These materials were generated by Roy A.
Young as a faculty member and administrator at Oregon State University
(1948-1976 and 1986-1990), the University of Nebraska (1976-1980), and Cornell
University (1980-1986).
Funding for encoding this
finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for
the Humanities.
Biographical Note
Young served as a faculty member and administrator at Oregon State
University (1948-1976 and 1986-1990), the University of Nebraska (1976-1980),
and Cornell University (1980-1986).
Roy Alton Young was born 1 March 1921 in McAlister, New Mexico. He
obtained an Associate of Arts degree from Eastern New Mexico Junior College in
1939, a B.S. in Biology from New Mexico State University in 1941, and an M.S.
in Plant Pathology from Iowa State University in 1942. Following military
service in the U.S. Navy (1943-1946), he returned to Iowa State University and
completed requirements for the Ph.D. in Plant Pathology in 1948.
Young came to Oregon State University in 1948 as an Assistant Professor
of Plant Pathology. He taught graduate courses on bacterial diseases of plants
and plant disease control. Principal research efforts were on diseases of
ornamentals and potatoes with emphasis on soil borne diseases and on fungicide
research. He served as Head of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
from 1958 until 1966, when he was appointed Dean of Research with campus-wide
responsibility for research coordination.
Young served as Acting President of Oregon State University from June
1969 until July 1970 and subsequently as the Vice President for Research and
Graduate Studies from 1970 to 1976. In 1976, he accepted appointment as
Chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and then in 1980 as
Managing Director/President of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
at Cornell University. He retired in 1986 and returned to OSU, where he served
as part-time Director of the Office for Natural Resources Policy until
1990.
Young was active in the American Phytopathological Society and serves on
several national councils, advisory panels, and the boards of directors of
several private and public organizations. He married Marilyn Sandman in 1950
and they have 2 children, Janet E. and Randall Owen.
Content Description
Includes personal files created by Young in his capacity as a faculty
member and administrator at OSU, and as an administrator at the University of
Nebraska and Cornell University. Contains correspondence files, research
project files, reports, reference files, professional organizations files,
publications, clippings, and photographs.
Use of the Collection
Preferred Citation :
Roy A. Young Papers, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis,
Oregon.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
Organized into 9 series: 1. Dept. of Botany & Plant Pathology; 2.
Dean of Research; 3. Acting President; 4. Vice President for Research &
Graduate Studies; 5. Chancellor, University of Nebraska; 6. Professional
Organizations & Activities; 7. Publications; 8. Talks and Trip Summaries;
9. Photographs. Each series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Custodial History :
Papers were donated by Roy A. Young in August 1990.
Related Materials :
University records pertaining to Young's administrative positions at OSU
can be found in the Botany & Plant Pathology Department Records (RG 54);
Vice Provost for Research & International Programs Records (RG 170); and
the President's Office Records (RG 13). The Research Office Records (RG 170)
contain materials of the Governor's Science Council from the years that Young
was a member.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series I: Department of Botany and Plant
Pathology Files, 1952-1968
Container(s)
Description
Departmental
administration
Agricultural Experiment
Station
Box
1
Summary of research
activities for the Legislative Interim Committee on Agriculture, 1960
1
Review by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, 1958
Box
1
Cordley Hall
construction, 1966-1968
1
Departmental chair
selection, 1966
1
Departmental
scholarship, undated
1
Faculty
salaries, 1956 and 1959
Faculty Senate
Box
1
Organization, committees,
bylaws, and minutes, 1953-1964
1
Ad Hoc Committee on
Reorganization of the Faculty Senate, 1963
Graduate students
Box
1
Committee to Study
