Jerilyn S. McIntyre papers

Jerilyn S. McIntyre papers, 1845-2015

Overview of the Collection

Creator: McIntyre, Jerilyn S.
Title: Jerilyn S. McIntyre papers
Dates: 1845-2015 (inclusive)
18452015
Quantity: 26 linear feet, (54 boxes)
Collection Number: ACCN 2730
Summary: The Jerilyn S. McIntyre papers (1845-2015) consist of writings, research materials, teaching materials, administrative and professional materials. Jerilyn S. McIntyre is president emerita of Central Washington University and also holds emerita status as interim President, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and professor of communication at the University of Utah.
Repository: University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions: Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Languages: English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Jerilyn Sue McIntyre was born on June 24, 1942, to Frank Otto and Maxine (Ward) McIntyre. She attended Stanford University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1964. The following year she acquired a Master of Arts degree in journalism from Stanford. From 1965 to 1967, she worked as a correspondent for McGraw-Hill Publishing Company at their World News Bureau in Los Angeles. In 1968, after obtaining a teaching certificate, she was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communications at Chico State College in California. In 1973 she attained a Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Washington and later the same year, took a position as Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Iowa. Dr. McIntyre remained there until 1977, when she was hired as Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at the University of Utah. While at the University of Utah, she served as Associate Dean of the College of Humanities from 1984 to 1988, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs from 1988-1990, Vice President for Academic Affairs from 1990-1998, and briefly as interim President in 1991 and for the entire year of 1997. Dr. McIntyre became President of Central Washington University in the summer of 2000. She is the first woman to have served in any of these administrative positions at the University of Utah and Central Washington University. Dr. McIntyre is the author of numerous monographs, articles, and papers on communication history, journalism ethics, and higher education issues. She is married to W. David Smith.

(Biographical sketch quoted from RG014-05-36, Central Washington University Office of the President, Jerilyn S, McIntyre Papers. Archives and Special Collections, Brooks Library, Central Washington University.)

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Jerilyn S. McIntyre papers (1845-2015) consist of writings, research materials, teaching materials, administrative and professional materials. The writing materials include manuscript drafts and several articles. The majority of the published materials discussed the Hutchins Commission and the history of mass communication. Included in the collection are the research materials and notes that were collected and used by Dr. McIntyre. The teaching materials include syllabi, lecture notes, examinations, and handouts for courses taught at the University of Washington, University of Iowa, University of Utah and Central Washington University. The collection also contains the professional and academic career materials mainly focused on Dr. McIntyre's career at the University of Utah.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection was arranged into the following series:

Series I. Writings and research materials; Series II. Administrative and professional materials; Series III. Teaching materials; Series IV. Oversize materials; and Series V. Addenda.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Jerilyn S. McIntryre in 2012, 2014 and 2016.

Processing Note

Processed by Betsey Welland in 2013, 2015 and 2019.

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Separated Materials

Photographs and audio-visual materials were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

See also the Guide to the Central Washington University Office of the President, Jerilyn S, McIntyre Papers (RG014-05-36) located at the Central Washington University, Archives and Special Collections.

Related Materials

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Guide to the collectionReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 1, Folder 1

This folder contains a brief description by McIntyre about her research and publications.

