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Colorado State University Water Resources Archive Morgan Library Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1019 Borland, Whitney McNair, 1905–2001 1828–1997; bulk 1930–1979 60 linear feet As a civil engineer, Whitney McNair Borland focused his research on sedimentation, hydraulics, avalanches, and other aspects of hydrology. He was employed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation for over forty years, beginning in November 1930. Borland was born November 6, 1905, in Holyoke, Colorado. In 1928, he received a B. S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Nebraska. Two years later he earned a Master of Science in the same subject from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned another M.S., this time in civil engineering, from the University of Colorado in 1938. Borland also did some post-graduate work at Cornell University. During World War II, Borland served as a lieutenant colonel in the Army's 10th Mountain Division, an appropriate role for him as he was an avid skier and climber. Borland worked for the Bureau of Reclamation while it was involved in some of its biggest projects that would have long-term impact on water in the West, including the building of Hoover Dam, Grand Coulee Dam, and the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. He conducted model sedimentation studies for some of these big projects and for many others, working in the Colorado State University (CSU) engineering lab designed by Ralph Parshall. This work helped establish CSU's reputation as a leader in water research. Progressing through the ranks in the Denver office of the Bureau of Reclamation, Borland became part of the sedimentation section and was named chief in 1950, remaining in that position for twenty years.
Borland also served for a time in the 1980s as a member of the board of directors of the Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority. He was also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Geophysical Union, and the Colorado Mountain Club,
The collection consists of documents either collected or created by Borland in relation to his research and work. Materials include articles, reports, publications, handbooks, manuals, books, correspondence, maps, notes and photographs.
Cornell University Manuscripts and University Archives John M. Olin Library 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Ithaca, NY 14853 Hiteman Leather Company 1898–1968 30 cubic feet Correspondence, financial and business records for the Hiteman Leather Company, West Winfield, New York, including information on shoe industry trends, industry newsletters and detailed material concerning daily maintenance of a tannery operation. Financial records include invoices, cash receipts, checks and cash payments, daybooks, quarterly financial statements, receipted bills and remittances. Production records include skin lot orders, skins received and processed, processing, color and grade of leather, soak books, dying processes and color formulas. Also includes correspondence and reports on sanitary sewage treatment and water pollution, 1960–1967.
Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies 1000 Rim Drive Durango CO 81301-3999 Union Carbide Mining History 1941–1989 30 linear feet Union Carbide took over a radium mine and mill located in Montrose County, Colorado, in 1928. The town of Uravan (named after the uranium and vanadium found in its canyons) was built in 1935 to provide housing for the company's employees. As radium recovery became less in demand, the mill began mining uranium in the 1940s, first for national defense and later for nuclear power applications. Operations began in 1936 and continued until 1984, producing 42 million pounds of uranium oxide. The state of Colorado sued Union Carbide and UMETCO in 1983, seeking to recover damages from contamination created by mill operations and the mill was shut down the following year. In 1986, contamination forced the town's evacuation and most of the buildings were dismantled. The Environmental Protection Agency put Uravan on the Superfund National Priorities List in 1986, citing "contamination of the air, soil and groundwater" near the plant and the San Miguel River. Official cleanup of the 450-acre site began in 1987, and as of 2004 it was about ninety percent completed, according to UMETCO Minerals.
During its peak, the Union Carbide employed about 250 people. Union Carbide became a subsidiary of Midland, Mich.-based Dow Chemical Co. in 2001. On January 23, 2004 a suit was filed in a U.S. District Court in Denver suing Union Carbide and its wholly owned subsidiary UMETCO Minerals Corp. for causing the deaths of four people and illness among more than 70 others from radiation exposure.
This collection consists of mining company operation records regarding the mining and processing of uranium, vanadium, tungsten, and other base metals in Colorado and Utah, and elsewhere in the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States.
The Union Carbide Company amassed these records as it bought up a number of smaller companies over the years. Union Carbide subsidiaries included U.S. Vanadium Corporation (possibly Union Carbide's first entry into mining, in the late 1910s or early 1920s), Metals Reserve Corporation (possibly a bogus company set up to confuse the German government during World War II), Trace Elements Corporation, Foote Minerals, Union Carbide Nuclear, UMETCO Minerals, and companies in Australia, South Africa, and other locations outside the United States.
Georgia Southern University Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections P.O. Box 8074 Statesboro GA 30460 Herty, Charles Holmes, 1867–1938 1900–1979 1 box Herty was an eminent chemist and inventor in the field of timber and naval stores products and newsprint. The collection contains notebooks, photographs, and published material concerning Dr. Herty's 1901 experiments that resulted in the turpentine (or Herty) cup, partly conducted on what later became the Georgia Southern campus. Includes typescript of "Charles Holmes Herty in Statesboro," by Maxwell Taylor Courson.
