Gaston, H. P. (Harold Paul), 1898-1988
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Department of Horticulture records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.58
Scope and Contents
The records consist of graduate and undergraduate handbooks, biographical files and subject files compiled by Frank Dennis about the history of the department, Horticulture Farm logs, newsletters, research notes, Sodus Horticultural Experiment Station Annual Reports for 1976 and 1984, short course yearbooks, cherry research summaries, cherry research conference summaries, horticulture demonstration gardens materials, materials related to Harold Gaston, brochures, and some curriculum...
Dates:
1877 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1927 - 2010
Harold P. Gaston collection
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.19
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a taped interview with Harold P. Gaston, former professor of Horticulture at Michigan State University. The interview was conducted by professor Frank G. Dennis at Gaston's home in South Haven, Michigan in 1974. In the interview, Gaston discusses his early years at MSU in the 1920s. His comments include descriptions of the personalities of professors Victor Gardner, Roy Marshall, Frederick Bradford, Robert Loree, John Crist, N. L. Partridge, W. C. Dutton, Hugh...
Dates:
1974