Collection is open for research.
Donated to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives by Arthur Rempel in 1988 and 1993. The accession number associated with this donation is retro-0565.
Arthur G. Rempel was born in Ukraine in 1910 and immigrated to the United States with his siblings after his parents died in the Russian Revolution. He attended Oberlin in 1934, and then got his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkely in 1938. During that year, he was hired at Whitman to teach biology where he worked up until his retirement in 1976. Arthur was married to Lucile Rempel. He died May 1, 2007.
The Arthur G. Rempel Papers consists of personal and professional correspondence, degrees, award certificates, travel documents, photographs, and papers from his work as a student. This collection, which dates from 1923 to 2010, also contains information on his immigration from Russia in 1923, reference and subject files including academic works by others and information on environmental issues, teaching materials including advising papers, examinations, grade books, biological supply catalogs, and Whitman College administrative papers. It also includes travel accounts, research notes, and a lengthy autobiography. This collection gives an insight into the personal and professional life of Arthur G. Rempel.