Media - audio cassette

Item — HRW #: 39

Staff Only

Content Description

From the Collection: In the late 1960s and 1970s, there was much interest in the question of human relations as it related principally to race relations. Dr. Charles C. Crider of the Andrews University Department of Behavior Sciences developed a workshop to help various groups understand and work better with those of other races. Originally designed for ministers and seminarians, it was expanded to include lay people as well. After about four years, roughly half of the workshops were entitled Family Enrichment Seminars (FES). Most of the early workshops took place on the Andrews University campus. After the first year, more of the workshops were conducted away from the Andrews campus.

A printed report is available for most workshops. These are located in the Center for Adventist Research at call number HM 133 .A53. Some workshops were not large enough for a printed report to be prepared. If less than five sessions were held, a report was not prepared. These reports appear comprehensive, though not a verbatim transcript.

Portions of the workshops were recorded on video tape, and in some cases on reel to reel audio tape and cassette tape as well. The recordings comprising this collection do not constitute a complete set. Many additional tapes were received at the Adventist Heritage Center, but they lacked any form of identification. It was obvious that a number of the tapes were blank since they were still in their original sealed wrapper. The recordings which included some form of identification constitute this collection.

It is uncertain what portion of the workshops were videoed. It does seem quite clear that this collection does not possibly constitute a complete recording of every workshop represented, nor is there a complete recording of any one seminar.