Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Utah State University George Dewey Clyde papers
Utah State University. College of Engineering.
UUS_14.4/1:17
4.5 linear feet
11 boxes
1932-1946
This collection includes correspondence, reports, and office files from Dean of the College of Engineering George Dewey Clyde.
English
.
No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the Utah State University George Dewey Clyde papers must be obtained from the University Archivist and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Initial Citation: Utah State University George Dewey Clyde papers UUS_14.4/1:17. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations:UUS_14.4/1:17, USUSCA.
These materials were collected from the College of Engineering around 1970.
George Dewey Clyde papers,
UUS_COLL MSS 176
George D. Clyde research materials, UUS_COLL MSS 279
George D. Clyde speeches, UUS_COLL MSS 255
George Dewey Clyde photograph collection,
UUS_P0374
Born on July 21, 1898, in Mapleton, Utah County, Utah, George Dewey Clyde graduated from Utah State Agricultural College in 1922. As an agricultural engineer, he served on the staff of both the Experiment Station and the College, becoming a full professor in 1928. He served as Dean of the School of Engineering from 1936 through 1945. Following World War II, Mr. Clyde left the employ of the College to assume the duties of Chief of the Division of Irrigation Engineering and Water Conservation for the Soil Conservation Service, Research Branch under the United States Department of Agriculture. He was also a director of the Utah Water and Power Board. He played an important role in the approval of the Upper Colorado River Basin Storage Project in 1956. A long standing member of the Utah Republican Party, he left Civil Service and ran successfully for the governorship of Utah that same year, serving eight years. George Clyde was the 10th governor of Utah. He focused on the economic development of Utah while in office. Clyde returned to civil service in 1965. He and his wife, Ora Packard Clyde, raised five children. George D. Clyde died on April 2, 1972.
This collection includes correspondence, reports, and office files primarily from George Dewey Clyde while Dean of Utah State University's (USU) School of Engineering from 1938 to 1945.
This collection also documents the School of Engineering's role in Depression era and World War II educational programs at Utah State University, including materials related to New Deal Federal Agencies and water development projects.
A file level inventory is avaliable in box 1.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by subject. Materials with the subject 'correspondence' were moved to Sub-Series A. Correspondence.
Processed in December 2000 and updated in July 2026.
Military education--Utah--Logan.
New Deal, 1933-1939--Utah.
USU--Faculty and staff.
USU--History (Engineering)
Water and Water Rights
World War, 1939-1945.
College and Universities
I. Office Files
Agriculture
about 1932-1944
1
Concerns Post-War planning committee and the Land-grant Association. Includes correspondence and meeting minutes.
Agriculture
about 1932-1944
2
1
Concerns Post-War planning committee and the Utah committee.
Airport
circa 1940s
2
2-4
Concerns Logan Utah AirPort. Includes blueprints and drawings.
American Geophysical Union
about 1932-1944
2
5
Also see Box 9 folder 10.
Bibliographies
about 1932-1944
2
6-10
Includes bibliographies for auto mechanics, engineering library, engineering subjects, experiment station books, and irrigation.
Bibliographies
about 1932-1944
3
1-3a
Includes miscellaneous reprints, precipitation, streamflow, and water publications.
Boulder Dam
about 1932-1944
3
4-5
Census File for Utah Agriculture
about 1932-1944
3
6
Centerville water spreading area
1939
3
7
Deer Creek Reservoir, proposed water supply (clipping file)
1934
8
1
Defense
1941
8
2-10
Concerns data pertaining to proposed Cantonment (Incendiary Bomb storage) facility in Cache Valley. Includes land owners, maps, and memos, correspondence, and reports.
Engineering
about 1932-1944
8
11-14
Concerns education, Association of Western State Engineers, and general files.
Engineers Council for Professional Development
about 1932-1944
9
1
Farm Bureau (American) conferences
1932, 1936
9
2-3
Farm Electrification program booklet and leaflets
circa 1930s
9
4-5
Grand Coulee Dam
about 1932-1944
9
6-7
Housing facilities, WW II (USU campus)
about 1932-1944
9
8
Reclamation Projects in Utah
about 1932-1944
9
9-10
Concerns Bureau of Reclamation and general info for projects.
Reclamation Projects in Utah
1934-1938
10
1-4
Concerns pressure grouting equipment and statement on reclamation.
Reports
1942
10
5-16
Concerns Aeronautics department, civil engineering (includes report to Governor's Committee for Engineering at USAC), engineering expenditures, School of and Engineering Experiment Station (includes notes taken at a meeting with Governor Herbert Maw, relevant to curricular duplication and budgets at the state's two major institutions of higher learning), History of engineering, mechanical arts, metals department, industrial division, E.G. Peterson, radio department, woodwork department.
Sevier River, "Stipulations Governing Rights to the Use of the Waters..."
about 1932-1944
10
17
Snake River, General information on the Upper Snake River Project
1937
10
18
Snow Surveys -includes American Geophysical Union materials
about 1932-1944
10
19
Soil Conservation
about 1932-1944
10
20
"Technical Education News"
circa 1940s
11
1
Uintah Basin Study
about 1932-1944
11
2-5
Concerns land utilization, U.S. Division of Resettlement Administration and Duchesne County. Includes meeting minutes.
