Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
Cage 747
Frykman, George A., 1917-
George A. Frykman Papers
1906-1994
1950-1990
6.25 Linear Feet of Shelf Space
13 boxes
George Frykman joined the Washington State College history faculty in 1950. He was an active participant in regional history associations and programs, including membership in the Association of Washington Historians and the Council in Regional Research. The collection includes professional papers reflecting Frykman's career and activities as a faculty member at Washington State University, particularly in the Department of History, the American Studies Program, Faculty Senate, and Phi Alpha Theta, and to his participation in professional and community associations.
Collection materials are inEnglish
George Frykman was born April 30, 1917 in San Francisco, California. In 1935 he graduated from Sequoia High School in Redwood City, CA; he then attended San Jose State College and Stanford University (1935-1941). From 1941 to 1942 he taught English and social studies at Kerman High School in Kerman, CA. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, achieving the rank of Captain in 1945, and was employed by the Army as a photographer, instructor of photography, and public relations officer. Frykman received a master's degree in history from Stanford University in 1947 and subsequently completed his dissertation, "Indigenous Sectionalism in American Historiography, 1877-1917," earning his Ph.D. in 1955.
Frykman joined the Washington State College history faculty in 1950. Soon after this he served for two years as the chief of the Social Science Division of the college library. Between 1960 and 1964, he worked as assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School in addition to his teaching duties. He was elected to the Faculty Senate, and served as its president. Frykman served on other important university committees, and on nearly every committee of the History Department. He also acted as the faculty advisor for Phi Alpha Theta (history honor society), WSU Chapter Gamma Psi.
Frykman was an active participant in regional history associations and programs, including membership in the Association of Washington Historians and the Council in Regional Research. He participated in many professional conferences, helping to organize several Pacific Northwest History Conferences.
Frykman devoted much of his professional energy to the history of the Pacific Northwest, and, more specifically, to Washington State University. In 1985, the WSU Press published his book about Edmond S. Meany, Seattle's Historian and Promoter: the life of Edmond Stephen Meany. That same year Frykman completed an oral history project on the WSU College of Veterinary Medicine, and was selected as WSU's Centennial Historian for the 1990 anniversary celebration. His 1990 history of the university, Creating the People's University: Washington State University, 1890-1990, was published as a result of this centennial appointment.
The collection includes professional papers reflecting Frykman's career and activities as a faculty member at Washington State University, particularly in the Department of History, the American Studies Program, Faculty Senate, and Phi Alpha Theta, and to his participation in professional and community associations. It consists of correspondence, reports, printed ephemera, photographs, and memorabilia.
The collection is arranged in 11 series. The materials were left in their original order with the exception of a few instances where the processor determined that rearrangement was necessary to facilitate access.
Series 1: Early papers, 1933-1951
Series 2: Correspondence, 1950-1990
Series 3: Department of History, Washington State University, circa 1950s-1990
Series 4: American Studies, circa 1950s-1980s
Series 5: Other Washington State University activities, 1945-1990
Series 6: Professional organizations, 1956-1988
Series 7: Conferences, 1951-1994
Series 8: Essays, presentations, and book reviews by Frykman, 1951-1989
Series 9: Research files, 1906-1987
Series 10: Spokane World's Fair (Expo '74), 1972-1974
Series 11: Miscellaneous, 1963-1984
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
[Item Description]
George A. Frykman papers, 1906-1994 (Cage 747)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections,
Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
George Frykman donated his papers to the Washington State University Libraries in 1991 (MS 1991-42), and additional related papers were transferred by the WSU History Department in the same year (UA 1991-08). These two accessions were combined in 2010.
This collection was processed in 2010 by WSU Ph.D. candidate Lee Ann Powell.
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.
Frykman, George A., 1917- -- Archives
Washington State University -- History -- Sources.
