Morris & Co. (London, England) 2
Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
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Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
Salas, Samuel A. 2
Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 2
Synder, Ben M., III, 1920-2017 2
Vettraino, Dominick 2
Ardolino, Edward 1
Askew, June 1
Askew, Richard G. 1
Bach, Oscar Bruno, 1884-1957 1
Bank of Montreal 1
Bertoia, Harry 1
Birmingham Eccentric (Newspaper) 1
Blanchard, James J., 1942- 1
Bonawit, Owen G. 1
Booth, Stephen Farr 1
Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
Bunt, Floyd W. 1
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Cantor, Allen 1
Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1
Cleveland Museum of Art 1
Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
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Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research 1
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