Employment Practices and Stipends, 1952-1957
1
School of Science
Graduate Committee - tax withholding, 1960-1961
Research funding
Box
1
Carbide and Carbon
Chemicals Company,
" The Evaluation of the
Fungicidal and Nematicidal Activity of New Chemicals and their Effectiveness in
Disease Control" , 1954-1958
1
Mathieson Chemical
Corporation, 1953-1957
1
Merck & Co.,
Inc., 1954-1956
1
Monsanto Chemical
Company, 1953-1958
1
Mountain Copper
Company, 1954
National Institutes of
Health
Box
1
" Acquisition of
Laboratory Bench Facilities" , 1961-1962
1
" Fungitoxic Residues in
Soil, Water and Plants" , 1961-1964
1
Research Career
Program Development Awards, 1963
1
Naugatuck Chemical
Division, U.S. Rubber Company, 1953-1955
1
Chas. Pfizer and Company,
Inc., 1955-1958
1
Stauffer Foundation,
" The Effects of Vapam on the
Soil Microflora in Relation to Control of Vicillium-Induced
Diseases" , 1956-1958
1
United Fruit
Company, 1957-1963
1
United States Army
Biological Laboratories,
" Epidemiology of Wheat
Stripe Rust" , 1964
Box
1
Research inquiries and
articles, potato diseases, 1954-1961
1
Miscellaneous research
inquiries, 1952-1958
National Science Foundation
Science Development Program
Box
1
Proposal
development, 1964-1968
1
" The Science Development
Program of Oregon State University" , proposal submitted to the National
Science Foundation (continued in series II.), January 1965
1
OSU's School of Science,
" Oregon
Stater" , November 1962
" Warm Water Irrigation
Proposal" , submitted to the Oregon State Nuclear Energy Coordinating
Committee by the State of Washington Nuclear Energy Coordinator's
Office, January 1969
2
Memos, minutes and
correspondence, January-February 1969
2
Western Regional Project on
Root Diseases, background information, 1969
Series IV: Vice President for Research and
Graduate Studies Files, 1969-1980
Container(s)
Description
Boyce Thompson
Institute
Box
2
Efforts to relocate
Institute at OSU, 1973
2
Historical
information, 1975-1980
Committees
Box
2
Environmental Science and
Technology Advisory Committee, 1969-1972
OSU Foundation Planning
Committee
Box
2
Organization, December 1973-January 1974
2
Cultural and
conference center background material, 1974-1976
Energy Resources Research
Committee
Box
2
Energy Resources
Institute proposal, 1972-1974
2
Energy research at
OSU, 1973-1974
2
Office of Energy
Research and Development, 1974
Conference on Magnitude and
Deployment Schedule ofEnergy Resources (co-sponsored by the OSU Office of
Energy Research and Development, July 21-23, 1975
Box
2
Correspondence, news
releases, speech notes, planning notes, July 1975
2
Proceedings, September 1975
Dedications
Box
2
Nash Hall, April 27, 1974
2
Peavy Hall, Fall 1971
Box
2
DDT testimony by Dr. Norman
E. Borlaug, October 1971
3
Energy articles, 1975-1978
Environmental Protection
Agency
Box
3
Corvallis Environmental
Research Lab - water lab, 1970-1971
3
Graduate training
programs, 1972
3
Long Range Development Plan,
1972 revision of 1964 plan, 1972
MacVicar, Robert
W.
Box
3
Fred Shideler's file -
clippings, news releases, memo, statements pertaining to MacVicar's early
tenure as OSU president, 1970-1971
3
Young's evaluation of
MacVicar, 1976; Young's evaluation of his own office, 1976
National Science
Foundation
Box
3
" NSF Research Funding Policy
in Chemistry and its Consequences for Oregon State University and the
Nation" , November 1972
3
" The Economic Impact of
Oregon's 'Bottle Bill'" , study supported by NSF Institutional Grant for
Science, GU3662, March 1974
3
NSF Research Management
Improvement Grant RMI73-08348, correspondence, July 1975; and final
report, December 1975
3
Oceanography, School of -
draft of letter changing status from department to school, April 29, 1972
3
Office of Technology
Assessment, October 1972
3
OSSHE - report to Vice
Chancellor Miles C. Romney regarding state supported faculty
research, December 1972
3
Pacific Rim Center (Portland
State University), 1972-1973
3
Research associate
salaries, March 1976
Research at OSU
Box
3
General
Information, 1969-1976
3
Purchasing
comparisons, July 1974
3
Reviews of OSU research
management, July-August 1974
Resignation
Box
3
Correspondence, April-May 1976
3
Farewell
party, April 1976
3
Clippings, February-April 1976
3
Resource for the Future
correspondence, May 1976
3
Rockefeller Foundation grant,
" Man and His Activities as They
Relate to Environmental Quality" , 1969-1976
