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Dunn, Paul M.
Paul M. Dunn Papers
1916-1988
2.1 cubic feet
The Dunn Papers document the professional
activities of Paul M. Dunn, Dean of Forestry at Oregon State College from 1942
to 1955.
Materials in English
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.
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.
Paul M. Dunn Papers, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis,
Oregon.
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.
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.
Oregon
Photographs
Scrapbooks
Colleges and
Universities
Forestry and Forest
Products
Dunn, Paul M.
Oregon State
College. School of Forestry.
Western
Forestry Center (Portland, Or.)
Forestry schools and
education--Oregon--Corvallis.
Forestry schools and
education--Chile.
Experimental
forests--Florida.
Scrapbooks.
Photographs.
Masters theses.
Dunn, Paul
M.
Peavy, George
Wilcox, 1869-1951.
Study of some forest tree plantings on agricultural lands and watershed areas in Utah showing methods of reforestation and first results.
Scrapbooks
1916-1965
1
Original
1920-1965
1
Photocopy
1916-1965
Photocopy includes 1916 image not in original above.
2
apx 16x20 in.
1965-1985
Thesis
1933
1
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
1933
Letters received
1931-1986
1
OSU resignation
1954
1
Society of American Foresters
presidency
1961-1962
1
Society of American Foresters
fellow
1959
1
St. Regis
vice-president
1962
1
At close of term as Society
of American Foresters president
1963-1964
1
Retirement from St.
Regis
1967
1
Utah State University
centennial award
1986
1
Miscellaneous
1931-1968
Awards
1920-1988
1
Gifford Pinchot
Award
1975
Plaques
3
Appreciation as chairman,
Education Committee, American Forest Products Industries, Inc.
ca. 1962
3
Appreciation of
outstanding service, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association
1965
3
OSU Presidents Club
Founding Members
1968
3
Western Forestry Award,
Western Forestry and Conservation Association
1971
3
American Forestry
Associtaion Appreciation
ca. 1972
3
Fellow, Foresty History
Society
1972
3
Pinchot Award
plaque
1975
3
Benton County YMCA
Century Club
1975
3
Award for Distinguished
Service, Keep Oregon Green Association
ca. 1979
3
Boy Scouts of America,
Oregon Trail Council Century Club Member
1972-1981
3
President of Gulf Pine,
Inc.
1963-1981
wooden gavel
3
Old Main Society, Utah
State University
undated
wooden gavel
4
apx 20x24 in.
Awards and certificates
(framed)
1986-1987
2
apx 16x20 in.
Medallions
ca. 1975-1988
2
apx 16x20 in.
Certificates, awards, and
diplomas
1920-1983
Utah State
University
2
apx 16x20 in.
Centennial
Award
1988
2
apx 16x20 in.
Old Main
Society
1973
1
Missouri Department of
Agriculture
1931-1953
1
University of Chile
1952-1953
Photographs
1942-ca. 1973
4
apx 20x24 in.
Pencil drawing of Paul M.
Dunn and Neva K. Dunn
ca. 1973
framed
2
apx 16x20 in.
Paul M. Dunn and Neva K.
Dunn
ca. 1965
3 framed prints
5
Iowa State University Reunion
Class of 1923
1968.
5
AFA Group
ca. 1956.
5
Oregon Forest Products
Laboratory Staff
1949
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.
5
Paul Dunn at SPCA meeting in
Atlanta, Georgia
1965.
5
Group at World Forestry
Congress
1960.
5
Paul Dunn, President of
Society of American Foresters, presenting award to R.E. McCardle
1962.
5
St. Regis
foresters
1963.
5
Group at AFA
1962.
5
St. Regis Forestry and
timberlands tour; Tacoma, Washington
1965.
5
George W. Peavy and Paul M.
Dunn
1949.
5
Paul Dunn at desk
ca. 1942.
5
Committee meeting at
OSU
1971.
5
Maine forestry
dinner
1966.
5
Dunn with Chilean
students
1952-1953
3 prints
6
apx 12x17 in.
Portrait photograph of
Dunn
ca. 1965.