UUS_22p4.xml Guide to the Iran Point 4 Agricultural Project collection 1941-1975 Iran Point 4 Agricultural Project collection 1941-1975 Finding aid/Register created by Sara Skindelien, Heather Housley, and Kelly Rovegno Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives 2023
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, Utah 84322-3000 Business Number: 435 797-8248 Fax Number: 435 797-2880 scweb@usu.edu https://archives.usu.edu/
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-11-28. Finding aid encoded in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition) 2009 Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines. 2023 Reprocessed to include additional material. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Iran Point 4 Agricultural Project collection Utah State University UUS_22.4 26 boxes 12.5 linear feet 1941-1975 This collection is a compilation of the records and activities of selected individuals connected to Utah State University and the United States Operation Mission to Iran (US O/MI). The purpose of this mission was to promote agricultural progress and independence. English , Persian .

USU's long relationship with Iran began after WWII when USU President Franklin S. Harris accepted a position with the United States Point IV Program. In 1951, USU signed its first contract with the government of Iran to provide agricultural expertise. Among the experts from Utah State who served under this first contract were Cleve Milligan, Bruce Anderson, J. Clark Ballard, Joseph Coullam and R.W. Roskelly. Subsequent contracts were negotiated from 1954 to 1958, from 1958 to 1961, and from 1961 to 1978. Fifty-one scientist and advisors from Utah State served in Iran between 1951 and 1963.

The collection represents the documentation from the Iran contracts, deposited in University Archives during the 1960s from the Office of International Programs. Materials include reports of projects located in multiple areas of Iran concerning the establishment of farm machinery repair shops and cooperatives, and improvement of irrigation systems and practices. Also included are general office files: contracts, agreements, memoranda, and correspondence. Some personnel records are classified according to state and federal privacy laws and cannot be accessed without permission.

This collection is arranged into three series: General Administrative Records, Reports, and Physical Resource/Financial Records.

Access to some files is restricted. Not available through interlibrary loan.

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Iran Point 4 Agricultural Project collection must be obtained from the University Archivist and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Initial Citation: Utah State University and Iran Point 4 Project Collection USU_22.4. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_22.4, USUSCA.

These materials were donated to USU Special Collections by the USU International Programs office.

Initially processed in January of 2019. A secondary processing occured in 2023 to include additional materials not originally found in this collection. The collection was originally titled "Iran Project Papers," USU_23.5:26.

