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Calvin Horn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UNMA 108

Scope and Content Note

The Calvin Horn Collection has two series. The first is material from Mr. Horn's personal companies, Horn Oil Company and book publishing companies Calvin Horn Publishing and Horn & Wallace Publishing. Materials include financial records, catalogs and correspondence. There are publication files relating to major books for both publishing companies. The second series is historical University of New Mexico material that Mr. Horn used to write his book, The University in Turmoil and Transition: Crisis Decades at the University of New Mexico (located under ZIM LD 3781 N52 H67). The materials are arranged into subseries relating to the research of the book or the publication of the book. Included in this second series are information regarding faculty issues as sabbaticals, tenure, and regent/faculty conflicts and concern, information on presidential searches, and various scandals at the University such as the "Love-lust poem" of 1969 and "Lobogate", the NCAA investigation into UNM basketball in the mid to late 1970s. There are several files of photographs of the May 1970 strike and the New Mexico National Guard on campus.

Dates

  • 1947-1984
  • Majority of material found in 1969-1979

Creator

Language of Materials

English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Copy Restrictions

Limited duplication of CSWR material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for compliance with all copyright, privacy, and libel laws. Permission is required for publication or distribution..

Biographical Note

Calvin Horn was a business and political leader of New Mexico. He was involved in the oil and publishing industries, served ten years in the New Mexico Legislature and nine years on the University of New Mexico Board of Regents. Horn was born on October 30, 1918 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, but relocated to New Mexico in 1921. In 1938, with his older brother, H.B. Horn, they began to build the family oil business with a service station. He graduated from University of New Mexico in 1939 majoring in both Government and English. Horn went on to do graduate work at the University of Southern California.

In addition to the family oil business, Horn was associated with two publishing firms, Horn & Wallace Publishing Company and Calvin Horn Publishing Company. These firms specialized in reprinting out-of-print material and the publication of original manuscripts relating to local and regional literature. In March 1971, Horn was appointed to a six-year term on the Board of Regents by New Mexico Governor King. He was reappointed to another six-year term in 1977 and served as president of the Board of Regents at that time.

Horn's time on the Board of Regents was marked by great unrest and many protests on campus. Horn wrote a book about UNM in the 1970s called, The University in Turmoil and Transition: Crisis Decades at the University of New Mexico. Horn died in Albuquerque on December 19, 1996 at the age of 78.

Extent

9 boxes (8 cu. ft.)

General

Contact Information

  1. Center for Southwest Research
  2. Zimmerman Library
  3. University of New Mexico
  4. Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1466
  5. Phone: 505-277-6451
  6. Fax: 505-277-0530
  7. Email: cswrref@unm.edu
  8. URL: http://www.unm.edu/~cswrref/

Processing Information

Reprocessed by Portia Vescio and Gabriella Reyes, 2017

Creator

Title
Finding Aid of the Calvin Horn Papers, 1947-1984
Status
Edited Full Draft
Author
Processed by Portia Vescio, Gabriella Reyes
Date
©2017
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
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Language of description note
Finding aid is in English

Revision Statements

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Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451