Stanford University fiftieth anniversary celebration collection, 1940-1941.

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Stanford University fiftieth anniversary celebration collection, 1940-1941.

Minutes, budget, correspondence, addresses, programs and related papers of the various university committees and individuals involved in the 50th anniversary of the opening of Stanford University (1891).

7 linear feet.

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Stanford university

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

Davis, Paul H., 1946-

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Davis earned his B.S. in electrical engineering at Stanford in 1922 and his engineer?s degree in 1923. His career included manager of the Pernambuco Light and Power Company in Recife, Brazil and manager of the Emergency Relief Administration in San Francisco before he returned to Stanford in 1936, where he was General Secretary and Director of the Stanford Associates. In 1946 he became General Secretary of Columbia University and three years later, Vice President. From the descriptio...

Gunst, Morgan A. (Morgan Arthur)

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Morgan Gunst was a collector of fine bindings. He chaired the Modern Fine Bindings Committee of the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1938. His collection of bindings came to Special Collections, and is now part of the Gunst Collection. From the description of Fine bindings : photographs, ca. 1938-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122585335 ...

Tresidder, Donald Bertrand, 1894-1948

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A Stanford graduate (A.B. 1919, M.D. 1927), Donald Tresidder was President of the Curry Company of Yosemite Park (1925-1948), a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees and its President (1939-1942), and fourth President of Stanford University (1943-1948). From the description of Donald Bertrand Tresidder, president of Stanford University, records, 1942-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 696107642 Donald B. Tresidder, President of Stanford University from 1943 to 1948, was...

Fosdick, Raymond B. (Raymond Blaine), 1883-1972

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Raymond B. Fosdick was an attorney, undersecretary-general of the League of Nations (1919-1920); Trustee of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1921-1936) and The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (1921-1928); trustee (1923-1938) and president (1936-1938) of the International Education Board; trustee (1922-1948), president (1936-1948), and chairman (1932-1936) of The General Education Board; and trustee (1921-1948) and president (1936-1948) of the Rockefeller Foundation. ...

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.

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Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893

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Lawyer born in Albany, New York but moved to California where he became active in the Republican Party, running for governor and losing in 1860. Later president of the Union Pacific Railroad and founder of Stanford University. From the description of Letter, March 14, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55662301 Leland Stanford was born March 9, 1824 in Waltervliet Township, New York. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1848 and married Ja...

Reynolds, Jackson E. (Jackson Eli), 1873-1958

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Lawyer, banker. From the description of Reminiscences of Jackson E. Reynolds : oral history, 1949. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735935 ...