Mornings with Professors

Spending a lot of time here and there working on a slideshow for the talk I am giving this coming Tuesday morning, which will focus on the lesser known early history of the school, the Collegiate Institute and Normal school eras.

Women's Center 20th display

Spent a good bit of time preparing a display for this event tomorrow. Also in assisting Rachael Fort, a student from the program, who did a very good deed and found a box of Women's Center materials I'd been given but have not yet added to the collection, what with moving this past year etc...

Canal & Master Plans

The current interest in the canal is part of an expanded master plan development that will focus on not just the college but it's place in the surrounding community. Am reviewing the old master plans, which go back to 1946, as well as other records and documents to aid in illuminating the college's visions concerning our physical properties, their use, the impact on the local community...

History of Clarkson

Someone stopped by interested in researching the history of Clarkson. Showed them the materials I have in Digital Commons, the plat maps, history books etc., and showed them NYS Historic Newspapers too. Explained how to use, offered to help further if needed...

Guelf photos of canal etc

Have been working with Norm Frisch of the Brockport Community Museum on some local history projects that are making use of the historical glass plate negatives taken by George "Buzz" Guelf" a century ago. The photos were digitized and added to NY Heritage a few years back but the digital files need to be better organized, a project for the future, but they are worth going through, they are remarkable photographs.

Dance, Art dept dates

Query re start dates of these departments: both were 1967. Also shared link to the digital commons page for the dance archives.

1973 yearbook

Grad of that year, had lost hers, was looking at online copy, but apparently Part II isn't there, need to check on that! But I have some extra copies, offered to mail her one, she was very happy about that.