NTE2ua104.xml Guide to the State College of Washington College of Agriculture Assistant Dean Records 1947-1950 State College of Washington College of Agriculture Assistant Dean Records Finding aid prepared by Wendy E. Williams Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2022 Finding aid encoded by Suzanne James-Bacon. 2022 Finding aid written in English. English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd Edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Archives 104 State College of Washington. College of Agriculture State College of Washington College of Agriculture Assistant Dean Records 1947-1950 9 Linear feet of shelf space 18 Boxes The records of the Assistant Dean of the College of Agriculture of the State College of Washington (later Washington State University) consist of correspondence and administrative materials including budgets, reports, admissions information, scholarship applications and awards, and student advising records. Collection materials are in English

The College of Agriculture began as one of six divisions of the Washington Agricultural College, Experiment Station, and School of Science in 1892. The Division of Agriculture became the Department of Agriculture in 1894 when the departmental system was organized. In 1917, the departmental system was reformed into a system of schools and colleges, one of which was the College of Agriculture.

In an attempt to better coordinate agricultural work and research at the College, the experiment stations, and throughout the state, the Institute of Agricultural Sciences was formed at the State College of Washington in 1946. The Institute included the College of Agriculture, the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Washington Agricultural Experiment Stations, and the Agricultural Extension Service. This administrative arrangement existed until September, 1965, when a revised version of the previous system was adopted by Washington State University.

Directors of the Experiment Station:

*George Lilley, 1891-1892

*John W. Heston, 1892-1893

*E. A. Bryan, 1893-1907

R. W. Thatcher, 1907-1913

Ira D. Cardiff, 1913-1917

George Severance, 1917-1919 (acting)

Edward C. Johnson, 1919-1945

Mark T. Buchanan, 1945-1956, 1958-1966

J. S. Carver, 1956-1957 (acting)

Louis L. Madsen, 1957-1958 (acting)

John S. Robbins, 1966-1970

Lowell Rasmussen, 1970-1971 (interim)

James Nielson, 1971-1977

Dennis L. Oldenstadt, 1977-1978, 1985-1986 (acting)

Landis L. Boyd, 1978-1985

James J. Zuiches, 1986-1995

James R. Carlson, 1994-2000

Ralph P. Cavalieri, 2000-2013

James W. Moyer. 2013-

*Served as Director while president of WSU. The directorship was separated from the presidency in 1907.

Heads of the Department of Agriculture:

W. J. Spillman, 1894-1901

E. E. Elliot, 1901-1908

George Severance, 1908-1910

R. W. Thatcher, 1910-1913

George Severance, 1913-1917

Deans of the College of Agriculture:

E. C. Johnson, 1919-1948

S. P. Swenson, 1949-1958

G. W. Fischer, 1958-1965

L. L. Madsen, 1965-1973

John S. Robbins, 1973-1981

C. Alan Pettibone (acting), 1981-1982

James L. Ozbun, 1982-1988

LeRoy F. Rogers (acting), 1988-1989

Lawrence E. Schrader, 1989-1994

Larry James (interim), 1994-1995

James J. Zuiches, 1995-2003

R. James Cook (interim), 2003-2005

Daniel J. Bernardo, 2005-

Directors of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences:

J. C. Knott, 1946-1955

L. L. Madsen, 1955-1965

The records of the Assistant Dean of the College of Agriculture of the State College of Washington (later Washington State University) consist of correspondence and administrative materials including budgets, reports, admissions information, scholarship applications and awards, and student advising records. During the time period covered by these records Edwin G. Schafer, formerly head of the Department of Agronomy, held the position as Assistant Dean. Because of Dr. Schafer's background, the collection also contains a great deal of information dealing with agronomy research.

During 1947 and the first part of 1948 E. C. Johnson, Dean of the College of Agriculture, was involved in a special project in Latin America, leaving the Assistant Dean to handle most of the departmental correspondence and duties in addition to his regular duties of supervision of agricultural personnel-- faculty, staff, researchers, and students--and administration of placement services for agricultural graduates.

The records are organized in two series based on date, 1947-1948, and 1949-1950. Materials within each series are arranged alphabetically by subject, and then chronologically within each subject.

