Agricultural Experiment Station oral histories, 1962-1965.
Collection Number: 13-6-944
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Agricultural Experiment Station oral histories, 1962-1965.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
13-6-944
Abstract:
Tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews by Gould P. Colman with Paul J. Chapman,
Arthur C. Dahlberg, Robert E. Doran, Arthur J. Heinicke, George J. Hucker, James D.
Luckett, Carl S. Pederson, Charles B. Sayre, Jessie E. Sperry, Donald K. Tressler,
and Richard Wellington.
Creator:
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
Chapman, Paul J.
Dahlberg, Arthur Chester.
Doran, Robert E.
Heinicke, Arthur J.
Hucker, George J.
Luckett, James D.
Pederson, Charles S.
Sayre, Charles Bovett.
Sperry, Jessie E.
Tressler, Donald Kiteley.
Wellington, R. (Richard)
Colman, Gould P. (Gould Patchin), 1926-
Quanitities:
10 items.
Language:
Collection material in English
The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, New York is a unit of
the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University,Ithaca,
New York.
Tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews by Gould P. Colman with Paul J. Chapman,
Arthur C. Dahlberg, Robert E. Doran, Arthur J. Heinicke, George J. Hucker, James D.
Luckett, Carl S. Pederson, Charles B. Sayre, Jessie E. Sperry, Donald K. Tressler,
and Richard Wellington.
These interviews cover the research, administration, and public service contributions
of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Scientists, administrators,
support staff, and other Geneva residents were interviewed. Topics include: relationships
of Geneva faculty and staff with their Ithaca campus counterparts, including coordination
of research and administration on the 2 campuses, and with New York State farmers
and agricultural organizations, especially the food processing industry; relationships
of Geneva station with other American agricultural experiment stations; and research
by Geneva scientists in entomology (including the use of pesticides and biological
control), vegetable crops, viticulture, pomology, bacteriology, food science, and
dairy science (including the transfer to dairy research to the Ithaca campus).
Also, development of Geneva physical facilities, especially after WWII and during
the 1960's; Geneva publications; administration of substations in the Hudson Valley
and Fredonia; procurement of funds; hiring and promotion of staff and administrators;
conducting seed investigations in coordination with the New York State Department
of Agriculture and Markets; influence of personality on Cornell's agricultural research
and teaching; assessment of Cornell administrators; participation by Geneva staff
in community activities. Personal histories are also included.
Related collection: New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Historical
Documentation Program Oral Histories, #13-6-2082. Donald W. Barton, tr., trsc. 4912-4917,
trsc. 5246-5248; Robert F. Becker, tr., trsc. 3852; Roscoe E. Krauss, trsc. 5325;
Edward H. Smith tr., trsc. 4906-4911.
Related collection: New York State Food Processing Industry Oral History Project,
#2378. Walter D. Enzie, trsc. 1210.
Related collection: Paul J. Chapman Papers, #22-1-2102
Related collection: Charles B. Sayre Seminar Transcript, # 22-1-m.1061.
Related collection: Richard Wellington Papers, #22-2-3558.
Some of the 1962-1965 tapes have been erased; only 5 minute excerpts remain.
Also forms part of the Eastern Wine and Grape Archive. (EWGA)
Transcripts require permission from heirs, legal representatives, or assigns to reproduce.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station Oral Histories, #13-6-944. Division
of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Anderson, Rudolph John, 1879-
Babcock, H. E. (Howard Edward), 1889-1950.
Barton, Donald W., 1921-
Breed, Robert S. (Robert Stanley), 1877-1956.
Chandler, William Henry, 1878-
Chapman, P. J. (Paul Jones), 1900-
Crosby, Cyrus R., 1879-1937.
Dahlberg, Arthur, 1896-1964.
Daniel, Derrill McCollough, 1905-
Hedrick, U. P.
Frank, Konstantin, 1899-1985.
Hall, Frank Henry, 1866-1929.
Hucker, George J., 1893-1988.
Heinicke, Arthur J., 1892-1971.
Jordan, Whitman Howard, 1851-
Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963.
Luckett, James D., 1891-1968.
Massey, Louis Melville, 1889-1969.
McEwen, Freeman Lester, 1926-
Morrison, F. B. (Frank Barron), 1887-1958
Parrot, Percival John, 1874-1953.
Sayre, Charles Bovett, 189l.-
Smith, George A.
Stewart, Fred Carlton, 1868-1940.
Taylor, Walter S.
Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred, 1872-
Tressler, Donald Kiteley, 1894-1981.
Tukey, H. B.
Van Slyke, Lucius Lincoln, 1859-
Wellington, Richard, 1884-1975.
Sherman, William.
