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Creator:
Beckett, Paul
Title:
Paul Beckett
Papers
Dates:
1938 - 1979 ( inclusive )
Quantity:
4 containers. (2.5 linear feet of shelf space.) (214 items.)
Collection Number:
Cage
559
Summary:
Correspondence, reports, drafts, etc.,
concerning teaching of and research in political science.
Repository:
Washington State University Libraries
New Holland Libraryhttp://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Languages:
Collection materials are in
English
Sponsor:
Funding for encoding this finding
aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Biographical Note
Paul Louis Beckett, Professor of Political Science at Washington State
University from 1947 to 1977, was born October 18, 1913, at Warren County,
Illinois. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1935 at Monmouth College, a
Master of Arts at the University of Illinois in 1938, and a Doctor of
Philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1949. Beckett was
employed in municipal government in Los Angeles during the early 1940s, and
also worked in a war-time administrative agency in Washington D.C. From 1945 to
1947 he was on the faculty of the University of New Mexico, and in 1947 he
began his employment with the Political Science faculty of Washington State
College.
Content Description
The papers of Paul Beckett consist of correspondence, reports, draft
writings, and enclosures concerned with research and teaching of political
science.
:
This collection is open for research use.
:
[Item Description]. Cage
559, Paul Beckett
Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
The papers have been only slightly rearranged from Beckett's original
filing system. The current arrangement has the papers in two series,
Correspondence files and Subject files. The former are in order of chronology,
while the latter are alphabetical.
:
Papers of Paul Beckett were received by the Washington State
University Libraries on two occassions. (Accession numbers UA78-08 and MS85-44.
One group of papers --UA87-08-- was incorrectly identified as university
records at the time of receipt.)
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Business
correspondence
Box/Folder
1 / 1
1938-1939
1 / 2
1940
1 / 3
1941
1 / 4
1942 Plus: Beckett's
Vita
1 / 5
1943
1 / 6
1944
1 / 7
1945
1 / 8
1946
1 / 9
1947
1 / 10
1948
1 / 11
1949
1 / 12
1950
1 / 13
1950
1 / 14
January-June,
1951
1 / 15
January-June,
1951
1 / 16
July-December,
1951
1 / 17
1952
1 / 18
January-June,
1953
1 / 19
January-June,
1953
1 / 20
July-August,
1953
1 / 21
1954
1 / 22
1954
1 / 23
January-June,
1955
1 / 24
January-June,
1955
1 / 25
July-December,
1955
1 / 26
January-June,
1956
1 / 27
July-December,
1956
1 / 28
July-December,
1956
1 / 29
January-September, 1957
1 / 30
September-December, 1957
1 / 31
January-June,
1958
1 / 32
July-December,
1958
1 / 33
July-December,
1958
1 / 34
January-May,
1959
1 / 35
January-May,
1959
1 / 36
June-December,
1959
1 / 37
June-Decemebr,
1959
1 / 38
January-June,
1960
1 / 39
January-June,
1959
1 / 40
July-December,
1960
1 / 41
January-June,
1961
1 / 42
January-June,
1961
1 / 43
July-December,
1961
1 / 44
January-August,
1962
1 / 45
September-December, 1962
1 / 46
January-June,
1963
1 / 47
January-June,
1963
1 / 48
July-December,
1963
1 / 49
January-June,
1964
Personal
correspondence
Box/Folder
1 / 50
Richard Butler, , 1963-1964
1 / 51
Wallace E. Caldwell,
, 1956-1960
1 / 52
John D. Blacken, , 1955-1959
