Giuseppe M. Ferrero di Roccaferrera Papers
An inventory of his papers at the Syracuse University Archives
Finding aid created by: Erin Carter
Date: 2014
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Finding aid created by: Erin Carter
Date: 2014
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| Creator: | Di Roccaferrera, Giuseppe Maria Ferrero. |
| Title: | Giuseppe M. Ferrero di Roccaferrera Papers |
| Dates: | 1943-1994 |
| Size: | 3 boxes (1.25 linear foot) |
| Abstract: | The Giuseppe M. Ferrero di Roccaferrera Papers contain materials related to his time as a professor at Syracuse University and a painter. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
Giuseppe M. Ferrero di Roccaferrera was a professor in Syracuse University's School of Management (now the Whitman School of Management) from 1965 until 1977.
Di Roccaferrera was born in Turin, Italy on July 20, 1912. He received his undergraduate degree from the Technical Institute of Turin in 1929 and his master’s degree from the Turin Technological and Industrial Institute in 1933. While working towards his Ph.D., di Roccaferrera served as a captain in the Italian artillery. In 1939 he received his honorable discharge and completed his doctorate in economics at the University of Turin, graduating summa cum laude. Di Roccaferrera then began teaching at institutions such as IBM and the University of Turin. In 1943, while teaching, his classroom was raided by German soldiers in search of “volunteers” for their work camps. Di Roccaferrera, along with many other members of the faculty, fought back against the soldiers before fleeing the university. He escaped into the mountains of Italy, where a brief stand-off between the German soldiers and the escaped Italians occurred. Di Roccaferrera then fled to France, where he was briefly a part of the Free French resistance group. In 1958 di Roccaferrera made his way to the United States.
Di Roccaferrera worked as a lecturer and professor at New York University, the University of Florida, and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty at Syracuse University in 1965. In the same year he gave up his Italian nobility status to become an official United States citizen. Over the years he served as a professor of management science, information systems, computer applications, operations research, and quantitative methods in the University’s Quantitative Methods Department in the School of Management (now the Whitman School of Management). Di Roccaferrera was granted tenure in 1967 and promoted to full professor in 1968. He was a member of the Scientific and Management Advisory Committee of the United States Army, the Operations Research Society of America and the Institute of Management Science. Di Roccaferrera published a large number of articles and books in his field during his career, and he was invited to speak on these works by a wide array of countries such as Poland, Puerto Rico, Japan, and Israel. One of his books, Static Models for Managerial Decision Making (1983), was a best seller. He retired professor emeritus in 1977 and, in 1985, he was elected to represent the United States at the International Conference on Management of Research, Development, and Education in Wroclaw, Poland.
Outside of his work at the University, di Roccaferrera was an avid painter and musician. He received an honorary doctorate from the Combs College of Music in Philadelphia, which he counted amongst his most prized possessions. He also played the three-manual organ. Di Roccaferrera was most accomplished in painting; his specialty was 17th-century Dutch style still-life paintings of rare instruments. A number of his paintings were shown at an exhibit housed by the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York in 1976 under the title The Strings of 1676: An Exhibition of Original Oil Paintings of Antique and Rare Musical Instruments of the Era. His paintings also found their way to Paris, parts of Italy, and New York City. Di Roccaferrera was president of the International Fellowship of Rotarians artist group and received the Presidential Order of Merit for his involvement with the Rotary Club and beyond. The di Roccaferrera home in Syracuse was also considered a work of art as it housed a large collection of art and artifacts, primarily items that had been in the di Roccaferrera castle in Italy before it was destroyed. It was dubbed the “Renaissance Home” and became part of a city tour organized by the Rotary Club.
The Giuseppe M. Ferrero di Roccaferrera Papers contain materials related to his time as a professor at Syracuse University, and his work as a painter. The di Roccaferrera Papers are divided into two series.
The Personal Life series contains photographs, materials related to his family's history, slides of his artwork, and photographic reproductions of his paintings.