Colleges and Universities
Washington (State)
Series 1: Early papers, 1933-1951
1
1
Job applications, 1949-1951
1
2-30
Undergraduate and graduate essays and book
reviews, 1933-1949
1
31-32
Correspondence, 1948-1949
Series 2: Correspondence (incoming and
outgoing), 1950-1990
1
33
1950
1
34
1951
1
35
1952
1
36
1953
1
37
1954
2
38
1955
2
39
1956
2
40
1957
2
41
1958
2
42
1959
2
43
1960
2
44
1961
2
45
1962
2
46
1963
2
47
1964 January-June
3
48
1964 July-December
3
49
1965
3
50
1966
3
51
1967
3
52
1968
3
53
1969
3
54
1970
3
55
1971
3
56
1972
3
57
1973
3
58
1974
3
59
1975
4
60
1976
4
61
1977
4
62
1978
4
63
1979
4
64
1980
4
65
1981
4
66
1982
4
67
1983
4
68
1984
4
69
1985
4
70
1986
4
71
1987
4
72
1988
4
73
1989
4
74
1990
Series 3: Department of History, Washington
State University, circa 1950s-1990
5
75-105
History department meeting minutes,
1960-1990
5
106
Pettyjohn Symposium application, National
Endowment for the Humanities, 1979-1980
5
107
First annual Pettyjohn distinguished
lecture and research symposium, and distinguished lectures series,
1980-1981
5
108
Pettyjohn distinguished lecture,
1981-1990
5
109
Public history ad hoc committee (reports
and correspondence), 1979-1981
5
110
Public history and graduate history study
pamphlets, circa 1980s
5
111
History department alumni new letters,
1985-1987
5
112-115
Phi Alpha Theta (WSU Gamma Psi chapter)
(founding documents, correspondence, conference proceedings, and
publications), 1950s-1980s
6
116-118
Phi Alpha Theta (WSU Gamma Psi chapter)
(founding documents, correspondence, conference proceedings, and
publications), 1950s-1980s (continued)
6
119-122
History department memoranda and reports,
1950s-1980s
6
123
Department of history and political
science reports, memoranda, and meeting minutes, 1953-1956
6
124
History graduate education planning
committee reports, 1964
6
125-128
Proposed doctor of arts in history
(reports, memoranda, and correspondence), 1969-1972
6
129
Revisions of the guidelines for the study
of history at WSU, 1975-1977
Series 4: American Studies, circa
1950s-1980s
6
139-142
American Studies at WSU (reports,
correspondence, memoranda, and meeting minutes), 1950s-1980s
7
143-149
American Studies at WSU (reports,
correspondence, memoranda, and meeting minutes), 1950s-1980s
(continued)
7
150
American Studies Association meeting
minutes and newsletter, 1950s-1970s
7
151-153
Pacific Northwest American Studies
Association (reports, correspondence, newsletters, conference
proceedings), 1960s-1980s
Series 5: Other Washington State University
activities, 1945-1990
7
154
Library: Judge Walter B. Beals collection
(correspondence, collection inventory lists, and status reports); also,
other miscellaneous library matters; 1945-1954
7
155
Report: evaluation of the social science
collection of the WSC library, and related correspondence,
1951-1956
7
156
Report on the economic status of faculty
of WSC, 1956
7
157
Social Science-Humanities Research Library
Committee, reports and correspondence, 1965 and 1969
7
158
Proposed institute for advanced study in
history (proposal and correspondence), 1967-1969
7
159
Faculty committee to review graduate
programs in English (correspondence, reports, and Frykman notes),
1971-1972
7
160
Committee to Review Master in Arts and
Teaching program in social studies (correspondence and report),
1973-1974
7
161
Bicentennial lectureship project, Jack P.
Green bicentennial lecturer (correspondence and applications for project
funding), 1973-1975
7
162
Recommendations for an Asian American
studies program at WSU, report to the Senate Steering Committee by the
Asian American Advisory Committee, 1978
7
163
WSU Faculty Council newsletters,
1978-1979
7
164
WSU Faculty Senate (correspondence,
meeting agendas, and meeting minutes), 1984
7
165
WSU foreign student quota guidelines,
1980-1986
7
166
Frykman centennial presentation to the
Outlook Club (presentation outline and correspondence), 1990
Series 6: Professional organizations,
1956-1988
8
167-180
Association of Washington State Historians
(articles of incorporation, membership lists, general correspondence,
correspondence related to Washington State HB656 and SB2413, election
ballots, meeting minutes), 1973-1988
8
181-192
Council on Regional Historical Research
(council charter, meeting minutes, newsletters, mailing lists,
correspondence, and reports), 1956-1961
Series 7: Conferences, 1951-1994
9
193-210
Pacific Northwest History Conference
(programs, correspondence, calls for papers, paper proposals),
1951-1994
9
211
Teachers of American History conference
program, 1951
9
212
Pacific Coast Branch American, Historical
Association (annual meeting program), 1952
9
213
Northwest College audio-visual conference
program, 1955
9
214
Pacific Northwest Library Association
conference program, 1956
9
215
Community College conference on history
program, 1966
9
216
Washington State University symposium on
the historical novel program, 1966
9
217
National Defense Education Act History
