Stern Family Collection
Finding Aid Contents
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Collection Summary
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Administrative Information
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Biographical Note
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Chronology
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Description of Series
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Container List
Creator: Stern Family Collection, 1935-1997
Extent: 1 linear ft.
Scope and Content: The
Stern Collection consists of material regarding both Mr. and Mrs. Stern.
Included are letters of correspondence, articles, programs, memos,
photographs, sound recordings, a catalog of the Longview Foundation’s Arts
Program, newspaper clippings, a copy of A Survey for the Educational
Facilities and Resources of Orleans Parish (<1962>), and a picture
album of President Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson and their family.
Administrative
Information
Preferred Citation: Stern Collection, Will W. Alexander
Library, Dillard University.
Information concerning copyright must be secured in writing from the Director of
the Will W. Alexander Library.
Processed by: Laura Kersting and Kerrie Cotton Williams
Date completed: 3/04/02
Edith Rosenwald Stern was the daughter of Julius Rosenwald who was the head of Sears, Roebuck and Co. and also a philanthropist in Chicago. Edith married Edgar Bloom Stern, a prominent New Orleans businessman, in 1921. While Mrs. Edgar Stern focused her attention on establishing the Newcomb Nursery School and the Metairie Park Country Day School, Edgar was becoming involved in philanthropic pursuits as well as excelling as a business leader. In 1930 he was made planning chairman of the fundraising drive to merge two local African-American schools, Straight College and New Orleans University, into Dillard University. At the university’s founding, he became the first president of its board of directors, a post that Edith Stern filled after his death in 1959.
Both Sterns are buried at their showcase home, Longue Vue,
in New Orleans.
Chronology
1886
Edgar Bloom Stern born in New Orleans.
1895
Edith Rosenwald Salz born in Chicago, Illinois.
1907
B.A., Harvard University.
1908
M.A., Harvard University.
1912
Elected to the New Orleans Parish School Board.
1912-16 Member
of the Charity Hospital Board.
1915
Elected president of the New Orleans Association of Commerce.
1916-19 Member
of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Commission.
1919-26 Director
of Whitney National Bank.
1921
Married Edith Rosenwald Sulzberger.
1924-34 Trustee,
Tuskegee Institute.
1927-28 President
of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
1927-48 Director,
Times-Picayune Publishing Co.
1928
President of the Community Chest.
1929
Elected to board of directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce.
1929 Mrs.
Stern establishes Metairie Park Country Day School.
1930
Awarded the Times-Picayune Loving Cup.
1930-34 President
of the board of trustees, Flint-Goodridge Hospital.
1930-34 President
of the New Orleans Parkway Commission.
1932-48 Trustee
of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.
1940-42 Served
on the Louisiana state welfare board.
1948
With son, Edgar Bloom Stern, Jr., established WDSU-TV.
1959
Edgar Bloom Stern dies in Price, Utah.
1964
Edith Rosenwald Stern awarded Times-Picayune Loving Cup.
1980
Edith Rosenwald Stern dies in New Orleans.
Description
of Series
Series 1 Folders
1-2
Articles
Series 2 Folders
3-5
Programs
Series 3 Folders 6-12
Correspondence
Series 4 Folders 13-16
Photographs
Series 5 Folders 17-18
Sound Recordings
Series 6 Folders 19-23+
Miscellaneous
Container List
Box 1
Series 1: Articles
f. 1
“Remembering Mr. And Mrs. Edgar B. Stern, Dr.”
From Dillard- The
Early
Years by Jessie Covington Dent.
f. 2
Richardson, Joe M. “Edgar
B. Stern: A White New Orleans
Philanthropist Helps Build Black University.”
The
Journal of Negro
History, Vol. 82, No. 3 Summer 1997.
Series 2: Programs
f. 3
Dedication of Edgar B. Stern Hall, April 19, 1953.
f. 4
Presentation of Portrait of Edgar B. Stern,
April 20, 1953.
f. 5
To Honor Mrs. Edgar Bloom Stern …, May 13, 1973.
Series 3: Correspondence/Memos
f. 6
To Mr. Hickman from Mr. Brownlee RE:
Dillard University, Nov. 15, 1935.
f. 7
From Fred L. Brownlee to Edgar B. Stern, Sept. 26, 1940.
f. 8
To Walter R. Latapie from Fred L. Brownlee, March 25, 1941.
f. 9
From Edgar B. Stern to Fred L. Brownlee, April 13, 1942.
f. 10 From
W.W. Brierley to Fred Brownlee, June 16, 1942.
f. 11
To Fred L. Brownlee from Edgar B. Stern, March 20, 1943.
f. 12
To Edgar B. Stern from A. W. Dent, April 29, 1953.
Series 4: Photographs
f. 13 Dedication
of Stern Hall, 1953.
f. 14 Dedication
of Stern Hall, Procession, 1953.
f. 15 Mr.
Stern chatting with Mr. and Mrs. Francis Keppel, n.d.
f. 16 Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar B. Stern and Edgar B. Stern, Jr., n.d.
Series 5: Sound Recordings
f. 17
“Dillard-ly Yours”, Service of Dedication, Lawless Memorial Chapel,
Dedication speech by Howard Thurman, University Choir, 33 ½ 45.
f. 18 Presentation
of Portrait of Edgar B. Stern, 5 count 33 ½ 78 discs.
Series 6: Miscellaneous
f. 19
Exhibition Catalog of Longview Foundations Gifts …, 1962-63.
f. 20 Program:
To Honor Mrs. Edgar Bloom Stern …, May 13, 1973.
f. 21 Marketing
Brochure: “A Passion for Sharing: The Story of Edith Rosenwald
Stern,” 1984.
f. 22 Newspaper
Clippings
f. 23
Report: A Survey for the Educational Facilities and
Resources of Orleans
Parish <1938>.
Box 2
Series 6: Miscellaneous, cont.
The First Family Picture
Album, President Johnson, The President’s Club, 1965.