3
Sea Grant Program, draft of
article for
" Coast Lines" , April 1976
3
U.S. Department of
Transportation,
" Urban Transportation
Institutional Grant Research and Training Proposal" , submitted by
OSU, November 1970
Series VI: Professional Organizations and
Activities Files, 1943-1989
Container(s)
Description
American Association for the
Advancement of Science, general activities
Box
3
1963-1971
3
1972-1980
American Institute of
Biological Sciences
Box
3
Meeting at OSU, August
26-31, 1962
3
2nd National Biological
Congress, Miami Beach, Florida, 1972
3
Correspondence and
memos, 1971-1973
American Phytopathological
Society
Box
3
Constitution and list of
members, 1913, 1917
General
correspondence, 1956-1974
Box
3
Annual meeting
programs, 1966, 1967, 1974
3
60th
anniversary, 1968
Pacific
Division
Box
3
Constitution, 1953
3
List of
officers, 1914-1957
3
Annual
meetings, 1956-1976
3
Survey of plant pathology
at universities (OSU response), 1966
International Congresses
of Plant Pathology
Box
3
Grant proposals
submitted to National Science Foundation requesting travel funds to attend
Congresses (London, England, 1968; Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1973; Munich,
Germany, 1978), 1967, 1972, and 1977
3
Correspondence and
memos re: planning of Second Congress (Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1973),
1970-1973; and Third Congress (Munich, Germany, 1978), 1976-1977
3
IX International
Congress of Plant Protection planning correspondence, 1977-1978
Committees
Box
3
Awards and Honors
Committee, 1975-1976
Endowment Fund
Special Committee
Box
3
1984-1985
3
Including
proposal for organization of an endowment fund, 1986
3
Endowment fund
creation, 1987
3
Endowment Fund
Standing Committee, 1988-1989
Box
3
Commission on Undergraduate
Education in the Biological Sciences, correspondence, memos, reports, speech
texts, meeting programs, 1964-1972
3
International Biological
Program Evaluation Committee, 1973-1976
" Man and the Biosphere"
program, correspondence, reports, meeting programs, membership
lists
Box
3
1971-1975
3
1976-1982
National Academy of
Sciences
Box
3
Committee on Educational
Policy in Agriculture, review of Purdue University agriculture
school, 1964
Committee on Plant and
Animal Pests, Subcommittee on Plant Pathogens
Box
4
Book manuscript
development, 1964-1968
4
Book manuscript,
" Plant-Disease
Development and Control" , 1968
4
Environmental Studies
Board Executive Committee, Study on Problems of Pest Control: A Technology
Assessment, 1972-1974
National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
Council for Research and
Policy Administration
Box
4
First and second
annual meetings, 1966-1967
4
Annual
meeting, 1969
4
Annual
meeting, 1970
4
Annual
meeting, 1971
4
Annual
meeting, 1977
Committee on the
Environment and Energy
Box
4
1974
4
1975
4
1976
4
1977
4
1978
4
1979
4
1980
4
1981
4
1982-1983
4
1984-1985
4
Proposal to the EPA,
" Long-Range Research:
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Nation's Universities and
Colleges" , October 1984
4
" Science, Universities,
and the Environment" symposium, 1987
Box
4
Ad Hoc Committee on
Environmental Research Centers, 1972-1974
4
Joint Committee on Marine
Resources (NASULGC-Sea Grant Association), 1975-1978
4
National Council of
University Research Administrators, 1967
4
National Governor's Council
on Science and Technology, 1970-1972
National Science
Foundation
Box
4
1961 Summer Institutes
Advisory Panel, 1960-1961
4
Advisory Committee 0n
Research Applications Policy, 1977-1980
4
Advisory Committee for
Applied Science & Research Applications Policy, 1977-1979
4
Advisory Committee for
Engineering and Applied Science, 1978-1980
Pacific Coast Research
Conferences on Control of Soil Fungi
Box
4
Correspondence re:
planning of first and second conferences, 1953-1954
4
Proceedings, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965
5
Phi Kappa Phi, Oregon State
chapter, proceedings of the fifth (1943) and sixth (1944) Biology
Colloquium
5
Rockefeller Foundation
Fellowships in Environmental Affairs Advisory Panel, 1977-1978
5
Sea Grant Review
Panel, 1977-1979
Society of Sigma Xi, Oregon
State University Chapter
Box
5
List of officers and
committee members, 1957-1964
5
Research Committee
reports, 1960-1961, 1964-1965
5
U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Policy Advisory Committee, 1985
