Te May Ching Papers, 1947-1988

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Ching, Te May.
Title
Te May Ching Papers
Dates
1947-1988 (inclusive)
1956-1980 (bulk)
Quantity
14.50 cubic feet, including approximately 250 photographs, (44 boxes, including 4 oversize boxes)
Collection Number
MSS Ching
Summary
The Te May Ching Papers consist of teaching and research records created and assembled by Te May Tsou Ching, professor of seed physiology at Oregon State University from 1956 to 1988. This collection documents Ching's career via correspondence; research materials including project files, laboratory notebooks, specimen photographs, and bibliographic records; teaching materials; administrative and programmatic records from the Crop Science Department; and records from her involvement in various professional activities and organizations.
Access to student advising files in Series 4 is restricted due to the presence of confidential information. All requests for access to this material should be directed to the University Archivist.
Repository
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu
Access Restrictions

Access to student advising files in Series 4 is restricted due to the presence of confidential information. All requests for access to this material should be directed to the University Archivist. All other materials in this collection are open for research.

Languages
English, Chinese

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Te May Ching was born January 9, 1923 in China. She enrolled in Central University in Nanjing, China in 1940, where she earned a B.S. in Forest Products and Wood Chemistry in 1944. She later immigrated to the United States, where she earned her M.S. in Wood Technology (1950) and Ph.D. in Cytology and Genetics (1954) at Michigan State University. After earning her doctorate, Ching worked as a research instructor at Michigan State. In 1956, Ching's husband, Kim, was appointed to the Oregon State Board of Forestry; Ching subsequently left her position at Michigan State University and relocated to Portland, Oregon. Later that year, Ching accepted a position as Assistant Agronomist with the Oregon State College (OSC) Farm Crops Experiment Station.

At OSC, Ching taught courses in seed physiology and conducted a wide array of research projects. In 1962, she was promoted to Associate Professor and received the rank of Professor in 1971. Ching was recognized as a leading seed physiologist, was recognized by a variety of professional organizations including the American Society of Agronomy, and published dozens of papers relating to seed treatments, storage, and germination processes, among other topics. During her tenure, she took research and teaching sabbaticals at the Wenner-Gren Institute at the University of Stockholm, Sweden; the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Canberra, Australia; and the Federal University of Pelotas in Pelotas, Brazil.

Ching was also deeply involved in issues of international education and international cooperation. She gave talks on the People's Republic of China to "promote mutual understanding and to improve international relationships," served as an advisor to the OSU Chinese Student Association, and was a member of the OSU International Education Committee. Ching also advised numerous graduate students, many of whom were international students.

Te May Ching was awarded Emeritus status upon her retirement from OSU in 1988.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Te May Ching Papers are comprised of materials documenting Ching's teaching and research activities as a member of the Crop Science Department and Agricultural Experiment Station at Oregon State University. Her records include personal and professional correspondence; institutional records documenting the activities of the Crop Science Department and other campus units; Ching's engagement with various professional events and organizations, including membership on the Northwest Forest Tree Seed Committee; teaching records including course and advising materials; research files such as project records, laboratory notebooks, and assembled research materials; publications authored by Ching; and photographs, including images of specimen samples.

Ching's research efforts focused predominately on seed physiology with an emphasis on storage, dormancy, germination, and purity testing. Her research is documented in her research files, laboratory notebooks, publications, professional activities records, and correspondence. During her tenure at Oregon State Univeristy, she also taught a variety of courses in the Crop Science program and oversaw the research of numerous graduate students. Ching was was particularly active in OSU's international student community and participated in several related committees and programs, acted as advisor for a number of foreign graduate students, and participated in research and teaching opportunities abroad. Her records include teaching materials, student research, committee and materials. This collection also features significant documentation of OSU Crop Science Department during Ching's tenure and includes meeting minutes, memoranda, facilities and equipment records, and other item's related to the department's operation.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

Te May Ching Papers (MSS Ching), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The Te May Ching Papers are organized into seven series: 1. Correspondence, 1956-1981; 2. Institutional Records, 1948-1987; 3. Professional Associations and Activities, 1948-1987; 4. Teaching Files, 1950-1986; 5. Research Files, 1947-1982; 6. Publications, 1957-1988; 7. Photographs, 1954-1980. Series 4 and 5 are further divided into subseries.

Acquisition Information

Materials in the Te May Ching Papers were transferred to the University Archives by the Oregon State University Department of Crop Science in 1999. The collection now resides in the Special Collections and Archive Research Center.

