Box MS Add.8270/1-19: Box 1
Contains 19 Results:
Establishment of OBMS: Correspondence relating to A-B's appointment, memoranda concerning alterations at Gatehouse, lists of furniture and equipment required, dates of first year's courses, etc., July 1949-March 1950
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
Geoffrey Winthrop Young (President, OBMS): correspondence with Arnold-Brown, Jan. 1950-Feb 1952
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
Philip Russell Rea, 2nd Baron Rea (Chairman, OBMS): correspondence with Arnold-Brown, Dec. 1949-Mar. 1951
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
John Nevile Wake Gwynne and Priscilla Whiting (respectively Executive Director, OBT and Secretary, OBT): correspondence with Arnold-Brown, Jan. 1950-Apr. 1950
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
O.A.Guggenheim (Director, OBMS): correspondence with Arnold-Brown, Aug. 1949-July 1950
Includes some correspondence between Guggenheim and John Gwynne and Peter Rowntree.
James Martin Hogan (Director, OBMS): correspondence with Arnold-Brown, July 1950-Apr. 1951
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
H. John Watson (Bursar, OBMS): correspondence with Arnold-Brown, Nov. 1949-June 1950
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
Official opening of OBMS: Typescript programme, printed copies of speeches, letters of appreciation from guests, 18 June 1950
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
'Confidential Letters': Correspondence and memoranda mainly relating to the purchase of a tied cottage by OBMS, and to Arnold-Brown's decision to resign and the choice of his successor., July 1951-Dec. 1952
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
Staff appointments: Letters, notes, related materials, Oct. 1949-Nov. 1953
Correspondence, curricula vitae, references and Arnold-Brown's interview notes for instructor posts at OBMS; copies of references by Arnold-Brown for staff seeking employment elsewhere; material relating to problems with staff, and to promotions within OBMS.
Miscellaneous administrative correspondence and papers, Jan. 1951-Mar. 1953
Includes correspondence of Arnold-Brown with doctors concerning exercise tolerance tests, notes by Arnold-Brown for talks to courses, and memoranda by Colonel C.P.S.Denholm-Young (Bursar in succession to H.J.Watson).
Miscellaneous confidential administrative correspondence and papers, Nov. 1949-May 1953
Includes correspondence of Arnold-Brown with Spencer Summers (Vice-president, OBMS), Jack Longland (Director, OBMS), John Gwynne and Colonel Denholm-Young; papers relating to a complaint by Lord Rea about trespass, reports on OBMS by Gwynne, and the script of a radio broadcast on OBMS.
Costings for furniture, household and training equipment, provisions, staff salaries, etc prior to the opening of OBMS, and duplicated typescript budget statements and costings reports for later years, 1949-1953
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
Staff notices and Arnold-Brown's notes on instructors' conferences, 1950-1953
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
Miscellaneous letters to Arnold-Brown from sponsor firms and parents thanking him for his reports on boys attending courses, and extracts from post-course reports and letters written by boys and girls, 1950-1953
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.
'Record of courses and individual results', courses 1-31 (lacking 2), Mar. 1950-Apr. 1953
Volume kept by A-B, arranged by course, tabulating each boy's results in each aspect of the programme.
Warden's course reports to directors, 1-31 (lacking 2), 1950-1953
Duplicated typescript reports, summarising the course, numbers of badges given, problems encountered, suggestions for improvements, etc.
Directors' meeting papers, Jan. 1950-Apr. 1953
Miscellaneous duplicated typescript agenda, minutes, and memoranda and notes by Arnold-Brown.
Programmes for courses 1-31 (lacking 2), 1950-1953
Correspondence, annual reports, articles and miscellaneous notes.