Bernt Wills Papers, 1940-1976

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Personal Materials

This series contains materials pertaining to Wills' personal life, including correspondence, organizations he was involved with, higher institutions he attended, and his work on attaining a Doctoral Dissertation from Northwestern University.

Sub-Series 1: Personal Material

Box 1

Folder 1: Air AGE Education Division, Correspondence, 1957

Folder 2: Air Force ROTC, 1959

Folder 3: Archaeological Institute of America, 1964

Folder 4: Ballet Co. Grand Forks, 1961

Folder 5: Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 1973 (Folder removed and given to family)

Folder 6: Camp Ritchi Conservation Camp Journal, 1963

Folder 7: Certificates, personal

Folder 8: Class Reunion, 1975

Folder 9: Dinosaur Hunting License

Folder 10: Experiment in international living, 1960

Folder 11: Founders Day Camp

Folder 12: Insurance (Folder removed and given to family)

Folder 13: Newspaper Clippings

Folder 14: North Dakota Education Association, panel discussion, 1964 and rosters

Folder 15: NDSSA, 1959

Folder 16: Pan American Highways, 1962

Folder 17: Personal Correspondence, 1967, 1974-1976

Folder 18: Personal Correspondence, Hawaii, 1958, 1967

Folder 19: Personal Correspondence, House and Lot (Folder removed and given to family)

Folder 20: Photographs (Folder removed and placed in OGL Photograph Collection)

Folder 21: Political and religious philosophy

Folder 22: Radioactive fallout, 1959

Folder 23: Red River Valley Facts, Grand Forks Herald, 1966

Folder 24: Social Science Association, 1964

Folder 25: Teachers Insurance Retirement Funds

Folder 26: Teachers Retirement of North Dakota, 1948, 1953

Folder 27: United States Navy Reserve (USNR) 1944-1946, 1948-1953, 1955

Folder 28: United States Navy Reserve (USNR) 1944-1946, 1948-1953, 1955

Folder 29: Wills, James and Karen (Folder removed and given to family)

Sub-Series 2: Doctoral Dissertation

Box 1

Folder 30: Connecticut River Valley

Folder 31: Field Course, 1950

Folder 32: Field paper, Puerto Rico

Folder 33: Garment Industry of Chicago, 1950

Folder 34: Structure Problems, 1944

Sub-Series 3: Higher Institutions Attended

Box 1

Folder 35: Clark University, 1948-1950

Folder 36: Clark University Rosters, 1942

Folder 37: Montana State University, Alumni News, 1955-1956

Folder 38: Montana State University, Alumni News, 1955-1956

Folder 39: Northwestern University, 1950-1951, 1953-1954

Folder 40: Northwestern University, 1950-1951, 1953-1954

Folder 41: Northwest University Bibliography, 1950

Folder 42: University of Wyoming, 1963

Folder 43: Vita, 1966

Series 2: UND Department of Geography

This series consists of information pertaining to UND's Department of Geography, of which Wills was the chair.  Included is correspondence, class information, and general departmental business files.

Box 1

Folder 44: Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps

Folder 45: American Meteorology Society

Folder 46: Annual Reports, 1955-1965

Folder 47: Army maps, 1948-1951, 1958, 1959

Folder 48: Class Rosters

Folder 49: Correspondence, general, 1952, 1970, 1972-1974, 1976

Folder 50: Crowell Colliers Encyclopedia

Folder 51: Curriculum, Committee, ROTC, 1952, 1953

Folder 52: Curriculum, Subcommittee, 1958

Folder 53: Departmental Business

Folder 54: Division of Continuing Education, 1976

Folder 55: Earth Science Degree Requirements

Folder 56: Economic Development Commission, 1960

Folder 57: Equipment Selection (dept.) 1962-1963

Folder 58: Evaluation of students, 1972

Folder 59: Exams for graduates

Folder 60: Extension division, 1959, 1962, 1964

Folder 61: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1969

Folder 62: Field trips; local

Folder 63: Faculty Lecture Series, 1961-1962

Folder 64: Foundation Grant Project, Williston, ND

Folder 65: Fulbright, 1960-1962

Folder 66: Geographic Education

Folder 67: Geography Department, n.d.

Folder 68: Geography and the liberal arts college

Folder 69: Geography requirements, report, 1960

Folder 70: Grolier Society (ND State Article) 1960-1963, 1965-1966, 1968-1970

Folder 71: Grolier Society (ND State Article) 1960-1963, 1965-1966, 1968-1970

Folder 72: History, Graduate Goals, 1957

Folder 73: Land Economics Foundation

Folder 74: Letters of recommendation, 1970-1974, 1976

Folder 75: National Science Foundation

Folder 76: Newsletters

Folder 77: North Dakota: Business and Industrial Development Department

Folder 78: Preamble for a higher education, report

Folder 79: Sabbatical leave, 1965-1967, 1971

Folder 80: Student Assistants, 1960-1965

Folder 81: Student Status Sheets (Graduates) 1944-1946, 1948-1951, 1953-1961, 1963

Folder 82: United States Geological Survey, 1959

Folder 83: Valley City State College, Geography Department history

Folder 84: Williston Extension, 1957

Series 3: Reports and Speeches

This series consists of reports and speeches written by Wills while attending college and at the beginning of his career at UND.

