Manuscript Collections - William E. Vogelsang Papers

WILLIAM E. VOGELSANG PAPERS
1 linear foot, 9 linear inches (4 LGA-S boxes)
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library

BIOGRAPHY

William E. Vogelsang was born in California in 1916. He served in the United States Navy during World War II and afterwards worked as a statistician for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Warsaw. He served as an assistant in the Foreign Affairs Task Force during the first Hoover Commission from 1948-1949 and later worked for the United States Agency for International Development, primarily in the Office of International Training. He died on November 22, 1993.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The William Vogelsang Papers contain memos, handbooks, reports, correspondence, and personnel files. The collection documents his work for the United States Agency for International Development. Topics include: economic development in Asia, “brain drain” resulting from youth working in the West, and data delivery systems. The collection also contains material on the Foreign Affairs Task Force of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (First Hoover Commission) and Vogelsang’s navy personnel files. The materials are arranged alphabetically, either by topic or type of material.

FOLDER LIST

Box      Contents

1          United States Agency for International Development
                     American Federation of Government Employees, 1971-1974
                     Evaluation Handbook, 1974
                     Office of International Training, 1970-1980
                              General, 1971-1974 (3 folders)
                              Colombo Plan Consultative Committee, 1970-1972
                              Drug Abuse, 1973-1974 (2 folders)
                              Environmental Training, 1972-1973 (2 folders)

2                            Extension in the Andes, 1971
                              Foreign Aid Systems, 1970-1974
                              Foreign Service Institute School Notes, 1975
                              Host Country Responsibility, 1970-1974
                              Memoranda, 1971-1972
                              Non-Project Training, 1971
                              Non-Voice Communications, 1975 (4 volumes)
                             
3                            Open Forum Ideas, 1977
                              Open Forum Meetings, 1975-1980
                              Personnel Training, 1970-1974
                              Printed Materials, 1973-1975
                              Program Development Branch, 1972
                              Review, 1971
                     South-East Asia Projects
                              General, 1968-1970
                              Meetings in Thailand and Japan, 1960
                     Strategic Arms Limitations Talks II, 1978-1979
                     Technical Assistance Office
                              Communications System Report, 1978

4                            Memoranda, 1980-1981
                              Project Papers, 1980
                              Reports, 1977
                              Russian Related Materials, 1976-1979
            Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch
                     Foreign Affairs Task Force, 1948
                     Foreign Affairs Task Force Report, 1948
                     Proposed Report, 1948
                     Recognition of Service, 1948-1949
            Personal Papers
                     Correspondence, 1966-1976
                     Navy Service, 1941-1946 (3 folders)