Ralph Price Papers, 1958-1982

Collection

Identifier: MS-2009.3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists primarily of Ralph Price’s professional correspondence. The collection features letters exchanged between Price and WMC faculty and administration, editors, professional contacts, and national politicians. The letters deal primarily with college policies, economic theories, and critiques of scholarly publications. Also included are letters of a more personal nature, including correspondence from past students detailing their personal lives and academic successes. The collection also contains correspondence and information regarding Price’s time as a visiting professor in India and Singapore. Additionally, drafts of Price’s speeches and scholarly publications are included. Upon arrival, the papers were contained in one box and divided into folders that were arranged categorically. Within each folder, the papers were primarily arranged in a reverse chronological order. However, many of the papers were out of place and, as a result, many of the folders had to be reclassified. After intake, the papers were ordered by subject and then by chronology.

Dates

1958-1982
Majority of material found in 1958-1982
Other: Date acquired: 07/01/2009

Creator

Price , Ralph Bevere (Person)

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: McDaniel College may hold copyright to sections of this material. McDaniel College makes no representation that it is the owner of any copyright or other literary property in the materials contained in its archives and special collections, (b) that in providing access to or permitting the reproduction of any such materials, McDaniel Archives does not assume any responsibility for obtaining or granting any permission to publish or use the same, and (c) that the responsibility 9i) for determining the nature of any rights, and the ownership or interest therein, and for obtaining the appropriate permissions to publish or use and (ii) for determining the nature of any liabilities (including liabilities for defamation and invasion of privacy or publicity) that may arise from any publication or use, rest entirely with the researcher. Copying: Papers may be copied in accordance with the Archives' usual procedures.

Biographical or Historical Information

Ralph Bevere Price was born on August 27, 1912 in Page, Nebraska. He attended the University of Colorado in Boulder where he received his Bachelors in History, his Masters in History-Economics, and his PhD in Economics. He and his wife, Margaret Rockwell Price, had two daughters, Pamela Gwynne and Ellen Louise. He began his teaching career at the District School of Cherry County, Nebraska in 1933 and went on to serve as a school principal and a labor economist at several different educational institutions. He taught economics at the University of Colorado as a visiting professor before becoming a full-time professor of economics at Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College). He served as the chair of the WMC Economics Department from 1954-1977. During his time at WMC, he was also a Fulbright-Hayes Visiting Professor at the University of Singapore. He was named Professor Emeritus upon his retirement in 1977 after 23 years of service to the college, but returned to publish a variety of scholarly papers about national, international, and Indian economics, including “The New Political Economy and British Economic Policy for India,” and was instrumental in the field of economics until his death. He died in Westminster, Maryland on February 17, 1995.

Note written by Melissa Atkinson