Raymond M. Hughes Papers, Finding Aid

RS 2/8

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY Special Collections Department 403 Parks Library Ames, IA 50011-2140 515 294-6672 http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/index.html

RS 2/8 Raymond Mollyneaux Hughes (1873-1958) Papers, 1923-1972, n.d.

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Descriptive summary creator:

Hughes, Raymond M. (1873-1958)

title:

Papers

dates:

1923-1972, n.d.

extent:

7.56 linear ft. (6 document boxes)

collection number:

RS 2/8

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 M. Hughes Papers, RS 2/8, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

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Biographical note Raymond Mollyneaux Hughes (1873-1958) was born in Atlantic, Iowa, but grew up in southwestern Ohio. He graduated from his father’s alma mater, Miami (Ohio) University (1893) in Oxford and received a master’s degree in chemistry from Ohio State University (1897). After further studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he returned to Miami as a professor of physics and chemistry (1898-1904). He became Dean of the College of Liberal Arts (1908-1911) and was named President of Miami University (1911-1927). He was appointed to the presidency of Iowa State College (University) in 1927 and served till his retirement in 1936. Dr. Hughes received honorary doctorate degrees from Miami University (1927), Coe Collage (1928) and Iowa State (1936). After his retirement, he still taught and conducted research in Ames, and was also active in national organizations. During his time at Iowa State, Dr. Hughes guided the college through the difficult Depression years, he brought Iowa State into a more harmonious relationship with sister institutions in the state system; promoted the enrichment of technical curricula; broadened research to focus on problems involving interdivisional efforts; established several research and service supporting agencies, most notably the Statistical Laboratory; and instituted the development of placement and student counseling services. Dr. Hughes married Ella Rogers in 1908, and after her death in 1933, he married Helen Richardson Isardi in 1938. Collection Description This collection contains biographical information, Hughes family history, correspondence, minutes, financial records, addresses and speeches, press releases, reports to the Iowa State Board of Education, information relating to students and other activities at Iowa State College (University), and Dr. Hughes’ survey of U.S. universities and the number of doctorates produced in the early 1930s.

Organization This collection is unarranged.

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Container List Box

Folder

Title

Dates

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Biographical information

1927-1967

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Obituaries and memorials

1958-1959

1

3

Administrative Board minutes

1930-1933

1

4

Appointment

1927

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5

Resignation

1936

1

6

Financial records

1932

1

7

Articles and papers

1928-1938

1

8

Board of Deans

1927-1928

1

9

U.K. Meat Processing Team visit photographs and negatives

1950

1

10

College visits

1910-1913

1

11

Correspondence

1928-1936

1

12

Agricultural research

1947

1

13

Addresses-Miami University

1922-1926

1

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Addresses

1933-1935

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1

Commencement addresses

1932-1935

2

2

Addresses-ISC Staff

1927-1935

2

3

Manuscripts and notes

1932-1935

2

4

Undated manuscripts and notes

n.d.

2

5

Commencement addresses

1931-1933

2

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Commencement addresses

1934-1935

2

7

75th anniversary address

1933

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8

Address to the ISC Staff

1929

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9

A manual for Trustees

1943

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10

Press release

1949

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1

Reports

1925-1950

3

2

Reports to the State Board of Education

1928-1933

3

3

Reports to the State Board of Education

1934

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Reports to the State Board of Education

1935

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Box

Folder

Title

Dates

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Analyses of courses by enrollment

1942-1943

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Course studies

1942-1943

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ISC Graduate School Studies

1939-1942

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8

Research in American Universities

n.d.

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9

Research at ISC

1938-1946

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1

Student studies

1938-1943

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Requests for Appropriations for Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts

1929; 1931

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ISC Bulletin

1935

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A List of Colleges and Universities arranged in the order of their expenditures for 1934-1935 by R.M. Hughes

n.d.

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Correspondence

1928-1929

4

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ISC Patents

Ca. 1935

Twenty Year Development Program proposed for the College of Home Economics

1933

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Hughes family history

1933-1961

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Personnel files

1923-1972

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Correspondence-President Emeritus

1955

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Correspondence-Carnegie Corporation regarding grants for campus art programs (photocopies)

1929-1935

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Survey of U.S. universities—number of doctorates conferred

Ca. 1932

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Survey of Iowa State College (University) Faculty

Ca. 1945

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