Box 1

Folder 85: College papers, 1943-1946, 1949

Folder 86: Geography is Fun

Folder 87: Geography and World Power

Folder 88: Health and Recreation

Folder 89: History and Nature of Geography

Folder 90: Recreation

Folder 91: Special Speeches

Folder 92: The Terrestrial Globe in Space-Age

Series 4: Organizations

Included in this series are materials related to Gamma Theta Upsilon, a national professional geographic fraternity. Wills was an active member in GTU, and the materials in this series consist mainly of correspondence while he served as the national Vice President and President of the fraternity. Also included are materials related to Wills’ involvement in the Association of North Dakota Geographers, the Association of American Geographers, the National Council for Geographic Education, and Sigma Xi, an honorary research fraternity.

Box 2

Folder 1: Gamma Theta Upsilon, undated

Folder 2: Gamma Theta Upsilon, 1970-1973, 1975

Folder 3: Gamma Theta Upsilon, 1960-1961, 1963, 1969

Folder 4: Gamma Theta Upsilon, 1958-1959

Folder 5: Gamma Theta Upsilon, 1957

Folder 6: Gamma Theta Upsilon, 1956

Folder 7: Gamma Theta Upsilon, 1950-1955

Folder 8: Sigma Xi Correspondence, 1975

Folder 9: Association of North Dakota Geographers, undated

Folder 10: Association of North Dakota Geographers, 1964-1968, 1971-1973

Folder 11: Association of North Dakota Geographers, 1958-1959, 1961-1963

Folder 12: Association of North Dakota Geographers, 1954-1957

Folder 13: Association of North Dakota Geographers, 1947-1950

Folder 14: Association of North Dakota Geographers, undated membership rosters

Folder 15: Association of American Geographers, 1972

Folder 16: National Council for Geographic Education, 1947, 1955, 1937, 1959-1961, 1963

Series 5: Course Materials

This series includes information that Wills collected during his time at UND as a professor. The materials in this series includes summer institutions, curriculum, lecture notes, and information on individual countries. Also included are student papers, information on North Dakota, and Geography for Teachers.

Sub-Series 1: Summer Institute

Box 2

Folder 17: In-Service Institutes, 1963-1966

Folder 18: Institute field trips (Northern Minnesota), 1962

Folder 19: Institute field trips (Northern Minnesota), 1962

Folder 20: Summer Institute, 1964, 1965

Folder 21: Summer Institute, 1964, 1965

Folder 22: Summer Institute, 1964, 1965

Folder 23: Summer Institute Budgets, 1961-1963

Folder 24: Summer Institute

Sub-Series 2: Curriculum

Box 2

Folder 25: Conservation of Resources booklets, lecture notes, exams

Folder 26: Geography for Teachers, Correspondence, 1947, 1960-1962, course outline

Folder 27: Geography for Teachers, Correspondence, 1947, 1960-1962, course outline

Folder 28: Geography of Europe

Folder 29: Geography of North America geologic bibliography (INC), exams

Folder 30: Geography of North America geologic bibliography (INC), exams

Folder 31: Geography of North Dakota, course outline, lecture notes

Folder 32: Human Geography, handouts, notes

Folder 33: Meteorology, exams, lecture notes

Folder 34: Meteorology, exams, lecture notes

Folder 35: Political Geography, reading list and exams

Folder 36: Physical/ College Geography, exams

Folder 37: Physical Geography, lab exercises and lecture notes

Folder 38: Physical Geography, lab exercises and lecture notes

Folder 39: Physiography (Clark University), lecture notes, 1940-1943

Folder 40: Physiography (Clark University), lecture notes, 1940-1943

Folder 41: Physiography (Northwestern), outline

Folder 42: Political Geography, notes and exams

Folder 43: Settlement Geography, lecture notes, handouts

Folder 44: Settlement Geography, lecture notes, handouts

Folder 45: Urban Geography

Folder 46: World Regional Geography

Sub-Series 3: Lecture Notes

Box 2

Folder 47: Corn and forage crops

Folder 48: Earth in space

Folder 49: Fiber culture

Folder 50: Forests, note cards

Folder 51: Glaciers, note cards

Folder 52: Grasslands and Grazing, note cards

Folder 53: Life forms- plant and animal

Folder 54: Lowlands

Folder 55: Manufacturing, Nature and Distributions

Folder 56: Outline

Box 3

Folder 1: Metals, outline, note cards

Folder 2: Minnkota power coop.

