Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 9/6/51
John B. McClelland (1896-1985)
Papers, 1917-1986


Descriptive summary

creator:

John B. McClelland (1896-1985)

title:

Papers

dates:

1917-1986

extent:

0.84 linear ft. (2 document boxes)

collection number:

RS 9/6/51

repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

John B. McClelland Papers, RS 9/6/51, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Biographical note

John Barnhart McClelland was born in New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, on January 7, 1896. He received his secondary education at Wooster Academy, Wooster, Ohio. He attended the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, and the Ohio State University, from which he earned a BS in Agriculture (1921), an MS (1927), and a PhD (1940).

He served with the Army Engineers in a Forestry Unit during the First World War. He taught vocational agriculture at Sidney High School, Sidney, Ohio (1921-1922) and served as an instructor in the Department of Agricultural Education at the Ohio State University (1922-1926), also working as critic teacher of vocational agriculture at the Grove City High School and as itinerant teacher trainer during that period. He served as Assistant Supervisor of Vocational Agriculture in the Ohio Department of Education (1926-1934); Director of Ohio Emergency Adult Education, United States Office of Education (1935); and assistant professor in Agricultural Education at The Ohio State University (1936-1938). He then became a professor of Agricultural Education at ISU (1939-1966). He retired in 1966.

He was active in international agriculture, working abroad in Iraq, Pakistan, and the Philippines. In the Philippines he was associated with the Mountain View College, a Seventh Day Adventist mission college located on the island of Mindinao not far from the Mindinao Agricultural College, for three years.

McClelland died December 20, 1985.

 

Collection description

The McClelland Papers (1917-1986) consist of materials documenting McClelland's time in the Philippines with Mountain View College and the Mindinao Agricultural College.  Also in the collection are his articles and writings, which largely dealt with establishing agricultural schools in non-western nations, and a small amount of biographical information, correspondence relating to World War I, and to Iraq (1952), and some miscellaneous correspondence.

 

Organization

This collection is listed alphabetically.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Biographical Information

1948-1986

2

10

Article: "A Survey of Some Interests, Experiences, 16-25 Years of Age"

1937

2

3

Article: "Follow-up Report of Agricultural Activities Conducted by Participants in the 1961 Agricultural Workshop"

1961

2

4

Article: "Progress in the Introduction of Agriculture in Secondary Schools of East Pakistan"

1965

2

5

Article: "Report of a Mission to Iraq"

1953

2

6

Article: "Some Problems in the Training of Agriculture, Industrial Arts, Commercial Subjects and Home Economics for the Schools of East Pakistan"

n.d.

2

7

Article: "Some Responsibilities of MAC Students"

1959

2

8

Article: "Some Suggestions to be Considered in the Revision of Scheme 19 and in Preparing the 3rd 5-year Plan for Development of Instruction in Agriculture, Commercial Subjects, Home Economics, and Industrial Arts in Multi-Lateral Schools"

1963

2

11

Article: "Teaching Agriculture in East Pakistan," from The American Education Magazine

1965

2

2

Article: "The Development of the Agricultural Programme in the Pilot Schools"

1961

2

1

Article: "The DPI's Request for A Recommendation Concerning a Scheme for the Establishment of Separate Agricultural Secondary Schools Under the Directorate of Agriculture"

1963

2

9

Article: Draft: "Soya Milk Processing and Canning Equipment in Use at Mountain View College, Philippines"

n.d.

1

2

Correspondence

1952

1

18

East Pakistan: Photographs

1965

1

4

Iraq: Correspondence, Pamphlets, News Clippings

1952

1

16

Philippines: Background material and general information

1956

1

9

Philippines: Basic Agreement between Leland Stanford Junior College and the U.S. International Cooperative Administration

1956

1

7

Philippines: Basic Policy Statement Regarding University Contracts

1954

1

10

Philippines: Basic Policy Statement Regarding University Contracts Outline

1954

1

11

Philippines: Contract between the United States and the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior College

1958

1

8

Philippines: Corollary Agreement and Amendment

1958

1

17

Philippines: Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreements between the United States Government and the Government of the Philippines

1951

1

6

Philippines: Education Manual Order

1959

1

14

Philippines: Form Letters and United Nations Brochure

n.d.

1

15

Philippines: Mindanao Agricultural College Publications

1959-1960

1

5

Philippines: Project Proposal and Approval Summary

1955

1

12

Philippines: Reports

1957-1959

1

13

Philippines: Terminal Reports

1959-1960

2

12

Untitled Poem

n.d.

1

3

World War I: Correspondence, Mementos, Photographs

1917-1919