Richard Welling Roskelley Papers, COLL MSS 284

Richard Welling Roskelley Photograph Collection, P0429

Bruce Anderson Papers, COLL MSS 424

Bruce Anderson photograph collection, P0571

 Agriculture Environmental Conditions Agricultural development projects--Iran. Colleges and Universities Land Use I. General Administrative Records Summary, overview, publicity materials 1941-2023 Related holdings and notes on arrangement 1941-2023 1 1 Review of the second seven year plan program of Iran 1960 1 2 Progress report agricultural engineering, project 067 1951-1960 1 3 Utah State University in Iran manuscript draft and notes 1962 1 4 Half a century of friendship between USU and Iran draft 1962 1 5 Iran and Utah State University: half a century of friendship and a decade of contracts (2 copies) 1963 1 6 Master program book 1958-1961 1 7 Newspaper editorial "What a nice rivalry" 1959 1 8 Assorted publicity materials undated 1 9 Program overview draft 1960 1 10 Problems and important points reports undated 1 11 Papers of Bert DeSpain 1952-1954 1 12 Karadj demonstration training farm overview undated 1 13 Farm management handbook, farm record book example 1957 1 14 Map of livestock bongah station in Badjgah undated 1 15 Unidentified photographs of program personnel and family undated 1 16 Study on railway sleepers in Iran 1958 1 17 Oral history transcripts 1999 Interview with Lula Anderson 1999 2 1 Interview with Clarence Ashton 1999 2 2 Interview with Mildred Bunnell 1999 2 3 Interview with Richard E. Griffin 1999 2 4 Interview with Jay Hall 1999 2 5 Interview with Louise and Deon Hubbard 1999 2 6 Interview with Gordon Van Epps 1999 2 7 Interview with Imogene Wood 1999 2 8 Contracts and agreements 1951-1961 Agreements, memoranda of understanding 1951-1952 3 1 Syracuse University, Brigham Young University, American University of Beirut 1951-1953 3 2 Razi Institute 1952 3 3 United Nations and Technical Cooperation for Iran 1952 3 4 Project plans, agreements, extensions 1952-1954 3 5 Project agreements, amendments, extensions 1952-1960 3 6 Project 067 agreements 1953-1956 3 7 Agricultural bank agreements 1953-1959 3 8 Agricultural workshop construction 1954 3 9 United States of America and Utah State Agricultural College 1954-1957 3 10 Contracts, project agreements 1952-1955 3 11 Project agreements, amendments, extensions 1953-1958 3 12 Proposal and approval summaries 1955-1956 3 13 Karadj well 1957-1959 3 14 E-1 greenprint documents 1959 3 15 Employees 1961 3 16 Project 067 master contract 1960-1961 3 17 Zahedas farm undated 3 18 Blank proposal templates undated 4 1 Project 057 technical assistance agreements 1953 4 2 Contracts: project 9 master construction agreement 1954 4 3 Project 5 student assistance agreements 1954-1956 4 4 Karadj College, project agreements 1957-1958 4 5 USA, USU, and Iran's Ministry of Agriculture 1957-1958 4 6 Conference proceedings 1952-1960 Joint commission conference materials 1952-1953 4 7 Ramsar health conference address 1952 4 8 Conference reports and notes 1954 4 9 Conference reports and notes 1955-1956 4 10 Speeches given at joint conference of the agricultural Ostan chiefs 1959 4 11 Irrigation practices seminar addresses 1960 4 12 Conference reports and notes 1960 4 13 Correspondence 1952-1963 Bruce H. Anderson 1952-1973 5 1 Karadj College 1953-1962 5 2 Mohamadabad agricultural school 1954 5 3 Karadj demonstration farm 1957-1960 5 4 Baggah demonstration farm 1958 5 5 Transportation 1958-1959 5 6 Chronological file 1960 5 7 Ernest A. Jacobsen 1957-1959 5 8 Lee B. Stenquist 1957-1959 5 9 Ceorge T. Blanch 1959 5 10 Leonard H. Pollard 1959 5 11 Meshed University 1962 5 12 Daryl Chase 1958-1963 5 13 Meeting minutes 1952-1962 Credit committee 1952-1953 6 1 Joint commission 1953-1955 6 2 Staff meetings 1953-1956 6 3 Executive committee of project 067 1956-1957 6 4 Property management branch 1958 6 5 OMI co-op council 1954-1956 6 6 Expansion of Karadj college committee 1957-1958 6 7 Expansion of Karadj college committee 1959-1962 6 8 Memoranda and staffing records 1951-1960 US Embassy circulars 1951-1952 7 1 Well drilling projects 1951-1952 7 2 Agricultural division 1952 7 3 Administrative circulars 1954-1955 7 4 Suggested policies 1955-1960 7 5 Staff notices and memoranda 1951-1956 7 6 Staff notices and memoranda 1958-1960 7 7 Personnel organization structure 1951-1960 7 8 Personnel requests 1953 7 9 Personnel lists 1953-1959 7 10 Job descriptions 1958 7 11 Travel requests and approvals 1959 7 12 Employment of local personnel 1951-1960 7 13 Assorted personnel correspondence, memoranda, notices, including This Week in Tehran newsletters 1958-1960 7 14 Personnel records *files restricted* 1957-1962 Personnel records *files restricted* 1958 8 1 Personnel records *files restricted* 1958 8 2 Personnel records *files restricted* 1959-1960 8 3 Personnel records *files