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RECORD GROUP 10, Subgroup 4
Charlotte Biber Winsor (1926-1981)

Biographical Note
Scope and Content Note
Descriptions
Container List

Photo: Charlotte Winsor in 1955.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Throughout her career, Winsor was a member of a variety of educational and child guidance organizations, taught courses at the Vassar Summer Institute, directed Head Start training programs, and took part in larger Bank Street research projects. Upon her retirement in 1971, she received the title of Distinguished Teacher Educator Emeritus. During the 1970s, Winsor organized and developed the Lucy Sprague Mitchell Memorial Conferences, organized Bank Street College Publications, and edited two volumes of the writing of Bank Street College faculty. Winsor died in 1981.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The papers of Charlotte Winsor reflect her almost forty years of participation in Bank Street's teacher education program in the Graduate Division, the Public School Workshop, faculty and administrative affairs, and education research.

This subgroup contains biographical and autobiographical materials, correspondence, course work papers, notes from lectures and speeches, records of advisor and faculty activities, and research and project reports reflecting Winsor's involvement as a faculty member, administrator, project director and emeritus faculty. Also included is a Family Album scrapbook detailing the history of the Cooperative School for Teachers created by Winsor.

DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES A - Correspondence (1952-1981) contains general correspondence regarding Bank Street College faculty affairs and other professional activities, as well as correspondence with Edith Gordon on the Bank Street oral history project. Arrangement is chronological.

SERIES B - Lectures, Conferences and Publications (1948-1980) includes talks given by Winsor; materials from conferences she attended and organized, and publications.

SERIES C - Public School Workshop (1944-1965) contains curriculum and resource materials, administrative records, reports, correspondence with schools, and papers from a parents group. This series also includes stories, plays, poetry, and drawings created by Public School Workshop classes. This series is arranged chronologically.

SERIES D - Personal and Biographical Materials (1963-1981) includes resumes, photographs, and autobiographical writings, as well as notes, interview transcripts, and essays on the history of Bank Street College and of progressive education.

SERIES E - Faculty Affairs (1948-1980) documents Winsor's service as a member of the faculty and as an advisor, as chair of the graduate school, and as a participant in various Bank Street programs and projects.

SERIES F - Course Work Papers (1940-1981) contains teaching materials, lecture notes, syllabi, student work, bibliographies, and course evaluations from Winsor's courses at Bank Street. Organized by course.

SERIES G - City and Country School (1926-1953) contains stories and books produced by students of the City and Country School.

CONTAINER LIST

 

Box	Subgroup	Series	Title/Contents	Date
33	4	A	Correspondence, 6 folders	1952-1981
		B1	Lectures and talks, 43 folders	1948-1980
		B2	Conferences, LSM and BSC, 6 folders	1958-1975
34			Conferences, LSM, 8 folders	1976-1981
		B3	Publications, drafts, notes and correspondence, 21 folders	1951-1980
		C	Public School Workshop, 19 folders	1944-1965
		D	Personal and Biographical materials, 24 folders	1963-1983
35		E1	School for Teachers administration, 15 folders	1948-1966
		E2	Committee records, 12 folders	1951-1981
		E3	Advisor meeting notes, 2 folders	1953-1959
		E4	Faculty meetings, 4 folders	1952-1966
		E5	Guidance program study, 2 folders	1952-1961
		E6	Next Steps in Teacher Education, 3 folders	1955-1959
		E7	Miscellaneous Bank Street events and activities, 25 folders	1952-1980
		E8	Projects, programs and grant proposals, 6 folders	1949-1963
36			Projects, programs and grant proposals, 12 folders	1958-1980
		F1	Course work- Social Studies, 13 folders	1942-1971
		F2	Course work- Cultural Trends: Implications for Education, 4 folders	1951-1969
		F3	Course work- Principles and Problems of Education, 17 folders	1945-1976
		F4	Course work- Miscellaneous courses, seminars and talks to students, 11 folders	1940-1981
		G	City & Country School student books and stories, 11 folders	1926-1953
37			City & Country School student books and stories, fragile originals
38		E1	The Family Album, History of the BEE scrapbook	1930s

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