Manuscript Register

 

THE PAPERS OF ALLIN DAKIN

 

Collection Dates: 1940 -- 1981

(Bulk Dates: 1950s -- 1970s)

24 linear ft.

 

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Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
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Posted to Internet: May, 2002
Addenda: 2006

 

 

Acquisition Note: These papers were donated to the University in 1982.

 

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Photographs: Box 17

Biographical Note

Allin Winston Dakin was born on June 2, 1905, in Mason City, Iowa. He attended Mason City High School and received a B.A. in 1926 and a M.A. in 1927 from the University of Iowa, where he was President of the student government of the College of Liberal Arts in 1926. In 1931, he earned a M.B.A. from Harvard University's business school, and in 1961 awarded a doctorate of laws by Westmar College. From 1944 to 1953, Dakin was an administrative dean and the assistant to the President of the University of Iowa. He was an administrative dean, working with finances, from 1953 until his retirement from the University of Iowa.

Active in community and service organizations, Allin Dakin was twice a director of Iowa City's Chamber of Commerce (1949 -- 1951 and 1958 -- 1961). He was also a past chairman of the Iowa City Airport Commission. Allin Dakin was chairman of every position involving Rotary International. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the National Council of Boy Scouts of America. At the age of 87, Mr. Dakin died in Coralville, Iowa, on September 17, 1992.

 

Scope and Contents

 

The papers of Allin Dakin consist of 17 boxes of manuscripts measuring 24 linear feet that date from 1940 to 1981. Eleven of these boxes contain notebooks concerning Rotary International. There are two more boxes relating to the Boy Scouts of America and the United Nations Association. Included here are correspondence folders and speeches. Other notebooks deal with such topics as University of Iowa Rose Bowl trips and campus planning committee reports.

 

Box List

 

Rotary Materials

Box 1

13 notebooks, 1951 -- 1957

Box 2

12 notebooks, 1956 -- 1959

Box 3

10 notebooks, 1958 -- 1961

Box 4

9 notebooks, 1958 -- 1965

Box 5

7 notebooks, 1963 -- 1966

Box 6

8 notebooks, 1965 -- 1968

Box 7

8 notebooks, 1967 -- 1969

Box 8

8 notebooks, 1970 -- 1974

Box 9

5 notebooks, 1973 -- 1976

Box 10

6 notebooks, 1976 -- 1980

Box 11

1 notebook, 1980 -- 1981

Folders, dated materials

Our Magazine. Sent to Dakin as Governor-Nominee, 1953

District Assembly 1953. Dakin's notes

Handbook for District Governor for District Assembly, 1954

Handbook of District Assembly at Iowa City, iowa on May 6, 1954

Certificates and awards

Membership card and application to elect another person for membership

Miscellaneous and memorabilia

Photographs

The Rotarian. Information on distribution, contents, etc.

Speeches

Rotary and the World View

Rotary Tomorrow. Program from the Clear Lake County Club Rotary meeting at which Dakin gave this speech. The text of the speech itself is not here.

Box 12

Boy Scouts of America Materials

5 notebooks, 1953 -- 1975

Box 13

2 notebooks, 1975, 1978 -- 1980

Hawkeye Area Council, 1961

Miscellaneous folder

United Nations Association Materials

Correspondence and Monthly Reports

Miscellaneous (2 folders)

Speech to Iowa Consistory, Easter 1963

Box 14

University of Iowa Materials

Notebooks

University and Miscellaneous 1954 -- 1958

University 1958 -- 1959

University 1973 -- 1974

Rose Bowl Trip 1956 -- 1957

Report of the Campus Planning Committee June 1964

Folders

Correspondence

1920s

1961

Dillon Lecture, The Commerce Clause and a Common Market, by Virgil M. Hancher

Materials from the time of Dakin's matriculation at the University of Iowa

Miscellaneous University materials

Box 15

Notebooks of Miscellaneous

Dakin Speeches, etc. 1940 -- 1957

Republican Party Precinct 7 and Johnson County

1944 -- 1970, 1959

1964 -- 1965 (2 notebooks)