Iowa State University Library Special Collections and Archives 403 Parks Library Iowa City, IA 52242-1420 Kellogg, Leonard 1925–1980 4.2 linear feet L.F. Kellogg received degrees from Yale University and Ohio State University and was a professor of forestry at Iowa State University from 1929 until approximately 1970. He worked with the USDA and the Extension Service, and authored numerous Extension Service reports. He was an avid photographer, both professionally and personally. Kellogg was active in the Society of American Foresters. This collection contains official, personal, and professional correspondence, course notes and syllabi, notes from faculty meetings, conference programs; Society of American Foresters correspondence and publications, and various research files on forestry. The research files contain information on flood control, erosion prevention, lumber grading, disease prevention, and characteristics of tree species. There is also research on regions in the U.S., such as the Ohio River Basin, the Tennessee River Basin, the Platte River, and materials on Iowa forestry, sawmills, national and state parks, and forests.
University of Montana Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library K. Ross Toole Archives Missoula, MT 59812 Gordon, Clarence, 1928–1981 1932–1982 101 linear feet Clarence C. Gordon was born in Seattle, Washington on July 26, 1928. After graduation from public high school he spent the next four years as a commercial fisherman in Alaska, and then was drafted for a brief stint in the Korean War. Upon release from military service, Gordon returned to commercial fishing until he met his future wife, Nancy Ward, while taking vocational training in seamanship. Deciding that commercial fishing would not be a favorable career for a married man with a family, Gordon enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle.
He majored in Mycology, the study of fungus, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in 1956. Gordon was accepted for gradate study at Washington State University in Pullman, where he received a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology in 1960. He joined the faculty at the University of Montana-Missoula in the fall of 1960 as a professor in the Department of Botany. During his time as a professor at the University, "Clancy" Gordon was heavily involved with advancing the status of Environmental Studies on campus, founding the Environmental Studies laboratory in 1963 and helping to establish the Environmental Studies Gradate Program in 1970. He served as the first director of the new gradate program from 1970–1975.
Gordon was equally active in the environmental movement outside of his capacity as a professor of Botany and Environmental Studies. Considered an expert on the effects of fluoride emissions and other air pollutants on plants, Gordon was an important witness in many legal cases and adversary hearings brought against major polluters during the 1960s and 1970s.
Clancy Gordon died at the age of 53 after a two-year battle with cancer on July 12, 1981, while still a faculty member at the University of Montana-Missoula.
The collection contains legal papers, reports, studies, publications, correspondence, clippings, raw and analyzed data, maps, photographs and slides, as well as other miscellaneous material related to research projects and environmental litigation in which Clarence C. Gordon was involved.
University of New Mexico General Library Center for Southwest Research Zimmerman Library Albuquerque, NM 87131-1466 Weinstein, Yale, 1915–2000 1939–1988 1 box (1 cubic foot) Born in 1915 in St. Paul, MN, Yale Weinstein graduated from the University of Minnesota's School of Forestry in 1934. He moved to New Mexico in 1937 to work for the New Mexico Timber Company. Following his service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during WWII, Weinstein continued to work in New Mexico. In 1958, the Duke City Lumber Company hired him as a forester. He worked at the company until 1982, retiring as the vice-president of governmental affairs and forester. He died Jan. 28, 2000.
The collection contains Weinstein's correspondence and business records. Included is some personal correspondence with Nobel-laureate Norman Borlaug, along with articles by and about Borlaug. The collection also contains documentation of lobbying efforts with Senator Pete Dominici and Congressman Bill Richardson, records of Weinstein's involvement with the Public Land Users Association, and his prominent role in the Society of American Foresters. In addition, the collection contains various records of the Duke City Lumber Company; specifically timber sales and proposed acquisitions Weinstein worked on. A fair amount of technical material and maps related to the logging industry, much of it produced by the U.S. Forest Service, is included.
University of Rhode Island. University Library Special Collections 15 Lippitt Road Kingston, RI 02881-2011 Graduate School of Oceanography 1935–1998 138.5 linear feet The University of Rhode Island's formal oceanography program began in 1936 under the leadership of Dr. Charles Fish (1899–1978). Dr. Fish, until that date identified as Assistant and Associate Professor of Zoology, assumed new duties as "Professor in charge, Department of Zoology and Director, Narragansett Marine Laboratory" (NML). Dr. Fish served as the first and only director of the NML, from 1936 to 1961. NML initially focused on biological oceanography and, due to a paucity of facilities, studies were largely confined to Narragansett Bay. Several early studies also reflected a strong commercial orientation.
In June of 1949, the NML relocated to Fort Kearney, Narragansett, Rhode Island, formerly a World War II prisoner of war camp. It was renamed the Fish Oceanographic Lab in 1960 and then established as the Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) in 1961. Dr. Fish served as Acting Dean of the GSO from 1961 to 1962. Under the direction of his successor, Dr. John B. Knauss (1962–1987), the GSO was transformed from a modest research facility into an international institution renowned for the breadth of its marine programs. The programs expanded to include all aspects of oceanography and facilities were established so that faculty and students could address open-ocean problems. The first of the GSO's ocean-going research ships, Trident, arrived in 1962. The GSO was the first to establish degree programs in ocean engineering (1965), marine resource economics and marine affairs (both 1969), and a two-year program to train commercial fishermen (1967). With the assistance of Senator Claiborne Pell, the GSO achieved Sea Grant College status in 1971. In 1989, the school was renamed the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Center of Excellence.
