Education Department anniversary

Was contacted by a prof there before, but what with one thing and another they couldn't find time, but now they want to look into this. I will meet with them, replied as follows:


 Education will be an interesting one, in a real sense the whole school was an education department for decades, as a Normal school and then Teachers college, and then in '66-67 you see the school become a comprehensive liberal arts school, all the various departments. Then of course you have the 100+ year long story of the old campus school, which ran from the 1860s (or earlier,) up thru the late 1970s.

Biography information for Advancement and Scholarships

Part of an ongoing project to flesh out the donor biographies for the named scholarships, and for some other projects as well... Shared link to Bud Meade Updates, and mentioned that I would love to have the old alumni newsletters, the Brockport Statements and so on digitized commercially, I just doubt I will ever have time to do it myself. There is a wealth of information in them on all sorts of college people, but with no indexing it is a very time consuming treasure hunt to find anything, if you even do.

Florence Brown '55

I was asked about this grad awhile back, she was an African American educator of prominence in the Rochester city schools, pre-K education. Advancement is seeking to recognize her further and asked about any possible surviving relatives etc. Shared some names from her obit, a relatives I found, suggested checking with the church named in the obit in her home town, New Rochelle, where she spent her summers off etc.

Yearbooks

Someone from Advancement, asking if I had extra copies of the '69 yearbook. I answered as follows:


...the yearbooks story is as follows: they are all online, at the link below, and for print copies I have all the ones that were in Alumni House, plus some I had. Having said that, the print is hit and miss. Like 1970, I have 10 or so, but for '69 I just have 4 copies. I could give one away to them though if you want it. Let me know, I can send it in the campus mail or bring it over.

Brockport Cemetery photo

Was asked about whether I had an early photo of this cemetery, the one on High Street. I do, it is one of the George Guelf glass plate negatives that were digitized. The photo is c1910. I shared it with the person, they want to use it in the Brockport Community Museum site, and someone from the Landmark Society wanted a look at it too.


Update: One part of the query above was about a receiving vault that had been there in the cemetery, an unusual Egyptian revival style stone building. I posted about this vault in the "Remembering Brockport" group in Facebook, and got a very helpful response from someone who shared the following link. Apparently the vault was demolished in the 1990s due to "severe deterioration."


https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/16000061.pdf?fbclid=IwAR26H930hWDb1L3c8OlB0IZXg6wdBgnt15PnkBQEBWwQBXPERk6JF2nkgt8

Grateful Dead

Someone working on an encyclopedic treatment of the Grateful Dead, all their concerts etc., contacted me about their appearance here in 1981. The archives doesn't have many of the things he was looking for, the contracts, film, audio etc. I did recommend using NYS Historic Newspapers for Stylus articles on the concert, how to use the database etc.

Gifford Morgan

Have been working via email a bit with the historian at the Morgan Manning House re Gifford Morgan. She is working on building up their biographical files on him, and I shared some of what I have. He had significant connections to the college, being on the board of the Normal in the '30s, and he worked closely with Hartwell to stave off the threat of closure of the school. I also had scans of several scrapbooks lent me by a Morgan family member which I emailed to her.