Whitman College and Northwest Archives
345 Boyer Ave.
Walla Walla, WA 99362
(509) 527-5922
http://www.whitman.edu/content/penrose/archives
archives@whitman.edu



Guide to the Stephen B. L. Penrose, Jr. Papers, 1908-1990


USHTM_WCMss41





Original inventory, arrangement, and publication produced by Shirley Rogers Farley, Patrick Peel, Frances Copeland Stickles, Peggy Copeland Corley, Margaret Dale Penrose Harrell, Lawrence L. Dodd, and Linda O'Reilly.

Finding aid encoded by, June 2006
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.


Overview of the Collection

 
Repository Name:
 

Whitman College and Northwest Archives

345 Boyer Ave.
Walla Walla, WA 99362
(509) 527-5922
http://www.whitman.edu/content/penrose/archives
archives@whitman.edu

 
Collection Number:
 

USHTM_WCMss41

 
Creator:
 

Penrose, Stephen B. L., Jr.

 
Title:
 

Stephen B. L. Penrose, Jr. Papers

 
Dates:
 

1908-1990 (inclusive)
1919-1955 (bulk)

 
Quantity:
 

3.125 linear feet
8 boxes

 
Languages:
 

Materials are in English 

 
Summary:
 

This collection chiefly contains the correspondence of Stephen B.L. Penrose, Jr., depicting his presidency of the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, from 1948-1954, his involvement with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), his work with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and his views on and advocacy for Palestinian statehood and Palestinian refugees.

 

Biographical Note

The following edited excerpts are from the October, 1991 essay "Stephen B.L. Penrose, Jr.: A Biographical Tribute" by Frances Copeland Stickles and from the introduction to the 1993 publication of this collection by Lawrence L. Dodd.

Full text of the 1993 printed guide (application/pdf) 

Much of the work of Stephen B.L. Penrose,Jr. can be found to be as applicable today as it was when his speeches were experienced first-hand and his writings newly printed, especially when considering his defense of Palestinian rights just as the modern state of Israel was forming. In 1942, he wrote to his parents from New York about the danger to the Allied cause by an attempt to get a Jewish army organized in Palestine. He believed it would set off an Arab revolt. Until the day of his untimely death in 1954, he continued to voice his concern about Arab-American relations and the rights of the Palestinians. He had just completed six years as president of the American University of Beirut when he died at forty-six. As the Palestinian representative at the United Nations cabled Penrose’s widow Margaret “Peggy” Penrose: "The Palestine Arab refugees lost a champion and hero."

At the time of his death, Penrose was America's best-known advocate of Palestinian statehood. He wrote worked tirelessly for better understanding between the Arab World and the United States. "America's stake in the Middle East is fundamentally the possibility of losing World War III before a shot has been fired," he warned an audience at the Delmonico Hotel in New York in January 1951. Two years later, in May 1953, Penrose testified before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Middle East that, "It is no exaggeration to say that upon the solution to the problem of Palestine rests not only the peace of the Middle East but very possibly of the entire world . . . The refugee problem is a psychological one and should not be attacked on a purely statistical basis."

Penrose was the youngest son of Whitman College's president from 1894-1934, Stephen B.L. Penrose, Sr., and Mary Shipman Penrose. Penrose, or "Binks," was born and grew up on the Whitman campus and graduated magna cum laude from that college in 1928, majoring in Greek and chemistry. He went immediately after commencement to Beirut where he taught physics at the American University of Beirut for three years. Among his friends during the Beirut years were Charles Malik, later the Lebanese Ambassador to the United Nations and the United States, and Emile Bustany, an internationally respected engineer and businessman. At Columbia University, where Penrose gained a Ph.D. in philosophy, he met Peggy Dale, who received her M.A. in Spanish studies. They were married in Mexico City so that her parents, American missionaries to the Mexican Indians-her mother a medical doctor and her father an educator-could be present. The new Penrose family had three children: Margaret Dale, Mary Shipman (Polly), and Stephen Beasley Linnard (Stevie) Penrose, III.

