Everett Smith

September, 1994

NAME: Everett Gorsuch Smith, Jr.

BIRTHPLACE: Urbana, Illinois, June 15, 1931

FAMILY: Married with two grown sons

PROFESSION; Professor of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene

EDUCATION: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1962
M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1956
B.A., University of Illinois, Urbana 1953

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Teaching:

Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon, 1977 to present.

Visiting Professor, NICSA Program, Avignon, France, Winter, 1988.

Exchange Professor, Geographisches Institut, Universitat Tubingen, Summer Semester, 1984.

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1965-1977 with the exception of 1971-1972, when I was on sabbatical leave in Europe.

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1961-1965.

 

Research:

Highway Impact Studies, sponsored by the Bureau of Public Roads with the Departments of Agricultural Economics and Geography, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1958-1961.

Comparative Urban Studies, State of Illinois, through the Office
of Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana 1961-1965.

Continuing observations in recent years on the organization of urban space and the renewal process in American cities as well as on patterns and control of land use in rural and urban areas.

 

Service:

Community:

Member, Citizens Advisory Committee, City of Eugene, appointed by the Mayor and City Council, to prepare conceptual plan for the South Bank, 1994-

Member, Lane County, Oregon, Planning Commission, 1974-1977

President, South University Neighborhood Association, Eugene 1974-1975

Member, Lane County Local Government Boundary Review Commission, appointed by the Governor, 1969-1971

Member of the Board of Directors, Lane County Willamette Greenway Association, 1968-1969

Member, Special Committee on Renewing Eugene (SCORE), appointed by the Mayor, 1966-1971, and President, SCORE, 1969-1971

Member, Goals for Eugene Committee, appointed by the Mayor, 1966 and 1974

University of Oregon:

Head, Department of Geography, 1975-1978, 1984-1987, 1990-1993

Member (elected), Intercollegiate Athletic Committee, 1992-1994

Member, Editorial Board, Oregon State University Press, 1992-, and Chair, 1994-1995

Member, University Senate, 1984-1986

Chairer, Campus Planning Committee, 1983-1984

Chairer, Foreign Studies Committee, 1982-1983

Member, Academic Requirements Committee, 1981-1982

Member (elected), Dean's Advisory Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1980-1981

Member, Environmental Studies Committee, 1978-1979 and 1979-1980

Member and Chairer, Scholarship Committee, 1979-1980

Profession:

Co-Chair, Program Committee, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Portland, April, 1987

Member, Association of American Geographers

Member, American Geographical Society

Member, 2-person Review Committee, Department of Geography, Southern Oregon College, Ashland, April 1983, and February 1993

Councillor, from Pacific Coast Division to Association of American Geographers, 1977-1980

Member, Program Committee, Association of American Geographers, for Annual Meeting in Seattle in April, 1974

Member, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Vice President, 1970-1971, and President, 1971-1972,

Charter Member and Corresponding Secretary, Lane County Geographical Society, Inc.

Member, Editorial Board, Geographical Survey, 1970s

AWARDS:

Received Faculty Enrichment Award from the Canadian Government for study and research in Canada, 1986.

Paper, "The Renewal Process in American Cities: A Look at Eugene, Oregon," presented at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers' Annual Meeting in June 1969, was judged one of the two outstanding papers read at the Meeting.

Received Graduate School Award for summer research in Minnesota, 1968.

PUBLICATIONS:

Review of The Land That Feeds Us, W.W. Norton, 1991, in Economic Geography, Vol. 68, Number 3, July, 1992..

Population Changes in Illinois During the 1980s, Policy Forum, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana, Volume 6, Number 1, 1992.

Review of Metropolitan Atlas Series (Canada) in Bulletin, Special Library Association, Geography and Map Division Bulletin, No. 162, December, 1990.

Review of Family Farming, A New Economic Vision by Marty Strange, University of Nebraska Press, 1988, in Journal of Geography, January-February, 1990.

Review of Saint Louis Illustrated, Nineteenth-Century Engravings and Lithographs of a Mississippi River Metropolis by John Reps, University of Missouri Press, 1989, in Information Bulletin, Western Association of Map Libraries, November, 1989.