I: Writings and research materialsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		*The Structure of Communication in an Emerging Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Oregon 1852-1856* Ph.D. dissertation completed at the University of Washington.
Box	Folder
1	1	Dissertation proposal and abstract	1964; undated
1	2	Prospectus and seminar essays on research	1970-1971
1	3-4	Manuscript, drafts and notes
1	5	Manuscript, final draft
1	6-7	Research notebooks and notes	1971-1972
2	1-2	Research materials This box contains research materials regarding various collections and also photocopied materials from a number of sources.	1845-1949; 1968; 1970
		The History of Mass Communication Media in America, manuscript project
Box	Folder
3	1	Correspondence	1975-1977
3	2	Contract with Wm. C. Brown Company	1975
3	3	Introduction, draft
3	4	Chapter one, draft
3	5	Chapter two, draft
3	6	Chapter three, draft
3	7	Chapter four, draft
3	8	Chapter five, draft
3	9	Chapter six, draft
4	1-3	Manuscript drafts
4	4	Manuscript review
4	5	Westley-MacLean model, notes
		*Introduction to Mass Communication* This textbook manuscript was later used for the publication, Self, Symbols & Society.
Box	Folder
5	1-2	Manuscript drafts
		Stanley J Baran, Jerilyn S McIntyre, and Timothy P Meyer, Self, Symbols & Society: An Introduction to Mass Communication
Box	Folder
6	1	Correspondence with Addison-Wesley Publishing Company	1977-1984
6	2	Manuscript draft, first version
6	3	Manuscript draft, second version
6	4-6	Manuscript drafts
7	1-5	Manuscript drafts
8	1	Manuscript review
8	2	Advertisement for book
8	3	Book Review
8	4	Jerilyn S McIntyre, Instructor's Manual to Accompany Self, Symbols & Society: An Introduction to Mass Communication	1984
		"The Hutchins Commission's Search for a Moral Framework"
Box	Folder
9	1	Published article and drafts	1979
		"The Hutchins Commission and the Concept of Media Accountability"
Box	Folder
9	2-3	Correspondence and manuscript reviews	1985-1987
9	4	Manuscript drafts
		"Repositioning A Landmark: The Hutchins Commission and Freedom of the Press"
Box	Folder
10	1	Correspondence and reviews	1986-1987
10	2	Manuscript drafts
10	3	Published article	1987
		Commission on the Freedom of Speech, general manuscript and research materials
Box	Folder
11	1	Correspondence and notes	1983-1984
11	2	Proposal materials	1987
11	3-5	Manuscript drafts
11	6	Manuscript drafts and research materials
12	1-5	Research notes
13	1-2	Research notes
13	3	Research notes and articles by others	1978; 1985; undated
13	4	Research articles by others	1969-1986
13	5	Robert M. Hutchins oral history transcript	1964
14	1	Photocopies of the Zechariah Chafee Jr. papers from Brown University The following materials located in boxes 14-23 cannot be photocopied. The materials are not the originals and are photocopies from other institutions.	1943-1947
14	2	Photocopies of the Ruth A. Inglis papers from the University of Washington	1944-1947
14	3	Photocopies of the Harold Laswell papers from Yale University	1943-1947; 1984
14	4	Photocopies from the University of Chicago	1938-1946; 1983
14	5	Photocopies from the Library of Congress	1944-1946
15	1-2	Photocopies from the University of Washington	1944-1947
15	3	Information about research collections and notes	1981-1983
15	4-5	General research materials	1944-1947; 1983-1984
16-23		Photocopies from the Commission on Freedom of the Press Records, reports and other documents These boxes include photocopies of documents arranged by the document numbers from 1-121 from the Commission on Freedom of the Press records. University of Chicago Library and University of Washington Libraries For a detailed description of the materials in boxes 16-23, please refer to these collections.	1943-1945; 1980; 1983
		"The Industrial Worker and the San Diego Free Speech Fight: A Study of Working Class Consciousness"
Box	Folder
24	1-3	Manuscript drafts
24	4	Manuscript review	1988
24	5	Published manuscript
24	6	Research notes and materials
24	7	Industrial Worker, photocopies from microfilm	1912
24	8	San Diego Tribune, photocopies	1912
		"Images of Anti-Structure Approaches to the Study of Radical Rhetoric"
Box	Folder
25	1-4	Manuscript drafts and correspondence	1984; 1986
		"Rituals of Disorder: A Dramatistic Interpretation of Radical Dissent"
Box	Folder
26	1	Manuscript draft
26	2	Correspondence	1988-1989
26	3	Published manuscript	1989
		"Speaking as a Woman"
Box	Folder
27	1	Project description
27	2	Outline of manuscript project
27	3	Manuscript draft	2011
		Articles and other writings The folders in this series consist, of not only the published articles, but may also include draft, notes, and correspondence.
Box	Folder
28	1	"The Avvisi of Venice: Toward an Archaeology of Media Forms"	1987
28	2	"Commission on Freedom of the Press"	1995-2001
28	3	"Commitment"	1981
28	4	"Communication Contexts and Media History"	1981
28	5	"Communication on a Western Frontier: Some Questions About Context"	1976
28	6	"Coping with Isolation: A Nineteenth Century Mining Town's Solution"	1979
28	7	"The Cultural Context of Early Venetian Newsletters"	1987
28	8	"Encountering the Inner Limits of Stress"	1982
28	9	"How to Succeed in College Without Really Thinking"
28	10	"Information Flow in a Frontier Context"	1977
28	11	"The Knowledge Beat"	1999
28	12	"On the Historical Perspective"	1979
28	13	"Oppositionalizing Carey"	1990
28	14	"The Pride of Venice"	1984
28	15	"The Structure of Communication in an Emerging Frontier Community"	1974
28	16	"Teaching Communication History in a Combined Speech/Journalism Curriculum"	1981
29	1	"Transportation as Material Communication: The Development of Road Networks in a Nineteenth Century Oregon Community"	1981
29	2	"Transportation Developments in a Mid-19th Century Western Community"	1995
29	3	Jerilyn S. McIntyre and Alexander Nesterenko, "The 'Communication Possibilities' of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft"	1978
29	4	Book reviews by McIntyre	1978-1993
29	5	Systems papers
29	6	General writings and drafts
		Conference papers and presentations
Box	Folder
30	1	"Conceptualizing the Interrelationship Between Radical Texts and Contexts: Intellectual History as Interpretation of Social Change"	1986
30	2	"Cultural Approaches to the Study of Media Forms"	1987
30	3	"Frontiers of Modern Journalism: Finding Unity in the Divergent Paths of Turn-of-the-Century Media History"	1980
30	4	"The Hutchins Commission and the Problem of a Framework of Action for Moral Standards in the Press"	1979
30	5	"The Industrial Worker and Its Rhetoric: Working Class Identification in the San Diego Free Speech Fight of 1912"	1981
30	6	"Information Flow in a Frontier Context"	1977
30	7	"The Pride of Venice"	1984
30	8	"The Public's Right to Have Its Daily Bread, Made of Whole Wheat: The Hutchins Commission and the Concept of Accountability"	1985
30	9	"The Structure of Communication in an Emerging Frontier Community"	1974
		Research materials and notes
Box
31-32		General research materials These boxes contain photocopied articles and other research materials. These research materials could potentially have been used for the article, "The Avvisi of Venice: Toward an Archaeology of Media Forms," "The Cultural Context of Early Venetian Newsletters," or "The Pride of Venice."	1924-1988
33-35		General research notes These boxes contain handwritten research notes on a number of topics used for manuscript and article writings.

