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Preferred Citation

Winslow Roper Hatch papers, C0099, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Dita Keith Hatch, wife of Winslow Roper Hatch, in 1981.

Processing Information

Processed by Special Collections Research Center staff. Finding aid updated by Amanda Menjivar in March 2024.

Biographical Information

Winslow Roper Hatch was born 1908 in Lexington Massachusetts. He graduated with a Bachelor's 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, published 1965 by U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, and Effectiveness in teaching, published 1960 by U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education. Dr. Hatch passed away in 1980 in Princeton Massachusetts.

Scope and Content

The Winslow Roper Hatch papers 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 in Fairfax County, Virginia.

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

Documents in this collection are arranged by subject.

Related Material

The Special Collections Research Center holds multiple collections on the history of Fairfax County and Northern Virginia.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Education, Higher
• Fairfax County (Va.) -- History
• Fairfax County (Va.) -- Politics and government
• Transportation -- United States