Shirl O. Graham Papers, 1951-1976

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Shirl O. Graham
Papers, 1951-1976

The teaching and research files of the Professor of Plant Pathology, Shirl O. Graham, were donated to the Washington State University Libraries by the Plant Pathology Department in February, 1977 (UA 77-5). The papers were arranged and processed by George M. Armstrong in February, 1978.

Number of Containers: 7
Linear Feet of Shelf Space: 3.5
Approximate Number of Items: 1200

BIOGRAPHY

Shirl O. Graham was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1918 and remained there until graduating in botany from the University of Nebraska in 1941. After serving as an Army officer in the South Pacific, Graham worked with the Washington State Department of Agriculture in Olympia and Prosser from 1948 to 1950, and then entered the WSU Plant Pathology department's graduate program as a Research Assistant in 1951. On completing his doctorate in 1954, he was hired as an Assistant Professor and rose to Professor in 1968, serving in that rank until his death in 1976. Dr. Graham taught all levels of Plant Pathology courses, and conducted research in various biochemical aspects of plant diseases especially the fungus disease anthracnose, bean viruses, and fruit tree nutrition disorders. He was credited with being co-discoverer of an anti-viral antibiotic, phytoactin.

DESCRIPTION

Research and laboratory notes, seminar papers, lecture notes and course materials, correspondence, and slides, concerning research and instructional activities.

ARRANGEMENT

The papers were arranged by topic, roughly divided between materials related to teaching and those related to research. At certain points the two areas overlap -- as in graduate research seminars -- in such cases the research function was considered primary, and seminar papers filed with corresponding research files. The final arrangement preserves this original order by dividing the papers into two series according to their instructional or research function.

Series I is further divided into subseries for graduate and undergraduate course materials; Series II is divided into three subseries -- numbered and named research projects, materials related to anthracnose research, and other research topics. The original titles of folders have been preserved; untitled folders have been titled in brackets according to their main subject.

CONTAINER LIST

Box Folder Description

Series 1: Instructional Materials
Series 1.1: Undergraduate Course Materials

1 1 Shirl Graham (Plant Path.) [Notes on journal articles relating to P.P. 206]
2 [Typescript of lab manual for P.P. 106-206]
3 [Dittoed schedules and general information re P.P. 329]
4 Virus and etc. [Course materials re P.P. 429, 417]
5 [P.P. 429 lab technique dittos, lecture notes]
6 [P.P. 429 lab technique and lecture dittos]
7 [P.P. 429] Dittos. 1) Calibration of the Microscope, 2) Preparation of microscopic mounts.
8 Drawings and Camera Lucida [re P.P. 429]
9 Culture Exercise II P.P. 429
10 "A Host Range Study of the Pathenogenicity of Some of Anthracnose Spp. on Foliage Plants" by Ellen Walter, Jan. 28, 1959 [P.P. 429 report]
11 Laboratory Equivalents and Standards Reference [Book] S.O. Graham Personal Copy [re P.P. 429]
2 12 [Ms. and ditto lecture notes and handouts, P.P. 529]
13 [P.P. 529 Exam File]
14 Establishing Donor Plants by Culture Cutting Lecture [re P.P. 417; article, ditto, ms. notes]

Series 1.2: Graduate Course Materials

15 Notes for Virology Course [notes, articles, papers, corr. re development of P.P. 511]
16 Plant Virology [P.P. 511 course materials]
17 [P.P. 511 Group lab reports, 1964]
3 18 [6 student lab report books, P.P. 511, 1966, '68]
19 [P.P. 511 lab exercise masters]
20 Nature of Virus Infectivity [notes and masters re P.P. 511]
21 Slide Series on Virus Symptoms [list]
22 Origin of Plant Viruses [ditto and revision for P.P. 511]
23 [Plant Virus Serology: re P.P. 511, Fractions, No. 1, 1972]
24 [lecture and lab outline, P.P. 512]
25 [eight P.P. 515 seminar papers, 1958-1973]
26 P.P. 535 Physiology and Genetics of Parasitism [proposal and course outline, 1969]
27 Amino Acids and Peptides as Dipolar Ions, Instructor's Copy
28 Beutler's 1 Shop Development
29 Freeze Drying
30 Finagle's Laws [humorous explanation of scientific method]

Series 2: Research Materials
Series 2.1: Named or Numbered Research Projects

4 31 [three P.P. 515 Seminar papers by Shirl Graham, 1953-1954]
32 Project 253 [1959-1961]
33 Project 1448 [1959-1963]
34 Phytoactin Project [1961-1966?]
35 Veronal Ppt. Fractionalization by Dialysis and Ion Exchange [re Phytoactin Project, 1962]
36 Ozette Project [1972-1975, w/slides]
37 Arsenic Study [1973-1974]
38 Endogone Soybeans [re Project 0204, 1975]

Series 2.2: Anthracnose Related Papers

5 39 Colletotrichum Variability
40 [P.P. 515 paper "Taxonomic Considerations of Smut Fungi" Yerkes, 1951, and "The Species of the Genus Colletotrichum Cda," ms. Trans from German, 1957]
41 CHo4 Factors on Anthracnose
42 Introduction [to Strobel thesis, folder 43?]
43 "Physiologically Induced Morphologic and Pathogenic Variations of Some Glomerella Cingulata Isolates" [WSU doctoral thesis in Plant Pathology by James W. Strobel, 1960]