Related Materials

Materials in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center holdings pertaining to seed physiology and research include the Denis P. Lavender Papers (MSS Lavender), the Harry August Schoth Papers (MSS Schoth), the William A. Frazier Papers (MSS FrazierW) and the Oregon Tilth, Inc. Records (MSS Tilth). Collections relating to the crop science program at Oregon State include the Crop Science Club Records (MSS CropClub), the Crop Science Department Photographic Collection (P 134), the Crop Science Department Records (RG 095), and the Donald David Hill Papers (MSS HillD). Materials documenting the Agricultural Experiment Station can be found in the Agricultural Experiment Station Records (RG 025).

Information about the OSU's international education program is available in the International Education Records (RG 164). Records documenting the experience of women on the OSU campus can be found in the President's Commission on the Status of Women Records (RG 159), the Women's Center Records (RG 243), and the OSU Sesquicentennial Oral History Collection (OH 026).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series 1:  Correspondence, 1956-1981Return to Top

Series 1, Correspondence, is comprised of both in-coming and out-going personal and professional correspondence between Ching and her Oregon State University colleagues, prospective and current student advisees, and domestic and international scholars in similar fields. Also included in this series are separate correspondence folders for Charles E. Allen, Walter B McHenry, and M. C. Parker, and travel reports from Donald David Hill.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1.1
Personal
1956-1958
1.2
Personal
1959-1960
1.3
Personal
1960-1962
1.4
Professional
1958-1971
1.5
Professional
1961-1963
2.1
Professional
1962-1981
2.2
Professional
1963-1967
2.3
Professional
1968-1974
3.1
Professional
1972-1976
3.2
Professional
1978-1980
3.3
Charles E. Allen
1950-1953
3.4
Donald David Hill - Travel reports
1959-1960
3.5
Donald David Hill - Travel reports
1961-1970
4.1
Walter B. McHenry
1951-1953
4.2
M.C. Parker
1955-1956
4.3
Distribution lists
1962-1979

Series 2:  Institutional Records, 1948-1987Return to Top

Series 2 is comprised of records collected during Ching's tenure as a member of the Oregon State University faculty. The series includes materials related to the operating policies and procedures of the university; Crop Science Department records such as memoranda and inter-office correspondence, meeting minutes, and facilities and equipment records; materials documenting department and university programs and activities; and institutional publications.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
4.4
Academic advising - Policies and procedures
1978-1981
4.5
Agricultural Experiment Station - Staff directories
1961-1983
4.6
Calendar of events
1978
4.7
Crop Science Department - "Agronomic Crop Science Symposium on Cereal Production Under Dryland Conditions"
1973
4.8
Crop Science Department - Correspondence and internal documents
1951-1956
4.9
Crop Science Department - Correspondence and internal documents
1956-1960
5.1
Crop Science Department - Correspondence and internal documents
1960-1962
5.2
Crop Science Department - Correspondence and internal documents
1962-1967
5.3
Crop Science Department - Correspondence and internal documents
1968-1971
5.4
Crop Science Department - Correspondence and internal documents
1971-1976
5.5
Crop Science Department - Correspondence and internal documents
1972-1974
5.6
Crop Science Department - Correspondence and internal documents
1976-1977
5.7
Crop Science Department - Correspondence and internal documents
1978-1979
6.1
Crop Science Department - Correspondence and internal documents
1980-1982
6.2
Crop Science Department - Correspondence and internal documents
1982-1984
6.3
Crop Science Department - Department head search
1976
6.4
Crop Science Department - Department Research Conference planning
1970-1971
6.5
Crop Science Department - Facilities planning
1977-1981
6.6
Crop Science Department - "History of the Farm Crops Department," R.E. Fore and D.W. Headrick
1967
6.7
Crop Science Department - Library
1960-1962
6.8
Crop Science Department - Seed Pathology
1955-1957
6.9
Crop Science Department - Staff meeting minutes
1956-1961
7.1
Crop Science Department - Staff meeting minutes
1962-1982
7.2
Crop Science Department - Supplies and equipment
circa 1951-1956
7.3
Crop Science Department - Supplies and equipment
circa 1954-1970
7.4
Crop Science Department - Supplies and equipment
circa 1972-1983
7.5
Crop Science Department - Zhi-liang Zhang (visiting scholar)
1985
7.6
Developmental Biology
1971-1978
7.7
Extension Service - Staff directories
1968-1969
8.1
Faculty policies and procedures
1960-1978
8.2
Faculty Bulletin / Staff Newsletter
1957-1969
8.3
Faculty Senate - Meeting minutes
1956-1965
8.4
Forest Science Seminar
1964-1965
8.5
Genetics Institute
1957-1975
8.6
Graduate School - Policies and procedures
1962-1979
8.7
Graduate School - Policies and procedures
1976-1985
8.8
Greenhouse facilities
1955-1977
8.9
High school education programs
1958-1968
8.10
James A Hensel v. Wenatchee Air Service, Inc. testimony
1955
9.1
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Advisory Committee
1964
9.2
Promotion and tenure
circa 1978-1979
9.3
Radiation Center
1961-1970
9.4
Research projects - Policies and procedures
1955-1984
9.5
School of Agriculture - Committee assignments
1961-1981
9.6
School of Agriculture - Conference on Effective Teaching
1971-1972
9.7
Seed Laboratory
circa 1955-1970
9.8
Seed Laboratory - Conferences and "Seed School"
1958-1963
9.9
Seed Laboratory - Seed Services Program
circa 1980-1982
9.10
Soviet Exchange Team on Cereal, Forage, and Grass Seed Production
1961
9.11
Travel requests and reports
1954-1977

