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George A. Condon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WSUV-SpeColl-008

Scope and Contents note

This collection contains mixed materials created and compiled by George A. Condon during his tenure as director of the Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education between 1985 to 1989. Materials date between 1982 and 2013 and include documents, academic pamphlets, letters, emails, interview notes, newspaper clippings. Of note are the early academic programs from the Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education and WSU at Vancouver from the of Fall 1986 to Spring/Summer 1989-90.

Dates

  • Between 1982 to 1990, 2000, 2002, 2010 to 2013

Creator

Biographical/Historical note

George A. Condon, Ph.D. was the eldest of three children and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. His father worked for Ford Motor Company and was a government employee for the city of Detroit. His mother was a math teacher and high school counselor. Condon attended Catholic grade school and later Detroit-Redford Public High School. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, all in political science. Condon spent time as a legislative staff assistant to political leaders including Governor Dan Evans of Washington State, U.S. Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and Speaker John McCormack of the U.S. House of Representatives. Condon was a member of the WSU political science faculty from 1961 to 1969. He directed WSU’s division of governmental studies and services, a research and service unit, from 1964 - 1969. He later became Dean of the University of Wisconsin Center at Rock Creek, Dean of Academic Administration at California State University, Northridge, and Vice President and Dean of Faculty of Shepherd College in West Virginia. Condon became the Academic Vice President of the College of the Virgin Islands, now known as University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas and St Croix, in 1981 and in 1983-1984 served as the acting president. He became the new director for the Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education in Vancouver, Washington on August 15, 1985. The Joint Center, a consortium between Clark College, Evergreen State College and Washington State University, was a precursor to WSU's branch campus in Vancouver. The Joint Center was initially located at Hudson's Bay High School before operations moved to Bauer Hall on the Clark College campus.

Condon officially left on August 24th 1989 from the Joint Center after four years to take a position as Director of Regional Education and Dean of the Stockton Center at California State University, Stanislaus. Condon joined the University of the Pacific in 2002, focusing on undergraduate experiential learning, developing and administering the Jacoby Center's Sacramento and Washington, DC internship programs in the office of Washington State's governor and in the U.S Congress. He also contributes to various civic leadership programs sponsored by the Jacoby Center and the Division of Student Life.

Extent

0.834 Linear feet (. 2 Boxes,) : mixed materials

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Documents, letters, and correspondence created and compiled by George A. Condon during his career as the director for the Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education from 1985 to 1989 and some materials such as emails, an oral history interview, and other items compiled at later dates. Collection is accessioned under WSUV.2013.007.

Arrangement note

The collection is contained in two document boxes. Files are organized numerically in folders with brief content headings. There is no series for this collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The documents were donated to the Office of the Chancellor in 2013. These were then transferred to the Archives and Special Collections under the accession (SC-WSUV-2013-007). In 2019 an additional letter was added to the collection, which the Office of the Chancellor had discovered. This was accessioned as SC-WSUV-2019-002 and placed in the collection. The contents of this letter from George Condon concerns his perspective on issues confronting the Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education.

Title
Guide to the George A. Condon Collection
Author
Finding aid prepared by Summer Fontenot; Robert Schimelpfenig
Date
April 2014
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Washington State University Vancouver, Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave
Vancouver WA 98686 United States
360-546-9249