Royal D. Sloan joined the engineering faculty at Washington State University in 1923, becoming the second dean of the engineering college in 1942. He was known to be very supportive of his students, especially during the war years. As dean, he presided over the establishment of the divisions of Industrial Research and Industrial Services and their parent unit, the Washington State Institute of Technology. He served as both dean of the engineering college and institute vice-director until 1956 and continued to teach until his retirement in 1960. Sloan Hall at Washington State University was named after him in 1962.
[Source: “Royal D. Sloan Scholarship in Electrical Engineering”, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Scholarships, accessed November 7, 2019, https://school.eecs.wsu.edu/students/scholarships/royal-d-sloan/.]
Collection consists of 22 letters and 2 pieces of ephemera from the correspondence between Dean Royal D. Sloan of the College of Engineering and a former student, principally during World War II. The student also updates Dean Sloan regarding former classmates and their war assignments, as well as the student’s own post-war career. Dean Sloan provides encouragement and information to the student regarding changes at Washington State University.
Materials are arranged chronologically.
This collection is open and available for research use.
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Royal D. Sloan Letters, 1941-1952 (Cage 5128)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The College of Engineering donated this collection to the Washington State University Libraries in 2019 (MS.2019.18).
This collection was processed by Gayle O’Hara in 2019
Royal D. Sloan Papers, 1942-1950
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