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Paul Beckett
Papers, 1938 - 1979
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Paul Beckett
Papers, 1938 - 1979
Papers of Paul Beckett were recieved 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.) The two accessions
were combined, and the papers arranged and described in October,
1988, by Harvey Young.
BIOGRAPHY
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.
ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
The papers of Paul Beckett consist of correspondence, reports, draft writings, and enclosures concerned with research and teaching of political science. 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.
CONTAINER LIST
SERIES I
CORRESPONDENCE
BOX FOLDER DESCRIPTION
1 1 Business correspondence, 1938-1939
2 1940
3 1941
4 1942 Plus: Beckett's Vita
5 1943
6 1944
7 1945
8 1946
9 1947
10 1948
11 1949
12 1950
13 1950
14 January-June, 1951
15 January-June, 1951
16 July-December, 1951
17 1952
18 January-June, 1953
19 January-June, 1953
20 July-August, 1953
21 1954
22 1954
23 January-June, 1955
24 January-June, 1955
25 July-December, 1955
26 January-June, 1956
27 July-December, 1956
28 July-December, 1956
29 January-September, 1957
30 September-December, 1957
31 January-June, 1958
32 July-December, 1958
33 July-December, 1958
34 January-May, 1959
35 January-May, 1959
36 June-December, 1959
37 June-Decemebr, 1959
38 January-June, 1960
39 January-June, 1959
40 July-December, 1960
41 January-June, 1961
42 January-June, 1961
43 July-December, 1961
44 January-August, 1962
45 September-December, 1962
46 January-June, 1963
47 January-June, 1963
48 July-December, 1963
49 January-June, 1964
Personal correspondence
50 Richard Butler, 1963-1964
51 Wallace E. Caldwell, 1956-1960
52 John D. Blacken, 1955-1959
53 Judith Carr, 1964
54 Jawad Dajani, 1952-1959
55 Earl Darrah, 1959-1961
BOX FOLDER DESCRIPTION
2 56 Jerry Davis, 1959-1963
57 Jeanne Howe, 1962-1965
58 William L. Jackson, 1968-1970
59 John Junker, 1958-1963
60 William H. Lee, 1956-1963
61 Timothy Manring, 1961-1965
62 Stanley G. McClure, 1957-1962
63 Donna McIntrie, 1964-1965
64 Lawrence K. Muns, 1960-1963
65 Charles S. Oldham, 1968
66 Howard Payne, 1951-1953
67 Catherine Peat, 1959-1960
68 Roger D. Reed, 1961-1964
69 Fred Segrest, 1961-1965
70 Ann Stuart Sheldon, 1962-1968
71 Thomas Franklin Stinson, 1963-1965
72 Celeste Sunderland, 1950-1959
73 Karl Van Asselt, 1964-1966
74 Washington State Students, 1948-1953
75 1954-1958
76 1958-1960
77 1960-1961
78 1962
79 1963
80 1964
80.1 July-December, 1964
81 1965
82 1966
83 1967
84 1968
85 1969
86 1970
87 1971
88 1972
89 1973
90 1974
91 1975
92 1976
93 1975-1979
SERIES II:
SUBJECT FILES
94 Ad hoc Committee on Dedication of Johnson Tower, 1966-1967
95 American Assembly on State Government, 1956
96 Regional Conference, 1956
97 Regional Conference, 1956
98 1956
99 American Assembly Paper on Washington, 1956
100 1956
101 American Association of University Proffessors, WSU Chapter,
1954-1973
102 American Society for Public Administration, Conference
Reporting Committee, 1958
103-5 Reporting Committee Correspondence, 1959
106 Inland Empire Chapter, 1956-1960
107 1958
108 1958
109 1965-1969
110 National Conference, 1959
111 Annals Book Review, 1956
112 1965
113 Associated Students of Washington State University and
Communist Speakers, 1963-1964
114 Beckett as Coordinator of Graduate Studies and Graduate
Students, 1964-1977
115-7 Beckett as Dad's Day King, 1959
118 Beckett Goes to Beirut, 1951
119 Beckett Goes to Pakistan, 1957
Plus: The Confessions of a "Biased Professor," by H. Paul
Castleberry.
120 Beckett's Training and Experience, 1947
121 Budget Requests, History and Political Science, 1951-1953
122 "Bureaucracy and Democracy," 1952
123 "Civil Service in Beverly Hills, California," 1940
124 College Committee On Review, 1955-1956
125 Committee for Redistricting Washington State, 1962
126 Crowell Commonwealth Series, 1950-1951
127 Department of History and Political Science Enrollment,
1947-1948
128 Newsletter, 1956
129 Newsletter, 1960
130 Division of Governmental Studies and Services, 1966-1968
131 Evaluation of Hugh Bone's Executive Article For A model
State Constitution, April, 1968
132 Faculty Status Committee, 1973-1974
133 Annual and Treasurer's Reports, 1969-1974
134 Senate Review
135 Faculty Service Reports, 1947-1968
136 Fall 1969
137 From Wilderness to Enabling Act, The Evolution of A State of
Washington, by Paul Beckett. 1968. Chapters 1-3.
