Hello again! We're beginning the second week of the semester here in Collegeville and things have been very busy on campus. At this point in time I don't have a lot of super exciting news or any earth shattering developments for my project but I figured I'd post a quick update about where I am and what I hope to accomplish in the near future.
At the Summer Fellows symposium Dr. Hemphill from the History department was kind enough to offer assistance with digging through old documents from the initial conception of CIE. I'll absolutely be taking her up on her offer and I will also seek out Dr. Stern of the Politics department since word on the street has it that he's one of the people responsible for the program.
I anticipate that studying the origins of CIE will lead me to discoveries that I don't expect so I'm trying to keep my options open. With that in mind, if anyone has any thoughts about resources I can utilize or any ideas about where I should move my project to next then I absolutely welcome suggestions.
In addition to pursuing the CIE route I am also in the process of looking through Richter's papers which are available in the Ursinusiana Archives in their entirety or here in a more abbreviated form. What interests me most about these documents are the bits in the Chronicle of Ursinus College about "Fostering Socialization," "Conveying Knowledge," "Sustaining the Institution," and "Conveying Culture." The papers begin in 1970 which is about a year after the abolition of compulsory chapel so I hope that I will be able to use them to form a slightly better picture of what the program at Ursinus looked like during the years following.
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