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Guide to the William Hugh McFarlane George Mason University history collection, 1949-1977 C0045

William Hugh McFarlane George Mason University history


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George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center

Fenwick Library, MS2FL
4400 University Dr.
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Business Number: 703-993-2220
Fax Number: 703-993-8911
speccoll@gmu.edu
URL: https://scrc.gmu.edu

Eron Ackerman

Repository
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Identification
C0045
Title
William Hugh McFarlane George Mason University history collection 1949-1977
Quantity
6.75 Linear Feet, (6 boxes)
General Physical Description note
(6 boxes)
Creator
McFarlane, William Hugh
Location
no content
Language
English .
Abstract
The collection consists of documents and original research done by Dr. McFarlane on the early history of George Mason University. The collection comprises correspondence, newsclippings, reports, meeting minutes, speeches, and audiotape interviews.

Administrative Information

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

William Hugh McFarlane George Mason University history collection, Collection C0045, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Robert Hawkes in 1998.

Processing Information

Processed by Special Collections Research Center staff. EAD markup completed in February 2009 by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty.

Biographical Information

William Hugh McFarlane, educator and administrator, had worked in higher education for nearly three decades when he retired from George Mason University in 1986. Born in Chicago, McFarlane was a pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and then, after the war, entered the University of Virginia on the G.I. Bill. Later, while completing his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, he worked as student aid director, assistant professor of humanities, and briefly, as the director in charge of fundraising for the Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1957, McFarlane accepted the position of Director of the State Council of Higher Education, in Richmond, which he held for six years. From 1964-1967 he directed the Virginia Associated Research Center where he organized and managed a university consortium administering NASA's Space Radiation Effects Laboratory at Langley Field, Virginia. Then, in 1968, McFarlane began his eighteen-year career at George Mason University where he was chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies from 1968-1979.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of documents and original research done by Dr. McFarlane on the early history of George Mason University. The collection comprises correspondence, newsclippings, reports, meeting minutes, speeches, and audiotape interviews.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged by subject.

Related Material

Special Collections and Archives also holds the George Mason University archives.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Correspondence
  • Education, Higher
  • Education, Higher -- Virginia
  • George Mason University
  • Interviews
  • Sound recordings
  • Virginia, Northern
  • Virginia, Northern -- History, Local

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • McFarlane, William Hugh
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Virginia, Northern
  • Virginia, Northern -- History, Local
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Container List

