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John Richard Hoskins Papers, 1947-1989
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- John Richard Hoskins, 1919-
- Title
- John Richard Hoskins Papers
- Dates
- 1947-1989 (inclusive)19471989
- Quantity
- 6.5 cubic feet
- Collection Number
- MG357 (collection)
- Summary
- Correspondence, reports, and other material concerning field trips, short courses given at the Northwest Mining Association annual meetings, and other activities as head of the Mining Engineering and Metallurgy Department at the University of Idaho, as a professional engineer, and as a teacher.
- Repository
-
University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu - 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
John Richard (Jack) Hoskins was born June 9, 1919 in Brewster, Washington. After graduating from the University of Idaho with a B.S. in Mining Engineering in 1947, he was employed as plant engineer and department superintendent for the U.S. Gypsum Company, Evans, Washington, mining and processing limestone into building materials. He left there in 1949 to work with ASARCO in Santa Barbara, Mexico, where he was employed as staff mining engineer and later mine shift boss and mine foremen in a one-thousand-ton-a-day lead, zinc, copper, and gold operation. In 1952 he went to the University of Alaska where he taught Mining Engineering for five years. Leaving Alaska in 1957, he continued his studies in applied mechanics, mathematics, and mining engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute under a special grant from the National Science Foundation. After completing his work at Virginia Tech in 1959, he attended the University of Utah at Salt Lake City where he completed his Ph.D. in 1962. He then moved to Denver to work as Mining Methods Research Engineer for the U.S. Bureau of Mines.He came to the University of Idaho in 1967 as Professor of Mining Engineering and the following year he became head of the Department of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy in the College of Mines and Earth Resources (COMER).
Hoskins is the author of many publications and presentations, and has worked on numerous research projects in rock mechanics, explosives, drilling and blasting, mine ventilation and health and safety. A member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, he served as Education Chairman and Program Chairman in the Alaska Section. He has also served on the Education Committee and Educational Board of the Society of Mining Engineers and was the American Institute of Mining Engineers representative to the Engineers' Council for Professional Development. He has also held membership in the American Society of Engineering Education Minerals Division, the Northwest Mining Association, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of University Professors, the Idaho Academy of Science, and the Idaho Mining Association. He has been named an Outstanding Educator of America and has been honored by the Northwest Mining Association, the Society of Mining Engineers, the U.S. Bureau of Mines Spokane Research Center, University of Idaho Mining Students, and the Northwest Mining Association. He retired from the University of Idaho in 1989.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The papers of John R. Hoskins span the years 1947 to 1989, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1968 to 1986.
The papers include administrative files reflecting his activities as head of the Mining Engineering and Metallurgy department, material related to his teaching, other papers concerned with his professional activities, non administrative correspondence, and other material.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Some of the material in this record group was in labeled folders, other items were unfoldered or otherwise unidentified. With the exception of the administrative correspondence the papers were in no apparent order; therefore a series order was imposed during processing. Available folder headings were retained.
The first series reflects Dr. Hoskins' activities as department administrator and includes accreditation reports, information on several cooperative programs with Washington State University, and an alphabetical correspondence file. Spanning the years 1985 to 1987, the file contains copies of all outgoing departmental letters and occasional incoming letters. Also included are enrollment statistics, equipment and space allocation concerns, information on the various fellowships and scholarships available to students and which students received them, minutes of college and departmental meetings, and copies of research and grant proposals submitted by faculty members.
The second series concerns teaching activities and includes a class register, course evaluations and outlines, information on student field trips to mining companies, lecture notes, reserve room reading files and student papers.
Contained in the third series are the materials concerning Dr. Hoskins' professional interests. These include notes on the Senate Energy Committee hearings in Coeur d'Alene in 1986, correspondence and research notes on the cost of uranium mining collected for use by the legal firm representing the General Atomic Company in its arbitration suit against the United Nuclear Corporation, and information compiled for the short courses which he designed for the annual meetings of the Northwest Mining Association.
The general correspondence in series four contains many letters from congressional representatives, including Steve Symms, James McClure, and Tom Foley. Another group of correspondence reflects his interest in education in the mineral industry. Other letters were written to obtain information for his Minerals and Man course, or to give information to a correspondent about miners' lamps. The "Gimme" letters are requests to industry for equipment.
The final series contains material on Alaska lands, appointment calendars for the years 1977 to 1989, reprints of articles on various subjects, a copy of the SME-AIME guide to minerals schools which is interleaved with updated information, a proposal for a new calendar written by colleague C.E. Gregory in 1972 and information on technical writing.
