Committee on High School Relations Records, 1931-1956
Predominant Dates: 1933-1946
The Committee on High School Relations Records document the activities to provide information to and recruit Oregon high school students for attendance at Oregon State System of Higher Education institutions. The records include correspondence, statistics, annual reports, and related materials.
ID: RG 006
Extent: 0.1 cubic feet
Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation: Committee on High School Relations Records (RG 006), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Acquisition Note:
The bulk of the records were acquired by the Archives in the mid-1960s. A volume of annual reports was transferred from the Registrar's Office in 1993.
Container List
- Series 1: General Correspondence, 1931-1946 Add to Shelf
- Series I consists of correspondence, narrative and statistical reports, and related materials documenting the activities of the High School Relations Committee. The bulk of the correspondence is with high school administrators. Lists of faculty at Oregon State System of Higher Education insitutions that that had given high school commencement addresses are included. Presentations to conferences and meetings of school administrators and high school principals are part of the series.
- UnitID: Series I
- Reel-Folder 1.1: Correspondence dealing with high school visitations, High School Contacts Committee, 1931-1946 Add to Shelf
- Reel-Folder 1.2: Records of High School Visitations, 1940-1945 Add to Shelf
- Reel-Folder 1.3: Correspondence, School Administrator's Associations and High School Principal's Association, 1940-1944 Add to Shelf
- Reel-Folder 1.4: Correspondence, requisitions, budgetary matters, 1941-1944 Add to Shelf
- Series 2: Committee on Counseling Service, 1934-1937 Add to Shelf
- Series II consists of reports on guidance conferences for high school teachers and adminstrators held throughout Oregon to provide information about academic and degree programs at OSSHE institutions and
- UnitID: Series II
- Reel-Folder 1.5 Add to Shelf
- Series 3: High School Visitations by D.V. Poling, 1934-1943 Add to Shelf
- Series III includes correspondence from high school admininistrators, reports of numbers of schools visited, and itineraries and schedules for high school visits. This series includes reports by Poling of his visits to high schools throughout the state and his critiques of the graduating seniors and calibre of senior adminstrators.
- UnitID: Series III
- Reel-Folder 1.6 Add to Shelf
- Series 4: State Scholarships, 1934-1946 Add to Shelf
- Series IV documents the application and awarding of scholarships for attendance at Oregon State System of Higher Education institutions.
- UnitID: Series IV
- Reel-Folder 1.7: Correspondence, 1934-1946 Add to Shelf
- Reel-Folder 1.8: Forms and procedures before awards, 1935-1945 Add to Shelf
- Reel-Folder 1.9: Forms and procedures after awards, 1936-1946 Add to Shelf
- Reel-Folder 1.10: Scholarship Applications to High School Relations Committee, 1934-1945 Add to Shelf
- Reel-Folder 1.11: Business Office Scholarship Lists, 1935-1937 Add to Shelf
- Reel-Folder 2.1: Business Office Scholarship Lists, 1937-1946 Add to Shelf
- Series 5: High School Conferences, 1938-1943 Add to Shelf
- Series V consists of correspondence, programs, brochures, reports, and related materials documenting regional conferences for high school seniors held throughout the state of Oregon. The purpose of the conferences were to stimulate interest in higher education among high school students and to provide the students information about academic programs at Oregon State System of Higher Education institutions.
- UnitID: Series V
- Reel-Folder 2.2: 1937-1946 Add to Shelf
- Series 6: Reports, 1933-1956 Add to Shelf
- The Reports include annual reports of the High School Relations Committee, a draft report on recommendations for high school curricula, and lists of college entrants by county. The annual reports provide detailed information on the activities of the Committee and statistics on number of visits to high schools. Several of the reports are available in both paper form and on microfilm (Feb 1934 and 1937/38 thru 1940/1941). The reports for 1934/35 and 1935/36 are only available on microfilm. The 1933 recommendation to the Chancellor proposes means to convey information to potential students through publications (the catalog) and visitations. This series also includes the Seventh Annual Report (for 1955-1956) of the Oregon State System of Higher Education High School-College Relations Committee.
- UnitID: Series VI
- Reel-Folder 2.3: Annual Reports, 1934-1941 Add to Shelf
- Reel-Folder 2.4: Recommended High School Curricula, 1939 Add to Shelf
- Reel-Folder 1.12: Tentative lists of college entrants by county, 1935-1943 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.1: Recommendation to the Chancellor, 1933 Add to Shelf
- Box-Folder 1.2: Annual Reports, 1934-1956 Add to Shelf