NTE2ua347.xml Guide to the Washington State College Graduation Certificates 1896-1908 Washington State College Graduation Certificates Finding aid prepared by Mark O'English. Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2016 Finding aid encoded by Suzanne James-Bacon. 2016 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 347 State College of Washington Washington State College Graduation Certificates 1896-1908 2.25 Linear feet of shelf space 1 box Most of the diplomas are approximately 16 inches tall by 21 inches wide. Washington State Agricultural College and School of Science (later State College of Washington, later Washington State University) was authorized in 1890 and began teaching classes in January of 1892. The collection consists of individual graduation certificates from Washington State University, then under earlier institutional names including Washington State College (or the State College of Washington), and the Washington State Agricultural College and School of Science. The majority of the certificates are from programs not considered to be college-level degrees. It seems likely that all the sub-college certificates comprised the original set of materials, and the three college level certificates may have been later additions to these materials. Collection materials are inEnglish

Washington State Agricultural College and School of Science (later State College of Washington, later Washington State University) was authorized in 1890 and began teaching classes in January of 1892. For its first couple decades, the college offered both college-level programs and below college-level programs, the equivalent of today's high-school work (when the college began, no more than six four-year high school existed in Washington). The primary non-college program was the Preparatory School, retitled in 1905 as the Elementary School, later the Department of Elementary Science. Program enrollment slowly decreased once high schools became more commonplace, grew briefly again just after World War I, and the began decreasing again until the program was finally permanently discontinued after the 1925-1926 school year. Several other lower-level programs had existed beside their college-level counterparts, including agriculture, artisanship, and business.

The collection consists of individual graduation certificates from Washington State University, then under earlier institutional names including Washington State College (or the State College of Washington), and the Washington State Agricultural College and School of Science. The majority of the certificates are from programs not considered to be college-level degrees. It seems likely that all the sub-college certificates comprised the original set of materials, and the college level and normal certificates may have been later additions to these materials.

The collection is arranged in three series. The first several items are actual college diplomas, in chronological order. Next is normal diplomas, which are not awards of graduaiton, but rather the equivalent of today's teaching certificates. The remainder of the items are the lower level diplomas, with the non-preparatory/elementary school certificates preceding the preparatory/elementary school ones. Within each sub-series, certificates are ordered by year of issue, and then alphabetically by last name of the recipient.

This collection is open and available for research use.

[Item Description] Washington State College Graduation Certificates, 1896-1908 (Archives 347)

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

The materials in this collection were transferred to Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) from an unknown source sometime prior to 2001.

In the future, other "loose" graduation certificates may be added to this collection.

This collection was processed in October 2014 by University Archivist Mark O'English.

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.

State College of Washington -- Degrees State College of Washington -- Students Degrees, Academic -- Washington (State) Education, Higher -- Washington (State) Colleges and Universities Washington (State) Series 1: College Level Degrees 1898 Doolittle, Harold James Degree: Bachelors, Civil Engineering 1904 Barnard, Frank Tower Degree: Bachelors, Mining Engineering 1908 Brown, Arthur Clement Degree: Doctor of Veterinary Science (Despite the title, this DVS is an undergraduate level degree) 1921 Bartruff, John A. Degree: Bachelor of Science, Agriculture 1922 Bartruff, John A. Degree: Masters of Science, Agriculture Series 2: Normal Diplomas 1915 Quarrels, Helen B. Series 3: Non-college Level Degrees SubSeries 3.1: Non-college Level Degrees, non-Preparatory/Elementary 1902 Cooper, Stanley Robert Program: Agriculture 1902 Warren, Charles Clarence Program: Business (Telegraphy) 1907 Nealey, Mathew W. Program: Business SubSeries 3.2: Non-college Level Degrees, Preparatory/Elementary Preparatory 1896 Campbell, Benjamin Franklin 1896 Duncan, William Martin 1896 Smith, Albert Lee 1898 Cordiner, Beattie 1898 Fisher, Nellie May 1898 Gunn, Luther Collins 1901 Beckett, Harry 1901 Grimes, Edward F. 1901 Kittrell, William Edgar 1901 McDonald, E. Jessie 1901 Peterson, Charles J. 1901 Richau, Fred 1901 Watt, Vivien 1901 Wilcox, Eber 1902 Burke, Charles Victor 1902 Hoffman, G. Albert 1902 Jones, Cora 1902 Loundagin, Robert Alex 1902 Malotte, Frances Marion 1902 Morgans, Garfield John 1902 Mozee, Ruth Ellen 1902 Priest, Rachel Louise 1902 Roberts, Carl Henry [1902] Schmidt, Frank Theodore 1902 Wester, Francis Asbury 1902 Wester, John Hansford 1902 Woodworth, William Edward 1903 Bell, Charles Hubert 1903 Kennedy, Ross Rodell [1903] Kerns, William Ward 1903 Larue, Charles Ried 1903 Ockerman, Clarence 1904 Collier, Warren Ingersoll 1904 Roberts, Retta May 1904 Saunders, Ernest Earl 1904 Taylor, Minerva 1904 Wilkinson,Edward Elementary 1905 Preston, Frederick 1906 Bishop, Lucretia 1906 Bryan, Arthur Williams 1906 Burch, Winifred 1906 Dudley, Virgil Roberts 1906 Eichner, Kenneth 1906 Fariss, James Robert 1906 Handy, Ralph 1906 Hunt, Carrie Sabra 1906 Hussey, Frederick Beebe 1906 Larue, Charles Reid 1906 Lilligren, Jonathan Martin 1906 Phillips, Charles John 1906 Quinn, Edward Louis 1906 Valk, George Albert 1906 Wheeler, Frederick Stone 1906 Young, Earl Deuel 1907 Archibald, Edmund Oliver 1907 Baker, Lloyd Henry 1907 Bean, Floy Fay 1907 Bradley, Henry Andrew 1907 Brislawn, Matther Patrick 1907 Bruce, W. E. 1907 Carrell, Ralph Flin 1907 Clayton, Ralph 1907 Clemans, Mark Twain 1907 Davidson, Ralph E. 1907 Dysart, Hazel Ione 1907 Eccles, Grace 1907 Gerard, Victor Marion 1907 Hahner, Charles Henry 1907 Heater, Edna May 1907 Hill, Eugene S. 1907 Hutcheson, John C. 1907 Keyes, Clarence Manuel 1907 LaFollette, John Tabor 1907 Largent, Edith 1907 Manly, Bessie Beryl 1907 Pamment, Reginald T. 1907 Parkhurst, Marvin D. 1907 Piper, Lillian Deede 1907 Powell, Joel William 1907 Rogers, Charles M. 1907 Smith, Andrew 1907 Smith, Chester Earle 1907 Steinbach, Jessica M. 1907 White, Darryl Elliott 1907 Wiard, Dudley Bulluck 1907 Williamson, Arminta 1907 Witt, August