Series 2.3: Other Research Papers

44 Growth Regulator Determinations
6 45 Organelle Concept
46 [excerpted articles on host-pathogen interaction]
7 47 Bean Mosiac Virus Material
48 Cranberry Pathogen Isolates and Growth on Media
49 [excerpts and notes on viral structure]
50 Germination Inducer Study
51 Stock Cultures
52 Media Studies -- setal responses thereto
53 Differential Media Study Notes and Lit. Review
54 Differential Media
55 Extract Additive Studies -- tables
56 Temperature Studies
57 Misc. Studies
58 Pathogenicity and Inoculation Trials
59 [chapter outline of book on Glomerella Cingulata]
60 "Plant Pathology Lecture Outlines" by Dr. B. H. Davis, Dept. Plant Path. Rutgers U. Jan. 1940

Box	Folder	Description

Series 1: Instructional Materials
Series 1.1: Undergraduate Course Materials

1	1	Shirl Graham (Plant Path.) [Notes on journal articles relating to P.P. 206]
	2	[Typescript of lab manual for P.P. 106-206]
	3	[Dittoed schedules and general information re P.P. 329]
	4	Virus and etc. [Course materials re P.P. 429, 417]
	5	[P.P. 429 lab technique dittos, lecture notes]
	6	[P.P. 429 lab technique and lecture dittos]
	7	[P.P. 429] Dittos. 1) Calibration of the Microscope, 2) Preparation of microscopic mounts.
	8	Drawings and Camera Lucida [re P.P. 429]
	9	Culture Exercise II P.P. 429
	10	"A Host Range Study of the Pathenogenicity of Some of Anthracnose Spp. on Foliage Plants" by Ellen Walter, Jan. 28, 1959 [P.P. 429 report]
	11	Laboratory Equivalents and Standards Reference [Book] S.O. Graham Personal Copy [re P.P. 429]
2	12	[Ms. and ditto lecture notes and handouts, P.P. 529]
	13	[P.P. 529 Exam File]
	14	Establishing Donor Plants by Culture Cutting Lecture [re P.P. 417; article, ditto, ms. notes]

Series 1.2: Graduate Course Materials

	15	Notes for Virology Course [notes, articles, papers, corr. re development of P.P. 511]
	16	Plant Virology [P.P. 511 course materials]
	17	[P.P. 511 Group lab reports, 1964]
3	18	[6 student lab report books, P.P. 511, 1966, '68]
	19	[P.P. 511 lab exercise masters]
	20	Nature of Virus Infectivity [notes and masters re P.P. 511]
	21	Slide Series on Virus Symptoms [list]
	22	Origin of Plant Viruses [ditto and revision for P.P. 511]
	23	[Plant Virus Serology: re P.P. 511, Fractions, No. 1, 1972]
	24	[lecture and lab outline, P.P. 512]
	25	[eight P.P. 515 seminar papers, 1958-1973]
	26	P.P. 535 Physiology and Genetics of Parasitism [proposal and course outline, 1969]
	27	Amino Acids and Peptides as Dipolar Ions, Instructor's Copy
	28	Beutler's 1 Shop Development
	29	Freeze Drying
	30	Finagle's Laws [humorous explanation of scientific method]

Series 2: Research Materials
Series 2.1: Named or Numbered Research Projects

4	31	[three P.P. 515 Seminar papers by Shirl Graham, 1953-1954]
	32	Project 253 [1959-1961]
	33	Project 1448 [1959-1963]
	34	Phytoactin Project [1961-1966?]
	35	Veronal Ppt. Fractionalization by Dialysis and Ion Exchange [re Phytoactin Project, 1962]
	36	Ozette Project [1972-1975, w/slides]
	37	Arsenic Study [1973-1974]
	38	Endogone Soybeans [re Project 0204, 1975]

Series 2.2: Anthracnose Related Papers

5	39	Colletotrichum Variability
	40	[P.P. 515 paper "Taxonomic Considerations of Smut Fungi" Yerkes, 1951, and "The Species of the Genus Colletotrichum Cda," ms. Trans from German, 1957]
	41	CHo4 Factors on Anthracnose
	42	Introduction [to Strobel thesis, folder 43?]
	43	"Physiologically Induced Morphologic and Pathogenic Variations of Some Glomerella Cingulata Isolates" [WSU doctoral thesis in Plant Pathology by James W. Strobel, 1960]

Series 2.3: Other Research Papers

	44	Growth Regulator Determinations
6	45	Organelle Concept
	46	[excerpted articles on host-pathogen interaction]
7	47	Bean Mosiac Virus Material
	48	Cranberry Pathogen Isolates and Growth on Media
	49	[excerpts and notes on viral structure]
	50	Germination Inducer Study
	51	Stock Cultures
	52	Media Studies -- setal responses thereto
	53	Differential Media Study Notes and Lit. Review
	54	Differential Media
	55	Extract Additive Studies -- tables
	56	Temperature Studies
	57	Misc. Studies
	58	Pathogenicity and Inoculation Trials
	59	[chapter outline of book on Glomerella Cingulata]
	60	"Plant Pathology Lecture Outlines" by Dr. B. H. Davis, Dept. Plant Path. Rutgers U. Jan. 1940