13th NY Regiment Civil War

AskDrake query, looking for info, manuscripts... I double checked the regiment on the NY military affairs page on Civil War regiments, shared that, made some other suggestions, e.g. Rundel's local history office.

Scholarship biographies

Barbara Powers from Advancement came by. She is trying to enhance the bios on scholarship givers, which currently are very basic entries. I shared some info she can use from her office, e.g. the Bud Meade Updates on Digital Commons, and showed her some resources kept her, e.g. photos, bio files in RG26... We will be working together.

Emeriti & Brockport Republic

Spent some time helping an emeriti looking for the local paper on microfilm learn how to navigate the NY Historic Newspapers site.

Gamma Sigma and its connections

Heard from a researcher of early college fraternities again, asking for some feedback on his ideas of expressing some of the interconnectedness of some of these groups. Suggested that my sense was that a key aspect of higher ed history is exactly that, the connections, a Mary Mortimer leaves Brockport in the 1840s to go on to a long career as a pioneer in higher ed for women in several institutions and states, and it would be hard to speak of one aspect of her life without at least mentioning some of the other...

Ellsworth

Spoke on phone to Dave Cohen '56 other day, part of a research thing suggested by Mike Andriatch. Dave was part of the group of friends, including Bob Bloxsom '58, the artist for Ellsworth, who came up with the idea of the mascot in 1955-56. He had some information I'd never heard before, great stuff, I did a write up for The Port, may mention it in the Daily Eagle at some point too.

Counseling Center

Sharon Belle-Render was by today, wanting to explore the origins of the counseling center for some research and reporting she is doing. I had not pursued this before, interesting starts in 1968, and found a nice Stylus article from '70 that captures the work of the center; much like the work it does today in many ways. Have sent to her, and will look for more.

1937 grad connections

This was neat, an IT staffer came by with a new hire, an IT director, and this man's grandmother was a 1937 Normal grad! I shared her yearbook info with him, and I did find her transcript/admission record which I will scan and send to him. (She is deceased, it is over 70 years ago...) He said he'd known her pretty well, she had been a math teacher and he used to call her often to talk to her about his math work in school.