The Herbert McNee Hamlin (1894 - 1968) Papers, 1940 - 1968, document Hamlin's contribution to the progress of vocational education including speeches, articles, publications, correspondence, interviews, reports and his comprehensive position papers resulting from his intensive study of the North Carolina agricultural education situation. A small number of personal materials include photographs, a biography, a bibliography of publications, and a eulogy.
Herbert McNee Hamlin came to North Carolina State University in 1962 after retiring from a distinguished career as professor and chairman of the Department of Vocational Education at the University of Illinois. His research, in the capacity of consultant to the Office of the Dean of the School of Education, was a major contribution to the Governor's Study Commission Report, Occupational Education for the Public Schools of North Carolina, in determining the educational needs of farmers throughout their farming careers, the needs of prospective farmers, and how to develop competent agriculture educators.
Born in Brookings, South Dakota, and reared on a farm in southern Minnesota, Herbert McNee Hamlin received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Early influences during his years as an undergraduate at Iowa State led to a long and distinguished career in Vocational Education. Hamlin was a public school teacher in Iowa and a college professor at Iowa State College. He went on to the University of Illinois in 1938 where he served as professor of agriculture education, acting Dean of the College of Education, and as Chairman of the Department of Vocational Education until his retirement.
In 1962, Hamlin came to North Carolina State University as consultant attached to the Office of the Dean of the School of Education and made a major contribution to the progress of vocational education through his comprehensive position papers resulting from the intensive study of the North Carolina vocational education situation. He took a position as Professor of Economics and then Professor of Education in 1964 and was a driving force in the establishment of the Regional Center for Research, Development, and Training in Occupational Education.
The Herbert McNee Hamlin Papers document Hamlin's work in the capacity of consultant attached to the Office of the Dean of the School of Education at North Carolina State University. This work includes a 1962 study of policy and policy-making, research and development in agricultural education reported in position papers to the Division of Vocational Education, Vocational Agriculture Section North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. In addition, state studies, 1963, of vocational education programs are included and interviews, 1967 - 1968, with school superintendents of North Carolina schools with a final report to the Governor's Study Commission, Occupational Education for the Public Schools of North Carolina.
The professional papers are organized chronologically beginning in 1961 with Hamlin's appointment to North Carolina State University and continuing to 1968. They are followed by biographical material, 1940-1968.
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[Identification of item], Herbert McNee Hamlin Papers, MC 00041, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Herbert M. Hamlin Papers, 1911 - 1968, or Reference Series Number 10/9/20, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Archives. Click on the link and search by title.
Donated by the family of Herbert McNee Hamlin in March 1970 (Accession no. 1970-0007).
Processed by Laurence Gavin, 2006 May
Encoded by Laurence Gavin, 2006 May
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[Identification of item], Herbert McNee Hamlin Papers, MC 00041, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.
