James Albertson Collection now available in Digital Collections

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We are happy to announce that the James Albertson Collection is now available on the Digital Collections page through University Archives.
James Albertson was the President of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 1962-1967. During the Vietnam War, Albertson led a mission of 8 educators to Vietnam to study their educational system and to try and better it. Albertson and his entire team would be killed on their way back from that mission as their plane crashed.
Alberson was honored recently at UWSP on the 50th anniversary of his death. His legacy continues to live on at UWSP.  
Included in the Collection:

Records of the eighth president of Wisconsin State College-Stevens Point. Records related to Albertson’s service in the Coast Guard (1939, 1943-1950) and his work for WSU-Stevens Point in the Philippines (1964) and Vietnam 
(1967) including correspondence, notes, his personal diary, and a scrapbook. 

 Also included is the preliminary and complete report, Public Universities of the Republic of Viet-Nam (1967).

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