University of Arizona Office of the President correspondence files

This Office of the President correspondence collection contains all of the surviving correspondence from the files of the first fifteen sitting and three acting presidents of the University of Arizona, dating 1879 to 1976. The collection is primarily made up of correspondence from the years 1930 to 1976. However, there is no material for the 1969-1970 academic year. From 1969-1970, Richard A. Harvill was in his 18th year as University president. In 1894, Theodore B. Comstock became the first president of the University, though the functions of the president were previously carried out by the first University of Arizona employee appointed by the Arizona Board of Regents, Frank A. Gulley. Material ends with the 1975-1976 academic year, John Paul Schaefer’s fifth year as University president. John Paul Schaefer served eleven years total as the University president.