I. Hearing Files

The Special Trustees Committee to Investigate the Charges of Lienhard Bergel files, RG 03-C2, span the years 1929-1936, with the bulk of the documents having been generated during the course of the Committee's hearings from the spring through the summer of 1935. These files contain documents relating to the investigation in general, the hearings in particular, the Committee's final reports, and the involvement of various non-University persons and organizations during the course of the affair in the mid-1930s.

Document types include correspondence, statements, reports, stenographic transcripts, notes, telegrams, magazines, pamphlets, and newsclippings.

These files are not comprehensive of all related materials available during the period in question, and a number of other record groups may be consulted. It should be noted that what appears in these files was gathered over a very short period of time (from May to August, 1935) and illustrates only what the Special Trustees Committee used in its brief dealing with the case. While these files are inclusive of some non-University documents (usually among the "exhibits"), there are lacking certain key areas of information available from University records themselves, such as overall budget profiles of the College at that time, information pertaining to the University "anti-nepotism" ruling, or any Board of Trustees material addressing Bergel's "Petition of Appeal" which immediately followed delivery of the Committee's report. One could say that the Special Trustees Committee files are reasonably comprehensive, however, regardless of the limited number of issues the Committee selected in delivering its final report.