RS 2-7 Raymond Pearson

Descriptive summary

creator:	Raymond A. Pearson
title:	Papers
dates:	1892-1983
extent:	8.82 linear ft. (7 document boxes)
collection number:	RS 02/07
repository:	University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Administrative information

access:	Open for research
publication rights:	Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation:	Raymond A. Pearson Papers, RS 02/07, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Biographical note

Raymond A. Pearson was a Cornell University graduate in dairy industry, did government and commercial dairy laboratory work, and in 1903 returned to Cornell to organize a department of dairy industry.

He headed the New York Department of Agriculture for four years prior to his appointment as president of Iowa State College (University) (1912-1926). Pearson completed the divisional organization of undergraduate programs; strongly promoted the graduate program, which was given divisional status in 1915; broadened extension service; and gave wholehearted support to "big-time" goals in athletics. While at Iowa State College (University) he served as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture during the war emergency period of 1917-18.

Campus construction during his administration surpassed that of any other era prior to the post-World War II boom; 14 academic buildings in service during the 1970s were constructed during Pearson's term.

He resigned to become president of the University of Maryland (1926-1935).

Collection Description

This collection contains biographical information, correspondence, addresses and speeches, newspaper clippings, family and professional photographs, reports, and printed materials. Of particular interest is Pearson’s communications with the State Board of Education as well as its Buildings and Business Committee.

A number of blueprints submitted to the Buildings and Business Committee (State Board of Education) have been removed for conservation work.

Organization

This collection is unarranged.

Container List

Box	Folder	Title	Dates
1	1	Biographical information	1912-1968
1	2	Obituaries, testimonials, letters of condolence	1939
1	3	Agreements	1915-1920
1	4	Correspondence with the Board of Education	1913, 1926
1	5	Correspondence	1913-1926
1	6	Committee on Education and Special Training	1918
1	7	Correspondence	1917-1918
1	8	Clippings	1917-1918
1	9	Itinerary and map	1917
1	10	Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities correspondence and resolution	1933-1937
1	11	MCKinley inauguration	1901
1	12	Final Report by Dr. Pearson and responses	19126
1	13	Addresses	n.d.
1	14	Addresses and speeches	1907-1911
1	15	Addresses and speeches	1913-1917
2	1	Photographs (7)	1889-1900
2	2	Photographs (12)	1905-1910
2	3	Photographs (13)	1912-1917
2	4	Photographs (10)	1919-1929
2	5	Correspondence with Mrs. Pearson in regards to Ross’ “History of Iowa State”	1953-1958
2	6	State Board of Education meeting	1922
2	7	State Board of Education meeting	1919
2	8	State Board of Education reports (mostly relating to the State Teachers’ College)	1922
2	9	State Board of Education ISC capital improvements	1925-1926
3	1	Clippings-letters and speeches	1918-1925
3	2	Addresses and speeches	1918-1925
3	3	Addresses and clippings	1926-1938
3	4	“An Answer to Criticisms”	Ca. 1915
3	5	Memorandum	1913-1925
3	6	Lake LaVerne-O.C. Simond’s report	1919
3	7	Clippings-demands for resignation	1922
3	8	Court proceedings and depositions in regards to land use near Lake LaVerne/Ash Avenue	1923-1925
3	9	Clippings-resignation	1926
3	10	Correspondence	1913-1921
3	11	“Statement regarding recommendations for Appropriations for ISC”	1921
3	12	President’s Office personnel-Clarence Pickard	1973, 1983
4	1-2	President’s Office personnel-Franklin Reck	1924-1967
4	3	President’s Office personnel-Carl H. Scheman	1917-1975
4	4	President’s Office personnel-John McKee	1922-1932
4	5	State Board of Education correspondence	1924-1925
4	6	State Board of Education correspondence	1922
4	7	Correspondence with Carrie Chapman Catt (photocopies)	1927
4	8	State Board of Education	1925-1926
4	9	Capital improvements	1924
4	10	Correspondence relating to students	1924-1926
4	11-12	Buildings and Business Committee	1924-1927
4	13	State Board of Education budget	1923
5	1	Correspondence, memoranda, and minutes	1922-1927
5	2	State Board of Education correspondence	1922
5	3	State Board of Education authorizations	1925
5	4	State Board of Education Buildings and Business Committee	1926
5	5	State Board of Education agendas and correspondence	1925-1926
5	6	State Board of Education agendas and minutes	1924
5	7	State Board of Education minutes	1924-1925
5	8	State Board of Education budgets, correspondence, and minutes (Acting President: Herman Knapp)	1926
5	9	State Board of Education budgets, correspondence, and minutes (Acting President: Herman Knapp)	1927
5	10	State Board of Education budgets, correspondence, and minutes	1923-1924
5	11	State Board of Education budgets, correspondence, and minutes	1923-1926
6	1-7	State Board of Education meetings	1921-1926
7		Diplomas and certificates	1905-1938
7		Scrapbook	Ca. 1905-1938
	OVR	Cornell University Diplomas, degrees, honors, certificates
		First Lieutenant	1892
		Captain	1893
		B.S. in Agriculture	1894
	OVR	Masons-Binghamton	1910
	OVR	National Grant Degrees of Ceres and Flora	1908; 1911
	OVR	University of Nebraska Doctor of Agriculture honorary degree	1917
	OVR	Sigma Xi Membership	1894
	OVR	State Historical Society of Iowa	1912
	OVR	U.S.D.A. letters of introduction	1912; 1926
	OVR	Resolutions honoring Pearson’s retirement	1935