http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c87m0g7t No online items Richard Sheirich Papers Jamie Weber and Sean Stanley Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library 800 North Dartmouth Avenue Claremont, CA 91711 Phone: (909) 607-3977 Email:
[email protected] URL: https://library.claremont.edu/scl/ © 2021 The Claremont Colleges Library. All rights reserved. Richard Sheirich Papers PC.0020 1 Descriptive Summary Title: Richard Sheirich Papers Dates: 1955-2009 Collection number: PC.0020 Creator: Sheirich, Richard, 1927-2011 Extent: 10 Linear Feet(9 record cartons, 2 document boxes, 1 half-size document box) Repository: Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, CA 91711. Abstract: This collection contains course materials, departmental correspondence and planning documents, and grant proposals belonging to Pomona College professor, Richard M. Sheirich. Please consult repository. Language of Material: Languages represented in collection: English, German. Administrative Information Access Collection open for research. Publication Rights All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to the Archives Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Richard Sheirich Papers (PC-0020). Pomona College Archives, Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, California. Provenance/Source of Acquisition Gift of Perdita Sheirich, 2012, 2014. Accruals Additions to the collection are not anticipated. Processing Information Processed and arranged by Jamie Weber. Biography / Administrative History Richard M. Sheirich was born in 1927 in Erie, Pennsylvania and attended local schools through high school. As his parents felt 16 was too young to go to college, he spent an extra year at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, graduating in 1945. He attended Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, for part of his freshman year before enlisting in the U.S.