This collection is open and available for research use.

Copyright restrictions may apply.

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State College of Washington College of Agriculture Assistant Dean Records, 1947-1950 (Archives 104)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

The records were received by the Library prior to 1970 (UA 82-31).

The records were reprocessed October to December of 1982 by Wendy E. Williams.

State College of Washington College of Agriculture Dean Records, 1893-1948 (Archives 15)

Washington State University College of Agriculture Dean Records, 1944-1980 (Archives 199)

Washington State University College of Agriculture Dean Records, 1945-1979 (Archives 218)

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Schafer, E. G. (Edwin George), 1884-1976 State College of Washington. College of Agriculture -- Records and correspondence Agriculture -- Research -- Washington (State) Agricultural colleges -- Washington (State) -- Administration Agricultural extension work -- Washington (State) Agriculture Washington (State) Colleges and Universities Series 1: Records 1947-1948 1 1 Advisory Board and Central Committee Institute Of Ag. Sciences 1948 15 items 1 2 Admissions Requirements 1947 15 items 1 3-4 Agriculture Economics 1947-1948 150 items 1 5-6 Agriculture Engineering 1947-1948 135 items 1 7 Agriculture, Persons Petitioning to Become a Major in 1944 35 items 1 8-9 Agricultural Information 1947-1948 50 items 1 10 Agriculture, A Beginning Course 1948 40 items 1 11 Agricultural Extension Course (Ag.1) 1948 150 items 1 12 Agricultural Extension Service 1948 50 items 1 13-14 Agronomy, Farm Crops 1947-1948 300 items 1 15 Agronomy, Seed Laboratory 1948 60 items 1 16-17 Agronomy, Soils 1947-1948 60 items 1 18-19 Agronomy, American Society of 1947-1948 65 items 2 20 Ag. Orientation, Ag. 2 1946-1947 20 items 2 21 Ag. Orientation, Ag. 2 - 1st Semester 1947-1948 30 items 2 22 Ag. Orientation, Ag. 2 - 1st Semester 1948-1949 50 items 2 23 All-Ag. Club 1947 20 items 2 24 Alpha Zeta 1947 10 items 2 25-26 Animal Husbandry 1947-1948 160 items 2 27 Award of Merit - Information Concerning Outstanding Personalities 1947-1948 50 items 2 28-29 "A" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 70 items 2 30-31 M. T. Buchanan 1947-1948 55 items 2 32 Budget, Quarterly, College of Agriculture 1947 30 items 2 33 Department Quarterly Budget, October-December 1947 25 items 2 34 Department Quarterly Budget, January-March, 1948 25 items 2 35-36 Annual Budgets, College of Agriculture 1947-1948 45 items 2 37 Biennial Budget, College of Agriculture 1947 30 items 2 38 Building Needs in Institute of Agricultural Sciences 1949-1951 90 items 2 39 Building Program - Institute of Agricultural Sciences 1948 15 items 2 40 Bureau of Reclamation 1947 5 items 2 41-42 "B" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 70 items 3 43-48 Catalog Material 1947-1950 260 items 3 49 Civil Service Examinations 1947 15 items 3 50 College Farm, Roy Bailey 1947 30 items 3 51 College Farm, Manure Disposition Problem 1947 25 items 3 52 College Farm, General 1947 25 items 3 53 College Farm, Roy Bailey 1948 80 items 4 54 College of Agriculture, Personnel 1948 50 items 4 55 Committee, Educational Policies 1948 50 items 4 56 Compton, Wilson 1948 30 items 4 57 Comptroller 1947 25 items 4 58 Conservation Course, Summer School 1947 5 items 4 59 Counseling with Students 1947 120 items 4 60 Curricula Committee, Agriculture 1947 5 items 4 61 Curriculum Committee (12) 1948 40 items 4 62 Curriculum Material 1948 60 items 4 63 Curricula Studies 1948 60 items 4 64-65 "C" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 95 items 5 66 Dairy Department, Cash Sales 1947 10 items 5 67-68 Dairy Husbandry 1947-1948 25 items 5 69 Danforth Foundation, Fall 1947 25 items 5 