Margaret Penrose received her B.A. from Erskine College and her M.A. from Columbia University. Her educational training was in the romance languages and before marrying Penrose she taught, for less than one year, in the American Community School in Mexico City. After marriage she taught Spanish at Whitman College and then began a career of helping her husband and raising a family. Following her husband's death, Margaret was Dean of Students at Scripps College, Claremont, California, from 1956-1962. She then became the assistant to the Dean of the School of Public Health and Director of the Shattuck International House, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1962-1978.

The road to Beirut for the Penrose family was circuitous, as they followed Stephen Penrose as his career path developed. After stints of teaching philosophy and psychology at Whitman College and Rockford College, he took a job with the Near East College Association in New York City as Assistant Director. In this position, the American University of Beirut was one of the six American institutions for which he coordinated recruiting, funding campaigns, and personnel support. He also wrote the history of the first seventy-five years of American University of Beirut, That They May Have Life. It is still in print.

After World War II broke out, Penrose joined the Office of Strategic Services and went to Cairo, where many of those he recruited to work for him had been his teaching colleagues in Beirut a decade earlier. He added Arabic to his language arsenal. He returned to Washington, D.C. as Deputy Chief of Secret Intelligence, and later became chief. This endeavor transferred him to the European theater and when the war was over, he was decorated by the Dutch and Polish governments and received the Bronze Star from the United States. He was decorated by the Lebanese government posthumously. After the war, Penrose became Special Assistant to U.S. Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal. When Penrose resigned to return to Beirut, Forrestal wrote him, "I am grateful for your assurance that you will be available to assist us in the future. I only hope that world conditions will never require us to interrupt you in this new venture."

The "new venture" was to be inaugurated as the fourth president of the American University of Beirut. The Penroses arrived in Lebanon in 1948 soon after the partition of Palestine. The third General Conference of UNESCO met in Beirut that fall and Penrose was immediately plunged into cooperative affairs as Advisor to the United States Delegation. These associations continued throughout his presidency. The day before he died he chaired a meeting of UNESCO's International Committee for the Translation of the Classics into Arabic. He was a corporate member-at-large of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions and kept up ties with Phi Beta Kappa, the American Philosophical Association, and the Royal Central Asian Society of London. His interests were wide-ranging and the contacts and associations, so essential to any fund-raiser, which he brought to bear on his new job, were legion. The Ford Foundation soon became a major donor to the university, and the first American government grant was made to American University of Beirut in 1950. Later his colleagues would say of him that "he steers the University with steadfast faith to a position of renewed strength and esteem throughout the Arab World."

During his six years as president, Penrose established an Arab Studies Program, Schools of Engineering and Agriculture, the Department of Public Administration, an Institute of Economic Research, School of Public Health, the Office of Dean of Students (he had served a year as assistant Dean of Men at Whitman College), and an effective Student Council. New buildings changed the look of the campus-on-the-Mediterranean: the Bechtel School of Engineering, the Jafet Memorial Library, the Gulbenkian Infirmary, faculty apartments, a new wing for the University Hospital, and a classroom building and farm complex for the School of Agriculture. Two Arab vice presidents were appointed.

At the same time, Penrose continued to be a public spokesman for Arab-American relations and to brief every American tourist who ventured to Beirut. Some of these tourists arrived by cruise ship, others on motor bike, and still others, like Dorothy Thompson the journalist, on assignment. The alumni family of Jafet came from Rio de Janeiro to see their library dedicated. Helen Keller came to visit schools for the blind in Lebanon and addressed a university chapel session.