William Hugh McFarlane George Mason University history collection
1949-1977
  • Mixed Materials folder: 1 box: 1
    Research
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 2 box: 1
    Thematic Summary
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 3 box: 1
    Partial Manuscript
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 4 box: 1
    Overviews
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 5 box: 1
    Miscellaneous
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 6 box: 1
    Significant material
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 7 box: 1
    1949
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 8 box: 1
    1950
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 9 box: 1
    Important material from the 1954-46 VALC study
    1954
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 10 box: 1
    Advisory Council minutes
    1954
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 11 box: 1
    Advisory Council
    1955
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 12 box: 1
    1956 (January - June)
    1956
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 13 box: 1
    1956 (July - December)
    1956
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 14 box: 1
    1957 (January - October)
    1957
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 15 box: 1
    1957 (November - December)
    1957
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 16 box: 1
    C. Harrison Mann's political views in mid-1957)
    1957
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 17 box: 1
    1958 (January - February)
    1958
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 18 box: 1
    1958 (March - October)
    1958
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 19 box: 1
    Farr Property
    1958
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 20 box: 1
    C. Harrison Mann, Jr. biographical sketch
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 21 box: 1
    C. Harrison Mann history of GMU
    1949
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 22 box: 1
    1959
    1959
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 23 box: 1
    Miscellaneous
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 24 box: 1
    Some early 1960s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 25 box: 1
    Talks - Mr. Finley
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 26 box: 1
    1960
    1960
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 27 box: 1
    1961
    1961
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 28 box: 1
    1962
    1962
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 29 box: 1
    1963
    1963
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 30 box: 1
    1964 (may - June)
    1964
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 31 box: 1
    1964 (July - December)
    1964
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 33 box: 1
    1965(January-May)
    1965
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 33 box: 1
    1965(June-November)
    1965
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 34 box: 1
    Important news stories
    1965
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 35 box: 1
    Minutes/active reading
    1965
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 38 box: 1
    Newsclippings
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 39 box: 1
    1966
    1965
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 40 box: 1
    Summary of 1964-66 material
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 1 box: 2
    Petition to the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia on behalf of Dr. Lee Potter, Dr. Joseph Harrison, Dr.Fanny-Fern Davis, Dr.Linda Grant DePauw, Mrs. Yveline Bretschneider, Mrs. Kosara Gavrilovic, 3/9/66
    3/9/66
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 2 box: 2
    President Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. correspondence
    5/1960-5/31/1965
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 3 box: 2
    President Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. correspondence
    6/1965-8/31/1966
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 5 box: 2
    Joseph L. Vaughan correspondence
    1960
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 6 box: 2
    Joseph L. Vaughan correspondence
    1962
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 7 box: 2
    J.N.G. Finley-Joseph L.Vaughan correspondence
    1960
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 8 box: 2
    Joseph L. Vaughan correspondence
    1963
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 9 box: 2
    Joseph L. Vaughan correspondence
    1963
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 8 box: 2
    Robert H.Reid-Joseph L. Vaughan correspondence
    1963
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 11 box: 2
    Joseph L. Vaughan correspondence
    1965
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 12 box: 2
    Board of Control
    1961
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 13-14 box: 2
    Minutes/active reading
    1968
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 15 box: 2
    The Shea affair
    1967
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 16 box: 2
    Advisory Committee meeting minutes
    11/1968-8/31/1969
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 17 box: 2
    William H.McFarlane speeches
    1960s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 18 box: 2
    Criticism of Lorin A. Thompson
    1970
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 19 box: 2
    Civil Right case
    1/1971-4/30/1971
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 20 box: 2
    Civil Right case
    5/1971-7/31/1971
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 21 box: 2
    Civil Right case
    8/1971-3/31/1972
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 22-23 box: 2
    Civil Right Commission charges on racial discrimination
    1971
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 24 box: 2
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    5/1972-11/30/1972
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 25 box: 2
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1973
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 26 box: 2
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1974
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 27 box: 2
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1975
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 28 box: 2
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1976
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 29 box: 2
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1977
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 30 box: 2
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1978
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 31 box: 2
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1979
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 1 box: 3
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1980
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 2 box: 3
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1981
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 3 box: 3
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1983
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 4 box: 3
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1984
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 5 box: 3
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1985
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 6 box: 3
    Board of Visitors meeting minutes
    1988
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 3 box: 3
    Address of William M. Tuck, Governor (incomplete)
    1950
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 8 box: 3
    Inaugural address of John S. Battle, Governor (incomplete)
    1950
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 9 box: 3
    Higher education in Virginia - Report of the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council
    1951
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 10 box: 3
    Student aid programs in state-supported colleges
    1951
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 11 box: 3
    Address of John S. Battle, Governor
    1/9/1952
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 12 box: 3
    Address of John S. Battle, Governor
    1/13/1954
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 13 box: 3
    Inaugural address of Thomas B.Stanley
    1/20/1954
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 14 box: 3
    The cost of education in the state-supported colleges
    1955
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 15 box: 3
    The crisis in higher education in Virginia and a solution
    1955
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 16 box: 3
    Education of scientists, engineers and other specialists
    1957
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 17 box: 3
    Address of Thomas B. Stanley, Governor
    1/8/1958
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 18 box: 3
    Inaugural address of J.Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor
    1/11/1958
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 19 box: 3
    Address of J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor
    1/28/1959
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 20 box: 3
    Virginia Education Facilities Committee-report of the Committee
    1959
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 21 box: 3
    Higher education in Virginia and its cost to the taxpayer and student