restricted* 1959 8 4 Personnel records *files restricted* 1957-1960 8 5 Personnel records *files restricted* 1958-1960 8 6 Personnel records *files restricted* 1958-1961 8 7 Personnel records *files restricted* 1957-1958 8 8 Personnel records *files restricted* 1961 8 9 Personnel records *files restricted* 1958-1959 8 10 Personnel records *files restricted* 1959 8 11 Personnel records *files restricted* 1960-1962 8 12 Personnel records *files restricted* 1959-1961 8 13 Personnel records *files restricted* 1958-1959 8 14 Personnel records *files restricted* 1960-1962 8 15 Personnel records *files restricted* 1959-1960 8 16 Personnel records *files restricted* 1957-1959 8 17 Personnel records *files restricted* 1961-1964 8 18 Personnel records *files restricted* 1960-1962 9 1 Personnel records *files restricted* 1958-1961 9 2 Personnel records *files restricted* 1960 9 3 Personnel records *files restricted* 1960-1962 9 4 Personnel records *files restricted* 1958-1961 9 5 Personnel records *files restricted* 1957-1959 9 6 Personnel records *files restricted* 1957-1962 9 7 Personnel records *files restricted* 1957-1962 9 8 Personnel records *files restricted* 1959-1962 10 1 Personnel records *files restricted* 1958-1962 10 2 Personnel records *files restricted* 1957-1960 10 3 Training course curriculum and materials 1952-1961 Karadj College course lists 1952-1953 11 1 Extension training materials 1953 11 2 Deep well and motor pumps training class report 1953 11 3 US course program and itinerary 1953-1961 11 4 Course descriptions, memoranda, correspondence 1953-1959 11 5 Engineering handbook 1953 11 6 Policies and procedures 1956 11 7 Participant records and correspondence 1955-1959 11 8 Post-training evaluations, reports 1954-1958 11 9 Planning records 1952-1971 Bound copy of "Planning for the development of the college of agriculture, University of Tehran: part 1, facts and principles" 1959 12 1 Bound copy of "Planning for the development of the college of agriculture, University of Tehran: part 1, facts and principles" copy 2 1959 12 2 Bound copy of "Planning for the development of the college of agriculture, University of Tehran: part 1, facts and principles" copy 3 1959 12 3 Work plans: irrigation projects 1951-1957 13 1 Work plans: farm machinery repair shop 1954 13 2 Work plans: soils department 1954-1955 13 3 Work plans: Kharkheh basin 1955 13 4 Work plans: agricultural engineering 1955-1957 13 5 Work plans: sugar industry 13 6 Work plans: demonstration farms 1956-1957 13 7 Work plans and proposals: assorted projects 1952-1954 13 8 Work plans and proposals: assorted projects 1956-1960 13 9 Work plans: soil fertility, fertilizers 1957 13 10 Work plans: property management 1958 13 11 Work plans: farm machinery co-ops 1958-1960 13 12 Work plans: Karadj college 1958-1962 13 13 Work plans: planning for the development of the college of agriculture, University of Tehran 1959 13 14 Work plans: country program book FY 1963 1961 13 15 Work plans: Karadj college 1971 13 16 II. Reports General, uncategorized, or conference reports 1954-1975 Reports by Ostan (province) 1960 14 1 Report of USDA training team on proposed training activities for ministry of agriculture & natural resources in Iran 1975 14 2 General reports on Karadj College 1954-1961 14 3 Project 265-AC-11-AA completion report 1964 14 4 Statistical reports 1955-1956 14 5 Project end use observation reports 1957-1958 14 6 Undated or uncategorized reports 1954-1956 14 7 O. Israelsen report summary 1956 14 8 Reports by location or project number 1951-1962 Farm Machinery project 057 reports 1953-1958 15 1 Farm Cooperatives project 067 reports 1953-1959 15 2 Farm Cooperatives project 067 reports 1952-1954 15 3 E-1 report project 067 1959 15 4 Ghezelhessar project reports 1957-1960 15 5 Property management reports 1958-1960 15 6 Extension service in Khuzistan status report 1959 15 7 Varamin station reports and correspondence 1959-1960 15 8 Karadj training and demonstration farm reports 1956-1957 15 9 Karkheh area reports and maps 1956 15 10 Land preparation for irrigation 1955 15 11 Submerged soils reports 1956 15 12 Moosiabad co-op special reports 1955-1962 15 13 Shiraz area reports 1954-1955 15 14 Agricultural marketing in two areas in Iran 1955 15 15 The people of Fariman awaken 1956 15 16 Irrigation project 059 proposal, approval, reports 1953-1959 15 17 Isfahan station reports 1956 15 18 Kharkheh Dam project completion report 1955 15 19 Sugar industry report 1955 15 20 Villages visited by Clive Milligan reports 1951-1962 15 21 Mechanic and agricultural machineries project report 1952-1953 16 1 Yazd deep wells project 87 reports 1955-1956 16 2 Report of the Zoveyr cooperative in Ahwaz 1958-1959 16 3 U.S. Embassy agricultural reports 1955-1957 16 4 East Ghor canal project report 1958 16 5 Dry farming project special reports 1959 