Charles W. Hagen, Jr. papers, 1946-1989, bulk 1959-1965
A Guide to his Papers at the Indiana University Archives
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Summary Information
Repository
Indiana University Archives
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Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives
Creator
Hagen, Charles William, 1918-1996.
TitleCharles W. Hagen, Jr. papers, 1946-1989, bulk 1959-1965
Collection No.
C244
Extent
1.8 cubic feet
Language
Materials are in English.
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.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Advance notice is required.
Biographical Note
Charles William Hagen, Jr. was born March 21, 1918 in Spartansburg, S.C., and spent his
childhood in East Orange, N.J. Upon completion of high school, Hagen enrolled at Cornell
University in 1935, graduating in 1939. He went on to receive a Ph.D. in Botany from
Indiana University in 1944.
While a graduate student at IU, Hagen married Mary Margaret Swan on Dec. 23, 1942. The
couple had three boys: Charles William III, David Carl and Ronald Eric. He worked at
Indiana University as a graduate assistant from 1939-1945 and then as an instructor in
the Botany department for another year after graduation, before becoming an Assistant
Professor of Botany in July 1947.
In 1951 Hagen was promoted to Associate Professor and by 1959 he had become a full
professor. He continued his active career until retirement in 1983. After his
retirement, Hagen became a Professor Emeritus and remained an involved member of the
Indiana University community until his death on November 5, 1996, at age 78. His primary
academic area of interest was the basic chemistry of plant development. In addition to
studying and teaching in this field at IU, Hagen was also awarded Guggenheim and
Fulbright grants to spend a year’s sabbatical researching the differentiation within
plant species in Trinidad in 1957.
Throughout his professional career, Hagen took on many administrative responsibilities
in addition to the task of teaching. He served on numerous committees, including the
Faculty Board of Review, a series of committees planning the construction of the IUB
Main Library in the early 1960’s, and a committee to plan a new Molecular Biology
department and building. Hagen also acted as chairman of the IU Division of Biological
Sciences in 1964-1965. Following this responsibility, he served as associate dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences for the 1965-1966 academic year, before settling into the
role of associate dean for academic affairs and facilities planning from 1966-1972.
During the 1960s, Hagen was also a leading member of the University Committee on
Curricular Policies and Educational Programs.
Hagan’s interest in planning resources distribution grew during this period as he dealt
with concerns in physical facilities, personnel, fiscal matters, and services. In 1972
Hagen became the dean for resource development. He further honed his aptitude for
resources planning in 1975 when he accepted the position of director of the Long Range
Planning Office for the Indiana University System. He served in this capacity until his
retirement in 1983. After retiring, Hagen still remained active as the chairman of the
Arboretum Planning Committee, which combined his academic interest in botany with his
skills as an administrator.
Hagen was also an active member of the research community in his field of botany. In
1943, as a graduate student during World War II, he worked in Fort Benning, Georgia, for
the Office of Scientific Research and Development of Columbia University. The same year,
Hagen also began working for the Manhattan Project in a Chicago metallurgical
laboratory. He remained a member of this project until 1946, studying the effects of
radiation on laboratory animals. Hagen continued his interest in research and
development through the mid-1960s as a member of the Aerospace Research Applications
Center.
In addition to working as a teacher, researcher, and administrator, Hagen also belonged
to numerous professional organizations that kept him connected to the science community,
including the Botanical Society of America, American Society of Plant Physiologists,
American Institution of Biological Sciences, American Society of Naturalists, the
American Association of University Professors, and two honorary academic societies – Phi
Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.
As a further means of staying connected with his academic colleagues, Hagen also helped
to organize the 1959 Institute for College Teachers summer program in botany. This
residential program brought together professors from all over the country to give them
“the benefit of personal contact with outstanding scholars; to enable them to become
acquainted with some of the latest developments in important areas of plant science; and
to afford them inspiration and stimulus which will help make them more effective and
persuasive teachers.” (Excerpt of a grant proposal to the National Science Foundation
for a ‘Summer Institute for College Teachers of Botany to be held June 22-July 31,
1959’).
Another facet to Hagen’s career was his involvement with high school science education.
He was a member of the National Science Teachers Association, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and Indiana University’s School Science Advisory
Committee. As part of his leadership in this area, he hosted many high school students
and teachers on the IU campus to foster their interest and ability in the field of
science. He also worked with the School of Education to establish curricular
requirements for specialized certification in the field of science education.
