Collection ID: C244
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Summary

Creator:
Hagen, Charles William, 1918-1996
Abstract:
Charles W. Hagen was an Indiana University alumnus, administrator and professor of botany. The collection of his papers is organized into four series including correspondence, reports and subject files. Prominent in the subject files series are Hagen's faculty annual reports spanning 1946-1964. Frequent correspondents in the collection include former students John R. Allan and Ralph E. Alton.
Extent:
1.8 cubic feet
Language:
Materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

[Item], Charles W. Hagen, Jr. papers, Collection C244, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

Albert Ludwig Kohlmeier was born on March 24, 1883, in Mackey, Indiana, the grandson of German immigrants. He graduated from Oakland City High School in 1900 and taught at a one-room schoolhouse in southern Indiana from 1901 to 1903. Kohlmeier attended Indiana University from 1903 to 1908 and received a Bachelor of Arts in History. During this time, he continued to work as an educator at his old high school.

Kohlmeier married Lucie Mayhall, one of his pupils, on September 14, 1910. After graduating from IU, he attended Harvard where he earned an MA in history in 1911. Kohlmeier then returned to Indiana University as an instructor of history. He was made assistant professor in 1914, and associate professor in 1917. He earned a doctorate in history at Harvard in 1920. In 1921 he was appointed full professor at Indiana University, where he continued to teach even after his retirement in 1953. His specialties were colonial history, American diplomatic history, and American historiography. He was respected as a public lecturer on topics of American history. He retired as head of the History Department in 1948, and became professor emeritus in 1953, but he continued to lecture and serve on committees until his death on December 28, 1964.

Lucie Charlotte Mayhall Kohlmeier was born on February 9, 1891 to George and Nancy Mayhall in Oakland City, Indiana. She married Albert Kohlmeier on September 14, 1910. Lucie was a singer who performed at a variety of meetings and events in Bloomington. She was a soloist and a choir member in the First Presbyterian Church in Bloomington. Lucie was also active in the Indiana University community including being a member of the Women's Faculty Club. After the death of her husband in 1964, she remained active in university organizations and corresponded with family members and descendants in the US and Germany about family history. Lucie died on July 27, 1977. In her will, she provided that the residue of her estate come to IU for the endowment of scholarship funds, one to be known as "The Albert L. Kohlmeier Scholarship in American History," and the other as, "The Lucie M. Kohlmeier Scholarship in Voice."

Scope and Content:

The collection is organized into 4 series-Correspondence, Subject files, Committees, and Professional Organizations.

The Correspondence series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent and then chronologically within each folder. This is not a comprehensive collection of all of Dr. Hagen's correspondence; yet, the correspondence with John R. Allan and Ralph E. Alston demonstrate Dr. Hagen's interaction with his students as they developed their own graduate studies and post-graduate careers.

The Subject files are also arranged alphabetically and cover a variety of endeavors that Dr. Hagen undertook in his professional life, including organization of the summer Institute for College Teachers' 1959 conference at IU, Dr. Ralph Cleland's retirement dinner in 1963, and a large collection of Faculty Annual Reports, which is arranged chronologically by academic or fiscal year. Each report period ranges from 1 July to 31 June the next year. Some undated notes and additional material are grouped together at the end of this subseries in an 'undated' folder.

The Committees series consists of the committee files in Dr. Hagen's papers. The committees are arranged in alphabetical order, and some larger committees are further arranged by subject or document type. All individual folders are arranged chronologically. Some highlights include the University Committee on Curricular Policies and Educational Programs (UCCPEP), which oversaw curricular issues for the entire Indiana University System; several committees relating to the planning of the IUB Main Library, and the Indiana University Heritage Committee and Arboretum Planning Committee files that relate to the development and management of green areas on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington.

The Professional organizations series features a few of the organizations in which Hagan was an active member: the Aerospace Research Application Center, the American Association of University Professors, and the Sigma Xi honorary society in life sciences. The organizations are arranged in alphabetical order and further arranged within each organization by subject to preserve Dr. Hagen's original order. The material in individual folders in this series is arranged chronologically.

Acquisition information:
Accessions 93/008 and 96/028
Processing information:

Processed by Kate Ball.

Completed in 2004.

Arrangement:

Organized into four series: Correspondence, Subject files, Committees, and Professional organizations; Arranged alphabetically.

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Charles W. Hagen, Jr. papers, Collection C244, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
Herman B Wells Library E460
1320 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7000, United States
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
812-855-1127
archives@indiana.edu