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John R. Hubbard papers
Collection
Identifier: 5009
Abstract
John R. Hubbard served as the eighth president of the University of Southern California from 1970 to 1980, during which time the university rose from 33rd to 19th in National Science Foundation rankings for federally sponsored research. During that decade, applications for admission to USC rose from 4,100 in 1970 to more than 11,000 in 1979, and the mean grade point average for admitted freshmen vaulted to 3.4 on a 4.0 scale. Prior to joining USC, Hubbard served as President of Newcomb...
Dates:
1935-1988
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
USC Library of Aeronautical History Charles Hannah collection on aviation
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0059
Abstract
Correspondence, documents of Western Air Express; Hannah was a passenger agent at the San Francisco office of Western Air Express. WAE, later Western Airlines, was chosen in 1928 for a "model passenger" project founded by the Guggenheim Foundation to establish a passenger service line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The collection is made up of the internal papers (tapes, and interoffice memos and dispatches) of San Francisco passenger office. The collection also contains a framed...
Dates:
1928 - 1930
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
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