J. E. Wallace Sterling, President of Stanford University, records, 1913-1969 (inclusive), 1949-1969 (bulk)

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Abstract: Papers primarily represent his years as President of Stanford University and include correspondence, memoranda, proposals, speeches, minutes, reports, budgets, clippings, and legal papers. Some files predate his term as president; there is a separate series pertaining to the Hoover Institution, 1948-68. Collection also includes Sterling's class notes, lectures, manuscripts, and professional correspondence, 1925-1949.

Associated with	Sterling, J. E. Wallace (John Ewart Wallace), 1906-1985

Subject	Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.
Subject	Stanford University > Administration
Subject	Stanford University > Presidents
Subject	Universities and colleges > Administration

Biographical/Historical	President of Stanford University 1949-1968. Sterling earned his a.b. in history at the University of Toronto in 1927; he taught at the University of Alberta while pursuing graduate work there, 1928-1930. He came to Stanford in 1930 to pursue his doctorate, which he received in 1938; while at Stanford, he was also a research assistant in the Hoover Library and taught in the History Department. From 1938 to 1948 Sterling taught at the California Institute of Technology, where he was elected chairman of the faculty in 1944. He had been Director of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery for five months when he accepted the presidency of Stanford University. During his 19 years as president, Stanford's endowment nearly doubled, the faculty increased 170 percent, graduate programs were improved, major building plans were completed, the Medical School was moved to campus from San Francisco, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center was built. After his retirement in 1968, Sterling was named University Chancellor. He died on July 1, 1985.
Location	Location Finding aid
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/pd636zg5695

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