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Call Number: SC0989
Creator:
Nelson, Lyle M.
Title: Lyle M. Nelson papers
Dates: 1961-1991
Bulk Dates: 1961-1977
Physical Description:
1 Linear feet
Summary: This matierials primarily pertain to Nelson's work as director of university relations and includes correspondence, reports,
memoranda, clippings, articles, and other materials. Subjects include academic freedom and the H. Bruce Franklin case, issues
pertaining to plans for the Ladera Dam, the indirect cost controversy of 1991, and the independence of the STANFORD DAILY
and the 1977 legal case of Zurcher v. Stanford. Correspondence is largely congratulatory on Nelson’s career at Stanford, but
does include other issues. There are also materials on the White House Conference on Education in 1965 that Nelson helped
to organize.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
This materials are open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Lyle M. Nelson Papers (SC0989). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Nelson, emeritus professor of communication at the time of his death in 1997, came to Stanford in 1961 as director of university
relations. In 1968 he became executive head of the department of communication and served as the department's chairman from
1972 to 1979. He was named the Thomas M. Storke Distinguished Professor of Communication in 1973. In the early 1970s, Nelson
helped raise funds to back the STANFORD DAILY's protest of a Palo Alto police raid on its offices, a case the DAILY lost in
the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1984, Nelson won the Kenneth M. Cuthbertson Award, Stanford's highest honor for exceptional service
to the university.
This materials primarily pertain to Nelson's work as director of university relations and includes correspondence, reports,
memoranda, clippings, articles, and other materials. Subjects include academic freedom and the H. Bruce Franklin case, issues
pertaining to plans for the Ladera Dam, the indirect cost controversy of 1991, and the independence of the STANFORD DAILY
and the 1977 legal case of Zurcher v. Stanford. Correspondence is largely congratulatory on Nelson’s career at Stanford, but
does include other issues. There are also materials on the White House Conference on Education in 1965 that Nelson helped
to organize.
Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934-
Nelson, Lyle M.
Academic freedom.
Ladera Dam (Calif.)