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  • Title: Hubert Gregory Schenck papers
    Date (bulk): 1945-1960
    Collection Number: 50007
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 27 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 8 album boxes, 35 envelopes, 1 oversize folder (22.7 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, reports, clippings, maps, and photographs relating to the Allied occupation of Japan, relations between Taiwan and the United States, and economic conditions in Japan and Taiwan.
    Creator: Schenck, Hubert G. (Hubert Gregory), 1897-1960
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1950, with increments received in 1957, 1959, 1977 and 1996.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Hubert Gregory Schenck papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical Note

    1916 Enlisted in the U.S. Army
    1897 September 24 Born, Memphis, Tennessee
    1920-1921 Geologic aide, Division of Mines, Philippines
    circa 1916-1919 Served in the Coast Artillery Corps
    1923 M.A., geology, University of Oregon
    1922 A.B., geology, University of Oregon
    1924 Married Inga Bergstrom, Berkeley, California
    1926 Ph.D., geology, University of California, Berkeley
    1924-1927 Instructor, field geology course, Stanford
    1926 Appointed to teaching staff as instructor, Stanford University
    1933-1934 Advanced Fellow at the Royal Museum of Natural History of Belgium, Commission for the Relief of Belgium Educational Foundation
    1935 Associate professor, Stanford University
    1927 Assistant professor, Stanford University
    1937-1938 Paleontologist in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, Amiranian Oil Company
    circa 1943-1945 Served in military government posts in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan
    circa 1943 Commissioned as a major in the U.S. Army, trained for Civil Affairs duties
    1940 Professor of Geology, Stanford University
    1951 Promoted to colonel
    circa 1954-1960 Returned to Stanford University on a part-time basis
    1960 June 19 Died, Stanford, California
    1951-1954 Chief, Mutual Security Mission and Economic Cooperation Administration in Taiwan
    1945-1951 Chief, Natural Resources Section, General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Japan

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, reports, clippings, maps, and photographs relating to the Allied occupation of Japan, relations between Taiwan and the United States, and economic conditions in Japan and Taiwan.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Military government
    Taiwan -- Economic conditions
    Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- United States
    United States -- Foreign relations -- Taiwan
    Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952
    Technical assistance, American -- Asia
    Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945-1989
    United States. Army
    Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
    United States. Foreign Operations Administration