Summer Institute program, 1966
9
218
Western History Association conference
letter to participants, 1966
9
219
Education Profession Development Act
Institute in Social Science (correspondence, program, and outline of
Frykman presentation), 1969
9
220
Pacific Northwest American Studies
conference program, 1972
10
221
Pacific Northwest Labor History conference
(application and preliminary program), 1976
10
222
Idaho History conference program,
1980
10
223
Centennial Forum Series: Spokane and the
Inland Empire (programs and announcements), 1981
10
224
Ninth annual Neighborhoods conference,
Tacoma, WA (correspondence, nomination form, publicity, agenda, and
Frykman presentation outline), 1983-1984
Series 8: Essays, presentations, and book
reviews by Frykman, 1951-1989
10
225
"History Journals and Sources for the
Study of Post Reconstruction," 1951
10
226
"Regionalism, Nationalism, and Localism,"
1952
10
227
"The Role of Indigenous Sectionalism in
American History and Historiography," 1954
10
228
"A Philosophy for Regional and Local
Historian of the Pacific Northwest," 1964
10
229
"Edmond S. Meany and the Development of
Historical Thought in Washington," 1970
10
230
"From the Open Range to the City: the
Evolution of the Veterinary Profession in Washington," 1974
10
231
"Edmond S. Meany and the development of
the Washington Historical Quarterly," 1975
10
232
"From College to University: Washington
State University's Pivotal Years," 1979
10
233
"The Role and Mission of Washington State
University and Its Department of History, 1983
10
234
"The Bryan Years at Washington State
University," 1984
10
235
"Student Activism at Washington State
University, 1961-1976," 1986
10
236
"The Land-Grant Mission and the Natural
History of the Students: Several Episodes in the History of Washington
State University," 1987
10
237
"WSU's Presence in Spokane: What Part Does
it Play in the Centennial History?" 1987
10
238
"From Empiric to Scientist: the Social
History of the Veterinarian in Washington" 1977
10
239
"Portrait of the Veterinarian: A Pacific
Northwest Profile," 1979
10
240
Book reviews by Frykman,
1981-1989
Series 9: Research and subject files,
1906-1987
10
241
Pamphlet: Charles McKinley, "Five Years of
Planning in the Pacific Northwest," 1939
10
242
Pamphlet: National Resources Planning
Board, Regional Development Plan: Pacific Northwest (Preliminary
Statement), 1940
10
243
Pamphlet: Northwest Regional Council,
"Discovering Anew the Pacific Northwest," 1940
10
244
Pamphlet: "United States-Canada Boundary
Treaty Centennial: 1846-1946," circa 1946
10
245
[not used]
10
246
Pamphlet: "Final Report of the Pacific
Northwest Assembly on State Government," 1956
10
247
Pamphlet: Oregon Historical Society," A
Bibliography of Pacific Northwest History," 1958
10
248
Project 249, "The Significance of
Sectionalism and Regionalism in American and Pacific Northwest
History..." (reports, funding requests, project outlines, expense
records, and related correspondence), 1957-1962
10
249
[not used]
10
250
Fortnightly Club, Pullman, WA: photographs
of charter members, compiled for the club's 35th anniversary,
1928
10
251
"How I Make Both Ends Meet" by Peter Kragt
(typescript, reproduction), 1932
11
252
Wilson and Helen Compton (photographs,
ephemera, correspondence, all donated to Frykman by Dr. and Mrs. Herbert
Wood), 1945-1979
11
253
Washington State College name change
information, 1959
11
254
Pamphlet: "Inaugural Address of Daniel
Jackson Evans as Sixteenth Governor of the State of Washington,"
1965
11
255
Student unrest and protests at WSU (series
of printed letters from President Glenn Terrell), 1968-1974
11
256-257
WSU student strike ephemera and press
releases, 1970
11
258
WSU student political participation leave
for 1970 general elections, 1970
11
259
Report: "The First Decade of the
University Honors Program" (typescript), 1970
11
260
Report: WSU University Senate Graduate
Student Affairs Committee, "Source Material on Graduate Students and
Graduate Assistants," 1972
11
261
WSU Current Social Problems Workshop,
1972
11
262
"After Mount St. Helens: Seven Gray Days
in May" by Don Dillman (typescript), 1980
11
263
Student paper: "The Late Rise of a
Sleeping Giant: Student Activism at Washington State University, 1970"
by Nancy Tadlock (typescript), 1983
11
264
Student paper: "The First Five Years of
the W.S.U. Scholarship and Development Fund, 1957-1961" by Deborah
Playfair (typescript), 1984
11
265
Student paper: "The Foundation of the
Western Washington Research and Extension Center" by Julie Morgan
(typescript), 1985
11
266
Pamphlet: Alison Comish Thorne, "Visible
and Invisible: Women in Land-Grant Colleges, 1890-1940,"
1985
11
267
Student paper: "Student Unrest and the
University's Reaction, 1961-1974" by Patricia Hall (typescript),
1986
11
268
"The Compton Years: The State College of
Washington, November 1944-September 1951" by Claude Simpson (typescript,
photocopy), 1986
11
269-281
[not used]
12
282
Student paper: "Origins of the W.S.U.
