Collection ID: 4.11.675

Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Ketter, Robert L., 1928-1989 and University Archives
Abstract:
14 volumes of University at Buffalo President Robert L. Ketter's appointment books. Ketter was President from 1970-1982.
Extent:
.6 Linear Feet and 1 manuscript box, 1 half manuscript box
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Description and date of item], Box/folder number, 4/11/675, Robert L. Ketter appointment books, 1969-1981, University Archives, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Background

Scope and Content:

14 volumes of University at Buffalo President Robert L. Ketter's appointment books. Ketter was President from 1970-1982. The appointment books were kept for Ketter by Edna Thill, Secretary to the President.

Biographical / Historical:

Robert Lewis Ketter was born in 1929 in Welch, West Virginia; earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Missouri, Columbia in 1950; earned an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in 1952 and a Ph.D., also in civil engineering, at Lehigh in 1956, where he taught as associate professor.

In 1958 he came to the University of Buffalo to act as chair of the Civil Engineering Department, and in 1965 was named Dean of the graduate School. In 1967 Ketter became Vice President of Facilities Planning, where he would be responsible for much of the planning, design and construction of UB's new Amherst Campus.

In 1971 Ketter was made President of the University, a post he held until 1982 in addition to teaching civil engineering. In 1985 he was named Director of UB's Earthquake Engineering and Systems Dynamics Laboratories, and in 1986 Ketter was instrumental in obtaining a grant from the National Science Foundation to found the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, of which he was also Director. In 1986 the University named a building after Ketter (home to the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering). He was recipient of several honorary degrees, including a Doctor of Engineering form Lehigh University, 1986, and a Doctor of Science from Kyoungpook University, S. Korea, 1973. Ketter died in 1989.

Acquisition information:
Robert L. Ketter appointment books were gifted to University Archives by Robert L. Ketter, in December, 1982 as accession 82-107.
Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff, date unrecorded; finding aid encoded by Amy Vilz, May 2019.

Arrangement:

Chronological.

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

Robert L. Ketter appointment books are open to researchers.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and University Archives before requesting photocopies and/or publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Once permission is obtained, most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.

PREFERRED CITATION:

[Description and date of item], Box/folder number, 4/11/675, Robert L. Ketter appointment books, 1969-1981, University Archives, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
420 Capen Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260, United States
CONTACT:
716-645-2916
lib-archives@buffalo.edu