Guide to the Paul Robert Hanna Papers SC0145
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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.
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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.
Description of the Collection
Includes correspondence and notes concerning Stanford and the School of Education, Stanford
Research Institute, the Jacks family fund, and other related issues.
Stanford University - School of Education
Box 1, folder 1
Advanced Graduate Degrees, Committees on (CAGD) - Subcommittee on Doctoral
Core Requirements
1967 May 23
Box 1, folder 2
Alumni - Stanford Education Club of San Francisco
1968 May 26
Box 1, folder 4
Coladarci, Arthur (Dean), general correspondence
1970
Box 1, folder 5
Comparative education, Committee on
1964-1965
Box 1, folder 8
Dissertation advising loads
Undated
Box 1, folder 9
Elementary education, Committee on
1967 April 18
Box 1, folder 10
Faculty meetings
1963-1967
Box 1, folder 11
Faculty meetings
1965 May 4
Box 1, folder 12
Faculty meetings, original and duplicates
1965 May 4
Box 1, folder 13
Faculty meetings, minutes
1968
Box 1, folder 14
Foundation executives meeting
1963 January 31
Box 1, folder 15
Hanna - reception
1967 August
Box 1, folder 16
Hanna - sabbatical leave
1965 Winter and spring
Box 1, folder 17
International development education
1968
Box 1, folder 18
Jacks, David, Chair - Morris Rosenburg
1967
Box 1, folder 19
Jacks, Lee L. - Search meeting
1966-1967
Box 1, folder 20
Jacks, Margaret, Chair - W.E. Lambert
1966-1968
Box 1, folder 21
Joint appointment education and computer science
1968
Box 1, folder 22
Miscellaneous SUSE memoranda
1967
Box 1, folder 23
Peace Corps advisory board
1967
Box 1, folder 25
Quillen, Dean (File #1)
1954 August-1959 September
Box 1, folder 25a
Quillen, Dean (File #2)
1959 October-1967
Box 1, folder 27
Quillen, Dean - Commes on
1966
Box 1, folder 28
Research and development center
1964-1965
Box 1, folder 29
Research and publications, Committee on
1961
Box 1, folder 30
Research associates, Appt. of
1967
Box 1, folder 31
Research training program, Pre-Doctoral, Program Committee of
1966-1967
Box 1, folder 32
Sabbatical leave and retirement chart
1968
Box 1, folder 33
SIDEC (Stanford International Development Center), Advisory Committee
to
1965-1967
Box 1, folder 34
SIDEC - Asian seminar
1968-1970
Box 1, folder 35
SIDEC - Carnoy, Martin
1969
Box 1, folder 36
SIDEC - General correspondence
1969
Box 1, folder 37
SIDEC - Moore, Frank
1970
Box 1, folder 38
Sociology/Education appointment
1966-1968
Box 1, folder 39
Sowards, G. Wesley
1955-1962
Box 1, folder 40
Standing Committee - Lists
Undated
Box 1, folder 42
Visiting committee
1966 November
Stanford University - General
Box 1, folder 43
Academic council, Committees of the
1962-1965
Box 1, folder 44
Advisory Board, Stanford
1961 September 1
Box 1, folder 45
Alumni office, Jack Shoup
1949-1958
Box 1, folder 47
Center in Hong Kong, Stanford
1960
Box 1, folder 48
Center in Japan, Stanford, proposed
Undated
Box 1, folder 49
Center in Japan, Stanford, correspondence
1959-1963
Box 1, folder 50
Correspondence, general
1969-1970
Box 1, folder 51
Executive Committee - Retirement policy
1964
Box 1, folder 52
Foreign students and visitors, Committee on - Subcommittee on curriculum
enrichment
1962-1963
Box 1, folder 53
Hoover Institution - Easton Rothwell
1955-1959
Box 1, folder 54
International studies, Committee on
1958-1959
Box 1, folder 55
International studies, Committee on - sample mailing for special
meeting
1958 November 3
Box 1, folder 56
International studies, Committee on - materials, duplicates
1958
Box 1, folder 57
International studies, Committee on
1961
Box 1, folder 58
International studies, Committee on
1961-1962
Box 1, folder 59
International studies, Committee on - minutes
1962
Box 1, folder 60
International studies, Committee on
1962-1963
Box 1, folder 61
International studies, Committee on
1964 May 20
Box 4, folder 1
The Stanford survey of the behavioral sciences; Report of the executive
committee and staff
1953-1954
Box 4, folder 2
Self-study - report and materials
1961
Box 2, folder 1
International studies, Committee on - Carmel conference
1964 April 30-May 3
Box 2, folder 2
International studies, Committee on
1964-1965
Box 2, folder 3
International studies, Committee on
1965-1966
Box 2, folder 4
International studies, Committee on
1966-1967
Box 2, folder 5
International studies, Committee on, Report on foreign
activities
1960-1965
Box 2, folder 6
International studies, Committee on, Policy matters re: AID/Stanford
contracts
1964
Box 2, folder 7
International studies, Committee on
1963 September 1-1964 August 31
Box 2, folder 8
Land and building development, Committee on
1964-1965
Box 2, folder 9
Land and building development, Committee on
1965-1967
Box 2, folder 10
PACE - Faculty advisory committee for
1961-1962
Box 2, folder 11
PACE - Faculty advisory committee for, Meeting
1964 April 7
Box 2, folder 12
PACE - Professional subcommittee meeting
1964 March 5
Box 2, folder 13
PACE - Meeting
1963 June 4
Box 2, folder 14
PACE - "A look toward Stanford's future." Final report
1964 May
Box 2, folder 15
President-Provost
1958 September 22-24
Box 2, folder 16
President-Provost - Frederick E. Terman
1957-1959
Box 2, folder 17
President's Office - Frederic O. Glover
1956-1964
Box 2, folder 18
President's Office
1963-1968
Box 2, folder 19
President's Office, J.E. Wallace Sterling
1966-1967
Box 2, folder 20
Radio, television and motion pictures
1963-1964
Box 2, folder 22
Schramm, Wilbur
1955-1965
Box 2, folder 23
SRI (Stanford Research Institute), Taiwan contract
1961
Box 2, folder 26
Tressider Memorial Union
1962-1963
Box 2, folder 27
UC - Kerr incident, clippings
1967
Box 2, folder 28
University Policy, Committee on
1965-1966
Addenda, 1983-022 ARCH-1983-022
Box 5
Statement on Stanford University's Involvement in WWII
1978
Addenda, 1983-041 ARCH-1983-041
Box 6
Photocopies of Correspondence re Stanford University, WWII and
SRI
1943-1944