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President's Office (Robert E. Hamill) Records, 1968-1970

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)President's Office
Title
President's Office (Robert E. Hamill) Records
Dates
1968-1970 (inclusive)
Quantity
.4 cubic feet, (1 document box)
Collection Number
A-034
Summary
Robert E. Hamill was interim president of Lane Community College, 1968-1969. This collection includes correspondence and subject files.
Repository
Lane Community College Archives
4000 East 30th Avenue
Eugene, OR
97405
Telephone: 5414635466
archives@lanecc.edu
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions. The collection is open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

Robert E. Hamill served as interim president of Lane Community College from 1968 to 1969.

Robert Hamill was born in 1926 in Merced, California. He was educated at the University of Redlands in California (B.A., 1948) and at the University of Oregon (M.S., 1956; D.Ed., Educational Administration, 1967). He taught in the Eugene public schools and served an administrative internship at Lane Community College before being named interim president in 1968.

He served as vice-president of Highline Community College, Midway, Washington, 1969-1972, and as president of Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, Washington, 1972-1977. He was associate superintendent for community colleges in the Oregon Department of Education, 1977-1986. He died in 1989 following a long illness.

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Content Description

The records document the tenure of Robert Hamill, interim president of Lane Community College, 1968-1969. This collection contains only a small part of the records from Hamill's administration. The collection contains administrative correspondence, arranged chronologically, and subject files, arranged alphabetically, which include a limited selection of files on administrative topics.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

There are no use restrictions.

Preferred Citation

President's Office (Robert E. Hamill) Records, 1968-1970 (A-034), Lane Community College Archives, Eugene, Oregon

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection is contained in one series.

Series A. Correspondence and Subject Files, 1968-1970

Acquisition Information

Records were transferred from the President's Office to the college archives in seven accessions between 1978 and 1987.

Processing Note

The collection was transferred from the President's Office to the Archives in seven accessions between 1978 and 1987. The records in these accessions were consolidated into one collection when they were processed Elizabeth Uhlig in 1997 and 2000.

Related Materials

Assistant to the President (Bert Dotson) Records, 1960-1975 (A-032). This collection documents the founding and early years of the college. The records include correspondence and other administrative records from the office of Bert Dotson, assistant to the president, 1965-1982, as well as records from the office of Robert E. Hamill, interim president, 1968-1969.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

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Subject Terms

  • Community colleges--Oregon
  • Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)-- Administration
  • Universities and colleges--Oregon

Personal Names

  • Gonyea, Wilford H.
  • Hamill, Robert E.
  • Parnell, Dale
  • Pickering, Robert L.

Corporate Names

  • Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)
  • Lane Community College (Eugene, Or.)-- President's Office

Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Uhlig in 1997 and 2000.
2006

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