The Professional Life series contains a number of his published reports and articles, essays, and lectures from his time as a professor at the University. Included is an itemized list of what was donated, along with item descriptions and tables of contents, written by di Roccaferrera. Among the materials compiled by di Roccaferrera are newspaper and publication clippings, awards and certificates, and various printed materials.
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from the Syracuse University Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
More information on Giuseppe M. Ferrero di Roccaferrera can be found in the portrait and clippings files in the Syracuse University Archives.
Names
Di Roccaferrera, Giuseppe Maria Ferrero.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.
Subjects
Dutch painting -- 17th century.
Still-life painting.
College teachers.
Higher education.
Types of Material
Audiocassettes.
Color slides.
Slides (photographs)
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Giuseppe M. Ferrero di Roccaferrera Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
The Giuseppe M. Ferrero di Roccaferrera Papers were donated to the Syracuse University Archives by di Roccaferrera in 1994.
Processing Information
The Giuseppe M. Ferrero di Roccaferrera Papers were rehoused in acid-free folders and boxes.
The items are arranged by series and in alphabetical order.
Personal life
Professional life
| Personal life | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Audiocassette of di Roccaferrera 1976 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Clippings 1972-1976 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Family history 1943 | ||||||||||
| Painting | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Along the River undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Baryton or Viola di Bordone undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bridge undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brushes undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cartridge Belt undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Chocolate undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Clavichord 1954 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Coffee undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Composition undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Crucifixion Without Crucifix undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dawn undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | di Roccaferrera Castle undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fall undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fruits undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Fruits undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Hunting Horn undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Lute undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Mandolin undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | A Middle Age Castle Viewed at Sunset undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Mountebanks Musical Instruments undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Music in the City undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notes undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Pochette undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Portrait of a Young Girl undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Renaissance Basslute undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Return from the 'Alla Scala' Theater undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Self portrait 1979 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Slides (Photographs) undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Slides (Photographs) - Descriptions undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Spring 1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Strings of 1676, Everson Museum of Art 1976 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Summer 1955 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Viola da Gamba undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Violin and Mandolin undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Winter undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Photographs 1952-1984 | ||||||||||
| Professional life | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | "College Professors Lending Talents to CPSB," The Broadcaster 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Memoranda 1968-1970 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Materials Provided to Syracuse University Archives and Records Management" by di Roccaferrera 1994 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Operations Research Models as a Tool for Managerial Decision Making" lecture 1967 | ||||||||||
| Publications | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Allocation of Limited Resources in Multigoals Managerial Decision Making 1975 (2 copies) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Analogue and Digital Computers Working Together" 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Analysis of the Components of the Managerial Decision Making Process 1976 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Behavioral Aspects of Decision Making Under Multiple Goals 1972 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Betriebssysteme," Handbuch der betrieblichen Informations-Systeme undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Collection Expenses Reduction by the Application of Linear Programming Techniques to Credit Evaluation 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Cumulative Method to Find Regression Curves undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Description of a New Managerial Decision Making Model 1984 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Evaluation of Business Basics: The Elements of Managerial Decisions" 1975 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "A Graphical Smoothing Linear Trend Forecasting Model" 1985 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "How Can a Manager Utilize the Management Science Theoretical Principles and Findings?" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "How Management Science Helps in Defining Strategies for Multinational Firms" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Managerial Decision Making and the Fulfillment of Corporate Multiple Objectives undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Managers, Deterministic Models, and Computers undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "A Mathematical Approach to Utility Forecasting" 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Models for Sales Forecasting undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Multinational Management Essential Concepts 1984 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "An Open Letter to the Postmaster General," >Postmaster Advocate undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Poetry by Computer," Computers and Automation 1969 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Practical Method to Find Lines (and Curves) of Best Fit to be Used in Linear Programming Applications 1973 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Sensitivity Analysis and the Managerial Decision Process" 1970 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Systems Analysis of the Polaris Support Department 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Tabular Technique to Practically Define Trend Curves and Lines to be Used in Managerial Decision Processes 1974 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "Will Computers Eliminate Human Personality?" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "Table of Contents by Parts" by di Roccaferrera 1994 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "Two Tables of Contents by Parts and in Detail" by di Roccaferrera 1994 | ||||||||||