Chronology Of The Life Of Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose, Jr.
1908 March 19
Born in Walla Walla, Washington. Sixth and youngest child of Stephen B.L. Penrose, Sr. and Mary Shipman Penrose.
1913-1919
Attended Green Park Elementary School, Walla Walla, Washington.
1919-1923
Attended Walla Walla High School, Classical Studies.
1923-1928
Attended Whitman College. Member of Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, Order of Waiilatpu, "W' Club, Glee Club, Chapel Choir, Varsity Quartet, and Opera. Participated in John Brining Contest. Was president of YMCA, secretary of French Club, president of Sophomore Class, captain of Tennis Team, President of student body.
1928 June 18
Graduated from Whitman College, B.A., magna cum laude, in Greek and Chemistry.
1928-1931
Instructor in Physics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
1931-1934
Graduate student in Philosophy, Columbia University.
1934
Ph.D. from Columbia University. Dissertation: The Reputation and Influence of Francis Bacon in the Seventeenth Century.
1934 June 29
Married Margaret (Peggy) Dale in Mexico City.
1934-1937
Instructor of Philosophy, Psychology, Physics, and Physical Education, Whitman College. Margaret Dale Penrose taught Spanish at Whitman, 1934-1936.
1936 October 23
Elected moderator, Eastern Washington-North Idaho Association of Congregational Churches.
1936-1937
Assistant to the Dean of Whitman College.
1937 July 9
First child born: Margaret Dale.
1937-1938
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois.
1938-1942
Assistant Director, Near East College Association, New York
1941 May 19
Second child born: Mary Shipman (Polly).
1942-1945
Special Assistant, Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Washington, D.C. and Cairo, Egypt: first as Deputy Chief of Secret Intelligence Middle East, and later Chief of Secret Intelligence Middle East.
1944 August 31
Third child born, Stephen Beasley Linnard, III.
1945-1946
Deputy Chief and later Chief of Secret Intelligence, OSS, in charge of European operations.
1946 March 14
The Bronze Star from United States government.
1947-1948
Special Assistant for Budget to the first Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal.
1948 April 15
Order of Orange Nassau, degree of Commander, from Her Majesty, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
1948 May
Installation as Lay Preacher, Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, Washington, D.C.
1948 October 1
Inaugurated as fourth President of American University of Beirut; address: "Let Us Make Men."
1948-1954
President, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
1948
Advisor for the United States Delegation to the third session of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held at Beirut, Lebanon.
1950 October 11
Order of Polania Restituta, rank of Commander, from the Polish government.
1951 May
Address to the World Council of Churches conference meeting in Beirut, "The Palestine Problem, Retrospect and Prospect."
1953 April 26
Award from American Lebanon Syrian Community of Los Angeles.
1953 May 31
Honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, from Whitman College; delivered commencement address.
1954 November 4
Elected non-resident member of The Century Association, New York City.
1954 December 6
Speech "What is Democracy?" at United States Information Service, Damascus, Syria.
1954 February 9
Died, Beirut, Lebanon.
1954 December 10
Order of the Cedars, rank of Grand Officer, by the Lebanese Government, posthumously.
1963 June
American University of Beirut dormitory dedicated and named for Stephen B.L. Penrose, Jr.

Content Description

The overall focus of this collection features the Beirut period of the lives of Stephen B.L. and Margaret Dale Penrose. The largest series of this collection contains the correspondence to and from Stephen and Margaret. These letters detail their everyday interactions and business endeavors, especially as related to the American University in Beirut. Researchers should note that many letters were generated and received by Margaret before and after his death. Her chronicles of their personal life are rich in detail and add significant depth to a knowledge of their lives in Lebanon. The items relating to Stephen reflect his wide interests and pursuits: professor of philosophy, university president, spy, Palestinian advocate, United States bureaucrat, Congregational Church lay preacher, and devoted family member. The remainder of this collection is divided into series containing photographs, information regarding the American University in Beirut, Penrose's speeches, recognition of his work, his and others' writings on Palestine and its people, transcriptions of interviews, the Near East College Association, his OSS activities, his contributions to Whitman College alumni publications, his death and ensuing tributes, and, a collection of papers based upon research on this collection. In addition, a small yet important series contains a bound copy of the annual reports for the Syrian Protestant College, which was the forerunner of the American University of Beirut. (Please note: for clarity, Stephen is referred to as Penrose.)

