The Finding Aid of the Chester O. McCorkle Papers
0096
Rob Strauss
The processing of this collection and the creation of this finding aid was
funded by the generous support of the National Historical Publications and
Records Commission.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special Collections and
Archives
December 2018
3801 West Temple Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
speccollections@cpp.edu
909-869-3775
Title: Chester O. McCorkle Papers
Creator: McCorkle, Chester O.
Identifier/Call Number: 0096
Contributing Institution: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special
Collections and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 10.63 Linear
Feet(14 boxes, 1 flat file
drawer)
Date (inclusive): 1940-1967
Abstract: Chester O.
McCorkle served in various educational and administrative roles at Cal Poly from
1932 to 1966, eventually becoming dean of the college for the Kellogg campus in
Pomona. The collection contains administrative records, correspondence, reports and
studies pertaining to curricula and other matters, reports from the Cal Poly Kellogg
Campus to the Kellogg Foundation, records documenting the development of the Cal
Poly Voorhis and Kellogg campuses, and programs for campus events.
Sponsor
The processing of this collection and the creation of this finding aid was funded by the generous support of the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or
reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder# or item name], Chester O. McCorkle Papers, Collection no. 0096,
University Archives, Special Collections and Archives, University Library,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was transferred to the University Library from the President's Office
in 2001.
Biographical / Historical
Chester O. McCorkle was born in 1903 in Watsonville, California and earned a
bachelor's degree and master's degree in agricultural economics from the University
of California, Berkeley. He began his educational career in 1927 at Red Bluff Union
High School in Northern California, where he served as director of agriculture and
as a critic teacher.
In 1932, McCorkle began his long tenure at Cal Poly. At the time, the college only
had the lone San Luis Obispo campus. In 1938, the college added a campus in Southern
California: the Voorhis Unit, which was located on the site of the former Voorhis
School for Boys in San Dimas. That operated as the main Southern California campus
until the Kellogg Campus opened in Pomona in 1956. McCorkle served as head of the
agricultural division and later became assistant to the president of Cal Poly.
McCorkle then took on the role of dean of instruction, eventually becoming
administrative dean of instruction for both the San Luis Obispo and the Kellogg
campuses. Finally, McCorkle became dean of the college for the Kellogg Campus in
1959 and served in that role until 1966.
During his long career, McCorkle remained very involved with agricultural education.
He served as executive secretary for the Future Farmers of America, an assistant
teacher trainer for the Bureau of Agricultural Education for California, and as
president of the California Agricultural Teachers Association.
McCorkle's other roles included serving on the California State Colleges Committee on
Criteria for Occupational Curricula in State Colleges. In 1954, he was part of a
three-man team that traveled to South Korea to examine vocational education needs in
that country. Several years later, he traveled to Alaska to survey agricultural
education in the territory.
After his retirement, McCorkle moved to northern California with his wife, Ava. He
died in 1979. McCorkle and his wife had one son, Chester O. McCorkle, Jr. who taught
agricultural economics and served as dean of the College of Agriculture and
Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis. The younger McCorkle
also was vice president of the university at the University of California,
Berkeley.
Scope and Contents
The collection contains subject files with administrative records; correspondence
from various administrators and on various topics, including the 1961 deaths of Cal
Poly football team members in a plane crash and a charity football game called the
Mercy Bowl Football Classic that was held in their honor; reports and studies
pertaining to curricula and other matters; reports from the Cal Poly Kellogg campus
to the Kellogg Foundation; records documenting the development of the Cal Poly
Voorhis and Kellogg campuses, including an amendment to the 1949 deed from the
Kellogg Foundation and a master plan drawing of the Kellogg campus; and programs for
commencement and other campus events.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Related Materials
California Department of Education, Committee on Standards for Occupational or
Vocational Curricula.
Report of Committee on Standards for Occupational or
Vocational Curricula to the Department of Education, State of California
.
np: Committee on Standards for Occupational or Vocational Curricula, 1950.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Athletic Department Records,
Collection no. 0001, University Archives, Special Collections and Archives,
University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Donald H. Pflueger Cal Poly Pomona History Papers, Collection no. 0007, University
Archives, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Kenneth Haun Kitch Papers, Collection no. 0085, University Archives, Special
Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona.
McCorkle, Chester O.
Report of the Kellogg-Voorhis Committee for the
Coordination of Higher Education in California
. Pomona, CA: California
State Polytechnic College, 1959.
