• Classification number: 9D/1938-1952
• Title of Record Series: Business Manager
• Record Group: Business Management
• Sub Group:
• Date: December 18, 1981
• Accession Number: A79-14, A80-1
• Source: Robert Bower, Controller; Richard Lewis, Bursar; Anita Smith, Bursary
• Restrictions:1 box available only with the permission of the President’s Office
• Volume: 13 boxes, 1 restricted box, 1 oversized box

Records of Donald W. Height; Business Manager and Assistant Treasurer; dating from 1938 to 1952. (Prior to 1938 there was a business manager, an assistant treasurer, and a controller. After 1952 Donald Height became assistant treasurer and controller, and Irwin French became business manager.) Some of these records have been in dead storage; part had been processed in 1977 as 9D/1952-1956. The records consist of correspondence, reports, statements, receipts, forms, schedules, charts, balance sheets, accounts, wills, policies, plans, blueprints, minutes and contracts. In the original filing system correspondence was filed alphabetically by name of vendor. This arrangement was changed to an alphabetical by subject filing system to facilitate access to the material.

These records are concerned with the acquisition, building and maintenance of the real property of the College; the acquisition, maintenance and expenditure of funds; hiring, job assignment, insuring, salaries, union, and pensioning of College employees; arrangements for use of the campus by outside groups, general financial affairs, and most non-academic business affairs; with material of special interest on buildings, faculty housing, conferences and conventions held on campus, the organization of employees’ union, gifts and bequests including the Manwaring estate, and dealings with the International Revenue Service.

• Accounts: Expendable accounts (1943-1952); Foreign accounts (1939-1946)
• Accounts: Maintenance accounts receivable (1938-1950)
• Accounts: Notes receivable (1939-1953)
• Accounts: Student accounts (1942-1952)
• Administration: Academic departments: Art-Botany
• Administration: Academic departments: Chemistry-Zoology
• Administration: Buildings and Grounds (1938-1951)
• Administration: Business Manager
• Administration: Controller (1938-1952)
• Administration: Development Fund (1947-1952)
• Administration: Dietition (1938-1952)
• Administration: Lake Waban Laundry (1938-1951)
• Administration: Library (1941-1950)
• Administration: Personnel (1943-1952);Post Office (1943-1947)
• Administration: President's Office (1938-1950);Executive Vice President (1951)
• Administration: Purchasing (1939-1952)
• Administration: Residence
• Alumnae: 75th Celebration (1949-1950)
• Auditors: Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co. (1951-1952)
• Boston and Albany Railroad (1942-1949)
• Buildings: General (1943-1950)
• Buildings: Appraisals
• Buildings: Alumnae Hall (1938-1950);Canoe House (1944-1951)
• Buildings: 70 Curve Street [Katharine Lee Bates House](1949-1951)
• Buildings: Dormitories: general (undated, 1938-1952)
• Buildings: Dormitories: Bates Freeman (1949-1952);Navy House (1947-1948)
• Buildings: Faculty Housing (undated, 1950-1952)
• Buildings: Faculty Housing (1938-1950)
• Buildings: Faculty Housing: Observatory House (1950)
• Buildings: Faculty Housing: Service Drive (1947-1950)
• Buildings: Faculty Housing: Veterans House (1946-1948)
• Buildings: General Reserve Fund (1938-1951)
• Buildings: Infirmary: General (1938-1952)
• Buildings: Infirmary: Change orders (1941-1943)

• Buildings: Infirmary: Construction Costs (1941-1943)
• Buildings: Infirmary: Correspondence with architects(1941-1943)
• Buildings: Infirmary: Equipment (1940-1942)
• Buildings: Inn (proposed) (1946-1949)
• Buildings: Leases (1938-1952)
• Buildings: Library (1949-1951) [includes Art Building];Pendleton (1938-1941)
• Buildings: Power Plant (1938-1952)
• Buildings: Power Plant: Radiation (1938-1952)
• Buildings: Power Plant: Stoker (1942-1943, 1949)
• Buildings: Recreation Building: General (1938-1947);Construction Report (1938)
• Buildings: Sage (1945-1950)
• Buildings: Trustees Building Committee (1938-1950)
• Business Manager: Professional Organization (1943-1952)
• Conferences and Conventions: General (undated)
• Conferences and Conventions: General (1951-1952)
• Conferences and Conventions: General (1938-1950)
• Conferences and Conventions: Annual Reports (1944, 1946-1951)
• Conferences and Conventions: Employee scheduling (1950-1951)
• Conferences and Conventions: Organizations: General (1944-1951)
• Conferences and Conventions: American Red Cross (undated, 1948-1952)
• Conferences and Conventions: Cooperative Institute Association (1949-1951)
• Conferences and Conventions: Episcopal Conference for Church Work (1940-1951);Hygiene Symposium (1951-1952)
• Conferences and Conventions: National Student Council Association (1951);New England Association of Chemistry Teachers (1947);New England Council of Church Women (1951);Savings Bank (1948-1951)
• Conferences and Conventions: Summer Institute for Social Progress (1938-1951)
• Conferences and Conventions: Summer School of Techniques (1944);United World Federalists (1947-1949)
• Conferences and Conventions: Wellesley Institute for Foreign Students (1946, 1948-1950);Wellesley School of Community Affairs (1944, 1946)
• Conferences and Conventions: Wellesley Summer Theater and School (1947-1952)
• Conferences and Conventions: Young Women's Christian Association (1942-1951)
• Correspondence with other colleges (1938-1947)
• Correspondence with other colleges (1948-1951)
• Employees: General (1938-1950)
• Employees: Applications (1939-1952)
• Employees: Armed Forces and defense work (1943-1946);Christmas Party (1941-1944)
• Employees: Individual (Armstrong-Woolley)
• Employees: Pensions (1938-1951)
• Employees: Pension list (1941-1951)
• Equipment: General;Automotive

