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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Paul Robert Hanna Papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0145
Physical Description:
4 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1949-1970
Summary: Includes
correspondence and notes concerning Stanford and the School of Education, Stanford Research
Institute, the Jacks family fund, and other related issues.
Language of Material:
Undetermined .
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Paul R. Hanna, 1975.
This collection is 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:
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Paul Robert Hanna Papers (SC0145). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Professor of Education at Stanford (1936-74; emeritus 1974-1988), Director of Stanford
University Services (1942-44), Director of the Stanford International Development Education
Center (SIDEC) (1963-68) and Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution
(1974-1988).
Paul Robert Hanna was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on June 21, 1902, to George Archibald and
Regula Figi Hanna. Hanna spent most of his youth in Minnesota. He graduated high school in
1920 and married Jean Shuman in 1926. Paul and Jean Hanna had two sons and a daughter, John
(born 1930), Emily (born 1932), and Robert (born 1934) and lived in the Hanna-Honeycomb
House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Throughout his school and college years, Hanna belonged to many organizations such as the
Kappa Delta Rho, Student Council, and the Extemporaneous Team. He attended college from 1924
to 1929 to earn his Ph.D. degree which led him to become a teacher in Washington State
University and in 1935 became an associate professor at Stanford University (Nelson). He had
studied and taught elementary education, social studies, and he had improved the education
of spelling as well as had his say in the international development of education.
Additionally he consulted public schools and revised their curriculum. Paul R. Hanna had
also a strong community relationship with his students and kept in contact with them long
after they had graduated.
As an associate professor Hanna taught and developed a wide variety of courses. He advised
on doctoral dissertations, founded the Stanford International Development Education Center
(SIDEC), served on the Board of Trustees of Castilleja from 1957–1981, and worked as a
senior researcher in the Hoover Institution in his last years to generate the Hanna
Collection. Hanna wrote over eighty educational essays, sixteen books and several yearbooks
before he died at age 85, on April 8, 1988.
Includes correspondence and notes concerning Stanford and the School of Education, Stanford
Research Institute, the Jacks family fund, and other related issues.