Published material was sent to subject librarians for review and duplicate copies of near print materials were also removed from the collection, thus reducing the bulk by 3 cubic feet.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series I. Administrative Files , 1968-1989Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
1/1 | Academic Administrators Workshop 11 items
|
1980 |
1/2-3 | Accreditation ECPD (Engineers' Council for Professional Development) 41 items
|
1975-1980 |
1/4-8 | Accreditation ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) 150 items
|
1980-1988 |
1/9 | COMER publications and brochures 10 items
|
ca. 1980-1985 |
1/10-11 | Cooperation with Washington State University 32 items
|
1974-1986 |
1/12 | Coal Research Lab 33 items
|
1977-1979 |
1/13 | Cooperative work study 12 items
|
1970-1988 |
1/14-20 | Correspondence and memos 488 items
|
1985 |
1/21-28 | Correspondence and memos 670 items
|
1986 |
2/29-38 | Correspondence and memos 633 items
|
1987 |
2/39 | Course development 4 items
|
1979-1984 |
2/40-42 | Course evaluations 121 items
|
1974/1975-1987/1988 |
2/43 | Course outlines 19 items
|
1976-1989 |
2/44 | Crisis plans 11 items
|
1974-1986 |
2/45-46 | Data on faculty, students and department 43 items
|
1968-1988 |
2/47-49 | Enrollment statistics 57 items
|
1968/1969-1987/1988 |
2/50 | Equipment 34 items
|
1974-1988 |
2/51 | Equipment: x-ray 26 items
|
1981-1985 |
2/52-53 | Evaluations, tenure, and competency reviews 71 items
|
1970-1988 |
2/54-55 | Fellowships and scholarships, General 137 items
|
1974-1981 |
2/56 | Bunker Hill 10 items
|
1976-1981 |
2/57-60 | Health, Education & Welfare Domestic Mining and Mineral and Mineral Fuel Conservation 201 items
|
1975-1977 |
3/61-64 | Health, Education & Welfare Domestic Mining and Mineral and Mineral Fuel Conservation 109 items
|
1978-1982 |
3/65 | Mitson 3 items
|
1975 |
3/66-67 | Mineral Industry Educational Foundation 162 items
|
1971-1982 |
3/68 | Newmont 42 items
|
1975-1979 |
3/69 | Graduate Program Defense 22 items
|
1986-1987 |
3/70 | Honorary degree nominations 24 items
|
1973-1978 |
3/71 | INEL & NRTS education program 40 items
|
1969-1986 |
3/72 | Materials-Metallurgy proposal 5 items
|
1985 |
3/73 | Materials science 65 items
|
1982-1988 |
3/74-76 | Meetings: COMER 62 items
|
1976-1988 |
3/77-81 | COMER Advisory Board 68 items
|
1983-1985 |
3/82-85 | COMER Executive Committee 195 items
|
1981-1987 |
3/86-90 | Department of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy 150 items
|
1978-1989 |
3/91-95 | Mining and Minerals Resources Research Institute 170 items
|
1977-1981 |
4/96 | Old curriculum forms 8 items
|
1971/1972-1977/1978 |
4/97 | Ph.D. information 9 items
|
1970-1989 |
4/98 | Position descriptions 8 items
|
1986 |
4/99 | Recruiting 5 items
|
1981-1986 |
4/100-104 | Research proposals and grant requests 31 items
|
1968-1984 |
4/105 | Samuel S.M. Chan 59 items
|
1970-1978 |
4/106 | Reduction of high mine resistance values in underground metal mines 29 items
|
1972-1973 |
4/107 | Ventilation studies and escape plans for mines in the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho 17 items
|
1972-1973 |
4/108 | Copper wire 8 items
|
1976 |
4/109 | Data base for mine fire symposium 3 items
|
1975-1976 |
4/110 | Grant from the U.S. Congress 4 items
|
1986 |
4/111 | Salary surveys, national 12 items
|
1979-1987 |
4/112 | Salary surveys, University of Idaho 20 items
|
1975-1986/1987 |
4/113-115 | Space needs 66 items
|
1971-1988 |
4/116 | ABET problems 1 item
|
1985 |
4/117 | Laboratory rehabilitation 37 items
|
1981 |
4/118 | Student information 30 items
|
1976-1986 |
4/119 | "The supply and demand for mining engineers" 1 item
|
1982 |
4/120 | University core curriculum 15 items
|
1984 |
4/121 | WICHE 18 items
|
1983-1988 |
4/122 | Work plans (5 year plan) 4 items
|
1977-1978 |
Series II. Teaching and Related Material , 1970-1984Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
4/123 | Class register 1 item
|
1975-1978 |
4/124 | Course evaluations 5 items
|
1982 |
4/125 | Course outline, Mining 400 18 items
|
1982 |
4/126 | Course outline, Mining 499 3 items
|
1983 |
4/127-128 | Field trips: planning and correspondence 132 items
|
1970-1981 |
4/129 | Bethlehem Copper Company 2 items
|
ca. 1975 |
4/130 | Craigmont Mines 8 items
|
ca. 1975 |
4/131 | Lornex 12 items
|
ca. 1975 |
4/132 | Similkameen Mining Company 3 items
|
