Latin America (general region)

Scope and Content From the Collection:

The collection includes Whetten's graduate thesis, some correspondence, reprints of articles he authored and co-authored, and files from his UConn related responsibilities.

Abstract Born in Cleveland in 1913, Mead spent most of his early years in Mexico, developing great facility in both English and Spanish. He worked for the OSS during World War II gathering intelligence from Latin American periodicals. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1949, Mead became a professor at the University of Connecticut. In addition to a long and prestigious career as a teacher of foreign languages, Mead was a prolific scholar on Hispanic literature and an advocate for improved Inter-American...

Scope and Content From the Collection:

The collection includes Whetten's graduate thesis, some correspondence, reprints of articles he authored and co-authored, and files from his UConn related responsibilities.

Abstract

Nathan L. Whetten began his career at the University of Connecticut 1932 as a statistician in the Sociology Department, then located at the Experimental Station. In 1940, Whetten was offered the position of Dean of the Graduate School, a position he held until 1970/1971. Dr. Whetten died in 1984.