Series 3:  Professional Associations and Activities, 1948-1987Return to Top

Series 3, Professional Associations and Activities, is comprised of files documenting Ching’s affiliation with professional associations such as the American Society of Plant Pathologists, the Genetics Society of America, and the Northwest Forest Tree Seed Committee. Materials in this series also represent Ching’s on-campus professional activities, including her work with the Faculty Committee on Curricula in Agriculture, the Committee on Education for Women, and the College of Agriculture Long-range Planning group. Of particular note is folder relating to OSU’s Women in Development (WID) group, of which Ching was presumably a member. This file contains information on women working in the sciences, women in higher education, and discrimination against women in academia.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
9.12
Agriculture and Home Economics Conference
1957-1960
9.13
Agricultural Adjustment Discussion Group
1958-1961
10.1
American Institute of Biological Sciences
1962
10.2
American Society of Plant Pathologists
1957-1967
10.3
Branch Station Planning Conference
1956-1960
10.4
College of Agricultural Sciences - Long-Range planning
1983-1984
10.5
Committee on Education for Women
1966-1967
10.6
Conference on Electronics for Scientists
1965-1966
10.7
Faculty Committee on Curricula in Agriculture
1958
10.8
Forage trip lecture notes
1964
10.9
Forest Management Research Advisory Committee
1966
10.10
Fulbright Commission
1971-1972
10.11
Genetics Society of America
1962-1963
10.12
Institute of International Development and Education in Agriculture and Life Science
1984-1985
10.13
Interregional Coordinating Committee for the Regional Seed Marketing Projects
1958-1962
11.1
National Association of Biology Teachers
1962
11.2
Northwest Forest Tree Seed Committee
1953-1954
11.3
Northwest Forest Tree Seed Committee
1955-1956
11.4
Northwest Forest Tree Seed Committee
1957-1958
11.5
Northwest Forest Tree Seed Committee
1959-1962
11.6
Northwest Forest Tree Seed Committee
1948-1963
11.7
Northwest Forest Tree Seed Committee [correspondence]
1953-1960
11.8
Northwest Forest Tree Seed Committee, See Standards Sub-committee
1953-1958
12.1
Oregon Electron Microscopists Association
1965
12.2
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Agriculture Hall Expansion
1965
12.3
Oregon Seed Growers' League
1955-1961
12.4
President's Commission on Human Rights and Responsibilities; Association of Women in Science (AWIS)
1974-1976
12.5
Seed Processors' Conference
1957-1975
12.6
Services [university service]
1966-1978
12.7
Symposium on Modern Technology of Agriculture, Taiwan
1979
12.8
United States Department of Agriculture, See Symposium
1970-1973
12.9
Western Forest Genetics Association, Tree Seed Council
1965-1977
12.10
Western Forest Tree Seed Council
1962
12.11
Western Regional Seed Research Project Technical Committee
1984
12.12
Western Society of Crop Science
1978
12.13
Women In Development
1978-1987
12.14
Assorted conference information
1957-1960
13.1
Seminars and Speeches
1973-1978

Series 4:  Teaching Files, 1950-1986Return to Top

The materials in Series 4 represent Ching’s teaching, both at OSU and abroad, student advising, and completed student work. Included are course materials for Farm Crops courses (what is now Crop Science in the Department of Crop and Soil Science); copies of Master’s thesis and doctoral dissertations on which she advised; and files pertaining to “short courses” and lecture series Ching taught in China and Mexico. Of special note are the masters and doctoral proposals, which provide evidence of the contemporary concerns of seed biologists.

The series includes four subseries: 1. Courses; 2. General; 3. Student Work; and 4. Student Advising.

Access to student advising files in Series 4 is restricted due to the presence of confidential information. All requests for access to this material should be directed to the University Archivist.

