Robert L. Darcy Papers
SC-76
Darcy, Robert L. 1928-
18 Boxes(8 linear feet)
1957-1997 (bulk: )
Collection Inventory
I. Biographical
Box I 1
1. Honors, Commendation, Media
2. Academic Degrees, Curriculum Vitae
3. Professional associations
4. Biographical Sketch
5. Correspondence (Misc.)
II. Professional
A. Speaking Engagements
6. 1959-1962
7. 1963-1965
8. 1966-1969
9. 1970-1984
Box II B 1
B. Publications
1. “Journey to China: (a Personal Notebook),” 1988
2. 1957-1964
3. 1965-1969
4. 1970-1973
5. 1974-1978
6. 1979-1982, 1 of 2
Box II B 2
1. 1979-1982, 2 of 2
2. 1983-1997
3. “The British Purchase Tax,” 1951
4. “The Burden of the National Debt,” 1956
“The Resurgence of General Education: what, why, how,” May 1994
5. “A Classroom Introduction to the World of Work,” 1972
6. Data for Analyzing National Policy Issues in Vocational Education: Final Report, 1981
7. “Dimensions of a Rural Strategy for the Employment and Training Administration,” 1977
8. “Doing What Schools do Best: An Economic Perspective,” 1981
9. “An ES Policy Advisory Committee,” 1977
10. “The ETA (USES) Position Regarding Inspection Responsibilities on Housing for Agricultural Workers,” 1977
11. “Economic Ideas and Concepts in Business Education,” 1964
12. Reviews: The Economic Process: A Structured Approach, 1986-1988
13. “Economies and Career Education,” 1974
14. “First Steps Toward Economic Understanding,” 1966
15. “Foreseeing the Future Teacher’s Needs,” 1962
16. “Human resources in Saudi Arabia,” 1976
17. Jordan Economy, The Renewal for Skilled Workers…,1984
18. “Linking Training and Employment: A Case Study of Training Systems in Jordan,” 1985.
Box II B 3
1. “Manpower Education: A New View of the World of Work,” 1968
2. Manpower in Changing Economy
3. “Meeting Students’ Employment-Related Needs,” 1982
4. Municipal Income Tax, 1957
5. “Perspective for Youth Employment Policy,” 1977
6. “The Preservice Program,” 1965
7. “Program Opportunities in Employer Services,” 1977
8. “Proposal for Compulsory Listing of all Farm Jobs,” 1977
9. “Report on Vertical Integration and Divorcement in the Oil Industry,” 1956
10. NDEA study, 1966
11. “Research in Action: Vocational Education and the Risk of Unemployment for Black Youth,” 1981
12. “Role of Employment Service Functions in a Coordinated Manpower System: A Summary Paper,” 1977
13. “A Sampler of Statistical Data Bases,” 1981
14. Statistical Resources for Studies in Vocational Education, 1981
15. “Teaching Personal Economics in the Social Studies Curriculum,” 1971
16. “U. S. Tax Policy and Private Investments Abroad,” 1956
17. “What Should Students Know About Their Worker Role?” 1968
18. “The World of Work: A Rural Perspective with Accent on Youth,” 1974
19. “The World of Work: New Thrust in Economic Education,” 1969
C. Organizations/Projects
Box II C 1
Ohio Council on Economic Education and Ohio University Center for Economic Education
1. Publications
2. Annual Reports, 1962-1964
3. Annual Reports, 1965-1967
4. Memos and Drafts
5. Workshops
Box II C 2
6. Follow-up Activities for Manpower Development Institute, 1964
7. Manpower Development Report, 1964
Colorado State University Center for Economic Education
8. Conference, 1972
9. High School Survey Report
World of Work Project
10. Newsletter, Conferences
Department of Labor Manpower Administration
11. Proposal: “Transition from School to Work”
Box II C 3
1. Reports, 1 of 2
2. Reports, 2 of 2
National Institute of Education: Mountain-Plains Education and Economic Development Program
3. Final Report Draft
4. Correspondence
USAID: El Salvador/Jordan
5. General Information, El Salvador
6. Findings Report
7. Final Report
8. Data
9. Correspondence
Box II C 4
World Bank – Guatemala
1. Correspondence and notes
United States – Saudi Arabian Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation
2. Orientation
3. Joint Commission Agreement, 1 of 6
4. Joint Commission Agreement, 2 of 6
5. Joint Commission Agreement, 3 of 6
6. Joint Commission Agreement, 4 of 6
7. Joint Commission Agreement, 5 of 6
8. Joint Commission Agreement, 6 of 6
9. Administration: American Staff in Riyadh
Box II C 5
1. U. S. Treasury Department, OSAA
2. K. S. A. Ministry of Education
3. K. S. A. Ministry of Higher Education and Supreme Council of Universities
4. K. S. A. Ministry of Interior
5. Materials for report on K. S. A. Ministry of Education
6. K. S. A. General Presidency of Girls Education
7. General Education
8. Memorandum of Conversation
9. Memorandum File
10. Memorandum: Steve Hayes
11. Memorandum: K. S. A. Officials
12. Memorandum: RLD File
13. General Memorandum
Box II C 6
1. Telex File
2. Labor, 1 of 5 (Project Agreements)
3. Labor, 2 of 5 (Project Agreements)
4. Labor, 3 of 5 (Project Agreements)
5. Labor, 4 of 5 (K. S. A. Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training Centers)
6. Labor, 5 of 5
7. Summary Development Plan
8. Development Plan, 1 of 3
Box II C 7
1. Development Plan, 2 of 3
2. Development Plan, 3 of 3
3. Planning, 1 of 2 (K. S. A. Ministry of Planning)
4. Planning, 2 of 2 (Second Five Year Plan)
5. Maps, General Information K. S. A.
Department of Labor Employment Service
6. Background to “Role of Employment Service Functions…”
Box II C 8
National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE)
1. January, 1978 – April, 1978
2. May, 1978 – December, 1978
3. January, 1979 – July, 1979
4. August, 1979 –February, 1980
5. March, 1980 – June, 1980
Box II C 9
6. July, 1980 – December, 1980
7. January, 1981 – June, 1981
D. Subject File
Box II D 1
Teaching Material
1. Manpower and Economic Attitudes Tests
2. Test Question Cards, 1 of 3
3. Test Question Cards, 2 of 3
4. Test Question Cards, 3 of 3
History of Economic Education
5. Pamphlets, 1 of 2
6. Pamphlets, 2 of 2
Social Values and Value Analysis
7. “A Framework for Analyzing Social Values,” Draft and Comments
8. “Value Issues in Program Evaluation”
9. “Memorandum on Values and the Cultural Impact of Affluence and Industrialization on Saudi Arabian Society”
10. Ambiguity in Evaluation
11. “A Note on Value Analysis”
12. “Economic Reasoning and Social Values”
13. “Economic Education, Human Values, and the Quality of Life”
14. Values and Valuation
15. “Vocational Education Outcomes: Perspective for Evaluation”
16. “Some Key Outcomes of Vocational Education”
III. Personal writings
Box III 1
A. Opinion pieces
1. “World War II Memories and Reflection” Fifty Year Club Bulletin Knox College, Autumn 2004
2. Schweitzer, Jung, and Veblen: Wisdom for 21st Century Ethics, 2003
3. Cultural commentary (musings, aphorisms, lamentations, etc.), 1993-2004
B. Letters to Editor
4. Letters to the Editor, 1959-1982
5. Letters to the Editor, 1990-1999
6. Letters to the Editor, 2000-2002
7. Letters to the Editor, 2003
8. Letters to the Editor, 2004
9. Letters to the Editor, 2005
C. Poetry
10. Poetry, 1991-1999
11. Poetry, 2000-2002
12. Poetry, 2003-2005
13. Poetry, undated
14. dichos Sad but True
15. Poetry, numbered Haiku 1-153
16. Poetry, Haiku and other essays, 2005
IV. Media
Box IV A 1
A. Photographs
1. Phillip E. Powell and Robert Darcy
2. Robert Darcy at Edinburgh, Scotland 1995
3. Ruth Haines, Akron City Schools with RLD on right
4. Robert Darcy, Vicki Williams and Phillip E. Powell
5. Arkansas State Dept. of Education
6. RLD and PEP in Arkansas
7. Center Policy Committee 1972
8. 1st Annual CFEE Membership Meeting
9. Members of WOWEE National Advisory Committee
10. Lawrence Evert, Robert Darcy, Phillip Powell, Quincy Washington
11. WOWEE workshop
12. Staff Members of Colorado State University’s Center for Economic Edcation
13. Raymond A. Kimball, RLD and PEP
