
Descriptive Summary
	Collection Number:	MS C 414
	Creator:	Stolz, Lois Meek
	Creator:	Stolz, Herbert Rowell, b. 1886
	Title:	Lois Meek and Herbert Rowell Stolz Papers
	Dates:	1917-1984
	Quantity:	6.7 linear feet (16 boxes)
	Abstract:	The collection includes the papers of Herbert Rowell Stolz. It also contains biographical and genealogical data, correspondence files with individuals and organizations, child development materials, lecture notes, talks, typescripts, reprints, and photographs.

Biographical Note

Dr. Lois Meek Stolz was born in Washington, DC, in 1891 and died Palo Alto, CA, in 1984. She received her A.B. from George Washington University in 1921 and her Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University in 1925. In 1929 she returned to Columbia to help direct the newly created Child Development Institute. In 1938 she married Herbert Stolz and moved to California to work with him at his Institute of Child Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.

At the outbreak of World War II, she was recruited by Edgar Kaiser for one of the homefront's most remarkable programs -- to develop child care centers for the children of working mothers at Kaiser Shipyards. Her first of its kind center in Portland, Oregon, was open 24 hours a day and served 25,000 women employees. It became the model for industry-based child care. After the war, she became Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, retiring in 1957. Her classes were among the favorites at Stanford and she always took a personal interest in all her students, acting as mentor and often forming lifelong professional friendships. She was a founding member of the Society for Research in Child Development, and her 1951 book Somatic Development of Adolescent Boys, co-authored with her husband, is still a classic in the field. Her research and teaching philosophy focused on parental education and involvement. Her book Your Child's Development and Guidance won the Parent's Magazine Medal in 1940.

Dr. Herbert Rowell Stolz was born in Wiamea, HA in 1886 and died in Palo Alto, CA in 1971. He entered Stanford University 1905, but his undergraduate education was interupted after meeting Jack London, who offered to sail for a year with him aboard London's famous boat, the Snark. Stolz returned to Stanford in 1907 and graduated with an A.B. He then attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1910, where he studied medicine with the likes of Sir William Osler. While at Oxford, he participated in the 1913 Berlin Olympics as a broad jumper for the US. He completed his medical degree at Stanford in 1914.

After serving in France during World War I as Captain in the Army Medical Corps, Dr. Stolz began his professional career assisting the director of physical education for the state of California. From 1926-1934 he was Director, Institute of Child Welfare, University of California, Berkeley. He then moved to direct the guidance program for Oakland Public Schools until 1947. He became director of special schools and services with the California State Department of Education, where his work centered around overseeing programs at Californa schools for blind and deaf children, and for the cerebral palsied.He retired from this position in 1956.

Throughout his career, Dr. Stolz followed the influence of his mother, herself an M.D., and his Stanford professor Dr. Clark Hetherington in the study and promotion of human and child development. He specifically focused on the importance of physical education and individualized attention to a child's emotional and social development.

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Collection Summary

The collection includes the papers of Herbert Rowell Stolz. It also contains biographical and genealogical data, correspondence files with individuals and organizations, child development materials, lecture notes, talks, typescripts, reprints, and photographs.

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Restrictions

Collection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.

Copyright

NLM does possess copyright to the collection. Contact the Reference Staff for details regarding rights. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.

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Index Terms
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	MeSH Subjects
		Child Development
		Psychology
	Corporate Names
		Columbia University. Teachers College
		Stanford University
		University of California
	Genre Terms
		Lecture Notes

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Biographical Data, 1904-1984
Box
1		Oral History Interviews/Ruby Takanashi, 1977-1978
1		Early Education, 1904-1920
1		Family Correspondence, 1917-1983
1		Photographs
1		Clippings, 1912-1983
1		Wedding Correspondence, 1938
1		Correspondence - Honors, 1941-1982
1		Certificates, 1930, 1960, 1981
1		Correspondence - Ninetieth Birthday, 1981
1		Personal Correspondence, 1921-1959
2		Personal Correspondence, 1960-1984
16		Genealogical Material on Stolz and Rowell Family

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General Correspondence, 1917-1984
Box
2		Faust, Margaret S., 1963-1978
2		Frank, Lawrence K., 1968-1969
2		Honzik, Marjorie, 1968-1983
2		Hymes, James L., 1969-1983
2		Menninger, Constance and Walter, 1966-1982
2		Schlossman, Steven L., 1977-1979
2		Senn, Milton J.E., 1956-1982
2		Siegel, Alberta, 1959-1984
2		Smuts, Alice B., 1976-1985
2		Stevenson, Nancy and Harold, 1954-1979
2		Takanashi, Ruby, 1976-1979
3		Woolley, Helen B.T., 1969-1975
3		General Correspondence - Misc., A - V
4		General Correspondence, Misc., W - Z
4		Correspondence - not identified
4		Correspondence re: publications, 1953-1981

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Correspondence - Organizations, 1917-1984
Box
4		American Association of University Women, 1925-1979
4		American Psychological Association, 1949-1984
4		Australian Pre-School Quarterly, 1960-1968
4		Committee on Pupil Placement, 1967-1979
4		International Federation of University Women, 1958-1972
4		Lippincott, 1937-1951
4		National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1929-1984
4		Notable American Women, 1977
4		Prentice-Hall, 1956
4		Society for Research in Child Development, 1958-1967
4		Stanford University Press, 1953-1969