Container(s) Description Dates
Courses
1950-1978
Box/Folder
13.2
FC 111: Elements of Agronomy I
1956
13.3
FC 407: Farm Crops Seminar
1960-1961
13.4
FC 414: Seed Production
1950
13.5
FC 440: Electron Microscopy
1964-1965
13.6
FC 507: Farm Crops Seminar
1955-1956
13.7
FC 507: Farm Crops Seminar
1956-1973
13.8
FC 516: Field Plot Technique
undated
13.9
FC 521: Crop Production
1955-1957
13.10
FC 521: Crop Production
1957-1960
13.11
General Crop Science course materials
1976-1978
General
1970-1985
Box/Folder
13.12
Chinese Student Association
1972-1973
13.13
Genetics course offerings
1970
13.14
International Education
1970-1973
14.1
International Education Committee Meeting Minutes
1970-1973
14.2
International Education, Japan Study Center
1972-1974
14.3
Lecture series, China
1979-1981
14.4
Seed Biology Seminar/Short Course
1979-1983
14.5
Seed Physiology Short Course; South China Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica
1981-1984
14.6
Visitors and students from China
1984-1985
Student Work
1964-1972
Box/Folder
15.1
Warren M. Blacklow, "The Physiology of Seasonal Growth in Tall Fescue Varieties (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.)" [PhD dissertation]
1969
15.2
James Henry Helm, "Chemical and Genetic Evaluation of High Lysine and Protein in Selected Barley Crosses"
1972
15.3
Allan Herbert Legge, "The Gene-Ecology of Crepis nana Richardson and Crepis elegans Hooker in Artic and Alpine North America"
1971
15.4
Jyotendra Narain Singh, "Effects of Modifying the Environment of Flowering, Fruiting, and Biochemical Composition of the Snap Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)"
1964
15.5
Ronald E. Stewart, "The Effect of Osmotic Moisture Strees During Germination on Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
circa 1970
16.1
William Perry Wheeler, "Patterns of Mitotic Activity During Late Embryogeny, Germination and Early Seedling Ontogeny of Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirbel) France"
1967
16.2
Master's and Dissertation proposals
Student Advising
Access to materials in this subseries is restricted due to the presence of confidential information. All requests for access to these materials should be directed to the University Archivist.
1957-1986
Box/Folder
43.1
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.2
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.3
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.4
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.5
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.6
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.7
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.8
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.9
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.10
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.11
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.12
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
43.13
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
44.1
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
44.2
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
44.3
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
44.4
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
44.5
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
44.6
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
44.7
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
44.8
RESTRICTED: Student Advising
44.9
RESTRICTED: Student Advising

Series 5:  Research Files, 1947-1982Return to Top

Series 5 is comprised of materials documenting Te May Ching's research efforts. The series is comprised of five subseries: 1. Project Files; 2. Budget Records; 3. Grant and Project Proposals; 4. Laboratory Notebooks; and 5. Collected Publications and Bibliographic Records.

Subseries 1 includes materials both for specific projects and for more broad areas of inquiry, as indicated by Ching's own labeling and filing. The project files predominately reflect Ching's interest in seed treatments, storage, and germination. Subseries 2 is comprised of budget records documenting income from grant agencies and other sources and expenditures on equipment, samples, and personnel. Subseries 3 contains proposals submitted to grant agencies and internally to OSU administrators and outline funding, personnel, equipment, and facilities needs. The laboratory notebooks represent a large portion of Ching's research and are comprised predominately of experiment datasets, though some also include materials related to experiments conducted as part of course instruction. All laboratory notebook titles were assigned by Ching. Subseries 5 is comprised of resources, including conference proceedings, scientific papers, and reports relating to her research. Of particular note are three boxes of index cards containing bibliographic records created and assmbled by Ching.

