Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations records

Collection

Identifier: UA 0112

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Boxes 1-16 and 18-24 stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information. Box 17 stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Scope and Contents

Event planning documents, correspondence, notes, drafts, memos, press releases, newsclippings, photographs and memorabilia created and maintained by Rice University in support of the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations, hosted by Rice University.

Dates

Creation: 1990

Creator

Rice University. (Organization)

Access Restrictions

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Boxes 1-16 and 18-24 stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Box 17 stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish from the Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations records, 1990, must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Biographical / Historical

Perhaps no other event so represented Rice’s emerging role as a national, even international, institution, than its being chosen to host the 1990 Economic Summit of the Industrialized Nations. For three days in July heads of delegations from the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, and the European Economic Community held talks at Rice, covered by thousands of journalists and communicated to the world. Rice had long hosted major world figures—General Pershing; Presidents (or presidents-to-be) Taft, Hoover, Eisenhower, Kennedy (announcing the goal of going to the moon), Johnson, Carter, Reagan; Sir Harold Wilson; Prince Philip; and the Dalai Lama suggest the range of famous visitors. But never had such an assemblage appeared at one time as during the Economic Summit. Alumni around the globe were thrilled to see on television world political leaders walking through the familiar arches of Lovett Hall.

Excerpted from Dr. John Boles' "A University So Conceived: A Brief History of Rice" (Revised Edition), 1997, p. 81.

Extent

14 Linear Feet (24 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Acquisition Information

These records were transferred from the University Relations Department, the Albert Thomas Convention Center, Rice Summit Office, Office of University Relations, Office of News and Publications, Tommy LaVergne (photographs), Coordinator of Foreign Language Volunteers, Rice University President's Office; 1990-1996.