Pederson, Carl S., 1897-1987.
Cook, Constance E.
Tyler, Winfield.
Downing, Donald L.
Becker, Robert F.
Porter, Gilbert.
Palm, Charles Edmund, 1911-1996.
Brady, Nyle C.
Call, David L.
King, Joseph P.
Adams, Morton, 1910-
Hurd, Thomas Norman, 1910.
Frommer, Charles.
Greig, Robert G., 1913-
Wickham, Don J., 1903-
Dalrymple, Daniel M.
Dyson, John.
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979.
Krauss, Roscoe E.
Kennedy, Wilbert Keith, 1919-
VanDemark, Noland L.
Glass, Edward H.
Hamilton, James M.
Gilmer, Robert M.
Hunter, James E.
Vittum, Morrill T.
Carey, Hugh L.
Einset, John, 1915-
Einset, John.
Kender, Walter J.
Clark, Benjamin E., 1914-1983.
Davis, Alexander C.
Hand, David B.
Holland, Robert F.
Robinson, Willard.
McNew, George.
Hofer, Alvin W.
Connaway, John W.
Whitten, John C., 1866-
Eckles, Clarence Henry, 1875-
Mann, Albert Russell, 1880-1947.
Birdseye, Clarence.
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Entomology
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Food Science and Technology
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Pomology and Viticulture
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Seed and Vegetable Sciences
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Plant Pathology
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Publications
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Hudson Valley Laboratory (Highland,
N.Y.)
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Vineyard Laboratory (Fredonia, N.Y.)
New York State Canners and Freezers Association
Associated Food Processors
State University of New York
Western New York Cherry Growers Association
Western New York Apple Growers Association
New York (State). Pesticide Control Board
Cornell University. Office of Vice President for Land Grant Affairs
New York (State). Department of Environmental Conservation
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Agricultural Research Coordination
Agricultural Research Planning and Coordination
University of Missouri
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Buildings and Properties
Cornell University. Cooperative Extension
New York State Fruit Testing Cooperative Association
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Administration.
Places:
Geneva (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Subjects:
Plant-breeding -- New York (State)
Vegetables -- New York (State)
Food, Frozen.
Agriculture publishing.
Voluntarism.
Food -- Bacteriology.
Fruit-culture -- New York (State)
Dairying -- Research.
Pesticides -- Environmental aspects.
Community and college -- New York (State) -- Geneva.
Pests -- Biological control.
Agricultural pests.
DDT (Insecticide)
Food industry and trade -- New York (State)
Interdisciplinary approach in education.
Viticulture.
Agricultural administration.
Agricultural experiment stations.
Agricultural chemicals -- Environmental aspects.
Agricultural chemicals -- Law and legislation.
Agriculture -- Research.
Form and Genre Terms:
Oral histories.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Transcript #3888 |
Chapman, Paul J., 1900-1993
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Scope and Contents
Occupation: Professor, editor, librarianSee also collection #: 22-1-2102Recorded: November 5, 1964; February 8, 1965; March 5, 1965; April 12, 1965; and May 17, 1965Childhood
botanical interest; graduate study and work with Spray Information Service at Cornell;
experiences as an entomologist, 1930-1965, and as head of Dept. of Entomology, Geneva,
1948-1965, esp. work at Hudson Valley substation; selection of research projects;
research methods; spray residue control problems; biological controls; relationships
of department with other departments at the Station; relations of Station with Cornell,
NY State Dept. of Agriculture and Markets, USDA, growers, the Geneva community, industry;
administration of dept., esp. selection of personnel; comments concerning faculty
status, esp. tenure, sabbatic leave; recollections concerning Cyrus Crosby, P. J.
Parrott, L. M. Massey, D. M. Daniels, A. J. Heinicke, Alvin Hoefer, George McNew,
Harold Tukey.
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Transcript #3889 |
Dahlberg, Arthur Chester, 1896-1964
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Scope and Contents
Occupation: Professor of Dairy Science Recorded: November 12, 1962; February 22, 1963Development of the work in dairy chemistry at the New York State Agricultural Experiment
Station at Geneva; descriptions of major research projects; reflections concerning
George A. Smith, R. W. Thatcher, F. B. Morrison, and G. P. Hedrick; removal of dairy
work to Ithaca.
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Transcript #3890 |
Doran, Robert E., 1899-1983
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Scope and Contents
Occupation: Geneva physician Recorded: March 27, 1963Participation of staff on Geneva in political and social organizations
in Geneva, NY.