Arrangement

Collection is arranged by series and chronologically by item within each series. Arrangement is primarily based upon the work performed by the original compilers. Re-arrangement has been done to clarify the organization.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information 

Collection donated to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives by Margaret Dale Penrose in 1991.

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Access 

Collection is open to the public.

Preferred Citation 

Stephen B.L. Penrose, Jr. Papers, 1908-1990. Whitman College and Northwest Archives. Walla Walla, Washington.

Related Information

Related Materials 

For items 1 through 5 in series 7, original tapes are in the Whitman College and Northwest Archives Oral History Project Collection. For item 6 in series 7, original tapes are at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University.

Subjects

Penrose, Margaret (Margaret Pressley Dale)
Penrose, Stephen B. L. (Stephen Beasley Linnard), 1908-1954--Archives
American University of Beirut
Near East College Association (New York, N.Y.)
Syrian Protestant College (creator)
United States. Office of Strategic Services
Whitman College
Beirut (Lebanon)
Middle East
American University of Beirut--history
Espionage--Egypt
Espionage--United States
Intelligence Service--United States
Palestine--history
Whitman College--alumni
Correspondence
The Palestine Problem: Retrospect and Prospect
The Reputation and Influence of Francis Bacon in the Seventeenth Century
Other Creators :
Penrose, Margaret (Margaret Pressley Dale), 1910-1993--Archives
Penrose family--Archives
Penrose family--Archives

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.


 

Series 1:  Penrose's Education

 
Container(s)
Description
Dates
 
box/folder
1/1


Walla Walla High School information.
  1919-1923
 


Copies from Whitman College Beta Theta Pi scrapbook.
  1923-1928
 
1/2

Item 5:  Copy of Whitman College transcript.
  1931 May 6
 
2/9

Item 11:  Ph.D. dissertation: The Reputation and Influence of Francis Bacon in the Seventeenth Century
  1934

 

Series 2:  Correspondence, reports, photographs, and clippings

Arranged chronologically
 
Container(s)
Description
Dates
 
box/folder
1/2


Item 1:  Penrose's contract to teach at American University of Beirut
  1928 March 5
 
½

Item 2:  Note from John Finley to Sir Roland Storrs, regarding article from the New York Times, "Where the East Becomes West," 1928 June 26, page 24, column 4. Penrose was the courier. Editorial on speech to Cyprus Legislative Council.
  1928 August 28
 


Item 3:  17 letters: Penrose, Sr. to Penrose, Jr. when he was staffite (teacher) at American University of Beirut.
  1929 March 22-1930 October 31
 


Item 4:  2 letters: Penrose to sister Virginia and to his mother Mary Shipman Penrose describing his ascent of Mt. Hermon, Lebanon.
  1931 February 25-1931 March 11
 
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Item 1:  5 letters: Penrose, Sr. to Penrose, Jr. while the latter was at Columbia University regarding Whitman College information and general news.
  1931 October 3 - 1934 January 20
 


Item 2:  4 items on Penrose wedding.
  1934 June 29
 


Item 3:  Letter, Clayton Rice to Penrose regarding Penrose's election as moderator of Congregational Church of Washington, North Idaho, and Alaska.
  1936 October 23
 


Item 4:  2 letters: Shehadi and Penrose regarding possibility of an opening at American University of Beirut.
  1936 November 28 1936 December 24
 


Item 5:  "Thumb Nail Sketches." Unknown student's views on Whitman College faculty and President Rudolf Alexander Clemens.
  circa 1935-1936
 


Item 6:  Letter, Mary Cheek to Penrose regarding job at Rockford College, Illinois.
  1937 August 3
 


Item 7:  2 letters: Mary Shipman Penrose to Penrose and Penrose, Jr. to Penrose, Sr. regarding loan Penrose, Sr. took to buy property; Penrose and Margaret Dale Penrose move to New York; Penrose's fund-raising travels for Near East College Association; lease of house in Port Washington, New York.
  1938 August 14 1939 February 9
 