1 / 53
Judith Carr, , 1964
1 / 54
Jawad Dajani, , 1952-1959
1 / 55
Earl Darrah, , 1959-1961
2 / 56
Jerry Davis, , 1959-1963
2 / 57
Jeanne Howe, , 1962-1965
2 / 58
William L. Jackson,
, 1968-1970
2 / 59
John Junker, , 1958-1963
2 / 60
William H. Lee, , 1956-1963
2 / 61
Timothy Manring, , 1961-1965
2 / 62
Stanley G. McClure,
, 1957-1962
2 / 63
Donna McIntrie, , 1964-1965
2 / 64
Lawrence K. Muns, , 1960-1963
2 / 65
Charles S. Oldham, , 1968
2 / 66
Howard Payne, , 1951-1953
2 / 67
Catherine Peat, , 1959-1960
2 / 68
Roger D. Reed, , 1961-1964
2 / 69
Fred Segrest, , 1961-1965
2 / 70
Ann Stuart Sheldon,
, 1962-1968
2 / 71
Thomas Franklin Stinson,
, 1963-1965
2 / 72
Celeste Sunderland,
, 1950-1959
2 / 73
Karl Van Asselt, , 1964-1966
Washington State
Students
Box/Folder
2 / 74
1948-1953
2 / 75
1954-1958
2 / 76
1958-1960
2 / 77
1960-1961
2 / 78
1962
2 / 79
1963
2 / 80
1964
2 / 80.1
July-December, 1964
2 / 81
1965
2 / 82
1966
2 / 83
1967
2 / 84
1968
2 / 85
1969
2 / 86
1970
2 / 87
1971
2 / 88
1972
2 / 89
1973
2 / 90
1974
2 / 91
1975
2 / 92
1976
2 / 93
1975-1979
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Box/Folder
2 / 94
Ad hoc Committee on Dedication of
Johnson Tower, , 1966-1967
2 / 95
American Assembly on State
Government, , 1956
2 / 96-98
American Assembly on State
Government, Regional Conference, , 1956
2 / 99-100
American Assembly Paper on
Washington, , 1956
2 / 101
American Association of
University Proffessors, WSU Chapter, , 1954-1973
American Society for Public
Administration
Box/Folder
2 / 102
Conference Reporting Committee,
, 1958
2 / 103-105
Reporting Committee
Correspondence, , 1959
Inland Empire
Chapter
Box/Folder
2 / 106
1956-1960
2 / 107
1958
2 / 108
1958
2 / 109
1965-1969
2 / 110
National Conference,
, 1959
Annals Book Review
Box/Folder
2 / 111
1956
2 / 112
1965
2 / 113
Associated Students of Washington
State University and Communist Speakers, , 1963-1964
2 / 114
Beckett as Coordinator of
Graduate Studies and Graduate Students, , 1964-1977
2 / 115-117
Beckett as Dad's Day King,
, 1959
2 / 118
Beckett Goes to Beirut,
, 1951
2 / 119
Beckett Goes to Pakistan, 1957
Plus: The Confessions of a "Biased Professor," by H. Paul
Castleberry.
2 / 120
Beckett's Training and
Experience, , 1947
2 / 121
Budget Requests, History and
Political Science, , 1951-1953
2 / 122
Bureaucracy and Democracy,
, 1952
2 / 123
Civil Service in Beverly Hills,
California, , 1940
2 / 124
College Committee On Review,
, 1955-1956
2 / 125
Committee for Redistricting
Washington State, , 1962
2 / 126
Crowell Commonwealth Series,
, 1950-1951
Department of History and
Political Science
Box/Folder
2 / 127
Enrollment, , 1947-1948
2 / 128
Newsletter, , 1956
2 / 129
Newsletter, , 1960
2 / 130
Division of Governmental Studies
and Services, , 1966-1968
2 / 131
Evaluation of Hugh Bone's
Executive Article For A model State Constitution, April, , 1968
Faculty Status
Committee
Box/Folder
2 / 132
1973-1974
2 / 133
Annual and Treasurer's Reports,
, 1969-1974
2 / 134
Senate Review
Faculty Service
Reports
Box/Folder
2 / 135
1947-1968
2 / 136
Fall
1969
From Wilderness to Enabling Act,
The Evolution of A State of Washington, by Paul Beckett. , 1968
Box/Folder
2 / 137
Chapters 1-3.
3 / 138
Chapter 4
3 / 139
Appendix
3 / 140
Galley Proof
3 / 141
Fulbright to Egypt, , 1961
Graduate Student Committees and
Examinations (Work Completed)
Box/Folder
3 / 142
1948-1970
3 / 143
1970-1977
3 / 144
Illinois Law Review, 1942-46.
Includes Two Book Reviews.
