Steven C. Beering papers, 1950-2001 | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

By Angela Day

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Collection Overview

Title: Steven C. Beering papers, 1950-2001

Predominant Dates:1999

Primary Creator: Beering, Steven C. (1932-)

Extent: 6.5 Cubic feet

Arrangement:

1. Papers, 1999-2001 (1 cubic foot)

2. Tapes, 1950-2001 (5 cubic feet)

3. DVDs, 1950-2001 (.5 cubic feet)

Date Acquired: 00/00/2007

Subjects: Astronauts, Beering, Jane, Beering, Steven C., Cheng Kung University, College presidents--Indiana, Hansen, Arthur, Purdue University--Presidents

Forms of Material: Artifacts (object genre), Audiovisual materials, Transcripts

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Steven C. Beering Papers (1950-2001, 6.5 cubic feet) includes interview transcripts and scripts for Vision for Tomorrow, Beta and VHS tapes of interviews and other material relating to the life and career of Steven Beering, president of Purdue University. The papers include a variety of tapes and DVDs that document activities on the Purdue University campus, relating to events at Westwood, the Black Cultural Center (BCC), and other locations.

Biographical Note

Steven Claus Beering served as president of Purdue University from 1983 to 2000. Previously, he was dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine. During his leadership, Purdue's main campus in West Lafayette, Indiana grew by more than 20 buildings. He replaced John W. Hicks and was superseded by Martin C. Jischke. Beering earned a B.S. in 1954 and a M.D. in 1959, both from the University of Pittsburgh.

Subject/Index Terms

Astronauts
Beering, Jane
Beering, Steven C.
Cheng Kung University
College presidents--Indiana
Hansen, Arthur
Purdue University--Presidents

Administrative Information

Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

Access Restrictions: There are no access restrictions.

Use Restrictions: There are no use restrictions.

Physical Access Note: Collection is located on-site.

Acquisition Source: Steven Beering

Acquisition Method: Donation

Related Materials:

Steven C. Beering Oral History Interview

Jane Beering Oral History Interview

Processing Information: The documents are in acid-free file folders with subject headings in alphabetical order. VHS and BETA tapes have been transferred to DVDs for preservation purposes.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Papers, 1999-2001],
[Series 2: Tapes, 1950-2001],
[Series 3: DVDs, 1950-2001],
[All]

Series 1: Papers, 1999-2001

Box 6: Papers, 1999-2001

Folder 1: Drafts of Visions for Tomorrow, 2000-2001 Interview Transcript President Beering and Art Hansen, 9/3/1999: see Beering Legacy #0-1, VHS Tape, 9/3/1999
Folder 2: Interview Transcript President Beering and Mrs. Jane Beering, 9/3/1999: see Beering Legacy #0-1, VHS Tape, 9/3/1999
Folder 3: Miscellaneous, 1999-2000
Folder 4: Newspaper, 1999-2000
Folder 5: Notepads, 2000
Folder 6: Program/Interview Transcripts, 1999: Video Logs
Folder 7: Vision for Tomorrow Notes, 2000
Folder 8: Vision for Tomorrow Interview Transcripts, 1999

