J. Kenneth Munford collection, 1866-2000 (bulk 1930-2000).

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J. Kenneth Munford collection, 1866-2000 (bulk 1930-2000).

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Materials relating to the Munford Family include several family photographs and an excerpt from Munford's mother's diary. Series 4 includes radio scripts and related notes, correspondence, and documentation pertaining to several radio productions on Oregon history and geography. Series 5 consists of materials pertaining to Munford's research and writing about John Ledyard and includes research notes, manuscripts, publications, correspondence, publicity, and reviews. Corvallis Gazette-Times Columns include Munford's columns on local and regional history. The Phi Kappa Phi materials include books, correspondence, a handbook, lists of chapter officers, minutes, newsletters, reports, and an unpublished manuscript on Munford's 45 years of involvement with the organization.

4 cubic ft.

Oregon State University Libraries

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Oregon State University Libraries

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Phi Kappa Phi. Oregon State Chapter

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The OSU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi was established in 1924 and was the 35th chapter to be chartered. Prior to the establishment of Phi Kappa Phi, a local honorary organization, the Forum Society, operated at OSU from 1914 to 1924. Many of the members of the Forum Society were initiated into Phi Kappa Phi when the earlier club dissolved in 1924. With its primary focus as an honorary society, the OSU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi has over the years organized a number of annual initiation ceremonies and h...

Oregon State College

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Munford, James Kenneth

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Alumnus J. Kenneth Munford was a member of the Oregon State University faculty from 1939 until his retirement in 1977, with breaks for military service and further education. He graduated from Oregon State College in 1934 with a degree in education and subsequently served as principal at public schools in Corvallis and Newburg, Oregon. Munford married Helen Marjorie "Marge" Vannice in 1939. In 1939, Munford became an English instructor at Oregon State College, a position he held until leaving fo...

Petri, Lillian Jeffreys

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Oregon State university

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Phi Kappa Phi

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Phi Kappa Phi was "established to provide an honor society dedicated to the Unity and Democracy of Education, and open to honor students from all departments of American universities and colleges. Its prime object is to emphasize scholarship and character in the thought of college students, to foster the significant purposes for which institutions of higher learning have been founded, and to stimulate mental achievement by recognition through election to membership." Marcus I. Urann, a student i...

Munford, Helen Marjorie Vannice

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Corvallis College

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Corvallis College, the predecessor institution to Oregon State University, was incorporated in 1858 as a coeducational institution of primary and preparatory education. Plagued by financial instability, the College changed hands several times and added college-level coursework in the 1860s. In 1868, Corvallis College was designated and adopted as the agricultural college of the State of Oregon by the Oregon Legislative Assembly and given land grant status. The December 31, 1859 issue (number 48)...

Ledyard, John, 1751-1789

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