ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202

ELIOT GLASSHEIM PAPERS

COLLECTION: OGL #979

DATES: 1982-1984

SIZE:2.5 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: The Eliot Glassheim Papers were deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Eliot Glassheim, Grand Forks, North Dakota, on June 4, 1984 (Acc.#84-1305).

ACCESS: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

RELATED PUBLICATIONS:

Key Issues in Population Policy: Problems, Options, and Recommendations for Action; Proceedings of Capon Springs Public Policy Conference #1
edited by Eliot Glassheim. University Press of America, 1978.
Call Number: HB881.C299 1976

Voices from the Flood: An Oral History of the 1997 Flood of the Red River of the North
edited by Eliot Glassheim. North Dakota Museum of Art, 1999.
Call Number: F644.G8 V64 1999

Behind the Scenes: Leadership and Decision-making in a Natural Disaster
edited by Eliot Glassheim; Kimberly K. Porter and Robin Silverman, associate editors. North Dakota Museum of Art, 2002.
Call Number: F644.G8 P67 2002

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Eliot Glassheim was born in New York City to Raymond S. Glassheim and Edith Ruthizer on February 1938. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1960 from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. His first impulse after graduation was to delve into journalism which lead him to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a copyboy for the Washington Post. He managed during this stint to publish ten short book reviews for the newspaper's book reviews section. He left this position in 1961 to pursue editorial production at the Wall Street Journal in New York City doing proofreading layout.

In 1963, however, Glassheim shifted focus in his career, teaching literature and grammar in grades 9th- 12th at Croyden Hall in Atlantic Heights, New Jersey. Soon after, Glassheim attended graduate school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he received Masters (1966) and Doctoral (1973) degrees in American Literature with concentration on Paul Goodman and the alternative school movement. As a result of these studies, Glassheim wrote his desertation, The Community Anarchist Background of Paul Goodman's The Empire City. While working towards his doctoral degree, Glassheim was an assistant professor of English at Augusta College in Augusta, Georgia between 1969- 1971.

Although Glassheim moved to North Dakota to pursue a professorship in the English Department at University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, he taught only three years between 1972-1975, before being elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives in 1975. He served until 1976, and was elected again in 1993. He served as the Assistant Minority Leader in 2003 legislative session. He has also been a member of the Grand Forks City Council for over twenty years.

He was a policy analyst for Northern Great Plains, Inc. and an executive Director for Quad County Community Action Agency. He authored The Restless Giant, a compilation of poems, and has edited several books, including Key Issues in Population Policy (1976). He also edited two books related to the 1997 Red River Valley Flood: Voices from the Flood (1999) and Behind the Scenes: Leadership and Decision-making in a Natural Disaster (2002). He also produced Eat the Day, a folk song record. He is owner of Dr. Eliot’s Twice Sold Tales, a used and rare book store.

He is married to Dyan Rey and has two children.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Eliot Glassheim Papers contain agendas for and correspondence related to Grand Forks City Council meetings, minutes and correspondence from the Planning and Zoning Commission, the Urban/Community Development Committee, the Nuclear War Preparedness Task Force, the City Engineer's Office, and many other committees, city government offices and other agencies involved with civic affairs. The collection also contains financial records and ordinances, and other miscellaneous papers related to city government business. The materials date from 1982 to 1984.

The collection is arranged in three series. Series I contains materials from the Committee of the Whole (the entire City Council). Series II contains materials from specific committees, city offices, and other commissions and boards. Series III contains materials related to specific projects, and other miscellaneous materials

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1
Folder
Series I: Committee of the Whole

1. City Council agendas, correspondence, 1982-1984
2. City Council resolutions
3. By-law revisions, amendments to purchasing manual, and ordinances
4. Ordinances (arranged by City Code article number)
5. Ordinances
6. Ordinances
7. Ordinances

Series II: Committees and City Government Office Papers

8. Auditorium Committee meeting minutes, meeting schedules, auditorium redesign plan, armory leases, and correspondence
9. Building Inspector : agendas for Board of Adjustments and Board of Appeals meetings, January 1983 - February 1984
10. Bus Committee : meeting minutes, correspondence, miscellaneous
11. Civil Preparedness Committee and Nuclear War Preparedness Task Force : correspondence, minutes, fact sheets, 1982-1984; Emergency Program Management materials
12. Engineer's Office : correspondence, 1982-1983
13. Board of Equalization : minutes, agendas, reports
14. Finance Committee and Auditor's Office : correspondence; Tax Delinquency Tax Force correspondence
15. Finance Committee and Auditor's Office : Budget Appropriation Summaries, 1982-1984
16. Finance Committee and Auditor's Office : Statements of Receipts, Disbursements, and Fund Balances, 1983-1984
17. Finance Committee and Auditor's Office : Liquor License Applications
18. Finance Committee and Auditor's Office : Vendor Payment Lists, March - October 1983
19. Finance Committee and Auditor's Office : Vendor Payment Lists, November - December 1983
20. Finance Committee and Auditor's Office : Vendor Payment Lists, February - April 1984
21. Fire Department : Annual Reports, Quarterly Reports, correspondence, 1982-1983
22. Housing Authority : minutes, correspondence, miscellaneous, 1982-1984
23. Personnel Department : Leave Reports and Health Insurance Fund Status Reports
24. Personnel Department : Applications for Assistant for Business Development position, 1983
25. Planning and Zoning Commission : minutes, agendas, correspondence,1982-1984
26. Public Safety Commission : agendas and minutes, 1983-1984
27. Public Service Committee : minutes, agendas, correspondence, 1982- 1984
28. Urban/Community Development Committee : monthly project reports, minutes, agendas, correspondence, July 1982 - September, 1983
29. Urban! Community Development Committee : monthly project reports, minutes, agendas, correspondence, September 1983 - 1984
30. Miscellaneous committee correspondence and minutes

Box 2
Folder
Series III: Special Programs and Miscellaneous

1. Bicycle Path Usage, Proposed Bike Lane, Bicycle Bridge : correspondence and miscellaneous, 1983-1984
2. Community Theater : Fire Hall renovation budgets and miscellaneous, 1982-1983
3. Election materials, 1982-1984
4. Engineering proposals for North 42nd Street project, 1983
5. Junior ID Program, Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Association for Retarded Citizens, correspondence, proposals, miscellaneous
6. League of Cities : correspondence and legislative reports, 1982-1984
7. Sidewalk Easement issue : correspondence, petitions, Summer 1983
8. Social Security Alternatives : report, brochures, correspondence
9. University of North Dakota : correspondence on UND centennial and miscellaneous
10. Miscellaneous correspondence on proposed legislation and city projects, 1982-1984
11. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1982-1984
12. Miscellaneous project estimate summaries, 1982-1984
13. Miscellaneous

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