AskDrake query

An AskDrake query re the relationship between Ted Williams, Tuscarora writer, and Peter Marchant, English professor here 1968-1992. Shared with questioner what I know, which isn't anything about their relationship, other than Williams said he had Marchant for a prof. Marchant was a very popular writing instructor, we've had different Tuscarora from the Lewiston reservation here over the years etc.

Dick Mancuso

Request from his widow for materials to use in scrapbooks to give her grandsons who were young when this physics prof died. I have some nice photos and materials, will scan and send to her.

Alumni House trees

Took a couple hours searching thru photo CDs, but found some aerial shots from a 2003 aerial shoot that showed Alumni House and the trees in back, three of which were cut down a couple years ago. This was for the project with the tree slabs etc.

Digital Commons

Contact via askdrake from faculty member wanting to add materials to DC. Have emailed him and will help as I can.

Class of 1969

Just contacted by the alum of '69 heading up their 50th reunion. Wanted to know stats for the class and school then, where the yearbook is etc. Shared all that with him, offered to scan and crop images from the Saga and Stylus if they would like, for their memory book etc.

Dance 50th - videos on Digital Commons

I helped them with their 50th anniversary of the department this past year, and recently they sent me a video they did of their history. This was a good opportunity to try out Digital Commons new capacity to host video. I uploaded the 88mb mp4 file like you would a pdf, filled in the form, and it worked pretty easily: https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/dns_archives/8/.

Stylus in '79, '80

An alum, wanting to look at the Stylus from those years. Said while they were welcome to visit, they could in fact search it online, explained how to do that.

BSG VP in 1973?

Advancement staff asked this, a little tricky, at first I went to the '73 yearbook, but in that period they started having these sort of free form yearbooks, much more random photos of campus scenes, not so much pages of this group and that. I went to the Stylus online and did find it there. Brian Petraitis was president, and Ronnie Marmo VP.

Fannie Barrier 150th

An administrator made the interesting observation that this coming year, 2020, will be the 150th anniversary of Fannie Barrier Williams graduating from the Normal school in 1870. They were wondering about commemorating the anniversary somehow, a great idea. By coincidence I was put in touch with a new person at Rochester Museum of Science and Technology, they want to do an exhibit on "Inspiring Women," and are considering including Fannie B.

Athletics - swim team member photos

They are looking for photos of Matt Panebianco, 2010-11. I'll look, they did supply a pic luckily, otherwise it would be pretty much impossible, since swimmers don't have numbers, and pics aren't ID'd for the most part...

Update - think I found a few, but not 100%, the swimmers are not identified by name. Why would you do that, hah hah… Looks like might be him though. Another issue is that the photos are not our campus photographer, but some other photographer, stamped with his name. This is the case for some athletics images, and I am a little unsure of the rights here.

Morgan Manning House

The new historian from the MM House is visiting this coming Monday, to get some advice re manuscript sleeves and other archival supplies, and also to talk about and look at the lantern slide collection.

Baseball teams rosters

They want to have a reunion of baseball team members in fall for homecoming. I'm going to need to go through the materials I have, they are looking for 1972-67, 1987-91. It will take some time to go through all the folders, scan rosters or maybe simply type up a list.


Update: Just got around to doing this, took most of a morning to dig through the team folders. For the '70s teams there weren't any rosters, so had to search through the Stylus online. Not complete maybe, but best could do. For later teams there were rosters in the files.

40th Special Olympics

Had an email from College Communications, they are doing a video re the 40th of the Special Olympics. Want to come see what I have, am setting up a visit for them.

Photo scans

Have a number of photo scans to do for Advancement, for named scholarships.

Genealogy request

For info on a Julia McAllister of Clarendon, thought to have attended Brockport c1910. No McAllisters listed in the alumni directories that cover 1868-1927. Then I saw a mention in the Brockport Republic of a Julia Culhane marrying a Wm McAllister of Holley in 1905, and thought that might be her, but no Culhane either. The family member said she started teaching young, at 17 or 18, and in that era, it is possible she went to the high school department of the Normal, and that I believe would have enabled her to teach in one room elementary schools, which is what she did according to a follow up call I made. I'll check next in the high school records, the alumni listing has some high school, but not all by any means.

Clarkson Academy talk

The Clarkson Academy talk last night went well. There were 20 or so in attendance. I talked about the history of the old academies, and people had a lot of questions and enjoyed the information.