Background of Merton Deming Munn fitting him for his responsibilities as a distinguished educator at Whitworth College and other institutions throughout the United States, Alaska and Southeast Asia.

Folios contain copies of financial and legal documents of Whitworth College from the time of its relocation from Tacoma to Spokane up to 1938. Correspondence of O.E. Porterfield and other administrators of the college and its board of trustees is included.

The file contains correspondence of Dr. Orrin E. Tiffany, acting president of Whitworth College, and his wife as registrar of the College. Most folders deal with the recruitment of faculty and students during some rather tumultuous times in the history of the College.