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Early Preschool Centers, 1920s
Box
5	Washington and Ann Arbor
5	New Orleans Nursery School
5	Photographs
	Russia, 1929

5		Photos of Child Care Facilities
5		Children's Literature
	Child Development Institute (Columbia), 1929-1935

5		Office Records and Forms
5		Pamphlets and Clippings
5		Director's Report to Dean
5		Reports
5		Syllabus
6		Syllabus
6		Exhibit - "Nursery Schools in the U.S."
Oversize		Scrapbook - Photograph Album. Columbia Child Development Institute, ca. 1930-1934
	Kaiser Child Service Centers, 1943-1946

6		General Information
6		Oral History, by James L. Hymes
6		Brochures
6		Articles and Reprints
6		"Bosn's Whistle" Articles
6		Pamphlets for Teachers
6		Personnel
6		Staff Anecdotes
6		Parent's News and Literature
6		Photographs
6		Final Report
6		Final Report
6	Scrapbook - Dedication of S.S. "Kings Canyon", sponsored by L.M.S., 1945

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Lecture Notes, Classroom Materials, etc.
	Arranged by subject.




Box
7		Adolescence
7		Aggression
7		Anger, Resistance, Negativism
7		Anxiety
7		Basic Biologic Functions
7		Bibliographies
7		Chemawa-Sociometric Analysis
7		Democracy
7		Dependence and Independence
7		Elimination
7		General Principles
7		Heredity
7		History of Child Psychology
7		Hunger, Feeding
7		Identification
7		Imagination, Dreams
7		Infancy
7		Language
7		Level of Maturity in the Seven Year Old
7		Love, Affection, Jealousy
8		Motor Development
8		Personality
8		Physical Growth
8		Prejudice
8		Prenatal Growth
8		Psychology 111 - Exams
8		Psychology 111 - Observation Children
8		Psychology 111 - The First 2 Years
8		Psychology 116 - Tyron Material
8		Psychology 211
8		Senior Colloquia, 1965
8		Sex Education
8		Social Class
8		Social Development
8		Socialization of the Child
8		Some Controversial Issues in Child Research
8		Switching Technique, Winter, 1949
8		Understanding Concepts, Imagination

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Lectures and Talk Notes, 1925-1983

Box

Lectures and Talks, 1925-1983

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Publications and Typescripts (Misc.), 1929-1974
Box
9		"How Your Child Develops Through Play" - Unpublished typescript with pictures, 1940
9		"Fathers and Children" - Correspondence with Publishers, 1952-1956
10		"Fathers and Children" - Unpublished typescript, 1954
10		"Somatic Development of Adolescent Boys" - Typescript and Correspondence, 1966-1970
10		Illustrations for Publications - Cartoons Clippings and Bibliographies, 1944-1945
10		Reviews and Notices - "Your Child's Development and Guidance", 1939-1940
10		Reviews and Notices - "Father Relations of War-Born Children", 1942-1957
10		Reviews and Notices - "Influences on Parental Behavior", 1967-1973
10		LMS Reprints, 1922-1941
11		LMS Reprints, 1942-1976
11		LMS Publications
12		LMS Publications
13		LMS Publications
13		Programs and Annoucements, 1926-1979
14		Certificate - The American Psychological Association, 1967
14		Printed Matter by other authors
14		Publications by other authors
14		Yearbook of Lois Meek (Stolz), 1910

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Herbert R. Stolz, 1924-1984
Box
15		Biography
15		Bibliography
15		Photographs
15		Clippings, 1944-1971
15		Herbert R. Stolz Scholarship - Stanford, 1971-1984
15		Institute of Child Welfare, Univ. of California, via Berkeley, 1926-1939
15		Oakland Public Schools, 1934-1946
15		Speeches, 1935-1955
15		Awards and Tributes, 1946-1969
15		Certificate - National Association of the Deaf, 1952
15		Sympathy Lettes, 1971
15		Unidentified Sympathy Letters, 1971
15		Personal Correspondence, 1952-1976
15		General Correspondence - Misc., 1967-1971
16		National Education Association, 1938-1941
16		Lecture Notes, Classroom Materials, etc. - Adolescent Development
16		Radio Talks, 1934-1944
16		Programs, 1963-1978
16		Reprints, 1924-1969

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Finding Aid to the Lois Meek and Herbert Rowell Stolz Papers, 1917-1984

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Descriptive Summary

Biographical Note

Collection Summary

Restrictions

Restrictions

Copyright

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Prefered Citation

Provenance

Series Descriptions

Biographical Data, 1904-1984

General Correspondence, 1917-1984

Correspondence - Organizations, 1917-1984

Early Preschool Centers, 1920s

Lecture Notes, Classroom Materials, etc.

Lectures and Talk Notes, 1925-1983

Publications and Typescripts (Misc.), 1929-1974

Herbert R. Stolz, 1924-1984