Plymouth State College is a small school in the University of New Hampshire system.  In its early days it was primarily a normal school.
  My Uncle, Dr. Robert Boyd came to Plymouth to teach in 1931.  He variously taught botany, geology, earth science, biology for nurses, and most everything else in the sciences that was needed!
During the summer vacations Columbia University held a geology - earth science field camp program at Plymouth.  Bob taught geology, mineralogy, and botany to the Columbia Geology undergrads.  As a wildly enthusiastic teenager, I was allowed to tag along on field trips to Palermo and Ruggles Mines and other geological sites. 
Bob Boyd was an extremely popular professor; so much so, that year after year, the graduating class dedicated the yearbook to him.  When the new science building was being built, it was named Boyd Hall in his honor.  He was so very pleased, and his family was delighted that the administration hadn't waited to honor him after he had died.  Our family members purchased one of those double-decker Wardell cases to be place in the entrance corridor of the new building to contain his life-long, (mainly New Hampshire) mineral collection.  I had asked him, when he retired, if I could have his collection, but he said that much as he would like for me to have it, he had collected most of the specimens on college time, so he felt that it should go to the college.
A year or so passed while my air force husband and I were overseas in Korea, so we had not visited the hall to check to see the mineral collection properly ensconced in the glass cases.  Upon our return we learned the horrible truth.  The new science department chairman didn't care about a bunch of old minerals and rocks and directed students to load the still packed boxes onto a truck and take them to the town dump. 
The next day one of Bob's former geology students learned of the act and rushed to his home yelling, "Bob, Bob come quickly, they've thrown your mineral collection in the dump!"  They rushed to the town dump on a rescue mission, only to find it was already too late.  The tipped out minerals had disappeared under truck and dumpster loads of trash and garbage.  Despite heroic efforts, none of the specimens were ever found.