Background
John Ralph Van Ness was born on October 22, 1939 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of Ralph Taylor and Norma Gertrude (Thorp) Van Ness.
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- Hispanos in Northern New Mexico: The Development of Corporate Community and Multicommunity (Immigrant Communities and Ethnic Minorities in the United States and Canada) (This study illuminates the Spanish settlements founded on...)
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- Co-author: Cañones: Values, Crisis and Survival in a Northern New Mexico Village, 1981. Author: Hispanos in Northern New Mexico, 1991. Co-editor: Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in New Mexico and Colorado, 1980, Land, Water and Culture, 1987.Editor: New Mexico Land Grant Series, vols. 1-5, 1983, 84, 87, 89, 94.
John Ralph Van Ness
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John Ralph Van Ness, American university official, educator. Recipient Teaching Fellowship University Pennsylvania; grantee Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation. Member American Anthropological Association, American Association Museums, Council for Advance and Support Education, National Society Fund Raising Executives, Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Delta Theta.
Education
Bachelor, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 1965. Master of Arts, University Pennsylvania, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1979.
Career
Instructor West Chester (Pennsylvania) University, 1969-1970, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, 1970-1973, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, 1974-1976. Consultant fund raising private practice Philadelphia, 1977-1979. Capital campaign consultant John F. Rich Company, 1979-1984.
Vice president for college relations, adjunct professor anthropology Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, 1984-1989. Executive vice president, professor Moore College Art and Design, Philadelphia, 1989-1992, Acting president, 1990-1991, Museum New Mexico Foundation, Santa Fe, 1992-1994, New Mexico State University Foundation, 1995-1997. Assistant vice president Lehigh University, 1997-1998, associate vice president, 1998-2000. Vice president for program development and corporate secretary. 2000-2004. vice president for advancement and corporate secretary, 2004-2007 The Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia. Interim vice president for institutional advancement Haverford College, PA., 2007-2008, Vice president for institutional advancement, Escuela Agricola Panamericana, Zamorano, Honduras, CA, 2009-2011, Senior advancement officer, Smithsonian Science Education Center, Washington, DC, 2012-2013, Development officer, The American Physiological Society, 2014- present.
Board directors Center for Land Grant Studies, Santa Fe, 1978-1994. Editorial board Journal of the West, Manhattan, Kansas, 1980-1988, Series editor University of New Mexico Press, 1982-1990.
Works
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Hispanos in Northern New Mexico: The Development of Corporate Community and Multicommunity (Immigrant Communities and Ethnic Minorities in the United States and Canada)
(This study illuminates the Spanish settlements founded on...)
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Hispanos in Northern New Mexico: The Development of Corporate Community and Multicommunity (Immigrant Communities and Ethnic Minorities in the United States and Canada)
Other Work
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Co-author: Cañones: Values, Crisis and Survival in a Northern New Mexico Village, 1981. Author: Hispanos in Northern New Mexico, 1991. Co-editor: Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in New Mexico and Colorado, 1980, Land, Water and Culture, 1987.Editor: New Mexico Land Grant Series, vols. 1-5, 1983, 84, 87, 89, 94.
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Membership
Member American Anthropological Association, American Association Museums, Council for Advance and Support Education, National Society Fund Raising Executives, Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Delta Theta.
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Children: Heather Thorp, Hilary Clark, married Christine S. Moon, December 1964 and divorced 1994. Married Sandra M. Martinez, January 1999, stepchild, Alejandro David Rettig y Martinez and adopted child Santiago Andres Van Ness Martinez
