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Contains files regarding the Big 8/Big 12 Senior Student Affairs Officers' Workshop from 1994-2011 and additional files pertaining to similar workshops from 2001-2017. Materials within the files include graphs, photos, enrollment data, minutes, travel information, and more administrative information from Big 8/Big 12 schools in the context of the annual workshop. Other files contain similar materials regarding their own respective workshops, though these only contain K-State information and correspondence.

This box contains correspondence (including holarship recipient letters of gratitude), photographs, slides, evaluations and comparisons (including Rathbone’s personal record sheet), lists of donors, reference material, depositions, publications, and notes related to the KSU College of Engineering, as well as projects and organizations that Rathbone was involved with. The additional projects and organizations include the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Kemper Military School, and the Kansas State Board of Technical Professions.

This box contains books and booklets related to Rathbone’s personal life, Kansas State University, and other engineering-related works.
The personal items include a Stony Island photo album and the Schenley Journal (the Schenley High School yearbook) volumes from 1950, 1951, 1952, and 1953.
The KSU items include the KSU College of Engineering Alumni Directory volumes from 1986, 1995, 2000, and 2008; The KSU College of Engineering Fact Book volumes from 1990-2000 and 2012-2013; Legacy: Engineering at Kansas State University by Cheryl May; The Impact of K-State Engineering; and Kansas State University: A Walk Through the Campus.
The other engineering-related items include In My Words: The Oral History Project as told by Perdue History printed for Donald E. Rathbone (1939-2021), Burlington Handbook of Mathematical Tables and Forumlas, Engineering: An Introduction to a Creative Profession, 5th Edition (by George C. Beakley, Donovan L. Evans, and John Bertrand Keats), the 1979 Tuttle Creek Hydroelectric Project Feasibility Assessment Report, and The Making of an Engineer by Lawrence P. Grayson.

This box contains two signed K-State volleyballs, one of which has the 2007 Home Schedule printed on it, a deck of playing cards, a Transcriber Company diamond needle, a Pickering Stereo Fluxvalve Cartridge for automatic turntables, a Rolodex with contact information, a certificate of recognition from the House of Representatives to Don and Lynne Rathbone, an album with photos and mementos from Rathbone’s life, and engineering-related tools. These tools include a Hemmi Slide Rule with Don E. Rathbone’s name engraved on it inside a leather case, a Type Ceramic Capacitor Rule, a Pocket Metric Converter, and a Motor Data Calculator.

conferences (youth vs. experiences, the agricultural political economy, agriculture 2000 threat or opportunity), business training (2001 ABA national agricultural bankers, agent training emporia and hays, are farmers and the environment natural enemies like...)

This box contains memorabilia and ephemera that are slated to be digitized at a later date. This includes 26 DVDs, 3 floppy discs, 1 flash drive, certificates, plaques, awards, and yearbooks.