Archival Outlook • March/April 2020 • In Memoriam

SAA Fellow and past president Maynard J. Brichford, 93, passed away December 28, 2019. Born in Madison, Ohio, Brichford served in the US Navy and earned a BA from Hiram College and an MS in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He began his career with the Wisconsin State Historical Society in 1952, then went on to positions in records management at the Illinois State Archives (1956–1959) and Wisconsin Department of Administration (1959–1963) before being appointed as the first full-time archivist of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Under his leadership, it grew into national prominence, for which he was recognized with the Chancellor’s Medallion in 2017. Brichford was active in SAA, serving on the Publications, Program, and Nominating Committees as well as on the SAA Council and as President (1979–1980). He was also active in the Midwest Archives Conference and on the Illinois Archives Advisory Board. Brichford made important contributions to the profession and SAA relating to national standards for information exchange about archives and records, the theory and practice of appraisal, SAA’s code of ethics, and its development of educational programs for archivists. His conference papers and professional writings emphasized the history of archival theory and the relevance of European archival practice to the North American archival profession.

Harley Peirce Holden, 82, passed away on December 15, 2019, in Massachusetts. He received a BA from Boston University College of Liberal Arts, an MA in history from Boston University, and an MA in library science from Simmons College. He was awarded honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa by Harvard University in 1978. Holden was the assistant archivist of University Archives at Harvard University, then assistant curator, and then university archivist from 1971 to 2003. He was also director of the Harvard Depository from 1988 to 1992. Under Holden’s leadership, Harvard established its first university-wide records management program in 1995 and the archives grew from 2,000 cubic feet to more than 50,000 cubic feet. Holden also helped the archives take steps toward managing electronic records. In his role, he handled the opening of the infamous and sealed Sacco and Vanzetti files from the 1927 controversial case and actively collected the posters during the 1960s protests in Harvard Square as an essential historical record of the era. Holden was an active member of SAA, the International Council on Archives, the New England Archivists, and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. He provided expert advice to many organizations, serving as a member of the New England Area Advisory Committee to the Archives of American Art; the NHPRC Grant Review Board of the Massachusetts State Archives Advisory Council; the Library Committee of the Appalachian Mountain Club; the Advisory Committee of the Cambridge Historical Society; the Archives Committee of the Middlesex Canal Association; as registrar-historiographer of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts; as assistant vice president of the New England Deposit Library; and as honorary archivist of New York Pro Musica.