Container(s) Description Dates
Project Files
1947-1981
Box/Folder
16.3
Project 39: "Quality, Germination, & Purity Studies with Oregon Crop Seed"
1948-1957
16.4
Project 256: "Seed Quality"
1969-1976
17.1
Project 256: "Seed Quality" - Financial statements
1978-1979
17.2
Project 308: "Preserving seed quality through improved handling and packaging"
1957-1963
17.3
Project 319: "Testing and Handling of Forest Tree Seeds"
1957-1979
17.4
Project 319: "Testing and Handling of Forest Tree Seeds" - Financial statements
1969-1981
17.5
Cooperative projects - Legumes, wheat, heterosis in domestic animals, effects of airborne pollutants from coal-fired power plants on plant growth
1960-1975
18.1
Cooperative projects - Germination of irradiated wheat
1957-1961
18.2
Cooperative projects - Wheat irradiation - Progress reports
1957-1961
18.3
Cooperative projects - Wheat irradiation - Correspondence
1957-1961
18.4
Cooperative projects - Wheat irradiation - Manuscript
1961
18.5
R. Howard Berg - Project data
1979-1980
18.6
David Cheung - "Nitrogen Determination on Ponderosa Pine Seeds"
1961-1962
18.7
Louis W. & Maud Hill Family Foundation - Projects
1960-1965
18.8
Denis P. Lavender - Tree Seed Project
1953-1956
18.9
Peter M. Leahy - "Statistical Analysis of Results of Soaking Treatments of Douglas Fir Seeds"
1953-1955
18.10
H.A. Scullen - Pollination
1949-1952
18.11
L.W. Woodstock - High and low protein wheat seedling data
1974
18.12
Alium vineale germination study
1952-1956
19.1
Bacteroides
1970-1976
19.2
Bag storage studies - Alta fescue and crimson clover
1955-1957
19.3
Barley - Hydrogen peroxide testing
1955-1956
19.4
Bentgrass - seed types
1957
19.5
Bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) germination study
1952
19.6
Bluegrass
1957-1958
19.7
Bluegrass - Histological study
1957-1958
19.8
Bluegrass - Seed types
1955-1956
19.9
Broad beans and hard-seeded legumes
1951
19.10
Buried seed study
1962-1970
19.11
Bush bean nodules - Chemical analysis
1963-1965
19.12
Canned seeds study
1961-1967
19.13
Ceanothus prostratus- Germination
1961
19.14
Cold testing - Oregon soil
1953
19.15
Cotton seed - Infrared drying
1960-1961
19.16
Crimson clover - Seed germination
1971-1975
19.17
Crimson clover - Maturity study
1959
20.1
Crimson clover - Sealed container storage
1955-1957
20.2
Crimson clover - Trace element study
1954
20.3
Dichondra - Infrared treatment
1962
20.4
Douglas fir - Dewing damage study
1953-1954
20.5
Douglas fir - "GA" treatment
circa 1959-1960
20.6
Douglas fir - pH study
1955
20.7
Douglas fir - Seed mycorrhuza
1961
20.8
Douglas fir - Storage trials
1952
20.9
Electrostatic seed separation
1955
20.10
Excised embryos
1951
20.11
Festuca rubra - Identification
1951
20.12
Fine fescue - Inert matter
1956-1958
20.13
Fluorescent compounds
1959-1962
20.14
Germinator - Uniformity trial
1953
20.15
Grand fir - Germination, hydrogen peroxide, and tetrazolium tests
1959
20.16
Gromweel weed (Lithospermum arvensis) - Germination
1955
20.17
Hydroscopic equilibrium
1957-1958
20.18
Infrared drying
1948-1962
21.1
Infrared drying
1958-1962
21.2
King green beans - Seedling evaluations
1957
21.3
Lettuce - Germination
1949-1951
21.4
Lindane - Effect on corn seed in storage
1955-1956
21.5
Lipid emulsion study
1963-1964
21.6
Lotus uliginosusgermination - bound roots
1949
21.7
Lyosome enzymes
1962-1975
21.8
Mahleb cherry seed - Germination
1957
21.9
Merion bluegrass (Poa pratensis) - Thiourea experiments
1952-1953
21.10
Moisture content - Correlatin of oven-drying and cencometer
1954-1955
21.11
Moisture equilibrium - Forest tree seeds
1955-1956
21.12
Moisture percent / RH information
1947-1956
21.13
Moisture retention - Perennial ryegrass and crimson clover
