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Box 48

Contains evaluation materials. Materials include agricultural policy exams, extension news and features, agriculture school policy papers, news articles, and emails/letters on Kansas farmer taxes, policies, and financial burdens.

Kansas Young Farmers and Young Farm Wives (Women)

  • US US kmk 2019-20.004
  • Collection
  • 1962-1999

This collection includes organizational records: state and national, publications, conference programs & pamphlets, and photographs from Kansas Young Farmer & Young Farm Wives (Women) from 1962-1999. The majority of the records are from 1973-1995. Please note that in 1987/1988 the organization changed its name to Kansas Young Farmers & Young Farm Women. Within the records, the larger joint organization is often referred to as KYFW. The larger organization is often broken into its parts for meetings and organizing events, those are Kansas Young Farmers (KYF) and Kansas Young Farm Wives/Women (KYW).
KYFW was an organization created by the Kansas State Board of Vocational Agriculture to promote vocational agricultural education past high school and was administered through Kansas State University. The organization was formed in 1960, with its first articles of incorporation being filed on 5/24/1962 The organize and its members are closely tied to their younger counterpart, Future Farmers of America (FFA) often sharing the same administrators and being involved in FFA events either via sponsorship or as program presenters. KYFW placed heavy emphasis on continuing education within the agriculture field. Encouraging its members to actively share and develop new techniques and technology. They also valued strong leadership skills, asking their members to not only be actively involved in the organization, at the leadership level but also within their community.
Series 1: Conferences/Conventions (1968-1977, undated)
a. National Young Farmer Institute: 1968-1990, 1944, 1997
b. Kansas
    Registration: undated
    Booth Information
    State Fair: 1975
    Kansas Young Farmers & Wives State Convention: 1964, 1966-1969, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1995
    State Tour: 1964-1992
    Young Farmers & Wives Day: 1977-1979, 1980-1988, 1990, 1992
    Young Farmer Leadership Conference/Day: 1977-1979, 1985, 1991
    Kansas Vocational Agriculture Teachers State Conference: 1967-1970
    AIC Institute for Young Farmers
Series 2: Awards (1968-1999, undated)
a. Applications: 1972, 1993
b. Kansas Young Farmer Awards: undated, 1968-1972, 1988, 1992, 1999
c. Advisor Award
d. Community Service Award
e. Young Farmer Spokesman Contest: undated, 1976-1982
Series 3: Vocational Education (1975-1990, undated)
a. Adult Teaching Methods
b. Farmer Management Workshop: 1975-1977
c. Guidelines for Developing Adult Vocational Education
d. Occupational Experience Supervision
e. Research Studies: 1973, 1975
f. Discussion Methods
g. Education Correspondence
h. National Survey of Adult Education in Agriculture: 1990
i. Directory of Resources: 1978
Series 4: Organizational Records (1960-1998, undated)
a. Organizational
    Articles of Incorporation
    Annual Report: 1973-1977, 1979-1981, 1983
    Annual Reporting Forms
    Tax Exempt Correspondence
    Reimbursement Policies
    IRS 990’s: 1973-1992
    Visitation Schedules
    Sponsors
    Photographs: undated
b. Handbooks
    Leadership Manuals
    Ceremony for Installing Officers
    Development Committee
c. Membership Roosters/List
    Young Farmers & Young Farm Wives (Women); 1975, 1977-1991
    Young Farm Wives (Women): undated
d. Directories
    Young Farmers & Young Farm Wives (Women): 1971-1972, 1976, 1981-1989, 1990-1992, 1994-1998
    Vocational Agriculture Resources: 1983
e. Yearly Records
    National Young Farmer Minutes: 1990
    Young Farmer & Ranchers: 1973-1974, 1976
    Young Farmers & Young Farm Wives (Women): Undated;1970-1995
    Young Farmer: Undated;1963-1995
    Young Farm Wives (Women): Undated; 1964-1965,1970-1992;1994-1995
    District Meeting: 1971-1976
f. County Records
<emph render='bold'>Series 5: Published Materials </emph><emph render='bold'><emph render='italic'>(1970-1994, undated)</emph></emph>
a. News and Views (newsletter): 1970-1995 (incomplete)
    Drafts
    Layouts
    Materials: 1964-1695,1967-1971, 1975, 1977
    Photographs: 1964, 1968, 1970-1974, 1977-1978, undated
    Newsletters: 1964-1965, 1967-1969, 1971-1995
b. Star Young Farm Families: 1976
c. Young Farmer Spokesman Report: 1977-1978
d. Landmarks: 1981
e. Hesston Today: 1979-1890
f. The National Young Farmer
    Newspaper:1978-1983, 1985-1988, 1990-1993
    Young Farmer Update: 1990-1991
    Young Farmer News: 1994
g. Hillsboro Star-Journal: 1977
h. The Citizen Patriot: 1978
i. Nation Young Farmer Annual Report: 1989, 1991
j. Pamphlets
k. A study of scope and content of farm mechanics courses and organization for teaching same in the vocational agricultural high schools of Kansas / by Lester B. Pollum.
l. The organization of and a plan for teaching through the laying flock class project / by Lawrence Fenhor Hall.
m. A study of the methods of teaching sciences underlying agriculture and their application to the teaching of vocational agriculture/ by Henry W. Schmitz
n. Misc. Newspaper Articles
<emph render='bold'>Series 6: Artifact</emph>
<emph render='bold'>Series 7: Materials from other States</emph>

Kansas Young Farmer and Young Farm Wives (Women)

Box 39

CSRS reviews and extension services. Correspondence about the merger of extension services. Correspondence and scripts for the extension programs such as Rapid Response Center and Family Forums.

