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Abstract
Begun in December 1946, The Midwest Clinic, An International Band and Orchestra Conference (MWIBOC), is a multi-day band and orchestra international music conference held annually in Chicago, IL. The conference not only includes performances of featured ensembles, but also focuses "on bringing music directors into contact with not only the best published music, but also with new and established teaching techniques, and the latest products and services for the music educator." The Midwest...
Dates:
1947-2022; Majority of material found within 1960-1997
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The Midwest Program of Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI) was a nonprofit organization of educators and television producers who pioneered efforts to transmit instructional television programming before the advent of cable and satellite. The program began as an experiment in 1959 to use DC-6 AB planes to broadcast signals to schools. It operated through a grant from the Ford Foundation from 1961 to 1963. Then, from 1963 to 1968, MPATI relied on membership fees. MPATI ceased production...
Dates:
1957-1973, and undated; Majority of material found within 1962-1968
Abstract
Henry L. Miller (1919-1985) worked for the United States Information Agency from 1947-1977, producing, directing, and announcing radio programs the Voice of America. His work advising developing countries on starting radio stations took him to the Philippines, Laos, and Vietnam. His wife, Anne Lorentz Miller (1910-1987), wrote the script for several movies about Vietnam during this period and a biography of a former South Vietnamese president. The collection, which spans...
Dates:
1942-1971; Majority of material found within 1942-1965
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LaVerne Miller (1916-2001) taught at the University of Maryland from 1957 to 1959, and at Montgomery College from 1961 to 1997. She played a role in developing the Maryland College of the Air Consortium, distance learning courses broadcast over Maryland Public Television with periodic class meetings on the college campus. Dr. Miller was also an active member of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), serving on the Definitions and Technology Committee of the...
Dates:
1951-1995, and undated; Majority of material found within 1975-1992
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Dr. Raymond E. Miller (1928- ) served as a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland from 1989 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 2002. Miller's papers document his entire career, including his work at IBM in the 1950s through the 1980s; his work as director and a professor at the School of Information and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 1980s, and his work as a professor at the University of Maryland. Also...
Dates:
1950-2004; Majority of material found within 1950-2004
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Word H. Mills (1864-1933) was a journalist, businessman, and active member of the Socialist Labor Party. The papers of Word H. Mills cover the years 1906 to 1933, and consist of a large scrapbook of clippings of articles Mills wrote as a journalist for the Weekly People, the newspaper of the Socialist Labor Party, as well as other papers; a signed limited edition of Mills's book The Evolution of Society; two drafts of essays...
Dates:
1906-1933
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Milton Lewis Stevens Jr. (1942-2007) was an American trombonist who spent the majority of his professional career in the Washington, DC region. He earned a B.M. from Oberlin College, M.M. from the University of Illinois, and a D.M.A. from Boston University. Stevens joined the National Symphony Orchestra in 1978 and held the principal trombone chair for 29 years. In 1993, he co-founded the Washington Symphonic Brass. He was also an educator teaching at Catholic University of America and the...
Dates:
1901-2010; Majority of material found within 1980-2007
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A conductor and violinist, Minas Christian (1921-1989) served as the conductor and music director of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra in Evansville, Indiana from 1953 to 1979. During his tenure he helped create many of the orchestra’s programs and organizations, including county and Tri-State youth concerts, the Evansville Chorus, pop concerts, the Philharmonic Guild, and the orchestra’s first subscription series. In addition, he made guest appearances both as a conductor and as a...
Dates:
1947-1978; Majority of material found within 1953-1978
Abstract
Jack Minker was a professor at the University of Maryland in the Computer Science Department. Minker became a professor at the university in 1971, the first chairman of the department in 1974, and a professor emeritus in 1998. His collection is comprised of professional research, publications, grant proposals, and information on the Computer Science Department at Maryland. Subjects covered in his research and publications include artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic...
Dates:
1951-2010; Majority of material found within 1960-1998
Abstract
Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was an author of novels, poems, and translations. However, she is most remembered for her circle of literary friends, which included T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. She published two novels, Lud-in-the-Mist and Counterplot, and a book of poetry, Moods and Tensions: Poems. She began, but never completed, a biography of seventeenth-century...
Dates:
1920-1960