Greek System" by Jeff Whitehead (typescript, photocopy),
1987
12
283
Student paper: "The Compton Years:
Washington State College, 1944-1951" by Ruth Rasmussen (typescript),
undated
12
284
Soil testing at Washington State
University (typescript report on history of soil testing by A. R.
Halvorson, with related documentation), circa 1967-1980
12
285
"A History of the Washington State College
Bureau of Visual Teaching from 1946 to 1952" by Warren Babcock
(typescript), circa 1970s
12
286
[not used]
History of veterinary medicine (collected
material and notes)
12
287
Scrapbook: "Greetings from Friends to
Dr. [Sofus B.] Nelson," 1928
12
288
Research file: collected material
about veterinarian Herman A. Trippeer (photocopies, printed
ephemera), 1906-1965
12
289
Dr. Howard Slack (correspondence and
materials donated to Frykman, including documents related to Slack's
veterinary practice; includes two photographs: the 1930 WSC
Veterinary College football team, and Bryan Hall), circa
1930s
12
290
[not used]
12
291
"A Chronological Historical Sketch of
the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University"
(typescript), circa 1973
12
292-293
Seminar material, Washington State
Veterinary Medical Association, 1973
12
294
Miscellaneous, 1973-1975
12
295
[not used]
12
296
Presentation: "Veterinary Medicine in
the Pacific Northwest: A Profile of Professional Diversity" by Merle
Kunz (typescript, photocopy), 1977
12
297
Student paper: "'Doc' to DVM: The
Veterinary Profession Grows Up. Reflections by Northwest
Veterinarians" by Chris Eckard, 1986
12
298
Frykman research notes,
undated
12
299
"State of Washington, History of
Veterinary Medicine" by E. E. Wegner (typescript, photocopy), circa
1960s-1970s
12
300
"Report of the Veterinary Medicine
Subcommittee: Summarized History of the College of Veterinary
Medicine, Washington State University" (typescript, photocopy),
circa 1970s
12
301
"Summary of the Life of O. G. Button"
(typescript, photocopy), undated
Series 10: Spokane World's Fair (Expo '74),
1972-1974
13
302-303
Pamphlets and poster
13
304
Photographs and general
information
13
305
"Festival of Entertainment"
information
13
306
Press releases
13
307
Student paper: "Expo '74: Development of
Spokane's World's Fair, 1968-1973" by Peter Overmeyer (typescript),
1974
13
308
WSU Day
13
309
"Waterworld" (WSU exhibit; includes
photographs, ephemera, correspondence)
13
310
Environmental symposium press release and
pamphlet
Series 11: Miscellaneous,
1963-1984
13
311
Parent Teacher Association Coordinating
Council (bylaws, PTA bulletins, correspondence, financial report,
meeting minutes, conference schedule), 1963-1965
13
312
National Defense Education Act summer
history institute at Oregon State College (participant materials),
1965
13
313
Report: "Alternatives for Washington
Graphical Interpretation and Display of the Citizens Outputs," Institute
for Environmental Studies, 1974
13
314
Report: "Council on Higher Education State
of Washington Comprehensive Plan, 1976-82" (typescript, "unedited first
draft"), 1975
13
315
"Diary of Discovery" (Lewis and Clark
children's program) scripts (typescripts) and correspondence with Lou
Furman, 1982-1983
13
316
Student paper: "Women of the Grange:
Community Enforcers" by Lisa Ballou (typescript), 1983
13
317
Western Interstate Commission for Higher
Education (brochures and correspondence), 1980-1984