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Blumer, chairman of the department of sociology and social institutions at the University of California at Berkeley, writes to Allen Spitzer about possible teaching positions and about Spitzer's decision to pursue training in social work.

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This folder contains information and correspondence about book reviews that Allen Spitzer produced for various publications. A published copy of a review of three volumes on sociological method is located in Folder 11 of Series 12, Works.

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This correspondence concerns Allen Spitzer's enrollment at the School of Social Welfare of the University of California at Berkeley. Health problems forced him to withdraw. Also here are ephemera such as maps of San Francisco and Berkeley and a pamphlet on the student health service.

Scope and Contents The materials consist of information about religious organizations associated with Mount Carmel and the Carmelites from 1940 to 1973.Included here are: an explanation of the aims of the Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Theresa and of the obligations of its members (5-31-40); a copy of Allen Spitzer's "My Road to the Church," published in _Mount Carmel_ magazine (1941-42); a note from Dorothy Day of _The Catholic Worker_ suggesting people for Allen to contact...

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The materials include correspondence and information related to the Central States Anthropological Association.

Notable items include: a program for the Annual Meeting in 1956, a copy of Allen Spitzer's paper "Religious Structure in Mexico," presented at the annual meeting of the Association in Norman, Oklahoma in May 1958, and correspondence on the group's meeting in St. Louis in May 1962.

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This material concerns the Spitzers' desire "to make a field study of the social, cultural, and religious organization of the Cherokees" with the help of SLU graduate students.

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This folder contains class papers by Allen Spitzer written during his time as a student at Stanford University.

The papers include "A Description of a Secondary School's Role in the Mental Hygiene Program" about the conditions of St. Ignatius High School in San Francisco. Many other papers are about China, including several on Confucianism and others on the family.

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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This folder contains notes, handouts, a bibliography, and papers for a course in social casework taken by Allen Spitzer at the University of California at Berkeley.

Scope and Contents The materials include correspondence between Spitzer and members of the Catholic Anthropological Conference, including universities such as Catholic University of America.Notable correspondence include: minutes of the meeting of the Catholic Anthropological Conference for May 13, 1961; correspondence dealing with the planning for a program meeting of the Catholic Anthropological Association (January and February 1962); notes on a paper by Dorothea F. Sullivan, apparently on a...