Manuscript Register

This document describes a collection of materials held by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
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e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu

Posted to Internet: October 2002
Addenda: 1993 2002

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

Photographs: Box 2, Box 6, Oversized Box A, Box 7

Film/Video: Box 9

Electronic material: Computers disks, box 10

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Box List

Box 1

Annual Quality Management Conferences, 1959 -- 1979

Annual Reports, 1962, 1968 -- 1978

Annual Technical Conferences, 1976 -- 1979

Divisional Conference, 1977, 1983

Educational Activities

Education and Training Board, ETI, 1974 -- 1979

Examining Committee, 1968 -- 1979 and undated

Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

Executive Proclamation. Quality Control Week, 1983 (signed by Governor Terry Branstad and Mary Jane Odell)

Governing Documents, 1959, 1975

Meeting Notices, 1960 -- 1977

Membership by Company, 1962 -- 1976

Box 2

Membership Lists

Membership Status and Recruitment, 1972 -- 1979

Midwest Conference Board

Newsletter

Officers and Committee Chairmen, 1944 -- 1979

Photos, 1982 -- 1984 and undated

President's Night, October 16, 1981

Box 3

Program Schedules, 1955 -- 1978

Publications by Members, 1977 -- 1978

Publicity, 1956 -- 1979

Quality Control Training Manual/Statistical Quality Control Handbook

Recognition of Members

Saddoris Award Competition

Saddoris Award Program, 1969 -- 1970, 1974 -- 1978

Scrapbooks

Box 4

Scrapbooks (cont.)

Box 5

Scrapbooks (cont.)

Section Formation, 1944 -- 1945

Section Sponsored Awards

Speaker Arrangement. Correspondence, 1977

Subsections

Weathervane, 1967 -- 1970, 1978 -- 1979

Box 6

Negatives, 1944, 1949, 1962 -- 1979

Photographs

Oversized Box A

Photograph

1993 Addendum

Box 7

American Society for Quality Control. Conventions, 1949, 1963, 1981 -- 1986

American Society for Quality Control. State University of Iowa Section, Programs, 1946 -- 1959

American Standard Control Chart Method of Controlling Quality During Production

American Standard Guide for Quality Control and American Standard Control Chart Method of Analyzing Data, 1958

Certificates of Accomplishment, 1988 -- 1989

Correspondence, 1947 -- 1950, 1969, 1981 -- 1990. Including a letter from Willard L. Boyd

"An Extension Course in Statistical Quality Control" by A.E.R. Westman

Ford Motor Company and Statistical Process Control, 1982

"Fundamentals of Quality Control" by L.A. Knowler, 1946

"Look Mom -- No Arithmetic. A Graphical Method of Determining the Characteristics of a Frequency Distribution" by Arthur Bender

Management's Viewpoint of Quality Control, 1946

Midwest Quality Control Conferences, 1946 -- 1949, 1975, 1987

"An Outline of Lectures, Demonstrations, Discussions and Laboratory Exercises on Quality Control By Statistical Methods" at the State University of Iowa, November 1945, Prof. Knowler

"An Outline of Lectures, Demonstrations, Discussions and Laboratory Exercises on Quality Control by Statistical Methods. Operations Research: Reliability" at the University of Iowa, 1985, Prof. Knowler

Photographs

Quality Congress. Fortieth Anniversary, May 19 -- 21, 1986

Quality Control and How It Works, 1946

Quality Control by Statistical Methods by Lloyd A. Knowler, et. al., 1969

Box 8

Quality Control by Statistical Methods. An Intensive Training Course. University of Iowa, 1945 -- 1985

Quality Control Training Manual. University of Iowa, 1965. (2 folders)

Research material. Incomplete and untitled articles and research notes

Society for Quality Control, State University of Iowa Group. Correspondence, minutes, constitution, etc., 1944 -- 1949

Statistical Quality Control Handbook

"Teaching Statistical Quality Control for Town and Gown" by E.G. Olds and L.A. Knowler

Total Quality Management Symposium, 1989

Transparencies used for teaching

Two-Day Training Course. Manual -- Chicago Section

Box 9

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Twenty-eighth short course. Quality Control by Statistical Methods, 1975. (2 folders)

Videotape. Local Issues Roundtable: American Society of Quality Control #1303, October 5, 1988

Box 10

Annual report for American Society for Quality Control -- 1986, 1987

Financial Records, 1986 -- 1991. Check records and receipts

Financial Report for fiscal year 1985, 1985 -- 1986

Quality Campaign Advertisement of September 26, 1986

Quality Assurance and Risk Management Booklet

Section Management Program, 1990 -- 1991. Top Achiever Award

Treasurer's computer records, 1985 -- 1987. Computer disks and paper records

Treasurer's Logs

Treasurer's Records

Box 11

Treasurer's Records (cont.)

2002 Addendum

Press release, concerning a visit to the University of Iowa by Ralph Wareham