Louis H. Douglas papers

  • US US kmk U2003.29
  • Collection
  • 1957–1999

The Louis H. Douglas papers document the career of Douglas and the lecture series that was named after him at Kansas State University. Included are photographs of Douglas and speakers at the lecture series, as well as additional documentation regarding his time as a political science professor at Kansas State University from 1949–1977 and the Lou Douglas Lecture Series that began in 1980.

Douglas, Louis H.

Box 1

This box contains drafts and manuscripts, including Deciphered: The Phaistos Disk and the Southern Minoan Maritime World by Robin Higham and A Guide to the Sources of British Military History by Robin Higham.

Box 21

KSU College of Veterinary Medicine handbooks (1989-1992), KSU College of Veterinary Medicine Student Handbook (1994-1995), KSU College of Veterinary Medicine Student/Faculty Handbook (1998-1999), A Long Range Development Plan for Veterinary Medical Campus (1970), A Report on Academic Success for the College of Veterinary Medicine at KSU (1989), KSU Foundation Annual Report and Audit Report (1991-1992), A Report of Research and Sponsored Programs for Fiscal Year 1998, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Report of Progress (published sometime between 1975 and 1993), schedules, programs, transcripts, publications, and other information on the following conferences: Annual Conference for Veterinarians (1990-1999), North Central Conference of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (1994), Emergency Medicine Conference on Imagining of the Traumatized or Critical Veterinary Patient: Imagining is Everything (1999), Small Animal Internal Medicine Lecture Series (1999), Veterinary Technicians Conference (1999), Frank W. Jordan Seminar on Immunology (1999).

Series 3: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks

This series contains yearbooks and scrapbooks, which include auxiliaries and photo albums, from the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine between 1905-1999. The scrapbooks consist of the Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association: A Year in the Life of the Student Wives scrapbook, a Veterinary Medicine photo album which features students, staff, and newsletters from 1989-1995, and the Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association auxiliaries from 1958-1980, which include photographs, certificates, newsletters, and other records. There are additionally yearbooks for the College of Veterinary Medicine that cover the years 1996-1999.

Box 58

Photographic negatives of Veterinary Medicine staff, students, buildings, alumni reunions, retirement parties, Mosier Hall dedication, Kind dedication, unmarked negatives.

Box 38

Agricultural Experiment Station budgets, correspondence, and reports. American Home Economics Association community extension education program scripts. Kansas conference on families correspondence and booklets. Research projects and Cooperative State Research Service (CSRS) reviews.

Box 48

Contains evaluation materials. Materials include agricultural policy exams, extension news and features, agriculture school policy papers, news articles, and emails/letters on Kansas farmer taxes, policies, and financial burdens.

George Brunn papers

  • US US kmk P2000.02
  • Collection
  • 1962-1969, 1999

The George Brunn papers consist of: an eight-volume run of a newsletter, The California Consumer: Official Organ of the Association of California Consumers from 1962–1969; a two-volume run from 1963–1965 of the Association of California Consumers publication, Legislative News Letter (edited by Brunn); and a reprint of an article Brunn authored about wage garnishment that was published in a 1965 edition of the California Law Review. A copy of a statement Brunn made during a California judicial hearing in 1969 is included in the papers. Of interest is a handwritten note accompanying the statement sent to Richard L. D. Morse that says, “Dick—A battle in the consumer credit wars. We won that round. George.” The year is illegible. Two poems Brunn penned add levity to the collection.

Brunn, George

Box 34

This box contains thirteen reports from different degrees within the College of Engineering submitted to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology in 1999 for degree and curriculum accreditation.

Box 6

Contains Dr. Pat Bosco's "Enrollment Management Notebooks" from 1989-1994 as well as eclectic enrollment files spanning from 1983-1999. The Enrollment Management Notebooks contain correspondence, statistics, newsclippings, and photos regarding enrollment, student retainment, national recruitment outreach, transfer students, demographical data, events, and related minutes/workshops. The other files contain similar information, though in sparser quantities, and are from years outside of the Enrollment Management Notebook range (1983, 1987, 1988, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004).

Box 9

Faculty meeting minutes (1973-1994), annual givings (councils, meetings, cabinets) (1990-1995), faculty council minutes (1995-1999).

Box 22

FIDER accreditation report and recommendations from 1991-1999. Graduate program review of "Clothing Textiles and Interior Design" in the spring of 1997 and fall of 1998.

Box 16

Files from the department of Electrical Engineering pertaining to graduate and faculty meeting minutes and notes from the Engineering Advisory council.

Box 47

Role and Aspiration drafts and reports. Student Faculty Seminar proceedings, student life photos, and student organization correspondences' and newsletters. List of textbooks written by faculty and twenty-year plan reports. Presentation and booklet for the 125th celebration of Health and Human Sciences (1873-1998).

Kansas Center for Rural Initiative records

  • US US kmk 2015-16-.050
  • Collection
  • 1991–1999

This collection offers insight into the operations of the now defunct Kansas Center for Rural Initiatives in the School of Leadership Studies at Kansas State University from 1991–1999. The focus of the collection are the Rural Resource Directory and the program "Sustainable Manhattan." Documents for these two programs include: corrections, budgets, information sheets, correspondence, essays, newspaper clippings, and newsletters.

Kansas Center for Rural Initiative

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