Though Hagen retired from teaching and his work at the Long Range Planning Office in
1983, he stayed on as chairman of the Arboretum Planning Committee through 1989. The
development of the Arboretum next to the Main Library on the site of the old stadium was
a pet project for Hagen. He had served on numerous committees relating to the planning
and building of the Main Library on Tenth and Jordan prior to becoming involved with the
development of the Arboretum in the early 1980s. In planning the library and the
adjacent arboretum, Hagen could see the physical impact of his administrative career at
Indiana University.
The planning of the Arboretum also involved a great deal of his botanical expertise, in
order to identify which specimens the campus already possessed and which new specimens
would thrive in Bloomington’s climate. Hagen collected articles, clippings and catalogs
from and about arboretums around the world. He also corresponded extensively on the
subject, including a series of letters to a botanist in China that established a seed
exchange program between the Beijing Botanical Garden and Indiana University.
In 1965, the Hagen family purchased a home outside of Bloomington in the country near
Yellowwood Lake. Here Dr. Hagen built his own greenhouse and cultivated a personal
collection of plants, with special attention to Bromeliads. As he grew older after
retirement, he moved to the Meadowood Retirement Community in Bloomington and lived
there until his death in 1996.
Arrangement
Organized into four series: Correspondence, Subject files, Committees, and Professional
organizations; Arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Content Note
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.
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries' online
catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the
catalog using these terms.
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Names
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Indiana
University. Dept. of Botany --History --Sources.
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Indiana University
--Faculty --Archives.
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Indiana University
--Faculty --Correspondence.
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Hagen, Charles
William, 1918-1996 --Archives.
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Hagen, Charles
William, 1918-1996 --Correspondence.
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Allan, John R.,
1937- --Correspondence.
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Alston, Ralph E.
--Correspondence.
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Allan, John R., 1937-.
Correspondence. Selections.
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Alston, Ralph E. Correspondence.
Selections.
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Separated Material
Correspondence and files relating to the Long Range Planning Office returned to Accn.
93/008.
Related Materials
The Archives also holds records from Hagen’s tenure as Director of Long Range Planning.
Consult staff for details.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Accessions 93/008 and 96/028
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Preferred Citation
[Item], Charles W. Hagen, Jr. papers, Collection C244, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Processing InformationProcessed by Kate Ball.
Completed in 2004.
Series:
Correspondence, 1951-1967
Box 1
Allan, John R., 1959-1962,
undated
Alston, Ralph E.,
1951-1956
1957-1959
1960-1965
undated
Nowak, Frank E., 1967
Series:
Subject files, 1946-1966
Box 1
Cleland Retirement Dinner, 1963-1966,
undated
Faculty Annual Reports,
1946-1947
1947-1948
1950-1951
1951-1952
1952-1953
1953-1954
1954-1955
1956-1957
1957-1958
1958-1959
1959-1960
1960-1961
1961-1962
1962-1963
1963-1964
undated
Fort Knox Trip, 1961
Institute for College Teachers, 1958-1964,
undated
Radiation Research, 1962-1964,
undated
Series:
Committees, 1955-1983
Arboretum Planning Committee,
Correspondence,
Box 1
1982-1983
1984-1985
1986-1989,
undated
Administrative, 1982-1983,
undated
Maps and Plans, undated
Specimen Lists, undated
Clippings and Articles, 1948-1985
Notes, undated
Committee on Molecular Biology,
1957-1958
1959-1963,
undated
Committee on Library Problems of the Regional Campuses, 1963,
undated
Committee on Provisions Relating to Promotion Criteria, 1955-1960,
undated
Faculty Board of Review,
1959-1960
undated
Honorary Degree Committee, 1963-1964,
undated
Indiana University Heritage Committee,
Library Committee,
1959-1962
1963-1964,
undated
Library Committee, revised, 1963-1964
University Committee on Curricular Policies and Educational Programs,
Correspondence, 1962
Box 2
Meeting Minutes, 1963-1964
Calendar Report, 1962
Reports, 1963
Faculty Document No. 9, 1962
Faculty Council Document No. 13, 1963
Basic Curriculum Study, 1964
Curriculum Policy, 1959-1961,
undated
Regional Campuses,
1962-1963
1964,
undated
Box 3
ROTC,
1959-Mar. 1960
Apr. 1960-Nov. 1960,
undated
School Science Advisory Committee, 1962-1964,
undated
University Promotions Committee, 1962-1964
Series:
Professional organizations, 1953-1965
Aerospace Research Applications Center,
Box 3
General, 1964-1965
Research and Development Management, 1964
American Association of University Professors,
General, 1951-1960
General, undated
Committee on Promotions, Tenure, and Leaves of Absence, 1953-1955,
undated
Secretary, 1955-1957,
undated
Sigma Xi, 1953