Guide to the Paul Robert Hanna Papers SC0145

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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.

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Cite As

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.

 

Papers

 

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 3

By-laws revision 1966

Box 1, folder 4

Coladarci, Arthur (Dean), general correspondence 1970

Box 1, folder 5

Comparative education, Committee on 1964-1965

Box 1, folder 6

Convocation 1962 June 27

Box 1, folder 7

Cubberly conference 1967

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 24

Policy committee 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 26

Quillen, Dean 1961-1968

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 41

Travel funds 1967-1968

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 46

Bookstore, Stanford 1966

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 4, folder 3

Asilomar 1960 October 10

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 21

ROTC (Shockley) 1970

Box 2, folder 22

Schramm, Wilbur 1955-1965

Box 2, folder 23

SRI (Stanford Research Institute), Taiwan contract 1961

Box 2, folder 24

SRI, Taiwan project 1962

Box 2, folder 25

SRI 1969

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