Collection

Texas A&M University, Dean of Agriculture Correspondence

• 1959-1971 (Creation)

3.00 Boxes

This collection consists of the white, extra copies of the correspondence of the Dean of Agriculture. Most of the correspondence dates from 1960-1968. It should be noted that there is some overlap with material for the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station. This is due to the fact that both R. E. Patterson and H. O. Kunkel who were Deans of Agriculture during this time span also served as Directors of the Experiment Station simultaneously.

The papers from 1959 are from the tenure of Dr. R. E. Patterson as Vice Chancellor for Agriculture. In 1960 he was appointed Dean of Agriculture and simply continued this white copy file until his resignation and departure in August of 1967. Dr. H. O. Kunkel, upon his assumption of duty as the Dean of Agriculture, chose to continue to add to the files of his predecessor rather than creating his own. These files cover virtually the entire time span in which the Dean of Agriculture and Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station were posts held concurrently by the same individual (1960-1972).

These records contain the additional copies of the Correspondence of Dr. R. E. Patterson and Dr. H. O. Kunkel during their successive tenure as Deans of Agriculture between 1959 and 1971. The material is grouped alphabetically within boxes. The first box has the material between 1959 and 1964, the second those letters from 1965-1970, and the third the records for 1971.

Open to Researchers.

From 1977-1980, the University Archivist, Dr. Charles Schultz, made a concentrated effort to assemble, process, organize, and inventory the existing records of the University related to Agriculture.

Finding Aid Authors: Celeste Stover & Doyle Raymond, March 1980.

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