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Contained within the Special Events series are materials related to fundraising events as well as conferences and workshops sponsored by Environmental Advocates. Materials include notes, flyers, invitations, invitees, financial records, and correspondence.

This series contains typescripts and manuscripts of full-length works, including textbooks; typescripts and manuscripts of journal publications in German and in English; and typescripts and manuscripts of books reviewed by Friedländer. Versions of several of Friedländer's full-length works are present, including: Einführung in die soziale Wohlfahrt, Helene Simon, Individualism & Social Welfare, International Social Welfare, and Introduction to Social Welfare. Versions of many of Friedländer's German-language journal articles (184 folders), 1931-1984, include many articles dating from the 1930s dealing with topics and problems associated with Friedländer's experiences as Head of the Jugendamt in the Prenzlauer-Berg section of Berlin until 1933. Also present in this section are typescripts and manuscripts of journal articles written in English (49 folders), 1932-1979. The final section (62 folders) contains typescripts and manuscripts of book reviews by W.F. in both German and English.

This series consists of 2.5 cubic feet of files related to complaints and inquiries received and investigated by the Willowbrook Review Panel. Many of these complaints came from parents or guardians of Willowbrook class members, expressing concern about conditions at facilities or in community placements. Other complaints came from facility employees, claiming that they had observed disregard for the mandates of the Consent Decree while on the job. There are also records of general inquiries about the Review Panel and the Consent Decree from students, the news media, and others.

This series is not comphrensive and may not include every program discontinued during this time period.

A preliminary processing effort created four boxes under the general heading "Secretaries Files", with the folders in two of the boxes additionally designated as belonging to Edward J. Alfonsin (UUP's Secretary from 1975 to 1981, although some of the files pre-date his tenure as Secretary). It is unknown if this arrangement was original to the records themselves or created during preliminary processing. The records in this series overlap the records in other series in this collection, particularly the records of Delegate Assemblies and Executive Board meetings. However, the membership lists in this series are not found elsewhere in the collection.