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Transcript #3891 |
Heinicke, Arthur J., 1892-1971
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Scope and Contents
Cornell Class: Ph.D. 1916Occupation: Professor, pomology/Director Recorded: November 27, 1963; February 10, 1964; April 13, 1964; June 22, 1964; and September
16, 1964Agriculture in the St. Louis area, c. 1900; high school education; experiences
at the University of Missouri; impressions of J. W. Connaway, J. C. Whitten, C. H.
Eckles, W. H. Chandler, others; facilities for research, research methods and objectives
in Dept. of Pomology at Cornell, c. 1914; relationships between research in orchard
soils, spraying practice, pruning practices, and apple varieties; relation of work
in pomology at Cornell to that of New York State Agricultural Experiment Station,
1942-1960; comment concerning Geneva including appointment as director, postwar building
program, elimination of dairy herd, beginning of Dept. of Food Science and Technology,
establishment of systematic budget procedures, methods for coordinating work with
NYS College of Agriculture; impressions of Herbert Lehman, U. P. Hedrick, P. J. Parrott.
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Transcript #1204 |
Hucker, George J., 1893-1988
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Scope and Contents
Occupation: Professor of Bacteriology Also part of the Food Processing Oral History Project, #237 Recorded: November 2, 1962; November 9, 1962; November 30, 1962; December 4, 1962; January 22,
1963; February 20, 1963; March 27, 1963; April 23, 1963; May 6, 1963; May 20, 1963;
and June 10, 1963Work in bacteriology at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
at Geneva; reminiscences and reflections concerning Directors W. H. Jordan, R. W.
Thatcher, F. B. Morrison, U. P. Hedrick, P. J. Parrott, and A. J. Heinicke, and Professors
R. S. Breed, F. C. Stewart, D. W. Carpenter, George Smith, L. L. Van Slyke, Rudolph
Anderson, H. B. Tukey, J. D. Luckett, A. W. Hofer, also A. R. Mann and H. E. Babcock;
Station procedures; relationships of the staff to administration and to the Geneva
community; development of Dept. of Food Science and Technology; establishment of Food
Research, relationship of Station to canning and freezing industry. 8.
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Transcript #3892 |
Luckett, James D., 1891-1968
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Scope and Contents
Occupation: Editor/Librarian Recorded: October 8, 1962.Development of extension work at the New York State Agricultural Experiment
Station at Geneva; reminiscences concerning the Station staff, esp. W. H. Jordan,
R. W. Thatcher, U. P. Hedrick, A. J. Heinicke.
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Transcript #3893 |
Pederson, Carl S., 1897-1987
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Scope and Contents
Cornell Class: Ph.D 1929Occupation: Professor, bacteriology Recorded: October 15, 1962; November 19, 1962Development of work in bacteriology at the New
York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva; reminiscences concerning R.
W. Thatcher, F. B. Morrison, U. P. Hedrick, R. S. Breed, Donald Tressler; relationship
of Station staff to food industry and to Geneva community.
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Transcript #3894 |
Sayre, Charles Bovett, 1891-1979
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Scope and Contents
Occupation: Professor, vegetable cropsSee also collection #: 22-1-m.1061 Recorded: November 9, 1962Work in vegetable crops at Geneva; major research projects; recollections
concerning Frank Hall, U. P. Hedrick, P. J. Parrott, and A. J. Heinicke, 1925-1960.
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Transcript #3895 |
Sperry, Jessie E., 1888-1968
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Scope and Contents
Occupation: Secretary to Director Recorded: November 30, 1962Recollections concerning the administrative procedures and staff
at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva; Directors W. H. Jordan,
R. W. Thatcher, F. B. Morrison, U. P. Hedrick, P. J. Parrott, and A. J. Heinicke,
and Professors L. L. Van Slyke, F. C. Stewart, J. D. Luckett, Frank Hall.
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Transcript #1198 |
Tressler, Donald Kiteley , 1894-1981
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Scope and Contents
Occupation: Chemist Also part of Food Processing Oral History Project, #2378 Recorded: May 7, 1963; November 19, 1963High school and college education; utilization of food
processing by-products; association with Clarence Birdseye; establishment of food
freezing work at Geneva; analysis of food freezing industry prior to 1930; Birdseye's
innovations in packing and promoting frozen foods; development of work in food freezing
at Geneva, esp. physical facilities, relationships between staff, graduate assistants,
selection of research problems, research grants, administrative methods; New York
State interest in food freezing; development of Food Research.
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Transcript #3896 |
Wellington, R. (Richard), 1884-1975
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Scope and Contents
Occupation: Professor of PomologySee also collection #: 22-2-3558 Recorded: August 6, 1962, August 21, 1962Development of the work in pomology at Geneva; organization
and activities of the New York State Fruit Testing Association; administration of
the Station, esp. under W. H. Jordan and U. P. Hedrick, 1906-1960.
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