Guide to the Igor L. Kosin Papers 1946-1977
Cage 344

Summary Information

Repository
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Creator
Kosin, Igor L.
Title
Igor L. Kosin Papers
ID
Cage 344
Date [inclusive]
1946-1977
Extent
7 containers., 3 linear feet of shelf space., 1940 items.
Language
Collection materials are in English.
Abstract
Correspondence, memoranda, circulars, announcements, clippings, and other publications regarding poultry research and academic affairs and committees.

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 344, Igor L. Kosin Papers . Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Biography/History

Igor Leonid Kosin was born in 1911 in Vladivostok, Russia. He and his Russian parents resided in Peking and Manchuria before immigrating to a poultry farm near Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1928.

In 1934, he received his Bachelor of Science in poultry science and went on to earn a Master of Science in genetics in 1936, both from the University of British Columbia. He further pursued his study of genetics at the University of Chicago and was awarded a doctorate in 1943. Dr. Kosin employed his research skills as a geneticist for the Canadian government on a research farm near Ottawa from 1939 until 1946.

Kosin moved to Pullman, Washington in 1946 to begin a thirty-year career of teaching and genetic research at Washington State University. His contributions to the poultry sciences brought him many awards from scientific groups and the poultry industry.

In 1959 he became a part-time instructor of Russian language in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Two years later he relinquished his poultry science teaching duties for a full time foreign language professorship, while maintaining his genetic research activities.

Throughout his tenure at W.S.U., Professor Kosin actively participated on faculty committees concerned with university organization and governance. He retired in 1977 after a long and distinguished career.

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Scope and Content

The papers of Professor Igor Kosin contain correspondence, committee materials, interdepartmental memoranda, professional data, poultry industry information, and general university circulars collected during his career at W.S.U.The papers,which date from 1946 through 1977, are grouped in four series: university committees, agriculture, foreign languages and literatures, and faculty memoranda. His committee papers reflect his interest in university governance, curriculum development in the humanities, and faculty issues. While the bulk of the animal sciences series is devoted to interdepartmental business, very few personal teaching materials are preserved. This series also includes much correspondence between Dr. Kosin and fellow animal scientists concerning agricultural research projects resulting from the Hope-Flannigan appropriations bill of 1946-1947. Paralleling his animal sciences papers is the foreign languages and literatures series that includes faculty conference materials and departmental proposals for alterations in the foreign language programs. The final series includes information and announcements from professional associations aimed at the general university faculty.

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Arrangement

The papers are arranged in four series, each illustrating a facet of Professor Kosin's pedagogical career: university committees, agriculture, foreign languages and literatures, and faculty memoranda. Within each series, the chronological order of each subdivision has been retained. The subdivisions have been placed in alphabetical order within each series, and the original filing order in each folder has been retained.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries: Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) © 1978

http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open for research use.

Acquisition Information

The Igor L. Kosin papers were donated to the Washington State University Library by Professor Kosin in June 1977 (UA 77-18).

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Names and Subjects

Personal Name(s)

Creator(s) :
  • Kosin, Igor Leonid, 1911- --Archives

Subject(s)

  • Russian language--Study and teaching--Washington (State)--Pullman
  • Poultry -- Research--Washington (State)--Pullman
  • Colleges and Universities
  • Agriculture
  • Washington (State)

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Detailed Description of Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series 1: University Committees 

Committee minutes and reports, correspondence, clippings, and other papers.

box folder

Academic Affairs Committee 1971-1973  117 items.

1 1-3

Academic Affairs Committe. Extension Courses Subcommittee 1972-1974  134 items.

1 4-5

Board of Control, Associated Students of W.S.U. 1968-1970  92 items.

1 6-7

Faculty Status Committee 1971-1973  17 items.

2 8

Educational Policies Committee 1971-1972  22 items.

2 9

Faculty Council Advisory Board 1972-1973  34 items.

2 10

Faculty Council Retirement Subcommittee 1969-1976  55 items.

2 11-12

Faculty Executive Committee 1962-1965  30 items.

2 13

Humanities Council 1967-1968  56 items.

3 14-16

Presidential Selection Committee 1965  37 items.

3 17-18

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Series 2: Agriculture 

Interdepartmental memoranda, notes, correspondence, published data, and other papers pertaining to the animal sciences and federal research appropriations (Hope-Flannigan Bill).

box folder

Agriculture Education: Addresses 1962  3 items.

3 19

Curricular Materials 1949-1957  22 items.

3 20

Animal Sciences Department 1963-1971  61 items.

4 21

Departmental Consolidation 1962-1971  17 items.

4 22

Interdepartmental Memoranda 1946-1949  369 items.

4 23-24

Interdepartmental Memoranda 1950-1954  424 items.

4-5 25-28

Hope-Flannigan Bill 1946-1947  68 items.

5 29-30

Hope-Flannigan Bill 1947-1949  128 items.

5-6 31-32

Nutrition Project 1947  19 items.

6 33

Poultry Industry 1946-1958  50 items.

6 34-35

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Series 3: Foreign Languages and Literatures 

Correspondence, conference agendas, faculty memoranda, and language curriculum.

box folder

Foreign Language Conference 1966-1968  12 items.

6 36

Foreign Language Program 1970-1977  23 items.

6 37

Literary Studies Proposal for Ph.D. 1967  3 items.

6 38

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Series 4: Faculty Memoranda 

Administrative circulars of broad W.S.U. faculty interest, and professional association announcements.

box folder

General Memoranda to Faculty 1956-1976  128 items.

6-7 39-42

American Association of University Professors: Announcements 1970  17 items.

7 43

The Professor Switches from Roosters to Russian.  Washington State Review, 7:2. 2-5. Winter 1963 

7 44

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