John M. Finney papers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains material pertaining to Finney's time as both a student and as the Registar at the University of Puget Sound. The student records include class schedules, class notes, assignments, syllabi, essays and an undergraduate thesis, and records. The Registar records include minutes of the faculty senate and curriculum committee, historical enrollment records, information related to former President Ron Thomas' inauguration, a photo album of Todd Field construction, and records of the ILACA London program, among other things.
Dates
- Creation: 1963-1986
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1963 - 1967
Creator
- Finney, John Montfort (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is available for research.
Biographical / Historical
John Montfort Finney (b. 1944) was graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 1967. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1969 and 1971, respectively. After service on the Washington State University faculty, he returned to the University of Puget Sound in 1976 as Registrar and Director of Institutional Research, in which capacity he served until 1989. From 1989 until his retirement in 2007 he served as Associate Dean and University Registrar. In 2007 Finney became faculty emeritus and began service as a volunteer in the university archives. His principle activities have been digitizing the photograph collection and writing a “From the Archives” column for the UPS alumni magazine Arches.
Extent
7 Linear Feet (4 bankers boxes and 7 binders) : 1 box and the binders are in Archive vault; 3 of the bankers boxes are in RMS
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains material pertaining to John Finney's time as both a student and as the Registar at the University of Puget Sound. The collection contains class schedules, class notes, assignments, syllabi, essays and an undergraduate thesis, UPS Boggle Players Association records, minutes of the faculty senate and curriculum committee, historical enrollment records, information related to former President Ron Thomas' inauguration, a photo album of Todd Field construction, and records of the ILACA London program, among other things.
- Title
- Guide to the John M. Finney Student Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Elizabeth Knight and Patt Leonard
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for preparing this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Puget Sound, Archives & Special Collections Repository
Collins Memorial Library
1500 N. Warner Street #1021
Tacoma 98416-1021 United States us
archives@pugetsound.edu