Item 8:  14 letters of Penrose, Penrose, Sr., and D.F. (Frank) Baker, , regarding possibilities for Penrose, Jr. position at Whitman; selection of Winslow Anderson as Whitman College's president.
  1940 January 27-1941 December 1
 


Item 9:  8 letters: Penrose to parents regarding his civilian air watch activities; general family letters; resignation from Near East College Association; acceptance of position with Office of Strategic Services.
  1941 December 9 - 1942 May 8
 
1/4

Item 1:  Letter, W.H. Cowles, Jr. to Penrose regarding presidency of Whitworth College.
  1938 November 30
 


Item 2:  3 letters: Wilfred A. Rowell, Stephen B.L. Penrose, Jr. and Franklin Snyder regarding presidency of Beloit College.
  1943 February 17 - 1943 March 3
 


Item 3:  12 letters: Exchanges between Henry Sloane Coffin, Penrose, Walter R. Wright, Jr. (resigned president of Robert College, Istanbul), Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, Whitney Shepardson (OSS), Bayard Dodge, president American University of Beirut, and Albert W. Staub, director Near East College Association, regarding presidency of Robert College.
  1943 October 30 -1944 March 21
 


Item 4:  5 letters : Exchanges between Albert Staub, Penrose, Mary Shipman Penrose, Bayard Dodge, and Whitney Shepardson regarding presidency of American University of Beirut for Penrose.
  1943 February 5 - 1943 December 29
 


Item 5:  Letter, John A. Wilson to Penrose regarding job as cultural attache in Near East for State Department.
  1943 June 4
 


Item 6:  2 letters: Frank G. Ensign to trustees of Miami University, and Frank G. Ensign to Penrose regarding possibility of Penrose as president of Miami University.
  1945 March 2
 


Item 7:  11 letters: Bertam Bennett, Penrose, and James McConaughy regarding presidency of Knox College.
  1946 February 19 - 1946 April 19
 


Item 8:  Letter, Ernest D. Jeffs to Penrose.
  1947 October 29
 
1/5

Item 1:  14 letters to and from Penrose Jr. and Penrose Sr. regarding UN and US action on Palestine.
  1948 September 9-1948 September 23
 


Item 2:  Letter, Penrose to Whitman Alumnusregarding letter and article about his reasons for going to the Middle East and hopes for the American University in Beirut
  1948 February 7
 
1/6

10 letters from and to Penrose accepting American University of Beirut presidency
  1947 December 30-1948 May 13
 
1/7

17 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family. Also letters to Margaret and Penrose.
  1948 September-1948 November 18
 
1/8

Item 1:  6 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose to family.
  1948 November 20 -1948 December 29
 


Item 2:  2 letters: Penrose to W.H. Cowles of the Spokesman Reviewand Cowles to Mary Shipman Penrose.
  1948 December 8 1948 December 16
 


Item 3:  2 letters: Rudolph Pauly to Penrose and Penrose to cousin Fan.
  1948 December 18 1948 December 19
 


Item 4:  2 letters: Mary Shipman Penrose to Penrose and Penrose to Mary Shipman Penrose.
  1948 October 26 1948 December 27
 


Item 5:  Letter, Margaret Dale Penrose to Frances and Parker Hall, regarding American University of Beirut, refugees, and summer of first year.
  1948 December
 


Item 6:  Letter from Heidel Pauly to Margaret, invitation card (undated), card to Margaret from Meline L.D. Mugrditchian (undated), and Marquettes D'Art Exhibition card (undated).
  1948 December
 
1/9

Item 1:  15 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family regarding refugee camp work.
  1949 January 6 - 1949 April 7
 


Item 2:  14 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family regarding American University of Beirut campus, president's house affairs, American visitors to Beirut and American University of Beirut, including Allen Dulles and Justice William O. Douglas.
  1949 April 14 - 1949 July 11
 


Item 3:  Bulletin of the Near East Society, Volume 2, Number 8, Penrose, regarding hike with Justice William O. Douglas.
 