undated
21.14
Moisture survey data - Chewings fescue, ryegrass, highland bent, Sudan grass, alta fescue, crimson clover
1956-1961
21.15
Oatgrass - Threshing
1951-1953
21.16
Oil treatment - State Highway Commission
1955
21.17
Orchard grass - Germination
1957
22.1
Pansy seed storage study 1
1952-1955
22.2
Pansy seed storage study 2
1954-1955
22.3
Peas - Chemical injury
1949
22.4
Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) - Sealed container storage studies
1947-1968
22.5
Phormium germination
1955-1957
22.6
Pollen germination on different media
1964
22.7
Resazurin test
1956
22.8
Ryegrass - Dormancy
circa 1960
22.9
Ryegrass - Hydration studies
1953
22.10
Seed cleaning
1952-1956
22.11
Seed moisture experiments
1951-1952
22.12
Seed purity
1948-1951
22.13
Seed purity
1949
23.1
Seed purity
1949
23.2
Seed purity
1949-1956
23.3
Seed research - General information
1957-1979
23.4
Seed treatments - Toxicity
circa 1960
23.5
Shipping condition study
1958-1959
23.6
Small-seeded legumes - Germination of hard seeds
1957
23.7
Soybean nodules
1974
23.8
Storage bag experiment
1953-1955
23.9
Storage bag experiment
1959-1972
24.1
Storage - Grain sorghum
1957-1961
24.2
Tetrazolim staining
1950-1956
24.3
Threshing studies
1954-1955
24.4
Tree seeds - Sampling study
1958-1959
24.5
Vicia villosa - Germination
1949
24.6
Vicia villosa - Hairy weevils in live vetch
1958-1959
24.7
Warehouse conditions - Lilly's and Vollstedt's
1957-1958
24.8
Wheat - Postharvest dormancy
1948-1972
24.9
Wheat - Postharvest dormancy
1959-1961
24.10
Wheat - Septoria nodorum damage
1981
42.1
X-ray photographs and datasheets
undated
Budget Records
1951-1981
Box/Folder
24.11
Budgets
1957
24.12
Budgets
1958
24.13
Budgets
1959
24.14
Budgets
1960
25.1
Budgets
1961
25.2
Budgets
1962
25.3
Budgets
1963
25.4
Budgets
1964-1966
25.5
Budgets
1966-1967
25.6
Budgets - Balances
1951-1956
25.7
Budget - National Science Foundation
1961-1973
25.8
Budget - Projects
1976-1978
25.9
Budget - "Enhancing Nitrogen Fixation in Red Alder"
1979-1981
Grant and Project Proposals
1949-1982
Box/Folder
26.1
Grant proposal - National Institute of Health Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - "Effect of H2O2 on seed germination and fat metabolism"
1959-1963
26.2
Grant proposal - National Institute of Health Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
1969-1970
26.3
Grant proposal - U.S. Department of Agriculture - "Enhancing Nitrogen Fixation in Red Alder"
1977-1982
26.4
Grant proposal - U.S. Department of Agriculture - "Enhancing Nitrogen Fixation in Red Alder"
1978
26.5
Grant proposal - United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, "Biochemical activities in seed and their relation to seed vigor"
1977-1978
26.6
Grant proposal - Various
1978-1980
26.7
Project proposal - Charles E. Allen
1949-1950
26.8
Project proposal - Inter-regional seed research
1955-1956
26.9
Project proposal - "Maximizing N2 Fixation and Yield of Phaseolus vulgaris by Optimal Soil Nutrients"
1965-1982
Laboratory Notebooks
1955-1971
Box/Folder
27.1
"1966A"
1965-1966
27.2
"Ag Seeds"
1958-1964
27.3
"Chemical Analysis"
1959-1962
27.4
"Geotropism and Radiochemical Work"
1956-1967
27.5
"H2O2 Test & Ag Seed"
1956-1958
27.6
"Histological Study"
1962
27.7
"M/C % I"
1958-1962
28.1
"M/C % II"
1962-1971
28.2
"Moisture"
1956-1958
28.3
"Notes"
1957-1963
28.4
"Physiology of Tree Seeds"
1958-1962
28.5
"Plant Biochemistry (471)"
circa 1955
28.6
"Plant Biochemistry (474)"
circa 1955
29.1
"Research Records"
1962-1963
29.2
"Research Records"
1964-1965
29.3
"Seed Physiology"
1959-1961
29.4
"Seed respiration"
1957-1959
29.5
"T2 Research"
1958-1959
29.6
"Tree Seed"
1956-1959
29.7
[Untitled]
1955-1957
29.8
