Library images

Bill Andrews - he and Margy Blackman are going to give a talk on Brockport libraries at public library, wants images of college library over the years for slideshow.

Ethics & Philosophy Sport

Cesar Torres asking again about early days of this; found some mentions in Brockport Newsletter of 1971 in addition to Stylus articles. May be more in Int'l Phi Year materials?

Tiles for Special Olympics fountain?

Query re decorative tiles that were proposed for S.O. fountain but never put in. Will look through S.O. files, person is interested in having them made if possible!

Health care - migrants

A query re migrant education and health care for migrants, will look at materials received last year from Sister Beverly and other sources.

Return of the "corner column"

Met with John McMahon today about doing a column in K'scope, ideas for it etc. "Charlie Cowling's Corner Column" returns, lol. Hopefully under a different name!

Veterans Day display

Lucy, works in circ and is public history class, is coming down Friday to look into doing a display for library for vets day. Will need to get some things together for her, clear a space...

Pictures of Ken O'Brien

Richard Black in Design asked about shots of Ken teaching, that sort of thing. Trolled thru Jim D. notebooks, no luck so far. Reminds me of high priority indexing those notebooks should have. Have asked a couple emeriti if would be interested in helping ID some of the images.

First Fridays

Was asked to do something for next First Friday at Alumni House, am putting together a sort of Brockport history "jeopardy" slide show.

Higher res image of 1906 Basketball team

From the Stylus, looking for a higher res image of the team described in a Daily Eagle post recently. Sent them a maximum res jpg. Also invited to come over sometime and view other photos etc.

Stylus interview

Met with Stylus reporter re my recent Daily Eagle post "Dumb bells, wands, hoops clubs & more.." Put in a plug for them to notice their upcoming centennial...

Alternate College/Delta

Met with Amy Guptill re Alt/Delta's upcoming 40th anniversary. Shared materials held in archives, discussed history of program etc. This will likely be a series of meeting, may be some students who will work on it.

Prepping today for HST401

Been prepping today for a visit this evening by HST401, Bruce Leslie's Public History class. He has 19 students, a very good number for such a class.

James Edmunds, Civil War songster

Curious inquiry, via librarian at MCC whose husband is involved in Brighton's upcoming 200th. Apparently we have a thesis (#122, Gravelle, 1970) about a Civil War manuscript songbook written by Edmund's grandfather. James Edmunds was an English prof here 1937-1971, grew up in Brighton on family farm, had this manuscript. Looked at the thesis, reviewed Edmunds' bio file, will scan and send her some info from there suggesting leads to contact, eg Edmunds' children.

Alternate College & Delta

Contacted by Amy Guptill, interested in Delta's anniversary. Am going to meet with her next week, have lots of Alt College/Delta materials going back to early '70s. Will look thru it so have a clearer idea of what there is for when she comes.

Photos for athletics twitter feed

Kelly Vergin, sports info director, and student, in looking thru older athletics photos for images to use in their twitter feed.

Novel set in BSNS ca1921

Have been contacted by an author who is beginning work on a novel featuring a girl studying at the Normal school in the early '20s. Neat project, have provided links to the yearbooks for that era which are on the DC, the Brockport Republic, and will scan some of a catalog of that time to supply course info and so on.

Influenza epidemic 1918

Look at Stylus, local history materials etc.

More basketball photos

Joe Clarke, coach, redoing locker room, wants images he can have design & production do up and frame for him. Wants some more images, had sent older, will look for '60s on.

Deerfield Country Club

Caller asking about history of this club in Clarkson. Suggested the Brockport Republic, contacting the Clarkson Town Historian, I will check around a little...

Jim Vlogianitis '94

Alum office looking for pics of this student who had played basketball here. Found some in the team photos, scanned and sent them.

Pictures, 1 faculty, 2 students

Images request; will look in Dusen portraits for prof, for students will try yearbooks. Also Jim D. photos depending, this sort of search be quite time consuming.

Hangover breakfast

Communications office wanted higher res scan of this story from 1954.