14. RLD, Philip E. Powell
15. RLD, Raymond Kimball, Phillip E. Powell
16. Participants and Staff of the World of Work Economic Summer Leadership Workshop
17. Ohio Workshop on Economic Education
18. Debriefing Session for Political Consultant
19. Hal Johnson, RL Darcy and Bruce Perryman
20. Exec. Committee Members and Officers of Colorado Council on Economic Education Denver 1974
21. Robert L. Darcy and Office Staff
22. S.Stowell Symmes, Robert Darcy, Robert Reichard, Phillip Powell, Holly Coors
23. Colorado Council on Economic Education
24. Prof. Robert Darcy visits NYC School as pert of world of work economic education project 1972
25. Robert Darcy
26. R. Darcy (biographical)
B. Transparencies
Box IV B 1
1. Transparencies
Box IV B 2
1. Transparencies
II. Bibliography
The Economic Process. Publishing Horizons, 1986, qpb 264pp, 3rd printing. (both traditional and innovative ideas and analysis, e.g., 37-49, 229-238).
"Schweitzer, Jung, and Veblen: Wisdom for 21st Century Ethics," (Dec. 2002 paper placed in Veblen Archives at Carleton College, Schweitzer Collection at Syracuse U., and C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich).
Manpower and Economic Education. Love Pub. Co., 1973, hardcover, 380pp. (subtitle: A personal and social approach to career education, co-author P.E. Powell -- an innovative school text for world-of-work courses with social studies perspective, widely adopted and themes copied: see Postscript, 369-372).
DARCY: Ancestors and Descendants of Michael Darcy & Catherine Donahue Darcy of County Kilkenny, Ireland: With particular attention to their son, Thomas Patrick Darcy (1868-1959) of Nebraska. Rev. ed. 1999, call no. CS71 D215 1999, Newberry Library, Chicago. (43pp, spiral binding, graphics).
"Economic Education, Human Values, and the Quality of Life," ch 10 in Humanistic Frontiers in American Education (Prentice-Hall, 1971, ed. R.P. Fairfield).
"The Nature of Economic Enterprise," ch 5 in Vocational Guidance and Human Development (Houghton Mifflin, 1974, ed. F.L. Herr). And related chapter "What All Workers Should Know About Economics," 211-232 in Vocational Education and the Nation's Economy, 1977, ed. W.G. Meyer.
"A Classroom Introduction to the World of Work," Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Vol. 15:4 (Winter 1972) 23-26.
"Defining the Basis for Judgment," VocEd: Journal of the American Vocational Association, Vol. 55:7 (Sept. 1980) 31-32. And related monograph, Vocational Education Outcomes: Perspective for Evaluation, Ohio State U., 1979, plus "Value Issues in Program Evaluation," Journal of Economic Issues (Vol. XV, No. 2, June 1981, alas with errors by editor acknowledged but not corrected).
The Municipal Income Tax. Colorado Labor Council AFL-CIO, Denver, 1957. (33-page monograph disseminating data and analysis from doctoral dissertation, Local Income Taxation: City and County of Denver as a Case Study, 1957, 326pp).
Among 200 or so other writings, published and unpublished, are Primer on Social Economics (1971) used in such diverse settings as an American Indian reservation in South Dakota and adult learning programs in New York City. Many appeared in academic and popular journals, official reports, newsletters, magazines and newspapers, and as booklets, research reports, monographs (First Steps Toward Economic Understanding, 1966, more than 10,000 copies distributed by an educational foundation and other organizations; Anatomy of Free Enterprise, 1963, with Thomas Jefferson's quote: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free / It expects what never was and never will be;" and the aesthetically gratifying and lucid Manpower Education in a Growing Economy, 1968). A number of these are preserved in Special Collection 76 at Wheaton College's Buswell Memorial Library.
