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Descriptive Summary

Historical Sketch

Scope and Contents

Restrictions

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series I: Correspondence

Series II: Event planning and media documents

Guide to the Rice University,
University Relations Dept.
Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations records, 1989-1991

Historical Sketch

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.

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Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, drafts, memos created and collected by the University Relations Department in support of their role as the University's media relations department for the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations, hosted by Rice University.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

This material is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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

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Index Terms

Subjects (Organizations)

Formats

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Rice University, University Relations Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations records, 1989-1991, Rice University Archives, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Acquisition Information

These records were transferred from the University Relations Department, 8/13/90, 8/92.

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Detailed Description of the Collection