70 Danforth Leadership Training Scholarship 1948 25 items 5 71 Department Head Notices - College of Agriculture 1947 50 items 5 72-73 "D" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 70 items 5 74 Electrovator 1947 20 items 5 75 Enrollment by Classes - College of Agriculture, 1st semester 1947-1948 35 items 5 76 Expense Accounts, EGS 1947 20 items 5 77 Extension Service - General - E. V. Ellington 1947 30 items 5 78-79 "E" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 50 items 5 80 Faculty Work Load Summary and Instructor's Programs 1947 15 items 5 81 Farm Machinery, Purchase of - College of Agriculture 1947 10 items 5 82 Fellowships 1948 10 items 5 83 Field Crops Handbook 1948 5 items 5 84 Flax 1947 12 items 5 85 Flax Newsletters 1948 10 items 5 86 Forestry and Range Management 1947 15 items 5 87 Forest Tree Nursery 1947 30 items 5 88 Foreign Agricultural Service 1947 20 items 5 89 Foreign Visitors on Campus 1947 5 items 5 90 Future Farmers of America 1947 10 items 5 91-92 "F" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 46 items 5 93 Grad School 1947 25 items 5 94 Grain Grading and Marketing 1947 15 items 5 95 Graduates, Information of 1947 15 items 5 96-97 "G" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 45 items 6 98 Hawaiian Sugar Planter's Association 1947 10 items 6 99 Hilltop Stables 1947 10 items 6 100 Hopkins, E. H. 1947 20 items 6 101-102 Horticulture 1947-1948 36 items 6 103-104 "H" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 70 items 6 105 Irrigation Agriculture 1947 35 items 6 106-107 "I" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 60 items 6 108 Johnson, Edward C. 1948 60 items 6 109-110 "J" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 65 items 6 111-112 Knott, J. C. 1947-1948 290 items 6 113-114 "K" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 55 items 7 115 Land Committee 1948 25 items 7 116 Land Allocation Committee 1947 15 items 7 117-118 Land Grant College Association 1947-1948 50 items 7 119 Lawn Treatment on College Campus 1947 20 items 7 120 Legislation, Agricultural 1947 30 items 7 121 Library 1947 30 items 7 122-123 "L" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 70 items 7 124 Maintenance and Construction 1947 40 items 7 125 Major Declarations in the College of Agriculture 1947-1948 20 items 7 126 Memoranda 1947 110 items 7 127 Memoranda written by EGS 1947-1948 200 items 7 128-129 Memoranda re students 1947-1949 210 items 7 130 Military Department 1947 3 items 7 131 Milling, Wheat 1948 20 items 7 132-133 "M" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 50 items 7 134-135 "N" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 35 items 8 136 Oil 1947 1 item 8 137 Opportunities for students graduating in the College of Agriculture 1947-1948 40 items 8 138-139 "O" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 40 items 8 140-141 Pacific Northwest Crop Improvement Association 1947-1948 35 items 8 142 Pettibone, Carl - Business Manager 1947 25 items 8 143-144 The Placement Bureau 1947-1948 35 items 8 145-146 Plant Pathology, Department of 1947-1948 40 items 8 147 Positions for Farm Managers 1947 40 items 8 148 Positions for Graduates of College of Agriculture 1947 80 items 8 149 Positions 1948 80 items 9 150-151 Poultry Husbandry 1947-1948 30 items 9 152 Presidents Office, Wilson Compton 1947 60 items 9 153 Vice President, E. H. Hopkins 1947 80 items 9 154 Programs, Agriculture Meetings 1947 10 items 9 155 Programs 1948 7 items 9 156 Prospective Students 1947 25 items 9 157 Publications, Agricultural Subjects 1947 20 items 9 158 Publications 1948 30 items 9 159-160 "P" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 45 items 9 161 Quarter System 1947 5 items 10 162 Receipts Fund for Building 1947 20 items 10 163-164 Registrar 1947-1948 160 items 10 165 Registration, Second Semester 1947-1948 5 items 10 166 Registration Notes 1947 15 items 10 167 Reinstatement of Students 1948 25 items 10 168 Requisitions 1947 15 items 10 169 Room Space, Wilson Hall 1947 60 items 10 170-171 "R" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 50 items 10 172 E. G. Schafer, Personal 1948 20 items 10 173 Schedules Proposed for Fall Semester 1947 15 items 10 174 Schedules for Second Semester 1948-1949 20 items 10 175 Schluter, Fred 1948 25 items 10 176 Scholarships and Fellowships, WSC 1947 30 items 11 177 Seed Laboratory 1947 5 items 11 178 Seminar, Farm Crops 1947 1 item 11 179 Short Courses 1948 5 items 11 180-181 Soil Conservation Service 1947-1948 8 items 11 182 Soil Conservation Nurseries Rotation Plots 1947 2 items 11 183 Stanley A. Smith & Philip E. Keene 1947 25 items 11 184 Standard Oil Scholarships 1947 3 items 11 185 Student Employment 1948-1949 20 items 11 186 Surplus War Material 1947 6 items 11 187 Summer School 1948, Ag Students 5 items 11 188-189 "S" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 110 items 11 190-191 Travel Requests, EGS 1947-1948 60 items 11 192-193 "T" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 40 items 11 194 U. S. Department of Agriculture 1947 3 items 11 195-196 "U" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 20 items 11 197 Veterans Training 1947 10 items 11 198 Visitors 1947 25 items 11 199 Visual Aids 1948 3 items 11 200-201 "V" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 22 items 11 202-203 Washington Crop Improvement Association 1947-1948 40 items 11 204 Washington-Idaho Wheat Growers League 1947 5 items 11 205-206 Webb, Professor E. M. 1947-1948 45 items 11 207 Weeds 1948 5 items 11 208-209 Wheat Pool Budget 1947-1948 60 items 12 210 Wildlife Program, L.Wing 1947 20 items 12 211-212 "W" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 45 items 12 213-214 "X,Y,Z" Miscellaneous 1947-1948 15 items 12 215 Scholarship Applications 120 items Series 2: Records 1949-1950 12 216 Admissions Office 1950 5 items 12 217-218 Agriculture Economics, Dr. C. M. Elkinton 1949-1950 13 items 12 219-220 Agriculture Education, Professor E. M. Webb 1949-1950 60 items 12 221-222 Agriculture Engineering, Professor June Roberts 1949-1950 20 items 12 223 Agriculture Experiment Station, M. T. Buchanan 1950 15 items 12 224 Agriculture Extension Service, E. V. Ellington 1949 25 items 12 225-226 Agronomy, B. R. Bertramson, Chairman 1949-1950 57 items 12 227 Agronomy, American Society of 1949 10 items 12 228 Agronomy, Farm Crops, Dr. S. P. Swenson 1949 40 items 12 229 Agronomy - Soils, Dr. S. C. Vandecavaye 1949 10 items 13 230 Alpha Gamma. Rho 1949 1 item 13 231-232 Animal Husbandry, Dr, M. E. Ensminger 1949-1950 8 items 13 233-234 "A" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 35 items 13 235 M. T. Buchanan - 1950 2 items 13 236-237 "B" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 35 items 13 238-239 College Farm, Roy Bailey 1949-1950 155 items 13 240-241 College of Agriculture, S. P. Swenson 1949-1950 40 items 13 242 Committee, Curriculum 1949 3 items 13 243-244 Committee, Improvement of Instruction 1949-1950 51 items 13 245 Committee, Terminal Education 1949 15 items 13 246 Community College Service, Glenn Jones 1949 15 items 13 247 Curricula 1949 25 items 13 248-249 "C" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 38 items 14 250-251 Dairy Husbandry, Dr. A. O. Shaw 1949-1950 20 items 14 252-253 Division of Industrial Services 1949-1950 12 items 14 254 "D" Miscellaneous 1949 15 items 14 255 Educational Policies Committee 1949 15 items Enrollment, College of Agriculture - Dept. and Class 14 256 Spring 1948-1949 5 items 14 257 Fall 1949-1950 5 items 14 258 Spring 1949-1950 5 items 14 259 Statistics on 1949 25 items 14 260 Expense