Robert W. MacVicar Papers, 1942-1995

The correspondence in series 1 documents interactions between MacVicar and friends and colleagues concerning MacVicar's retirement from OSU as well as his receipt of various honors and accolades, community speaking engagements, the economic and political state of higher education in Oregon, Southern Illinois University, and international projects MacVicar pursued as a consultant.

Primarily made up of journal article reprints, the publications organized into series 2 also include membership directories, a chapter from an annual report, and notes for a eulogy in honor of former OSU president James Jensen.

Series 3 includes a collection of items from MacVicar's two-year stint as Chancellor of Southern Illinois University (SIU). The materials from SIU consist of three yearbooks, a membership directory, internal reports on student unrest, and an underground student newspaper.

Series 4 pertains to various projects pursued by MacVicar, primarily after retirement, as a consultant or committee member. The series includes budgetary materials, correspondence, donor lists, grant proposals, meeting minutes, reports, publications, studies, survey records, and treasurers' reports. These materials have been arranged into five sub-series addressing: 1. the development of NorthWestNet by the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium; 2. Peruvian agriculture; 3. pharmacy education in the northwest; 4. a proposed superconducting super collider facility in Oregon; and 5. various projects including the impact of Ballot Measure 5, and a Sea Grant Program in Latin America. Sub-series 5 also includes documentation of work conducted by the United Nations Day Committee (for the State of Oregon) and the Benton/Corvallis Library Art Committee.

Series 5 is primarily made up of certificates of recognition presented to MacVicar by various Corvallis service organizations, honor societies, OSU clubs, and various branches of the U.S. armed forces, the majority of them honoring MacVicar for his service to OSU and his involvement in the military. In addition to an honorary doctorate from Dankook University in Korea, this series features small posters of poetry and sayings, including a copy of a poem read by William Stafford, Poet Laureate of Oregon, at the second inauguration of Victor Atiyeh as Governor of Oregon in 1983. The photograph and prints in series 5 consist of an image of John E. Kirkpatrick, (who was a major supporter of the Oklahoma technical branch campus in Oklahoma City), a print of the Memorial Union by Alma Schulmerich, and a print of a doorway in "Old Kuwait".