The Monteith and Pipe families were early Oregon pioneers who settled in Albany. R. Monteith Macoubrie ’42 is a descendant and presented these papers to Reed. They consist of an early will, land documents, a lawsuit, tax returns, obituaries, and correspondence. People mentioned are Isabella Monteith (1825), Walter Monteith (1865), J.V. and Charlotte Pipe (1915-1925), John M. Pipe (1931-1959), and Christine Pipe.

R. Monteith Macoubrie graduated from Reed in 1942 and earned a Master of Arts in Education from Reed in 1956. He taught in the Portland Public Schools. His papers contain class notes and papers from Albany College, later Lewis and Clark, to 1938 and from then at Reed to 1942. Also included are training materials from his Air-Navigation Training in the U.S. Army, 1942-1943, as well as other ephemera from World War II.