Six interns!

Am picking up a 6th intern, Jake, who will do a 3 credit internship in the archives. He'll start by helping me digitize the Hullfish tapes, then go on to do a popular culture study by tracking student musical interests via the Stylus and Saga.

Low Bridge High Water

More canal interest; this celebration is annual, but special this year, as it is the bicentennial of the start of the canal construction. I am working with folks from the Brockport Community Museum on their contribution to this. My part will likely include sharing the Guelf images of the canal and of its expansion c1914. Someone from the Union was interested in this too.

Canal & College

VP Willis contacted me asking for a list of college connections, events etc. with the canal. Supplied a list of Stylus references c1930-1985, events along canal, activities, concerns re pollution... He replied back that the list was helpful, and related that they are looking at enhancing the college property along the canal. I had never thought of it, but we are actually the only SUNY located on the canal, we have 800' or so of frontage.


I will look for more material in old master plans etc. and share with them.

SUNY Central policies re promotion

Specifically for c1998. Good question, hard to answer. I have scattered UUP member docs in archives, Jennifer Smathers found these when she was trying to help a patron, but I also have Faculty Handbooks, which aren't for '98, but there is a '92, and online I found a '01, none of which seemed to vary much. Scanned relevant pages from the '92, emailed, noted that part of the problem is that there isn't actually a SUNY archives, for the system as a whole.


   Never has been, the materials that exist languished for years in various places, including a warehouse in the Albany area. Ken O'Brien and Bruce Leslie of our history department have pushed for years to get an archives set up for the system, and they think that there may be someone appointed in the near future. This would be wonderful, it is so unfortunate that the system has lacked in this area all these years.

Tuttle & Tuttle

A little question, but made me do some research: someone commented on the Rose Archives page on Facebook, asking about Tuttle building, was it named for their gr-uncle, Ray Tuttle, a local politician and local historian of years ago. I knew the building was named for Ernest Tuttle, PE prof here c1937-65, but found myself unsure re any connection between the two men. Long story short, after a little digging, found that Ernest Tuttle was from the Watertown area, and as far as I can tell not related to Ray Tuttle.

Bill Hullfish

His wife contacted me, they are having a birthday party the end of the month for this emeritus of the former Music Department, and she was hoping for pics, audio... I found some images I could send, both photos, Stylus articles etc., but no audio. Then she got back to me, had found some cassette tapes. So she dropped them off today, tomorrow I need to see if I remember how to run the digitization of them on the one PC!

Dorm & building names

Shared the pic of Janette Reynolds, first librarian with Dave Tyler, who posted on Facebook. That got a response from someone who said they had lived in "Reynolds Hall" in the '60s. Dave asked if I knew of that hall, and at first I was thinking it was some sort of mistake, but then found an article in the Stylus about it! The question has prompted me to revisit the issue, something that has nagged at me a few times, the issue of dorm and building names. It seemed like some names had "moved," some were dropped etc., but was never too clear about the details.


So am digging a little now, one thing I found was that they named buildings almost literally by halls, so Morgan at one time in the '50s had four names for the four "halls." One of those was Thompson, which was "moved" as it were to be the name of another building. The quad dorms of today, MacVicar etc., were once not only MacVicar, but Chriswell and Reynolds. Confusing, and a shame too, to name things, then lose those names. Reynolds should have had Drake named after her!

Update: am looking into this more, the plaque for Edwards hall came to the archives, a big bronze item, gift of Class of 1958. The original set of dorm "halls" were Edwards, Perry, Neff and Morgan, I think, I need to research to be more clear. I have 1950s photos labeled Edwards, it looks like in the section that was demolished in '90s when they extended the mall into the back of Hartwell.