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(LY 7 aa. the Registrar's Office of the New. School for Social Research, est 12th Street, New York City, N.Y¥., made LV 7\e/ NY 77-3070 entitled "Crude Oil, Its Human Costs". These articles, the record further went on, were the result of his experiences in Elk Basin, Wyoming, where he spent a summer as a student minister of the Presbyterian Home Board i that region. “ae Mr. LYND was further described in the record as married at the present time, and his wife a Wellesley Graduate and the holder of a Beta Kappa key. . It was further ascertained from the theological school records that lirs. LYND also attended Columbia University as a candidate for a- doctorate in history, and she was described as a charming individual. LYND was always considered by Union to be worthwhile, open~ minded, keenly intelligent, fearless but tactful, and forceful without — being opinionated. He also was described as the author of the highly acclaimed book entitled "Middletown", which was written in collaboration with his wife, Helen Merrill Iynd. This particular work was a dissection ° of a typical small American city and came from the presses in 1929. It was a smashing sociological hit. Dr. LYND also wrote "Middletown in Transition, a sequel to the aforementioned book, and this reached the presses in 1937. His wife, Mrs. LYND, is a Professor of Sociology at Sarah oe lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, it was further ascertained from these files. available to the writer LYND'S record while he was a student at the afor mentioned school. These records disclosed that LYND attended courses at the school during 1919, 1920, and 1921, studying "Current Type Economic - Theory and the Objective Study of Social Relations". He also attended a course in t he Apprentice Theater which was given at the New School during the fall of 1933. His former employers were listed on the School records: as the Publishers Weekly, Charles Scribner‘and Sons, and Be We Huebsch, Inc At the latter enterprise LYND was described as having worked on the pub. tion "Freeman", . vo dog cr University, Broa , New York City, made available to the writer LYND! record while he was a student at Columbia University, These records dis closed that he attended Columbia from September, 1921 to June, 1922, and also during the summer session of July. to August, 1922, He also too courses at this institution from September, 1922 to dune, 1923, and atte sumer sessions from July to August, 1929. He re-entered Columbia in-Se ber, 1929, and attended to and throughout Jamary, 1930.. During the e mentioned years LYND took courses in Sociology, and as a result of. the studies received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy-in Sociology on June