[Untitled]
1956-1958
30.1
[Untitled]
1962-1966
30.2
[Untitled]
1965
30.3
[Untitled]
1966-1967
30.4
[Untitled]
1966-1967
Collected Publications and Bibliographic Records
1949-1975
Box/Folder
30.5
The American Institute of Biological Sciences, "A Translation of Plant Physiology"
1957
30.6
Association of Official Seed Analysts, "Proceedings, of the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting"
1954
30.7
Association of Official Seed Analysts, "Proceedings, of the Forty-seventh Annual Meeting"
1957
30.8
Association of Official Seed Analysts, "Proceedings, of the Forty-eight Annual Meeting"
1958
31.1
Association of Official Seed Analysts, "Proceedings, of the Forty-ninth Annual Meeting"
1959
31.2
Association of Official Seed Analysts, "Fifty Years of Seed Testing"
circa 1958
31.3
Tudor Barnard, [Articles relating to brown adipose tissue]
undated
31.4
International Botanical Congress, "Abstracts, Volume I"
1975
31.5
International Botanical Congress, "Abstracts, Volume II"
1975
31.6
Pacific Northwest Grain Standards and Quality Committee, "Pacific Northwest Wheat Quality Survey"
1969
31.7
Pacific Northwest Grain Standards and Quality Committee, "Quality Wheat"
1971-1972
31.8
M. C. Parker, "Monogerm Hybrid Sugar Beet Seed"
1955-1956
31.9
Proceedings of the International Seed Testing Association, Volume 26, No. 4
1961
32.1
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Marketing Service, "Purity and Identification of Seeds"
circa 1956
32.2
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Administration, "Distinguishing the Seeds of Cultivated Fine-leaved Fescues and Certain Weedy Species Occurring with Crop Seeds"
1949
32.3
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, "Proceedings: Seed Protein Conference"
1963
32.4
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest and Range Research Branch, and Department of Farm Crops, Oregon Agricultural College, "Annual Report: Seed Production Investigations"
1964
32.5
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest and Range Research Branch, and Department of Farm Crops, Oregon Agricultural College, "Annual Report: Seed Production Investigations"
1965
32.6
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest and Range Research Branch, and Department of Farm Crops, Oregon Agricultural College, "Annual Report: Seed Production Investigations"
1966
32.7
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest and Range Research Branch, and Department of Farm Crops, Oregon Agricultural College, "Annual Report: Seed Production Investigations"
1967
32.8
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest and Range Research Branch, and Department of Farm Crops, Oregon Agricultural College, "Annual Report: Seed Production Investigations"
1968
32.9
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest and Range Research Branch, and Department of Farm Crops, Oregon Agricultural College, "Annual Report: Seed Production Investigations"
1969
33.1
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest and Range Research Branch, and Department of Farm Crops, Oregon Agricultural College, "Annual Report: Seed Production Investigations"
1970
33.2
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest and Range Research Branch, and Department of Farm Crops, Oregon Agricultural College, "Annual Report: Seed Production Investigations"
1971
33.3
U.S. Department of Agriculture, "Progress Report on Research and Related Service Applicable to Seed"
1959
33.4
U.S. Forest Service, "Sowing Rate Computer" (with Vovelle wheel)
1958
33.5
Bibliographic records
undated
39.1
Bibliographic records
undated
40.1
Bibliographic records
undated
41.1
Bibliographic records
undated