From 1987 to 1992 Robert A. Duce served as Dean of GSO, guiding the establishment of the Coastal Institute on Narragansett Bay and establishing global environmental issues, as well as local issues on Narragansett Bay, and coastal management ecosystems as research priorities.
Margaret Leinen succeeded Dr. Duce in 1992, and served as Dean until 2000. As Dean she became one of the few women in the United States to head an Oceanographic Institution and the first to head a Joint Oceanographic Institution, a consortium of ten of the country's leading marine academic and research institutions. Among the highlights of her tenure were the GSO's first capital campaign and the establishment of the Ocean Technology Center.
These records document the administrative, personnel, programmatic, and physical evolution of the GSO from the 1950's to the 1990's. Few documents from earlier decades are extant.
Washington State Archives Office of the Secretary of State 12th and Washington Streets Olympia, WA 98504 Governor Daniel J. Evans 1965–1977 771 cubic feet Daniel Jackson Evans was born in Seattle on October 16, 1925. After serving in the Navy, Evans attended the University of Washington where he earned a Master's Degree in civil engineering in 1949. After graduating from college, Evans was a member of the structural design team for the City of Seattle. His engineering career was interrupted in 1951 when the Navy recalled him to active service during the Korean War. When Evans returned home in 1953, he became assistant manager of the Mountain-Pacific Chapter of the Associated General Contractors, a position he held until 1959.
Evans took an active interest in politics, serving as a delegate to the King County Republican convention from 1948 on. In 1956 he was persuaded to run for the State House of Representatives, representing the 43rd District. He won by a large majority and was reelected three times by large pluralities. The Republicans chose Evans to run against incumbent Governor Rosellini in 1964. Evans won. He took office in January 1965, the youngest man ever to be elected governor of Washington, at the age of 39. Under his administration, legislation included model air and water pollution control laws, the creation of a new state Planning and Community Affairs Agency, and a recreational program preserving ocean beaches and establishing scenic highways.
A continuing theme of Evans' years was his effort to enhance Washington's economic base. Fishing, agriculture and forestry were the most obvious areas to be strengthened, but also important was foreign trade. Evans offered his personal support to the Washington State International Trade Fair, Inc., a private corporation formed in 1951 to promote trade with Japan. In 1965, Washington participated for the first time in the Tokyo International Trade Fair.
Evans was elected to a second term in 1968 and a third term in 1972. In the 1972 election bond issues for waste disposal facilities, water supply facilities, public recreation facilities, social and health facilities, and community colleges all passed. In 1976,
The collection contains administrative records of the Evans administration, including files on state agency and institution activities, legislation files, wartime issue and program files, campaign files, and records of appointments, elections, pardons, extraditions, and judicial matters.
Washington State Archives Office of the Secretary of State 12th and Washington Streets Olympia, WA 98504 Oceanographic Commission of Washington 1967–1981 50 cubic feet The Oceanographic Commission of Washington (1967–1981) came into being during a period of growing interest in ocean exploration; its demise came in an era of state policy changes and economic problems. The Commission received its impetus from the efforts of the Puget Sound Oceanographic Action (or Study) Committee headed by State Senator Wes Ulman. The study committee sought a means by which to coordinate local skills, experiences, and initiative to establish the Puget Sound as a national oceanographic center. It published "A Proposal for a Washington State Commission for Oceanography (1965)." This report recommended the creation of a unique organization which could blend the talents of the public and private sectors. The Oceanographic Commission of Washington (hereafter also referred to as the OCW) and its private, non-profit "action arm," the Oceanographic Institute of Washington (hereafter also referred to as the OIW) were created in 1967.
John Haydon, a Seattle Port Commissioner and marine publisher who had chaired the Puget Sound Oceanographic Action Committee, became the Commission's first chairman. Jon Lindbergh, son of aviator Charles Lindbergh, a commercial diver and manager of the Seattle-based Oceans Industries Inc., became vice-chairman.
The OCW's legislative mandate was to encourage, assist, develop, and maintain a coordinated oceanography program. Its specific duties entailed: promoting the growth of private oceanographic educational programs, undertaking projects to keep Washington citizens informed, and assistance in creating studies pertaining to waterfront development, pollution control, oil and hazardous substance transportation, ocean resource development, and public usage of parks and recreational areas.
The Commission's daily operations ceased on June 30, 1981. The collection consists of: meeting minutes, agendas, notices, resolutions, legislation, studies, reports, plans, specifications, surveys, incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, newsletters, news releases, brochures, pamphlets, publications, photographs, product samples, budgetary data, membership mailings and guest lists, impact statements, speeches and addresses, graphs, charts, and articles of organization.

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