Guide to the Kenneth L. Turk Papers,
1951-1985.

Collection Number: 21-14-2116

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
G.P. Colman, N. Dean
Date completed:
August 1991
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, March 2004

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Kenneth L. Turk papers, 1951-1985.
Collection Number:
21-14-2116
Creator:
Kenneth L. (Kenneth Leroy) Turk, 1908-
Quantity:
14 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Lecture notes, reports, consultation and advisory papers, and a manuscript.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Lecture notes, reports, and consultation and advisory papers prepared by Kenneth L. Turk. Includes material pertaining to the Rockefeller Foundation and several food and agricultural organizations, and agricultural programs in England, Asia, Hawaii, Philippines, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, India, Guatemala, Columbia, Chile, and the West Indies. Also, "Flashbacks: Selected Travel Experiences of Bernice and Kenneth Turk."
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Animal Science.
Cornell University M.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1934

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Lecture notes, reports, and consultation and advisory papers prepared by Kenneth L. Turk. Includes material pertaining to the Rockefeller Foundation and several food and agricultural organizations, and agricultural programs in England, Asia, Hawaii, Philippines, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, India, Guatemala, Columbia, Chile, and the West Indies. Also, "Flashbacks: Selected Travel Experiences of Bernice and Kenneth Turk."

SUBJECTS

Names:
Turk, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Leroy), 1908-
Rockefeller Foundation.

Subjects:
Agricultural productivity.
Agriculture--Study and teaching.

Places:
Asia.
Brazil.
Chile.
Colombia.
England.
Guatemala.
Hawaii.
India.
Indonesia.
Mexico.
Philippines.
West Indies.

Form and Genre Terms:
Lecture notes.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Kenneth L. Turk papers, #21-14-2116. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1962
Notes for class taught. A.H. 50, Dairy Cattle
Box 1
1951
Series of articles on livestock in Europe of first sabbatical leave
Box 1
1951
Report on Dairy Conference, Thurgarton, England
Box 1
1956
Series of articles on livestock production in Asia
Box 1
Council on Higher Education in the American Republic
Box 1
International program in Agriculture, University of Hawaii
Box 1
Latin American Science Board, National Academy of Sciences Communications
Communications
Box 2
Reports
Box 2
Workshop on scientific and technical cooperation, U.S.-Philippines
Box 2
1970
USAID Brazil Binational Planning Team
Box 3
1974
USAID MUCIA Educational Program in Indonesia
Box 3
1972
Asian Development Bank: Evaluation of Educational Program of Malaysian Agricultural University
Box 3
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
1967
Evaluation of Animal Husbandry Education in Mexico
Box 4
1966
Evaluation of IRI Research Institute's Programs in Brazil
Box 4
1969
Observation of Livestock Production Programs in India
Box 4
Technical Advisory Committee, Nutrition Institute for Central American and Panama, Guatemala
Box 4
Rockefeller Foundation
1956-1962
Correspondence and reports re: Service on Board of Consultants, R.F., Programs in Mexico, Colombia, and Chile
Box 6
Diaries of consulting assignments
Box 6
1968
Review Team for CIAT, Colombia, on Animal Research Program
Box 6
Reports and diaries re: Colombia and Mexico
Box 7
Miscellaneous reports
Box 7
1972
U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Commission on Scientific and Technical Cooperation
Communications
Box 8
General Information
Box 8
Reports
Box 8
Inter-American Development Bank Special Committee re: Faculty of Agriculture, University of the West Indies, Trinidad
Box 8
1986
Program - Dedication, Turk Seminar Room
Box 8
Personal materials
Box 9
Correspondence after retirement
Box 9
ADSA
Box 10
Instruction
Box 10
Prov. registration
Box 10
Savage
Box 10
Morrison
Box 10
Mrs. Morrison
Box 10
Miscellany
Box 10
Correspondence
Administration - Roberts Hall
Box 11
Foreign countries
Box 11
Los Banos - Philippines
Box 11
Rockefeller Foundation
Box 11
Breed Assns.
Box 11
G.L.F.
Box 11
Misc. departmental
Box 11
Livestock Advisory Council
Box 12
McDonald Farms
Box 12
Regional Res. Projects
Box 13
Int. Agr. Dev.
Box 13
Res. contracts
Box 13
Consultancies
1976
Ford Foundation - Sudan Project I, Organization and Administration of Agricultural Research
Box 14
1976
Ford Foundation - Sudan Project II, International Workshop on Agricultural Research and Development
Box 14
1977
AID/IADS, Agricultural Research Capabilities in the Sudan
Box 14
1982
Evaluation of AID/World Bank Western Sudan Agricultural Research Project
Box 14
1983
AID/IADS Report on Agricultural Research and Extension
Box 14
1985
Evaluation of graduate training program, CATIE, Costa Rica (AID project)
Box 14
Asian Development Bank
Box 14