Up Stream Engineering Conference
about 1932-1944
11
6
Veterans Hospital, proposed sites in Logan and Nibley Utah
circa 1930s
11
7-8
War Manpower Commission
1943
11
9
Water facilities
about 1932-1944
11
10
A. Correspondence
A, general
about 1932-1944
4
1
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
about 1932-1944
4
2
American Society of Civil Engineers
about 1932-1944
4
3
Association for the Advancement of Science
about 1932-1944
4
4
Beers, W.D.
about 1932-1944
4
5
Bell, Wm. H. (Registrar)
about 1932-1944
4
6
Bernstrom, Russell E. (Secretary/Treasurer)
about 1932-1944
4
7-8
Budget, Agricultural Engineering and Automotive
about 1932-1944
4
9-10
Civil Engineering
about 1932-1944
4
11
Bundy, Ora (State Publicity Bureau)
about 1932-1944
4
12
B-C, general
about 1932-1944
4
13-14
Cache County Ration Board
about 1932-1944
4
15
Cache Valley Flying, Inc. (F.P. Champ)
about 1932-1944
4
16
Cardon, P.V. (Experiment Station)
about 1932-1944
4
17
Carlisle, John C.
about 1932-1944
4
18
Carter, Harold S.
about 1932-1944
4
19
Clyde, George D.
about 1932-1944
4
20
Cole, Larry (Radio)
about 1932-1944
4
21
Coulam, Joseph (buildings/grounds and woodworking)
about 1932-1944
4
22-23
Cross, M.A. (Colonel)
about 1932-1944
4
24
Cub River CCC Camp
1943
4
25
Daines, Spencer S.
about 1932-1944
4
26
Davies, David (Librarian)
about 1932-1944
4
27
Dean's Council
about 1932-1944
4
28
Deferments (Military), Engineering students
about 1932-1944
4
29
E, general
about 1932-1944
4
30
Edgel, Lewis G.
about 1932-1944
4
31
Egbert, S.R.
about 1932-1944
4
32
Engineering, Campus Committee
about 1932-1944
4
33
Examinations, Special credit
about 1932-1944
4
34
Extension Service
about 1932-1944
4
35
F, general
about 1932-1944
5
1
Facilities in the School of Engineering
about 1932-1944
5
2
Faculty, general letters
about 1932-1944
5
3
Fonnesbeck, Leon
about 1932-1944
5
4
France, Roy
about 1932-1944
5
5
Fuhriman, Dean F.
about 1932-1944
5
6
G, general
about 1932-1944
5
7
Gardner, V.D.
about 1932-1944
5
8
Graduate Work, Campus Committee
about 1932-1944
5
9
H, general
about 1932-1944
5
10
Hayward, Ira N. (Dean)
about 1932-1944
5
11
Homan, W.J.
about 1932-1944
5
12
Howells, Rulon S. (War Manpower Commission)
about 1932-1944
5
13
Humphreys, L.R.
about 1932-1944
5
14
Israelsen, O.W.
about 1932-1944
5
15
Isrealsen, M.A.
about 1932-1944
5
16
J, general
about 1932-1944
5
17
Jerman, I.D. (Bureau of Reclamation)
about 1932-1944
5
18
K, general
about 1932-1944
5
19
Kepner, H.R.
about 1932-1944
5
20
L, general
about 1932-1944
5
21
Maughan, J. Howard
about 1932-1944
5
22
Maw, Herbert (Governor)
about 1932-1944
5
23
McGraw/Hill publishers
about 1932-1944
5
24
McWhorter, Wayne
about 1932-1944
5
25
Merrill, M.R.
about 1932-1944
6
1
Milligan, Cleve H.
about 1932-1944
6
2
Moser, Ervin U. (Logan City Engineer)
about 1932-1944
6
3
N-O, general
about 1932-1944
6
4-5
Office of Price Administration
about 1932-1944
6
6
P, general
about 1932-1944
6
7
Parker, Harry
about 1932-1944
6
8
Paulson, A.B. (State Engineer)
about 1932-1944
6
9
Peterson, E.G. (President), incoming and outgoing
1943-1944
6
10-13
Peterson, Wm. (Extension)
about 1932-1944
7
1
Photographic Work
about 1932-1944
7
2
Preator, Frederick
about 1932-1944
7
3
Publicity and Industrial Development (Utah)
about 1932-1944
7
4
R, general
about 1932-1944
7
5
Romney, E.L. (Coach)
about 1932-1944
7
6
Ross, E.A.
about 1932-1944
7
7
S, general
about 1932-1944
7
8
Swenson, Don N.
about 1932-1944
7
9
Sigma XI Society
about 1932-1944
7
10
Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education
about 1932-1944
7
11
South, George P.
about 1932-1944
7
12
Students, prospective
1945-1946
7
13
Surplus equipment, sale of
about 1932-1944
7
14
Teachers Retirement Board
about 1932-1944
7
15
Teaching Load
about 1932-1944
7
16
Telegrams and Telephone calls
about 1932-1944
7
17
T-Z, general
about 1932-1944
7
18-19
Includes United States Procurement Division (Surplus property), and Wahlgren, Ervind B.