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        <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Preliminary Guide to the Alpha Zeta Oregon State Chapter Records 
			 <date encodinganalog="date" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1918/1983">1918-1983</date></titleproper>
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        <author encodinganalog="creator">Finding aid prepared by
			 Elizabeth Nielsen.</author>
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        <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Oregon State University
			 Libraries, Special Collections &amp; Archives Research
			 Center</publisher>
        <date encodinganalog="date" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2014">2014</date>
        <address>
          <addressline>121 The Valley Library</addressline>
          <addressline>Oregon State University</addressline>
          <addressline>Corvallis, OR 97331-4501</addressline>
          <addressline>Phone: 541-737-2075</addressline>
          <addressline>Email: scarc@oregonstate.edu</addressline>
          <addressline>Web:
				http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu</addressline>
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      <creation>Finding aid encoded by Elizabeth Nielsen. 
		  <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2014">2014</date></creation>
      <langusage>Finding aid written in
		  <language langcode="eng" encodinganalog="language" scriptcode="latn">English</language>.</langusage>
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		  Collections &amp; Archives Research Center</subarea>
        <address>
          <addressline>121 The Valley Library</addressline>
          <addressline>Oregon State University</addressline>
          <addressline>Corvallis, OR 97331-4501</addressline>
          <addressline>Phone: 541-737-2075</addressline>
          <addressline>Email: scarc@oregonstate.edu</addressline>
          <addressline>Web:
				http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu</addressline>
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				Oregon State Chapter.</corpname>
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      <unitdate type="bulk" encodinganalog="245$f" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1940/1980">1940-1980</unitdate>
      <physdesc>
        <extent encodinganalog="300$a">1.2 cubic feet, including 89 photographs</extent>
        <extent encodinganalog="300$a">2 boxes, including 1 oversize box</extent>
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      <abstract encodinganalog="5203_">The Alpha Zeta Oregon State Chapter Records document the membership, governance, and programs of the agricultural honor society at Oregon State University.  The national honor society was founded at the Ohio State University in 1897; the Oregon State Chapter was established in 1918.</abstract>
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      <head>Historical Note:</head>
      <p>Alpha Zeta is an academic agricultural honor society focused on service and professionalism.  Members are selected for scholarship, leadership, fellowship, and character.  This national honor society was established at the Ohio State University in 1897 and is the oldest fraternal society in agriculture.  The Oregon State Chapter was founded in 1918.</p>
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      <p>The Alpha Zeta Oregon State Chapter Records document the membership, governance, and programs of the agricultural honor society at Oregon State University.  The records include certificates, constitutions and bylaws, correspondence, event brochures, a history of the organization, ledgers, manuals, meeting minutes, membership lists, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, posters, and a trophy.  Communications with the national Alpha Zeta office as well as materials documenting the biennial national meetings and local Ag Weekend celebrations are included in the collection.  Minutes of the Agricultural Council for 1951-1954 are part of the collection.  The Agricultural Council included an Alpha Zeta representative.  Of special note is the Chapter Register, which includes information about each member initiated into the chapter between 1918 and 1943.  The Register includes name, date and place of birth, graduation date, college activities, and record since graduation for each initiate.  A history of the national organization, published in 1972 to commemorate the 75th anniversary, includes information about the Oregon State chapter.</p>
      <p>The photographs consists of 58 b/w prints and 31 negatives depicting the 1949 initiation banquet and Ag Weekend activities in the mid-1950s.  Two posters (circa 1950s) promoting Ag Weekend events are included in the collection.  The trophy lists the names of students who received the Alpha Zeta Freshman Scholarship in 1937-1938 through 1957-1958.</p>
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      <p>Collection is open for research.</p>
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      <p>Alpha Zeta Oregon State Chapter Records (MSS AlphaZeta), Oregon State University Special Collections &amp; Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.</p>
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      <p>This collection is not fully processed; this guide is preliminary.</p>
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      <p>These materials were transferred from the College of Agricultural Sciences in 2013.</p>
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      <p>The <extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv93714">College of Agricultural Sciences Records (RG 158)</extref>, <extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv09939">Ronald V. and John G. Hogg Papers (MSS Hogg)</extref>, and <extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv22018">Robert E. McDole Papers (MSS McDole)</extref> include additional materials pertaining to the Oregon State chapter of Alpha Zeta.  Records of the <extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv96459">Gamma Sigma Delta (RG 020)</extref> honorary agricultural society are also available.  
		  <extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest"/></p>
      <p>The Special Collections &amp; Archives Research Center has records from several other academic honor societies at Oregon State: <extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv94494">Alpha Epsilon</extref> (biological and agricultural engineering); Epsilon Pi Tau (industrial arts and vocational education); <extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv43334">Eta Sigma Gamma</extref> (health education); <extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv48025">Sigma Delta Chi</extref> (journalism); Theta Sigma Phi (women in journalism); and <extref role="text/html" show="new" actuate="onrequest" href="http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv85515">Xi Sigma Pi</extref> (forestry).</p>
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        <corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610" source="lcnaf">Oregon State University. College of Agricultural Sciences.</corpname>
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        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Greek letter societies--Oregon--Corvallis.</subject>
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        <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690">Corvallis</subject>
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