Series 2: Tapes, 1950-2001

Box 1: Beta Tapes, Bumped Shots, 1950-2000

Item 1: Spring, Apples, Moon
Item 2: BOOM #1, #4
Item 3: Beering Tears Tape, 2000
Item 4: Three Newsreels from late 1950's; Duke 2nd Half Post-Game
Item 5: Commencement 2000; Division 2 Beering's PhD Component Dub; Marv Diskin
Item 6: Westwood New Fr. Reception; BCC Open House
Item 7: LAEB fountain; Obelisk; Great Teachers Plaque; LAEB fountain from tower; A.M. sky IRM parking structure
Item 8: Apollo Launch; use in open, closing montage; NASA Blue Planet
Item 9: Beering with wireless NW Game
Item 10: Boom 2 LOEB, LAEB, Class of 50, BCC Rene Thomas
Item 11: Women's Championship Game 2; 10th President press conference component dub
Item 12: Beta Clips Part 1; Beering and Board of Trustees M-2; aerial, outreach, Hicks,"Blue Moon", Apples, space station, Class of 50, student mall
Item 13: Purdue vs. Northwestern, 10/24/1998
Item 14: Purdue Newsreel, 1979
Item 15: Debris Pic dubbed from MDV
Item 16: Presidents Trustees, car hop, trailer, bobby sox, Hovde stills, smoke stack (still), Hansen (Debris), Hicks, old fountain and smoke stake shots; M-3
Item 17: Westwood const #1; Faculty Reception Westwood
Item 18: VTR Package: "Statehouse"; Mike Gery
Item 19: I Believe I Can Fly
Item 20: VTR Package: "Nation and Purdue"
Item 21: Purdue University Vision 21, 11/5/1991
Item 22: VTR Package: "Athletics"

Box 2: VHS Tapes, 1986-1999

Item 1: Purdue-Beering Legacy #2 VTC, 9/3/1999
Item 2: Purdue President Legacy Tapes 1-4 VTC, 8/17/1999
Item 3: Westwood Tape 3 Cam 2 VTC, 9/3/1999
Item 4: Westwood Tape 1 Cam 2 VTC, 9/3/1999
Item 5: Purdue-Beering Legacy #1 Art Hansen VTC, 9/3/1999
Item 6: Westwood Tape 2 Cam 2 VTC, 9/3/1999
Item 7: Gala Cubberth Glee Club
Item 8: Indian Music Drums; Rough edited sequence; Vision 21; Beering Fund drive; Cernan; Armstrong
Item 9: Part 1 Vision for Tomorrow
Item 10: Purdue-Beering Legacy #00 Art Hansen VTC, 9/3/1999
Item 11: Tape #941004 Vision 21
Item 12: Vision for Tomorrow Narrative 10/7/; Part 2
Item 13: Beering with wireless Northwestern Game
Item 14: Slayter Concert footage Part 2, Legacy Part 2
Item 15: Civil War Re-enactment
Item 16: Graduation 1998 Speech
Item 17: Spring, Apples, Moon (D)
Item 18: Dedication of Academy Park
Item 19: Check; Purdue sign and band; grave; lion; hello walk
Item 20: Vision for Tomorrow narrative 10/7/ Part 1
Item 21: Student Organization Day, 10/3/1999
Item 22: LAEB fountain; Obelisk; great teachers; LAEB fountain from tower
Item 23: Feast Langing; golf course/Hovde Lake; apples
Item 24: LAEB fountain; obelisk; great teachers; LAEB fountain from tower
Item 25: Space Station
Item 26: Beering Astronauts
Item 27: Purdue Eng. Mall Construction, 1986
Item 28: Early Purdue Montage, transfer to DV
Item 29: Tape #990408 1812 Overture #2
Item 30: Beering-Convocation Case, PUCC Lab, 6/1999
Item 31: Tony Zamora
Item 32: Purdue Video News 1st Series; 2 packages; Time sensitive, 2/1992
Item 33: Jishcke Press Conference 10th President Press Conference window burn

