Overseas Projects and Foreign Visitors File, 1960-80 | University of Illinois Archives
Title: Overseas Projects and Foreign Visitors File, 1960-80
Series Number: 24/2/48
Acquired: 4/20/1981; 11/24/1983
Volume: 6.6 cubic feet
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Description: Subject files, correspondence of University faculty and staff, and visitors' files of the Overseas Projects and Foreign Visitors Office (OPFV) including administrative records; budgets; AID contract information; annual tallies of visitors; information on Agency for International Development, the United Nations, FAO, the USDA Foreign Economic Development Service, and the International Agricultural Research Foundation, inc. programs; College of Agricultural short courses for non-degree visitors; foreign degree students, and International Research Exchange (IREX) visitors. Major correspondents are: Orville Bentley, Dean of College of Agriculture (1965-69); George K. Brinegar, Director of International Programs in Agriculture (1966-70); John B. Claar, V. Brinegar, Agricultural Extension (1965-71); W. E. Harvey, Director of Foreign Training Division (1960-72); Thomas Hoemeke, Director OPFV (1977); Robert W. Jugenheimer, Director of Foreign Visitors (1970-72); and Robert C. Ross, Leader of Agricultural Foreign Visitors, Office of AID Projects (1963-70). The series includes a report by Robert C. Ross, "The Foreign Visitors Program of the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, 1951-66."