ca. 1975 |
4/133 | Teck Corporation 3 items
|
ca. 1975 |
4/134 | Cominco 23 items
|
1979 |
4/135 | Kaiser Resources 5 items
|
1979 |
4/136 | Boundary Dam project 2 items
|
1980 |
4/137 | Giant Mascot Mine 5 items
|
1980 |
5/138 | Home Economics School Days talk 10 items
|
1984 |
5/139 | Lecture notes 5 items
|
ca. 1981 |
5/140-141 | Reserve reading, Mining and Metals 110: Acid rain 69 items
|
1966-1984 |
5/142 | Reserve reading: Oil Shale 14 items
|
1973-1974 |
5/143-145 | Student papers: Oil Shale 5 items
|
1977 |
5/146 | Mining 110 1 item
|
undated |
5/147 | Mines 502 2 items
|
1980-1983 |
5/148 | Visiting lecture series 9 items
|
1981-1983 |
Series III. Professional Activities , 1963-1989Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
5/149 | American Institute of Mining Engineers. Council of Education 11 items
|
1977-1978 |
5/150 | AIME Annual Meeting programs 3 items
|
1982-1986 |
5/151 | Armour Institute data 4 items
|
1963 |
5/152 | Career guidance, recruitment 5 items
|
1967-1972 |
5/153 | Senate Energy Committee hearings, Coeur d'Alene 1 item
|
1986 |
5/154-160 | General Atomic Company vs. United Nuclear Corporation. Correspondence and related data 162 items
|
1978-1980 |
5/161 | Generic Institute 1 item
|
1985 |
5/162 | National Council of Engineering Examiners. Questions 9 items
|
ca. 1979 |
5/163 | National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum 35 items
|
1986-1989 |
5/164 | Northwest Mining Association 9 items
|
1985 |
5/165 | Education 8 items
|
1982-1984 |
5/166 | Session on Education's changing role 17 items
|
1984 |
5/167 | Short course: Mining Cost Estimates 71 items
|
1976 |
5/168-171 | Short course: Mineral Regulations and Permits 126 items
|
1977 |
5/172-173 | Short course: Mineral industry costs 25 items
|
1986 |
5/174 | Training sessions 8 items
|
1980 |
5/175 | Workshop: Are you listening 3 items
|
1982 |
6/176 | Paper reviewed 11 items
|
1965 |
6/177 | Papers and talks by John Hoskins 5 items
|
1975-1982 |
6/178 | Society of Mining Engineers 23 items
|
1973-1987 |
6/179 | Session: Underground mining 23 items
|
1987 |
6/180 | Spokane Mining and Research Center. Travel vouchers 27 items
|
1976-1982 |
6/181 | Minneapolis trip 16 items
|
1978 |
6/182 | Correspondence, evaluations, pay stubs, diary 62 items
|
1977-1982 |
6/183 | Washington D.C. trip 27 items
|
1985 |
6/184 | Washington D.C. trip 19 items
|
1987 |
Series IV. Correspondence , 1968-1989Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
6/185-189 | General correspondence 239 items
|
1968-1989 |
6/190 | Bureau of Mines budget 8 items
|
1985 |
6/191 | Education in the mineral industry 47 items
|
1969-1971 |
6/192 | Eugene Skinner 12 items
|
1986-1988 |
6/193 | "Gimme" (requests) 18 items
|
1975-1986 |
6/194 | Minerals and man course 23 items
|
1982 |
6/195 | Miners' lamps 9 items
|
1969 |
6/196 | Possible students 35 items
|
1974-1975 |
6/197 | Visiting speakers 33 items
|
1968-1987 |
Series V. Other Material , 1947-1989Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
6/198 | Alaska lands 11 items
|
1979-1987 |
6/199-204 | Appointment calendars 126 items
|
1977-1989 |
6/205 | Articles and talks by others 6 items
|
1978-1986 |
6/206 | Articles : Silver 4 items
|
1968-1976 |
6/207 | Brochures 8 items
|
1968-1988 |
6/208 | Career opportunities in mining and metallurgy 1 item
|
1983 |
6/209-212 | Explosives - Shaped charges 77 items
|
1947-1956 |
6/213 | Gillette, Wyoming 2 items
|
1979 |
6/214 | Mineral industry 6 items
|
1976-1985 |
6/215 | Mineral industry of Idaho 6 items
|
1961-1983 |
6/216 | "My conservative file" 22 items
|
1972-1982 |
7/217 | "Philosophy, psychology, logic 36 items
|
1930-1970 |
7/218 | Plasticity statics 3 items
|
undated |
7/219 | References (bibliographies) 16 items
|
undated |
7/220 |
SME-AIME guide to minerals schools, with additional information 1 item
|
1981 |
7/221 | Stress around openings 7 items
|
1933-1963 |
7/222 |
The time is now beckoning to frame a proper frame of time reckoning, by Dr. C.E. Gregory 1 item
|
1972 |
7/223 | Vita of John R. Hoskins 1 item
|
1977 |
7/224 | Wilderness vs. minerals 7 items
|
1970 |
7/225 | Writing 15 items
|
1977-1985 |
7/226 | Technical Writers Institute, Denver, Colorado 21 items
|
1967 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Corporate Names
- University of Idaho. Dept. of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Hoskins, John R.--Archives.