COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Records of Dean David L. Call include materials pertaining to various departments of the college; other colleges at Cornell University; the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York; the Cornell Board of Trustees and administration; Cornell Plantations; SUNY; CALS Alumni Association; Isles of Shoals; the Sea Grant Institute; Boyce Thompson Institute; New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets; New York State Council of Farmer Cooperatives; the Council of Agricultural Organizations; Agway, Inc., Agricultural Resources Commission; and the Environmental Protection Agency. Included are minutes, reports, statements, correspondence, speeches and other items concerning pesticide use and environmental issues, bovine hormone use, agricultural extension, rural development, pest control, migrant labor, agricultural policies, soil and water conservation, legislative bills, investments, land-grant affairs, academic funding and tuition, development, budgets, admissions, faculty salaries and tenure, staff relations, affirmative action and minority affairs, sex discrimination, education programs, libraries, computers, campus planning and development, university policies and procedures, and other matters. Major correspondents include Frank Rhodes, Henry Uihlein, and Roy Carver. Also photographs and items relating to his retirement. Also materials relating to the Unimal and a Chinese vase presented to Call by President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan.
Dates
- 1977-1995.
Creator
- Call, David L., 1932- (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Dean, New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), 1977-1995.
Extent
68.6 cubic feet. (68.6 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Records of Dean David L. Call include materials pertaining to various departments of the college; other colleges at Cornell University; the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York; the Cornell Board of Trustees and administration; Cornell Plantations; SUNY; CALS Alumni Association; Isles of Shoals; the Sea Grant Institute; Boyce Thompson Institute; New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets; New York State Council of Farmer Cooperatives; the Council of Agricultural Organizations; Agway, Inc., Agricultural Resources Commission; and the Environmental Protection Agency.
SEPARATED MATERIAL
Correspondence with George A. West regarding Theta Alpha fraternity, Cornell Beta Chapter, including a list of early members added to the Theta Alpha collection, #37-4-2196. Biographical information, articles, and a photograph added to faculty biographical file, #47-10-3394.
Physical Description
Minutes, reports, statements, correspondence, speeches and other items.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- M. Sampson
- Date completed:
- August 1996
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, April 2003
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, July 2018
- Affirmative action programs.
- Agricultural Resources Commission
- Agricultural administration.
- Agricultural colleges.
- Agricultural extension work.
- Agricultural law and legislation.
- Agriculture -- New York (State)
- Agriculture -- Study and teaching.
- Agriculture, Cooperative.
- Agway Inc
- Campus planning.
- Carver, Roy.
- Conservation of natural resources.
- Cornell Plantations
- Cornell University. Board of Trustees
- Cornell University. Cooperative Extension
- Cornell University. Hudson Basin Project
- Council of Agricultural Organizations
- Hormones in animal nutrition -- Law and legislation.
- Isles of Shoals (Me. and N.H.)
- Lee, Teng-hui
- Migrant labor.
- Minorities -- Education.
- Minorities -- Employment
- New York (State). Department of Agriculture and Markets
- New York Sea Grant Institute
- New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sceinces. Agricultural Experiment Station
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Administration.
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Admission.
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Alumni.
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Buildings.
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Curricula.
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Employees.
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Faculty -- : Salaries, pensions, etc.
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Finance.
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Libraries.
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- : Planning.
- New York State Council of Farmer Cooperatives
- New York State Farm Electrification Council
- Pests -- Control.
- Photographs.
- Rhodes, Frank Harold Trevor
- Rural development.
- Sex discrimination.
- Soil conservation.
- Speeches.
- State universities and colleges.
- Uihlein, Henry.
- United States. Environmental Protection Agency
- University of the State of New York
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M. Sampson
- Date
- April 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu