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RG 11.2.2 Archibald Ellsworth Minard (Dean, 1919-1949)

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Archibald Ellsworth Minard was born in King's County, Nova Scotia on January 18, 1878. He moved to the United States with his parents in 1889. Minard earned both a bachelor's and master's degree from Harvard University . In addition, he also studied at the University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, and Oxford University in England.

Minard became an instructor of English and Philosophy at North Dakota Agricultural College (NDAC) in 1904. He was head of the English Department and later served as Dean of the School of Applied Arts and Sciences from 1919 to 1949. Minard also served as acting president of NDAC from July to September 1929, after Dr. J.L. Coulter resigned. Minard resigned from his position as dean in 1949, but remained in the school as a professor of philosophy. Minard was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Education Association, and the North Dakota Education Association. In addition, he was author of NDAC's school song, “The Yellow and the Green.”

Minard married twice, first to Gladys May Pease on September 2, 1908. She died December 23, 1939. On August 6, 1941, he married Mrs. Elita Olson McArdle.

Minard died May 9, 1950 in Bethesda, Maryland. Friends and colleagues provided a memorial shelf of books on philosophy and science in the NDAC library in his memory. The science building, which housed the School of Applied Arts and Sciences, was rededicated as Minard Hall on June 4, 1951.

The records consist of three series: Budget Series, Correspondence Series, and Subject File Series. The Budget Series contain budget records of the School of Applied Arts and Sciences from 1911 to 1949. The records include actual as well as proposed budgets for the school as a whole as well as individual departments. There are gaps in the series.

The Correspondence Series contains personal as well as administrative correspondence. The files are essentially left in Minard's filing system--alphabetical by name of individual or organization. The series covers 1926 through 1949. Student discipline files containing correspondence from the 1930s through the 1940s are in Box 2, Folders 1-4 and are Closed.

The Subject File Series includes biennial reports, College Council meeting minutes (1937-1948), and other records. There is information about the preliminary study conducted in 1944 on the feasibility of offering a nursing degree program through the school. Information on local programs offered through the National Youth Administration and Works Progress Administration are also included.

Archibald Ellsworth Minard – biographical information

Budget Series

Budgets - 1911-1922
Budgets - 1921/1922 to 1922/1923, estimates for 1923/1924 to 1924/1925
Budgets - 1923-1924, 1924-1925
Budgets - 1925-1926, 1926-1927, 1927-1928
Budgets - 1928-1929
Budgets - 1929-1930
Budgets - 1929-1930
Budgets - 1930-1931
Budgets - 1931-1932
Departmental Budgets - 1930-1932
Budget Study - Dolve - May 1932
Departmental Budgets - 1932-1933
Budgets - 1932-1933, 1933-1934
Departmental Budgets - 1933-1934
Trial and Sample Budgets for Departments and Division - 1934-1935, 1935-1936, 1936-1937
Division Budgets - 1934-1935, 1935-1936, 1936-1937
Departmental Budgets - July 1934 - June 1935
Departmental Budgets - 1935-1936
Information on Income Tax Returns - 1935-1936
Departmental Budgets - 1936-1937
Budget - 1937-1938
Biennial Budgets Proposed - 1938-1941
Budgets - 1938-1939
Budgets - 1939-1940
Budgets Proposed by Department Chairmen - 1940-1941
Budgets - 1940-1941
Budgets - 1941-1942
Budgets - 1943-1944
Budgets - 1944-1945
Budget Proposals - 1945-1947
Budgets - 1945-1946
Budgets - 1946-1947
Budgets - Summer School - 1947
Budget Proposals - 1947-1949
Budget Proposals - 1948-1949
Budget Proposals - 1947-1948
Budgets - 1948-1949
Budgets - Summer School - 1948
Budgets - 1948-1949
Budget Proposals - 1949-1951

Correspondence Series

Correspondence

A, 1934-1936
B, 1933-1949
C, 1936-1948
D, 1933-1944
E, 1937-1949
G, 1934-1942
H, 1929-1946
H, 1932-1949
Harvard College Committee on Scholarships, 1941-1949
I-J, 1928-1949
Thomas J. Jackson, 1933-1948
K, 1929-1949
L, 1929-1948
M, 1933-1948
N, 1933-1947
Neal, Bigilow, 1926-1937
Nelson, C.I. (Dr.), 1939-1943
O, 1931-1948
P, 1931-1948
R, 1929-1939
S-Sm, 1931-1949
Sn-Sy, 1933-1949
T, U, V, 1930-1949
W, 1931-1949
Wartchow, Beatrice (Physical Education), 1944-1946
X, Y, Z, 1935-1946

Student Discipline (CLOSED FILES, See University Archivist)

1, 1930s-1940s
2, 1930s-1940s
3, 1930s-1940s
Stanley Raymond, 1931-1939

Subject File Series

Biennial Reports

General History (?)
English and Philosophy, 1912-1922
Science & Literature, 1920-1922
Science & Literature, 1924
Science & Literature, 1928
Science & Literature, 1928-1930
Science & Literature, 1930-1932
Science & Literature, 1934
Science & Literature, 1938
Science & Literature, 1942-1948

Board of Higher Education, 1948-1949
Building Requests from departments, 1929-1950
Business Office, 1944
Business Office, S.W. Hagen, 1934-1941
Extension Evening Courses
Faculty, College Council minutes, 1937-1939
Faculty, College Council minutes, 1940-1942
Faculty, College Council Minutes, 1943-1945
Faculty, College Council Minutes, 1946-1948
Faculty, Retirement Policies, 1944-1948
Faculty, Vacations and Sick Leave, 1941-1949
Geology and Geography, 1932-1938
Graduate Program, Minutes of Graduate Committee, 1923-1938
Graduate Program, Surveys and Studies, 1935-1947
Hold Association - Agricultural College
Land Grant Institutions, College Founding and Purpose
Land Grant Institutions, Survey, 1927-1929
Land Grant Institutions, Arts and Sciences Division, 1947-1948
Legislation
National Youth Administration and Works Progress Administration, 1937- 1942
North Dakota Education Association, 1937-1945
Nursing Program - Preliminary Studies, 1944
Phi Kappa Phi, 1932-1946
President's Office, Official Bulletins, Eversull, 1939-1946
President's Office, Dr. Frank L. Eversull, 1938-1947
President's Office, Dr. J.H. Longwell, 1946-1948
President's Office, J.H. Shepperd, 1933-1937
President's Office, Dr. John C. West, 1937-1938
Repairs, 1941
Rhodes Scholarship, 1945-1949
Teaching Load Data, 1932
Teaching Load Data, 1937
Teaching Load Data, 1941
Will, George F.