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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 Latin Notes (undated) (1940?)
- Folder 2: Academic Papers Loose Research: Assyria and Rome, notebook and notes (undated)
- Folder 3: Academic Papers Loose Research: miscellaneous notebooks (undated)
- Folder 4: Academic Papers Loose Research: miscellaneous notes (undated)
- Folder 5: Academic Papers Loose Research: miscellaneous notebook, notes (undated)
- Folder 6: Academic Papers Loose Research: Theology notes (undated)
- Folder 7: Academic Papers Loose Research: Theology notes (undated)
- Folder 8: Academic Papers Medieval History, notes (undated)
- Folder 9: Academic Papers Medieval Latin, notes (undated)
- Folder 10: Academic Papers Medieval Latin Text, "Epistolae Abaelard: VI, Migne L.P., v. 178 c. 219 D-(undated)
- Folder 11: Academic Papers Medieval Universities, notes (undated)
- Folder 12: Academic Papers Metaphysics (undated)
- Folder 13: Academic Papers Metaphysics-miscellaneous papers and notes, James G. Case (?) (undated)
- Folder 14: Academic Papers Middle Ages (undated)
- Folder 15: Academic Papers Miscellaneous-Archaeology Bibliography, French Notes, Architecture (undated)
- Folder 16: Academic Papers Miscellaneous-Notes, Quotes, etc..(undated)
- Folder 17: Academic Papers Monographie de la Cathedrale de Chartres (undated)
- Folder 18: Academic Papers "Newman as Historian", draft (undated
- Folder 19: Academic Papers Newspaper Article by William F. Buckley Jr. about Saint Michael's Forum "Religion in the Communist Bloc Countries" (undated)
- Folder 20: Academic Papers Notes-Miscellaneous (undated)
- Folder 21: Academic Papers Notes-Politics in Summa, Politcs (general) (undated)
- Folder 22: Academic Papers Notes-Settlement and Colonization of Europe (undated)
- Folder 23: Academic Papers Notes-Spiritual and Temporal Powers, Hugh of St. Victor-De Sacramentis (undated)
- Folder 24: Academic Papers Philosophy of Education 309-notes (undated)
- Folder 25: Academic Papers Philosophy Notebook (undated)
- Folder 26: Academic Papers Philosophy Papers-"Introduction a la Theologie" by Fr. Pare, "Plan du Cours d'Initiation a la Philosophie" by Rev. Regis (undated)
- Folder 27: Academic Papers Philosophy/Psychology Notebook (undated)
- Folder 28: Academic Papers Philosophy Seminar 3b "A College Course in Social Philosophy" (undated)
- Folder 29: Academic Papers Philosophy Syllabus and Notes (undated)
- Folder 30: Academic Papers Philosophy Thesis Notes (undated)
- Folder 31: Academic Papers Plato-Anton C. Pegis, Notes (undated)
- Folder 32: Academic Papers Pontificial Institute of Mediaeval Studies-notes: Grabmann, Aristotle (early 1940's?) (undated)
- Folder 33: Academic Papers Romanesque Period (undated)
- Folder 34: Academic Papers St. Thomas of Aquinas 'Subjectivity, Culture, the Liberal Arts' (undated)
- Folder 35: Academic Papers "Sequence in Theology" by Gerald E. Dupont (undated)
- Folder 36: Academic Papers Social Problems-Notes and Papers (undated)
- Folder 37: Academic Papers Society of Saint Edmund History-draft (undated)
- Folder 38: Academic Papers Spain-Notes (undated)
- Folder 39: Academic Papers Survey of Christian Art (undated)
- Folder 40: Academic Papers Theology Notebooks (undated)
- Folder 41: Academic Papers Theology Notebooks-French, English (undated)
- Folder 42: Academic Papers Theology/Philosophy Quotes and Excerpts (undated)
- Folder 43: Academic Papers Theology Thesis, Part one-"The Coming of the Kingdom" by Guiseppe Ricciotti (undated)
- Folder 44: Academic Papers Theology Thesis, Part Two-"The Life of the Kingdom" by Guiseppe Ricciotti (undated)
- Folder 45: Academic Papers Vernacular Literature (undated)
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