 
1/10

Item 1:  13 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family regarding campus, president's house affairs, vacation in Cyprus, and American visitors.
  1949 July 10 - 1949 October 6
 


Item 2:  11 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family regarding visit to Palestinian refugee camps, trip to Palestine, and Israeli treatment of Arabs.
  1949 October 24 - 1949 December
 
1/11

Item 1:  Letter, Milton Eisenhower to Penrose regarding Unesco.
  1949 January 3
 


Item 2:  Letter, Luther Evans to Penrose regarding Unesco.
  1949 January 5
 


Item 3:  Letter, Eleanor Roosevelt to Margaret Dale Penrose .
  1949 January 27
 


Item 4:  Letter, Penrose to Palestinian students regarding appeal for help.
  1949 February 27
 


Item 5:  American University of Beirut field day program.
  1949
 


Item 6:  2 letters: Mrs. Rudolph Pauly, American University of Beirut staff and Whitman alumni, to Margaret Dale Penrose and Rudolph Pauly to Penrose.
  1949 July 15 1949 July 18
 


Item 7:  Letter, announcement of Harry Hall's retirement from Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company .
  1949 July 26
 


Item 8:  Letter, Ross McCain, President of Agnes Scott College, to Margaret Dale Penrose.
  1949 August 23
 


Item 9:  2 letters: American University of Beirut student to Margaret Dale Penrose and an American University of Beirut student to Penrose .
  1949 November 14 1949 September 9
 


Item 10:  Letter, Alford Carleton, President of Aleppo College, to Penrose .
  1949 October 1
 


Item 11:  Letter, W.L. White to Mary Shipman Penrose, regarding allusions to Arab and Israeli problem.
  1949 October 14
 


Item 12:  Poem from staffite (teacher) Tim Andrews to Penrose.
  1949
 


Item 13:  Letter, Mark Ethridge Louisville Times to Penrose.
  1949 November 18
 


Item 14:  2 thank you notes to Margaret Dale Penrose.
  1949 December
 
1/12

Item 1:  9 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family regarding refugees and Penroses' hepatitis.
  1950 January 5 - 1950 February 24
 


2:  14 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family, , regarding trip to United States, trip to Aleppo, trip to Jerusalem, and general campus and household news.
  1950 February 27 - 1950 August 26
 


Item 3:  12 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family regarding vacation in mountains, general campus and household news, and Dorothy Thompson's visit.
  1950 September 8 - 1950 December 26
 


Item 4
  1950 January 4
 


Item 5:  Letter, Sarah Shahla to Margaret Dale Penrose regarding care of Penrose children while parents were in United States
  1950 May 4
 


Item 6:  Letter, United States Representative Frances Bolton, R-Ohio, to Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose.
  1950 June 17
 


Item 7:  Letter, Cleveland Dodge to Margaret Dale Penrose regarding grant for 800 dollars for two students.
  1950 October 13
 


Item 8:  Letter, request for loan from Penrose and promissory note.
  1950 September 18
 


Item 9:  Letter, editorial response to Penrose's speech at Lebanese Club on education in Lebanon.
  1950 November 28
 


Item 10:  4 letters: Clyde Baird, of the Red Cross, to Margaret Dale Penrose, , regarding thank you notes for work with Palestinian refugees. One report from Margaret Dale Penrose regarding refugee activities in Lebanon.
  1950 March 21 - 1950 December
 


Item 11:  4 letters: thanking Margaret Dale Penrose for hospitality, including one from Henry Luce.
  1950 January 5 - 1950 December 6
 
1/13

Item 1:  15 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family regarding visit to Kuwait on American University of Beirut business, student demonstrations, trip to Cyprus, trip to Egypt, and Penrose in United States
  1951 January 2 - 1951 April 24
 


Item 2:  12 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family regarding dedication of Jafet Library at American University of Beirut, trip to Europe, American University of Beirut affairs, and social schedule.
  1951 May 1 - 1951 September
 


