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Paul M. Dunn Papers, 1916-1988

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Dunn, Paul M.
Title
Paul M. Dunn Papers
Dates
1916-1988 (inclusive)
Quantity
2.1 cubic feet
Collection Number
Consult repository.
Summary
The Dunn Papers document the professional activities of Paul M. Dunn, Dean of Forestry at Oregon State College from 1942 to 1955.
Repository
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu
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

Paul M. Dunn served as Dean of Forestry at Oregon State College from 1942 until 1955, when he joined the St. Regis Paper Company. Dunn was instrumental in obtaining the 6200-acre Adair Tract for teaching and research and it was subsequently named the Paul M. Dunn Research Forest in his honor. In 1952-53, Dunn assisted in establishing a school of forest engineering at the University of Chile.

Dunn was born 15 October 1898 in Lennox, South Dakota. He earned BS and MSF degrees in forestry from Iowa State College in 1923 and 1933. From 1926 until 1931, he was associate state forester in Missouri. Dunn became a forestry professor at Utah State College in 1931 and in 1938 became the first Dean of Forestry at that institution, a position he held until 1942. Dunn retired from St. Regis in 1968 and returned to Corvallis where he lived until his death on 8 January 1988.

Dunn received the Iowa State University Alumni Association's Distinguished Achievement Award in 1968, the Society of American Foresters' Gifford Pinchot Award in 1975, and the Utah State University's Centennial Award in 1987.

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Content Description

The Paul M. Dunn Papers include two scrapbooks; correspondence received from friends and colleagues; awards, certificates, plaques, diplomas, and medallions; his master's thesis; photographs; and materials pertaining to his work in Missouri and in Chile.

The scrapbooks include b/w and color photographs as well as clippings and memorabilia documenting Paul Dunn's professional activities and his family. Notable items include photographs of the Paul M. Dunn Demonstration Forest owned by St. Regis Paper Company near Pensacola Florida; groundbreaking for the Western Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon in 1969; a 1946 photograph of the Corvallis Rotary Club at the Oregon coast showing many OSC faculty and alumni including Paul Petri, Fred Shideler, Ralph Coleman, Slats Gill, and E.E. Wilson; and 1980 newspaper clippings about Donna Byrne, the first woman to receive the Paul M. Dunn Award presented to the top senior in the OSU College of Forestry.

The correspondence consists primarily of congratulatory letters received at the time Dunn was appointed to new positions or received awards. Of particular note are letters from Oregon State College faculty and administrators, including former Dean of Forestry George W. Peavy, sent at the time of his appointment as Dean of Forestry at Oregon State College in 1942.

The photographs include images of Dunn; his wife, Neva K. Dunn; groups at conferences and meetings; and Dunn with forestry students in Chile. Of especial note is a 1949 image of George W. Peavy with Dunn.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Paul M. Dunn Papers, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Processing Note

Several of the awards, certificates, and photographs have been kept in their original frames at the request of the donor because they may be displayed by the College of Forestry. They may be removed from the frames in the future.

Related Materials

The College of Forestry Records (RG 139) include materials pertaining to Dunn's years as Dean. Other forestry-related collections include the George W. Peavy Papers and the Walter F. McCulloch Collection. The OSU Research Forests published an oral history of Paul M. Dunn in 1990.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Scrapbooks, 1916-1965

  • Thesis, 1933

    • Description: A Study of Some Forest Tree Plantings on Agricultural Lands and Watershed Areas in Utah Showing Methods of Reforestation and First Results, MS Thesis, Iowa State College
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Thesis, 1933

  • Letters received, 1931-1986

  • Awards, 1920-1988

    • Description: Gifford Pinchot Award
      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Awards, 1920-1988

    • Plaques

      • Description: Appreciation as chairman, Education Committee, American Forest Products Industries, Inc.
        Dates: ca. 1962
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: Appreciation of outstanding service, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association
        Dates: 1965
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: OSU Presidents Club Founding Members
        Dates: 1968
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: Western Forestry Award, Western Forestry and Conservation Association
        Dates: 1971
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: American Forestry Associtaion Appreciation
        Dates: ca. 1972
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: Fellow, Foresty History Society
        Dates: 1972
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: Pinchot Award plaque
        Dates: 1975
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: Benton County YMCA Century Club
        Dates: 1975
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: Award for Distinguished Service, Keep Oregon Green Association
        Dates: ca. 1979
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: Boy Scouts of America, Oregon Trail Council Century Club Member
        Dates: 1972-1981
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: President of Gulf Pine, Inc.
        Dates: 1963-1981
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: Old Main Society, Utah State University
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: Awards and certificates (framed)
        apx 20x24 in.
        Dates: 1986-1987
        Container: Box 4
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: Medallions
        apx 16x20 in.
        Dates: ca. 1975-1988
        Container: Box 2
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Description: Certificates, awards, and diplomas
        apx 16x20 in.
        Dates: 1920-1983
        Container: Box 2
        Location: Awards, 1920-1988 / Plaques
      • Utah State University
  • Description: Missouri Department of Agriculture
    Dates: 1931-1953
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: University of Chile
    Dates: 1952-1953
    Container: Box 1

  • Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973

    • Description: Pencil drawing of Paul M. Dunn and Neva K. Dunn
      apx 20x24 in.
      framed
      Dates: ca. 1973
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Paul M. Dunn and Neva K. Dunn
      apx 16x20 in.
      3 framed prints
      Dates: ca. 1965
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Iowa State University Reunion Class of 1923
      Dates: 1968.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: AFA Group
      Dates: ca. 1956.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Oregon Forest Products Laboratory Staff

      Front row (l to r): Hugh Wilcox, Murl Peterson, Bruce Anderson, James Holden.

      Center row (l to r): Paul Dunn, Phimister Proctor, Ervin Kurth, Mortimer Macdonald, Leif Espenas.

      Back row (l to r): Bruce Wagg, Robert Stillinger, Maurice Gekeler, Robert Graham, William Baker.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Paul Dunn at SPCA meeting in Atlanta, Georgia
      Dates: 1965.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Group at World Forestry Congress
      Dates: 1960.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Paul Dunn, President of Society of American Foresters, presenting award to R.E. McCardle
      Dates: 1962.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: St. Regis foresters
      Dates: 1963.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Group at AFA
      Dates: 1962.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: St. Regis Forestry and timberlands tour; Tacoma, Washington
      Dates: 1965.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: George W. Peavy and Paul M. Dunn
      Dates: 1949.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Paul Dunn at desk
      Dates: ca. 1942.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Committee meeting at OSU
      Dates: 1971.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Maine forestry dinner
      Dates: 1966.
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Dunn with Chilean students
      3 prints
      Dates: 1952-1953
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973
    • Description: Portrait photograph of Dunn
      apx 12x17 in.
      Dates: ca. 1965.
      Container: Box 6
      Location: Photographs, 1942-ca. 1973

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Subject Terms

  • Experimental forests--Florida.
  • Forestry schools and education--Chile.
  • Forestry schools and education--Oregon--Corvallis.

Personal Names

  • Dunn, Paul M.

Corporate Names

  • Oregon State College. School of Forestry.
  • Western Forestry Center (Portland, Or.)

Form or Genre Terms

  • Masters theses.
  • Photographs.
  • Scrapbooks.

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Dunn, Paul M. (creator)
    • Peavy, George Wilcox, 1869-1951. (creator)


2003

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