Student Wives' Club Poly-Annas' Records, Collection no. 0078, University Archives,
Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona.
W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center Records, Collection no. 0062, W.K. Kellogg Arabian
Horse Library, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California
State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Separated Materials
The following items have been removed from the collection and added to the Special
Collections and Archives Rare Books Collection.
California State Department of Education.
A Study of the Need for Additional
Centers of Public Higher Education in California
. Sacramento: California
Department of Education, 1957.
California State Polytechnic College.
Annual Report. San Luis Obispo,
CA: California State Polytechnic College, 1958-1959.
California State Polytechnic College.
Annual Report. San Luis Obispo,
CA: California State Polytechnic College, 1959-1960.
California State Polytechnic College.
Annual Report. San Luis Obispo,
CA: California State Polytechnic College, 1963-1964.
California State Polytechnic College Alumni Association.
Green and Gold:
California State Polytechnic College Alumni Review
. San Luis Obispo, CA:
California State Polytechnic College Alumni Association, November 1955.
California State Polytechnic College Alumni Association.
Green and Gold:
California State Polytechnic College Alumni Review
. San Luis Obispo, CA:
California State Polytechnic College Alumni Association, July 1956.
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended
September 30th, 1960
. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York,
1960.
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Fiftieth Anniversary Report and Annual Report
for the Fiscal Year Ended September 30th, 1961
. New York: Carnegie
Corporation of New York, 1961.
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Quarterly
. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, July 1959.
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Quarterly
. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, July 1960.
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Quarterly
. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, January 1961.
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Quarterly
. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, July 1961.
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Quarterly
. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, April 1962.
Processing Information
The collection was processed by Rob Strauss in December 2018. The collection number
was changed from UA2001.15.1 to 0096 and the collection title changed from Records
from the Dean of the College to the Chester O. McCorkle Papers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona --
History
box 1
Accreditation - General and State Board - Engineering Council for
Professional Development Application
1949-1950
box 1
Administration and Organization, California State Colleges (Functions
of)
1952-1955
box 1
Administration Organization for California State Colleges - Leonard
Report
1956 December
box 1
Administration Policies and Procedures for California State College
Presidents (Handbook)
1952-1953
box 1, box 2
Administrative Staffing - Guy West Committee
1952-1958
box 2
Administrative Staffing - Guy West Committee Report
1958
box 2
Advisory Manual - Kellogg Campus
1962 September
box 3
Agricultural Education Survey
1959-1961
box 3
Allocation of Research Funds
1962 December 22
box 3, box 4
Alpha Zeta Fraternity
1947-1962
box 4
Annual Report on Building Program
1960 May 19
box 4
B-2 Planning - Kellogg-Voorhis
1959-1960
box 4
Building Names and Street Names
1960-1961
box 4
Cal Poly History - Kellogg-Voorhis
1949-1956
box 4
Cal Poly Philosophy and Functions
1950-1957
box 4
Cal Poly Student Memorial Fund - Correspondence
1960-1962
box 4
Cal Poly Student Memorial Fund - Minutes
1960-1962
box 4
California Institute for Men (Chino) - Education Advisory
Committee
1961-1963
box 4
California Institute for Men (Chino) - Trade Advisory Committee
Membership Roster
1961
box 4, box 5
California State Colleges Presidents' Meeting Minutes
Index
1956-1958
box 5
California State Polytechnic College Kellogg Unit - Annual Report to
Kellogg Foundation
1950-1963
box 5
California State Polytechnic Motivation Study - Dr. Samuel Bellman,
English Department
1960-1962
box 5
Chancellor's Newsletter
1963 May-September
box 5
College Pay Plan Committee
1954-1955
box 5
Committee on Standards for Occupational or Vocational
Curricula
1950-1954
box 6
Comprehensive Master Planning
1962
box 6
Coordinating Council on Higher Education
1963 June 25
box 6
Correspondence Regarding Students
1963
box 6
Curricula Approved by the State Board of Education
1953-1963
box 6
Curriculum Development - California State Polytechnic College
(C.S.P.C.)