Item 3:  10 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family regarding Penrose's visit to Ford Foundation and results, student demonstrations, American University of Beirut news and politics, general news, and Middle East politics.
  1951 September 21- 1951 December 27
 


Item 4:  7 letters: Frances Copeland to Mary Shipman Penrose regarding life with Penroses.
  1950 December 10 - 1952 June 27
 


Item 5:  Letter, N.W. Boustany to Penrose regarding comments on Penrose's. speech about Lebanese education.
  1951 January 6
 


Item 6:  Report about Arab refugees.
  1951 April 17
 


Item 7:  Letter of Elfan Rees to Margaret Dale Penrose regarding World Council of Churches.
  1951 May 1
 


Item 8:  Letter of George Scherer to Penrose regarding application for job.
  1951 June 25
 


Item 9:  Letter of American University of Beirut student to Penrose regarding letter of appreciation.
  1951 September 22
 


Item 10:  American University of Beirut press release regarding student demonstrations.
  1951 October 25
 


Item 11:  Letter of M.Y. Hussayni to Penrose regarding student demonstrations.
  1951 October 27
 


Item 12:  Letter of Zeine Zeine to Margaret Dale Penrose regarding student demonstrations.
  1951 November 6
 


Item 13:  Student leaflet from Student League of Lebanon.
  1951 October
 


Item 14:  Article about student demonstrations.
  1951
 


Item 15:  Chester Davis to Penrose, Christmas card.
  1951 December
 


Item 16:  "Think For Yourself"
  1951
 


Item 17:  Letter, Anis Frayha to Penrose.
  1951
 
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Item 1:  12 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family regarding general activities, trip to Aleppo, and visits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, and Dorothy Thompson.
  1952 January 6 - 1952 May 26
 


Item 2:  Letter, Wilson Compton to Penrose.
  1952 March 17
 


Item 3:  Letter, Margaret Dale Penrose to Penrose.
  1952 March 19
 


Item 4:  Letter, Belle Dale Poole, Margaret's sister, to Dale family.
  1952 April 14
 
1/15

Item 1:  8 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose to family.
  1952 June - 1952 December
 


Item 2:  3 letters: Penrose to Margaret Dale Penrose.
  1952 August 28 - 1952 October 13
 


Item 3:  3 letters: Penrose to family and associates.
  1952 July 15 - 1952 August 23
 


Item 4:  Receipt for student loan from Penrose.
  1952 June 11
 


Item 5:  Letter, Subhi Ghosheh to unknown recipient regarding Margaret Dale Penrose.
  1952 June 23
 


Item 6:  Letter, W.W. Brubacher to Margaret Dale Penrose.
  1952 July 30
 


Item 7:  Letter, Muriel Lester to Margaret Dale Penrose.
  1952 August 4
 


Item 8:  Letter, Charles Hamilton to Penroses.
  1952 January 2
 


Item 9:  Letter, Fawzi Saba to Penrose.
  1952 May 31
 
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Item 1:  11 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose to family.
  1953 August 25 - 1953 November 29
 


Item 2:  Letter, Penrose to associates regarding trip to Brazil.
  1953 May 19
 


Item 3:  4 letters: from and to Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose.
  1953 March 31 - 1953 December 20
 


Item 4:  Letter, Penrose to General Smith.
  1953 May 24
 


Item 5:  Letter, Fadwa Khuri Racy to Margaret Dale Penrose and Penrose.
  1953 May 25
 


Item 6:  Letter, James M. Ansara to Penrose.
  1953 June 2
 
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Item 1:  6 letters: Margaret Dale Penrose to family regarding Communist student demonstrations.
  1954 January - 1954 April 3
 


Item 2:  Telegram, Penrose to Margaret Dale Penrose.
  1954 April 1
 


Item 3:  Letter, Margaret Dale Penrose to Peg Smith regarding Penrose's health.
  1954 March 3
 


Item 4:  Salary report.
  1954 January 18
 
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Photographs