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The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Seit dem Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges gibt es Hochschulfördervereine an deutschen Hochschulen und Universitäten ; die sich unter verschiedenen Bezeichnungen ab 1917 bildeten und die bis auf wenige Ausnahmen noch bis heute bestehen. Diese frühen Fördervereine verorten sich im Bereich der privaten Wissenschaftsförderung ; welche sich in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts ausbildete und zunehmend an Bedeutung gewann. Den Höhepunkt der Entwicklung stellte die Gründung der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft (heute Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) dar. Auch in der heutigen Zeit spielen diese Fördervereine unter den Schlagworten "fund raising" und "Alumni-Vereinigungen" eine wichtige Rolle im Rahmen der Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsfinanzierung. Zu den sehr früh entstandenen Fördervereinen gehört auch der am 5. Dezember 1920 gegründete Marburger Universitätsbund ; dessen Geschichte in der vorliegenden Dissertation untersucht wird. Der Untersuchungszeitraum erstreckt sich vom Wintersemester 1917/18 ; in welchem erste Überlegungen und Planungen bezüglich der Gründung des späteren Fördervereins unternommen wurden ; bis zum Jahre 1957 ; als der Neuaufbau nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg abgeschlossen war und eine neue Generation in den Vorstand des Universitätsbundes eintrat. Ziel der Arbeit ist dabei eine umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte des Marburger Universitätsbundes vor dem Hintergrund der privaten Wissenschaftsförderung und im Kontext der Marburger Universitätsgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert. Da der Universitätsbund innerhalb der Marburger Universitätsgeschichte eine bedeutende oder sogar entscheidende Rolle spielte ; lässt sich diese ohne eine Berücksichtigung des Universitätsbundes nicht umfassend bewerten. Diesbezüglich hat die Dissertation unter anderem für die Rede des Vizekanzlers Franz von Papen 1934 neue Erkenntnisse ergeben ; die die bisherige Darstellung in der Forschung ergänzen oder widerlegen. Gemessen an seinen Zielen wird des Weiteren anhand des Marburger Universitätsbundes exemplarisch der Einfluss und die Wirkungsmöglichkeiten eines Hochschulfördervereins untersucht. Nach einem Überblickskapitel über die wichtigsten Entwicklungslinien des Universitätsbundes wird dessen Geschichte in den drei großen zeitlichen Abschnitten der Weimarer Republik ; des Nationalsozialismus und der Nachkriegszeit bis 1957 analysiert. Schwerpunkte der Untersuchung sind in Bezug auf das Selbstverständnis des Universitätsbundes Aspekte der politischen Einstellung des Vorstandes und seiner Mitglieder ; wie die Haltung zur Weimarer Republik und zum Nationalsozialismus und der Umgang mit der eigenen NS-Vergangenheit nach 1945 sowie einmalige Ereignisse ; in die der Universitätsbund maßgeblich involviert war ; wie zum Beispiel die zwei Universitätsjubiläen 1927 und 1952 oder die Unterstützung für den "Marburger Schlossplan" ab 1930. Somit stellt die vorliegende Dissertation einen wichtigen Beitrag für die Gesamtdarstellung der Marburger Universitätsgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert dar. Gleichzeitig zeigt sie am Beispiel des Marburger Universitätsbundes die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen hinsichtlich der Handlungsspielräume für einen Hochschulförderverein auf. Diese sollten somit auch in die aktuelle Diskussion zur privaten Wissenschaftsfinanzierung einfließen und die Basis für den Ausbau des "fund raisings" oder der "Alumni-Aktivitäten" bilden.