Hubert C. Lambert, a son of Isaac Lambert and Flora Cottrell, was born in Farmington Utah on January 21, 1916. Lambert received a Bachelor=s Degree in 1940 and Master=s degree in 1941 from the University of Utah. From 1941 to 1945 he was Party Chief and Area Engineer for the State Engineer=s Office. From 1945 to 1946 he served in the U. S. Army. Lambert taught Geology at The University of Utah 1947-49, Weber State College,1949-52, and Brigham Young University, 1960-72. He also did Adjudication work for the Utah State Engineer=s Office from 1949-65. Lambert was Deputy Utah State Engineer and Utah State Engineer from 1965-73. Lambert served as the Western State Engineers representative on the basic data co-ordinating committee of the U.S. Geological Survey. He was a member of the Utah Academy of Arts, Science and Letters, and Engineering Committee of Upper Colorado River Commission and Ad Hoc Advisory Committee (Washington D. C.), and Water Resources Council (Washington D. C.). He was Secretary-Treasurer in 1969, and Chairman in 1971-72 of the Interstate Conference on Water Problems, which consist of state officials administering water throughout the fifty states. He was a member of Sigma Xi National Honorary, Scientific Fraternity, and a charter member of the Utah Geological Society. He served as adviser to the Wasatch Geozoic Society of Salt Lake City, which was an organization of Lamberts former students who meet together to continue the appreciation and study of Geology. He died in Ogden on March 5th 1973. For more information: see his obituary in the Ogden Standard-Examiner, March 6, 1973. Additional information may be found in Men of Achievement, 1974.

The Hubert C. Lambert Papers includes binders, slides, note cards, and copies of the Utah Geozoic News. The collection was donated to Weber State University by Beth Lambert in 2001. The binders are housed in forty-six boxes, with four to six binders in each box. They are arranged alphabetically, and each binder is listed with beginning and ending entries. They contain mostly hand written notes. The notes contain descriptions of various places worldwide, with the majority of sites in the American West. Information on small towns in the binders may contain population trends, major roadways, railroads, square mile area, elevation, and history. Geological descriptions include shorelines, dams, rivers, and peaks, formations and time periods. There are thirty-eight boxes of note cards, which are also arranged alphabetically, and listed with the beginning and the ending entries. The note cards were probably used by Mr. Lambert to prepare lectures. They are typed and color-coded. Pink cards represent the first card for a given state or area. Blue cards are for roads and highways. White cards focus on one place; a river, town etc. Yellow cards represent an index for the slides. Additionally in box number eighty-five under “lectures” there is another index for the slides. The first column of numbers is the original file number and is no longer used, the second column of numbers contains the number that corresponds to the number on the slides. The note cards starting in box number eighty-three through box number eighty-five are on various subjects, while the others boxes all contain cards on various places, mostly in the United States. The slides are from all over the United States, Mexico and Canada. Many were taken in Utah and the West. They contain photos of landscapes, mountains, rivers, lakes, geological formations, and rarely people. They are arranged alphabetically by county and state. They are listed with the first county and state in the box and the last county and state in the box. Other states in each box are also listed. Each slide is numbered on the slide, starting over again for each county. The first slide for each county is usually the county courthouse for that county. There are fifty slide boxes. The Utah Geozoic News was the official paper of the Wasatch Geozoic Society. It was published monthly from January 1969 to January/February 1974. It contains information concerning field trips and monthly meetings of the Society. Each issue is about twenty pages of typescript. There are two copies of each issue.

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Open to public research.

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Preferred Citation:

[standard citation language, if desired by repository to list in guide?]

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged chronologically.

Acquisition Information:

Gift

Processing Note:

Lane Brown

Creator:

Lambert, Hubert C.

Language:

Collection materials are in English.

Sponsor:

Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008

Quantity:

[physical extent of collection]

Language of the Finding Aid:

Finding guide is in English in Latin script.

Author of the Finding Aid:

Finding aid created by Ashley Allen, 2008

EAD Creation Date:

2008

Standard:

Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard).

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Subject Terms:

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Journalism
[topical subjects]

Personal Names:

Lambert, C. Hubert

Family Names:

Lambert

Geographical Names:

Ogden, Utah
Western States