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Rearview Frontier: The Josh Hammond papers on the Discovery and Application of American Cultural Forces to Public Policy Programs, bulk 1962-2000

 

Summary

Creator:
Hammond, Josh
Abstract:
Rearview Frontier: The Josh Hammond papers on the Discovery and Application of American Cultural Forces to Public Policy Programs document Hammond's career in public communications, government service, nonprofit leadership, cross-cultural quality management, and public policy, as well as his educational experiences at the University of South Florida. The collection includes documents, research files, publications, brochures, periodicals, subject files, and mixed-media materials relating to his work with the White House Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, the office of U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr., the National Public Advertising Center, and the American Quality Foundation.
Extent:
3 boxes 1 standard Hollinger box, 1 half Hollinger box, and 1 flat, oversized box.
2.02 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Rearview Frontier: The Josh Hammond papers on the Discovery and Application of American Cultural Forces to Public Policy Programs, USF Libraries – Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection documents are based on Josh Hammond's twenty qualitative and quantitative studies that lead to the discovery and identification of seven cultural forces that define Americans, published by Macmillan books and used by Disney University for a professional development program. His two major careers were drug abuse prevention and education from the first legislation in the US Congress to go beyond enforcement and education and prevent. The formative research was the basis of Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign launch in 1982.; and second, in total quality management and the study of the cultural forces that influence America's global competitiveness that included the National Quality Month Campaign, Quality First, established by US Congress and a Proclamation by President Ronald Reagan. Both careers draw upon his educational experiences at the University of South Florida. The collection spans three decades and provides insight into his work in federal government, national public education campaigns, organizational development, and strategic management. The collection consists of documents, research reports, publications, brochures, periodicals, subject files, two published books, and mixed-media materials created or curated by Hammond.

Also represented are materials related to his service as Director of Communications for the White House Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention; his work as Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr.; and his involvement creation of the National Public Advertising Center and serving as the founding president of American Quality Foundation, the first CEO-focused Think Tank on Total Quality Management. These records document public health and drug prevention initiatives, wellness campaigns, quality management research, strategic planning, organizational effectiveness, business leadership, and public policy.

Biographical / historical:

Josh Hammond was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and raised in Concepción, a remote mission village in the eastern Bolivian lowlands established by Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century. His father, a Protestant missionary, worked among Indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon, and Hammond spent his childhood in the region before being separated from his family and sent to the United States at the age of twelve to continue his education. He attended church-sponsored schools before enrolling at the University of South Florida as a member of the university's charter class, earning his undergraduate degree during USF's formative years.

Following graduation, Hammond began a career in public policy, government administration, and organizational management. In Washington, D.C., he served as Director of Communications for the White House Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention during the Nixon administration, after serving as the first Director of the National Coordinating Council on Drug Education. He also worked as Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr., staffing the senator's work on the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (formerly Health, Education, and Welfare).

Hammond later moved to California, where he founded the National Public Advertising Center in San Francisco. Through the organization, he developed public education and social marketing campaigns addressing drug prevention, public health, and wellness. These initiatives included the original "Say No" anti-drug communications strategy, which was popularized four years later by Nancy Reagan as "Just Say No," and California's first statewide paid television advertising campaign promoting wellness, developed for Governor Jerry Brown in partnership with the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

In New York, Hammond became the founding president of the American Quality Foundation, the nation's first think tank dedicated to advancing strategic quality management in business and industry. Under his leadership, the Foundation partnered with Ernst and Young on comparative international studies of management and quality practices in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Japan. Hammond is also the author of The Stuff Americans Are Made Of (Macmillan, 1996), which examines American business culture and was later adapted for a Disney University professional development program.

Throughout his career, Hammond worked in government, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector, focusing on strategic communications, public policy, organizational effectiveness, cross-cultural management practices, and total quality management. His papers document his work in public service, communications, social marketing, organizational development, business leadership, and his reflections on his upbringing in Bolivia and his professional career.

Reference: Hammond, Josh. "About Me." At The Break Of Day, Medium, 25 Jan. 2023, Biographical statement (Josh Hammond, Medium)

Acquisition information:

Josh Hammond

Donation

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged and described using the creator's original order. Materials are organized by subject and assigned numerical identifiers corresponding to the creator's inventory. A copy of the inventory is included in each folder/box. Some materials were rearranged according to creator's classifications for clarity.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

None

Terms of access:

None. The contents of this collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

Rearview Frontier: The Josh Hammond papers on the Discovery and Application of American Cultural Forces to Public Policy Programs, USF Libraries – Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Location of this collection:
The University of South Florida, Tampa Campus
4202 East Fowler Ave. LIB122
Tampa
FL
33620-5400
USA