II: Administrative and professional materialsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
36	1	Correspondence	1978-2011
36	2	Curriculum vitae	1984-1986
36	3	Appointment as University of Utah, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs This folder contains mostly congratulatory correspondence and cards.	1990
36	4	Appointment as University of Utah, Vice President for Academic Affairs This folder contains mostly congratulatory correspondence and cards.	1990
36	5	Appointment as University of Utah, Interim President	1991; 1997
36	6	Speeches given as University of Utah, Vice President for Academic Affairs	1991-1998
36	7	Speeches given as University of Utah, Interim President	1997
36	8	General speeches and writings	2000; undated
36	9	Honors and tributes as University of Utah, Interim President and Vice President for Academic Affairs	1996-1998
36	10	General honors and awards	1990-1998
36	11	Central Washington University, Jerilyn S. McIntyre Music Building, naming ceremony program	2011
37	1	Employment opportunities	1997-1998
37	2	Presidential search controversy	1997-1998
37	3	"The Magnificent Seven" group
37	4	T-shirt, "I Am a University of Utah Woman"
37	5	Stationary and business cards
37	6	Activities and events	1991-1998
38	1	Articles by McIntyre	1996-1997
38	2-3	Articles about McIntyre	1990-2000
38	4	News clippings	1988-1998
38	5	Memorial service for William E. Ames	1989
38	6	General materials	1981-1996
39	1	Electronic mail E-mails regarding CAA surveys.	1997
39	2	Public Relations Survey of America, Summer Fellowship Project, "Speaker's Idea Book" Fellowship awarded to McIntyre while at Chico State College.	1969
39	3	University of Utah, Self-Study Report for Accreditation in Journalism and Mass Communication	1998
39	4	University of Utah, Self-Evaluation Report, Division of Journalism and Mass Communication	1979; 1985
39	5	University of Utah, A Report Prepared for the Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee	1997
39	6	NASULGC, Council on Academic Affairs, Executive Committee and Committee Chair Meetings	1996; 1998
39	7	University of Colorado, External Review Committee Report	1995
39	8	Journalism History materials This folder contains mostly materials regarding the editorial board and review work.	1980-1989; 1996-1997
39	9	University of Utah, Board of Trustees meeting minutes	1991
39	10	General administrative materials and notes	1990
		Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
Box	Folder
40	1	Correspondence	1978-1986
40	2	History Division, annual report materials	1981-1982
40	3	History Division, financial statements and expense vouchers	1981-1982
40	4	Advisory Board	1980-1982
40	5	AEJMC News	1988
40	6	Clio Among the Media	1979-1989
40	7-8	Annual convention materials	1979-1989

