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Guide to the Forest Grunigen Files on the California Osteopathic Association

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Table of contents

Collection Contents

Series 1. California Osteopathic Association/California Medical Association merger 1941-1990

Physical Description: 1.0 linear feet

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains correspondence, reports, minutes and other material that reflects the work of the COA, CMA and their respective components related to the merger.

Arrangement

Arranged in 3 subseries:

Fact Finding Committee files

Evaluating Commission files

Topical files

Fact Finding Committee records 1941-1962

Scope and Content Note

This subseries documents the work of the Fact Finding Committee which was formed by Forest Grunigen in 1943 to lead COA in merger talks with CMA. The correspondence of especially prolific committee members have been filed under their respective names.

Arrangement

The files are arranged by type of material. Correspondence is further arranged alphabetically by the writer of the outgoing correspondence, with the exception of three folders in which Grunigen's original thematic arrangement has been preserved.

Box : Folder 1 : 1

Agendas 1952-1961

Box : Folder 1 : 2

Agreements, contracts and resolutions 1952-1961

Box : Folder 1 : 3

Articles and news releases 1952-1958

Box : Folder 1 : 4

Brochures and pamphlets 1941-1956

Box : Folder 1 : 5-15

Correspondence

Box : Folder 1 : 5-8

General 1940-1962

Box : Folder 1 : 9-12

Individuals

Box : Folder 1 : 9

Caylor, George D. 1948-1960

Box : Folder 1 : 10

Grunigen, Forest 1952-1962

Box : Folder 1 : 11

Hufstedler, Seth 1950-1961

Box : Folder 1 : 12

Pollock, Wayne 1952-1959

Box : Folder 1 : 13-15

Thematic 1941-1962

Box : Folder 1 : 16

"Declaration of Geneva" 1948

Box : Folder 1 : 17

Invitations 1947

Box : Folder 1 : 18

Legal documents 1948-1961

Box : Folder 1 : 19-20

Meeting minutes 1949-1962

Box : Folder 1 : 21

Memoranda 1943-1962

Box : Folder 1 : 22

Newsletters and newspapers 1952-1961

Box : Folder 1 : 23

Notes 1943-1960

Box : Folder 1 : 24

Questionnaires 1951-1952

Box : Folder 1 : 25-27

Reports 1947-1961

Box : Folder 1 : 27

"Report of the A.O.A. Conference Committee to the House of Delegates" 1954 July

Evaluating Commission files 1948-1958

Scope and Content Note

This subseries reflects the work of the Evaluating Commission, appointed by the House of Delegates of the AOA in 1949 to study the awarding of the M.D. degree to osteopathic physicians. Files include correspondence, minutes and other material.

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged alphabetically.

Box : Folder 1 : 28

Articles circa 1948-1949

Box : Folder 1 : 29

Bulletins 1955

Box : Folder 1 : 30

Correspondence 1948-1949

Box : Folder 1 : 31-32

Minutes 1948-1949

Box : Folder 1 : 33-34

Reports 1949-1958

Box : Folder 1 : 35

Resolutions 1948

Topical files 1962-1990

Scope and Content Note

This subseries contains documents relating to the transfer of administration of the Forty-First Medical Society to the California College of Medicine Support Foundation, Inc. The Society was first formed in 1962 as a component within the CMA. It was made up of former D.O.s. Included are budgets, reports and correspondence of the Society related to Proposition 22 of 1962 which amended the Osteopathic Initiative Act of 1922 by removing the power of the Board of Osteopathic Examiners to issue licenses to new applicants.Also included is a draft copy of a case study about the differences between osteopathy and more traditional medicine prepared by Arnold I. Kisch and Arthur J. Viseltear of UCLA's School of Public Health, under contract with the U.S. Public Health Service. It was published in 1967 by the Division of Medical Care Administration.

Arrangement

This subseries is arranged alphabetically.

