Arnold Satterthwait (1920-2012) was born in Georgetown, Pennsylvania to Charles Shoemaker and Elizabeth Satterthwait. He attended Haverford College as an undergraduate, and went on to earn his Master's Degree at the University of Pennsylvania. He then earned a PhD from Harvard. Around the 1950s, Satterthwait spent ten years in Saudi Arabia teaching Arabic to employees of the Arabian American Oil Company. Satterthwait was a life-long Quaker and did not believe in war or violence. He refused to register for the draft and spent four years in prison. He became a professor of linguistics and computer science at Washington State University, and because of his Quaker background, he was involved in anti-war protests at WSU. He taught at the university from 1963 until 1982, and retired to Moscow, Idaho.
This collection consists of papers of Washington State University professor Arnold Satterthwait. It includes research files, correspondence, and materials related to the Computer Science department at WSU.
Preliminary Inventory:
MS.1983.05:
Box 1. WSU Computer Science Department file, correspondence, research files, National Science Foundation proposal file (1967-1969); Satterthwait manuscript, "Parallel Sentence-Construction Grammars of Arabic and English"; loose, unsorted items.
Box 2. Research materials: language, artificial intelligence, and heuristic programming.
Box 3. Research files.
MS.1984.01:
Box 1. Mixed materials, including mutual intelligibility test research, mixed research files, and audio recordings (reel-to-reel).
This is an unprocessed collection. Arrangement reflects a pre-existing order from the records’ creators or previous custodians.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
[Item description]
Preliminary Guide to the Arnold Satterthwait Papers, 1949-1981 (MSSM.093)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Arnold Satterthwait donated this collection to the Washington State University Libraries in two installments in 1983 (MS.1983.05) and 1984 (MS.1984.01).
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