Vaughn Davis Bornet Papers, 1949-1958, 1995

Biography/History

1917 October 10 Vaughn Davis Bornet born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1939 B.A. degree from Emory University
1940 M.A. degree from Emory University
1940-1941 Studied at the University of Georgia
1941-1945 U.S. Naval Reserve Commander
1946-1948 Instructor of history at the University of Miami
1949-1951 Attended Stanford University
1951 Received Ph.D. in history from Stanford University
1951-1953 Research Associate for the Institute of American Studies
1951-1952 Ford Fellowship and trip in search of labor manuscripts
1953-1956 Director of the Welfare Research Project, Commonwealth Club, California
1955 Bornet's "A New Labor History" published in The Historian. (Autumn, 1955)
1956 Received Volker Foundation Fellowship and published California Social Welfare, (Prentice-Hall)
1957 Assistant Editor for Encyclopaedia Britannica
1958 Research Associate for the American Medical Association
1959-1963 Member of the staff of the Rand Corporation
1960 Welfare in America published by the University of Oklahoma Press
1963- Professor of history and social science at Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, Oregon
1964 Published Labor Politics in a Democratic Republic
2020 October 5 Vaughn Davis Bornet died