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The Cobey Family collection consists of materials collected by William W. Cobey, Director of Athletics for the University of Maryland from 1956-57 to 1969-70, and other Cobey family members. The collection centers around materials covering intercollegiate athletics, including media guides, sports schedules, programs, newsletters, photographs, and scrapbooks. There are also several items from the Queen's Game in 1957, including telegrams, magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs, and...
Dates:
1901-1999; Majority of material found within circa 1930-1969
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Robert Coe (1902-1975) was a broadcast executive for 45 years who later taught at Ohio University and Temple University. He began his broadcasting career in 1921 as an announcer and engineer at KSD in St. Louis and gradually ascended to executive positions at KSD and KSD-TV. He helped build WPIX-TV in New York City in 1948 as the station's first vice president and general manager. He became an executive in charge of affiliate relations for both the Dumont (1952-1955) and ABC (1955-1967)...
Dates:
1902-1975 and undated; Majority of material found within 1925-1968 and undated
Abstract
Edwin G. Cohen (1926-2014) had a distinguished career in educational and instructional television from 1955 to 1990. During those years, his positions included program associate for the Educational Television and Radio Center, director of the National Instructional Television Film Library, and founder and executive director of the Agency for Instructional Television and its successor, Agency for Instructional Technology. The collection documents Cohen's role in the growth of operation of...
Dates:
1958-1990, and undated; Majority of material found within 1961-1975
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Irwin Cohen (1947- ), a bibliophile and book collector, is manager of the Time Warner, Inc., Bookstore in New York City. When was in high school, Mr. Cohen first encountered and read Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, which led him to collect works by and about her. He eventually met Miss Barnes, when his wife, Francesca Belanger, then senior designer at Dial Press was assigned to Miss Barnes's last book, Creatures in an Alphabet....
Dates:
1896-1995
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Jane E. Cohen was a broadcast and communications executive. Cohen was a member of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) and served as the organization's national president from 1975 to 1976. AWRT is a nonprofit organization for women in the broadcasting industries. AWRT was founded in 1951 in response to the National Association of Broadcasters' decision to dissolve its women's division. The organization's mission is to "advance the impact of women in broadcasting and related...
Dates:
1960-1994 and Undated; Majority of material found within 1970-1986
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The Rhea Cohen papers consist of environmental materials related to Maryland and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. A water quality expert, Cohen worked as a paid lobbyist for the Sierra Club from 1973 to 1980, focusing on water pollution. As leader of Save our Community Committee (in Greenbelt, Maryland), she addressed concerns of environmental activists in Prince George's County. She represented the citizens of Greenbelt, Maryland, as a member of the city council. The collection is...
Dates:
1965-1979; Majority of material found within 1974-1979
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Gordon H. Cole was the long-time editor of The Machinist, the newspaper for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, from 1947-1976. Prior to 1956, Cole was president of the American Federation of Labor’s (AFL) union press association, the International Labor Press of America. Cole served as the AFL’s chief representative during negotiations with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the move to create the International...
Dates:
1950-1988; Majority of material found within 1960-1980
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The College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) began its existence as a committee of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC). The Committee on College and University Music was so dominated by band directors in the mid-1930s that it soon became known as the Committee on College and University Bands. In the fall of 1938 that committee, under the leadership of William Revelli, met independently in Chicago. The group met again in December 1941 and formed the University and...
Dates:
1939-2011; Majority of material found within 1951-1986
Abstract
The College Music Society (CMS) provides professional activities, career development and outreach opportunities for musicians and scholars both independent and at educational institutions. The CMS records consist of meeting programs, correspondence, committee documentation, board materials, publications, and photographs. The collection is currently minimally processed, but open for research.
Dates:
1948-2014
Abstract
The teaching of agriculture at the University of Maryland began with the opening of the Maryland Agricultural College in 1859. The establishment of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station at the college almost thirty years later, in 1888, enhanced the focus on agriculture. The College Park campus of the University of Maryland, created by the Maryland General Assembly in 1920, was originally divided into thirteen educational units, including the College of Agriculture. The college...
Dates:
1916-1973; Majority of material found within 1951-1969