Review of USA, Eine Geographische Landeskunde by Helmut Blume, Darmstadt: Wissenschefliche Buchgesselschaft, 1987, in The Professional Geographer, November, 1988.

Review of Historical Geography of the United States, A Guide to Information Sources by Ronald Grim, Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1982 in Information Bulletin, Western Association of Map Libraries, November, 1983.

"Changing Population Patterns in the American West," in Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Vol. 45, 1983, pp. 71-84.

"Illinois Settlement Changes Challenge State and Local Governments," in Illinois Government Research, No. 57. July, 1983, published by the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana.

"America's Richest Farms and Ranches," Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 70, No. 4, December, 1980, pp. 528-541.

"Flights of Fancy on Flights of Fact: a Guide to Air Travel in the 1970's," Journal of Geography, November, 1977, pp. 204-211.

Review of The Look of the Land, by John Fraser Hart, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1975, in Journal of Historical Geography, March, 1977.

Review of Farmers on the Move by Michael D. Sublett, The University of Chicago, Department of Geography, Research Paper No. 168, 1975, in Annals, Association of American Geographers, December, 1976.

Maps and text for the Atlas of Oregon, Eugene: University of Oregon, 1976; "Unincorporated Settlement," p. 19; "Urban Oregon," p.40; "Major Urban Regions," pp.46-55; and "Service Center," p.100-101.

"Street Names in California," in Yearbook of Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Vol. 37, 1975, pp. 77-90.

"Fragmented Farms in the United States," Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 65, No. 1, March 1975, pp. 58-70.

"Who Supported George McGovern?" Journal of Geography, February, 1974, pp. 2427.

"Patterns of Growth in Illinois," in Newsletter, published by the Bureau of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois, Urbana, Fall 1973.

"Review of Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis by Harold M. Mayer and Richard C. Wade, the University of Chicago Press, 1969, in The Geographical Review, October, 1970.

"Twentieth Century Voting Patterns for President in Illinois," in Illinois Government. No. 32, January, 1970, published by the Institute of Government, University of Illinois, Urbana.

"The Dying Village and Some Notions about Urban Growth," with J.F. Hart and Neil E. Salisbury, in Economic Geography, October 1968, pp. 343-349.

"An Urban Interpretation of Oregon Settlement," in Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Vol. 28, 1967, pp. 43-52.

Review of Geography and World Affairs, 2nd Ed., by Stephen Jones and Marion Fisher Murphy, Rand McNally and Co. 1966, in Geography Newsletter, Oregon Geography Council, June, 1967.

Geography, a workbook published by the Office of Instructional Resources, University of Illinois to accompany a series of televised geography lessons I taught in 1965 for gifted 5th and 6th grade students, 93 pp.

Downtown Change in Three Middle-Sized Cities, Urbana: University of Illinois Bureau of Economics and Business Research Monograph Series, 1965, 93 pp.

"Downtown Planning in the Growing American City," in Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1964, published by the Bureau of Community Planning, University of Illinois, Urbana.

"The Downtown Problem in Middle-Sized Cities," in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer, 1964, pp. 79-93.

Land for Highways: The Public as Purchaser, with H.R. Nelson and J. Schwinden, Minnesota Highway Research Project, University of Minnesota, 1962.

"The Effects of a Limited-Access Freeway on Occupance in Rural Areas," in Proceedings, Minnesota Academy of Science, 1960, pp. 132-141.

How Farmers Adjusted to an Interstate Highway in Minnesota, with Walter Gensurowsky, Minnesota Highway Research Project, University of Minnesota, September, 1960.

"Economic and Geographic Impact on Rural Land Use by Interstate Highway Construction," Proceedings, Second Annual Right-of-Way Conference, September 9-10, 1960, University of Minnesota, presented in cooperation with the Tri-State Chapter No. 20, American Right-of-Way Association.

A Highway Change in Changing Faribault (Minn.), with Dale Gustafson, Minnesota Highway Research Project, University of Minnesota, September, 1959.