III: Teaching materialsReturn to Top

This series contains materials used and created by McIntyre during her teaching career. Included are syllabi, handouts, and teaching notes.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		University of Washington
Box	Folder
41	1	COM 150, The Mass Media	1971-1972
		University of Iowa
Box	Folder
41	2-3	19:106, Cultural and Historical Foundations of Communication Systems	1973-1976
41	4	Precision Journalism	1968-1976
41	5	Handouts	1973; undated
41	6	General catalog	1974-1976
		University of Utah
Box	Folder
42	1	COMM 479, Press Conference
42	2	COMM 600/COMM 623, Introduction to Graduate Study	1975-1992
42	3	COMM 622, Historical Research Methods	1982-1988
42	4	COMM 623, Research Methodology	1979-1983
42	5	COMM 624, Applied Historical and Critical Research	1979-1985
42	6	COMM 681, Seminar: Issues in Mass Communication	1982
43	1-3	COMM 682, Seminar in Communication History	1978-1993
43	4	COMM 4670, Specialty Reporting	1999-2000
44	1-2	COMM 5630, Mass Communication History	1998-1999
45	1	Honors 212, Mass Communication and American Culture in the Twentieth Century	1986-1987
45	2	Honors 492, Evaluating the Mass Media in America	1985
45	3-4	JMC 150, Introduction to Mass Communication	1980-1984
45	5	JMC 171, Writing and Reporting for the Mass Media	1977-1981
45	6	JMC 409, Interpretive Writing	1981-1982
45	7	JMC 451/COMM 4610, Magazine Article Writing	1980; 1982; 1999
45	8	JMC 490, Senior Seminar	1978-1982
46	1-5	JMC 533, Mass Communication History	1974-1983
47	1	JMC 533, Mass Communication History	1978-1984
47	2	JMC 560, Workshop in Journalism Education	1978
48	1-4	LE 101, Intellectual Traditions of the West	1973-1988
48	5	HUM 1010, Intellectual Traditions of the West	1984; 1999-2000
		Central Washington University
Box	Folder
49	1-2	COM 333, Communication Ethics	2001-2008
49	3-4	COM 486, Advanced Reporting Seminar	2001-2004
49	5	Transparencies
		General teaching materials
Box	Folder
50	1	Syllabi	1972-1987
50	2	Reading notes
50	3	Teaching materials	1982; 1984; undated
50	4	Ephemeral materials This folder includes cartoons, quotations, and other materials that had humorous or philosophical perspectives on the mass media, or academic life, or both.
50	5	Speakers and film orders	1979-1984
50	6	Sillars class notes	1985
50	7	A collection of syllabi by others	1994-1999

IV: Oversize materialsReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description
Box
51	General materials The items in this box include pin buttons, photocopy of a map, and a Crystal Radio Kit. This kit was used when teaching Mass Media History to undergraduates to provide a sample of early technology.

V: AddendaReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Manuscript drafts and published stories
Box	Folder
52	1	Draft of "Personal Essays on a Childhood Long Ago" This draft is the first chapter for a personal memoir.	2014
52	2	Drafts of Paws in the Piazza	2013-2014
52	3	Published short stories and additional publishing information	2012-2013
53	1	"Epiphany," published in The Storyteller Anthology	2015
53	2	"Lincoln School Redux," published in Garbanzo	2015
53	3	"Passages," published in Fine Lines	2015
		General materials
Box	Folder
53	4	Article about the McIntyre titled, "Local couple starts publishing company"	2014
53	5	Ella B. Johnson, The Ideal Drill Book	1931
53	5	Children's Singing Games
		Oversize materials
Box	Folder
54	1	The Instructor: the Classroom Magazine for Grade Teachers	1936
54		University of Utah t-shirts Includes the following t-shirts: "I Am a University of Utah Woman," "Rice-Eccles Stadium Dedication Game, 1998," "20th Annual ASUU/Administration Softball Game," and "University Administration, Campus Recreation."

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Communication--Research--United States
Communication--Study and teaching--Utah
Communication--Study and teaching--Washington (State)
Mass media

Personal Names

McIntyre, Jerilyn S.--Archives

Corporate Names

Central Washington University--Presidents--Archives
Stanford University. Department of Art and Art History--Alumni and alumnae--Archives
University of Iowa. School of Journalism--Employees--Archives
University of Utah--Collectibles
University of Utah--Professional staff--Archives
University of Utah. Department of Communication--Faculty--Archives
University of Washington. Department of Communication--Alumni and alumnae--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

Academic theses
Book reviews
Business correspondence
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Instructional and educational works
Manuscripts
Personal correspondence
Photocopies
Research (Documents)
Speeches
T-shirts

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