Box : Folder 1 : 36

"Analysis and report of opinion study among Doctors of Osteopathy in California concerning M.D. degree and name of college for California Osteopathic Association" undated

Box : Folder 1 : 37-40

Forty-First Medical Society files 1988-1990

Box : Folder 1 : 37

Agreements 1989-1990

Box : Folder 1 : 38

Budgets 1988-1990

Box : Folder 1 : 39

Correspondence 1990 April 3 - June 7

Box : Folder 1 : 40

Proposition no. 22 undated

Box : Folder 1 : 41

Kisch, Arnold I. and Arthur J. Viseltear, "Doctors of Medicine and Doctors of Osteopathy in California: Two Separately Legitimized Medical Professions Face the Problem of Providing Medical Care," draft 1966

Series 2. California Osteopathic Association - Board of Trustees meeting material 1951-1962

Physical Description: 0.3 linear feet

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series includes minutes, agendas, budgets and other material of the California Osteopathic Association's Board of Trustees that is not directly related to the merger.

Arrangement

This series has been retained in its original chronological order.

Box : Folder 2 : 1-9

Meeting material 1950-1962

Series 3. Dain Tasker writings, correspondence and other materials 1950s

Physical Description: 0.4 linear feet

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains the unpublished manuscript of COA Historian, Dain Tasker's history of the osteopathic profession in California. In comparison with the copy in AS-027 (California College of Medicine records), several chapters are missing. Also included are various correspondence, articles and other material from Tasker's files.

Arrangement

The first item in the series is Tasker's manuscript which is further arranged by chapter number. Tasker's Historian files are arranged in chronological order.

Box : Folder 2 : 10-19

Tasker, Dain L. "History of osteopathy in California [late 19th century to 1950s], manuscript circa 1954

Box : Folder 2 : 10-11

Chapters 1-10

Box : Folder 2 : 11-12

Chapters 15, 20, 21, 23

Box : Folder 2 : 12-13

Chapters 26-31

Box : Folder 2 : 13-17

Chapters 33-62

Box : Folder 2 : 17-18

Chapters 64-77

Box : Folder 2 : 19

(Unidentified chapter) "History of Osteopathy"

Box : Folder 2 : 20

Historian's files 1950-1959

Series 4. Photographic material and realia 1901-1989

Physical Description: 1.6 linear feet

Series Scope and Content Summary

The photographs in this series include images of key figures in California osteopathy such as former presidents of the COA Dorothy Marsh and Forest Grunigen. The bulk of the photographs are unlabeled but seem to be from the 1940s. The slides are from a series titled "Cigarette smoking and your health," published by the California Interagency Council in 1965. There is no indication as to how these might have been used by Grunigen, but perhaps in a lecture. The guest book includes the signatures of Grunigen and Dorothy Marsh among others but there is no indication as to what occasion it represents. The date of the plaque that contains the osteopathic oath is unknown but the oath itself was first used in 1938.

Arrangement

This series is arranged alphabetically.

Box : Folder 2 : 21

COA charter awarded to Los Angeles City Osteopathic Society 1939 March 5

Box : Folder 3

Guest book 1945 December 8

Box : Folder 2 : 22

Photographs 1901-1980s

Box : Folder 4

Framed photograph of first board of osteopathic examiners 1901

Box : Folder 3

Plaque of the Osteopathic Oath undated

Box : Folder 2 : 23

Slides 1965

Series 5. Scrapbooks 1912-1961

Physical Description: 0.4 linear feet

Series Scope and Content Summary

The scrapbook of programs and badges has been taken apart and put into folders arranged by year. A preservation copy has been made of the intact scrapbook. The scrapbook of news clippings is a photocopy; the original clippings have been discarded.

Arrangement

Material is arranged alphabetically. The convention programs and badges are further arranged chronologically. The news clippings are kept in their original order.

Convention programs and badges scrapbook

Box : Folder 2 : 25-33

Original items, removed from scrapbook 1912-1942

Box : Folder FB 34 : 14

Preservation copy of intact scrapbook 1912-1942

Loose material

Box : Folder 2 : 34

Correspondence and invitations 1960-1961

Box : Folder 2 : 35

Newsletters and newspapers 1960-1961

Box : Folder FB 34 : 15

Scrapbook of news clippings, photocopy 1960-1961

Collection Contents

California Osteopathic Association/California Medical Association merger

Fact Finding Committee records

Evaluating Commission files

Topical files

California Osteopathic Association - Board of Trustees meeting material

Dain Tasker writings, correspondence and other materials

Photographic material and realia

Scrapbooks

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