Pacific University President Charles J. Armstrong Records
Scope and Contents
Looks to have been arranged by earlier archives. Files were arranged by topic order and were left as such. Miscellaneous files described in corresponding scope and contents note. Collection includes correspondence and materials from President Armstrong and staff, the Carnegie Corporation, Tau Kappa Alpha, the Educational Testing Service and a number of other groups in contact with the university. The collection also includes documents relating to special events on campus such as commencement, and important documents regarding Pacific affiliated events such as faculty travel the Los Angeles Alumni meeting.
Dates
- 1946-1963
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Pacific University owns the copyright to some, but not all, of the materials housed in its archives. Copyright for materials authored or otherwise produced as official business of Pacific University is retained by Pacific University and requires its permission for publication. Copyright status for other collection materials varies. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical Note
Dr. Charles J. Armstrong obtained his Ph.D from Harvard and at the time of his hire to Pacific University he had been an administrative dean at Whitman College. He was inaugurated on the 100th anniversary of Pacific's being granted its charter as a college. By the end of Armstrong's five-year term academic standards had improved to a point where three-quarters of the incoming freshman were from the top half of their high school graduating class. Armstrong was able to obtain additional funds to finance the Judith Scott Walter dormitory in 1958 and remodeling Knight Hall.
Most of the biographical information above has been adapted from Splendid Audacity: The Story of Pacific University (Gary Miranda and Rick Read, 2000).
Extent
3.25 Cubic Feet (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Accruals
No accruals are expected.
Source
- Pacific University. President's Office (Organization)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Sponsored by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Repository Details
Part of the Pacific University Archives Repository