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Igor L. Kosin Papers, 1946-1977

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Kosin, Igor L.
Title
Igor L. Kosin Papers
Dates
1946-1977 (inclusive)
Quantity
7 containers., (3 linear feet of shelf space.), (1940 items.)
Collection Number
Cage 344
Summary
Correspondence, memoranda, circulars, announcements, clippings, and other publications regarding poultry research and academic affairs and committees.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

Igor Leonid Kosin was born in 1911 in Vladivostok, Russia. He and his Russian parents resided in Peking and Manchuria before immigrating to a poultry farm near Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1928.

In 1934, he received his Bachelor of Science in poultry science and went on to earn a Master of Science in genetics in 1936, both from the University of British Columbia. He further pursued his study of genetics at the University of Chicago and was awarded a doctorate in 1943. Dr. Kosin employed his research skills as a geneticist for the Canadian government on a research farm near Ottawa from 1939 until 1946.

Kosin moved to Pullman, Washington in 1946 to begin a thirty-year career of teaching and genetic research at Washington State University. His contributions to the poultry sciences brought him many awards from scientific groups and the poultry industry.

In 1959 he became a part-time instructor of Russian language in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Two years later he relinquished his poultry science teaching duties for a full time foreign language professorship, while maintaining his genetic research activities.

Throughout his tenure at W.S.U., Professor Kosin actively participated on faculty committees concerned with university organization and governance. He retired in 1977 after a long and distinguished career.

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Content Description

The papers of Professor Igor Kosin contain correspondence, committee materials, interdepartmental memoranda, professional data, poultry industry information, and general university circulars collected during his career at W.S.U.The papers,which date from 1946 through 1977, are grouped in four series: university committees, agriculture, foreign languages and literatures, and faculty memoranda. His committee papers reflect his interest in university governance, curriculum development in the humanities, and faculty issues. While the bulk of the animal sciences series is devoted to interdepartmental business, very few personal teaching materials are preserved. This series also includes much correspondence between Dr. Kosin and fellow animal scientists concerning agricultural research projects resulting from the Hope-Flannigan appropriations bill of 1946-1947. Paralleling his animal sciences papers is the foreign languages and literatures series that includes faculty conference materials and departmental proposals for alterations in the foreign language programs. The final series includes information and announcements from professional associations aimed at the general university faculty.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 344, Igor L. Kosin Papers . Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in four series, each illustrating a facet of Professor Kosin's pedagogical career: university committees, agriculture, foreign languages and literatures, and faculty memoranda. Within each series, the chronological order of each subdivision has been retained. The subdivisions have been placed in alphabetical order within each series, and the original filing order in each folder has been retained.

Acquisition Information

The Igor L. Kosin papers were donated to the Washington State University Library by Professor Kosin in June 1977 (UA 77-18).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

  • Series 1: University Committees

    Committee minutes and reports, correspondence, clippings, and other papers.

  • Series 2: Agriculture

    Interdepartmental memoranda, notes, correspondence, published data, and other papers pertaining to the animal sciences and federal research appropriations (Hope-Flannigan Bill).

    • Description: Agriculture Education: Addresses
      3 items.
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 3, Folder 19
      Location: Series 2: Agriculture
    • Description: Curricular Materials
      22 items.
      Dates: 1949-1957
      Container: Box 3, Folder 20
      Location: Series 2: Agriculture
    • Description: Animal Sciences Department
      61 items.
      Dates: 1963-1971
      Container: Box 4, Folder 21
      Location: Series 2: Agriculture
    • Description: Departmental Consolidation
      17 items.
      Dates: 1962-1971
      Container: Box 4, Folder 22
      Location: Series 2: Agriculture
    • Description: Interdepartmental Memoranda
      369 items.
      Dates: 1946-1949
      Container: Box 4, Folder 23-24
      Location: Series 2: Agriculture
    • Description: Interdepartmental Memoranda
      424 items.
      Dates: 1950-1954
      Container: Box 4-5, Folder 25-28
      Location: Series 2: Agriculture
    • Description: Hope-Flannigan Bill
      68 items.
      Dates: 1946-1947
      Container: Box 5, Folder 29-30
      Location: Series 2: Agriculture
    • Description: Hope-Flannigan Bill
      128 items.
      Dates: 1947-1949
      Container: Box 5-6, Folder 31-32
      Location: Series 2: Agriculture
    • Description: Nutrition Project
      19 items.
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 6, Folder 33
      Location: Series 2: Agriculture
    • Description: Poultry Industry
      50 items.
      Dates: 1946-1958
      Container: Box 6, Folder 34-35
      Location: Series 2: Agriculture

  • Series 3: Foreign Languages and Literatures

    Correspondence, conference agendas, faculty memoranda, and language curriculum.

  • Series 4: Faculty Memoranda

    Administrative circulars of broad W.S.U. faculty interest, and professional association announcements.

    • Description: General Memoranda to Faculty
      128 items.
      Dates: 1956-1976
      Container: Box 6-7, Folder 39-42
      Location: Series 4: Faculty Memoranda
    • Description: American Association of University Professors: Announcements
      17 items.
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 7, Folder 43
      Location: Series 4: Faculty Memoranda
    • Description: The Professor Switches from Roosters to Russian. Washington State Review, 7:2. 2-5.
      Dates: Winter 1963
      Container: Box 7, Folder 44
      Location: Series 4: Faculty Memoranda

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Subject Terms

  • Poultry -- Research--Washington (State)--Pullman
  • Russian language--Study and teaching--Washington (State)--Pullman

Personal Names

  • Kosin, Igor Leonid, 1911- --Archives (creator)

Finding aid prepared by Pat Graham Pidcock
1978

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