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Archives: Guide to Instructional Services Office (Hein, Case, Rasmussen) Records, 1965-1981
Title: Instructional Services Office
(Hein, Case, Rasmussen)
Records
Dates: 1965-1981
Collection number: A-023
Size: 41 document boxes (16.4 cubic feet)
Description: Records of the Office of Instructional Services during the tenures of William Hein (1965-1968), Lewis Case (1968-1974) and Gerald Rasmussen (1974-1978).
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research with the exception of several folders which are restricted due to privacy concerns.
Provenance: Administrative transfer
Processed by: Brian P. McClatchey, 1999
Citation: Instructional Services Office Records, 1965-1981 (A-023), Lane Community College Archives, Eugene, Oregon
Repository:
Lane Community College
Archives and Records Management
Elizabeth M. Uhlig, Archivist
4000 East 30th Avenue
Eugene, Oregon 97405 USA
Telephone: (541) 463-5466
Fax: (541) 463-3996
E-mail: archives@lanecc.edu
Administrative History
The Office of Instruction was created when Lane Community College was established in 1965. The name of the department has changed over the years: Office of Instruction, 1965-1974; Instructional Operations, 1974-1978; Office of Instruction, 1978-1986; Instructional Branch, 1986-1994; and Instructional Services, 1994-1997. In 1997, it was combined with Student Services to become the Instruction and Student Services Office.
The first dean of instruction was William Hein, who served in that capacity from the establishment of the office until 1968. His successor was Lewis E. Case, who served as dean until 1974. At that time, Gerald Rasmussen was named dean of instructional operations.
Biography: Lewis Case
Lewis Case received a B.A. from Syracuse University in 1950, an M.A. also from Syracuse in 1963, and an honorary LLD from Harding College in Searcy Arkansas in 1965. From 1950 to 1957 he was a Church of Christ minister serving congregations in Texas. He began work on his master's degree in 1957 at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 1960, he left to become dean of students at Ohio Valley College in Parkersburg, West Virginia. In 1963, he became vice-president of the college, and in 1964, he was named president. He came to Lane Community College in 1966 to serve as a speech instructor, and in 1967, he became assistant dean of instruction. Later that year, he was named dean to replace William Hein. |
Lewis Case,
c. 1969-1970 |
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Biography: Gerald Rasmussen
Gerald Rasmussen spent 21 years at Lane Community College in a variety of positions. He was among the handful of Board of Education members and staff who, in late 1965, toured California community colleges and came back to create the educational plan which guided the development of the community college academically and architecturally. He said "I was fortunate beyond belief to come in at the start of a new institution. and to be on the team which so successfully achieved what it set out to do."
He started to teach at Lane in 1965 as a history instructor, and served as the head of the social science department (1965-1967). In 1967, he became the Associate Dean of Instruction (1967-1974), then the Dean of Instruction (1974-1986). The title of the office changed in 1983 and he was known as the Vice President of Instruction.
Before coming to Lane in 1965, Rasmussen served in the United States Navy (1944-1945). He was a physical education teacher at an elementary school in Redmond, Oregon (1951-1953); a graduate assistant at the University of Oregon (1953-1954); a high school social studies teacher and chairman of the social studies department in Albany, Oregon (1954-1957); a history and political science instructor at Grandview College in Des Moines, Iowa (1957-1963), a Fullbright Lecturer at Danish Teacher's Colleges, Denmark (1963-1964); and an instructor at Lower Columbia Junior College in Longview, Washington (1964-1965).
He spent a year at Askov Folk College, in Askov, Denmark, as a foreign student in humanities (1948-1949). He obtained both a B.S. (1951) and M.A. (1960) in history from the University of Oregon. |
Gerald Rasmussen, c. 1968-1969 |
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Scope & Content Note
The Instructional Services Office Records document the history of the Instructional Services Office from 1965 to 1981. The collection contains primarily administrative records dealing with the department as a whole as well as programs within the larger college.
The collection is divided into four series.
- Series A: Correspondence, 1968-1979
- Series B: Subject Files, 1961-1980
- Series C: Academic and College Planning Records, 1974-1977
- Series D: Vocational Instruction Packages, 1972
The new accession number is A-023. The records were originally accessioned into Archives and Records Management as 77-06, 78-017, 78-020, 78-038, 79-049, 79-053, 80-064, 81-014, 81-039, 81-041, 81-044, 81-071, 81-076, 82-007, 82-013, and 82-015.
Finding Aid
For a detailed finding aid which includes a complete list of the contents of this collection, refer to:
Related Resources
Instructional Services Office (Rasmussen, Belcher, Ellison, Warford) Records, 1966-1997 (A-052). This collection includes administrative and departmental records for the Office of Instruction from 1974 to 1997. Four vice presidents are represented in this collection: Gerald Rasmussen (1974-1986), Jacquelyn Belcher (1986-1990), Jim Ellison (1990-1995), and Larry Warford (1994-1997).
Willamette Writers Guild Records, 1976-1986 (A-046). This collection contains Willamette Writers Guild records including correspondence, project and topic files, poems, and biographical information on poets and writers.
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