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1940-1991 (Creation)
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- Thompson, Walter, b. January 14, 1907
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270 cm of textual records.; 24 black and white photographs.
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Walter Thompson was born in Danville, Illinois on January 14, 1907 to mother Alice and father John Thompson. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Drury College in 1928, focusing on History and Economics. Thompson married Juanita Emack in 1928 and they had four children together Susan, John, Molly, and Ann. He then attended Harvard, graduating with his MBA in 1930 where he focused on Marketing. Thompson came to the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in 1930 as a professor of business. From 1938-1942, he served as the Head of the Department of Business Administration. He then left UWO to work as a senior officer in the Office of Price Administration until 1945. Thompson returned to UWO after the war and remained a professor of the business faculty from 1945 until 1972 when he retired. While at UWO, he founded and directed the Management Training Course in 1948 and became associate dean of the School of Business Administration in 1950. Also during his time at UWO, Thompson consulted for many companies including working as a Senior Consultant in Management Development for Canadian National Railways from 1952 through 1972. In 1968, the Canadian International Development Agency awarded Thompson funding to work with the University of the West Indies to establish management studies in Jamaica and Trinidad. He was appointed Project Director and this project became a major focus of his work into the 1970s. He served as Chairman of the Continuing Education Committee of the School of Business Administration at UWO from 1969-1972 and was also very involved with planning alumni events at Drury College. Thompson has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard and the Ford Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies. He published many articles and conducted studies focused on marketing, management, and administration. Thompson received honorary degrees from the University of Waterloo, York University, and the University of Western Ontario in 1968, 1972, and 1973, respectively. Thompson died in 1996.
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Fonds consists of records produced throughout Walter Thompson’s career. Included are records relating to Thompson’s role as a Drury College alumnus, primarily planning alumni events for his fellow graduates. The fonds also contains case problems and assigned management readings from Harvard Business School as well as correspondence and reports from when Thompson worked for the U.S. Office of Price Administration during the war years. Also included are records relating to Thompson’s role as a professor at the University of Western Ontario (UWO): documents produced from planning, implementing, and evaluating the Management Training Course; documents prepared for the release of Learning to Lead: in Celebration of Nine Decades of Business Education at Ivey, 1923-2013; Business Quarterly Articles authored by Thompson; itineraries and information about conferences Thompson attended; agendas, minutes, and correspondence from committees Walter Thompson served on or interacted with at UWO; UWO student information, grades, and reports; UWO School of Business Administration faculty information; cases used in the Marketing Management Course at UWO; and various other records relating to the School of Business Administration at UWO in general.
The fonds contains reports and correspondence relating to Thompson’s roles as Associate Dean of the School of Business Administration at UWO and as Professor Emeritus. The fonds includes records relatingto Walter Thompson's role as a Senior Consultant in Management Development for Canadian National Railways such as recap booklets and documents planning the Staff Training Course. Included are records relating to Walter Thompson's role as Project Director of the Canadian International Development Agency funded initiative to assist with establishing management studies in Jamaica and Trinidad. The fonds consists of Walter Thompson's involvement with management training internationally with records focusing on establishing management studies in Pakistan, Bombay, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Nairobi. The fonds contains business documents, correspondence, and meeting agendas and minutes relating to Walter Thompson's role on the Board of Directors at Universal Oil Products; case problems used by Walter Thompson or other UWO or UWI faculty to teach management; as well as correspondence sent to or written by Walter Thompson throughout his career. Includes student information, salary information, recommendation letters and curriculum vitae.
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Access to records is generally unrestricted, but access to some is restricted for preservation reasons, the presence of personal information, and/or because the records have been reformatted.