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Collection Overview
Title: Faculty Papers. Rev. Gerald E. Dupont, SSE., 1931-1973
ID: SMC 21/21.2
Extent: 15.0 Boxes
Arrangement: 15 boxes, including 3 for photos and postcards, 4 Oversize and 1 Confidential.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This series is an excellent collection that provides an in-depth look at the academic career of Rev. Gerald E. Dupont. A true scholar and academic, the collection provides insight into his astute philosophical intellect and includes the work he generated from his time at Saint Michael’s College as a student, priest, administrator, and professor.
The collection is separated into four sub-series: Academic Files, Academic Papers, Personal Papers, and Society of Saint Edmund Papers.
The Academic Files are comprised of administrative paperwork, arranged in numerical order by year.
The Academic Papers are comprised of the bulk of his academic work as student, teacher, graduate and doctoral candidate, arranged in numerical order by year, with undated files following in alphabetical order.
The Personal Papers reflect Father Dupont’s collection of everything that had meaning to him; notes and cards from family and friends, poems scribbled on scrap paper, and newspaper clippings. It includes a well-preserved collection of vintage greeting cards, a play he wrote based on world history, family photos and letters, and his personal watercolors. It is arranged alpha-numerically.
Finally, the Society of Saint Edmund Papers contain administrative business for the Edmundite society, arranged alpha-numerically.
Collection Historical Note
Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, the Reverend Gerald E. Dupont attended and spent all of his priestly life at Saint Michael’s. Following his ordination in 1939, his service and leadership as Academic Dean and as President fostered tremendous growth and expansion for the college, both philosophically and physically. While attending graduate school in Toronto and Montreal, where he obtained a Doctorate in Philosophy, Father Dupont took over as the 10th President of Saint Michael's in August 1958, being the last Edmundite to serve as president of the college. During his tenure, he oversaw the continued construction of buildings on campus, including Saint Michael the Archangel Chapel, the Durick Library, Alliot Hall, and the final two quad residence halls. Meanwhile, students continued to attend at record rates. Student life changed as the makeup of the student body changed from returning GI’s to primarily 18-22 year olds. Financial growth did not follow the other trends however, and fiscal problems grew throughout his term. Of most importance however, was the groundwork he laid for the eventual switch to lay leadership. Father Dupont was not unaware of the impact such a change was likely to have and there is some evidence that he planned significantly for something he saw as inevitable.
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- Folder 1: Academic Papers 1970 Philosophy 101 and Elements of Logic, notes prepared by Fr. Dupont
- Folder 2: Academic Papers 1970-72 Philosophy 101, 102, 103, Practical Logic: notes and tests
- Folder 3: Academic Papers 1970-72 Philosophy 201, 202, 203, "General Ethics" by Irving A. Georges
- Folder 4: Academic Papers 1970 Philosophy Program Reading List
- Folder 5: Academic Papers 1970, 1973 Philosophy Seminar, Miscellaneous; notes, "Scholastic Dialectis or Formal Logic" by Irving A.Georges
- Folder 6: Academic Papers 1971-73 Newspaper Clippings
- Folder 7: 1972 "Nature de L'Universite Catholique" May 20
- Folder 8: Academic Papers 1972-73 Philosophy 410 Seminar; notes, book I
- Folder 9: Academic Papers 1972-73 Philosophy 410 Seminar, notebook II
- Folder 10: Academic Papers 1973 Philosophy 309B, Education 309B
- Folder 11: Academic Papers 1972 "Philosophy of Man", notes prepared by Gerald E. Dupont, SSE, January
- Folder 12: Academic Papers 1972 "Philosophy of Man", notes prepared by Gerald E. Dupont, SSE, January
- Folder 13: Academic Papers 1972, 1973 "Philosophy of Man", text draft and added introduction, prepared by Gerald E. Dupont, SSE
- Folder 14: Academic Papers Architecture-Basilicas, notes (undated)
- Folder 15: Academic Papers Architecture-Gothic (undated)
- Folder 16: Academic Papers Art and Architecture, Early (undated)
- Folder 17: Academic Papers Art- "L'Art Chretien d'Occident-Deschamps" (undated)
- Folder 18: Academic Papers Art- "L'Art Gothique" (undated)
- Folder 19: Academic Papers Art-Byzantine (undated)
- Folder 20: Academic Papers Art-Early Christian, notes (undated)
- Folder 21: Academic Papers Art-Early Christian, notes (undated)
- Folder 22: Academic Papers Art-Early Christian and Byzantine, notes (undated)
- Folder 23: Academic Papers Art-Early Gothic, notes (undated)
- Folder 24: Academic Papers Art-Gothic Art Pictures (undated)
- Folder 25: Academic Papers Art-Pictures of Cathedrale de Chartes (undated)
- Folder 26: Academic Papers Art-Pictures of Cathedrale Chartres et Cathedrale Reims (undated)
- Folder 27: Academic Papers Art-Pre-Romanesque, notes (undated)
- Folder 28: Academic Papers Augustan Age and Virgil, 44 B.C., lectures (undated)
- Folder 29: Academic Papers Bede, History and Philosophy, notes (undated)
- Folder 30: Academic Papers Beginning of the 10th Century, notes (undated)
- Folder 31: Academic Papers Boniface the 8th, notes (undated)
- Folder 32: Academic Papers Christian Art (undated)
- Folder 33: Academic Papers Christian Worship and Penance, Watkin-Early Church History (undated)
- Folder 34: Academic Papers Church and State, notes (undated)
- Folder 35: Academic Papers Clerical Studies (undated)
- Folder 36: Academic Papers Crusade, notes (undated)
- Folder 37: Academic Papers Dogmatic Theology, notes (undated)
- Folder 38: Academic Papers "The Dionysius the Pseudo Areopagite" by Gerald E. Dupont, SSE, notes (undated)
- Folder 39: Academic Papers "The Doctrine of Communitas Perfecta in Aristotle and St. Thomas" (undated)
- Folder 40: Academic Papers Education Bibliography (undated)
- Folder 41: Academic Papers Education in the Dark Ages, notes (undated)
- Folder 42: Academic Papers End of the Middle Ages (undated)
- Folder 43: Academic Papers German Class Notes (undated)
- Folder 44: Academic Papers Giotto di Bondone (undated)
- Folder 45: Academic Papers Gothic Art and Sculpture (undated)
- Folder 46: Academic Papers "Health and Nutrition/Vitamins" research and notes (undated)
- Folder 47: Academic Papers Histoire Generale des Doctrines Medievales, by Fr. L.E. Paulin, SSE (undated)
- Folder 48: Academic Papers Historical Methods Bibliography (undated)
- Folder 49: Academic Papers History 814-880 (undated)
- Folder 50: Academic Papers History Notes (undated)
- Folder 51: Academic Papers History of Philosophy-notes (undated)
- Folder 52: Academic Papers Hundred Years' War, notes (undated)
- Folder 53: Academic Papers John Dewey-notes (undated)
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