Series 6:  Publications, 1957-1988Return to Top

Series 6, Publications, documents the published outcome of Ching’s professional research. The majority of the publications authored by Ching relate to seed germination (e.g. changes occurring during germination, effects of specific processes like irradiation on germination). The Publications series also includes reprints of Ching’s articles, reviews published by Ching, and files of tables, figures, and permissions for her published articles.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
33.6
T. M. Ching, "Adenosine Triphosphate Content and Seed Vigor"
1972
33.7
T. M. Ching, "Aging Stresses on Physiological and Biochemical Activities of Crimson Clover Seeds"
1971-1972
33.8
Te May Ching, "Change of Chemical Reserves in Germinating Douglas Fir Seed"
1962
33.9
T. M. Ching, I. Schoolcraft, P. Rowell, H. Taylor, B. Davidson, "Change of Forage Seed Quality in Commercial Warehouses in Western Oregon"
1962-1963
33.10
Te May Ching, "Compartmental Utilization of Carboxyl-14C C-Tripalmitin by Tissue Homogenate of Pine Seeds"
1972
33.11
Te May Ching, "Content of Adenosine Phosphates and Adenylate Energy Charge in Germinating Ponderosa Pine Seeds"
1972
33.12
T. M. Ching, Saundra Hedtke, Mary C. Boulger, and Warren Kronstad, "Correlation of Field Emergence Rate and Seed Vigor Criteria in Barley Cultivars"
1976
34.1
Sevim Cinki and T. M. Ching, "Correlation of Tetrazolium and Germination in Wheat Seed with Different Treatments"
1964-1965
34.2
Te May Ching and Lori Rynd, "Developmental Differences in Embryos of High- and Low-Protein Wheat Seeds During Germination"
1974-1978
34.3
Te May Ching and S. C. Fang, "Differential Incorporation of Acetate and Glucose in Maturing Douglas Fir Seeds"
1968
34.4
Roger C. Murin, T. M. Ching, Kim K. Ching, "Douglas Fir Pollen: Germination in Vitro"
1978
34.5
T. M. Ching and S. Abu-Shakra, "Effect of Water Vapor Transmission Rates of Package Material and Storage Conditions on Seed Quality"
1964
34.6
Te May Ching and John R. Prince, "Effects of X-Ray Radiation on Seed Germination, Seedling Growth and Survival of Douglas Fir"
1961-1965
34.7
Te May Ching, Saudra Hedtke, Sterling Russell, Harold J. Evans, "Energy State and Dinitrogen Fixation in Soybean Nodules of Dark Growth Plants"
1975
34.8
Te May Ching, David Stamp, Jim Crane, "Energy State in Mature Seeds"
1974
34.9
Te May Ching, et. al. "Energy State of Wheat Leaves in Ammonium Nitrate-treated Plants"
1974-1975
34.10
T. M. Ching and N. J. Chatterton, "Fluctuation of Metabolites in Alfalfa Leaves Under Light, Dark, and Extended Dark Conditions"
1974-1976
35.1
Te May Ching and M. C. Parker, "Hydrogen Peroxide for Rapid Viability Tests of Some Coniferous Tree Seeds"
1957-1958
35.2
Te May Ching, "Intracellular Distribution of Lipolytic Activity in Female Gametophyte of Germinating Douglas Fir Seeds"
1967-1968
35.3
E. W. R. Barlow, T. M. Ching, L. Boersma, "Leaf Growth in Relation to ATP Levels in Water-stressed Corn Plants"
1974-1975
35.4
Te May Ching, "Liposomes in Douglas Fir Seeds"
1965-1967
35.5
Te May Ching, "Metabolic Changes of Douglas Fir Seeds During Germination"
1966
35.6
Te May Ching, "Metabolism of Germinating Seeds" [from Seed Biology, Vol. II]
1972
35.7
Salah S. Abu-Shakra and Te May Ching, "Mitochondrial Activity in Germinating New and Old Soybean Seeds"
1961-1966
35.8
T. M. Ching, H. Taylor, and L. A. Jensen, "Quality Change of Forage Seeds in Commercial Storage in Western Oregon"
undated
35.9
T. M. Ching, "Regulation of Nitrogenase Activity in Soybean Nodules by ATP and Energy Charge"
1975-1976
35.10
T. M. Ching, "Respiration of Forage Seed in Hermetically Sealed Cans"
1960
36.1
T. M. Ching and L. A. Jensen, "Sampling Experiments of Coniferous Tree Seeds for Testing"
1959
36.2
Te May Ching, "Seed Production from Individual Cones of Grand Fir"
1959-1960
36.3
Te May Ching, "Some Experiments on the Optimum Germination Conditions for Western Hemlock"
1957
36.4
Te May Ching, "Temperature Regulation of Germination in Crimson Clover Seeds"
1975
36.5
T. M., Ching, "Varietal Differences in Growth Potential, Adenylate Energy Level, and Energy Change of Wheat"
1972
36.6
T. M. Ching, et. al., Yearbook of Agriculture
1959-1961
36.7
Reprints and Offprints
1959-1988
37.1
Tables and Figures
circa 1968
37.2
Tables and Figures
undated
37.3
Publication permissions
1970
37.4
Papers reviewed by Te May Ching
1957-1975
37.5
Papers reviewed by Te May Ching
1975-1980
37.6
Papers reviewed by Te May Ching
1982-1983

Series 7:  Photographs, 1954-1980Return to Top

Series 7 is comprised largely of photographs of seed and plant samples assembled for research, presentation, and publication purposes and includes prints, negatives, and slides. Many of the photographs appear to have been selected for use at conferences or in research publications, while others seem to have been retained for their research value. Many of the photographs contain little or no identifying information.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
37.7
Annual report
1957
37.8
Barley
1954-1962
37.9
Crimson clover
1958-1961
37.10
Douglas fir - Peroxide test
undated
37.11
Feathery pumule
1956
37.12
Federal Seed Conference
1955
37.13
Fine fescue - Inert matter
1957
37.14
King green beans
1957
38.1
Merion bluegrass - Aberrant forms
1955
38.2
Pin oak - Peroxide test
1958
38.3
Resazurin test
1958
38.4
Ryegrass
1957-1960
38.5
Seed dryer
undated
38.6
Seed Growers Conference
1958
38.7
Seed Processor's Conference
1959-1963
38.8
Seed storage
1956-1960
38.9
Stanford talk
1957
38.10
Sugar beets - Monogerm/multigerm
undated
38.11
Sugar pine - Germination inhibitor
circa 1960
38.12
Tree seeds - Tetrazolium chloride testing
undated
38.13
Unidentified specimens
undated
38.14
Warehouse survey
1962
38.15
Western Crop Science Meeting
1964
38.16
Wheat
1955
38.17
Film negatives
circa 1978-1980
38.18
Slides
circa 1957-1960

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Crop science--Study and teaching (Higher)--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Graduate students--Supervision of.
  • Seed industry and trade--Oregon.
  • Seed technology.
  • Seeds--Irradiation.
  • Seeds--Testing.
  • Women scientists.

Personal Names

  • Ching, Te May.

Corporate Names

  • Oregon State University. Department of Crop and Soil Science.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Film negatives.
  • Notebooks.
  • Photographic prints.
  • Slides (photographs).