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Abstract
Ann Marjorie Corrick (1921-2000) was an American reporter, producer, writer, a longtime communications executive for Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, and a media and public relations consultant. As a broadcast journalist, Corrick specialized in United States politics. She was known for her special coverage of the United States Congress and national political events of the 1950s and 1960s, including traveling with Presidential candidates Kennedy and Nixon during the...
Dates:
1944-1993
Abstract
Dean Walter Coston (1923-2013) helped advance the cause of public broadcasting by insisting that radio be included in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which he helped write. Coston first worked for WUOM, Ann Arbor, as chief engineer from 1948 to 1961. In 1961, he joined the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1961 as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary (Legislation). In 1963, he became Deputy Assistant Secretary and was Deputy Under-Secretary by 1966. His main concern...
Dates:
1965-1969; Majority of material found within 1967-1969
Abstract
Established in 1934 as part of the Department of Psychology, the Counseling Center became a separate administrative unit in 1955, with three primary functions: provision of counseling services, development of testing programs, and research. Records include correspondence, reports on studies and experiments, manuals, and narratives of the center's history and purpose documenting the administration and special programs of the center. Administrative materials concern such topics as employment,...
Dates:
1951-1977
Abstract
The papers of French painter Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) cover a forty year period, and consist primarily of letters to his family from the time he was in school at Besançon in 1837 until a few months before his death in 1877. The collection also includes one letter to Gustave Courbet from an unidentified correspondent and some correspondence and business papers of his father Régis Courbet. Important subjects discussed in the letters include: Courbet's daily life, his work and personal...
Dates:
1837-1877
Abstract
John Couric was a journalist for the United Press until 1957 when he went into Public Relations. He worked fror the National Association of Broadcasters and other trade organizations. The collection contains scrapbooks detailing promotional materials and activities of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Public Relations Service. The National Association of Broadcasters is a trade organization for radio and television founded in 1922. While the materials here deal with all...
Dates:
1959-1971
Abstract
The Committee on Courses of Study, consisting of university faculty and administrators, was charged with formulating policies and regulations on such matters as course offerings, military instruction, academic standards, grading systems, and academic regulations. The collection contains minutes, correspondence, and proposed academic regulations generated by the committee and its various subcommittees.
Dates:
1919-1935 and undated
Abstract
The David Stewart Courtenay papers consist of correspondence, guardians' and executors' financial records, and biographical/genealogical materials pertaining to various family members, including the family of Courtenay's mother, Isabella Purviance. Included are documents created in the course of conducting various business transactions, such as the settlement of the estate of Dr. John Boyd, receipts of debts owed, and receipts pertaining to David Courtenay's guardianship of John Larsh. The...
Dates:
1787-1900; Majority of material found within 1787-1871
Abstract
Virginia Anne Burnside Cox graduated with a Bachelors of Science from the College of Education at the University of Maryland in 1951. This collection consists of materials documenting her time at the university during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Included are programs, newspaper and magazine clippings. A preliminary inventory is available and can be found in the "Additional Description" section of this finding aid.
Dates:
circa 1940-1959; Majority of material found within 1949-1951
Abstract
Thomas Cresap (circa 1692-1790) was a Maryland pioneer, settler colonist, and frontiersman. He surveyed Maryland's western frontier for what is known today as the National Road and fought in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Records describe Cresap’s participation in the violent attacks of Indigenous people to forcibly overtake their lands. His son, Michael, led Cresap's Riflemen during the American Revolution and records describe Michael Cresap’s murder of Shawnee and...
Dates:
circa 1860-1987 and undated; Majority of material found within 1890-1950
Abstract
Dr. Lewis Eugene Cronin (1917-1998) was a zoologist and estuarine researcher who specialized in the Chesapeake Bay. Dr. Cronin received his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Maryland, writing a dissertation on the biology of the blue crab. Dr. Cronin served as a professor at the University of Delaware from 1950-1955 and as a Research Professor and Director, Natural Resources Institute at the University of Maryland. From 1977 to 1984 Dr. Cronin served as Director of the...
Dates:
1925-2000