Folder 3: Missouri River, 1962

Folder 4: Oceania, notes

Folder 5: Petroleum Industry

Folder 6: Rotation and revolution, earth is space

Folder 7: Rubber

Folder 8: Soils

Folder 9: Transportation

Folder 10: Water supply, Correspondence, 1958

Folder 11: Windchill, 1958-1959

Sub-Series 4: Individual Countries

Box 3

Folder 12: Australia Film Correspondence, 1976

Folder 13: No folder - misnumbered

Folder 14: Australia/New Zealand Lecture Notes and Course Outline

Folder 15: Australia/New Zealand Map Test and Drop Quiz

Folder 16: Australia/New Zealand Final Exams

Folder 17: Australia/New Zealand Film Correspondence, 1969-1975

Folder 18: India; Pakistan; Ceylon

Folder 19: Japan

Folder 20: Korea

Folder 21: Middle America

Folder 22: South America

Folder 23: South America

Folder 24: United Nations

Folder 25: United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)

Sub-Series 5: Student Papers

Box 3

Folder 26: The Alps of Switzerland (Clark University)

Folder 27: The American Food Problem

Folder 28: Audiovisual resources for developing map skills

Folder 29: Australia and New Zealand, 1970, 1976

Folder 30: Better intergroup relations through the geography of foods

Folder 31: Bibliographies (assorted)

Folder 32: Central Place Theory

Folder 33: China: Geopolitic in the development

Folder 34: Cotton Manufacturing in New England

Folder 35: Democratic Ideals and Reality

Folder 36: The Earth's age

Folder 37: Geographic Determinism

Folder 38: Geography

Folder 39: Geography for the blind

Folder 40: Japan

Folder 41: Mapping is fun, 1961

Folder 42: Mesabi Range, 1961, 1963

Folder 43: Method of Procedure for a field trip

Folder 44: Metals, Individual Research

Folder 45: The Moon, eclipse, and tide

Folder 46: North Americas, Geography of

Folder 47: Physical- Soil and Water, 1961

Folder 48: Political Geography

Folder 49: Regional Geography, 1963, 1970, 1972

Folder 50: South Vietnam

Folder 51: Southeastern Asia

Folder 52: The Sundowners

Folder 53: The Twenty-first Century

Folder 54: Territorial Waters

Folder 55: U.S.S.R.

Folder 56: Student Papers: 1969

Folder 57: Student Papers: 1970

Folder 58: Student Papers: 1971

Folder 59: Student Papers: Undated

Folder 60: Student Evaluations: Undated

Sub-Series 6: North Dakota

Box 3

Folder 61: Badlands, 1961

Folder 62: Cities and Counties, 1962, 1963

Folder 63: Conservation of Resources

Folder 64: Coal Gasification, 1974

Folder 65: Geography, North Dakota

Folder 66: Guy, William, Governor of North Dakota

Folder 67: Lake Agassiz

Folder 68: North Dakota, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969

Folder 69: Red River Valley, 1961, 1962

Folder 70: State Parks; recreation/ tourism, 1947, 1961, 1964

Folder 71: Topography of a slope region

Sub-Series 7: Geography for Teachers

Box 3

Folder 72: College Freshman, Lesson Plan, 1976

Folder 73: Geography Teaching of 1963

Folder 74: High School

Folder 75: High School, Lesson Plan

Folder 76: Junior High

Folder 77: Lesson Plans/ Teachers Requirements

Folder 78: Primary Grades

Folder 79: Primary Grades, Activities, 1961

Folder 80: Primary Grades, Lesson Plans, 1961

Folder 81: Primary Grades, Mapping

Folder 82: Primary Grades, Weather

Folder 83: Visual Aides- need for

Series 6: North Dakota: The Northern Prairie State

Wills worked very actively in studying the geography of North Dakota and the information he gathered was compiled into his book entitled, North Dakota: The Northern Prairie State. This series consists of correspondence for this book as well as rough drafts and notes.