1965

Box 16

1966 -- 1967

1967 -- 1968

1969

1971 -- 1972

1975 (2 notebooks)

1976 (2 notebooks)

1977

1977 -- 1978

1977 -- 1979

1978 -- 1979

1979 -- 1980

1980 -- 1981

2006 Addendum

This addendum contained one foot of materials, mostly publications, relating to Rotary which did not pertain directly to Dakin. These materials were donated to the Rotary Archives. You may be in touch with them at www.rotary.org

Box 17

Appointment book

Awards and Certificates

Large certificates are in Oversized folder 1 (O1)

Arkansas Traveler

Artus, March 10, 1926

Bachelor of Arts, The State University of Iowa, 1926. In folder O1

Beta Mu, No.300, May 20, 1923

Certificate of Service (2nd lieutenant of Infantry), 1931. In folder O1

Certificate of Service (2nd lieutenant, 1924). In folder O1

Certificate of Service (Colonel, 1925). In folder O1

Delta Sigma Rho. In folder O1

Distinguished son of Mason City, June11, 1953

Greater Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce. Service to youth award

Harvard Club of New York City. Distinguished Senior Member. With cover letter

Hawkeye Caltropper, February 9, 1961

Honorary Texas Citizen, June18, 1958

Italia Flotte Riunite (Italian Language). In folder O1

Mason City High School. Diploma, 1922. In folder O1

Master in Business Administration, Harvard University, 1931

Master of Arts, The State University of Iowa, 1927. In folder O1

N.Y.K. Lines (Longevity Guarantee), 1939. In folder O1

Phi Delta Gamma. Membership certificate. February 21, 1925

Pi Gamma Mu, 1926. (In folder O1)

Republican Party of Iowa. Certificate of appreciation

Scabbard and Blade membership, February 1, 1925

Tau Kappa Alpha, May 1, 1935

The National Geographic Society. Membership, April 7, 1941

The National Register of Prominent Americans and International Notables, 1978 -- 1979

United Nations Association, Iowa Division, Scroll of Honor, April 11, 1970 (Too large for box. On top of boxes)

University of Iowa. Membership, the President Club of the University of Iowa

Westmar College, Honorary degree of Doctor of Law, June 5, 1961

Awards and certificates mounted on wood (In Box 17). Most of these items have been removed from their mountings.

Paul Harris Fellow

Rotary International Appreciation, District 644, 1956

Beta Mu Hall of Fame, 1956

Rotary International Appreciation, District 181, 1961

Rotary Club of Iowa City, 1976

The University of Iowa Alumni Association, 1977

Rotary International Symbol

Clippings (4 folders)

Correspondence

March 28, 1937 -- December 1937

September 15, 1934 -- March 23, 1937

January 2, 1938 -- December 23, 1938

January 7, 1939 -- March 18, 1940

Undated

Miscellaneous

Military Documents

Miscellaneous, including photographs of Reserve Training at Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Blue Torch (Yearbook of Fort Snelling)

1923

1925

Photographs

Publications in which Dakin is pictured or mentioned

The Jonathan, January 1957, p. 7

Modern Brotherhood, Vol. 30:No.1, p.2

Rotary publications

Rotary International

Group Leaders, 1956 International Assembly, p. 1

International Assembly Program, 1956. Annotated by Dakin

List of those present at some and/or all sessions of the 1959 Institute for present and past officers of Rotary International, p.2

Our Magazine. p.3 of the index to Vol.86-87 of The Rotarian

Rotary

The Rotarian

July 1953, pp. 32 -- 33

October 1955, pp. 5, 16 -- 17

July 1956, p. 31

September 1956, p. 49

May 1960, pp. 26 -- 28. Written by Dakin

July 1960, pp. 26 and 56

The University of Iowa

On Iowa. Back cover

Travel diary (4 folders)

Travel mementoes