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0049-SCPA-POND
Abstract
Donald Pond (1906-1983) was a music educator, composer, and performer. Born in England, Pond immigrated to New York City at the age of twenty-seven and began working at the Dalton School, the Children's Theatre Arts Workshop, and as a guest lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 1937, Pond became the Music Director of the Pillsbury Foundation School, which was established with assistance from Leopold Stokowski for the study of young children's spontaneous music-making. After...
Dates:
circa 1910-1987; Majority of material found within 1937-1983
Abstract
Donald R. McNeil (1923-1996), founder of the National Public Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland, worked much of his life in academia. He was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin's extension services from 1965 to 1968. In 1968, McNeil received the first Emmy given to a public television station (WHA-TV) for his series "Pretty Soon Runs Out," a forum on integration and race relations. He was provost of the unified University of Maine, a merger of five state colleges and...
Dates:
1930-1988 and undated; Majority of material found within 1980-1987
Abstract
Jane Donawerth has been a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1975. The papers cover the years between 1974 and 2009 and document Donawerth's activities at the University of Maryland in the Women's Studies Program, the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, the Composition/Rhetoric Program, and various appointments and committees within the English department. Included in the collection are correspondence, memoranda, meeting agendas and minutes, grant...
Dates:
1974-2009; Majority of material found within 1985-2006
Abstract
Dick Dorrance (1914-1999), an advertising and promotion copywriter, was head of promotion for CBS's owned stations and, later, the Mutual Broadcasting System. In between, he was the principal of Dorrance and Company, a trade promotion and advertising firm. He was also promotion director and general manager of FM Broadcaster Inc., an early FM trade association (later merged with the National Association of Broadcasters). During the war, he was with the Office of War Information and led the...
Dates:
1940-1945; Majority of material found within April 1940-January 1944
Abstract
This collection belonging to Elise Dorsey, Class of 1926, includes many memorabilia items including pins and rings, some with the university seal, and medals, felt letters, and armbands associated with the Women's Rifle Team. The centerpiece of the collection is her University of Maryland scrapbook containing photographs, newspaper clippings, dance cards, event programs, and correspondence. A Preliminary inventory is available and can be found in the "Additional Description" section of this...
Dates:
circa 1920s
Abstract
John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was one of the major novelists of the post-World War I Lost Generation that included authors and artists such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Sherwood Anderson. After graduating from Harvard University in 1916, he volunteered to be an ambulance driver in World War I. His experiences there led to the bitter antiwar novel Three Soldiers (1921). In the postwar years he also produced his trilogy ...
Dates:
1923-1970; Majority of material found within 1925-1933
Abstract
William Dove, a student at the University of Maryland in the early 1950s, took photographs of campus construction in 1954. The black-and-white snapshot collection, which includes images of Byrd Stadium, Cole Field House, Student Union, Fraternity Row, classroom buildings, and dormitories, offers a unique glimpse of the campus during a period of tremendous growth. A preliminary inventory is available and can be found in the "Additional Description" section of this finding aid.
Dates:
1954
Abstract
Mylo S. Downey graduated from the Maryland College of Agriculture in 1927 and earned his Masters of Arts at the University of Maryland in 1940. Downey served as associate director for development for the College of Agriculture for many years. The papers include several yearbooks and commencement invitations from the 1920s as well as Downey's 1940 diploma. A preliminary inventory is available and can be found in the "Additional Description" section of this finding aid.
Dates:
1925-1940; Majority of material found within 1925-1927
Abstract
Dryad Press had its origins in Dryad magazine, a literary journal co-founded by Merrill Leffler and Neil Lehrman in 1967 in the Washington, D.C., area. In 1974, the press published the first book bearing its imprint and has since published over sixty works, primarily volumes of poetry, which often have Jewish themes or subjects. Many of the authors published by Dryad are associated with the state of Maryland, by birth, education, or current residence. Much...
Dates:
1966-2018
Abstract
The George Du Bois Collection of Maryland Labor History consits of photocopies of newspapers articles from the Baltimore Sun and other Maryland newspapers relating to labor issues gathered by DuBois during work on his dissertation at the University of Maryland, Search for a Better Life: Baltimore Workers 1865-1916.
Dates:
1865-1922; Majority of material found within 1865-1916