3 / 145
Institute of World Affairs,
University of Southern California, , 1954
3 / 146
J. Kimbrough Owen Memorial Fund,
, 1957
3 / 147
Judicial Review of Labor
Legislation in California, 1880-1910, , summer
1961
3 / 148-149
Legislation and Representation:
Papers and Articles, , 1938
-1939
3 / 150
Letter From Beirut," , 1952
3 / 151
Los Angeles Town Hall
Constitution, , 1943
3 / 152
Los Angeles Town Hall Municipal
and County Government, , 1945
Miscellaneous
Box/Folder
3 / 153
1949
3 / 154
1953
3 / 155
1954
3 / 156
1955
3 / 157
1956
3 / 158
1957
3 / 159
1958
Mock Political Convention,
WSU
Box/Folder
3 / 160
1956
3 / 161
1964
3 / 162
Pacific Northwest Assembly On
Federal Government and Higher Education, , 1960
3 / 163
Pacific Northwest Library
Association Project, , 1956
3 / 164
Pacific Northwest Panel On State
Government, Moscow, , 1955
3 / 165
Pacific Northwest Political
Science Association Panel on Honors Programs, , Spring,
1963
3 / 166
Pacific Northwest Political
Science Association Presidency, , 1957-1958
3 / 167
Pacific Northwest Quarterly Book
Review, , 1962-1963
3 / 168
Personnel Administration in Santa
Monica, California, , 1940
3 / 169
PHI KAPPA PHI, WSU Chapter,
President's File, , 1967-1968
3 / 170
Scholarships Committee,
, 1963-1964,
1964-1965, 1965-1966
3 / 171
PHI SIGMA ALPHA National Council,
, 1974-1978
Political Science
Box/Folder
3 / 172
440 Final Course Schedule,
, Fall 1976
3 / 173
445: Evaluation and Incentives,
n.d.
3 / 174
592: Dr. Beckett's Last
Seminar, , Spring,
1976
3 / 175
Politics, Personalities, and
Pensions, Final Report on Santa Monica Personnel Administration, , 1940
3 / 176
Prelaw, Political Science
Department, , 1961
3 / 177
Presidential Address, Eleventh
Annual Meeting Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, , 1958
3 / 178
Project on State Government,
, 1955-1961
3 / 179
Public Administration Training As
Technical Assistance: Some Further Observations Based On Experience in
Beirut
3 / 180
Public Opinion Laboratory, WSC,
, 1949-1950
3 / 181
Public Opinion Poll on Washington
State Government, , 1950
3 / 182
Quest for Quality Conference,
University of Washington, , 1962
3 / 183
Research Council Presidency,
, 1949-1950
3 / 184
Review of Khadduri and Liebesny,
Law in the Middle East, , 1956
3 / 185
Review of Labor Legislation in
California, , 1961
3 / 186
Reviews of Henry Goodnow on The
Civil Service of Pakistan, , 1965
3 / 187
Society for International
Development, Korean Research Project, , Fall
1968
3 / 188
Speeches, , 1940-1952
3 / 189
Speeches, , 1952-1971
3 / 190
Student-Faculty Questionnaires,
University of New Mexico, , 1946
3 / 191
Technical Assistance Article for
Washington State Review, , Summer
1958
3 / 192
The California Supreme Court and
Early Efforts at Labor Legislation, Chapter 12, , 1949
3 / 193
The Concept of Evolution in Peter
Kropotkin's Anarchism: A Study of Revolutionary Theory, By Paul Beckett,
, 1938
3 / 194
The Conflict Between North and
South, Talk for USC Institute of World Affairs, , December,
1958
3 / 195
The Executive as Ropedancer, Talk
at University of British Colombia, , May
1962
3 / 196
The International Law of Aerial
Navigation, , 1940
4 / 197
The Professional School and World
Affairs Regional Conference, University of Oregon, , October,
1967
4 / 198
Third Annual Institute On
International Affairs, , 1958
4 / 199
University of New Mexico,
n.d.
4 / 200
Washington Political Science
Association Executive Council, , 1959-1961
4 / 201
Washington State's Lawmakers,
Washington Political Quarterly, , 1957
4 / 202
Washington State's New Merit
System Law Manuscript, , 1962
4 / 203
Washington State University
Institute of World Affairs, , 1960
4 / 204
Water Research Center Project,
Harvey Doerkson, , 1972
4 / 205-207
Western Governmental Research
Association Second Annual Conference, , 1962
4 / 208
Western Political Quarterly,
, 1964-1965
4 / 209
Western Political Science
Association, , 1957
4 / 210
Whitman County Government,
, 1947-1948
4 / 211
Whitman County Manuscripts and
Working Papers, , 1950
4 / 212
Woodrow Wilson Award Committee,
, 1955
4 / 213
Workshop For Middle Managers
Talk, Fairchild Air Force Base, , Fall
1964
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