Crop Science Club Records, 1965-1991

Title: Crop Science Club Records, 1965-1991

Predominant Dates: 1974-1989

ID: MSS CropClub

Primary Creator: Oregon State University. Crop Science Club

Extent: 0.7 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The Crop Science Club Records document the organization's programs and activities including field trips, picnics, Dad's Weekend activities, corn sales, athletic contests with Crop Science faculty, and club meetings. The records include annual review forms, blank certificates, correspondence, financial records, flyers, meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notebooks, and photographs. The collection includes materials documenting the preparation and sale of seed identification sets assembled by the Club as an ongoing fund-raising project. These sets (also referred to as seed mounts) consisted of crop and weed seed samples and were primarily purchased by school districts in Oregon.

The Crop Science Club Newsletter for 1965, 1967, 1969 and 1976 are included with the collection. The newsletters were published annually in the spring and include a summary of Club activities, Farm Crops Department news, lists of majors and graduates, and alumni news.

The photographs consist primarily of b/w and color prints (54 total items). Four color negatives are also included. The prints include portrait images of Crop Science students, the seed identification sets, and Club activities. The negatives depict the seed identification sets. Portrait photographs (and biographical information) for the following students are included: Hassein Ghaffari, Lewis S. Key, LeRoy Lim, William Murphy, Roy Nishimoto, Lynn Robinson, John Rossneir, Leland Schweitzer, Myron Shenk, George Tiger, Theodore Wagner, and Dean Wimer.

More Extent Information: 58 photographs; 2 boxes

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: The bulk of the records were transferred to the Special Collections & Archives Research Center in 2014 by the Crop and Soil Science Department. Several issues of the Crop Science Club Newsletter, that had been received by the University Archives in 1999 and prior, were transferred to this collection in 2014.

Related Materials:

The Special Collections and Archives Research Center holdings include extensive collections documenting undergraduate and graduate programs, research, and extension activities in crop sciences at Oregon State. The Crop Science Department Records (RG 095), Crop Science Department Photographic Collection (P 134), and the Crop and Soil Science Department Videotapes (FV 134) are open for research.

Also included are the collections of several crop sciences and farm crops faculty including the: Floyd E. Bolton Papers (MSS Bolton), Te May Ching Papers (MSS Ching), Thomas W. Cook Papers (MSS CookTW), Donald David Hill Collection (MSS HillD), Gary Jolliff Papers (MSS Jolliff), Warren E. Kronstad Papers (MSS Kronstad), and the Dale Moss Papers (MSS Moss). Additional Crop Science Club Newsletters are available on microfilm in the Publications Collection (PUB 10-22u).

Preferred Citation: Crop Science Club Records (MSS CropClub), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Oregon State University. Crop Science Club

Crop science--Study and teaching (Higher)--Oregon--Corvallis.
Natural Resources
Oregon State University. Crop Science Club
Oregon State University. Department of Crop and Soil Science
Oregon State University. Department of Farm Crops
Student activities--Oregon--Corvallis.
University History

Film negatives.
Photographic prints.