Information Sheet

 

 

R         Fuller, Harold Q., 1907-1996.

611                  Papers, 1950-1987.

                                    Fourteen folders.

 

 

 

These are the personal papers of a physics professor and community leader in Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri.  The papers concern Fuller’s work with the Rolla School Board, the Phelps County Nutrition Program, the Central Missouri Area Agency on Aging, and the family farm.

 

Harold Q. Fuller was a native of Indiana.  He graduated from Waynetown High School, where he met his future wife, Charlotte Gohl, whom he married in 1932.  Fuller earned a degree in physics at Wabash College in 1928, and completed his doctorate in physics at the University of Il­linois at Urbana in 1932.  Fuller taught at the University of Illinois, Albion College, and Illinois College before joining the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during World War Two.  Following the war, Fuller returned to Albion College until 1947, when he accepted a teaching po­sition at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy at Rolla.  His career at Rolla lasted thirty years until his retirement in 1977 and encompassed a wide range of academic and adminis­trative positions at both the Missouri School of Mines and its successor, the University of Mis­souri-Rolla.  After the death of his first wife, Fuller married Nellie B. Throm in 1986.  Fuller died in Rolla in 1996.

 

Fuller was an active civic leader and served on the Rolla School Board during the 1950s.  He also was involved in the Central Missouri Regional Fair, serving as a board member and ex­hibi­tor of prize-winning Corriedale sheep.  Fuller served as chair of the Rolla Housing Authority and took the lead in establishing a nutrition center in Rolla.  In the 1980s, he was appointed to the board of the Central Missouri Area Agency on Aging and to the Missouri Commission on Aging.

 

The Fuller collection consists primarily of papers concerning his work on the Rolla School Board, the Phelps County Nutrition Program, and the Central Missouri Area Agency on Aging.  There are a few items dealing with the family farm.

 

Additional papers of Harold Q. Fuller pertaining to his work as a physics professor have been donated to the University of Missouri-Rolla through the Physics Department.

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