    1959
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 22 box: 3
    Address of J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor
    1/13/1960
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 23 box: 3
    Virginia schools in the space age - a continued evaluation of the curriculum, teacher training, and related matters
    1961
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 24 box: 3
    A report from the State Council of Higher Education to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia made pursuant to the House Joint Resolution 74 of the 1960 General Assembly
    1962
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 25 box: 3
    Address of J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor
    1/10/1962
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 26 box: 3
    Inaugural address of Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Governor
    1/13/1962
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 27 box: 3
    Address of Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Governor
    1/15/1962
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 28 box: 3
    Address of Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Governor
    11/30/1964
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 29 box: 3
    Address of Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Governor
    1/12/1966
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 30 box: 3
    Inaugural address of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Governor
    1/15/1966
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 31 box: 3
    Address of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Governor
    1/17/1966
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 32 box: 3
    Status of women-Report of the Commission on the Status of Women
    1966
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 33 box: 3
    Mason Gazette
    1995
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 34 box: 3
    Legal releases-deed of gift
    1/15/1966
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 35 box: 3
    Biographical information-interviewees
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 36 box: 3
    Arthur Arundel interview source material
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 37 box: 3
    Ralph Baxter interview
    [1991?]
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 38 box: 3
    Leon E. Boothe interview
    6/17/1991
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 39 box: 3
    Weldon Cooper interview
    10/23/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 40 box: 3
    Dr. J. Wade Gilley interview
    1/28/1991
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 41 box: 3
    Joseph Harrison interview
    12/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 42 box: 3
    Senator Omer L. Hirst interview
    4/7/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 43 box: 3
    Patrick Larkin interview
    n.d.
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 44 box: 3
    Edgar A. Prichard interview
    n.d.
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 45 box: 3
    Edgar A. Prichard interview
    4/8/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 46 box: 3
    Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. interview
    12/10/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 47 box: 3
    Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. interview
    4/21/1988
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 48 box: 3
    Vincent Shea interview
    5/28/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 49-50 box: 3
    Lorin A. Thompson interview
    5/28/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 51-52 box: 3
    Lorin A. Thompson interview
    10/22/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 53 box: 3
    Lorin A. Thompson and John C. Wood interview
    11/12/1980
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 54 box: 3
    John C. Wood interview
    3/10/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 55 box: 3
    John C. Wood, Edgar A.Prichard, and Stacy Sherwood interview
    9/16/1989
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 56 box: 3
    Anniversary material
    9/15/1989
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 57 box: 3
    George Mason statue project
    10/20/1992
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 58 box: 3
    Cecile Bolton Finley-Painting of John Norville Gibson Finley
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 59 box: 3
    Center for Professional Development-A brief history
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 60 box: 3
    Growing pains: capital outlay needs of the Virginia state colleges and universities
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 61 box: 3
    Higher education in Virginia, 1955-65, by Lorin A. Thompson
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 62 box: 3
    Virginia's crisis in education
    5/13/1965
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 63 box: 3
    Financing Virginia's future
    1966
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 64 box: 3
    A regional university of Northern Virginia 1968-75
    11/29/1967
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 65 box: 3
    Education plan of George Mason College of the University of Virginia
    1/1968
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 66 box: 3
    Financial needs of George Mason College of the University of Virginia
    5/6/1969
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 67 box: 3
    Guidebook of organization,policies, and procedures
    1971
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 68 box: 3
    George Mason University annual report
    1972
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 69 box: 3
    Financial needs of George Mason College of the University of Virginia
    5/24/1971
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 70 box: 3
    1974-76 Budget Advisory Board tour-Governor's Advisory Board
    5/21/1973
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 71 box: 3
    The strategic plan summary-George Mason University
    1977
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 72 box: 3
    The Virginia plan for higher education: a progress report
    1977
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 73-75 box: 3
    Metropolitan universities, Vol.1 Nos.2-4
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials folder: 76 box: 3
    Diskettes of interviews with Joseph Harrison, Senator Omer Hirst, edgar F. Shannon, Elizabeth Campbel, Vincent Shea, Weldon Cooper, Lorin A. Thompson, Edgar A. Prichard, John C. Wood, Stacy Sherwood, 1964-64 GMC faculty-51/4" diskettes, Wordstar
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Interview with John C. Wood
    3/10/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Interview with Edmond & Elizabeth Campbell
    4/7/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Interview with Omer L.Hirst
    4/7/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Interview with Edgar A. Prichard
    4/8/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Interview with Lorin A. Thompson
    5/28/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Interview with Vincent Shea & Lorin A. Thompson
    5/28/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Interview with Lorin A. Thompson
    10/22/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Interview with Lorin A. Thompson
    10/23/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Interview with Weldon Cooper
    10/23/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Interview with Joseph Harrison
    10/29/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Interview with Hugo Blankenship
    11/19/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Interview with Edgar F. Shannon, Jr.
    12/10/1987
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Interview with Edgar F. Shannon, Jr.
    4/21/1988
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Interview with Joseph Harrison
    4/25/1988
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Interview with Cecile Bolton Finley
    4/28/1988
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Interview with Arthur Arundel
    11/1988
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Introduction by William H. with Joseph Harrison
    9/1989
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Interview with 1964-65 faculty: Lee H. Potter, McFarlane Interview Richard H. Pierce, Harry C. Stutts, John G. Hartley, James R. Health
    9/16/1989
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Interview with Edgar A. Prichard, John C. Wood, and Stacy Sherwood
    9/16/1989
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Interview with Lee H. Potter, Joseph Harrison
    9/17/1989
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Interview with Patricia R. Plante, President, University of Southern Maine
    7/13/1990
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Interview with John "Til" Hazel
    10/30/1990
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Interview with Edgar A. Prichard and [J. Wade Gilley?]
    1/28/1991
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Interview with Edgar A. Prichard
    [1991]
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Interview with J. Wade Gilley
    1/31/1991
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Interview with Leon Boothe
    6/17/1991
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Interview with Ralph Baxter
    6/19/1991
    Scope and Contents note
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