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President's Office (Robert E. Hamill) Records, 1968-1970
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)President's Office
- Title
- President's Office (Robert E. Hamill) Records
- Dates
- 1968-1970 (inclusive)19681970
- Quantity
- .4 cubic feet, (1 document box)
- Collection Number
- A-034
- Summary
- Robert E. Hamill was interim president of Lane Community College, 1968-1969. This collection includes correspondence and subject files.
- Repository
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Lane Community College Archives
4000 East 30th Avenue
Eugene, OR
97405
Telephone: 5414635466
archives@lanecc.edu - Access Restrictions
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There are no access restrictions. The collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Robert E. Hamill served as interim president of Lane Community College from 1968 to 1969.
Robert Hamill was born in 1926 in Merced, California. He was educated at the University of Redlands in California (B.A., 1948) and at the University of Oregon (M.S., 1956; D.Ed., Educational Administration, 1967). He taught in the Eugene public schools and served an administrative internship at Lane Community College before being named interim president in 1968.
He served as vice-president of Highline Community College, Midway, Washington, 1969-1972, and as president of Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, Washington, 1972-1977. He was associate superintendent for community colleges in the Oregon Department of Education, 1977-1986. He died in 1989 following a long illness.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The records document the tenure of Robert Hamill, interim president of Lane Community College, 1968-1969. This collection contains only a small part of the records from Hamill's administration. The collection contains administrative correspondence, arranged chronologically, and subject files, arranged alphabetically, which include a limited selection of files on administrative topics.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
There are no use restrictions.
Preferred Citation
President's Office (Robert E. Hamill) Records, 1968-1970 (A-034), Lane Community College Archives, Eugene, Oregon
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The collection is contained in one series.
Series A. Correspondence and Subject Files, 1968-1970
Acquisition Information
Records were transferred from the President's Office to the college archives in seven accessions between 1978 and 1987.
Processing Note
The collection was transferred from the President's Office to the Archives in seven accessions between 1978 and 1987. The records in these accessions were consolidated into one collection when they were processed Elizabeth Uhlig in 1997 and 2000.
Related Materials
Assistant to the President (Bert Dotson) Records, 1960-1975 (A-032). This collection documents the founding and early years of the college. The records include correspondence and other administrative records from the office of Bert Dotson, assistant to the president, 1965-1982, as well as records from the office of Robert E. Hamill, interim president, 1968-1969.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
Series A: Correspondence and Subject Files, 1968-1970Return to Top
The series contains administrative correspondence, arranged chronologically. This subject files, arranged alphabetically, include records pertaining to the Gonyea Property, Manpower Development and Training Program, and President's Cabinet Meetings.
Collection is open to the public.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/1 | Correspondence |
1968-1969 |
| 1/2 | Guests on Campus |
1969 |
| 1/3 | Land - Gonyea Property,
NCC |
1969 |
| 1/4 | Manpower Development and Training
Program (MDTA) |
1968-1969 |
| 1/5 | Oregon Board of
Education |
1968-1970 |
| 1/6-7 | President's Cabinet
Meetings |
1968-1969 |
| 1/8 | Release of Student Information,
Reorganiation, Student Unrest |
1968-1969 |
| 1/9 | Telephone System |
1968-1969 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Community colleges--Oregon
- Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)-- Administration
- Universities and colleges--Oregon
Personal Names
- Gonyea, Wilford H.
- Hamill, Robert E.
- Parnell, Dale
- Pickering, Robert L.
Corporate Names
- Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)
- Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)-- President's Office
Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth
Uhlig in 1997 and 2000.
2006
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