BOX FOLDER DESCRIPTION
3 138 Chapter 4
139 Appendix
140 Galley Proof
141 Fulbright to Egypt, 1961
142 Graduate Student Committees and Examinations (Work
Completed), 1948-1970
143 1970-1977
144 Illinois Law Review, 1942-46. Includes Two Book Reviews.
145 Institute of World Affairs, University of Southern
California, 1954
146 J. Kimbrough Owen Memorial Fund, 1957
147 Judicial Review of Labor Legislation in California,
1880-1910, summer 1961
148-9 Legislation and Representation: Papers and Articles, 1938
-1939
150 "Letter From Beirut," 1952
151 Los Angeles Town Hall Constitution, 1943
152 Los Angeles Town Hall Municipal and County Government,
1945
153 Miscellaneous, 1949
154 1953
155 1954
156 1955
157 1956
158 1957
159 1958
160 Mock Political Convention, WSU, 1956
161 1964
162 Pacific Northwest Assembly On Federal Government and
Higher Education, 1960
163 Pacific Northwest Library Association Project, 1956
164 Pacific Northwest Panel On State Government, Moscow, 1955
165 Pacific Northwest Political Science Association Panel on
Honors Programs, Spring, 1963
166 Pacific Northwest Political Science Association Presidency,
1957-1958
167 Pacific Northwest Quarterly Book Review, 1962-1963
168 Personnel Administration in Santa Monica, California,"
1940
169 PHI KAPPA PHI, WSU Chapter, President's File, 1967-1968
170 Scholarships Committee, 1963-1964, 1964-1965, 1965-1966
171 PHI SIGMA ALPHA National Council, 1974-1978
172 Political Science 440 Final Course Schedule, Fall 1976
173 445 Evaluation and Incentives, n.d.
174 592: Dr. Beckett's Last Seminar, Spring, 1976
175 "Politics, Personalities, and Pensions, Final Report on
Santa Monica Personnel Administration," 1940
176 Prelaw, Political Science Department, 1961
177 Presidential Address, Eleventh Annual Meeting Pacific
Northwest Political Science Association, 1958
178 Project on State Government, 1955-1961
179 "Public Administration Training As Technical Assistance:
Some Further Observations Based On Experience in Beirut,"
180 Public Opinion Laboratory, WSC, 1949-1950
181 Public Opinion Poll on Washington State Government, 1950
182 "Quest for Quality Conference," University of Washington,
1962
183 Research Council Presidency, 1949-1950
184 Review of Khadduri and Liebesny, Law in the Middle East,
1956
185 Labor Legislation in California, 1961
186 Reviews of Henry Goodnow on The Civil Service of Paki-
stan, 1965
187 Society for International Development, Korean Research
Project, Fall 1968
188 Speeches, 1940-1952
189 1952-1971
190 Student-Faculty Questionnaires, University of New Mexico,
1946
191 Technical Assistance Article for Washington State
Review, Summer 1958
192 "The California Supreme Court and Early Efforts at Labor
Legislation," Chapter 12, 1949
193 The Concept of Evolution in Peter Kropotkin's Anarchism:
A Study of Revolutionary Theory, By Paul Beckett, 1938
194 "The Conflict Between North and South," Talk for USC
Institute of World Affairs, December, 1958
195 "The Executive as Ropedancer," Talk at University of
British Colombia, May 1962
196 "The International Law of Aerial Navigation," 1940
BOX FOLDER DESCRIPTION
4 197 "The Professional School and World Affairs" Regional
Conference, University of Oregon, October, 1967
198 Third Annual Institute On International Affairs, 1958
199 University of New Mexico, n.d.
200 Washington Political Science Association Executive
Council, 1959-1961
201 "Washington State's Lawmakers," Washington Political
Quarterly, 1957
202 "Washington State's New Merit System Law" Manuscript, 1962
203 Washington State University Institute of World Affairs,
1960
204 Water Research Center Project, Harvey Doerkson, 1972
205-7 Western Governmental Research Association Second Annual
Conference, 1962
208 Western Political Quarterly, 1964-1965
209 Western Political Science Association, 1957
210 Whitman County Government, 1947-1948
211 Whitman County Manuscripts and Working Papers, 1950
212 Woodrow Wilson Award Committee, 1955
213 Workshop For Middle Managers Talk, Fairchild Air Force
Base, Fall 1964