Accounts, E. G. Schafer 1949 5 items 14 261 Experiment Stations, Director Mark T. Buchanan 1949 10 items 14 262 "E" Miscellaneous 1949 5 items 14 263 Farm Crops Handbook 1949 20 items 14 264 Fellowships and Scholarships 1949 2 items 14 265-266 Flax Newsletters 1949-1950 40 items 14 267-268 "F" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 8 items 14 269-270 Graduate School, S. E. Hazlet 1949-1950 20 items Graduates in Agriculture 14 271-272 1947-1948 60 items 14 273-274 1949-1950 115 items 14 275 2-Year Program 1950 5 items 14 276 Grain Market Review July 1, 1949-September 30, 1949 15 items 14 277-278 "G" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 7 items 15 279 Horticulture, Dr. T. A. Merrill 1949 3 items 15 280-281 "H" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 16 items 15 282-283 Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Director J. D. Knott 1949-1950 50 items 15 284-285 "I" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 13 items 15 286-287 "J" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 11 items 15 288-289 "K" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 20 items 15 290-291 Land Committee 1949-1950 40 items 15 292 Land Grant College Association, '49 Questionnaire 1950 35 items 15 293-294 "L" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 45 items 15 295 Memoranda Concerning People 1950 2 items 15 296-297 "M" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 17 items 15 298 "N" Miscellaneous 1949 1 item 15 299 Opportunities for Graduates in Agriculture, George Gannon 1950 15 items 15 300-301 "O" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 2 items 15 302 Pacific Northwest Crop Improvement 1949 20 items 15 303 Phi Kappa Phi 1949 5 items 15 304 Placement Bureau, W. M. Bristol 1950 20 items 15 305 Positions for Graduates July 1, 1949 30 items 15 306 Potential Students 1949 30 items 15 307 Poultry Husbandry, Professor J. S. Carver 1949 5 items 15 308-309 President's Office, Dr. Wilson Compton 1949-1950 7 items 16 310-311 Positions for Graduates 1949-1950 50 items 16 312 Prospective Students 1950-1951 10 items 16 313-314 Publications 1949-1950 16 items 16 315-316 "P" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 19 items 16 317-318 Registrar 1949-1950 170 items 16 319 Registrar, Second Semester 1949-1950 15 items 16 320-321 Registration Information 1950-1951 26 items 16 322 P. J. Hempel 1950 30 items 16 323 Research Competence of Staff Members 1949 30 items 17 324 "R" Miscellaneous 1949 10 items 17 325 Schafer, E. G., Personal 1949 45 items 17 326 Schedule, Second Semester 1949-1950 35 items 17 327 Schedule, First Semester 1950-1951 35 items 17 328 Schedule, Second Semester 1950-1951 30 items 17 329 Scholarships 1950 60 items 17 330 Scholarship Standards Committee 1950 3 items 17 331 Short Courses 1949 25 items 17 332 Claude Simpson 1949 15 items 17 333-334 Soil Conservation Service 1949-1950 12 items 17 335 Special Services to Students 1949 1 item 17 336 A. R. Standing 1949 10 items 17 337 Student Information 1950 1 item 17 338 Student Training Program 1949 15 items 17 339 Students with Advanced Standing 1949 10 items 17 340 Superintendent of Documents 1949 10 items 17 341-342 S. P. Swenson, Dean 1949-1950 60 items 17 343-344 "S" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 55 items 18 345 Travel Requests, E. G. Schafer 1949 4 items 18 346 Two-Year Course in Agriculture 1949 20 items 18 347-348 "T" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 11 items 18 349 Unfinished Business 1949 10 items 18 350 "U" Miscellaneous, 19SO 15 items 18 351-352 Vice President, E. H. Hopkins 1949-1950 25 items 18 353 "V" Miscellaneous 1949 5 items 18 354 Wheat Pool Budget, Alberta 1949 30 items 18 355-356 "W" Miscellaneous 1949-1950 60 items 18 357 "X, Y, Z" Miscellaneous 1950 5 items