OXFMS006.xml Guide to the Burton L. Beegle Papers approximately 1930-1950 Beegle (Burton L.) Papers Finding aid prepared by Adrienne Meier Funding for preparing this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Seattle Pacific University Archives
3307 3rd Avenue West Suite 306 Seattle, Washington, 98119 URL: http://www.spu.edu/depts/library/
2011

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 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-07-13 English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Burton L. Beegle Papers MS006 Seattle Pacific University
3307 3rd Avenue West Suite 306 Seattle, Washington, 98119 URL: http://www.spu.edu/depts/library/
Collection materials are in English. 4.0 linear feet approximately 1930-1950 Burton L. Beegle (1892-1960) taught mathematics at Seattle Pacific College for 36 years, and also served in several administrative positions at the college. This collection contains subject files which include athletics, veterans and servicemen, student records, mathematics and physics course materials, exams, scholarship recipients, directories, Free Methodist Church Washington Conference materials, and faculty activities. Beegle, Burton L.

This collection is a subject file of the following topics and materials: athletics, veterans and servicemen, student records, mathematics and physics course materials, exams, scholarship recipients, directories, Washington Conference, and faculty activities.

Collection is open for research.

 Biographical Note

Burton L. Beegle, (1892-1960) was an ordained minister of the Free Methodist Church of the Washington Conference. He joined the Seattle Pacific College mathematics faculty in 1917. In 1922, he and his family moved to Panama to serve as missionaries, where they remained for four years. He resumed teaching mathematics at SPC in 1926. Along with teaching, Beegle served as Registrar, 1939-1942, and Dean of the College, 1942-1947. He was also an early athletic director, head of the mathematics department and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science by SPC in 1957. He retired that same year.

A biography of of Dr. Burton Beegle, "Life of Minimum Regrets," by Rachel M. Beegle was published by King's Press of Seattle in 1961 and is available in the Seattle Pacific University Library.

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