Box 3

Folder 84: American Oil Company, Mandan, ND

Folder 85: Borden Foods Company, Grafton, ND

Folder 86: Chamber of Commerce, Bismarck, ND, 1962

Folder 87: Chamber of Commerce, Devils Lake, ND, 1962

Folder 88: Chamber of Commerce, Dickenson, ND, 1962

Folder 89: Chamber of Commerce, Ellendale, ND, 1962

Folder 90: Chamber of Commerce, Fargo, ND, 1962

Folder 91: Chamber of Commerce, Jamestown, ND, 1962

Folder 92: Chamber of Commerce, Kenmare, ND, 1962

Folder 93: Chamber of Commerce, Lisbon, ND, 1962

Folder 94: Chamber of Commerce, Mandan, ND, 1962

Folder 95: Chamber of Commerce, Mayville, ND, 1962

Folder 96: Chamber of Commerce, Valley City, ND, 1962

Folder 97: Chamber of Commerce, Wahpeton, ND, 1962

Folder 98: Chamber of Commerce, Williston, ND, 1962

Folder 99: Dakota Wood Producers, Bottineau ND, 1962

Folder 100: Figure and Table Charts

Folder 101: Mary College, Bismarck, ND, 1962

Folder 102: North Dakota School of Forestry, Bottineau, ND 1962

Folder 103: Pillsbury Co., Grand Forks, ND, 1962

Folder 104: Red Dot Foods Inc., Grand Forks, ND, 1962

Folder 105: Red River Valley Potato Flake Co., Grand Forks, ND, 1962

Folder 106: Rogers Brothers Food Production, Grand Forks, ND, 1962

Folder 107: State Historical Society, 1962

Folder 108: State Mill and Elevator

Folder 109: Truax-Traer Coal Company, Minot, ND, 1962

Box 4

Folder 1: Agriculture

Folder 2: The Arts

Folder 3: Cities

Folder 4: Clays

Folder 5: Climate

Folder 6: Community Development

Folder 7: Conservation

Folder 8: Corn in ND

Folder 9: Crops of ND, Chapter 12

Folder 10: Dairying in ND

Folder 11: Education in ND

Folder 12: Edwards Bros.

Folder 13: Electric Power

Folder 14: Forests

Folder 15: Fruit

Folder 16: General

Folder 17: Glaciation Map

Folder 18: Government

Folder 19: Grassland Shrub and Forest

Folder 20: Highways

Folder 21: History

Folder 22: Industrial Development

Folder 23: Land (Topography)

Folder 24: Libraries

Folder 25: Mineral Resources

Folder 26: Missouri Diversion

Folder 27: Northern School Supply

Folder 28: Outlook, Problems, Future

Folder 29: Petroleum

Folder 30: Pictures (ND), letters (Folder removed and placed in OGL Photograph Collection)

Folder 31: Population

Folder 32: Potatoes in ND

Folder 33: Rehabilitation

Folder 34: Some North Dakota Industry

Folder 35: Stone

Folder 36: Space Relationships

Folder 37: Special Days

Folder 38: Sodium Sulfate

Folder 39: Stories

Folder 40: Student Manual, "North Dakota: The Northern Prairie State."

Folder 41: Sugar Beets

Folder 42: Textbook Orders and Correspondence, 1965, 1968, 1970-1976, 1978

Folder 43: Transportation

Folder 44: Water, ND

Folder 45: Wild animals of ND

Folder 46: Wheat

Photographs :

Separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets.

Sub-Series 1: Safeguard Missile Defense System

Photograph 1: Typical Safeguard Par Site

Photograph 2: Safeguard Deployment

Photograph 3: Concept of Terminal Defense

Photograph 4: The Army’s Sprint Interceptor Missile

Photograph 5: Full-scale mockup of the Sprint Missile

Photograph 6: Safeguard Components

Photograph 7: Typical Safeguard RSL Site

Photograph 8: Typical Safeguard MSR Site

Photograph 9: The Army’s Nike Zeus Missile

Photograph 10: Perimeter Acquisition Radar

Photograph 11: Missile Site Radar

Photograph 12: Prototype Safeguard Missile Site Radar

Photograph 13: Full-scale mockup of the Spartan Missile

Photograph 14: The Spartan Missile

Photograph 15: Concept of Area Defense

Sub-Series 2: Bernt L. Wills

Photograph 16: B.L. Wills, 1964

Photograph 17: B.L. Wills, April 1963

Photograph 18: B.L. Wills with unidentified people, April 1963

Photograph 19: B.L. Wills, unidentified date

Sub-Series 3: Maddock Public School, Maddock, North Dakota

Photograph 20: Exterior of school

Photograph 21: Exterior of school

Photograph 22: Jr. High class

Photograph 23: 4th Grade Science Class

Photograph 24: Jr./ Sr. High Science Center

Photograph 25: Resource Center

Photograph 26: 3rd Grade Language Class

Photograph 27: Auditorium

Photograph 28: Dr. Merton Utgaard, Director of International Music Camp

Sub-Series 4: Aerial Views of North Dakota

Photograph 29: Crops of ND, unidentified site

Photograph 30: Crops of ND, unidentified site

Sub-Series 5: Miscellaneous

Photograph 31: Unidentified

Photograph 32: Unidentified