Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the Winslow Roper Hatch papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions.

Preferred Citation note

Winslow Roper Hatch papers collection, C0099, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Gift of Mrs. Hatch, 1981.

Processing Information note

Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff.

Biographical note

Winslow Roper Hatch was born 1908 in Lexington, Massachusetts. He graduated with a Bachelors degree from Dartmouth College in 1930 and received his Ph.D in 1934 from Johns Hopkins University where he was appointed a student assistant for Botany classes. After leaving Johns Hopkins, Hatch served as professor and associate dean at the State College of Washington and in 1955 became Dean of the College of General Education at Boston University. In the 1960s Dr. Hatch worked for the U.S Office of Health, Education and Welfare. Dr. Hatch wrote extensively on education throughout his career publishing works such as "Approach to Independent Study" and "Effectiveness in Teaching," both published 1960 by U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, in 1965 and 1960 respectively. Dr. Hatch passed away in 1980 in Princeton, Massachusetts.

Scope and Contents note

The Winslow Roper Hatch collection contains several essays, letters, and publications on primary, secondary, and post-secondary education, written by Hatch and others in his field. The collection also includes papers on parks and old roads.

Series 1 contains education documents. The majority of the documents date from Hatch's time at the Bureau of Research in Higher Education, and pertain to studies conducted by the bureau. The documents are in varying states of completion including project proposals, literature surveys and working drafts. Included with many of the documents is correspondence relating to the content of the documents, the status of the projects and discussion of previously published material.

Series 2 contains documents relating to parks and old roads in the Fairfax, Virginia, area. Documents in Series 2 include letters relating to the preservation of parkland authored by concerned citizens and correspondence detailing Dr. Hatch's own involvement in researching national parkland. Other documents provide information on trails in Fairfax county parkland and information on the benefits of studying old roads. Also included are documents detailing the historic significance of the areas of Fairfax County parklands.

Arrangement note

Documents in this collection are arranged by subject:

Related Material

Special Collections and Archives also holds collections on Northern Virginia and regional history.

Index Terms

Geographical Names:

• Fairfax County (Va.)--History.

Subjects:

• Education, Higher.
• Transportation, Automotive--United States.