Charles Teske papers

Collection

Identifier: PP-64

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection Charles Teske papers contains notes and educational materials from Teske's personal education at Lafayette College and Yale University. It has teaching portfolios from both Oberlin College (1962-1969) and Evergreen State College (1971-2010), including class material, planning documents, event materials, and evaluations. It also holds materials sourced from Teske's performances and studies of music. There is documentation of Teske's personal and professional correspondence between 1952 and 2017. The collection also documents Teske's involvement in projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, including programs for the Great Lakes Colleges Association. The final series includes publications of his, his students, or personal friends's work between 1965 and 2002.

Dates

Creation: 1952 - 2017

Creator

Teske, Charles (Person)

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright in the collection materials may not lie with The Evergreen State College. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials in this collection must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Evergreen State College Archives and Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and does not extend to any copyright holders in the materials. Researchers are solely responsible for clearing any necessary copyright permissions.

Biographical / Historical

Charles Bahn Teske graduated from Lafayette College in 1954 and went on to pursue a PhD at Yale University. He also spent a year as a Fullbright Scholar in Germany. Charles Teske was English faculty at Oberlin College during the 1960s, and was hired as a founding dean of The Evergreen State College in 1970. Teske served as faculty until 1998. Charles was also a active performer and patron of music, particularly jazz and classical, throughout his lifetime. Between the 1960s and 1980s Teske was involved with many projects supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, particularly working with the Great Lakes Colleges Association from 1966 to 1970.