Financial Aid Office Records (RG 12)
1917-2000 (inclusive); 1917-1963 (bulk)
3.5 cubic feet and one reel of microfilm
Scope and Content Note
Organized into five subgroups: 1. Student Loan Fund, Inc.; 2. Other
Loan Funds; 3. Scholarship Committee; 4. Other Records; 5. Bernard
Daly Educational Fund. Most series
within each subgroup are arranged chronologically. The Student Loan
Fund records include loan applications and committee actions,
correspondence, annual statements, journals and ledgers, and a survey
compiled by the Student Loan Committee on the status of instruction on
personal finance. The Other Loan Funds records include materials
pertaining to the Benson Loan/Scholarship Fund, the Crawford Student
Loan Fund, the Ben Selling Loan Fund, and the Student War Loans
Program. The Scholarship Committee records consist predominately of
reports of scholarships awarded. The Other Records subgroup includes
correspondence, information pertaining to financial aid for women, budget
requests, and policies and procedures. The Bernard Daly
Educational Fund records include correspondence pertaining to the
fund, lists of students who received scholarships, Daly's will and
the legal interpretation of it, annual reports for Oregon State
College and the University of Oregon, biennial audits, and a
thesis by W.H. Kurtz about the impact of the fund on Lake County
students.
Historical Note
Financial aid became available for OSU students in 1911 when the
student loan fund was established. In 1918 the loan fund, valued at
$15,000, was incorporated. Early chairs of the fund included W. M.
Atwood (1918-1948) and William Langan (1948-1966). The Bernard Daly
Educational Fund was established in 1922 to provide scholarships to
students from Lake County. In 1966 a financial
aid committee was established and a centralized financial aid office
was created. Richard Pahre was the first director.
Related Materials
Other materials pertaining to financial aid are available in the Financial
Aid Office Photograph Collection (P
58) and the Memorabilia Collection.
Restrictions
Certain series are restricted; see inventory.
