Scope and Contents This series, arranged alphabetically by topic and chronologically thereafter, includes the contents of Allen Spitzer's file cabinet and largely maintains his folder order and titles. The letters E through 0 are missing. Included here is correspondence carried on by Spitzer as he searched for academic positions and research opportunities (Agency Placement, Summers and Sabbaticals, and Travel and Research subseries), material on his work with the Blackfeet Nation of Montana, and book reviews...

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Leo P. Chall, editor of "Sociological Abstracts", asks Allen Spitzer to become an advisory editor for the area of social anthropology (11-25-57). Spitzer recruited some of his students to do abstracting work, prompting Chall to remark: "What you are doing for us with the aid of your students is fantastic. I hope you fully realize how much I and the profession appreciate what you are doing" (2-6-61).

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Spitzer registered with the National Teacher Placement Service as well as with the Natonal Catholic Welfare Conference in his search for a teaching position.

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Allen Spitzer is approached about becoming a contributing editor for "The Indian Historian," a new publication of the American Indian Historical Society.

Scope and Contents Included here are communications from professioal associations as well as an outline by M. Inez Hilger, O. S. B. for an ethnographic field method (December 1956). Also included is a letter asking Allen Spitzer to give a lecture for the Le Blond Lecture Series of the Athenaeum of Ohio (3-31-62). Connected with this material is an outline apparently for talks on physical anthropology and cultural anthropology. The folder also contains a short and undated bibliography on Catholicism and...

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This folder contains communications from the Society for Applied Anthropology.

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These official communications chronicle Allen Spitzer's military career. Several of these documents refer to Jesse Allen Spitzer; one has the Jesse crossed out; and another notes that Allen Spitzer has no middle name.

Scope and Contents These letters, orders, and memoranda document Allen Spitzer's activities with the California National Guard Reserve. Included here is Spitzer's outline for a lecture on domestic disturbances and collective behavior (4-27-52). Also here is a clipping noting Spitzer's assignment to lecture on crowd and mob psychology and to do research in military intelligence, psychological warfare, and social psychology (undated). At the end of the folder are index cards summarizing Spitzer's army and...

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This series, arranged alphabetically by author and alphabetically by title thereafter, contains papers written for Allen Spitzer's classes. Also here are some papers Produced by Lillian Spitzer for a class in anthropology at Washington University. The final folder of the series contains exam papers of various students.

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Meyer's paper "The Problem of Promiscuity in the Adolescent of Today" was written for a class on Culture and Personality.