Chester Raymond Ham (1890-1949) was a faculty member in Business Administration at the State College of Washington for 22 years, from 1927 until his death.
This consists of three related items. First is a six-page script titled Some Observations of Students’ Records in Relation to Smoking, created by Chester Raymond Ham, assistant professor in Business Administration at WSC and broadcast over KWSC radio on May 7, 1932. In it he reports on a survey of male WSC students and their smoking habits, which he statistically compared against their grade points.
Second in the collection is a single page of compiled summary data from his study, and the final page is a list of all his data points, which includes students’ names, smoking habits, and average grades. As the latter is protected by student privacy rules, it is preserved in a sealed envelope, and access will only be granted under very specific conditions.
This collection is mostly open and available for research use. The final page, held in a sealed envelope, falls under student privacy concerns and access will only be granted under signed agreements to not copy/share student information.
Copyright restrictions apply. As an unpublished work for hire the rights for this belong to WSU, and it remains in copyright until the end of the year 2052.
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"Some Observations of Students’ Records in Relation to Smoking" Script, 1932 (Cage 5175)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The WSC department of Business Administration donated this collection to the Washington State College Libraries somewhere prior to 1959. At some point they were moved to the Owen Science and Engineering Library.
The collection was deaccessioned by the WSU Owen Science and Engineering Libraries in fall of 2023 and transferred to the WSU Libraries’ MASC.
University Archivist Mark O’English processed this collection in April 2026.
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