Another 50th celebration - Dance Department

Was just contacted by the department as they begin to prep to celebrate their 50th. I shared the link to the dance archives online that were done a few years ago, and will look for more here...

Dei Anang

A prof contacted me asking about Michael Dei Anang and possible connections with Sankofa. I shared some basic bio information on this interesting man, that he was here 1971-78, when he died, was chair of AAS part of that time, and he definitely had literary and poetical ambitions, but I had to say I didn't know of any musical interests or connections with Sankofa.

Wrestling rosters - again

Someone from athletics looking for wrestling team rosters, same years as advancement was looking for a couple months ago. I sent them what I sent advancement, I just didn't have the one year. Like a lot of archival things I just have what I have, and there often are gaps.

Book scanner working again!!!

Hah, good news, book scanner is finally working again, after almost 2 months down. Long story, IT wanted to update PCs in archives from Win 7 to Win 10, caused many problems, especially with book scanner, for which we could not find drivers to run it in Win 10, Konica just does not support it properly. So now it's a stand alone, non-networked PC, on Win 7, so I have to move files onto flash drives to bring to other PCs to back up to the cloud, share with others...


But, it is working, and this afternoon began scanning a fascinating local history document, a paper a student named Allport wrote here in 1962 about the history of schools and education in Niagara County. I will be placing it on the Digital Commons when ready.

Ellsworth

A staff person needed some images and info on our mascot Ellsworth for some social media posting. Supplied several images and a doc on the history of Ellsworth.

Coach Panaggio

He was a prominent basketball coach here for many years starting in '68. He has since passed away, and his son is interested in researching his father, and his own time here. Have thus far shared links to the yearbooks online, nyshistoricnewspapers, made some other suggestions, and asked some questions to find out better what he is looking for.

Gamma Sigma 150th

Interesting, an ILL request came in over the holiday break for the history of the Gamma Sigma fraternity. The fraternity was started here by Charles McLean with a group of students in the early Normal era, and then spread to many other Normal schools and also high schools. It ended here when Hartwell closed out all the local fraternities and sororities c1939, but continued elsewhere into the 1970s, when I think it faded away; the requestor was a '71 member. He wants to organize a 150th anniversary, so have given one copy of the book to send him, and also emailed him myself to share the link to Dedman's book etc.