Register of the Willard Corwin Fleming Papers, 1940-1968
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Register of the Willard Corwin Fleming Papers, 1940-1968
Collection number: MSS 74-10
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
Contact Information:
- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- June 1990
- Encoded by:
- Brooke Dykman Dockter
© 2000 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Willard Corwin Fleming Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1940-1968
Collection number: MSS 74-10
Creator: Fleming, Willard Corwin, 1899-1973
Extent: 5 cartons
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library.
Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Willard Corwin Fleming Papers, MSS 74-10,
Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Biography
Willard C. Fleming, a native Californian, was born in Sausalito, CA, October 11, 1899, and spent his adolescence there and
in Alameda, CA. After serving in the army in WWI, he entered the College of Dentistry in the 1919-1920 session. A knee injured
in the Army prevented him from graduating with the class of 1922, and he received the D.D.S. degree in 1923, having served
as student body president.
Dr. Fleming became a part-time faculty member in the College of Dentistry in 1924, as instructor in operative dentistry, a
post he held through 1925-26 session. In 1930-31 he became assistant professor in the same subject. Dr. Fleming became Assistant
Dean of the College in 1935, and became Dean in 1939. He held this post until 1965 when he was appointed Dean of Students.
Less than a year later he became Chancellor of UCSF, stepping down from this post in 1969.
An avid curiosity led Dr. Fleming to conduct research in periodontal disease even as a student, publishing eleven articles
in that area 1923-1939. He served as president of the American Association of Dental Schools (1946) and the American College
of Dentists (1951) and chair of the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association (ADA); vice-president of
the AAAS (1955), and Commissioner of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Dr. Fleming received the following
awards: F.A.C.D (American College of Dentists), D.Sc. (University of Southern California). and L.L.D. (University of Toronto
and University of California. In 1967 he received the William John Gies Award of the American College of Dentists and an honorary
fellowship in the National Academy of General Dentistry.
Scope and Content
Papers include correspondence, photographs, biographical materials, appointment books, manuscripts. Order is that maintained
in Dr. Fleming's files by his secretary, Ms. Frances E. Petrocelli. Received 9/27/73.
Carton 1
Outlines for speeches, talks: 1940-68 (6 packets)
Correspondence: 1943-68 (re WCF's book)
Correspondence, F-G, 1943-68
Correspondence, H-K, 1942-67
Biographical materials (3 folders)
Appointment books, 1965-66 (2v.)
Carton 2
MSS of talks, speeches, book reviews, journal articles, 1949-69 (126 folders)
Carton 3
MSS of talks, speeches, journals articles, 1940-48 (14 folders)
Reprints of talks, articles
Appointment books, 1966-68 (3 v.)
Photographs, glass negatives, of early U.C. buildings (1 box)
Carton 4
Correspondence (alphabetical; 24 folders)
Miscellaneous general correspondence, UCSF
Academic Senate--Problems, re: professional schools
American College of Dentists
Willard C. Fleming Award fund
School of Dentistry correspondence
WCF, misc.: educational information
WCF, misc.: "fun" information
WCF misc. correspondence, October 1965-July 1966
WCF date file: Aug. 1966-Aug. 1968 (5 folders)
Dean of students: MU art exhibit and S.F. Mime Troupe
Summer session technical course, technical information, 1963-65
National Library of Medicine, Dr. Dixon
Advisory Comm. Dental Education and Manpower needs, 1963-64
Carton 5
Vietnam consultant, ADA (2 folders)
Comm. on Specialties and General Practice, ACD (2 folders)
Comm. on Honorary Decrees (2 folders)
Interdisciplinary course, Fall 1968
Two statuettes: fireplug, carved wooden figure titled "Der Chefarzt.."
ALSO: Collected reprints from the Calif. Stomatological Research of the University of California, 1923-1934; Willard C. Fleming memorial dinner, 1974