Box 3: VHS Tapes, 1999-2000

Item 1: Sults footage new faculty reception; BCC open house
Item 2: P. Nelson; B. Nelson; E. Mobley
Item 3: Grad. 2000 Beering Honorary Degrees
Item 4: Beering Dinner Tape 1; window burn
Item 5: C. Woo
Item 6: Jack and Jim, 6/17/1999
Item 7: Beering Dinner Tape 2
Item 8: C. Sullivan
Item 9: Mike Montgomery
Item 10: Dean Rowe
Item 11: Mary Kraper; Patrick Kraper
Item 12: Bob Jesse; Marilyn Haring
Item 13: Bob Kriebal, Don Powers, Bill Moreau
Item 14: Sheila Klinker
Item 15: Interviews Mayor Margerum; Steve Byrn
Item 16: Hatke, Kathy
Item 17: Beering Project Tape 1
Item 18: Beering Project Tape 2
Item 19: Michael Stohl, 6/18/1999
Item 20: C. Dewey
Item 21: Harry Morrison
Item 22: New faculty reception; BCC open house (from DV)
Item 23: Jack Fessler
Item 24: Chuck Wise
Item 25: Tyler
Item 26: Bement
Item 27: Chiscon, 6/21/1999
Item 28: John Hicks
Item 29: N. Vann
Item 30: Kathleen Howell
Item 31: A. Rollock
Item 32: Mona Berg; Chuck/Amy Nalon
Item 33: Larry Preo
Item 34: Bob Kriebel

Box 4: VHS and Beta Tapes, 1967-2000

Series 1: VHS Tapes

Item 1: Tape # 3
Item 2: Speech 3
Item 3: Time Tape 1; C. Lee, Giordan
Item 4: Carlos Morales Demo, 3/25/1999
Item 5: Nadia Int. and Carlos Adobe
Item 6: Beering Years
Item 7: BB Banquet, 1998
Item 8: Tape #920502 Graduation
Item 9: Purdue Newsreel, 1983, 1987
Item 10: Purdue Songs
Item 11: EP. 3; HU, Shashank, Giordan, Neil, Seung, Tim, Chris Lee, Annie
Item 12: Tape #920418 Glee Club
Item 13: Morgan Burke
Item 14: Tape #921, 8 Kathy (unedited interview)
Item 15: Steve and Jane reception footage
Item 16: Graduation, 1995
Item 17: 1999 Women's BB Awards Banquet
Item 18: Ken Burns
Item 19: Beering Years (1st 20 min. only), 12/22/2000
Item 20: Beering 1B; NASA Mars
Item 21: Research Park aerials #2, campus
Item 22: "This is the Moment", 1999 NCAA Women's Basketball Champions commemorative video

Series 2: BETA Tapes

Item 1: Purdue Newsreel, 1981
Item 2: Hansen Graduation March; Purdue Newsreel, 1974
Item 3: Gene Keady show; Practice b-roll Tape 1, 11/30/2000
Item 4: VTR Package: "Stewardship"
Item 5: Faculty reception Westwood, after Northwestern game family, dubbed from MDV
Item 6: Sound bite for Beering thanks to Cernan with applause; football game and family (dub from rough)
Item 7: President's Council Breakfast interviews; PU/Northwestern game
Item 8: Purdue Newsreel, 1968-1969
Item 9: Northwestern game, 9/25/----
Item 10: Stormy Night, 5/14/----
Item 11: Screen Package: "Old to New" 3
Item 12: Purdue Newsreel, 1967-1968
Item 13: Hovde Testimonial Dinner

