A legislative enactment of 1890 founded Washington State University, originally called Washington Agricultural College and School of Science. Actual operation began in January 1892. The enabling act normally is used to date university events, and accordingly the 100th anniversary was observed in 1990.
A system of several committees had responsibility for the University centennial, while the Office of University Relations served as staff and coordinators. The principal coordinators, Dan Peterson and Sonia Hussa, maintained the records of the centennial activities and projects.
This collection consists of press release binders from 1984-2002. Binders include photos and articles.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
Boxes consist primarily of binders and bound collections that contain press releases. All binders are dated and labeled. Box 1 contains releases from 1995. Box 2 from 1999. Box 3 from 2000-2001. Box 4 from 2003 - also contains clips from the Rose Bowl. Box 5 contains reports from the Centennial starting in 1983. Box 6 from possible 1996 - contains information related to the 50th class reunion of 1946. Box 7 contains a history of WSU as well as collection of reports on a campus riot.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University University Relations Press Releases, 1984-2002 (UA2006-11)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This material was transferred to WSU Libraries' MASC by University Relations on July 07, 2006 and retained as UA2006-11.
At the end of 2014, two boxes of video materials were removed from this accession and processed separately. Most of this video is in Archives 349.
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