13th NY Regiment Civil War

AskDrake query, looking for info, manuscripts... I double checked the regiment on the NY military affairs page on Civil War regiments, shared that, made some other suggestions, e.g. Rundel's local history office.

Scholarship biographies

Barbara Powers from Advancement came by. She is trying to enhance the bios on scholarship givers, which currently are very basic entries. I shared some info she can use from her office, e.g. the Bud Meade Updates on Digital Commons, and showed her some resources kept her, e.g. photos, bio files in RG26... We will be working together.

Emeriti & Brockport Republic

Spent some time helping an emeriti looking for the local paper on microfilm learn how to navigate the NY Historic Newspapers site.

Gamma Sigma and its connections

Heard from a researcher of early college fraternities again, asking for some feedback on his ideas of expressing some of the interconnectedness of some of these groups. Suggested that my sense was that a key aspect of higher ed history is exactly that, the connections, a Mary Mortimer leaves Brockport in the 1840s to go on to a long career as a pioneer in higher ed for women in several institutions and states, and it would be hard to speak of one aspect of her life without at least mentioning some of the other...

Ellsworth

Spoke on phone to Dave Cohen '56 other day, part of a research thing suggested by Mike Andriatch. Dave was part of the group of friends, including Bob Bloxsom '58, the artist for Ellsworth, who came up with the idea of the mascot in 1955-56. He had some information I'd never heard before, great stuff, I did a write up for The Port, may mention it in the Daily Eagle at some point too.

Counseling Center

Sharon Belle-Render was by today, wanting to explore the origins of the counseling center for some research and reporting she is doing. I had not pursued this before, interesting starts in 1968, and found a nice Stylus article from '70 that captures the work of the center; much like the work it does today in many ways. Have sent to her, and will look for more.

1937 grad connections

This was neat, an IT staffer came by with a new hire, an IT director, and this man's grandmother was a 1937 Normal grad! I shared her yearbook info with him, and I did find her transcript/admission record which I will scan and send to him. (She is deceased, it is over 70 years ago...) He said he'd known her pretty well, she had been a math teacher and he used to call her often to talk to her about his math work in school.

Scan for village museum

Sue Savard from the village museum came by. She had a newspaper page she wanted me to scan on the book scanner, a 1927 one page spread on the closing of the W. S. Lee grocery store, for a descendant. She also brought me an 1890s class photo of the Normal school, so a good trade!

EOP 50th

Found some more EOP photos in the Jim Dusen collections, awards ceremonies in '90, '94, but that may have about tapped out what I have!

Six boxes

Got six, actually seven boxes today from the president's office. Six were various document series, and one was campus memorabilia, Ellsworth dolls, metal college seal plates... More things to process :-)

Don Askey - EOP 50th

He called and wanted to come over, said couldn't access some Saga yearbooks online. I checked and sure enough, some 2 part Sagas were only displaying pt1, not both parts. Am fixing in Digital Commons, had him come over to look at year books and will scan some pics from them. Better for individual shots anyway, than cropping out of the pdf files. He also has emailed a list of people he'd like photos for, various EOP directors etc.

Athletics photos

No luck on a team photo for 1974 Men's Soccer, not in the photos, and there's no '74 Saga, they didn't do one that year. Will look for 2 athletes they want to induct to hall of fame, but am waiting for the teams they were on and numbers, it's really the only way I can look for them.