Dedman materials

Surprising phone call came to the circ desk while I was walking by. The caller was looking for the archivist, I took the call, and it turned out to be someone who had know college historian & history prof Wayne Dedman and his wife well. The caller had lived in an apartment in their house c1980 while going to college, and apparently had had a role in cleaning the house out after their deaths. He has some of the materials still, and wants to give them to me, some items re the old Normal school and so on. He's coming up from the Southern Tier next week.
 (John Kohena '80.)


Update: amazing collection of materials, some of great interest:

One standard box of materials. Some may not keep, e.g. a history of University of Rochester, but there is much of value. One particularly interesting item is a notebook from Wayne Dedman’s retirement in 1977. Text of a speech by Jack Crandall, many notes and cards, a vivid capture of some senior faculty of the time as they reflected on not only Wayne’s career, but the career of the college and their department over the previous decades of expansion. His personal copy of his history of the school, Cherishing This Heritage has many cards and notes of congratulations on its publication. Also a metal stamp for imprinting the name of the Collegiate Institute on paper, along with "P. J. Williams," who was Principal of the BCI 1861-1863.