Box 5: Beta Tapes, 1956-2001

Item 1: Vision for Tomorrow: "The Beering Years"; Opening and closing segment, 12/6/2000
Item 2: VTR Package: "Astronaut"
Item 3: Pics and headlines
Item 4: Beering Pictures reel
Item 5: Pres. "B" for Marv Diskin
Item 6: Westwood Tape 3 Cam 2
Item 7: Purdue Beering Legacy - Art Hansen #1, 9/2/1999
Item 8: Westwood Tape 3 Cam 1, 8/28/1999
Item 9: Purdue University "Beering Years", 2/23/2001
Item 10: Purdue Beering Legacy Stan Jones #2, 9/2/1999
Item 11: Beering at Westwood family interviews Tape #2
Item 12: Purdue Pres. Legacy Tape 4, 8/11/1999
Item 13: Purdue Beering Legacy - Art Hansen #00, 9/2/1999
Item 14: Westwood Tape 1 Cam 1, 8/28/1999
Item 15: Purdue Legacy B-roll, clockworks, #5, 8/11/1999
Item 16: Westwood Tape 2 Cam 1, 8/28/1999
Item 17: Purdue University "Beering Years" DVC Bump, 2/23/2001
Item 18: VTR Package: "Faculty"
Item 19: Beering at Westwood family interviews Tape #1
Item 20: Neil Armstrong Interview, 10/23/1999
Item 21: Westwood Tape 1 Cam 2
Item 22: Westwood Tape 2 Cam 2, 8/28/1999
Item 23: Screen Package #2: "Fundraising"
Item 24: Purdue Newsreel, 1956-1957
Item 25: Westwood family; children
Item 26: President's Council Breakfast
Item 27: Astronauts, CL 50, Buildings
Item 28: Pres. "B" for Marv Diskin Tape 1
Item 29: Vision for Tomorrow "The Beering Years"; closing segment, 12/6/2000
Item 30: Purdue Univ. "Beering Years" bump from DV b-roll, 2/23/2001
Item 31: VTR Package: "Family" from NW game DV kids
Item 32: Westwood const. #2 and faculty reception
Item 33: Ford Check
Item 34: Vision for Tomorrow: "The Beering Years"; Opening Segment, 12/6/2000
Item 35: VTR Package: "Musings"
Item 36: Ross Photos and downtown
Item 37: Screen Package #1 "Purdue Family"
Item 38: VTR Package: "Scholarship"
Item 39: VTR Package: "Friend Colleague"
Item 40: Video for Beering Dinner dubbed for Hall of Music includes Alumni Association Promo 30 seconds and Robert Ringel footage app. 2:00 seconds
Item 41: VTR Package: "Students"
Item 42: VTR Package: "Alumni"

Series 3: DVDs, 1950-2001

Copies of tapes from Series 2.

Box 7: DVD (copies of tapes), ca. 1950s-2001

Item 1: Purdue Video News 1st Series; 2 packages, Time sensitive, 2/1992
Item 2: Duke 2nd Half Post-Game (women's basketball), 1999
Item 3: BOOM # 1; Boom #4,
Item 4: Beering Years Tape 1 Doc Schweitzer, 11/14/2000
Item 5: Westwood New Fr. Reception; BCC Open House
Item 6: Spring, Apples, Moon
Item 7: Commencement; Division 2 Beering's PhD Component Dub, 2000
Item 8: Apollo Launch; use in open, closing montage; NASA Blue Planet
Item 9: Beering with wireless NW Game
Item 10: Purdue Video Tour, LAEB fountain; Obelisk; Great Teachers Plaque
Item 11: Debris Pic dubbed from MDV
Item 12: Purdue Newsreel Bell (original), 1979
Item 13: Presidents Trustees, car hop, trailer, bobby sox, Hovde stills
Item 14: Westwood const #1; Faculty Reception Westwood
Item 15: Beta Clips Part 1: Board of Trustees M-13 (Fountain Clock)
Item 16: Purdue vs. Northwestern, 10/24/1998
Item 17: Beta Clips aerial, outreach, Hicks, "Blue Moon", Apples, space station
Item 18: Women's Championship Game 2; 10th President press conference
Item 19: Boom 2 Loeb, LAEB, Class of '50, Renee Thomas
Item 20: Steven & Jane Beering Interview; Westwood Tape 1
Item 21: Steven & Jane Beering Interview; Westwood Tape 2
Item 22: Steven & Jane Beering Interview; Westwood Tape 3
Item 23: Steven Beering Interview, Purdue/Beering Legacy 00
Item 24: Steven Beering Interview, Purdue/Beering Legacy 1
Item 25: Steven Beering Interview, Purdue/Beering Legacy 2

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[Series 1: Papers, 1999-2001],
[Series 2: Tapes, 1950-2001],
[Series 3: DVDs, 1950-2001],
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