16 6 Garmsar drainage project reports 1958-1959 16 7 Taslimi farm project report 1959 16 8 Karadj training and demonstration farm reports 1959-1960 16 9 Water buffalo special reports 1960 16 10 Progress Reports, Trip reports 1951-1962 Progress report (bound copy with photographs) 1958-1959 17 1 Progress report (bound copy with photographs), c. 2 1958-1959 17 2 Progress report (bound copy with photographs), c. 3 1958-1959 17 3 Progress report (bound copy) 1958-1959 18 1 Progress reports 1951-1962 18 2 Report of observation on irrigation progress and needs in Ostan 9 near Mashad 1956-1956 18 3 Progress reports on projects 059, 067 1953-1958 18 4 Progress reports on livestock program of USOM/Iran 1954 18 5 Progress in wheat and barley improvement in Iran 1957-1958 18 6 Trip reports 1953 18 7 Trip reports 1954 18 8 Trip reports 1955 18 9 Trip reports 1956 18 10 Trip reports 1957 18 11 Trip reports 1958 18 12 Trip reports 1959 18 13 Trip reports 1960 18 14 Periodic reports 1954-1963 Weekly reports 1958 19 1 Monthly reports 1954-1955 19 2 Monthly reports 1956-1958 19 3 Monthly reports 1957-1958 19 4 Monthly reports 1959 19 5 Monthly reports, January - May 1960 19 6 Monthly reports, June - December 1960 19 7 Quarterly reports 1957-1960 20 1 Quarterly reports 1961-1963 20 2 Semi-annual reports 1958-1960 20 3 Annual report project 059 1954-1955 20 4 Annual report project 067 1954-1955 20 5 Annual report 1955 20 6 Annual reports 1958-1959 20 7 Annual report project 067 1956 20 8 Annual report project 067 1958-1959 20 9 Annual report project 009 1958-1959 20 10 Annual report in agriculture and natural resources division 1960 20 11 Annual report 1961-1962 20 12 Annual report 1962 20 13 Annual report 1963 20 14 Terminal reports 1953-1962 End of tour report instructions 1960 21 1 End of tour report: USU personnel A-J 1955-1962 21 2 End of tour report: Odeal Kirk 1953-1960 21 3 End of tour report: Cleve Milligan 1954 21 4 End of tour report: USU personnel M-R 1954-1960 21 5 End of tour report: USU personnel S-Z 1955-1962 21 6 End of tour report: non-USU personnel A-L 1958-1960 21 7 End of tour report: non-USU personnel M-Z 1955-1960 21 8 III. Physical resource and financial records Financial reports, statements 1956-1963 Special activities account funds 1956-1957 22 1 Transfer of bank account from Bruce Anderson to USU contract-R. H. Walker 1958 22 2 USU statement of bank account 1958 22 3 USU quarterly from Logan #1 1958-1962 22 4 USU quarterly from Logan # 2 1959-1963 22 5 USU fiscal financial reports on project 67 1959-1962 22 6 Bank Melli - monthly reimbursement project 67 1958-1961 22 7 USU statement of financial operations 1958-1960 22 8 Project 067 financial operations 1958-1961 22 9 Budget records 1952-1961 Assorted materials 1952-1956 23 1 Assorted materials 1957-1960 23 2 Purchase authority forms 1953-1956 23 3 Iran-American joint fund for agriculture 1955 23 4 Project 067 1956-1957 23 5 Fiscal year 1336 1956-1957 23 6 Expansion of Karadj College 1957-1960 23 7 Contract support project 067 1957-1961 23 8 Analysis 1958-1961 23 9 Property management 1959 23 10 Fiscal year 1337 1958 23 11 Fiscal year 1338 1959 23 12 Fiscal year 1338, revisions and drafts 1959 23 13 Fiscal year 1339 1960 23 14 Fiscal year 1340 1961 23 15 Plan organization undated 23 16 Inventories 1952-1960 Farm machinery policy 1956 24 1 Agricultural equipment 1955-1959 24 2 Tool, machinery requests 1952 24 3 Procurement requests 1953-1954 24 4 Heavy machinery project 067 1955 24 5 Farm machinery 1957-1960 24 6 Aupplies, equipment 1958-1959 24 7 Farm machinery, tractors 1958-1960 24 8 Property 1960 24 9 Project 10 1956 24 10 Project 57 1956 24 11 Project 59 1956 24 12 Project 67 1956 24 13 Shiraz property 1958 24 14 Robot Karim farm machinery 1958 24 15 Non-expendable property 1956-1958 24 16 Sale of farm machinery 1955-1959 24 17 Property transfer documents 1956 24 18 Property transfer documents 1957 24 19 Purchase of used Army trucks 1956 24 20 Purchase orders 1959 24 21 Bills of Lading 1953-1955 Projects 03, 32 1953-1954 25 1 Projects 35, 39 1954 25 2 Project 42 1954 25 3 Project 43 1954-1955 25 4 Project 57 1954 25 5 Project 59 1954-1955 25 6 Project 60 1954 25 7 Project 67 1954-1955 25 8 Project 75 1954-1955 25 9 Equipment and commodities records 1951-1960 Correspondence with companies 1951-1952 26 1 Correspondence with local providers 1952 26 2 Memoranda and correspondence 1952-1954 26 3 Memoranda and correspondence 1954-1955 26 4 Receiving reports 1954-1956 26 5 Stateside purchases undated 26 6 Requests, transfers undated 26 7 Farm machinery lectures 1952 26 8 Farm machinery program assorted materials 1952-1954 26 9 Farm machinery program assorted materials 1959-1960 26 10 Farm machinery cooperative in Balou correspondence 1959-1960 26 11 Commodities prices 1955-1956 26 12 Commodities prices, orders 1956-1958 26 13