Clyde S. Johnson Fraternity Collection

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Clyde Sanford Johnson, Professor of Educational Psychology and Social Foundations at California State University - Long Beach, was an important supporter and chronicler of the American college fraternity.  The author of many articles and publications about the fraternity system, his most significant work was Fraternities in Our Colleges (1972).  He was an active leader in his fraternity, Phi Kappa Epsilon, and played an important role in the National Interfraternity Conference as a member of the Executive Committee and as National Interfraternity Conference Research Editor.  He died May 2, 1970. 

The Clyde S. Johnson Fraternity Collection, 1931-1970, includes materials on fraternities/sororities and fraternity subjects.  It also contains National Interfraternity Council Executive Committee minutes (1945-70), NIC programs (1948-70), and a bibliographic card file of articles and books on fraternity and college life.

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Clyde S. Johnson Fraternity Collection, 1931-70

Note on disposition of published material, June 6, 1974. In 1974, 10.3 cubic feet of published material in the Johnson Collection was merged with similar series in the Stewart S. Howe Collection.  The transferred material includes:  14 volumes of Bairds Manual of American College Fraternities; Banta's Greek Exchange, 1913-70; The Fraternity Month, 1933-70; National Interfraternity Conference Yearbook, 1909-38, 1941-68; histories, directories, magazines, newsletters, pledge manuals and officers manuals of individual fraternities and general works including books and pamphlets on college fraternities, student organizations, student government and higher education.