• Equipment: Blankets (1938-1940);Boilers (1938-1942)
• Equipment: Inventory (1938-1952)
• Faculty: General
• Fellowships: Susanna Whitney Hawkes (1938-1945);Alice Freeman Palmer (1939-1952)
• Fuel: Coal (1942-1951)
• Fuel: Oil (1941-1949)
• Fundraising (1946);Funds: General (1950-1952);Emily Jones Barker Scholarship (1938-1941)
• Funds: Departments (1950)
• Funds: Mary Hemenway Loan: Accounts: (1933-1950)
• Funds: Mary Hemenway Loan: Committee (1938-1952);Correspondence: General (1932-1953);Mary Bigelow (1934-1954)
• Funds: Mary Hemenway Loan: Financial Statements (1937-1953); Forms
• Hathaway House (1940-1952)
• Income: Gifts (1947-1952)
• Income: Gifts (1938-1946)
• Income: Gifts: Art Museum (1939-1950)
• Income: Gifts: Associates of Wellesley College (1941-1947)
• Income: Gifts: Commencement Announcements (undated, 1940-46)
• Income: Gifts: Friends of the Library (1938-1951)
• Income: Gifts: List of Legacies and Gifts Received (1940-1951)
• Income: Gifts: Manwaring Estate: Accounts, insurance
• Income: Gifts: Manwaring Estate: Securities, taxes (1948-1955)
• Income: Gifts: Manwaring Estate: Wills (includes material from Moses Manwaring) (1872-1926)
• Income: Gifts: Scholarships (1939-1950)
• Income: Rents (1947-1952);Royalties: Plimpton Catalogue (1939-1950)
• Insurance: General (1950-1952)
• Insurance: General (1940-1949)

• Insurance: General (1938-1939)
• Insurance: Classes (1939-1946);Group Maintenance (1940-1950)
• Insurance: Pension and Insurance Fund Balance Sheets (1938-1950)
• Insurance: Society Houses: General (1939-1951);Alpha Kappa Chi (1938-1951)
• Insurance: Society Houses: Shakespeare (1939-1951);Zeta Alpha (1936-1950)
• Insurance: Workmen's Compensation (1939-1950)
• Legal: Palmer Dodge (1950-1952)
• Legal: Palmer Dodge (1938-1949)
• Legal: Wellesley College v. Attorney General and Another [Meals Tax Case] (1943)
• Page Memorial School (1940-1947)
• Refugee Children (1940-1941)
• Scholarships: General;Trustee (1938-1952):Woods Hole [Marine Biological] (1939-1952) SEE ALSO:Fellowships
• Student organizations (1941-1952)
• Student organizations: WBS Radio (1941-1949)
• Swimming (includes Lake Waban Beach Club and Lake Waban Swimming Cooperative) (undated, 1947-1952)
• Tuition and Fees: Correspondence with other colleges (1943-1952)
• Union: General (1945, 1949-1952)
• Union: Contract (1942-1943)
• Union: Contract (1944-1952)
• Union: Correspondence: Buildings and Grounds, Dormitories, Personnel office (1942-1945)
• Union: Hours and Seniority (1943-1948)
• Union: Rules (1943-1946)
• Union: Wages (1942-1950)
• U.S. Government: General (1941-1951)
• U.S. Government: Internal Revenue (1939-1942, 1951)
• U.S. Government: Internal Revenue: Admission Tax (1942-1952);Alcohol Permit (1944-1948)
• U.S. Government: Internal Revenue: Motorboat Tax (1942-1945);Narcotics License (1943-1947);Nehoiden Golf Club (1939-1947)
• U.S. Government: Internal Revenue: Non-resident aliens
• U.S. Government: Internal Revenue: Withholding Taxes (1942-1951)
• U.S. Government: Office of Education (1940-1951)
• U.S. Government: Office of Price Administration (1942-1946)
• U.S. Government: Social Security (1939-1950)
• U.S. Government: Veterans Administration (August, 1945-June, 1948)
• U.S. Government: Veterans Administration (July, 1948-November, 1952)
• Wellesley Country Club (1943-1944);Wellesley, Town of: General;Board of Selectmen (1941-1950)
• Civil Defense (1950-1952);Fire Department (1949-1951)
• Wellesley, Town of: Water, Sewer and Light Department (1939-1951)
• Wellesley, Town of: Weston Road Veterans Housing Project (1945-1946);Zoning (1946-1952)
• Women's Colleges: Comparative Income and Expenditure Schedules (1940-1947)

• Equipment: Inventory (1938-1952)