1953
box 6
Deans' Committee - State College (Deans of Instruction)
1950-1956
box 6
Deans of Instruction - Correspondence
1959-1961
box 6
Division Enrollment Summary
1944-1956
box 6
Engineering Curricula Proposed Survey
1950-1951
box 6
Enrollment - Quarterly Reports - San Luis Obispo
1963-1964
box 6
Enrollment - Registration - Kellogg - Internal Reports
1963-1964
box 7
Faculty - Administration Relationships - Kellogg-Voorhis Campus
Committee Report
1959 August 4
box 7
Fall Staff Conference
1958-1961
box 7
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Taken By Majors
1963-1964
box 7
General Education Committee
1961-1962
box 7
General Education Committee - Kellogg-Voorhis
1959-1961
box 7
Graduate Follow-Up Survey
1959 September 1
box 7, box 8
Health Center Services
1959-1964
box 8
Higher Education in California - Joel A. Burkman Report
1940 July 29
box 8
Higher Education in California - Progress Report of the Master Plan
Survey of Public Higher Education
1960 February
box 8
Higher Education in California - Report to Governors and Legislators
of the West
1960
box 8
Higher Education in California - A Statement of Policy Relative to
Fair Practices in Higher Education
1960-1961
box 8
Hotel and Restaurant Management
1951-1958
box 8, box 9
Kellogg Campus - Development
1948-1962
Oversize Flat File 2, drawer 2
Kellogg Campus - Development - Master Development Plan
1953 January 15
box 9
Kellogg Campus - Planning, Curricula, and Development
Materials
1956-1958
box 9
Kellogg-Voorhis Campus - Development
1954-1957
box 10
Kellogg-Voorhis Campus - Planning, Curricula, and Development
Materials
1955-1956
box 10
Kellogg Foundation - Correspondence
1963-1964
box 10
King and Queen of Afghanistan
1963
box 10
Mercy Bowl Committee
1961
box 10
National Science Foundation
1963-1964
box 10, box 14
Photographs - Chester O. McCorkle
before 1967
box 10
Photographs - Chester O. McCorkle Retirement Events
1967
box 10
Photographs - Julian McPhee Honoring Chester O. McCorkle for 25 Years
of Service
1960
box 10
Projected Library Organization
1962
box 10
Pushing Hubby Through (P.H.T.) Ceremony
1959-1964
box 10
Report - Survey of Agricultural Education, Territory of
Alaska
1958 September 1
box 11
Report of the Vocational Education Mission to Korea
circa 1954
box 11
Research Committee
1962-1964
box 14
Resolutions Honoring Chester O. McCorkle
1966
box 11
San Dimas Water Company
1963-1964
box 11
Senate Fact Finding Committee on Agriculture
1962
box 11
Space Allocation Committee
1963 June 28
box 11
Staffing Formula - State Colleges
1960
box 11
State College Committee on Research - Guidelines for Conduct and
Administration of Research in State Colleges
1959 May
box 11
State College Presidents Meeting Kellogg Campus -
Correspondence
1960 June-July
box 11
State Department of Education Organizational Chart
1960 February 3
box 11
State Driver Training
1963 October-November
box 11, box 12
Statistical Reports of the California State Colleges
1957-1961
box 12
Student Leadership Conference
1963-1964
box 12
Student Personnel Division Staff Study Number 1 - Enrollment
Trends
1959
box 12
Student Personnel Division Staff Study Number 2 - Change of Major
Study
1960 June
box 12
Student Personnel Division Staff Study Number 3 - Enrollment
Trends
1960 December
box 12
Student Personnel Division Staff Study Number 4 - Academic
Performance of Selected Groups
1961 February
box 12
Student Personnel Division Staff Study Number 4 - First-Time Freshmen
by Instructional Division and Major
1961 April 14
box 12
Student Personnel Division Staff Study Number 5 - Survey of
Agricultural Placement Trends
1961 January
box 12
Student Personnel Division Staff Study Number 8 - Employer
Recruitment Activity
1961 July
box 12
Student Personnel Division Staff Study Number 12 - Enrollment
Trends
1962 July
box 12
Student Personnel Division Staff Study Number 14 - Annual Report of
Placement Operations and Activities
1962
box 12
A Study of the California State Polytechnic College
Students
1956
box 12
A Study of the Need for Additional State Colleges in Los Angeles
County
1958 December
box 12
Television for the California State Colleges
1963-1964
box 12
Temporary Advisory Committee on Intra-Campus Relations (TACIR)
Minutes
1961
box 12
Voorhis Campus - Easement
1963
box 12
Voorhis Campus - Incorporation of San Dimas
1960-1962
box 13
Western Association of Schools and Colleges
1965-1966
